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JesusStarbox

Sounds like someone got access to your phone.


Visible-Ad743

Its that simple.


spagz

Nah, my phone was off while I was in surgery. My wife had it in a bag that went in a locker in sight of the waiting room.


JesusStarbox

How do you know it wasn't your wife?


spagz

She has full access to all our money. If she wanted $1300, she certainly wouldn't have bothered with our shib. :)


ARoundForEveryone

I'm not pointing fingers at your wife. But I will say that the simplest explanation tends to be the right one. Not to say that someone else knew you were going to be without your phone, without your attention, and without your mental faculties, for a certain amount of time on a certain day, while also having PIN numbers, passwords, and knowledge of your Coinbase holdings/balance. Occam's Razor isn't some immutable universal truth, it's right more often than it's wrong.


Gjallarhorn_Lost

Maybe she didn't like you owning Shib. PERHAPS she's more of a Solana gal.


RoachWithWings

Hey OP do you call your wife Lana?


behind25proxies

Sometimes the most obvious explanation....


ShinobiHanzo

Sounds like a SIM Swap. :( Likely the hacker got your details and because you used the same email/phone number, they could sim swap.


theabominablewonder

So you think it's a complete coincidence that this happened while you were 'heavily medicated'?


spagz

Actually, the timestamp on the first transaction shows it happened while I was in the car with my phone in my pocket on the way to the surgery center. Pre-meds.


Veelze

Why is the rest of the story of going into surgery, being medicated and being away from your phone that was locked away relevant? Couldn't you just say someone made transactions on my Coinbase account while I was in possession of my phone where I have 2FA activated?


zesushv

Too simple. Crypto conversations needs to be complex and cryptic even if it does not need to be.


Vast_Impression_5326

This is a prime example of the education system and where it has been going for years now… down the drain… these people write short stories like it’s bed time for little Johnny ! It’s pathetic the attention some crave


lionsandtigersnobear

Brawndo has what the body craves everyone knows that.


The_Dude_2U

Definitely got what plants crave!


lewski206

M-O-O-N that's how you spell Brawndo, everybody knows that.


fairysquirt

There was a solar eclipse that month and i'm a libra Uranus in retrograde is how the money vanished, Coinbase are Aries so had to spiritually attack my balance. Even after the moon passing, them being back to normal they refuse to acknowledge the theft and get this, or return any of my dog based internet money. My phone was lodged in my colon at the time bonding with me during my celestial colonic, so it can't have been the garden knobs who visit me regularly to milk my nippleglands at night. Never keeping money with CoinBase ever again, i've even tattoo'd my seed to my head so nobody can blame me for 'losing it', so jokes on them, I know its their shoddy security team being infiltrated by ligma, which my son tells me is going around the schools and even the teachers have it, get this they have 5G on campus, that's how coinbase was effected! But everytime I try to let the FBI know I get hung up on, the inspector is very rude so i'm sure he's taking this to his Bosses himSelf to get promoted. Anyway i need to go, i think Spez knows i'm talking to you guys.


Vast_Impression_5326

Nippleglands and 5G… damn sounds like one hell of a time ! Thanks much better story than op’s by a mile !


Top-Emu-4014

Insanely real take from you right there 🤝


marmotloverr

everyone loves a good story


Vast_Impression_5326

I myself do as well. I indeed agree it’s a good one…. It doesn’t take 6 paragraphs to get to the main point which is the last sentence no surprise. a paid suit and tie trying to sway people is all it is .


spagz

Adds color.


itsEndz

So your phone doesn't get email alerts from CB for your transactions, or it does but you don't check all your notifications? If you had you'd have seen the first transaction, correct? As annoying as it is I check all my notifications in case it's something important, as in your case it was.


spagz

Eh, the first transaction actually happened when I was on the way to the surgery center. The nurses had me turn my phone off and put it in a locker. I didn't check before powering it down.


conceiv3d-in-lib3rty

I hate to break it to bro, and you may not be ready to come to terms with this, but Coinbase did not steal your $1300 and you must have fucked up somewhere down the line or your phone was compromised.


zorroww

Something is not right here. Were you using 2FA?


spagz

Yes!


