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iancoleman / bip39

A web tool for converting BIP39 mnemonic codes
https://iancoleman.io/bip39/
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Please help! Is this a phishing website?? #444

Closed Richard19890 closed 3 years ago

Richard19890 commented 3 years ago

I've been having suicidal thoughts since yesterday. 3 years of sweat and tears gone. 3 years of efforts. I'm extremely depressed and can't sleep, can't eat, can't get out of my bed. I just wanna sleep forever and vanish.

What happened : Recently after the Kucoin hack, my coin's team (KAI) proceeded with a last minute token swap to prevent the stolen KAI from kucoin to be sold by the hacker. In the confusion following this token swap, I wasn't able to withdraw my kai tokens from IDEX exchange due to the team pausing withdrawals on Idex (which i was unaware of). So since I couldn't withdraw, I asked for help in the TG group. Some dude IMPERSONATING a real Kai team member messaged me in private and offered to help. He had the same screen name and avatar as the real admin, same profile bio even.

He said in order to withdraw my tokens from IDEX, i had to go on this weird website (which is bipcalculator.io and which I suspect is a phishing site) and I entered my private key there. I hesitated, but because he looked like the real admin and I was desperate to retrieve my funds, i went on a enter my private key. I know, very very stupid. This immediately raised my suspicion though and I contacted the team asap to verify about this guy, and they said he was indeed a scammer. I blocked and reported him. By then it was too late though, my private key had been entered in the phishing site. So I IMMEDIATELY created a new wallet i could transfer my funds into. That was Monday this week.

Yesterday, the Kai team proceeded with the token swap and airdropped all holders on IDEX their new tokens on a 1:1 basis directly on their erc20 wallets. So I received my 3.9M new kai tokens. I was in the process of transferring out my funds to my new, non-exposed wallet (had transferred 100k tokens already as a test) when a hacker STOLE the remaining 3.8M kai from my wallet. Happened so fast. 👍 I can see it all in the Etherscan transactions. $60k gone in an instant. My lifetime money,my dreams. The money i planned to retire my widowed mom with. Buy her a house and help her out. A friend who is a YouTuber talked about this in a recent video, in the beginning of this video : https://youtu.be/rnRX2WjOnzc

I feel so sick in my stomach, i vomited the whole night and cried non stop. I been googling how to take a poison.

Hackers take advantage of confused people in need of help, and this is what happened to me in the confusion following the kucoin hack and related token swaps. Can someone tell me if bipcalculator.io is legit?

I feel worthless, stupid and just wanna disappear forever from the face of the earth. 😢

iancoleman commented 3 years ago

I'm very sorry to hear this.

Can someone tell me if bipcalculator.io is legit?

It is run by scammers. They are using firebase to store the mnemonic and passphrase, near L272 of index1.js

This is the info that may be helpful to report to firebase and may identify the people behind it:

firebase.initializeApp({
    apiKey: 'AIzaSyAZ_-BfVVgTrReW9st3U6h3cLbm7LY4mss',
    // authDomain: '### FIREBASE AUTH DOMAIN ###',
    projectId: 'bipcalc'
});

Hopefully this helps, but since this is not related to this bip39 tool and there is nothing further I can do I will close this issue.