Topic: i got a strange payment today, i dunno what from. (Read 1519 times)
it is the new way of advertising a scam. i received similar transactions before. they just send out dust to people's bitcoin address to maybe reel some fish in!
It's your lucky day! 
These sorts of things always seems to pop up from time to time, i have probably received about 0.1BTC all up from different sorts of btc advertising over the years.
These sorts of things always seems to pop up from time to time, i have probably received about 0.1BTC all up from different sorts of btc advertising over the years.
And how much did you spend in fees using up the 0.1 BTC?
here is the details
https://blockchain.info/tx/71b063976b2435517ca8463a04f1bb21802e022ff5cb5a3bb31b4e91c2f1011d
says its some return on investment thing, .0001 btc was deposited in my account.
looks like alot of people got some payments.
i dunno why, or what from.
is it some new type of spam, where they sent you a payment with a url and you are supposed to check it out.. i didnt go to that site btw..
https://blockchain.info/tx/71b063976b2435517ca8463a04f1bb21802e022ff5cb5a3bb31b4e91c2f1011d
says its some return on investment thing, .0001 btc was deposited in my account.
looks like alot of people got some payments.
i dunno why, or what from.
is it some new type of spam, where they sent you a payment with a url and you are supposed to check it out.. i didnt go to that site btw..
you guys are lucky, free bitcoins, I hope they will spam me in the future, money rain is coming.
Actually I have seen 2 threads like yours, https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/mysterious-payment-1038528
This guy also got money from limitblabla.com, I just wonder how do they choose people, why not me?
New form of marketing. They send you dust and they you go and search for the source of that dust. Very cheap and effective.
I do not know, if it is VERY effective indeed. If you know about the effect of "dust" in a account, it would most probably frustrate you more than being curious to investigate where it came from.
I doubt if I would support companies, who is spamming the blockchain and my Bitcoin address.
For it being "cheap"? ---> For sure it's cheap... but you pay for quality, and you get peanuts for this type of "blind" marketting. It's similar to these Ad spam bots... people hate it.
Some IPO scams worked like that. They gave away a small fraction of the premine which enticed the recipients into buying the rest of the IPO coins. The dev usually dumped loads of coins and disappeared straight after the coin launched.
here is the details
https://blockchain.info/tx/71b063976b2435517ca8463a04f1bb21802e022ff5cb5a3bb31b4e91c2f1011d
says its some return on investment thing, .0001 btc was deposited in my account.
looks like alot of people got some payments.
i dunno why, or what from.
is it some new type of spam, where they sent you a payment with a url and you are supposed to check it out.. i didnt go to that site btw..
https://blockchain.info/tx/71b063976b2435517ca8463a04f1bb21802e022ff5cb5a3bb31b4e91c2f1011d
says its some return on investment thing, .0001 btc was deposited in my account.
looks like alot of people got some payments.
i dunno why, or what from.
is it some new type of spam, where they sent you a payment with a url and you are supposed to check it out.. i didnt go to that site btw..
you guys are lucky, free bitcoins, I hope they will spam me in the future, money rain is coming.
Actually I have seen 2 threads like yours, https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/mysterious-payment-1038528
This guy also got money from limitblabla.com, I just wonder how do they choose people, why not me?
New form of marketing. They send you dust and they you go and search for the source of that dust. Very cheap and effective.
I do not know, if it is VERY effective indeed. If you know about the effect of "dust" in a account, it would most probably frustrate you more than being curious to investigate where it came from.
I doubt if I would support companies, who is spamming the blockchain and my Bitcoin address.
For it being "cheap"? ---> For sure it's cheap... but you pay for quality, and you get peanuts for this type of "blind" marketting. It's similar to these Ad spam bots... people hate it.
It is a part of an ad campaign probably run by some scammer.
thats strange, do they just random sent people btc?
yes. called advertising.
Isn't blockchain.info the only block explorer that displays such messages? Perhaps they should remove their public note feature because of spam like this.
Or make it viewable but only if you click an extra link, so that it is barely ever seen and then only by those specifically looking for it. Still, I bet people will still waste time trying to spam the blockchain even if it's completely ineffective. Kind of like the people that craft a virus to turn smartphones and tablets into hijacked bitcoin miners despite the ridiculously low hashrate.
Isn't blockchain.info the only block explorer that displays such messages? Perhaps they should remove their public note feature because of spam like this.
It ties your one address (the one receiving these BTC) to some of your other addresses. This happens when your wallet bundles amounts from your various addresses into one total amount you happen to send. Transactions with many inputs to form a larger output give whoever wants to look assurance that the same person owns all the input keys.
Like dust sprinkled to make a light beam easier to see, this is just dust sprinkled randomly to make block-chain key ownership analysis easier.
Like dust sprinkled to make a light beam easier to see, this is just dust sprinkled randomly to make block-chain key ownership analysis easier.
This is still happening?
It's a part of marketing I guess.
New form of marketing. They send you dust and they you go and search for the source of that dust. Very cheap and effective.
I do not know, if it is VERY effective indeed. If you know about the effect of "dust" in a account, it would most probably frustrate you more than being curious to investigate where it came from.
I doubt if I would support companies, who is spamming the blockchain and my Bitcoin address.
For it being "cheap"? ---> For sure it's cheap... but you pay for quality, and you get peanuts for this type of "blind" marketting. It's similar to these Ad spam bots... people hate it.
It is most probably to be very effective and extremely cheap. There's a lot of people it can get to. Once the transaction confirms as well, it's there forever. So on famous addresses that gets thousands of views, like satoshi's first block.
It is a part of an ad campaign probably run by some scammer.
thats strange, do they just random sent people btc?
Yup. Idk what is the point of that, but to me it seems that they are just helping to clog the blockchain by sending small amount of bitcoins to random addresses. That isn't a good thing to advertise imo. There are many other options for advertising, not by just spamming the blockchain.
It's to lure more victims in their "business", which is most likely some ponzi scheme/scam.
These sort of transactions seem to pop up from time to time.
New form of marketing. They send you dust and they you go and search for the source of that dust. Very cheap and effective.
I do not know, if it is VERY effective indeed. If you know about the effect of "dust" in a account, it would most probably frustrate you more than being curious to investigate where it came from.
I doubt if I would support companies, who is spamming the blockchain and my Bitcoin address.
For it being "cheap"? ---> For sure it's cheap... but you pay for quality, and you get peanuts for this type of "blind" marketting. It's similar to these Ad spam bots... people hate it.
New form of marketing. They send you dust and they you go and search for the source of that dust. Very cheap and effective.
When I went to their "last payouts page" on their site, I noticed that the payments were sent from all different addresses. I would guess that they just found transactions on the blockchain and linked them to their site but I could be wrong.
wow looking at the blockchain it looks like they gave out 0.0001 BTC to 1000s of people totaling just over .5 btc.
crazy..
crazy..
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The Pharmacist wrote:
It is true that I don't like most people, but the sucker in me keeps looking for the good in each everyone.
That is a most excellent thing to write, why it´s quite, oh never mind, would not want to offend any atheists around here.
Also your whole note was very funny, made my evening.
A "ZeroHedge Style" + 1, sir!
The Pharmacist wrote:
It is true that I don't like most people, but the sucker in me keeps looking for the good in each everyone.
That is a most excellent thing to write, why it´s quite, oh never mind, would not want to offend any atheists around here.
Also your whole note was very funny, made my evening.
A "ZeroHedge Style" + 1, sir!
You can see the public note: it is advertising what it looks to be a ponzi scam or something like that
Avoid it
Avoid it
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