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Bitcoin phishing attempt
- wlk 13y agoHow can any bitcoin miner be that naive? As you can see for now none fell for that (assuming they have one address for all "investments"): https://blockchain.info/address/18PyfH1AqV2DbEweh6USf1HYg7D9HuC2Uf https://blockchain.info/address/18PyfH1AqV2DbEweh6USf1HYg7D9...
- f055 13y ago"Someone reminded me I once said «Greed is good». Now it seems it's legal. Because everyone is drinking the same Kool Aid."
- jgeerts 13y agoThe people involved with bitcoin are (mostly) tech-savvy, I don't think they are going to have much success.
- hn12394871023 13y agoYes, the intersection of the 'able to send bitcoin somewhere' and 'dumb enough to fall for this' populations is probably zero.
- welder 13y agoI also got this email and noticed it's from a bogus mail server: Received-SPF: softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning noreply@bitcoin.org does not designate 62.149.157.234 as permitted sender) Wonder why Google's spam filtering didn't catch it...
- vertex-four 13y agoBecause bitcoin.org's SPF record's failure mode is set to "softfail" rather than "fail" [1]. According to Wikipedia, "Typically, messages that return a SOFTFAIL are accepted but tagged". [1] http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=mx%3abitcoin.org&run=toolpage http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=mx%3abitcoin.org&...
- benedikt 13y agoDid the email you got contain the same "investment address"?
- welder 13y agoYes
- jacobr 13y agoI got it as well, I wonder how they chose their targets?
- nadaviv 13y agoDid they use the same Bitcoin address as in the pastebin? It seems like no one paid them anything yet [1], but they might be using a unique address per email. [1] http://blockchain.info/address/18PyfH1AqV2DbEweh6USf1HYg7D9HuC2Uf http://blockchain.info/address/18PyfH1AqV2DbEweh6USf1HYg7D9H...
- joebo 13y agoCan someone elaborate on how this could even work? If someone asked me to give them a dollar and I'd get 3 dollars back in one hour, I'd want to know what they are doing with my dollar. I assume the subtext is "we have some guaranteed way to arbitrage bit coins at a 300% return - send us your money and we'll give you at least that much back". I realize it's a scam. I just don't understand how the scam could work.
- ye 13y agoTechnically, there are black markets with high margins like that. But even in that case, why would they want to give these margins away to somebody else instead of giving a dollar to themselves.
- sandwell 13y agoBecause they need capital to invest in the first place? My bet is that it is some kind of viral Ponzi scheme where some early adopters (or very gullible but lucky people) get a good return and talk about it until it reaches some target, then the guy running it shuts down. I'm pretty sure I saw a few of these running over on SilkRoad about a year ago - you sent the seller some coin and got it back + 25%, 50% etc the next week. Lots of good reviews, very likely some people made quite a bit of money when SR was shut down by the feds.
- OGC 13y agoCongrats, you are not in the target group..
- gws 13y ago> I just don't understand how the scam could work. You send the money, the scammer pockets and laughs
- ceejayoz 13y agoYes, but how does anyone with the ability to navigate the fairly pain-in-the-ass process of getting Bitcoins fall for something so transparently stupid?
- aaronpk 13y agoI'm curious if the emails other people got have the same bitcoin address or if they used unique addresses per email.
- josu 13y agoJudging by the blockchain info [0] they are either using unique addresses or the scam isn't very successful. [0] https://blockchain.info/address/18PyfH1AqV2DbEweh6USf1HYg7D9HuC2Uf https://blockchain.info/address/18PyfH1AqV2DbEweh6USf1HYg7D9...
- bpeel 13y ago1 BTC is a really high minimum investment. Maybe they'd have a better chance of scamming people if they started a bit lower.
- showsover 13y agoThey might be A/B testing it.
- dpacmittal 13y agoExcuse me for being pedantic but how is this a "phishing" attempt?
- hatu 13y agoI thought phishing meant fishing for usernames and passwords. This just seems like a run of the mill stupid scam attempt that happens to say Bitcoin instead of dollars.
- SomeoneWeird 13y agoThis happens all the time, it's nothing special. Normally targeting known btc users, using emails from leaked DBs (eg. gox)
- Cthulhu_ 13y agoI'm invincible to these schemes, I play Eve Online. Go into a random trade hub and you get people shouting SEND ME E-MONEY AND I'LL DOUBLE IT! They link to a 'public' API showing that player's financial transactions over time, giving 'proof' that what he claims is legit. And for low quantities, it works too - to build trust, of course. But when the scammed sends over a large quantity of money, the scammer will add that to the 'API page' and claim the user's trying to scam him or there's supposedly a technical problem, or something. In this case, the scammer could improve by linking to a 'transaction log' online, and by offering to double someone's small amounts of bitcoin. With the current rates, that'd have to be like 0.01 BTC ($7). Those would be used to lure people in, going OMG IT WORKS, until they transfer, say, 10 BTC, after which the scammer simply doesn't return the money.
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- smoyer 13y agoBitcoin needs to make it much further into the non-techie markets before this yields enough to make it worthwhile. Of course if this con is run by a pro, they'll actually profile each mark and return the amount promised during the first round, hoping for a much bigger score on the second round.
- calvintennant 13y agoHeh: https://blockchain.info/address/18PyfH1AqV2DbEweh6USf1HYg7D9HuC2Uf https://blockchain.info/address/18PyfH1AqV2DbEweh6USf1HYg7D9... No transactions found for this address, it has probably not been used on the network yet.