Aww, shit, man. That sucks. I mean this in the best way possible, but perhaps you become "better" as a result of this. Always be  skeptical with people, and never trust anyone - definitely never send anyone money.

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Dude.. and to think I've been getting all my advice from you. Tisk tisk..
Lol, I'm just kidding obviously. That sucks so bad man, I hope you can recover quickly.

That sucks, man.  If it makes you feel any better, I threw away over $40K on a penny-stock that I was high on by the name of "Winning Brands", about 5 to 7 years ago.  I still feel some pain thinking about it and what I could have better done with that money.

Talk about an idiot!  But life goes on, as Tupac would say (..I want to throw a happy emoji here, but it feels inappropriate at the moment).  

My advice is to make the best of the situation - learn your lesson and be more careful in the future.  We can all be idiots at times, but it's only the insane that keep making the same mistakes over and over.

OMG, the same thing almost happened to me with Stratis a couple weeks ago. The account actually looked like a Stratisplatform account then the next day, it wasn't anymore really weird. I ended up notifying the survey site, and also notified twitter.  I got skeptical when I seen the amount they were offering and backed out. Don't feel to bad, I've been on the net for a long time, and I can almost always spot a scam, and the people almost got me. This was the btc addy of the SOB that tried to get me 

1Lserad7ZqdzVSLG11JUBMXFSb8Udabvg4

If you look it up on the blockchain you can see the guy got a chunk of money on that day. I've been trying to follow the BTC to see if I can DOX the prick! Probably won't happen though. Sorry for your loss.

If you have the bitcoin address still, try bitcoinswhoswho.com and see if there is any associated website, or company tied to the address. 

http://bitcoinwhoswho.com

That's horrible. I don't know how, you are handling this but I'm sure the whole steemit community  is very grateful for sharing this.

Sorry to hear it!

ouch, no-one is immune to getting caught out. I hope you bounce back quickly. thanks for letting everyone know.

Ok, promise to never send any money through something like Survey Monkey or any type of irregular service. Ok?

Upvoted and will promote **to help you recover** AND to thank you for **reminding me that I must always be aware and responsible.**

That's  so scary,  bless you for letting everyone know about this scam.  I hope they can do something about it as that's a lot of money to loose.

The same guy also tried to scam me as well today. I wrote up a quick blog about it and notified @ned on Twitter:

https://steemit.com/steemit/@fulltimegeek/scam-alert-twitter-account-certianassets-masquerding-as-ned-scott-certainassets

Shit man, so sorry to hear about this.... my heart goes out to you brother. Though it was an unfortunate mistake, just remember.... this shit happens all the time. Almost no one is immune to falling into some sticky situation from time to time, and especially when emotion clouds better judgement. No one is bulletproof, and unfortunately, there will likely always be thieves and cowards such as this, always absorbing whatever they can scam others out of. In due time though, retribution will fly their way, it always does in one fashion or another. Best thing to do now is to learn from what happened, move onward and keep a much sharper eye. "Trust no one." I send my condolences man. \m/

I'm really sorry for what happened. I had $500 stolen from me back in the old e gold days. Like you said it's just money but it hurts more because you feel stupid and lose some of your respect for humanity.

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Man. That sucks. Thanks for making us aware, though :)

Sorry to hear that. =/

That sux. Sorry. :(

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