What should I do after getting axiom drained?
So basically, I wanted to try out crypto as a way to make some money, so I joined a Discord server. I was asking questions in the server’s main chat, and some people were answering them. Then I got a friend request from someone random in the server.
We started messaging each other, and at first he was helping me out by giving me his specific filters on Axiom and other tips. He explained the process of buying SOL on Kraken, sending it to my Phantom wallet, and then transferring it to Axiom. Along the way, he had me bookmark something called BloomSniper, telling me it was good for quickly trading. Being gullible, I bookmarked it and activated it.
After I got the SOL into my Axiom account, he stopped texting me. Soon after, I realized that I had 0 SOL left in Axiom.
But it doesn’t end there. I was pretty upset that my hard-earned money was gone and that I had been scammed, so I went back into the original Discord server where I met him. I started telling people in the chat what had happened and asking what I should do. Suddenly, I got another friend request. I accepted it, and right away the guy started asking me how I got scammed and what happened. He told me that scammers like that were common and that he felt bad for me.
At this point, I was already skeptical of this new “friend,” but what really sealed the deal and made me realize he was most likely the original scammer was when he offered to help me recover by having me transfer more SOL into a new wallet and sent me a link to do so. Combined with the fact that Discord showed the account had been created that same day, it led me to believe it was the same person.
Throughout the rest of the conversation, he kept trying to convince me to click the link or start “validating” my account. I just don’t understand how some people can be so cruel. The $1,800 was all the money I had saved up. It might not seem like a lot to some people, but for me, that was all I had.
Anyway, I know I’m not going to get my money back, but I was wondering what steps I should take to make sure my Dell laptop isn’t compromised. I’ve already deleted the bookmark, deleted my Axiom account, and changed the passwords for everything involved in this crypto journey. Does anyone know of anything important that I haven’t done yet?