Having a good understanding of #bitcoin helps in preventing you from getting scammed.

Had a recent experience where I triggered a swap between lightning and liquid on boltz but the lightning payments kept timing out. Tried different lightning wallets but the same issue kept occuring so I figured the problem was from boltz

Tried reaching out to their discord channel for any help. Posted a message about the issue on the help channel and immediately a chat response responded. I didn't realize initially that this was spam. It directed me to a different discord server and put me on a queue. Then the agent began asking if I use Exodus wallet when I specifically mentioned the lightning transactions error.

It was at this point my suspicion was in full gear and I realized this was an attempted scam and deleted the server.

The knowledge spent learning about the technical nature of Bitcoin is never wasted.

A day later the swaps were resolved from boltz end.