Topic: Found this in the mailbox today (Read 137 times)

OP You are just stupid. If you really get this Bitcoin gift from someone, then it doesn't make sense to post your seed publicly. On the other hand, if you got this through your email, then it's fake. So in both cases, you are stupid. Nothing is free in the world. You will lose something when you follow their instructions. I am sure it's a scam attempt. From somewhere, your mail data has been compromised, and hackers are trying to attack you. Just proceed with caution. Be careful if you are holding funds in any of your device wallets. 

Now that you get this email like this, what do you expect the community to do? Should we help you export the wallet and send the BTC to you, or what? As far as I know, there is a very high possibility that this might not be a real wallet or that this might be a multiple-signatory wallet where you need more than just those key phrases to get whatever is inside the wallet out. 
 
And beside what they shared with you without a wallet address, which can be publicly accessed to confirm if it's real or not, you can investigate further. If I must advise you, unless you were expecting such an email from someone you know, I will advise you to stay very careful with what kind of information the sender might ask from you.

Seems more like a troll from one of your friend when you decided to tell him that you are into Bitcoin or Crypto. I am sure nobody is willing to send you Free 0.1 BTC in 2024.
If this is a scam, I do not understand how they can profit out of it. Either I am not aware of all the super ninja techniques that are available to scam after gifting free money.
Most likely, a troll.

Its classic model scam when needed donation firstly, I have received many time with this scam model but the scammer giving me the website or account they have without enough required for withdrawing. The scammer giving me an access with fake website and ask deposit fund to get withdrawing 1 BTC, don't trust any one or scammer needed donation for enough fund to withdraw their assets, if small fund required for withdrawing why not deposit fund by their self and why needed donation by giving us the access to their website link.

Bitcoin have most expensive price right now and that model kinds of scammed never trust yet, how come some one want to give us free huge amount of bitcoin? Its very bad ideas for scamming model right now regarding how much values of bitcoin.

And it seems like it's the OP who wants to perpetrate the scam. The post could be to lure people to message him and try to get the bitcoins off their hands and then lead them on a wild goose chase which could end up in them paying a certain amount to "redeem" the money.

It could also all be a hard trool.

This is either a scam or a troll in my opinion because why would a random organization or even a person give someone a random 0.1 BTC that too in this manner? We often see such scams on social media platforms where a person would act like they are too naive sharing their seed phrase saying they have some money but aren't able to withdraw them and need someone to help them but when that seed phrase is inserted in a wallet, the wallet gets compromised.
So one should be careful when they receive something like this because they might become a victim of a unique scam if they insert the seed phrase in a wallet where they already have funds.

He has been advised to edit his post and remove the image but it is still there. If he is not trolling, he has opened his doors to scammers and brut forcers. How can someone send sensitive information to someone who doesn't have Bitcoin knowledge? I will suggest OP contact the sender for more information about the letter if he is serious.

I suspect that it is an invitation to scam. Maybe in the letter, they will tell him to pay some fees to receive the 6-digit number. They might also give him some information that will lead to a scam. OP if you are asked to pay any fee or provide any information, don't respond or contact them.

Apart from you trying to find answer, a part of me thinks that you are doing this intentionally, do you want to tell me that you don't how the important of recovery seed? Instead you decide to show members on here?

Or are you expecting them to go and import the seed right away and try to steal something which can lead them into getting victimized themselves?

Also that freaking mail letter looks like scam 100%, I give them a salute for how clean the design looks but it's clear as day that it's no real, are you expecting donation if I may ask? When it's too good to be real its probably too good to real, believe this and walk away.

Creating a new account and the first post is this. It obviously sounds like he's trolling.
Let him be with it. Why would anybody send someone 0.1 BTC just like that.
Why would OP post it on bitcointalk just like that. Even if he knew about bitcoin he would know what that seed phrase is all about.

This smells like a scam to me.
PS if anyone PM's you in the guise of offering help, ignore them because they are going to steal your funds.
There is no company or organization like BitcoinLabs on the internet.

I wouldn't trust any organization that isn't visible on the internet.

Even if this isn't a joke (and honestly, who randomly sends money through the mail anymore?), there are a few things you should be aware of:

First off, posting sensitive personal information, like the words from that plate, online can be risky, as someone could potentially misuse it.

Second, even if it's legit, your letter mentioned a "6-digit code". Without that code, accessing this wallet wouldn't be possible.

the plastic plaque has 12 words on it.. those words are to be thought of (in laymans) as a password you should have kept a secret
we call it a seed, but essentially you can think of it as a 12 word password

first of all press [edit] on the first post you made on this page on this forum and delete the link from your post

secondly
edit: [seed is unfunded so no 0.1 associated with it, so greyed out advice to use the seed, as the letter you got is more likely to be an invitation to a scam]

if this letter+plaque you received is not a initiation into a scam. you can download a bitcoin wallet from a genuine site rated and reviewed by many, do not download a wallet from an unknown source
and type in the 12 words into a bitcoin wallet.
but it says you need 6 digits

so im going to guess (if genuine) the 6 digits is in the letter
or if possibly a scam:
the letter told you to contact them or go to your site to download their program where you need to pay something first, to then access the funds

i do not suggest downloading anything from a strange letter. instead use only official wallets that have been checked out

thirdly:
by the way.. the seed has no balance.. (never had balance on any keys in seed range.)
so looks like its an initiation to a scam and not a random stranger lottery win
the seed was never funded, so its not like it was funded and someone else moved funds out. it was never funded, so no 0.1btc for you to have ever claimed

i would suggest, if the letter gives instructions to contact them.. dont, and dont hand them any money as they are not handing you any funds

fourthly:
dont now use that seed in a wallet because now the seed(12 words) are public, it makes that seed now vulnerable so dont self fund or as others to fund addresses associated with that seed

