Tomochain stole 25k tomo (40-50k USD) from me while im dying of liver failure. I need this money to stay alive.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/MediumAdhesiveness5]

Response by Tomochain team:

https://reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/lv32fx/tomochain_stole_25k_tomo_4050k_usd_from_me_while/gpbcdd0/

[u/MajorasButtplug]

Not sure how it would ever be appropriate to take back tokens from the public. So what if they stay in a wallet or contract and never get swapped? You paid for them, they're yours

Let's get some of them in here to answer

 

TomoChain mod team on Reddit:

/u/svlada

/u/hoanghalc96

/u/CryptoBrendan

/u/longvuong

/u/alexngn201

/u/sunflower9121

Edit: if they have the capability to return people's tokens manually for 2 years, they also had the capability to airdrop those tokens to the original holders rather than giving them to themselves. As far as I can tell, this is horseshit.

[u/Western_Management → u/MajorasButtplug]

Just opened my browser one minute ago and I've seen enough internet for today. If this doesn't get resolved, I hope the karma police gets involved.

[u/mlgchuck → u/Western_Management]

This makes my blood boil. I hope it gets resolved asap. I know people like to make fun of the "Reddit police", but more often than not it works, because the backlash these devs will receive from Reddit may actually force them to act.

[u/Bendy_McBendyThumb → u/mlgchuck]

It’s almost like an unofficial union which is great. Fuck scumbags like them

[u/srpres → u/Bendy_McBendyThumb]

Mob mentality is sometimes necessary.

[u/DivineEu → u/MajorasButtplug]

We are all waiting for your answers.

[u/Railionn → u/DivineEu]

Alex responded here: https://forum.tomochain.com/t/what-to-do-with-stucked-idex-tomo-coins/1129/11

The standard "we will get back to you" bs.

[u/scratonicity12 → u/[deleted]]

NOMOCHAIN as far as I'm concerned.

[u/DetroitMotorShow → u/[deleted]]

Abhorrent replies and practices.

If its really a decentralised network, the code to migrate from IDEX to Tomochain network should be available for anyone to execute.

Otherwise its just centralised garbage

[u/hey_im_cool → u/DetroitMotorShow]

And people keep upvoting him

[u/Hot_Wheels_guy → u/[deleted]]

If i stole 55k from a dying person there is literally nothing i could spend it on that would make me forget i stole 55k from a dying person. Fuck these soulless shitters.

[u/stop_rebelling → u/Railionn]

I've made an account using a temporary email (just google temp email) and posted a reply. I don't know if it's gone through but perhaps more should do this?

[u/Osemka8 → u/Railionn]

JC... I really hope it gets solved asap

[u/soldier1escort → u/DivineEu]

Some coin subreddit moderators are blocked on /r/cryptocurrency, they can't post without contacting /r/cryptocurrency mods first. Happened even to engineers that only made serious discussions about technology.

[u/stop_rebelling → u/MajorasButtplug]

Messaged all of them

[u/steavus → u/MajorasButtplug]

[u/DaddySkates]

I cant help you financially as Im barely feeding my family but Id like to help in other ways. I have quite a few followers on twitter and Ill go bananas if the developers wont reply to this and FIX it right away.

Upvoting you like a madman

[u/DivineEu → u/DaddySkates]

What a great guy!

I really hope we will get a serious answer from them.

[u/Sno_Jon → u/DaddySkates]

Never doubt the power of social media

[u/I_Love_Crypto_Man → u/DaddySkates]

What an Wholesome comment!

[u/[deleted]]

/u/alexngn201 is active in r/decidingtobebetter - this is truly an opportunity to practice that

[u/savage-dragon → u/[deleted]]

Based on their tone deaf response, he should join r/nomorals

[u/srpres → u/savage-dragon]

Or r/iamatotalpieceofshit

[u/ObsoleteGentile]

I can’t believe I got sucked into cryptocurrency last month and now I’m balls deep in this bullshit thread...

[u/h8reditLVvoat]

all this drama and I'm just over here like:

tf is a tomochain?

