Topic: Is This Another Scam Or What? (Read 435 times)
I have received such mails in the past and they are scammers looking to scam people by steal their private keys and i think they got your email in one of the open bounty spreadsheets.
You should always be careful with such projects. Try to make you own investigation and invest only in legit projects. Moreover, install an anti-virus software on your wallet and avoid visiting fishing websites and you will be safe.
I received a mail from DECoin asking me to verify that i am not a robot via their website and typing a message that will show that the wallet is mine. Unfortunately for them, I only applied for the bounty(explained how they got my email address) but i didn't do any work. So, I knew immediately that it is scam. I played along and clicked on the link in the mail, a website loaded and on this website(http://MyEtherWallet-checks.space/signmsg), i am supposed to unlock my wallet to be able to verify that i'm not robot, who does that 
I checked very well and saw that the site is like a clone of MEW.
I'm raising this issue because many like me would have gotten the message and some might not think twice before inputing their private keys. Although, i don't know if this is the norm. My question now is, can this be trusted or is it just another form of scam considering that the site is not secured?
Lastly, we really need to be careful of how we protect our wallets, so as not to get duped.
Note: I tried to reach DECoin concerning this and i haven't gotten any reply since yesterday
You are most likely dealing with a scam coins. One of the major characterisitics of coins that are not scams is their ability to be completely transparent about the things that they are doing with the project. Any project that asks you to input your private key is not a legit coin, you have to know that they want nothing but to steal your coins I checked very well and saw that the site is like a clone of MEW. I'm raising this issue because many like me would have gotten the message and some might not think twice before inputing their private keys. Although, i don't know if this is the norm. My question now is, can this be trusted or is it just another form of scam considering that the site is not secured?
Lastly, we really need to be careful of how we protect our wallets, so as not to get duped.
Note: I tried to reach DECoin concerning this and i haven't gotten any reply since yesterday
the steps you take are good enough. alert and also always program analysis is the main thing to always do. It looks like a hoax and now there are many ways that are done a con to get results. Phishing sites become traps most often take a lot of casualties because it is easily tempted to great results.
I think this will help some noobs but what still gives me concern is that many still fall for this cheap scamming method with many post and advice that no one should input their key on any site and should always check twice even if they are on their system too, I don't sign in on any link , I will rather find the handle on Twitter or group to get correct links that just any how link sent .
Thank you for sharing your experience with us, it's really useful, as it reminds us to be careful with suspicious emails, fake links, etc. Most probably that email was sent not by DECoin, but by scammers who pretend to be DECoin team and phishing for your passwords.
It was looks like a phising site, Actually they have some MEW that same background but be careful because some of them are phising site. Must better to bookmark the site of the original mew so that your coins in their will be in safe.
I agree with the author of the topic, now you should be careful, and if when the hype for crypto-currencies begins again, then you should be doubly careful, since scammers will always be and they will always look for people who will show inattention.
In your case, this is a clear scam. Developers will not ask you to unblock your wallet on a phishing site. Contact DECoin developers directly via telegram chat.
People are greedy for easy money. You should watch out. Most everything you need to know about crypto schemes is available with a quick Internet search. The crypto community has been absolutely fantastic, actually, about policing itself. These people know full well that government will never be effective in preventing fraud in this space.
More and more scams appear on website , in telegram groups , in mail on exchanges .....
More and more scams appear on website , in telegram groups , in mail on exchanges .....
You are right mate, the best thing to do is ask the team through telegram for updates. Though i got a feeling that it is some sort of the bounty's team fault because they are exposing the bounty participants email on the spreadsheet giving way for scammers to fraud the participants. Glad that they already hide the email add but i think it's too late.
It is the responsibility of the bounty manager to not exposed the email address of it's participants to the public. It is also our responsibility to protect our money from scammers so if we receive emails that ask to give our private then you know drill, don't ever give up your private address online to someone you don't know.
Any clone of myetherwallet or mistypo in their domain is considered a phishing site so don't login in here there, or you can do so with an empty wallet, we don;t know if they are the one doing it but if it comes from their official email then one of the team tries to hack your wallet and they should not be trusted for this.
