I had a similar experience. I was a bank teller (credit union actually) back in 2006 and had someone come in with suspicious checks that he said he desperately needed the funds from for paying basic cost of living type bills. There was the whole nine yards about kids to feed and so forth. I waived the hold and then the checks turned out to be fake. They got away with it as far as I know and I got in big trouble.

Here's the super interesting/embarrassing part! Just this week I had a hold on a check. I knew I wanted to convert the cash that I didn't immediately need into bitcoin. I was comparing what I could get from the preview transaction of a couple of exchanges yesterday and actually accidentally hit the buy button on one of them! After a super embarrassing email exchange with the exchange (repetition not intended :) ) last night, I finally just called the bank today and asked them to have pity on me and let the ACH go through. It looks like I'm going to make it out with just an overdraft fee and not the whole ACH reversed.

Story: I was checking bitcointalk's board about lending and I decided to enter because I want to check how it works. I saw many honest people lending their bitcoin at 5-15% depending of how much you want. At those days, I was participating actively in P2P loans platforms such as BitJam, Wayniloans, etc because my main focus was to look it up all these pages to see if their legit.

A saw one post (today deleted) where some dude from Bombay asked a small loan to repair his bike. He explained shortly the costs, details and he was willing to repay 8% at 2 months. Since I didn't care too much about the money but the experience of borrow someone my bitcoins, I gave him/her 0.5 bitcoin¹ and expected to be returned in 46 days.

And yes, of course my friend, he/she vanished with that. And no, I made no effort to try to find the guy because at those days, it's just waste of time.

Well, of course not. I landed to BTCJam where I started to put my money in several investments, the experience was good until I lost (again) 0.5 BTC² and those days bitcoin was more expensive, so I took those loses personally. I have my arbitration letter but never took any actions.

So, that's my story.

I was scammed 2 times on "cloud mining" sites when I started in Bitcoin, I didn't lose much money, in fiat about 200$, nothing to keep me up at night

At 15, working concessions at a movie theater, I ran around fulfilling an order, then asked the customer for payment. They insisted they already paid. I called my manager and my manager sided with them. The customers walked away smiling and laughing. The manager counted my register, it was short on that amount, and it was taken out of my paycheck. I was treated like I stole it.¹

Many years later, I was a grocery clerk and the same couple came through my line at the grocery store (it was a small town), and they used food stamps. I was upset at them originally, but they were only sharing their suffering with me.

I was scammed for fake currency. I needed some cash urgently and transfered amount to someone and HD gave me 6 fake 500rs notes. I had the number of that person, knew where he was staying but I didn't find him and his number went switched off forever.

This one's a classic scam, though I'm surprised she just asked to change a bill -- the usual version involves buying something small with a large bill, since the need to manage the change and dollar bills makes it harder to keep track of everything.

There's also a variant where it's the cashier that pulls the scam (essentially doing the reverse, giving change as if the person paid with a twenty instead of a fifty, and pocketing the rest).

I've been scammed before. In the end I just let it go and moved on. The money was probably in Pakistan by then, and I wanted to focus on rebuilding and moving on rather than sulking and chasing an unknown individual to the end of the earth. It also wasn't more than $500

Long time ago I bought a fake watch from a scammer, was super cheap, I thought it was a bargain.

I also put some sats to Celsius, but not much.

Scammed in fiat and in bitcoin. Scams are afoot!

Scammed by eBay and PayPal Bank scammed me on a miscounted cash deposit Scammed by dead shitcoin projects Scammed by bucket yield shops Rugged by wallets

You name it I am sure it has happened to me. But with every scam you learn and you move on get better.