Topic: coinbase phishing alert (Read 2036 times)

It is obviously a scam,  that should not even be debated.  What is bothersome is Bitjams inability to keep our email addresses out of the hands of parasites that cannot earn a living without outright theft. Karma! The hurt you cause someone will one day haunt you and will inflict 10x the pain back.

I don't think I got i but I learnt that coinbases send grid account was hacked. I don't think any relation is there but maybe,
Here's the link:http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/sendgrid-email-breach-was-used-to-attack-coinbase-a-bitcoin-exchange/?_r=0

Oh i've already been proud of bitcoin community that nobody fell for it as i thought they used the same address for every mail.

Some people will fall, whenever these mails appear many people fall, such as fake paypal emails, there have been a lot of spam and as always many people fall because it seems real.

Thank you very much for letting us know, i use coinbase and knew nothing about this

Coinbase would never provide a BTC address to send to, especially through regular text email.  They'd announce it on their official Twitter or on their blog first.

https://twitter.com/coinbase

https://blog.coinbase.com/ 

For any payments, you'd have to login to Coinbase first, provide 2 FA code, before you even get to submit any sort of payment.  Never to a direct wallet address.

Coinbase needs to display their public IP used on their email headers, or this could become a bigger problem than it is today, since users have no means of confirming these emails.

Ohh... OK Thanks

They used a distinct address for each email sent, so we wouldn't know how many people fell for it.

Please dont send money to they !
=> https://blockchain.info/address/13uFnb22f9hKqjMSfWv295TUhoLAcbXamS

Best regards
Christian

I got it, never even been to coinbases website. I do however have a btcjam account, someone else suggested a connection there?

Received warning from coinbase:

Hi there,

Earlier today, a spam email claiming to be from Coinbase was sent to some of our customers, announcing a "Coinbase Invest Fund".

If you received this email, please disregard it. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Note: This email in no way affects the safety of your Coinbase account, and no customer data was compromised.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact [email protected].

Kind Regards,
Coinbase Security


Weird is both email received from [email protected]    

thanks for informing, coinbase would not ask to make deposit directly to a btc address, must be on their site...
that's what I know..

Also got this, but I don't think I registered on coinbase. The email doesn't mention my name though, just repeats my email address.

I also got this email, and I have never been on the Coinbase website.

I have been on Localbitcoins, but I never registered there or shared this email address there. Editing this because I just checked past emails and I did use this email address with localbitcoins in June 2013. So they must have gotten my email address there.

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They are pretty sophisticated, even generated separate Bitcoin address for each email.

Why is it that every time a story of actual importance hits the main page it gets moved to one of the near-invisible sub-pages that nobody ever visits?

I hope nobody fall for this!

I received the same email.

I just chatted with someone at Coinbase and confirmed that it is a scam.

Z

I got the same. It not trustable at all. What make me nervous that they inlcude my name in the mail the same way how I have it in the my Coinbase profile. This smell fishy

Anybody get one who _doesn't_ have a Coinbase account?

It was most likely the Coinbase DB that was hacked.