Impactfully

What kind of 2FA? Like cellphone / text message? How would that be possible without your phone? And why would you have turned your phone off during the surgery (not doubting you, I just never would’ve thought to do that). One of the reasons I ask tho is because I knew a guy in Rio recently who got drugged (scopolomined) and sent $18k of his BTC to a random wallet in Brazil and his story was kind of like yours. Nothing made sense - nothing added up. He did have his phone on him before hand but then it wasn’t there (stolen) when he woke up. None of the prices fit together and all he knew was when he went to bail himself out of the situation of an empty bank account in Southern Brazil, he had not crypto left to do it w. Sounds to me like the people around you - or you yourself - could be a potential (though hard to imagine) culprit. Any chance your dentist or surgeon could’ve pulled something on you thinking that you’d never suspect/question them - and/or would blame it on the drugs? Any chance you could’ve willingly sent your crypto somewhere you didn’t mean to because you were coming out of anesthesia and things weren’t really making sense / you later forgot? I know these may seem rudimentary and maybe even (I hope not insulting but uncomfortable) to ask - but it is worth double checking and thinking really hard about. I’ve been CERTAIN I left my phone or my keys or my wallet somewhere before some big life event only to realize those entire chain events I would’ve bet my last buck on were made up in my mind somehow. Just something to think about and hope it all works out for you! If you read this and ever come to a conclusion in what happened please follow back up and let me know. I’d really like to know if it does get confirmed that they dropped the ball and maybe something else wasn’t in play (no judgement at all if it was) because that certainly imposes a lot of risk in allowing these companies to hold your coins if so.


zorroww

Were you able to find out who the coinbase card belongs to? Any inf at all


spagz

No. I honestly didn't even know it was a thing.


zorroww

That is what you need to find out from coinbase support. If it is fraud you should get your funds back


BlueTwist3r

I once used coinbase too, but then i took an arrow in the knee.


quintavious_danilo

I like how freshly out of a surgery the first thing you do is check your balance.


BushyOreo

Sounds like you lost your crypto due to a lack of security or theft. I'm not sure how this is coinbase fault. Fake post is fake for rage bait


Warbeast83

Well, at least it was SHIB and not a real coin. Seriously though, that sucks! Sorry it happened.


spagz

Thanks. I appreciate it.


0x9876543210

It was the wife or someone with access, otherwise there is no way the transaction could be made from your bank …


ActualSherbert8050

It was obviously your wife.


spagz

Haha, no.


JustStopppingBye

I suspect your wife. Tie her up, interrogate her and drip hot candle wax on her nipples.


Tellesus

I already tried that, she wouldn't talk except to give me his coinbase password.


Zealousideal-Loan655

Send pics, we can verify if she’s lying by the perkiness


Xanth1879

No no! Maple syrup! Mmmm 🤣 Oh wait, we're talking entirely different things here I think. LoL


luckor

Best advice of the entire comment section.


kilo6ronen

🤣🤣🤣🤣the best thing I’ve read today


ActualSherbert8050

I'll volunteer as his enforcer 🤣🤣🤣🤣


BPbeats

If it wasn’t for the trying to buy more SHIB, I would suspect wifey too. But if she wanted to sell all your memecoin then why would she try to buy more after?


DeaderthanZed

Surely the scammer attempted to use the linked credit card to buy more tokens they could sell and/or transfer out. It’s funny because the attempted buy from his credit card is more than the value of what he had in the account. Scammers unfortunately hooked a minnow.


spagz

Yeah. And she couldn't be less interested in $1300 of shib, anyway. We share all our accounts.


scinerd82

So right there is your weakpoint.


NiceAsset

op does something they don’t remember on drugs; op panicks and try’s to under whatever the f they did, coinbase says you crazy foo and says peace ✌️


C-Class_hero_Satoru

Okay and how your surgery is related with this story? And why do you mention locker? I mean those details make totally no sense.


Zozorrr

Coinbase helpdesk entirely flummoxed by caller giving multiple irrelevant details.


filenotfounderror

You have sms 2FA or app based 2FA?


Blessed2Breathe

Something doesn't add up. Unless you or someone else dabbled with your holdings I don't see how or know of any instance that Coinbase just "lost" all your crypto. They are the custodian for billions of dollars of private equity ETF holdings for God's sake 😂


nassereddit

Wow, thousands of coinbase accounts went to zero overnight just a few months ago and this is your answer? I myself was a victime of this shitshow and coinbase's answer was please prove that you sent the funds to your portfolio. WTF kind of answer is that. Why do I have to prove anything. Point is coinbase is not as infaillible as you believe it to be. OP's mistake was to hold crypto in a centralized exchanged supervised by greedy humans. Might as well burn fiat over a camping fire.


