Hi y'all,
I know that I'm an idiot for using a browser based wallet that is unsupported by the community, so please don't rub it in, I've already lost a significant amount of monero. It's a very big bummer of an expensive lesson and I want to pass it on. For anyone that reads this, immediately move your monero to a new address if you entered your mnemonic seed phrase/private keys on their site. I don't trust them at all.
I've used that webwallet for years and had no problems. I ALWAYS checked the URL in my browser to make sure it wasn't .org/.net/.in or anything else. The strange thing is that the Monero were safely sitting there since 2018 when I moved it from an exchange due to hacking concerns. I did a transaction in January 2021 and it wasn't until months later, in April of 2021, that the whole balance was withdrawn. That is what gets me. The delay before the withdrawal.
I've been racking my brain to try to figure out if I somehow I transferred it and forgot, but I can't remember anything and was very surprised when I had a zero balance. I did not move them to an exchange, and I don't have another monero address. I also wondered if my seed words could be compromised. I store them offline, and no one has access to them, so I don't know how anyone would get them. I do copy/paste from the password protected file to the web address when I log in, so maybe my computer is compromised, but nothing else has been messed with and there was a many month delay since I used the seed last. So unless I suffer from some seriously early onset dementia or sleep-transferring disorder, I have come to the most likely conclusion that xmrwallet is a scam.
If anyone has any other ideas of what could have happened, or have experienced something similar, please let me know!
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