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iancoleman / bip39

A web tool for converting BIP39 mnemonic codes
https://iancoleman.io/bip39/
MIT License
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Lost tokens #588

Open soonraese opened 2 years ago

soonraese commented 2 years ago

Hi, I had an issue with a ETH missed transaction with trust wallet. I contacted their support center, they told me it was a node issue, that i need to use iancoleman tool to rectify it. They gave me this guide https://community.trustwallet.com/t/how-to-recover-funds-sent-to-a-wrong-public-address/145 which i followed step by step´and when i imported my wallet back almost all my eth tokens were gone. Doesn't show any transaction or anything, they are just gone. I don't know what happened, i'm desperate. I have just like 0.17 eth left after the tool.

soonraese commented 2 years ago

I don't know what's happening, now i have less than the 0.17 that i had after using the tool.

soonraese commented 2 years ago

I checked my wallet on the etherscan and someone sent all my eth to his wallet. I don't know how....

wigy-opensource-developer commented 2 years ago

I have checked the instructions you have linked and they are linking https://iancoleman.io/bip39 that does not seem to run malicious code (did not do any online background communication accessed from my browser). There are reports of malware running in browsers or even on Windows that find private keys copied to clipboards. I do not say you are robbed by a malware, but you should definitely check the machine you used by a professional before you trust it again.

soonraese commented 2 years ago

I check my machine and it's not compromise in any way. I want to know how this happened. My wallet doesn't show any transaction or anything, but if i put my address on the etherscan i can see the transaction to a wallet, from that wallet to another, then to another, then to hundreds of wallet in low amounts.

d-sfounis commented 1 year ago

You were probably talking to a scammer, not a "support center". There's a well known scam of people pretending to be some sort of official support guy, and you gave 'em your private key. The moment someone gets a private key, the public key equivalent is fully theirs as well. Giving away your mnemonic also grants them access to the entire derivation tree of your address.

You were probably linked to a clone of Ian's site as well. Check out https://github.com/iancoleman/bip39/issues/556 as well, and sorry for your loss.