If the site is looks like mew site but it's not,then it's absolutely a scam site, the person try to steal your money through phishing site, there are numerous of scamming attempt by luring the victim into phishing site, and by clicking the link sometime you already fall into the trap
I received a mail from DECoin asking me to verify that i am not a robot via their website and typing a message that will show that the wallet is mine. Unfortunately for them, I only applied for the bounty(explained how they got my email address) but i didn't do any work. So, I knew immediately that it is scam. I played along and clicked on the link in the mail, a website loaded and on this website(http://MyEtherWallet-checks.space/signmsg), i am supposed to unlock my wallet to be able to verify that i'm not robot, who does that I checked very well and saw that the site is like a clone of MEW.
I'm raising this issue because many like me would have gotten the message and some might not think twice before inputing their private keys. Although, i don't know if this is the norm. My question now is, can this be trusted or is it just another form of scam considering that the site is not secured?
Lastly, we really need to be careful of how we protect our wallets, so as not to get duped.
Note: I tried to reach DECoin concerning this and i haven't gotten any reply since yesterday
I checked very well and saw that the site is like a clone of MEW. I'm raising this issue because many like me would have gotten the message and some might not think twice before inputing their private keys. Although, i don't know if this is the norm. My question now is, can this be trusted or is it just another form of scam considering that the site is not secured?
Lastly, we really need to be careful of how we protect our wallets, so as not to get duped.
Note: I tried to reach DECoin concerning this and i haven't gotten any reply since yesterday
Such a link is obvious is a phishing experiment, the right step that you move quickly when is to stop accessing the website, if you just paste your secret key there, maybe now the assets in your wallet are gone. Things like this are usually often encountered in e-mail
I received a mail from DECoin asking me to verify that i am not a robot via their website and typing a message that will show that the wallet is mine. Unfortunately for them, I only applied for the bounty(explained how they got my email address) but i didn't do any work. So, I knew immediately that it is scam. I played along and clicked on the link in the mail, a website loaded and on this website(http://MyEtherWallet-checks.space/signmsg), i am supposed to unlock my wallet to be able to verify that i'm not robot, who does that I checked very well and saw that the site is like a clone of MEW.
I'm raising this issue because many like me would have gotten the message and some might not think twice before inputing their private keys. Although, i don't know if this is the norm. My question now is, can this be trusted or is it just another form of scam considering that the site is not secured?
Lastly, we really need to be careful of how we protect our wallets, so as not to get duped.
Note: I tried to reach DECoin concerning this and i haven't gotten any reply since yesterday
I checked very well and saw that the site is like a clone of MEW. I'm raising this issue because many like me would have gotten the message and some might not think twice before inputing their private keys. Although, i don't know if this is the norm. My question now is, can this be trusted or is it just another form of scam considering that the site is not secured?
Lastly, we really need to be careful of how we protect our wallets, so as not to get duped.
Note: I tried to reach DECoin concerning this and i haven't gotten any reply since yesterday
Yes same with me, a few months ago I have recieved and email.like this. I think the phisser know our email from bounty campaign spreadsheet or some airdrops campaigs
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Any sane people with healthy logic would find out that it's nothing but a phishing attempt done by phisher but what worries me is that there's large amount of cryptocurrency user that know nothing about sort of thing and blatantly trusting anything they see on the internet.
If you can, it's always better to report such site to google or antivirus so that it could be blocked automatically.
If you can, it's always better to report such site to google or antivirus so that it could be blocked automatically.
Don't click any link from email, most of them is not safe or fake, I think you're crypto newbies because the link you post is not official Mew website, it's just a clone website and wait for people key in their private key and you will lose you money, go to check project telegram channel and bitcointalk announcement thread for upcoming update, never click link from email
You are right mate, the best thing to do is ask the team through telegram for updates. Though i got a feeling that it is some sort of the bounty's team fault because they are exposing the bounty participants email on the spreadsheet giving way for scammers to fraud the participants. Glad that they already hide the email add but i think it's too late. Many scam project someone will surely fall into there hand of scam ICOs someone just need to be wise and invest little money someone can give out
Try to read and understand what the OP has post buddy. Decoin is not a scam project and OP is trying to make us aware that a scammer is sending him/her email that will lead him/her to a phishing website and if the OP will give his private key then his done. Moral of the story is never give up your private key to anyone you never know or trust. Not even to your partner in life 
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That's clearly A scam mail never fall for such again and don't believe project who later send you a verification link when you don't open any newly account with them. Most links these days are spam link some are virus to hack your devices and some are fraudulent mail where it leads you to where you input your details manually yourself
Many scam project someone will surely fall into there hand of scam ICOs someone just need to be wise and invest little money someone can give out
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