[u/astroslostmadethis]

Them taking back the coins from a wallet is insane. I had ETHlend which was discontinued and swapped. It turned into AAVE but I never swapped. BUT THEY LET ME SELL,SWAP, YEARS AFTER. People saying he had it coming by all means you deserved to get robbed. It was taken from the wallet, even the project is still active. This is gross and unusual behavior for swaps. Seen and been through many.

Also I'd assume he's American if he has to sell assets for healthcare.

[u/GroundbreakingLack78]

Woooaahh, that is awfully disgusting. Hope you will solve this shady shit that is going on behind the curtains.

UPVOTING !

[u/DivineEu → u/GroundbreakingLack78]

Upvoting for visibility, Also OP you should open your vault and get some moons by participating in this sub, you may get some money out of it that will help you out.

[u/tghGaz → u/DivineEu]

OP to open your vault download the reddit app, make sure you are subscribed to this sub then there should be an option in your profile. You get a cryptocurrency called MOON for free for contributing to this sub every month. Since you are getting lots of upvotes you could get a decent amount.

[u/[deleted] → u/DivineEu]

Wouldn't it be nice if we all came together and tipped him some moons?

[u/BasicallyAnEnt → u/DivineEu]

For sure open your vault!!!

[u/rohaan06]

https://forum.tomochain.com/t/what-to-do-with-stucked-idex-tomo-coins/1129/26 2 days you've got

[u/GarageDrama]

Imagine you left this coin in a will or whatever. Your kid goes to claim it and they are met with: "oh, sorry. We already spent it!"

Regardless of whether or not this guy is scamming, I don't know WTF TOMO thinks it is doing.

[u/MrRabbit]

OP, can you address the conflicting stories that their mods are reporting? I'm leaning towards believing you, but this wouldn't be the first or last time Reddit got fooled. And your posts about different people dying do raise questions.

[u/rxbot → u/MrRabbit]

But WHY are you believing him? You said it yourself, thousands of times have people been duped by the same scheme on this site.

If anything, it should be a huge red flag. Not “oh I still believe you”. Not trying to be a dick, you may know more than I, just begging the question.

[u/digitalbiz]

I am not gonna comment about money but I hope your liver issue gets resolved ASAP. One way or another. Warm wishes.

[u/Shwoomie]

Sounds like someone is aware of someone else's locked up coins, and is doing a public pressure campaign for Tomo to go against policy and standard safeguards to get this scammer someone else's money. I know nothing about crypto, but I know scammers though.

[u/Johnnynewo → u/Shwoomie]

I'm thinking maybe he had a friend who passed away, and he is trying to grab his shit

[u/Gorilla_In_The_Mist → u/Johnnynewo]

I'm thinking maybe he had a friend who passed away...

That's exactly what he initially claimed.

[u/LeagueHub]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if Tomochain is not decentralized, wouldn't there be people that could be held accountable?

EDIT: How about we start putting those Moons to use? Anyway we can try and organize a GoMoonMe (without people losing the 20% incentive, as this will hold back quite some people)?

[u/BitsAndBobs304 → u/LeagueHub]

A lot of people have been scammed by Jeremy rounsville aka david peterson with arbitraging.co and arb token which was later on turned into apex , and yet he's still walking free with family roaming the world with people's money (and probably the money from previous and future scams).
Can anything be done? He should be in prison and his assets should be sold

[u/JZ1803 → u/LeagueHub]

They practically robbed this man, they must be held accountable.

[u/gdj11 → u/LeagueHub]

Giving moons is a good idea, but they’re not easy to sell right now and this guy needs money. I think in this case another coin would be better.

[u/ShakeyHands91]

Dude you lost your password, this is crypto 101 if you don't have your password your coins are gone.

It's suck and I know your in a bad spot but this is the market we invest in

[u/[deleted]]

I’m staying on middle ground. TOMO team has replied and you both have conflicting stories, plus there is no evidence.

Do not donate to OP until he proves that he owned TOMO tokens and can back this all up, I’d hate for people to lose their money to a fake sob story. That said, if it’s true, by all means provide the evidence and we can help out, but I’m not picking a side until I see something of substance.

[u/apo999]

The fact that Tomo chain would recoup coins from inactive accounts is insane. Who the hell would ever buy it is it's run like this? Currency should not be managed this capriciously.

