A Fake Ledger Letter Cost Her Everything | Karen Faye's Bitcoin Story

It is very, very, very sad.

Um, and I, and, you know, we're gonna try to help you with the community.

We're gonna try to help you, uh, get some donations here to try to work that balance back up for you over time, right?

Yes, sir.

At the end of the episode, we're definitely g- we're gonna post a, uh, Bitcoin address for you.

You know, hopefully, the community will step up and, and help you out, and that being said, we have to make sure that this never happens again, right? Um, and we have to be clear that this was a user error, not a Bitcoin error, not a Ledger error.

It's not a Bit- I'm not saying it's a Ledger error, but why is, did not Ledger have any kind of contact that I could contact them immediately? E- even if it, th- they had somebody on the other end where I question and answers.

Mm-hmm.

Even if it was a bot that they could get somebody live to answer my question.

Mm-hmm.

I would have waited if I had something.

I saw no place.

Yeah.

And I put my money into buying this Ledger.

Did it, did it not seem weird to you that there was no announcement about whatever that is in that letter on their website, if it's-

Well, I, I figured, no, I guess not.

Yeah.

I didn't think of it that way.

Yeah.

I thought if it was a scam, there would be an announcement.

[laughs]

I didn't, I never thought on that end.

This is one scam vector that you've experienced, but there's people running hundreds of these scam letters.