In reality, over more than ten years since the birthday of bitcoin, and bitcointalk.org forum, the forum has played important role in the history and growths of bitcoin, in particular, and of crypto world in general. Therefore, the forum has been one of the most desired targets of both attackers to steal forum database, as well as the pattern for scammers to build up their fake sites.
Of course, there are so many reasons that attackers and scammers have in their minds, in their plans to build up such fake/ scam sites.
I spent more than one year in the forum, and I have just known about those scam sites recent weeks. Such scam bitcointalk sites partially destroy the reputation of official bitcointalk forum and crypto, because people who just heard about crypto recently, then unfortunately visited on scam sites, and lost money, they might never come back to crypto again.
Consequently, ideas related to such scam sites popped up, and today, I decide to make the topic, in which I will try to collect as fully list of scam sites [(that steal the name, bitcointalk, as part of their domain names) as possible.
Reminder:We have only one official bitcointalk.org forum, that has been head managed by theymos since 2012.
It's surprising how well-documented history can become totally forgotten... Satoshi created the forum on Nov 22, 2009, and was head administrator until almost 2011. Then Sirius was head administrator until 2012, which is when I took over.
Cobra also owns the bitcointalk.org domain name. I consider the forum to be basically owned by or at least dedicated to the Bitcoin community, though; I don't call anyone an owner of the forum.
That wiki article is kind of terrible...
Strangers, new comers tend to feel scared a bit when they lost money or identities on such scam sites. Later, when they hear about bitcointalk again, they will stay away from it. Consequently, I thought the list of scam / fake bitcointalk sites are necessary for future growth, and reputation of our offcial beloved bitcointalk forum.
However, if Bitcointalk upgraded it's software, supercharged it's attention towards effectively managing the community and put in effort into marketing itself, it might be able to regain it's position as the premier platform for crypto-related discussion for everyone.
List (under construction):Fake sitesThe list is a bit messy now, but I will edit it later.
bitcointalk.to
bitcointalk.com
thebitcointalk.net
fonstavka.com
lawcommonentrance.com
Fake Bitcointalk on TwitterIt's the same situation as the bitcoin.com, wrong people took over and they advertise their fake "real bitcoin" projects. Same with the twitter account
https://twitter.com/bitcoin Everyone who have already known other scam sites that have not been listed here, please feel free to leave your comments below and suggest me to list them into the list.
Thank you all for your coming feedback and suggestions as well as additional links.
Sources:What with bitcointalk .COM, it's a bit misleading.The most iconic bitcointalk threads. History on Bitcointalk.Steps to check potential phising linkshttps://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.50394743Another one to be added to your hosts files then.
On Windows, navigate to "C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\", and open the hosts file in a text editor.
On Mac, navigate to "/private/etc/", and open the hosts file in a text editor.
On Linux, open terminal and write "sudo nano /etc/hosts"
Add the following two lines to the bottom of the hosts file:
0.0.0.0 bitcointalk.to
0.0.0.0 fonstavka.com
Your browser will now be unable to open those two phishing sites.
Bitcointalk.to DOMAIN is a Pishing Site [DO NOT LOGIN]thebitcointalk.net and bitcointalk.to are FAKE phishing sites ! (edited)⚠️ BITCOIN-TALK FORUM PHISHING WEBSITE! BE AWARE!! ⚠️Is Bitcointalk.to same of Bitcointalk.org ?Be carefull of Bitcointalk.to !bitcointalk.to = bitcointalk.org ?Is bitcointalk.to legit or scam?