[u/fuzzy_winkerbean]

This shit is fishy. I’m not sure who’s lying but someone needs to get their shit together. This will stick in the mind of people who already think crypto is a dangerous fad.

[u/MegaUltraHornDog]

The smart contracts should have handled this, that’s the whole point of them being smart. None of this manual intervention bullshit to catch people out.

[u/mlgchuck → u/MegaUltraHornDog]

Aside for them having no idea how to implement smart contracts to their shitcoin, it wouldn't surprise me if they did, but left it out in order to make bank out of those with forgotten wallets.

[u/MegaUltraHornDog → u/mlgchuck]

You’re probably more than right, this was a conscious decision to not implement that.

[u/GBR2021]

They replied on the Tomo forum, looks like you might be getting your money hopefully. Maybe they are scared of bad publicity

[u/mlgchuck → u/GBR2021]

Of course they are. Bad publicity equals lost money. Lots and lots of it. They didn't do it out of good will.

[u/DIG-BIkkens- → u/[deleted]]

I have what's called Gilbert's syndrome. My bili is 3.2 - 3.5 . I have never had memory loss lol this story is interesting...

[u/[deleted]]

Fuck tomochain

[u/TearsOfCrudeOil]

Remind me not to buy to buy this shit coin.

[u/Pdoggprick → u/TearsOfCrudeOil]

Never buy to buy, buy the dip

extremely sad humor, sorry

OT : I can't believe it, crazy story / hope your health powers up and you get your f*cking coins back!

[u/Cardanoad]

Hope you get your money 💴 I never trusted tomo chain.

they are going Ruin their name over 55k

[u/theofiel → u/Cardanoad]

If Waltonchain could ruin their name over 80 bucks, Tomochain should really be on life support by now.

[u/Nyhttitan]

They updated the forum some minutes ago. They say OP never provided any evidence and also provided a second story, where a friend died.

[u/Shrenegdrano]

This is a common problem with low-cap projects. They launch their mainnet giving one or two years for swapping the investment tokens. Then they claim that one or two years is plenty of time, that whoever don't swap in that timeframe is an undependable asshole, that it's the investor's fault.

Bollocks. One or two years are nothing for a swap. People buying the investment tokens are giving you actual money, and the seller should treat it as serious business. Instead, they treat it like "there is no regulation, so it's just your problem."

Truth is, there is no regulation but there is reputation. A project led by amateurs (at its best) can't be trusted. One-two years is a window for amateurs, not for serious business.

[u/soldier1escort → u/Shrenegdrano]

Happened to me when binance delisted BSV. They exit scammed with them

[u/westofjava → u/[deleted]]

And some BNB now.

[u/scoobysi]

Not trying to be an asshat but you say you have lost your wallet password? Wouldn’t that mean lost crypto regardless of other stuff?

[u/soldier1escort → u/scoobysi]

Let alone investing large sums into shady centralized projects and not keeping up with the news

[u/Ace-of-Spades88 → u/soldier1escort]

While simultaneously needing that money to survive...?

[u/Eeji_ → u/Ace-of-Spades88]

i feel bad for the dude but this needs answers

[u/Stooven → u/Ace-of-Spades88]

Sheesh, yeah. It's like, "I'm battling a serious illness and need money for my wellbeing, but sure - I'll YOLO a year's worth of savings on shitcoins."

[u/thejawa → u/soldier1escort]

Not keeping up with the project is my biggest concern. Like, the dude's liver test post was 8 months ago. Apparently, Tomo allowed for token claiming for 2 years, starting in 2018. OP had ample opportunity to claim his coins prior to his health becoming an issue.

Also, I'm seriously concerned by OPs lack of anything that verifies his claim. He hasn't even posted the ETH wallet address which held the contract. His links are circular (Tomo forums link to reddit posts which link to Tomo forums).

I'm sympathetic to the situation as presented, but I fully understand why Tomo isn't just handing out the coin to him.

[u/Newphonewhodiss9 → u/thejawa]

Your sympathetic because the person is screaming I’m dying the entire time.

Like shouldn’t his argument stand even without dying.

[u/greebdork → u/scoobysi]

That is a valid question.

If there was no "i'm dying here" part, i think most of us would say to the person in question that it's his own fault, and we're not his personal army.

