Pishing scammer! legitnick! | Bitcointalksearch.org

DiamondCardz

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This might be gravedigging, but I received an interesting PM from someone today.

Quote from: confidental, I don't spread names

I jokingly offered to sell my account for $3.50 to this obvious skid/scammer but then he offered me $50 for my account so I agreed to it and I have emails that verify this transaction. I wasn't aware that he would use my account maliciously.

I'm not sure how much help it would be but I can provide a wallet address that he was using and if I knew this is what he was up to I would have gotten more info on him.

I can verify that I am who I say I am by using my bitcoin-otc key.

There was no mention of this users name. No PMs before. I just got this PM out of the blue, and nothing else. With the $3.50 though, I instantly know who it is.

legitnick was offered $50 for his account and apparently had no idea of what the person would do. Maybe his account should be returned to him?

cp1

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Stop using branwallets

Sorry to hear that, just reformat Sad

chadtn

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Anyone who fell for this needs to make absolutely sure they have wiped their hard drive and changed passwords. Today the scammers bid over $300 on my eBay account, bought $300 worth of gift cards on Amazon for Hotmail accounts, spent about $35 on PayPal, and had my blockchain.info wallet sent to my email address. Then they tried to initiate password resets on dwolla, coinbase, and bitinstant.

They did all of that over the course of about fifteen minutes. The Obama alias is also watching the forums and has even posted in some of the current scam threads.

Chad

DiamondCardz

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Quote from: chadtn on July 04, 2013, 06:02:28 PM

DarkComet RAT

...I've figured out the critical mass.

r3wt

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always the student, never the master.

Quote from: QuestionAuthority on July 07, 2013, 03:26:05 AM

This is nothing that a good sandbox can't fix. It's hard to believe anyone on bitcointalkscam.org would fall for this. How many times does the frying pan need to hit you in the head before you duck?

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QuestionAuthority

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You lead and I'll watch you walk away.

This is nothing that a good sandbox can't fix. It's hard to believe anyone on bitcointalkscam.org would fall for this. How many times does the frying pan need to hit you in the head before you duck?

moni3z

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Quote from: 🏰 TradeFortress 🏰 on July 04, 2013, 07:33:24 PM

Quote from: BadBear on July 04, 2013, 07:11:17 PM

Quote from: Moebius327 on July 04, 2013, 04:19:53 PM

Quote from: BitTrade on July 04, 2013, 04:17:04 PM

Quote from: r3wt on July 04, 2013, 04:06:43 AM

Quote from: PrintMule on July 04, 2013, 03:53:07 AM

I cant believe someone fell for that

this times like, 5 billion. people these days

***USERNAME r3wd (who posted in this thread) might be a legitnick sockpuppet*****

In the thread below, username "obama" (likely another legitnick sockpuppet used in his "award" pm's), offers to buy r3wt's account:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2591196

Mods should forbid account trading.

Would be pointless, there's no way to actually enforce it.

Not entirely pointless. Account sales will decrease if there wasn't open threads "BUYING BITCOINTALK FORUM ACCOUNTS"! People will have to visit another forum in order to bst accounts.

What's the difference it will still happen regardless. They will just manipulate google search results so searching for 'bitcointalk' shows SELL UR ACCOUNT HERE on the first page or advertise on reddit/twitter and other social media.

Also install Common Sense 1.0 and don't click on a PM that says "Download this mtgox.exe winning self-archiving wallet!".

Mods could also use SMF plugins to look for heavy PM traffic and hellban that user, so they keep sending PMs but they aren't actually being sent, letting the bot run itself out and waste time doing nothing. Or DOS them with timeouts and errors http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=471231.0

r3wt

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Quote from: Moebius327 on July 04, 2013, 04:19:53 PM

Quote from: BitTrade on July 04, 2013, 04:17:04 PM

Quote from: r3wt on July 04, 2013, 04:06:43 AM

Quote from: PrintMule on July 04, 2013, 03:53:07 AM

I cant believe someone fell for that

this times like, 5 billion. people these days

***USERNAME r3wd (who posted in this thread) might be a legitnick sockpuppet*****

In the thread below, username "obama" (likely another legitnick sockpuppet used in his "award" pm's), offers to buy r3wt's account:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2591196

Mods should forbid account trading.

for the love of god, this!

