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October 15, 2015, 12:45:56 AM
#36

Surely it's fake email which try to phising your data.
Actually i never find website who pay me for make some activation. Cry


Even for 0.001 BTC.

legendary
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October 14, 2015, 06:40:18 PM
#35
cant u clearly see who's the sender ?
how can u ask if this is real ? really ?  Huh
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October 14, 2015, 02:00:47 PM
#34
It was surely fake. The real email should not use 'gmail' anymore.

Real account only use the domain itself. And don't give your privkey to anyone you don't know.


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October 13, 2015, 01:01:14 PM
#33
Let's be honest for a moment, and agree that first time users of Bitcoin will fall for this. They might have heard about Bitcoin and how much it is worth and just follow the instructions to see what happens. The sender of the email wants to get hold of the ownership of the created wallet. ?

In most cases new users will have no BTC in that wallet, and if they find out after two days that there is no BTC coming their way, they will not bother to find out anything about Bitcoin.

More experienced users will never send them that information, so it will be a fruitless exercise. What do you think?

And then they forget that they sent out their private keys and forget to make a new wallet...

They start collecting bitcoin and the scammer can easily grab any coins at any time that ever go into that wallet.

More dangerous than one might think.
This.

When i was first introduced to Bitcoin i created a Blokchain wallet
I don't know how but a hacker managed to gain entry to my wallet and stole $2 worth of Bitcoin (It isn't much but i earned that money from faucets which is hard to obtain $2)
After that i switched to Another wallet and never had any issues with hackers Grin
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October 13, 2015, 12:02:04 PM
#32
When you receive these kind of emails you should check the email that came from.
In this case it is varify.blockchain.info [at]gmail.com which means it is totally fake.
If they were real they could do [email protected] in this case, ignore it and stay safe.

I have seen hackers able to send fake emails with addresses looking as if they came from the original source but even then one should remember that blockchain.info will never ask you to 'verify' your account or export your keys and paste it's content as reply. This is a very stupid attempt of phishing as you can clearly see that he used gmail to make a fake blockchain.info account email which is not hard to notice but there are ones which looks almost as real but OP never give away your address keys to anyone.

Well i know this trick for sending messages in behalf of original sender.
But to get the information these hackers make a 'trick' that if you click reply.
The message then will be send to another email and not from "original"
It is already a website which does this 'tick' emkei.cz
sr. member
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October 13, 2015, 09:45:46 AM
#31
you're dreaming sir. because it is a fake email. You get 10000 bitcoin in a dream. never real  Grin
sr. member
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October 13, 2015, 02:59:09 AM
#30
Hey! I've got an email from this website. Is it fake or something?
-snip-

You'll probably received more emails and will be spammed by obvious scam attempts like that if you don't removed that pic or at least edit and blur your email on the image. I suggest you to edit this thread and remove that image

For those who said that who even fall on that obvious shit, the answer is the innocent new comers on the bitcoin world. A newbie will always fall on that since there's a "giveaway" involved Grin

legendary
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October 13, 2015, 02:00:19 AM
#29
Yes this one is 100% fake and fishing email. Don't try to reply or goto any link which this type of email usually sends. Blockchain name is included on the gmail address only to make it real but all knows blockchain like site doesn't use gmail to send emails.
legendary
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October 13, 2015, 01:02:18 AM
#28
Let's be honest for a moment, and agree that first time users of Bitcoin will fall for this. They might have heard about Bitcoin and how much it is worth and just follow the instructions to see what happens. The sender of the email wants to get hold of the ownership of the created wallet. ?

In most cases new users will have no BTC in that wallet, and if they find out after two days that there is no BTC coming their way, they will not bother to find out anything about Bitcoin.

More experienced users will never send them that information, so it will be a fruitless exercise. What do you think?

And then they forget that they sent out their private keys and forget to make a new wallet...

They start collecting bitcoin and the scammer can easily grab any coins at any time that ever go into that wallet.

More dangerous than one might think.
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October 13, 2015, 12:42:40 AM
#27
do not believe it is a phishing, do not do otherwise does not want to lose your bitcoin
legendary
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October 13, 2015, 12:37:15 AM
#26
Let's be honest for a moment, and agree that first time users of Bitcoin will fall for this. They might have heard about Bitcoin and how much it is worth and just follow the instructions to see what happens. The sender of the email wants to get hold of the ownership of the created wallet. ?

In most cases new users will have no BTC in that wallet, and if they find out after two days that there is no BTC coming their way, they will not bother to find out anything about Bitcoin.

