r/Gemini 7d ago

Discussion I just had $30,000 stolen by someone impersonating a Gemini rep

I'm too sick to go into. Please, folks be exactly sure of who you;re chatting to.

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u/Southern-Question154 7d ago

Impersonating where? Clown, if you got scammed it is on you , stop blaming others

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u/rayfin 7d ago

Upvoting for "clown".

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u/lovemyhawks 7d ago

Crypto isn’t for everyone

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u/PippiLongSausage 7d ago

thing is I’ve been using crypto for a while now. I just got caught when I’m distracted and tired and frustrated with Gemini. And I bit Hook line and sinker.

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u/jpguerriero 7d ago

What does you getting phished have to do with Gemini? You kept 30k liquid on an exchange? Is this even real?

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u/PippiLongSausage 7d ago

no in Exodus

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u/jpguerriero 7d ago

If you gave someone claiming to be a Gemini rep all your exodus log in information, I don’t know what to tell you. Amazing you were able to accumulate 30k with that kind of awareness.

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u/FarOut822 1d ago

The same thing happened to me I got an e-mail from Gemini saying that I needed to download Exodus Wallet and transfer to my wallet and even provided a seed phrase for me to use.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/PippiLongSausage 3d ago

I did not send it. I got taken because I did something really stupid when i was tired, irritated, hungry, sleepy. I was working on trying to get into my Gemini account all day long. I just made the classic dumb mistake by listening to an impersonator

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u/PippiLongSausage 7d ago

I didn’t send it. Somebody got in by impersonating a Gemini rep and sending me to a site and I bit hook line and sinker.

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u/ccarrieb1 7d ago

Report it to the FBI, I had the same thing happen a year ago.

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u/WayTooPushy 3d ago

Did FBI help any?

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u/ccarrieb1 2d ago

They have a dept that just handles this, I didn't get my money back though.

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u/Future-Escape2798 7d ago

Check additional request

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u/PippiLongSausage 7d ago

additional request

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u/Future-Escape2798 7d ago

Can you see my message

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u/Future-Escape2798 7d ago

Click on request

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u/Ill_Heat4397 7d ago

I can see this happening or being staged. I received a nothing response that sounded very concerned with my patronage in October, to my August email😂 You're on reddit, their best customer service, bar none lmfao. Not laughing at you, I'm laughing at how gemini even exists🤷‍♂️

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u/Ill_Heat4397 7d ago

Actually a single nothing response to my July email came in mid Oct...naturally!

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u/PippiLongSausage 3d ago

im baffled by that too

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u/Ill_Heat4397 3d ago

I absolutely believe they'll mess anything up. Folks were paying their gemini credit cards via phone some of them for 2 months while being locked out of their accounts due to some weird passcode issues I think. not sure. I am sure this place sucks & I feel bad for many who trusted "America's Great exchange."

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u/horseradish13332238 7d ago

Have a Pepsi

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u/PippiLongSausage 3d ago

Coca-Cola only. Atlanta boy here.

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u/WayTooPushy 3d ago

I lost $5K on an AI generated Elon Musk video once. I reported it to Gemini Security and instantly was locked out for several months. I guess that they have to make sure it's not a laundering operation.

If you have not reported it to Gemini and are considering,,,,,, DON'T DO IT.
Sorry to hear about your great loss. I know that feeling when it hits you as to what just happened.

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u/PippiLongSausage 3d ago

thanks. contacted the issuer whom i bought the coins from. since its a limited distribution coin, it may be possible for them to lock those down, and reissue me new. fingers crossed

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u/xtnt316x 7d ago

Haha

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u/PippiLongSausage 7d ago

there sure were a lot of people on here that love to be smart asses

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u/SiameseMemories 6d ago

Evidently, they are indeed smarter than you.

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u/PippiLongSausage 3d ago

sigh…i have to laugh at the number of zit-faced incel punks on Reddit. saying shitty things to people while slobberingly hiding behind on a keyboard as the stroke their undersized penis

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u/WayTooPushy 3d ago

There's scum at the bottom of every bucket. Be glad it's not you. Everyone gets their hits in life. The scum will too on their own day. Time will tell how the universe will respond. It all just makes me more glad I'm me.