This is obviously a scam without being told by anyone, even a newbie should be able to know that this is unreal, what the scammers did wrong is using 0.5BTC which is too high for the easy giveaway, I know greedy idiots can still fall for this but 0.5BTC is thousands of dollars, without doing a thing.
Furthermore, who still checks their mailbox for unwelcome emails?
Scam and spam emails don't always go straight to your Spam folder, but honestly, there's no reason to open any email you are not expecting, that's the easiest way to get phished.
Topic: +0.54056624 BTC Scam mail (Read 459 times)
Wow, 0.5+ BTC is definitely tempting, anyone would find it hard to resist, but common sense plays an important role in controlling greed. 0.5+ BTC is a huge amount of exchanged to $, it is impossible for a person or a company to give 0.5+ for free without any connection whatsoever.
A clear mindset is needed when addressing a trap like this. Remember, there are no big rewards free, especially when you receive notifications via email instructing you to open the link and go through the whole process. Scammers always offer something with an unreasonable amount, oddly enough, some still fall into their trap.
A clear mindset is needed when addressing a trap like this. Remember, there are no big rewards free, especially when you receive notifications via email instructing you to open the link and go through the whole process. Scammers always offer something with an unreasonable amount, oddly enough, some still fall into their trap.
It's no wonder that most people get hit by crypto scams because they are tempted by the value of the assets sent to their email. They couldn't hold back their greed and in the end they fell into the scammers' trap. Even though this is very easy to prevent, by ignoring emails from unknown sources and don't be tempted by "honey" tricks which are usually very tempting. Therefore, now it is very important to be vigilant and learn about security on the internet, so that we can avoid scams like this.
This kind of scam attempts is not new though, there have been very rampant years ago, you can go in this thread to check out other scams too: Scam Accusations.
As a rule, "if it's too good to be true, it's probably is".
The problem with many newbie in this market though is that they think that they can get rich very quickly and when they see this kind of enticing offer, they quickly bite on it and become greedy. Let this be a lesson to your friend and others as well so that you won't be a victim.
As a rule, "if it's too good to be true, it's probably is".
The problem with many newbie in this market though is that they think that they can get rich very quickly and when they see this kind of enticing offer, they quickly bite on it and become greedy. Let this be a lesson to your friend and others as well so that you won't be a victim.
These scam ideas are old, but still work for scammers. If the scammers weren't successful in these scams they wouldn't be wasting their time. Because every day new crypto users come in the crypto market so they are not aware of such scams and will consider these mails as genuine. So by exposing these scams crypto users are getting warnings regularly and can be alert.
Yes these old ideas generate their money so they are sticking with these old scam ideas. Though I saw many new ideas and unique ideas of scamming, luckily I didn't fall for any of these. They tried so many times but failed all the time. But I am curious about who are the people that fall for email scams, most of the time I avoid these flashy emails.
This is just like where they make their daily bread, which means they can't just give up; when one way seems to not be working for them anymore and no one is falling victim again, they switch to another. Yesterday, I came across a thread here where the scammer was there to manipulate the victim's mind with a few pieces of information that might have been gotten from an unsecured site that he might have registered on. The scammer tries a new way of scamming by telling the OP to pay some fee in order for the scammer to release the OP's private information online, but the OP being smart enough figured out the scammer's error and used it against him.
The internet space are filled with both good and bad, good and reputable developers and the bad ones who their main objective is spamming, it did not start now, and I definitely don't think it will end now, all we just need is to be careful in other not to be a victim of such one day.
These scam ideas are old, but still work for scammers. If the scammers weren't successful in these scams they wouldn't be wasting their time. Because every day new crypto users come in the crypto market so they are not aware of such scams and will consider these mails as genuine. So by exposing these scams crypto users are getting warnings regularly and can be alert.
Yes these old ideas generate their money so they are sticking with these old scam ideas. Though I saw many new ideas and unique ideas of scamming, luckily I didn't fall for any of these. They tried so many times but failed all the time. But I am curious about who are the people that fall for email scams, most of the time I avoid these flashy emails.