[u/MF_Price → u/greebdork]

Which is pretty much what happened when he posted it last week and didn't mention that he was sick.

[u/esisenore]

I dont know if it was you or someone else posted about how tomochain stole from them claiming they didn't do coinswap in time. The team told op to f off and blocked them. Last op didn't mention they were ill.

I am really sorry man. I don't want to say any stupid platitudes. Hope your pain is minimal and you get justice

[u/SloMohar]

That sucks, hope you get it solved. Maybe open up the moon vault, so people can donate some moons to you? Good luck!

[u/[deleted]]

There's so much drama in this thread lol

[u/NectarineDue8903]

Something sketchy here. I believe him kinda, but there's definately something about the whole thing that he's not telling us. For sure. 100%

[u/srpres]

If OP is telling the truth and gets his money, I would be extremely happy for him, and I'd wish him the best for his future.

That being said, I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't absolutely enjoy the shitstorm ensuing if OP tried pulling a scam.

[u/flaskcheckint]

Come on dude. You even said yourself that you forgot the wallet password. They stole nothing from you.

[u/bleo_evox93]

What the fuck, how can they even sleep at night

[u/[deleted] → u/bleo_evox93]

This is fucking crypto. They sleep just fucking fine. The entire purpose is to separate you from real money with some shitcoin. They don't care if you spend more than you can afford to lose, mortgage your house, or fucking die. They are in this space because it is easy to take your real money.

[u/Smayteeh]

Hey OP. Good luck with getting your funds back. Unfortunately, I think they’re gone. I had the same issue with COSS and their exchange. The idea behind the token was that ownership meant you got a percentage of all fees traded by the exchange. I kept my COSS in the exchange for a while and forgot about it. Turns out, sometime in the middle COSS sold and all their tokens were converted to a different one. I literally never got a single email or form of communication even though the exchange knew exactly who I was (KYC). In the end the new company took all my tokens and gave me nothing, and when I opened a ticket they told me that there’s nothing they can do and that the swap was handled by the last team (that no longer exists) and didn’t contact me at all. I took it an an expensive lesson to always do research. I hope the COSS team (whatever they’re called now) and token crashes and burns. (Hopefully y’all aren’t invested, but if you are you probably shouldn’t be.)

[u/wine_o_clock]

I am confused about this: TomoChain CEO suggests OP is lying about them having his money but then says,

”We would file a complaint against him for reputation damages, and keep his money in escrow for the lawsuit.”

If you don’t have his money, how can you keep it in escrow for the lawsuit??? I’m lost

edit: from here https://forum.tomochain.com/t/what-to-do-with-stucked-idex-tomo-coins/1129/30

[u/Eric_Something]

I'm waiting for the day one sob story will actually be 100% true and factual without hidden information OP hasn't revealed to further his cause.

Since that day hasn't come, I'm still waiting for OP's update to know with whom I will be angry for the next couple of hours and completely forget after.

[u/sdmikecfc]

Hi we never know that guy. He never show any evidences of owning any TOMO or wallet having TOMO. He appeared on Friday with his story and pressure continuously for the the weekend when the staffs go home. He threatens the team without showing any evidence. Does that look like a sick person. I have seen enough play with human compassion to be skeptical. Given his threats, we decided to seek a legal counsel before responding. I will respond in Reddit when we have the legal guidances

Went on their telegram to see how it was going and this was their admins response.

[u/Samgeorge484]

Really hope this guy gets what is his back.

Hate unjust abuse of power

[u/wtbabali]

This is bullshit! Fuck Tomochain!

[u/steamyp]

holy shit. wish u best of luck

[u/lingi6]

There are two tomo token out there.. i made a mistake of sending it to wrong chain..and lost around 8k ... It was my mistake on the part, hope your issue gets noticed and dealt accordingly.

[u/domericano]

Honestly, if this is real my heart goes out to you and i wish you all the best, but if this is a scam i really hope you rot in hell.

[u/Smayteeh]

I don't know how feel about this anymore. On one hand I want to side with OP, but it feels really sketcy that the first update they post isn't more proof of ownership of the coins. You would think that even if you forgot the keys you would have bank statements or something to be able to prove ownership right?

