Bitcoin Mining Accelerator SCAM - page 7.

BitcoinPorn

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Quote from: cdhowie on June 29, 2011, 03:29:30 PM

When refreshing the FTP directory periodically, three .dat files appeared. I have downloaded them and removed them from the FTP server. After starting up bitcoind with them I will report on any addresses they contain that have been seen in the block chain. If they turn out to be your addresses, create a new wallet on a secure machine and spend all of your coins to one of its addresses ASAP.

EDIT: More keep popping up every so often. I am downloading and deleting all that I find.

God bless you people helping us confused, thanks in advance for cracking it open.

andes

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andes

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Quote from: Jack of Diamonds on June 29, 2011, 03:22:47 PM

lol @ the fake usernames on the comments.

Nearly everything is in two words each capitalized, like CheBerry or ConfusedUser.

If you're going to go bipolar then at least do it right

Some of the fake users seem upset at some issues to make it more believable, then other fake users answer them. What a shameless thief!

cdhowie

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When refreshing the FTP directory periodically, three .dat files appeared. I have downloaded them and removed them from the FTP server. After starting up bitcoind with them I will report on any addresses they contain that have been seen in the block chain. If they turn out to be your addresses, create a new wallet on a secure machine and spend all of your coins to one of its addresses ASAP.

EDIT: More keep popping up every so often. I am downloading and deleting all that I find.

Viro

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I love the internet enterpreneur (yes, it says enterpreneur) best idea award.

Jack of Diamonds

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lol @ the fake usernames on the comments.

Nearly everything is in two words each capitalized, like CheBerry or ConfusedUser.

If you're going to go bipolar then at least do it right

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Quote from: kwukduck on June 29, 2011, 02:38:52 PM

I just got an email advertising this wonderfull scam

I thought there already was a topic on it but couldn't find it so i thought i'd put this up as a warning.

It's funny how hard they try to make this look legit, the awards are epic!

DO NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE!
www.bitcoin-mining-accelerator.com

That's just the tip of the iceberg. Wait until we have people that sell accelerators with simple fakery in the client wrt MH/s. There's enough randomness in mining that I'm sure *some* people will be fooled.

cdhowie

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Quote from: dacoinminster on June 29, 2011, 03:16:12 PM

Has anybody actually downloaded/scanned their software? I'm not going to be the test case for that!

Yes, two of us on -otc have been tinkering with it. It apparently connects to some FTP site (74.208.186.97) and attempts to download a file... using PORT... so it won't actually accomplish anything on hosts behind NAT. (Not that I can tell.) We have FTP access to that site currently and are monitoring things. Will report more as we learn more.

BitcoinPorn

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I actually figure someone on these forums is smart enough to crack open the file and see if you can find the return address on it

Where does this person want everything they steal going back to?

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Rational Exuberance

I got this email too.

Whoever did this did an amazing job on the website. Everything looks believable to me except those stupid badges. I sent them an email asking them to post on this thread.

Has anybody actually downloaded/scanned their software? I'm not going to be the test case for that!

BitcoinPorn

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I respect the fuck out of that site, too fucking funny.

Only funny if I ignore the real world implications that site could have on some people who have maybe too much invested in a non secure form of currency.

andes

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Serious marketing work into this. Even the comments seem like a carefully designed scam.

Bitcon stealing trojan detector activated!

Chick

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Quote from: kwukduck on June 29, 2011, 02:38:52 PM

I just got an email advertising this wonderfull scam

I thought there already was a topic on it but couldn't find it so i thought i'd put this up as a warning.

It's funny how hard they try to make this look legit, the awards are epic!

DO NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE!
www.bitcoin-mining-accelerator.com

Lol, I love how the security seals directly link to the downloadable executable.

kwukduck

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I just got an email advertising this wonderfull scam

I thought there already was a topic on it but couldn't find it so i thought i'd put this up as a warning.

It's funny how hard they try to make this look legit, the awards are epic!

DO NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE!
www.bitcoin-mining-accelerator.com

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