150% dodgy Investment "Fond" from Exrates Exchange

milewilda

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Quote from: btc2017btc2017 on November 25, 2018, 08:18:09 PM

I've just received this Investment "Fond" email, it can't be real, they say that they are using ASICs that have been developed for 3 years and is 5 times better than the current 7nm ASICs. They say you get 150% back in 25 days. The email was from [email protected] and Exrates Exchange does use Intercom

Shreenshot: https://www.facebook.com/CryptoMinerUK/posts/354719318409565

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Reading with just description and by just using up your own common sense then this is indeed a scam. Using up an exchange to tied up and what the
heck with underground miner creators making an ASIC which is far more better with the current ones is already a crazy invention of stories to fool up people.
This is more appropriate to be posted on reputation section.

Pmalek

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Quote from: btc2017btc2017 on November 25, 2018, 08:18:09 PM

They say you get 150% back in 25 days.

That sounds a lot like a Ponzi scheme. Another user wrote a nice guide regarding Ponzi schemes - you can check it out here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ponzi-scheme-101-5035428

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What is a Ponzi scheme?
A Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud platform that requires payment of returns to existing investors from funds contributed by new investors. They often seduce new investors by promising them to invest money for an opportunity claimed to generate high-value returns with small or even no risk at all. They usually or mostly attracting new amount of money to make promised payments to earlier-stage investors to create the false impression that investors are profiting from an authorized business.

Also pay attention to the Red Flags and Indicators section where he mentions:

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High investment returns. Ponzi schemes typically have a high value of returns, 1% a day, 30% a month or more is ridiculous.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ponzi-scheme-101-5035428

Mishnagan22

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It's scam. I recieved this letter too, but after i recieved next letter from [email protected]:

"Hi there,
Attention! Important information!

Exrates exchange does collect any investment charges at the moment.
Please ignore emails with the "Your investment opportunity - JUST TODAY!" subject and do not respond to such provocative emails from non-official accounts!
We would like to remind you that Exrates never requests transfer of personal funds to any accounts.
We remind you that there is a system of privacy policy that you will find by the link below:
https://exrates.me/privacyPolicy

Best regards,
Exrates.me team"

elda34b

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It's not coming from Exrates. Some admin/mod on their chat box already clarified:

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vmail01:31:27

Dear customer, thanks for your information. Seems, like this email was compromised. We will warn all our customers not to send anything to this address. Take our deepest apologies for this situation. Our specialists are already working on it.

vmail01:31:54

It's about email database leak. Our security team is already working on it.

vmail01:33:29

They say only emails were compromised, I suggest you take additional precautions

You can ask it further on their chat box, or email their support.

btc2017btc2017

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I've just received this Investment "Fond" email, it can't be real, they say that they are using ASICs that have been developed for 3 years and is 5 times better than the current 7nm ASICs. They say you get 150% back in 25 days. The email was from [email protected] and Exrates Exchange does use Intercom

Shreenshot: https://www.facebook.com/CryptoMinerUK/posts/354719318409565

I hope that this post is in the correct category, if not then please move to the correct category.

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