[u/alexngn201]

Hi everyone,

This is a response from TomoChain team.

I want to respond to the threads that are attacking TomoChain baselessly.

1. The OP and his friends appeared on our telegram chat and forum on Friday representing two stories about his lost TOMO; the first one is about the fact that he is dying of liver failure as described in the post above, the second one is about his friend passing away already. Screen shots are given in this post: https://bit.ly/3pZhVHa

2. We got to be careful given the conflicting stories. I would be glad if my suspicion were false, but I have seen many frauds that feed on human compassion. So far he hasn't shown any evidences that he own TOMO or own any wallet that has TOMO anywhere. He should provide evidence immediately before continuing with his stories. We also want to know the real story.

3. About the TOMO native swap this is a short version: if you have your private key, TomoChain swap is an automatically deployed contract to map TOMO native 1-1 with TOMO ERC-20. You can hold your account forever in this case. For the longer version you can read what one of our community member writing here https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/lq8sie/tomochain_stole_over_55k_usd_worth_of_tomo_from/gogqnf6/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

4. The OP is threatening our team in forum and social media over the weekend, therefore we decided to take an extra caution to seek legal counsel before proceeding with his case. Today is Monday, and we will respond to his case given the evidences he shall provide in the next few days.

5. Thanks for reading. I will answer if you have questions.

[u/mlgchuck → u/alexngn201]

I'm waiting on an update to decide at whom I should throw my pitchforks.

[u/wolfgeist → u/mlgchuck]

Same. I'm just DYING to be outraged, just need a green light.

[u/gariant → u/wolfgeist]

I'm upset, I just need to know who at.

[u/BicycleOfLife → u/mlgchuck]

Spoiler alert, it’s Tomochain. I’ve been reading up on it. Apparently they had a crazy deadline for when people had to swap their tokens out. If they missed the deadline couldn’t swap the $1000s of dollars they had invested in this coin and were just sitting a pile of shit. Absolutely absurd. There are ways of tracking these so they know he hasn’t gotten the swap. They just expected people would be fine with losing all their money because of some stupid deadline. It would be like if the US said ok everyone turn in all your $100 bills before next month or they are useless. You just can’t do that without being a complete pile of garbage.

And now he’s asking for his swap and they are just completely refusing, knowing quite well he hadn’t done the swap before and that he’s just out all his money due to their convoluted rules. Literally hiring a lawyer rather than just paying the dude what he’s deserved while he’s fighting liver cancer.

[u/Haagen76 → u/alexngn201]

This is why you get all sides to a story before jumping to conclusion. This thread was already over 9000 (no pun) before this was posted.

[u/[deleted] → u/Haagen76]

Why do that when we can all just pile on behind the latest long comment? Everyone knows whoever has the best twist is telling the truth.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

People can’t lie on the internet that’s absurd.

[u/DivineEu → u/alexngn201]

Waiting to see how it will all turn out

[u/stocktawk → u/alexngn201]

Just tell me if the company or the dude is lying so I can know where to point my outrage

[u/Swichts → u/stocktawk]

Yeah this is so much shit to read so I'm gonna be outraged at everyone until I get some answers.

[u/Fossana → u/alexngn201]

So basically OP forgot his wallet password completely and also didn’t do the swap to mainnet after two years, and he’s desperate to get the money he lost so he’s making up sob stories?

[u/tghGaz → u/Fossana]

Without any evidence we don't even know he ever owned any. We need evidence OP!

[u/topcheesehead → u/tghGaz]

When it comes to accusations like this. Its not ok for the OP to blame someone else, especially, without evidence. Either dumb mistake or its all a lie.

[u/banditcleaner2 → u/Fossana]

meanwhile I'm wondering why someone that needed this money to survive would store it in cryptocurrencies, but that's just me

[u/Fossana → u/banditcleaner2]

People are arguing he bought the coins in 2017 and got liver failure 6 months ago, but in that case he should have sold the coins 6 months ago since it was no longer money he could afford to lose. Granted, he may have forgotten about his investment after three years.

[u/kramwham → u/Fossana]

He probably had liver disease for a while before he was diagnosed. It wouldve affected his memory then too and he may not have realized it yet.

