Topic: Bitcoin Donation Scam ~ Another Strategy. (Read 157 times)

It's new for newcomers to Cryptocurrency, but old investors and those who have seen the like of this will just ignore it and laugh at it or report it if they are part of groups or forums like Bitcointalk, they are not targetting people that are here in Bitcointalk they target those newbies who do not know how their scheme works, but they are not good at picking people so they ended sending offers to people like OP, they are employing guerilla marketing hoping that their offer landed on newbies. 

scammers keep using new ideas to cheat and we should cut them off...

I was once asked by a friend of mine to help her buy a few bitcoin (satoshi) on an exchange (coincidentally she was never interested in cryptocurrencies at all) because she got an email like this,

then I told her to calm down and after I investigated it and it was just a spam email sent by a scammer with the attraction of sending some bitcoins and then getting some bitcoins.

I'm sure scammers have sent spam emails like this to the billions of people in the world who use email, never believe it, even if it's from an email that looks convincing though.

Same old, same old.

The victim gets tempted with a bigger amount of bitcoin and is asked to donate or send some BTC to cover the withdrawal fees. Whoever does it, losses the amount they sent. If you think logically, you should ask yourself: if this is a legit offer, why can't they just take the fees they need from the coins they are giving me? Because there are no coins. There are only the coins you have, and they want you to send it to them.

Use common sense and stay safe!

This is like the "nigerian prince" of nowadays adapted with bitcoin
All "donations" scam works in that way. You are eligible for a bigger donation. Before you can receive it you need to pay a small "fee" or in this case you have to make another donation or there are some generics documents to be completed and so on.
Of course NEVER PAY ANYTHING! It's always a scam. But some one (maybe in large numbers since these messages are sent hundreds of time each minute) will caught trap in these scam and send money
I know it appears something foolish but this kind of scams are endless...

Based on my understanding of the concept of this scam you need to donate first before you can withdraw the amount donated, the amount is not yet on your wallet and you have to donate before they release it, its an automated system, and they all own those addresses and, I have this in casinos where they give you rewards and they made you win then they lock your account and you have to deposit first, same concept with a twist, scammers are very imaginative now.

I don't know I also get the same email from scamers but I always ignore it because I know this is another type of scam that is in action, sent to my email and other people, maybe many are sent emails like this.

Maybe I'm getting more emails because of hackers in the past, but I can't help but sometimes these emails keep coming so that my emails seem to be in the hands of scammers.

Do you have any idea where they got your email address from?

after a small break and a reduced amount of spam, I've been getting a lot of similar junk lately, and it all started after the hacking of the CMC base. I would say it comes from there.

That's not new since I already see this before and those scammer use fake vouches provably from their fake accounts to make their operation legit but their main intention is to scam people by asking some funds before you can get the amount they stated. People should not waste their time on this because no one would send a huge amount in exchange of small fraction so better ignore it since the offer is so shady.

This is actually a strategy to scam people of their coins. It won't work that way, you'll have to send from your personal coins and not from the donations I think. I don't expect many people here to fall for this format except greedy and gullible ones. As for me, whenever I see something like this knowingly I didn't fill any form, I wouldn't hesitate to delete the message from my inbox. I will not even read to the end talk more of clicking on the link.

I don't waste my time with that kind of "offers". I see them coming from afar. The bad thing is that it pays off for the scammers because someone always ends up falling for them. Let's hope that we don't have in this same section soon threads of people complaining that they have fallen in this scam, because something similar happens with the 1xCrap casino. As much as it is known in general in the forum that they are scammers, every now and then we have someone in this section complaining that they have been scammed.

But I am wondering, if you haven't sent any btc to that account, you can easily donate the amount that they asked to,
from the donations that you got. Have you tried sending the 0.0034BTC from your 0.1948BTC?
Because sending that amount from your collected donations, you have nothing to lose, if I am understanding the situation right.
But of course, if the offer is too-good-to-be-true, then, doubt its authenticity.

REFERNECE/SCAM SITE: https://donate.coincryptotogo.tk/cab56kapl.php

Few days ago, i received an email from a fake google form account telling me "thank you for filling out the form"(^{i did not fill any form.}) and that " i have BTC0.694099 available to claim" by me participating in a unique project, which luckily, i am among those selected.



With my years of experience online, i already knew that this was a scam, but i really wanted to know how this ones operate, so i followed the link in the email address, it took me to a page where i was asked to fill in my payment details.



i filled a fake name, they already have my email address, i created a new bitcoin address and submitted the address in the form and clicked the "Accept donate from project participants" button to submit the form.



In the next page, i was told that 55 persons will help me (^{fake persons by the way.}) by sending random amount of Bitcoins to my account, i will have to accept the transfer from them all.



After accepting the Bitcoin transfer from the first person, i tried to withdraw but was told i can only withdraw after ive accepted all bitcoin transfer from all 55 participants.



So, i got to work, i started accepting the transfers and at the end of it, i collected a total of BTC0.1948 from 55  project participants.



Time to withdraw  , i cant wait for this money to land in my wallet.

I hit the withdraw button, and i was told to donate BTC0.0034 to one Grace Grant before i can withdraw my BTC0.1948(^{fake BTC by the way.})




END OF STORY.
Scammers are every where and looking for all means to steal your precious Bitcoins, steer clear and never you fall for any of their tricks, always remember that if the offer is too good to be true, then its likely not true .
Newbies , beware of this strategy, scammers can never get your bitcoins if you do not send it to them or allow them access to your wallet, so be extra vigilant out there.