That's easy money for the scammer because your friend cannot moderate his greed, this is why scammers keep creating a new schemes to scam people because these people are too greedy to think that the offer is too good to be true.
The cryptocurrency industry is not friendly this is not a generous business you could lose everything here and there are many wolves dressed in sheep's skin, so always check your perception of the industry always ask, always check, and always have doubts when something too good to be true comes to you.
This is not going to be the last scammers will always scam and newbies will always be too greedy not to accept, the cycle will continue unfortunately.
The cryptocurrency industry is not friendly this is not a generous business you could lose everything here and there are many wolves dressed in sheep's skin, so always check your perception of the industry always ask, always check, and always have doubts when something too good to be true comes to you.
This is not going to be the last scammers will always scam and newbies will always be too greedy not to accept, the cycle will continue unfortunately.
We sometimes need to read about scams such as these in order to educate the readers about how to avoid such incidents in the future. This scam idea is not new and I don't fall for it.
These scam ideas are old, but still work for scammers. If the scammers weren't successful in these scams they wouldn't be wasting their time. Because every day new crypto users come in the crypto market so they are not aware of such scams and will consider these mails as genuine. So by exposing these scams crypto users are getting warnings regularly and can be alert.
Rule of thumb, if it says anything from this list
- Get bitcoin for free
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- Earn bitcoin through surveys
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Wow, I'm surprised there are people who fall into this trap. I mean, it's really an old way to scam.
We are all not smart up.. sometimes we really don't have to be surprise or even blame the victims of such scam but we just have to educate them on how to avoid such scam again in the future and also console it will mean alot and be a added value to there life.
Wow, I'm surprised there are people who fall into this trap. I mean, it's really an old way to scam. I knew about this even from the beginning, when I jumped into crypto. But, however, thank you for bringing this out, because that means there are actually people who don't know about it. I personally never respond to any email that comes in offering this kind of thing. As the saying goes, "If it's too good to be true, it probably is." I don't want to take a risk by opening one of them since so many emails came in to me. I've made a special email for crypto and never really touch it except for registering. Always be vigilant and careful in the crypto world, guys.
Am not saying members here can't be victim of scam, but this kind of scam can easily be avoided by any one with crypto knowledge most especially someone in this forum who will definitely come across various thread in here base on different method of scam.
Yes, if we are here for a long time, but is not affect for the new user. Many fall for scams like this because don't know this kind, and the word of bitcoin gets more deeper to be scammed. usually, when it will enter a period of bullish like today, we can find many people got scammed because don't know how to save it. I have written these types of scams like youtube with the same method in past, so i don't surprise if this period will repeat again today. @Dr.Bitcoin_Strange, @Potato Chips
Are you aware of
Salesq, kloser, growmeorganic, skrapp, kendo, getprospect and many others.
All this tools are use to extract mails from popular sites like linkedln, minds, and any other websites they want. Those tools are specifically design for email marketing.
Even with all the procedures you mentioned about scammers can still your mails providing that you use them to make registration on sites. Something they even go as far as buying those mails from places you use them for survey, spreadsheet registration and so on.
In one way or the other we can still get all this mails their is no way which we can completely ignore them, even when you blacklist the first one they will still come up with another email and continue sending.
The only things to do is to completely ignore the mail even when we receive them it's better off than way, but it's only few who know that those mails are truly scam will be able to resist such tempting offer.
They say greed is one thing that push someone to be a victim of scam.
Are you aware of
Salesq, kloser, growmeorganic, skrapp, kendo, getprospect and many others.
All this tools are use to extract mails from popular sites like linkedln, minds, and any other websites they want. Those tools are specifically design for email marketing.
Even with all the procedures you mentioned about scammers can still your mails providing that you use them to make registration on sites. Something they even go as far as buying those mails from places you use them for survey, spreadsheet registration and so on.
