That's not good, a lot of scmmers nowdays and they will do and use anything to take advantage of otehr people's hard earned money. I would just like to tell everyone to always be on your toes, do not just provide your personal information to anyone and if you get calls like that, always be cautious and don't fall into their scams.
Topic: Phone scam selling Bitcoin (Read 200 times)
There is a lot of scammers right now from phone call even social media, especially Facebook. They give you good offer to sell or buy bitcoin after that they scam your money.
I received a phone call today from the UK number 020 7616 1383. I didn't answer as I was driving at the time.
I've checked the number through Google, and several sites report it as a financial services scam site that is attempting to sell Bitcoin.
Has anybody else had these types of call? I'm wondering how they got my number as well.
I've checked the number through Google, and several sites report it as a financial services scam site that is attempting to sell Bitcoin.
Has anybody else had these types of call? I'm wondering how they got my number as well.
This is very worrying, what now has begun to appear fraud on behalf of cryptocurrency. This is the action that keeps everyone who uses bitcoin to be careful. Maybe after this will appear another mode.
I never received such calls, but that means that Bitcoin became so famous.
Getting your phone number is not that hard, maybe you used it somewhere.
Many websites sell their customers databases (phone numbers, emails addresses...) or they just used a software that generates random numbers.
Getting your phone number is not that hard, maybe you used it somewhere.
Many websites sell their customers databases (phone numbers, emails addresses...) or they just used a software that generates random numbers.
Actually I don't answer phone call or text message with unknown source or If I know that I never made transactions with them before, or I didn't even inquire about their product and services, because scams now a days is seems also to be legit..... So be extra careful...
This is normal. Fraudulent calls are often received in our own country. Now that I have become accustomed to information disclosure, the liar is hard to guard,what we need now is to be vigilant and prevent fraudulent information at all times.
Sometimes I also receive a strange call . It's annoying . How to block types of call ?
I received a phone call today from the UK number 020 7616 1383. I didn't answer as I was driving at the time.
I've checked the number through Google, and several sites report it as a financial services scam site that is attempting to sell Bitcoin.
Has anybody else had these types of call? I'm wondering how they got my number as well.
I've checked the number through Google, and several sites report it as a financial services scam site that is attempting to sell Bitcoin.
Has anybody else had these types of call? I'm wondering how they got my number as well.
I think just like the ad we see is tailored, so also is the source of the call came from. It would have been from a site that a particular verification has been done the most common of it would be sites where there is an element of freebies probably faucets or some referral program because quality exchange sites have some serious control over data provided to them while the others are mostly about what they can get. I all boils down to being careful where you put your details and never be greedy to make money.
The company most likely bought a database of crypto-related contacts.
Isn't it at all possible that they're just calling random numbers, not necessarily from crypto-related databases? It seems to me like their chance of scamming is close to zero if the person they end up calling is actually knowledgeable about the subject. If I were to run a scam like that, I would prefer to call people who have no idea how cryptocurrencies work.
Either way, the least we could do is spread the word that a scam like this is going around.
Apparently your mobile number is used by a third party to scam you. Number of criminals are growing in crypto currency because it is not easy to track them. It's a precious lesson for us not to register on random websites
Its not possible but Its not possible If you sign up to a third party site, then it could be such.I signed up on an exchange web site where the phone came from.If you do this, go to the website and delete the number.
Now all walks of life exist telephone fraud, with the group to have their own anti-fraud awareness, information disclosure may be when you contact the bitcoin buyers some information directly related to the found, so the best to be vigilant.
We should never give out our information to anyone more so to these random people who are selling bitcoins through phone call. Don't get lured with their promises of high profit if you invest in them. If someone tries to do this to anyone here, I think it is best to post the contact numbers of these scammers to serve as caution for everyone.
whew that was scary, i thought bitcoin is anonymous, did you just left your number or even posted it somewhere? maybe you liked a link on facebook that has something to do with bitcoin then that caller saw it and traced where he can contact you, be careful where and what you like. those are phishing sites that take advantage of security vulnerability of facebook just to gather data and randomly dialled your number, there are no such thing as legal callers selling bitcoin. good thing is, we no know how popular bitcoin these days.
I received a phone call today from the UK number 020 7616 1383. I didn't answer as I was driving at the time.
I've checked the number through Google, and several sites report it as a financial services scam site that is attempting to sell Bitcoin.
Has anybody else had these types of call? I'm wondering how they got my number as well.
I've checked the number through Google, and several sites report it as a financial services scam site that is attempting to sell Bitcoin.
Has anybody else had these types of call? I'm wondering how they got my number as well.
Be carefull to answer those phone calls they will know your private life your, profile information and ofcourse they detect that you have your btc wallet or several crypto wallets. i suggest to change your phone number right away. it may harm your wallet addresess that's leads you to Rekt.
Uh, I don't think simply answering a phone call will automatically allow the caller to steal your personal information and even your cryptocurrency wallets 🤔; unless you yourself voluntarily give it to them.
That is really weird, do you know a service related to Bitcoin where you gave your phone number?
As I'm really wondering if this scam is targeted to the Bitcoin community or just random.
It is usually a try and error scenario, where they purchase a large database of contacts and hope that they can find a victim this is the same as phishing but it is being done with a telephone. As I'm really wondering if this scam is targeted to the Bitcoin community or just random.
A lot of scammer right now not only from phone even social media they always try to scam your money, some are saying double your bitcoin in 24 hours. If you really want to buy bitcoin better to on exchange rather than buy to stranger people.
Probably not a company that deals with Bitcoin because I do not know there is one website / exchange that requires a phone number and Beware to answer phone calls they will know your personal life, profile information and ofcourse they detect that you have your bitcoin wallet or some wallet kripto.i suggest to change your phone number soon.It might endanger the addition of your wallet that takes you to Rect.
Lot of exchanges are asking for phone number. Many of them are using it to send 2FA SMS messages. But offcourse, it's not likely that phone number was leaked from exchange.
I guess so. I'm not a huge fan of using a phone number for authentication though so probably why I forgot that even existed. Even if I was to enter a phone number on an exchange it would likely be a phone just for that purpose. There's better alternatives out there which were recently discussed over in the the serious discussion section.
You're right, it might actually be easier to scam people that don't really know how Bitcoin works. But I think there are sites that require a phone number, for example webshops. In a lot of webshops where I pay with fiat, it requires you to register using a phone number. Maybe there are Bitcoin webshops that do the same thing? Also some web-wallets use 2fa using sms code instead of an app, in which they also safe your number in a database.
That sucks. They should probably think about changing that, as they'll likely be losing out on sales just because they require a phone number. Especially, relevant in the Bitcoin community as you know how paranoid we all are... 
There are similar scams in France, people don't understand very well Bitcoin but they know it is a thing. Thus scam compagnies benefit from the ignorance of the people, especially seniors who have funds to invest.
Yeah, I confirm this. My brother received last month a phone from a "supposed" company, asking him if he is interested to "invest" in Bitcoin with their fancy arguments to tell you how Bitcoin is so profitable bla bla bla
He didn't even know what is Bitcoin until I told him after.
It's the type of phone calls trying to scam people using data mining, you know, like when they call senior people to sell them solar panels at a price 10 times higher lol
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