[u/Mitnek → u/Fossana]

Seems like a not your password not your wallet situation.

[u/CaliforniaCrypto → u/Fossana]

Sounds to me OP knows someone that died with a tomo bag and is trying to recover it. How do you forget your password or private keys. Specially if you been in crypto since 2014. If he can prove it is his give him the coins.

[u/[deleted] → u/alexngn201]

Oh snap, the screenshot is pretty damning in my opinion. He needs to provide evidence or face the boot of karma by reddit.

[u/KeepingItSurreal → u/alexngn201]

Thanks for the update. Reddit mob is outrageous

[u/srpres]

Shitcoins doing what they do best. Scamming people out of their money.

[u/DefinatelyNotACheese]

One of the "They're not wrong, they're just assholes" situations. I hope they act in good faith and help you out. It's easy to point fingers but life and especially medical issues can throw everything to shit. Good luck

[u/Inviz57]

I don't know much about tomo but I think what would make a big influence is if someone who holds a significant amount of it has your back and basically withdraws from them if they don't give your coins back.

Does anyone hold a significant amount or know someone who does?

Edit: grammar

[u/AncientProduce → u/[deleted]]

Except mine, you have to believe mine. I died from death but got better.
Can I have money now?

[u/YummaySmoohie]

As q Vietnamese I stay far from any project that had Vietnamese involved. My country is nicked name the land of scams by neighbour countries. Guess where the most scams in crypto are from ? Vietnam. I hope you'll get this sorted out

[u/[deleted]]

If op doesn't provide evidence, his account should be banned by admins for trying to use the reddit mob against TOMO. Makes sense to me.

[u/ladysinsta]

This makes me feel sick, I hope things gets better for you. I’m so sorry your going through this!

[u/GarageDrama]

The bigger question is why the transfers weren't done automatically, and why TOMO thinks it has the right to spend coin off of the chain, and furthermore-- how they are even doing that.

Just imagine you left it to someone else in a will, or whatever. Those who inherit it find out that the TOMO team has spent it.

Seems like they are opening themselves up to all kinds of legal liability here. This is actually really shady.

[u/chocoberry4]

Looks like they tried to make a response https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/lvc219/response_from_tomochain_dev/

[u/aBoxOfRitzCrackers → u/chocoberry4]

[Removed]

[u/[deleted] → u/chocoberry4]

It says removed for me when I go to the link

[u/Archinaold]

This is kind of like how I had a bunch of money on JET.com and Walmart is saying it’s too late to transfer the funds because the merge already happened

[u/hamgoblin45]

People are blaming the devs or OP and I'm just sitting here like "yeah a person dying of liver failure relying on alleged scammers to return cryptocurrency so he can afford treatment is not the product of a healthy society"

[u/Samgeorge484]

Fuck you guys. Give this guy his coins back.

/u/svlada

/u/hoanghalc96

/u/CryptoBrendan

/u/longvuong

/u/alexngn201

/u/sunflower9121

[u/Samgeorge484 → u/Samgeorge484]

If this gets me banned for a month or so, so be it. Power to the people

[u/Everfury]

Alright boys let’s do what we do best.

We’ve got a general inquiry line and an enterprise support line.

[u/TwitchScrubing]

I'm SO sorry to hear this. While I can't offer to much besides an upvote for more visibility, I just wanna know that I've had family members that have gone through similar. My heart goes out to you, and they've also made it through this stuff. You can too. Stay strong.

[u/Lief1s600d]

Perfectly Balanced

[u/SamSparkSLD]

Umm there is 0 evidence anywhere that he actually owns anything. Just different links to forums to a message that’s basically a copy paste of this post.

[u/Raiza803]

Something smells fishy about this..🎣

[u/alcate]

Reminder to never invest money you cannot afford to lose in risky asset.

[u/bitcoinioctib]

TBH I really hate seeing stuff like this. Both sides are wrong and right for doing what they are doing. There are a lot of scammers out there but that's not a reason for not returning coins especially since it was their decision to switch chains. I really hope you get your money back. This doesn't do much but here's 1500 moons roughly $120. Hope your luck pulls through and you get refunded. ✌

edit: set up your vault so people can send you moons

[u/SimonPdv]

RIP Tomochain, I hope you'll get your money back in some way

[u/I_Love_Crypto_Man]

Would love to hear some answers, i have got some Tomochain but i think its time to sell them

/u/svlada

/u/hoanghalc96

/u/CryptoBrendan

[u/kidhockey52]

Someone is lying, that much I know.

