Topic: phishing emails from bitcointaik.org (Read 1935 times)

Winner winner chicken dinner!

yw

And what's even clever of them is that they put a capital I
So with certain fonts, "I" is indistinguishable from "l"

http://bitcointaik.org/
differ only 1 letter

that's why we need to hide our email address
thanks for your info

I didn't get emails like that yet but thanks for telling maybe I would of fall for this 

He mentioned how earlier:


This is a fairly clever attack, surprised it wasn't registered earlier.

Thanks for the alert.

OP, your email is hidden in your profile page (at least at this moment), so how did the email sender know your email address? 

I've gotten too, made a thread about it yesterday.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcointalk-phishing-email-changing-your-forum-password-is-recommend-601729

Please use these website to report this domain.

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?rd=1
http://www.phishtank.com/
https://submit.symantec.com/antifraud/phish.cgi
http://phishing.eset.com/report
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/report_url

I'm pretty good, AFAIK, against these scams because I use LastPass to store my passwords, thus if it doesn't autologin for me, I know something's off

And besides, the website had no https so it was pretty evident.

I'd reccomend hiding your email addresses if it's not absolutly neccesary to have them on display, but I suppose it might not matter that much if you're weary of any scams that might be sent to it.

Got me one of these emails today

Email below for anybody who's curious.

This was sent to my email account associated with my bitcointalk account.

I had my email not hidden, so I set it to hidden now. I agree that it was a targetted email, because my email was published and my bitcoin address has a decent balance which is also visible on my account.

This is very important information, specially for those new to the Bitcoin community!

they didnt get his email. it was a forum inbox message

these things happen alot. in the past it has been found that scammers prep their list of 'marks' by asking forum topic questions such as:
"how much bitcoin do you own"
"what wallet software do you use"
etc

these info gathering games are what scammers do to target the right people. after all there is no point phishing someone if they only have satoshi dust to their name. and theres no point entering into conversation with them to tempt them to download trojans if the scammers code is not compatible with the victims wallet.

so usually scam emails and private messages are targetted to the victim, because the victim has made some form of admission that he is worthy of being scammed. either admitting wealth, admitting he runs a wallet that is compatable to a certain tojan or the fact that the victim admits to not have 2FA on their other logins or lastly, they have been scammed before so are proving to be an easy 'mark'

How do you think they got your email to begin with?

Registered yesterday and not even using https !!!

Please be aware that I received a phishing email from bitcointaik.org


it includes a disguised link... don't click it or follow their password reset instructions as I'm sure it will log and steal your account.


Bitcoin Forum <[email protected]>
9:24 AM (1 hour ago)

to 2tights

Why is this message in Spam? You clicked "Report phishing" for this message.  Learn more
Dear 2tights,

Due to the OpenSSL heartbleed bug and recent attacks on our website, changing your forum password is recommended.
To set a new password click the following link:

http://bitcointaIk.org/index.php?action=login;u=4981;sa=account

Username: 2tights

Regards,
The Bitcoin Forum Team.

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