In one way or the other we can still get all this mails their is no way which we can completely ignore them, even when you blacklist the first one they will still come up with another email and continue sending.
The only things to do is to completely ignore the mail even when we receive them it's better off than way, but it's only few who know that those mails are truly scam will be able to resist such tempting offer.
They say greed is one thing that push someone to be a victim of scam.
As I previously said, they won't be able to solve the problem entirely and are only meant to minimize the damage.
Scam/spam emails are indeed unstoppable but if there are ways so I can better handle them, I'd do it. Let's take compartmentalizing for instance.
1. I have less clutter on my main email accounts as I use temp emails to sign up for test accounts/lesser known services.
2. With email forwarding services I can set up unlimited aliases e.g. 1 alias for 1 service which I can easily nuke if it receives too much shit.
3. If one of my email accounts gets hacked, I limit the possible damage as I don't keep everything in one account.
@Dr.Bitcoin_Strange, @Potato Chips
Are you aware of
Salesq, kloser, growmeorganic, skrapp, kendo, getprospect and many others.
All this tools are use to extract mails from popular sites like linkedln, minds, and any other websites they want. Those tools are specifically design for email marketing.
Even with all the procedures you mentioned about scammers can still your mails providing that you use them to make registration on sites. Something they even go as far as buying those mails from places you use them for survey, spreadsheet registration and so on.
In one way or the other we can still get all this mails their is no way which we can completely ignore them, even when you blacklist the first one they will still come up with another email and continue sending.
The only things to do is to completely ignore the mail even when we receive them it's better off than way, but it's only few who know that those mails are truly scam will be able to resist such tempting offer.
They say greed is one thing that push someone to be a victim of scam.
Are you aware of
Salesq, kloser, growmeorganic, skrapp, kendo, getprospect and many others.
All this tools are use to extract mails from popular sites like linkedln, minds, and any other websites they want. Those tools are specifically design for email marketing.
Even with all the procedures you mentioned about scammers can still your mails providing that you use them to make registration on sites. Something they even go as far as buying those mails from places you use them for survey, spreadsheet registration and so on.
In one way or the other we can still get all this mails their is no way which we can completely ignore them, even when you blacklist the first one they will still come up with another email and continue sending.
The only things to do is to completely ignore the mail even when we receive them it's better off than way, but it's only few who know that those mails are truly scam will be able to resist such tempting offer.
They say greed is one thing that push someone to be a victim of scam.
As I previously said, they won't be able to solve the problem entirely and are only meant to minimize the damage.
Scam/spam emails are indeed unstoppable but if there are ways so I can better handle them, I'd do it. Let's take compartmentalizing for instance.
1. I have less clutter on my main email accounts as I use temp emails to sign up for test accounts/lesser known services.
2. With email forwarding services I can set up unlimited aliases e.g. 1 alias for 1 service which I can easily nuke if it receives too much shit.
3. If one of my email accounts gets hacked, I limit the possible damage as I don't keep everything in one account.
I think it's a good idea to use separate emails for Bitcoin activity compared with the rest of your emailing
It truly is. You'll get to filter all of the activities that you're going to do for those emails and you'll get track those potential websites that are sharing their database or leaking it to those scammers.And that specific email will be clean from these type of email scammers/phishers. I guess everyone should start doing that for them to protect themselves and avoid these unnecessary emails that we're getting from wherever we have signed up.
That will just limit the rate at which you will get those mails but it's never a guarantee that they won't come in.
The different is that, if you are using email "A" specifically for social media, and sites which are not related to crypto when ever you get any crypto related mail from that "A" mail box you don't even need any one to tell you that they are likely to be scam without even giving it a second taught.
You'll be aware that you haven't registered somewhere else and you won't click a link that you're unaware of because you have never registered to them, telling that your account is done for and needs to be revamp by clicking a link they've put at the latter part of the email.
If you stay here in this forum for quite some time then you will become knowledgeable about different ways that scammers made to temp people like people getting emails receiving crypto or a chance to earn crypto. Not all you received in your email is true where some of it are sent to you in order to lure you into sending funds or sending your information or wallet information. If you receive something the same in the future then better make a research and then share it where you are able to share like this forum.
