So, I found this youtube video about passive income with ETH, it described a process where you goto remix Ethereum website and create a smart contract using a bot he created. You send your funds from metamask into the "bot" and it is supposed to passively gain you ETH. As skeptical as I was, the video has a very high amount of positive remarks and I figured what the hell it is worth a try. I attempted it, and when I deposited the money in the contract, it never showed in the balance on etherscan. After reviewing the transaction hash which can be pulled on etherscan with this: 0xaec7e281df0543a974d0904257370191bc062815dc1a82558f62a6d8e9792b49
I see that when the ETH was sent to my contract (0x07aDc6b34eB291aa4CA6418CDF21204a46363B79), it literally was instantly transferred to another contract or wallet (0xE99ffCcd4aC8ff7E7bA40dEc214054EED1E3e78c), which there is a record of and It literally has my funds sitting in the account as we speak. I am curious did I just get scammed or did I botch the whole transaction in some way? I assume this ETH is gone, but I would love to have some people weigh in on this for me because I am at a total loss trying to understand what happened.
It's a wallet, which makes it reasonable to assume that you've been scammed (unless you - and only you - happen to have the private key of that wallet, which is extremely doubtful of course).
But again - we'll need to see what your contract looks like.
you definitly got scammed. i also watched a yt video about this and wanted to do research to be sure not to lose any money. the code they gave you to use on remix is made so the money you deposit will go straight to their wallet. thats how they scammed you and there is no way to get the money back. On all these videos are good comment but those are bots so you would fall into the trap.
What I find special is in the video i watched he says you can also get the code using chat gpt. if u use chat gpt the person can't scam you because it is not his code. i am not sure if it would work with chat gpt.
Using generative text AIs like ChatGPT comes with additional risks, primarily due to their tendency to "hallucinate." This means the generated code might not be entirely accurate and, therefore, unsafe for use. While it is unlikely that these tools will deliberately scam you, the code they produce may still contain errors, potentially leading to financial loss. For this reason, I don't recommend using such code in production environments.
It's very sad that people do that! It's even worse when you are the victim. Some victims have come together to set up a non profit organization to help victims. Look THEM up!