No, happyguy didn’t “get robbed by some asshole”, until proven otherwise. This should be your opinion on anything posted online, otherwise you’re just as gullible to manipulation.

I‘m referring to this post which was in the front page today. The user 007happyguy recently posted that a “scammer on discord “ stole 130K worth of eth from a metamask wallet. But there are so many sketchy things about the post that make it very likely to simply be false. Heres why:

• He says that he has 260K in a hot wallet in metamask for 6 years. Would really an experienced user that has been in the scene for so long not take a small fraction relative to his holdings to purchase a cold wallet or to spread his holdings on different platforms? I have been on the scene for 5 months and I have a Yoroi wallet, a Blits wallet, Binance, Metamask, Terra Station, and many others to diversify. Someone that has been for 6 years must at least have some Bitcoin some where else.
• 24 hours ago he comes and says that “You’re equally at risk from the suspiciously new Reddit accounts which send you links to ‘help’ you solve issues….“, so he was well well aware that these things happen. 1 day passes, and he falls for exactly the same scam that he described. Also, OP's post history indicates someone who would know better than to enter their seed online like a complete beginner.
• This is a relatively new account with 1 month of activity.
• The MM wallet might not even be his wallet. He could be just watching another wallet move coins. So no. Posting an address is not the ultimate proof, far from it. There are millions of addresses out there, available to be watched at any time and publicly broadcasting their transactions. Why should we believe OP from only this?
• While many other posts offer screenshots as proof, all we have in the table is just mere text, which happyguy tries to make quite credible by adding further edits as the day progresses. We are left to believe merely by text and not by proof? On the internet? We should be skeptical until proven otherwise, and go ahead /u/007happyguy , if you can add actually credible proof, do it.
• The part where the scammer slowly transfers out is dubious. Usually, scammers just take all they see in one go and try to do it as quickly as possible.
• It was suggested that his holdings might be real, but the story fake, that being a way for him to avoid paying taxes on his 260K holdings and paying much less for the supposedly “recovered” amount.

I’m not saying to be dead inside and compassionateless, but just be skeptical to stories on the internet, especially when they have no real proof and are trying really hard to convince you of something. This way you won’t be gullible to fall yourselves for manipulation on online platforms, and would also be harder to fall for scams.

I mean, it could have or not have happened, and regardless of if it did, considering the place we’re in, always assume “this is false until I see legit proof, and there are many motives why someone would want to present a negative view of something for personal interest, or the interest of an organization, or whatever“. In one day, and in one post, the sentiment of the sub can change, and the sentiment of a group of people is a strong force for the interest of a few.