 | One regular day, I've been browsing crypto news and saw that we have a new crypto eco-system coming. From the way I saw it - they position themselves as a ETH and SOL competitor, big USDT partnership, they even often joke to overthrow DOGE. Fresh start, huge promises.. I'm talking about Telegram Open Network. I've thought a bit and wondered, well I missed Etherium rise, I haven't bought Solana when it dipped to like ~8$, maybe this is my way to lambo? And lil greedy man inside me has told me that I'm probably Missing Out (FOMO) something big. And I invested. From the start I've bought like 1000 TON and put it to the Telegram Wallet. At that time I saw that inside this messenger there are a lot of stuff happening all the time. Airdrops, events, investment options, even staking! Cool, right? I thought so too.. So if you want to become a liquidity provider or stake some coins inside this ecosystem, Telegram Wallet shows a lot of ads, offering you to do it. If you open the link it will redirect you to the website called "ston .fi" . As I understand it, this is their official hub where you can select any project you like inside their ecosystem and send coins to it. To be able to do it, first you need to connect your Telegram Wallet with this website: And that's it. From now on you can select whatever project you like and send money to the pools and to the staking. Quite easy, quite cool. I've been so happy on how everything looks, that I've even completed their KYC and send my id, bank statement, etc. Especially after I've seen message that they have Telegram Wallet Support in case I need something (we'll get back to that later). In the Staking section I've seen that you can earn 2-3% APY and this sounded promising: I thought - cool, best way to invest to promising project is staking, right? Put all your money like inside a bank and the project will grow, the price of the coin will rise and you will have additional % for staking. Yeah, at that moment that looked great. And I staked 13.000 TON (~100.000), which has promised me ~ 3000$ per year with the current price. Looks awesome! The fun in this story happens quite fast. As you saw in the last screenshot, next to the official option to staking you have Collectibles area. It's like where all your NFTs are. And the fun part which I missed before was, that some images/ads you see are evil ones which will leave you empty pocketed. I'm still wondering what does TON team smoke that they allow rogue ads appear right next to the official funcionality. At one second I event felt paranoid that maybe that's something like "inside job". As you already guessed - this is the that I've fallen for. It looked like some voucher or airdrop. After clicking on the icon you see on the screenshot (in Collectibles area) - you get redirected to the website, the same like you saw above - "stonfi app", but mine (evil one) was called "tonfi app". And this site is asking you to connect your wallet, just like the original one: After connection, the app starts spamming you with some transaction to confirm. And if you press just one that button - you're done. That's what I did, and I didn't even understand what happened.. I learned afterwards.. So if you just press 1 button, all STAKED and any other tokens you have on your Telegram Wallet will be sent to the fraudsters.. Yeah, you heard that right, you dont need to unstake them, you dont need to enter any password, 2fa, pincode, flash your face or passport, there are no warnings that you're about to sent all your lifesavings away in 1 click, nothing. There was like a wave of understanding and realising of what I have done. I might even call it a Tsunami. Quite strong feelings, I dont recommend any of you to ever feel it. I start to panic and try to think what to do, while there's time. I was almost certain that my money is gone and there's like 1% of chance to returning it back, but I think that maybe it's not too late to at least freeze them in the blockchain so bandits get nothing. I start to write to Telegram Wallet Support, I'm providing details, screenshots, explanations.. I'm furious and I'm pathetic. I cry and I pray.. I write and write and write and.. And I get nothing.. No response.. I followed the TON blockchain and I saw that my money was moved away only after 4 hours after that has happend. And maybe you're curious when Telegram Wallet Support did answer me? They still hasn't. It's been 5 days and 6 hours after that has happend and nothing from them. So yeah, guys.. I know I'm dumb, I know that there were a lot of red flags, but somehow I felt save and that's what got me. I thought that my staked money is frozen, I thought that offical app wont have rogue ads in main app panel, I thought that withdrawals are more complicated that just 1 button press and I thought that Support is there to catch me if I fall. Well.. that's it. I hope that was interesting and you can learn from my mistakes. When dealing with crypto stay concentrated, stay vigilant, stay cool. Peace [link] [comments] |
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