Fake freewallet mails, Beware - page 2.

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Quote from: danherbias07 on February 14, 2020, 05:35:34 AM

One of the reasons why I don't open much of my e-mails now.
First is because of HitBTC. After seeing a lot of e-mail from them that I had logged in from another country or something like that I had been lazy opening e-mails.
I haven't even freaking opened my HitBTC account.

Then a lot more from ICO's or new projects which I haven't signed up with.
That is already a sign that someone is copying e-mail addresses. Also shows there is no privacy in their end.
Somehow it will still be leaked thanks to the spreadsheets.

well it turns out there is the same as me, I have 11k emails piling up from the first I made an e-mail and first learned about cryptocurrency and when participating in a bounty campaign or airdrop suddenly many e-mails came in from cryptocurrency and other offers really terrible e-mail someone's identity is very easy to obtain from such methods, imagine those who do KYC in airdrops and bounties aimed at scams, then their identities will definitely be easy to use for crime without the knowledge of their owners.

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I also encountered the same situation. Every day I receive hundreds of spam emails coming from ICOs and bounty projects. I don't know why they can know my email and name, I never gave them my primary email and my real name. It's best to never visit these links, it's scary

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Quote from: danherbias07 on February 14, 2020, 05:35:34 AM

One of the reasons why I don't open much of my e-mails now.
First is because of HitBTC

Yes, i always receive email from HitBTC that tell me someone login into my accounts, i think they do that because lack of traffic that visited on their exchange.
just delete & block all email from HitBTC, never use that exchange anymore because fee is to high for small traders like me :/

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Too risky to give out your important email address just like that or use it on any kind of site. Better to handle your most important email address like you would handle your private keys. Decentralized platform is probably one of the safest things I would trust such email address and other personal identifications on.

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I don't trust freewallet team, they can be the real culprits behind these mails, I once lost funds to their crappy wallet and till date I still can't recover it, same as xapo wallet too, once you have problem with log in you are in big trouble

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I prefer wallets that dont know my email or any other information. OWNR wallet, Exodus, etc

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Its nothing new, bad people buy emails from people this days to carry out this kind of operations, if you fall for it your funds is a gonna, I don't click on links through emails unless the one I am expecting to enter my email address, be careful people, this is 2020 and many scammers will be on hunt

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Just ordinary emails are target to carry out these evil strategies, I wonder what they are doing with our KYC details, I heard some buy KYC details, for what? Nothing good ever coming out of that (KYC) too

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Quote from: Leonardo7 on February 14, 2020, 08:08:16 AM

I have been receiving several login attempts to some of my exchange accounts but because I have 2FA installed, this has not been possible.

Good for you this is a must protocol in order to save yourself from scam bounties. Also those free airdrops like what OP mentioned is usually professionals when it comes to spamming one's email with am invitation to join certain giveaway or confirmation to receive rewards once you clicked it. You already been compromised.

Quote from: Tipstar on February 14, 2020, 06:39:40 AM

Freewallet is a well know scam and it's their attempt to raise their userbase as active users are being aware of their deeds.

Ive been hearing some cases already about freewallet or maybe they are just using the platform's name and imitate those signature or their social to message you via email there are lots of scammers like this and to be honest the message seems legit but its a fake one. So extra careful when dealing with some free giveaway. Much better avoid joining and using your email frequently for this.

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Quote from: Leonardo7 on February 14, 2020, 08:08:16 AM

I have been receiving several login attempts to some of my exchange accounts but because I have 2FA installed, this has not been possible. I hate when BM will always insist we carry out a full KYC and even submit our emails.

You're right, i have hitbtc exchange account and this old account i did not use it from long time. Sometimes i getting login attempts monthly 1 or 2 times. I am asking hitbtc support team their respond those spam message. But they suggest to make strong security such as two factor authentication, than i did not receive again.

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I have been receiving several login attempts to some of my exchange accounts but because I have 2FA installed, this has not been possible. I hate when BM will always insist we carry out a full KYC and even submit our emails.

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Quote from: Stanlo on February 14, 2020, 06:44:04 AM

I have personal issues with freewallet teams themselves, they can't be trusted because their wallet are all online/web based wallets, this means your funds aren't safe since you aren't given any private keys or recovery seed, something tells me that this email issue is from the real Freewallet teams, they are too shady for my liking

Hi Stanlo,

Would you tell us more about your issues with our service? Is there any support ticket number or user ID, that we can check?

Thanks.

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I got mails from other websites as well not just only freewallet, most especially exchanges, claiming someone signed in from unknown IP address or location, even exchanges that I've activated their 2FA, always knew they are scam

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I have personal issues with freewallet teams themselves, they can't be trusted because their wallet are all online/web based wallets, this means your funds aren't safe since you aren't given any private keys or recovery seed, something tells me that this email issue is from the real Freewallet teams, they are too shady for my liking

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Freewallet is a well know scam and it's their attempt to raise their userbase as active users are being aware of their deeds. Whenever a person finds such mail, the first thing they do is to reset the password and in this case to create a new account on a scam wallet. It's spamming for users. One of the worst kind of advertising.

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There are different forms of strategies and attempts by scammers, most especially when it comes to anything that deals with mails. One of the safety precautions I deploy is that I have told myself that I will never click on any link directly from my email, let alone providing details to them. So, if you can abide by this, you can be sure to be safe. Then, as a bounty hunter, make sure you separate your main email address(s) from the ones you use for anything bounty or cryptocurrency-related.

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This is a common problem in crypto space today, every time you submitted your email address for airdrops or bounties be expecting such from scammers and spammers, most new projects aren't what they claimed to be, there is always more that meet the eye

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This doesn't only happen for this wallet but it's almost everywhere whenever your email has been posted or filled up to any form, expect that there will be a wave of emails from unknown sources.
They are spreading it or others are copying it and do data mining for the sake of their bad plans to the people that they will take the emails. Never click a link that's very suspicious.

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Take my merits, I nearly fall for this trick days back because I have a freewallet account with few bitcoin in it but since the Bitcoin is not much I just ignored the mail and after a while I heard same thing from a friend nearby who doesn't even use freewallet at all, that was what raised my eye brow lol, good post

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SO, recently, those who don't consider technology as an innovation that will move the globe forward, rather a means of extorting money from innocent and well meaning technocrats have started looking towards the fraudulent part of the technological space. I will advice everyone to always confirm the sender of the emails before clicking any link in the email, that is if there is need to do so

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