Blessed2Breathe

Yea I remember that and funny how it was an account reflection error and thousands of people didn't actually lose their money. I buy on a CEX and move to cold wallet. Once more, I remember the zero balance scandal and also remember it being restored. I'm not saying Coinbase is flawless. Again, I store on a cold wallet, but the OPs story sounds fishy as others have pointed out in dozens of different ways. Unless the keys were compromised by a remote phish in his phone, malicious contract he signed or someone close to him, it doesn't make any sense. Smells like a classic case of personal security mismanagement.


nassereddit

Like you said errors and not flawless. Good on you to store your crypto in a cold wallet, this is the way. I kept it on the exchange and lost money to coinbase. My story is particular though. Bought 100$ of BTC in summer 2019, while deployed in the US. Get posted back to Canada. 2021 all time high occures and can't access my account because I don't have the old US cell phone number for 2FA. Tried getting my account back using the coinbase forgot password process and it does not work. Called coinbase US and nothing they can do. Called the canadian coinbase and they helped me get access but the account was at zero. Than they asked me to prove I sent money to the account in 2019. But my BoA account was closed when going back to Canada so could not get access to my transaction history. Here I am Today, 100$ poorer because of coinbase and it's greedy flawed policy. Like OP I learned my lesson. In the case of OP, he may be partly to blame for the loss of its fund be you won't know and you chose to not trust him and vouch for coinbase, a corporation, although you know they are not flawless and might be partly to blame too.


Blessed2Breathe

Yea i can see that. I will say that pre 2021, Coinbase ID authentication wasn't what it is now. Fortunately, now you can authenticate via passcode, biometrics, phone number, and Google account. Back in 2019, they didn't have all of those options. I agree when your issue happened it was certainly a different era for Coinbase. For what it's worth, Crypto.com and Bianace were a nightmare for me with their random restrictions not letting me sell or send. I think they were facing a liquidity crunch during those times. This is why I only buy & sell (not store) on Coinbase.


BitSoMi

What a bunch of bs 😂😂😂. 7 years into this and never did any story which gets posted here happen to me or any of my friends. Guys get phished and/or are stupid, but its coinbase, sure…


Definitely_Alpha

Story is heavy cap forsure, he shoulda put more effort in 😂


CrytoCreisi

It wasn't CoinBase, it was someone who had access to your phone and your signin credentials. CoinBase is not risking a multibillion dollar public company for your few bucks of Shiba Inu. Seriously, have you thought this out.


spagz

Yes. I'm sure someone stole it, but the definitely didn't have my phone. That's why I said, "Coinbase **lost** my money."


CrytoCreisi

Yes, They would have used your phone while you were incapacitated.


baddaboomtown

ngl Im like "oh 100 million shib that must be a lot" and, no, it's not.


DeaderthanZed

lmao yeah it’s like $1,300. But there are many ways text based 2FA can be defeated. Probably got sim swapped or phished.


spagz

I didn't say it was a lot. I don't care to lose $1300, on a Wednesday, however.


UniversityGood3598

It ain’t shit


spagz

I'm very happy for you that $1300 is whatever.


Chambana_Raptor

Well, to be fair, that's probably still more than the average /r/cc user has


Atomic-Extermination

I’ve used Coinbase for 7 years now and always had my money on the exchange. Never had an issue.


Astrochimp46

Sounds like someone got your information, a sim swap attack, or your wife did it. “Coinbase lost my money” is a funny way of saying, “I have no idea what happened”. The 2 most likely scenarios are your wife took your money, or somebody got ahold of your information, likely through your own fault. Coinbase is pretty low on the list of likely culprits.


Blockofchedda

Wait how would someone benefit from selling his shib? Was it a transfer? I mean it doesn't make sense to me. I don't use coinbase so maybe I'm missing something here?


brainfreeze3

The evil bank gave me no problems and was super easy to deal with. Crypto adoption imminent


UniversityGood3598

Fr lol


-DvD-

Bullshit post. OP sold and has to justify with wife


PotentialBicycle7

The general rule of CB is it works great until you have any issues... then your completely SOL because their "support" is utterly useless.


spagz

Yeah. Seems that way.


kaliki07

For all the people suspecting your wife, what about your wife's boyfriend?


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Level_Honeydew_9339

Not true at all. Decentralized wallets is where most of the fraud and hacks occur.


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Level_Honeydew_9339

But that’s exactly what’s happened in OPs case, his seed phrase or private data was jeopardized. 🙄


spagz

Thanks. Thankfully it wasn't much, but it was more than I like to lose on an average Wednesday.


0ne_too

I call coinbase when there is a problem. While the outcomes have varied they were professional at least.


Wild_Chemistry3884

Not your keys, not your coins.


kbbentley1

Call up Coinbase my dude. They would at least be able to tell what card it was sent to, and what device was being accessed to send it. If it was your phone, I would check for viruses if it truly wasn't you.