More experienced users will never send them that information, so it will be a fruitless exercise. What do you think?
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October 13, 2015, 12:28:09 AM
#25
its absolutely fake,spam and scam  Grin
i ever got email that give me 5 milion dollars  Grin Grin
hero member
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October 13, 2015, 12:01:15 AM
#24
I don't know how anyone would fall into that scam Sad
It says there clearly says "Export unencrypted"
He wanted to steal your wallet and private keys with that
Just ignore his email or mark that email as spam Smiley

The question is how did the scammer managed to get OP email address Huh
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October 12, 2015, 10:50:23 PM
#23
This is scam obviously. It is like a stranger who promises you a $500 by asking you to hand over your ATM card and pin.

It wouldn't cost the scammers anything to send out hundreds of thousands of those emails. They make profits if they get one person out of a hundred thousand to respond to them. It's little different to those email spam adverts that most users ignore. It only needs a tiny number of people to respond to make it worth while for a scammer/advertiser to compose an email and mass mail it.

If we make sure nobody responds to that scam email the scammer might give up because there's no reward for him.
ya but if someone owns bitcoin on blockchain.info they probably know how bitcoin works meaning they have they intellect of not giving random people their money
I don't think so. A lot of newbies go to blockchain.info first and use them as their wallet for some reason. I suspect that most of them don't even know what doing what the email says means.

I made some really dumb mistakes when I first started learning about crypto. I didn't know how a wallet worked so used a scam online wallet to send my first faucet coins to. It happily accepted them, but unfortunately wouldn't let me withdraw them.

Noobs might be suckered by that email scam the same way I was suckered by that scam online wallet. It's easy to forget green you were when you started finding out about crypto.

Becareful about this, the hackers is use blockchain problem to scam a new comer. Even don't use online wallet for saving your bitcoin, especially blockchain wallet nowadays.

This fake email is the worst i think, it's too obviously.
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October 12, 2015, 07:34:57 PM
#22
This is scam obviously. It is like a stranger who promises you a $500 by asking you to hand over your ATM card and pin.

It wouldn't cost the scammers anything to send out hundreds of thousands of those emails. They make profits if they get one person out of a hundred thousand to respond to them. It's little different to those email spam adverts that most users ignore. It only needs a tiny number of people to respond to make it worth while for a scammer/advertiser to compose an email and mass mail it.

If we make sure nobody responds to that scam email the scammer might give up because there's no reward for him.
ya but if someone owns bitcoin on blockchain.info they probably know how bitcoin works meaning they have they intellect of not giving random people their money
I don't think so. A lot of newbies go to blockchain.info first and use them as their wallet for some reason. I suspect that most of them don't even know what doing what the email says means.

I made some really dumb mistakes when I first started learning about crypto. I didn't know how a wallet worked so used a scam online wallet to send my first faucet coins to. It happily accepted them, but unfortunately wouldn't let me withdraw them.

Noobs might be suckered by that email scam the same way I was suckered by that scam online wallet. It's easy to forget green you were when you started finding out about crypto.
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October 12, 2015, 07:18:10 PM
#21
This is scam obviously. It is like a stranger who promises you a $500 by asking you to hand over your ATM card and pin.

It wouldn't cost the scammers anything to send out hundreds of thousands of those emails. They make profits if they get one person out of a hundred thousand to respond to them. It's little different to those email spam adverts that most users ignore. It only needs a tiny number of people to respond to make it worth while for a scammer/advertiser to compose an email and mass mail it.

If we make sure nobody responds to that scam email the scammer might give up because there's no reward for him.
ya but if someone owns bitcoin on blockchain.info they probably know how bitcoin works meaning they have they intellect of not giving random people their money
I don't think so. A lot of newbies go to blockchain.info first and use them as their wallet for some reason. I suspect that most of them don't even know what doing what the email says means.
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October 12, 2015, 06:52:26 PM
#20
This is scam obviously. It is like a stranger who promises you a $500 by asking you to hand over your ATM card and pin.

It wouldn't cost the scammers anything to send out hundreds of thousands of those emails. They make profits if they get one person out of a hundred thousand to respond to them. It's little different to those email spam adverts that most users ignore. It only needs a tiny number of people to respond to make it worth while for a scammer/advertiser to compose an email and mass mail it.

If we make sure nobody responds to that scam email the scammer might give up because there's no reward for him.
ya but if someone owns bitcoin on blockchain.info they probably know how bitcoin works meaning they have they intellect of not giving random people their money
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October 12, 2015, 06:51:36 PM
#19
When you receive these kind of emails you should check the email that came from.
In this case it is varify.blockchain.info [at]gmail.com which means it is totally fake.
If they were real they could do [email protected] in this case, ignore it and stay safe.

