[Localbitcoins] Got coins, gone 5 minutes later

I just got some BTC on LBC, and I logged out to make a BBlender account. When I logged back in, all the coin was gone, and the wallet log showed it as being sent to 1 wallet address (which has something like 35 BTC sent to it, in the past 2 days).

Contacted LBC support, but wanted to know if anyone else ever experienced this? Is there hope to get coin back or all gone? =/


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[4 Points] None:

your coins are gone for good. this has been going with lbc for months. set up 2FA and you should be fine


[2 Points] None:

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[2 Points] synikal12:

A buddy of mine got fucked on $2,000 from this. Flipped out and after that he finally learned to put 2FA on his account. Sometimes you need hard losses to learn lessons.


[1 Points] None:

Like /u/mdmainquiry mentioned, there is a good chance that at some point you logged into a phishing site. There are tons of then if you mistype localbitcon in the address bar. LBC really does try very hard to prevent users from getting scammed.

Using 2-FA (I think I use google authenticator with it, maybe authy) is a great protection. A lot of people have a habit of using the same login name and password on multiple sites, and it makes scammers able to guess logins. For example if you have the same credentials for bitblender and LBC, a phishing site for either one would give someone access to for both.

Give LBC supoort the wallet address that your conks were sent to. They will almost definitely not be able to return your coins if they can show that someone logged in to your account, but they will use whatever info to block that user via IP.

It sucks what money gets lost like this. I hope it ends up being some kind of fluke but it's doubtful. Do turn on 2fa though. It's very simple and can save you a repeat of this like of disappointment.


[1 Points] Rent-A-Asian:

When buying via cash deposit on LBTC, and the seller attempts to get you to click an off-site link….. please don't be an idiot. If they want a photo confirmation of the bank receipt, and tell you to click a link to see an "example picture" of how your receipt should look… then your gonna be in the same boat as the OP. Hopefully the OP can think of a time he was lured into clicking an offsite url and can provide a more detail to help others from avoiding his mistake ;)


[1 Points] zee1000:

yoiu cant operate on these sites without 2-factor authentication. people spend all of their time phishing and hacking lbc accounts and the like. if you dont have 2-factor its basically like leaving a $50 on a mcdonalds table and expecting it to be htere when you get back.


[-3 Points] None:

wow you lost 35 btc? shit man