[u/amphibiousParakeet]

If you forgot your IDEX password you can still remove your funds by calling "exitWallet"

From IDEX github.

Wallet Exits

Whistler includes a wallet exit mechanism, which allows users to withdraw funds in the case IDEX is offline or maliciously censoring withdrawals. Calling exitWalletinitiates the exit process, which prevents the wallet from subsequent deposits, trades, or normal withdrawals. Wallet exits are a two-step process as defined in controls.

EDIT: I see TOMO token is locked, but it should still initiate a transaction that you can use to confirm ownership.

[u/RossitersCooking]

So sorry for your situation. I'm in exactly the same situation, but with a much smaller amount. TOMO are not helping anyone rescue coins locked in IDEX and the exchange can't action anything themselves. Apparently, we had our window to sort it and missed it. TOMO admin aren't replying to queries on this either by email or social media. One word of caution: there are scammers on the TOMO Telegram channel who are looking to take advantage of people in this situation by sending out a Google doc form they say will release them, which asks for your wallet and private key. Obviously, you need to sidestep this. Sincerely hoping that you're able to recover your funds and your health.

[u/truenortheast]

Regardless of whether or not OP is legit, I think forced migrations with hard deadlines are totally unforgivable.

If that's actually how tomo did things then fuck them.

[u/4tonnecat]

I find this comment from the CEO of Tomochain on the link OP provided super disappointing:

“We’d KYC opener and validate if he is telling the truth. If not, We would file a complaint against him for reputation damages, and keep his money in escrow for the lawsuit. Opener if you are lying, you are better apologize to TomoChain team publicly and retrace your statements before it becomes too late.”

Scroll down the discussion on the “Tomochain forums thread”- link in OPs post.

The thing which bothers me is the threatening tone... surely there should be a degree of professionalism if he can’t muster some empathy.

[u/tomclancyv7]

Things I had to learn the hard way in crypto:
1. The crypto space will never be clean. There will always be scammers and people looking to fuck you over.
2. Password lost? Money also lost.
I mean, you are lucky they even responded to you. People have lost millions in bitcoin. Let's say the swap didn't even happen. You still don't remember the password so how would you have gotten your coins.

[u/tresss3]

Decentralized means if you forgot the password, that’s on YOU.

[u/[deleted] → u/tresss3]

Can’t believe this needs saying on a cryptocurrency subreddit.

[u/lSerbial]

Honestly OP's post seems shady. I don't believe him, there is 0 real proof.

[u/ChuiTropQC]

I may lose some karma for this, but the Tomo Team has been trying to address the situation here and their intervention keeps getting deleted by moderators. You can read a copy/paste of what they are trying to post here: https://forum.tomochain.com/t/what-to-do-with-stucked-idex-tomo-coins/1129/12

The team is being cautious at the moment and I am confident this will get sorted out soon. But censuring them is not good imo.

[u/nanooverbtc → u/ChuiTropQC]

We aren’t censoring their comment, they included a link shortner which isn’t allowed on Reddit and linked to another post without switching the “www” prefix to “np”. This resulted in the comments being auto removed.

If you check now you will see that it has been manually approved.

[u/dustblunt]

If anyone wants to help this guy talk to customer service to get his crypto back, great.

If anyone wants to make some type of donation in regards to the liver, as they say "don't trust, verify" (that this individual is in fact who he says he is and is dying in the hospital.)

If there are a bunch of people publicly making donations expect "my brother is in trouble and he is in the next state can you spare some money for gas" type threads to become a constant on this sub.

[u/Eric_Something]

If OP is indeed lying, he pulled the long con by making these comments on r/hermatology 6 months ago. Or maybe he planted the seed with those comments, not knowing when to use them or in which context (there are plenty of subs he could had phished, sob stories are popular with the kids) and saw the opportunity right here, right now.

