Being Scammed.
Scamming may be termed as the number one challenge I have ever experienced online. Count yourself lucky if you have not experienced any of the numerous scams online. I have had my share not once nor twice but severally. I used to be a member of the teach to fish organization, a superb body run by Nik Kafka.
While in this organization, I was contacted by one member from Uganda with a proposal to donate to me 10 computers. This donation would have really boosted learning in my now defunct institution, Stbrians Educational Centre for the less privileged children. Wasn't I excited! I jumped up and down like a toothless fool who had suddenly had teeth growing in his mouth.
Yet, I was to pay about $25 for clearing and forwarding charges. Unsuspecting, I sent the said amount. The computers were to be delivered from Kampala to my nearest market Luanda. Soon I received a message that the computers were consiscated at Busia border.
When I reported at the border post, an officer showed me to their store where there were no computers of mine. Their records showed no computer was ever held during the week. I had been scammed.
Non-payment Of Your Dues.
On several occasions people have withheld and not paid what is really yours. You may have worked or did some chores and earned some money. A conman easily cheats you out of your hard earned cash.
My blogging escapades, has led me vagabonding in various writing sites. I used to be an avid reader and contributor in the Great Online blogging site known as steemit. While in this site, I used to cash out on daily basis. Usually a post posted on Wednesday at a particular time matures the following Wednesday at the time one posted the post. I used to cruise four posts in a day thus making a substantial amount daily. My withdrawals ranged between $80 to about $200. Steemit used to pay curation and author rewards. Curation rewards were earned from your interactions in various posts. Posts earned from votes given by the members of the site. Each post carried with it some amount of cryptocurrency.
There was this day, I had earned some $85 dollars that day and the cryptocurrency were in LocalCryptos in Ethereum coins. I had to seek a buyer for my ETH which are plenty in LocalCryptos.
Once I had got the buyer, I put the Ethereum in the Escrow. Then I erroneously released the escrow to the buyer. According to the rules, One only released the escrow once the equivalent of crypto was deposited in PayPal, bank or mobile banking respectively. You were to use the payment method you were comfortable with. So I released the escrow before receiving the equivalent in ETH. The buyer kept the Ethereum and never paid me.
I raised an alarm with LocalCryptos. The administration of LocalCryptos asked me one question, "Why did you release the escrow before receiving your fiat money? " My mouth dropped with shame but the hard earned cryotocurrency was lost.
Withdrawing A Coin In A Different Wallet.
I was working in this site called James which paid in a coin called Nuvo. Jamaa went under but before it did, I had accumulated some good amount of Nuvo coin. I had over 200,000 coins and at that time the price was not bad. This was a new coin that we were trying to make it tick.
Yet one day, One of the admins announced we can withdraw our Nuvo cash in an Ethereum wallet. By then I never knew there were different types of Ethereum wallets. I immediately withdrew the Nuvo cash in a LocalCryptos wallet. I lost the nuvo though I see them in Etherscan.
More to come
TheAccursedpen