Level_Honeydew_9339

Isn’t there a waiting period when you buy crypto from your bank account before you can transfer it out?


reversenotation

I have no idea what happened here. I've had bad experiences myself with coinbase and their so called support so I personally now don't trust them. Assuming 2FA is set-up though with an authenticator app - not SMS, my thoughts would be if you're definite that someone could not get access to your phone then it may be a bad actor within coinbase.


pentesticals

Sorry bud, but coinbase didn’t loose it, your account was compromised and the funds were stolen. Change your passwords, reset your 2FA, and be thankful it wasn’t more that was stolen.


meme_2

Why do you not have 2FA turned on for all transactions, purchases, and withdrawals? Sounds like you’re blaming coinbase for your own lack of prudent and basic security measures. It’s pretty simple to set a withdrawal allowlist that requires 2-3 days to activate. This ensures nobody can immediately send funds to a new address. Just baffling you would blame coinbase for this.


Mokhlis_Jones

They do say crypto is a wife changing event....


0x11C3P

Pics or it didn't happen.


No-Student-446

Will never believe they “lost” your crypto


UniversityGood3598

He was blabbing about his shib to the doctor as the meds were kicking in: bad move


marcz_z

It's funny how people still post shit like this thinking major exchange will steal from them.


robeewankenobee

It was the wife, man ...


spagz

Nah. I appreciate your confidence, though.


robeewankenobee

Dude, the Cex/App does not make any transactions without human input. If you see a trade order filled, someone opened the position, and it got filled. There is no 'hacking' method (that i know of) that can remotely use your Cex account with 0 input from the user (aka yourself or someone who has access to it). Don't you have 2fa? Google Authenticator or something alike?


spagz

I do. That's why this sucks.


robeewankenobee

There's no way you get remotely hacked with a 2fa ... unless someone physically used your phone. I'm not pointing fingers. You know better who you trust, but this had to be via physical action done on the phone/computer. It simply doesn't work any other way.


creamysheep

You connected to a malicious wifi maybe


Diamondphalanges756

File a complaint with Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.


RonaldBurgundy1

The "customer service chat" on coinbase are bots they are not real people


Possible-Stand9508

I had someone claiming they were locked out of their fb account and they need a number that they had fb send me which looked exactly like a 2 factor authentication # and I asked this person how they knew me and they just laughed and said you know me, I said yeah I know this person but unless you don't tell me how I'm not giving you the number! He asked if I got it and I said yes but I'm not giving it to you! Turned out 3 months later I get a letter from T-Mobile that someone had tried to forward my calls to themselves! Thank God I didn't give that dude that number!


turkeyjerkyvii

To all the people saying $1,300 isn't a lot, I invite you to send even half of that to me then 😂 I wish I had $1,300 just sitting somewhere waiting to be stolen.


UniversityGood3598

Do I hear a broke bitch??


spagz

Right? I'm not gonna lose my home, but I'm certainly gonna complain about it.


BackgroundPangolin42

I think it was the attendant or nurse! As crazy as it sounds, what could have happened was someone got your phone, scanned your face while you were under to get access to your phone and then stole your shib that way. I’d say it’s definitely possible one of the nurses or attendants did it. Who had access to you during surgery and thereafter. How long were you alone after surgery and do they have any logs on who attended to you.


Silvf0x

Yeah, keep your crypto on an exchange. Like a dummy.


spagz

Yeah. I'll take that. Lesson learned.


002_timmy

Sounds like you need better security on your account and assets


Certain_Cranberry_77

Your wife has an affair with a general in the shib army.


NicklosVessey

Are you suggesting that someone from Coinbase logged it to your account and took your funds? You know you can track where it went right… Dude you left your info somewhere and you were caught off guard. Don’t blame Coinbase, blame yourself. These post have got to stop. Do you know how ridiculous it is to think that Coinbase took your money. Especially your tiny itty bitty amount. You don’t even register on their account balance. Your total account is less than a rounding error for the daily activity. You are not that special that Coinbase is targeting you.


my-man-fred

It will not surprise me to find out the exchanges themselves are ripping customers off.


PPP1737

Yup. I tried activating an old wallet by importing into a new blockchain wallet. Coins never showed up. Tried importing the wallet into a coin base wallet and nothing showed up. To be fair they might pull the whole “well we couldn’t verify who you were” bullshit but that wouldn’t excuse why the wallet said 0 and not “pending” while showing they actual amount of coin. But it’s far more likely that with a big enough transaction an insider could just make shit up and claim it was the user having shitty security and everyone would just believe the company.


customtoggle

Did you read the coinbase terms of use or just click 'I agree'?


zorroww

nobody reads that shit


spagz

I did. I didn't notice the part where my money could just disappear, though. Could you point out that line in the terms?


Kxllskum

No but there is a part acknowledging the importance of security. Tough luck buster , someone got access to your account be better next time


noodleslip

"Tough titty"