Don't be stupid like me
Had to repost this because my story didn't share.
Lost my DOGE on Monday to a scammer 😔
Guy caught me on an off day. I was distracted, and I hadn’t touched or used my ledger in so long I forgot how secure it should have been. It began in the morning with someone calling me non stop until I finally answered because I thought it must be important and they convinced me they were from Microsoft support and someone was trying to change my recovery email which they had, and my recovery phone number, which they had. They got me to “secure my account” by approving a notification on my Authenticator app that they sent to me. We “secured” my account and then they told me to change my password, and I went about my day. Jump to later in the day I get an email in my inbox from me to ledger that’s asking for my wallet to be transferred, as well as a ticket reply from ledger.fr. A few minutes later I get a phone call from a guy claiming to be ledger support. Long story short he convinced me he was from ledger and had every detail about me including my emails that had just been sent, my address, ssn, date and payment method I used to buy my ledger, and the balances of my ledger accounts and my coinbase accounts. Everything in my body was screaming at me not to do it, but as he kept adding more information about myself I finally did it and typed my 24 word seed phrase into a “verification portal” to stop someone that had emailed them and was trying to transfer my wallet to a different wallet like he convinced me was happening. Then I heard the click of the phone as he hung up on me and instantly felt the sickness that was lurching throughout the whole end of the conversation as he convinced me that I had to do this. Tried to call him back and it went to an empty google voice line with a google recording, and tried to revisit the “verification portal” he sent me and it went to the OpenAI.com homepage. Tried to panic send my DOGE to a different wallet but he beat me to it because by the time I toggled “use max” I got the error message that my balance was 0.
Like a complete dumb ass I fell for this stupid scam and it continues to play out in my head and taunt me over and over with all the woulda coulda shouldas that didn’t happen for reasons that are beyond me. I guess that’s what I get for trying to HODL since .01-.02 and I should have cashed out when the gettin was good. I know how stupid I am for doing this, and I know that I will never see it again. I just hope this guy gets the karma he deserves and will someday feel just as wrecked and broken as I do now.
That’s my story, I hope it helps at least one person to not fall victim to something like this. Be vigilant, and always trust your gut and just hang up if something doesn’t feel right.