What a f*ck!
Did your friend belong here?
Because i know those that are from here are very smarter to overcome such temptation being that they have been reading lots of happening here and they are alert for any phishing mail or pm from anyone.
Did your friend belong here?
Because i know those that are from here are very smarter to overcome such temptation being that they have been reading lots of happening here and they are alert for any phishing mail or pm from anyone.
No he's not, anyone who belongs to the forum is literally exposed above a normal standard and will likely know things regarding security measures and how to avoid them.
Am not saying members here can't be victim of scam, but this kind of scam can easily be avoided by any one with crypto knowledge most especially someone in this forum who will definitely come across various thread in here base on different method of scam.
Usually that type of email goes to the spam folder and you're unlikely to click the link because they're unclickable. But it's sad to see that there are still some people that fall for it.
Not all does, the ones I receive come directly into my inbox unread mails no kind of warning from gmail at all to identify it's a scam or something. Mails which goes into scam folders are those that's has been repeatedly reported as scam, which Gmail or any mail provider will now likely flag them as scam mail. And another thing there as well is that, the scammers are already aware that the mails might likely be sent to spam box so they use other means, like using an old gmail or any mail account which have been created for several years and has been active for long, using such old mails to send scam mails most of the times mail providers over look it because they are old account that's to say they don't expect old account to be use for such new generational scam. I'm checking the senders and they're also like the normal emails that we use, gmails and yahoomails. They're too easy to spot on when the email provider itself has flagged them as an inappropriate and likely a spam email.
There's still need a clean up drive to make people aware that don't click those unsolicited email links.
What a f*ck!
Did your friend belong here?
Because i know those that are from here are very smarter to overcome such temptation being that they have been reading lots of happening here and they are alert for any phishing mail or pm from anyone.
I also had same experience with a platform that kept sending mails on how they help the needy to donate some certain amount to them, along the line i decide to just pull their legs and i follow up the link sent to me, I opened site and started claiming those bitcoin saying "Mr, john donated 0.01 btc click to receive donations, i do as they said the next person appears again, frank donated 0.07 btc click to accept donation" i kept doing this till at last they said i to receive a total amount of bitcoin to your wallet you have to deposit 0.005BTC to that wallet they provided to me. I just smile and zoom off.
Did your friend belong here?
Because i know those that are from here are very smarter to overcome such temptation being that they have been reading lots of happening here and they are alert for any phishing mail or pm from anyone.
I also had same experience with a platform that kept sending mails on how they help the needy to donate some certain amount to them, along the line i decide to just pull their legs and i follow up the link sent to me, I opened site and started claiming those bitcoin saying "Mr, john donated 0.01 btc click to receive donations, i do as they said the next person appears again, frank donated 0.07 btc click to accept donation" i kept doing this till at last they said i to receive a total amount of bitcoin to your wallet you have to deposit 0.005BTC to that wallet they provided to me. I just smile and zoom off.
I have been receiving this mail lately and I don't always give a f*ck to it because I don't have account with any platform neither am I expecting any form of payment from any one to any platform, so I total discard the message and trash them at the end even as they keep on coming in.
scam emails are persistent, if it is becoming a nuisance to you, you can make another email and move all the important things that you conduct there and only use that email for business, work stuff or whatever it is that you deemed important.I have to say though, I've been in Bitcoin for a long time and I've never had a single reason to respond to an email with a Bitcoin payment ever. I can't even imagine the circumstance that would make me receive an email and think to myself that I need to click a link and then send BTC. The ease at which crypto can be scammed and the impossibilities of recovering it are one of the biggest challenges that onboarding new users will face.
from what I've seen, people get desperate or greedy enough to make themselves believe that what they received in the email is real or hoping is real. I've seen and heard a lot of people fall to similar scams like this in my country(the scam is not crypto-related though). Jump to: