I sent a guy a down payment on a car. I use a program called Electrum. After I sent him the money I figured out I was being scammed. Do I have any recourse? Any way to recover my money?
I do have the guys wallet ID and the transaction ID.
Thankfully is was only 55.58663 mBTC
Sorry for your loss. The money you had sent out is already considered total loss as long it had been confirmed. On what kind of transaction you are making with other people?
Why you havent really that able to realize that making some downpayment for purchasing a car? If this thing done through online and having no signing of documents involved then its definitely a scam.
There's no way that you could really be able to get some easy deal with purchasing some car without having those paper works even though the payment is through online means or methods
but in speaking about legality or legitimacy of such transaction then it would really be that much preferred on doing it physically or in person. Buying and selling cars doesnt really come on a simple
agreement or something that verbal and then agreed on the amount which you would be paying then its already done which it isnt something like that.
The amount isnt really that too big though so its still a good call that you had noticed something and find out on being a scam. This is a some lesson learned for you
that never ever trust someone and do make out some immediate sending out money into random people not unless you do make out some face to face transactions.