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Topic: New kind of scam attampt - Please be aware. (Read 250 times)

legendary
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July 17, 2019, 05:15:52 AM
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This isn't any new kind of scam attempt. This has been around for a very long time. The hard-drive one seems different but the wallet.dat file was certainly around since forever. The advanced version of this scam is asking someone to recover their bitcoins and sending them a wallet.dat file along with a virus which after executing steals your bitcoins or gives the user access to victim's wallet.dat file.

My emphasis was in the hard-drive one though.

This is double win for the scammer:

They get money for selling the wallet.dat file
They also steal whatever you have in your system once you try to open the wallet.dat file.

Scammers are now on the moon before the Bitcoin to land there LOL

I see this was funny like hell :-P

How does this sound to you?

I'm a professional mines player. I have made over 500 BTC from playing mines. I won't tell you how or show you evidence of my profit for numerous replies. Invest 0.1 BTC by making an account for me and letting me play on it.
legendary
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Get your game girl
This isn't any new kind of scam attempt. This has been around for a very long time. The hard-drive one seems different but the wallet.dat file was certainly around since forever. The advanced version of this scam is asking someone to recover their bitcoins and sending them a wallet.dat file along with a virus which after executing steals your bitcoins or gives the user access to victim's wallet.dat file.
copper member
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Spear the bees
Talking about this - I think very recently I have seen a guy who was claiming that he is a pro dice player and asking for money so that he and the inverters can make money or something LOL
I remember that thread. I decided to humor them for a little bit.

Here it is: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/prodice-player-for-hire-5164200
(that is also shady, of course)

Should we host a thread for "extremely improbable sales" for the items mentioned here (and similar items)?
legendary
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Thank you. I almost forget about it. Supported the flag and also adding it in the OP shortly.

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Been around for as long as the old tale of "profitable gambling script"
Talking about this - I think very recently I have seen a guy who was claiming that he is a pro dice player and asking for money so that he and the inverters can make money or something LOL
copper member
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Spear the bees
Been around for as long as the old tale of "profitable gambling script"
Even if the wallet files are legitimate... if the users are willing to part with it, then it means it's virtually uncrackable. Moreover, it doesn't mean that they don't have backups for when technology advances to a point where they CAN crack the password.

I know I would absolutely never give away my wallet files to anyone if I knew I had even the sharpest margin of getting into it.

Flag it up!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=462
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=463
legendary
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Recently I am seeing people claims that they have thousands of Bitcoins stuck in their old wallet.dat files and they can not access because they do not know the passward.

Example:

wallet.dat 3050 BTC
http://archive.is/XtqmL
The user is selling their wallet.dat file.

Thanks actmyname.
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