I have seen hackers able to send fake emails with addresses looking as if they came from the original source but even then one should remember that blockchain.info will never ask you to 'verify' your account or export your keys and paste it's content as reply. This is a very stupid attempt of phishing as you can clearly see that he used gmail to make a fake blockchain.info account email which is not hard to notice but there are ones which looks almost as real but OP never give away your address keys to anyone.
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October 12, 2015, 06:50:13 PM
#18
This is scam obviously. It is like a stranger who promises you a $500 by asking you to hand over your ATM card and pin.

It wouldn't cost the scammers anything to send out hundreds of thousands of those emails. They make profits if they get one person out of a hundred thousand to respond to them. It's little different to those email spam adverts that most users ignore. It only needs a tiny number of people to respond to make it worth while for a scammer/advertiser to compose an email and mass mail it.

If we make sure nobody responds to that scam email the scammer might give up because there's no reward for him.
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October 12, 2015, 06:32:55 PM
#17
The red flag is "select Export"...that means you'd be sending bitcoin to someone. You don't want to do that.
legendary
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October 12, 2015, 05:39:50 PM
#16
This is scam obviously. It is like a stranger who promises you a $500 by asking you to hand over your ATM card and pin.
legendary
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October 12, 2015, 05:36:23 PM
#15
It's phising I think. Be careful with thise kinds of emails, they could get your credential if you open those and entered your details.
legendary
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October 12, 2015, 05:32:41 PM
#14
If you have any idea of what that export function would actually do on blockchain you would not even ask this question.

Maybe it is time to read up a little bit more before getting more invested into bitcoin?
legendary
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October 12, 2015, 03:38:43 PM
#13
who even falls for these . the instructions are directly telling you to give them your wallet. such a bad attempt

Hahaha, I mean look at the profile pic of the email account that was sent to him.  Looks very trustworthy to me Wink ... but seriously, I didn't know scammers that sent emails to people were still at large... usually they are just people who try to get loans, or some kind of payment for a good or service without doing what needs to be performed in returned.  Sad that some people have the gaul to try this out on new members; I guess there will always be bad people in the world no matter where you turn...
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October 12, 2015, 03:36:48 PM
#12
These are the same old mails with prize money or cars, but now they have updated to BTC.
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October 12, 2015, 03:32:44 PM
#11
The more and more these fake emails are circulating every day. I guess that scammers have really stepped up their game. Not just that they are scamming on IPO, charging back payments, etc, now they started sending this crap almost daily.

People beware and be careful what you are opening and clicking. Especially with Bitcoin wallets in your computers!
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October 12, 2015, 02:52:00 PM
#10
When you receive these kind of emails you should check the email that came from.
In this case it is varify.blockchain.info [at]gmail.com which means it is totally fake.
If they were real they could do [email protected] in this case, ignore it and stay safe.
sr. member
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October 12, 2015, 02:46:53 PM
#9
i wouldnt fall for such things you shouldnt open anything that seems suspicious that is in your mail as it will most probably be a scam that wants to steal money
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October 12, 2015, 02:43:06 PM
#8
who even falls for these . the instructions are directly telling you to give them your wallet. such a bad attempt
legendary
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October 12, 2015, 02:37:08 PM
#7
Nice try... Cheesy
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October 12, 2015, 02:28:53 PM
#6
100% scam you should never be trusting those emails.  I am surprised that your email didn't actually catch it was a phishing attempt.  As always, proceed with caution when using Bitcoin.
legendary
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October 12, 2015, 02:26:54 PM
#5
Hey! I've got an email from this website. Is it fake or something?

No 'something' about it.
Bad grammar and spelling, unrealistic amount, scammers aren't what they used to be.
 Roll Eyes

Are you sure you want your e mail in public?
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October 12, 2015, 02:26:34 PM
#4
Others have already said, do not do what the email says. They got your details from somewhere it seems, and at any rate people should use their common sense, when someone has a domain name of blockchain, why would they use gmail? And lastly I threw a laugh at how simply the instructions were telling you to get your own account hacked xD
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October 12, 2015, 02:23:33 PM
#3
this is fake mail don't click the link in email or send them any details

P.S. for privacy please hide your email that is shown in pic you added (sent to : **********@gmail.com)
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October 12, 2015, 02:21:11 PM
#2
Yes, it's 100% fake and please don't do what the email tells you. You will be sending your unencrypted Blockchain.info wallet to them.
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October 12, 2015, 02:19:05 PM
#1
Hey! I've got an email from this website. Is it fake or something?
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