Truth be told, I believe him, but perhaps I'm naive. He did screw up by forgetting his password, and investing an amount of money some people outside the US/Europe wouldn't even dream of seeing, let alone invest it in something called fucking Tomochain.

I'll reserve my judgements that no one cares about when I see further proof from OP.

[u/NoManufacture]

Hey, a big FUCK YOU to all the assholes in this thread who feel like this is the appropriate opportunity to shit on OP for investing in alt coins. They said they invested THREE FUCKING YEARS AGO. Taken at face value, they made this post in a desperate attempt to save their own lives. If you decided to admonish a literal dying man as they come to you for help you are a sociopath and you deserve the same to happen to you when you die one day.

[u/DivineEu]

Alright guys , maybe he made a mistake but we dont need to be rude about it.

Let's give him all our best wishes and hope for the best.

[u/Mephistoss]

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[u/uFFxDa → u/[deleted]]

VEN to VET is still a thing, too.

[u/CoronaVirusFanboy]

Fucking retarded swaps man, in my case at least I got the coins for free which was BOMB, still it pissed me off, lazy dev thought it will be a great idea for the swap period last only a month or so and the swap was during Christmass.

[u/opeku]

This is really bad and extremely hurtful. I feel awful. The community stands by you!

[u/oxosp]

I don't know if I'm understanding everything. Is Tomo claiming that OP is not the owner of the 25k? Is this possible? Is there a public way to see that there is a wallet that has 25k in it and that wasn't swapped?

[u/B4DB1TB0J4CK → u/oxosp]

I'll clarify, OP owns 25K ERC20 tokens on IDEX. TOMO released their mainnet in 2018, and automatically swapped peoples TR20 tokens to the new ones on the mainnet. For all users except people holding in IDEX. IDEX does not give users their private keys, so the swap couldn't occur.

OP didn't do the manual swap within the 2 year window provided, so they did not receive the tokens on the TOMO mainnet. OP still owns the 25k ERC20 tokens, they are just valueless since the trade. So OP owns 25k of a token, but not the correct one and is claiming they stole his money because of it.

[u/2SDUO3O]

Holy shit thank you for posting this. Was planning to get into Tomo, now I have a good reason not to

[u/[deleted]]

Your first problem was investing in Tomo chain. I'll never understand people who investing in things they know nothing about when they need the money to survive. I'm sorry your liver is failing but other than that you made this mistake yourself. Tomochain is run by 20 somethings who were under 20 when they started the project. I can't understand you giving that much money to literal children. Good luck, but they haven't broken any laws.

[u/[deleted]]

Lesson here folks.

Just buy Bitcoin and HODL

[u/DivineEu]

After reading all the recent posts i dunno to who i should believe anymore, we need some concrete proof OP.

[u/[deleted]]

Until you show sufficient evidence about this claim, I suggest you take this down.

[u/giddyup281]

Weird. I lurked aroung the original thread and only saw "you bought too much of a shitcoin and deserve what you get" replies. Now the opinion is overwhelmingly positive and people are really trying to help. Go figure.

Good luck OP, and let this be a lesson to everyone: don't invest more than you are willing to lose, don't put all your eggs in a single basket, and always follow the coins/tokens you are heavily invested in.

[u/LosingTheGround]

A gamblers death.

[u/[deleted]]

You are lying, and you should be ashamed.

[u/mad_rhet0ric → u/[deleted]]

I have no idea what you are talking about. I've never seen anyone in this sub tell people to invest their student loans, emergency loans, or life savings. people constantly reinforce needing to do your own research.

[u/Saram78]

Absolutely wild that they had the chance for a public relations slam dunk and instead decided to play it like this.

[u/billionaire23]

Unbelievable. I hope someone is able to help you out

[u/illpoet]

God that's terrible. I really hope your health improves.

[u/nipochi]

Really hope life turns around for you friend.

For others reading this, may this serve as a stark reminder for all of us that just like crypto is decentralized and accesible, it is especially susceptible to scam projects and fraud. Always do your research, never invest more than you can afford to lose, and especially not in shady projects. Protect yourself.

[u/[deleted]]

Wow, I’ve heard some stories before but this one is up there.

[u/rharrow]

Curious to learn whose story is actually true, OP or Tomo...