If you look at the picture, you see they sent him a bip39 seed phrase... I'm not sure why anybody would do this, i think either the user is being pranked/trolled or the user is a prankster/troll himself (if he wasn't, he probably would have at least edited his post and removed the link to the image at very least)... But the image did show a bip39 seed

 Op if you didn't receive any other thing like the private key or the seed phrase then you don't have to worry yourself because what is there just a letter to his lover about bitcoin so there is nothing for you to use there. That is the bitcoin donation bitcoinlab did to the charity organizations to help the orphanage in the society. So one of the staff in the organization delivered the letter. All is for joke. Op since you done received other things then you don't need to know anything from the image you have shown. Because nobody can explain anything from there because that is just a paper.

Probably it is a Spam message those scammers out there is trying to use to Scam some innocent people again. Op be careful with those images you received from the internet. Don't send anything back to anyone if they ask you to do so. And delete the message immediately if they ask you to send them back either number or OTP. Those are the things they will still use to drain your personal account or wallet.

I don't know, but who gives a free drop worth $6,000 and sends it randomly over the Internet?
I couldn't find anything related to BitcoinLabs online


Download this https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-finderouter-a-bitcoin-recovery-tool-v0160-2022-09-19-5214021

i quickly google'd, here's the first video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRCpavIdbjQ
Around second 30, the video creator inputs the seed phrase and clicks "next", you'd have to click the options button first (clearly visible in the video) and indicate it's a bip39 seed and select the checkbox that it needs a seed extension word. The rest is identical, except you say you don't have the seed extension word offcourse (the letter you got says it should be word made up of 6 numbers).

If you mean a video explaining how to brute force an extension word? Not that i know off, it's a rather technical process... Don't let anybody fool you by either selling you software or by taking money to brute force the number for you... A lot of these guys are scammers.

Are there any youtube videos explaining the process?

Well, if you had the number, you could download a piece of software called "electrum", when you would open the software, you'd be greeted with a wizard. You'd have to follow the wizard to restore your wallet. In the wizard, there would be a point where you'd have to enter your seed phrase. The seed phrase is the phrase shown in the picture you posted. There would be an 'options' button on the same screen where you'd have to enter the seed phrase, if you'd click this button you could indicate that it was a bip39 seed with an extension word. The extension word would probably be the 6 numbers the note you posted is talking about. When you'd enter these 6 numbers, you'd be able to spend the 0.1 btc (>$6000 at current rate).

Now, without those 6 numbers, you cannot spend the funds... But since you've posted the seed phrase, anybody with enough time on their hands could write a brute force program to test the ~1 million combinations the 6 numbers could form. After writing the program, it would probably take less than an hour to test them all and steal your money.

I'd still urge you to try to get that image off that image hosting site you posted it on, then try to find those 6 numbers yourself and if you succeed, move that money to any other bitcoin wallet (you can use electrum to generate a NEW wallet using the same wizard, but chosing to create a new wallet instead of restoring an existing one), since you basically showed the whole world the seed phrase and it won't take to long before somebody tries to steal the money.

Now before you ask, i'm not going to write a program and try to bruteforce the extension word... Odds are to big you're just trolling, and if not odds are really big somebody will beat me to the punch, so it's not worth investing my time into this. If you are able to get the image removed, it might be a good idear to see if you find somebody that's willing to help you out in exchange for part of the money (but it will be hard to convince them you're for real). By the way, before you ever pay somebody for this task, do realise odds are somebody is pranking you, or somebody already beat you to the punch and the wallet in question is already empty.

I don't know how to remove, this is some image hosting website.
I only received what can be seen in the photo.

Did you also receive said 6 digit number? If you did, please, DO NOT post it anywhere!!! In the meantime, remove the image you posted, since leaving this image online is a 100% guarantee somebody will steal your funds (unless you are trolling offcourse).

Can you explain in easy terms for noob?
I don't understand BIP39, seed phrase, seed extension and brute-force.

i don't know if you're kidding or trolling, but i would remove that image ASAP if you're not. it shows a bip39 seed phrase. The 6 numbers are probably a seed extension, but since you've told the whole internet the seed phrase and the fact the extension word is basically a number > 99999 and < 1000000, it's pretty easy for anybody to brute-force.

Download electrum from the official site, run it, restore your wallet, make sure you indicate it's a bip39 seed phrase with extension word, enter the 6 numbers you have somewhere and move the funds to a new (freshly generated) wallet.

Found this letter and plaquet in the mail today. I don't know how to use it since I don't use the bitcoin. Can anybody explain to me how this works?