DiamondCardz

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Quote from: TheButterZone on July 06, 2013, 03:57:52 PM

tl;dr

Did http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=legitnick1 (legitnick before he lost his original key) sell his forum account, or is it actually him scamming on his own account? I did a FTF cash trade with him, http://www.linkedin.com/pub/nick-legotte/64/507/92

Obama owns legitnick. He sold his account...or was hacked.

TheButterZone

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RIP Mommy

tl;dr

Did http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=legitnick1 (legitnick before he lost his original key) sell his forum account, or is it actually him scamming on his own account? I did a FTF cash trade with him, http://www.linkedin.com/pub/nick-legotte/64/507/92

🏰 TradeFortress 🏰

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It is this Obama guy.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2651649

🏰 TradeFortress 🏰

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Quote from: BadBear on July 04, 2013, 07:11:17 PM

Quote from: Moebius327 on July 04, 2013, 04:19:53 PM

Quote from: BitTrade on July 04, 2013, 04:17:04 PM

Quote from: r3wt on July 04, 2013, 04:06:43 AM

Quote from: PrintMule on July 04, 2013, 03:53:07 AM

I cant believe someone fell for that

this times like, 5 billion. people these days

***USERNAME r3wd (who posted in this thread) might be a legitnick sockpuppet*****

In the thread below, username "obama" (likely another legitnick sockpuppet used in his "award" pm's), offers to buy r3wt's account:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2591196

Mods should forbid account trading.

Would be pointless, there's no way to actually enforce it.

Not entirely pointless. Account sales will decrease if there wasn't open threads "BUYING BITCOINTALK FORUM ACCOUNTS"! People will have to visit another forum in order to bst accounts.

BadBear

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Quote from: Moebius327 on July 04, 2013, 04:19:53 PM

Quote from: BitTrade on July 04, 2013, 04:17:04 PM

Quote from: r3wt on July 04, 2013, 04:06:43 AM

Quote from: PrintMule on July 04, 2013, 03:53:07 AM

I cant believe someone fell for that

this times like, 5 billion. people these days

***USERNAME r3wd (who posted in this thread) might be a legitnick sockpuppet*****

In the thread below, username "obama" (likely another legitnick sockpuppet used in his "award" pm's), offers to buy r3wt's account:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2591196

Mods should forbid account trading.

Would be pointless, there's no way to actually enforce it.

halfawake

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Quote from: r3wt on July 04, 2013, 04:36:11 AM

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Quote from: brambi on July 04, 2013, 03:38:52 AM

Just did the system recovery to earlier state, hopefully it will help. I have Kaspersky installed and it didn't warn me at all Sad

For future reference, I recommend Avast as an antivirus scanner. It caught what he was trying to pass on, though I feel dumb for falling for it, at least my antivirus scanner protected me from it. It's an excellent antivirus scanner, and it's free.

yup, avast is good antvirus, but its so fucking annoying with its alerts and messages. one last thing, i feel like its my duty to advise everyone here to download Malware Bytes Anti Rootkit. its a free rootkit remove tool and it works. even if a virus blocks it from running, it will automatically restart your computer and run as soon as dos is booted. really handy for dealing with viruses/malware/rootkits.

True, you're right, it does have a ridiculous amount of popups. I've tried to turn them off but couldn't figure out how.

As far as the scam...well, I suppose a giveaway by a guy named "legitnick" should have been a giveaway. After all, if you have to go the trouble of claiming that you're legit, you probably aren't. (See also Bernie Madoff for other instances of people doing exactly what their name implies.)

chadtn

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On my system the downloaded file opened up access to DarkComet RAT. They used that to remote onto my system to try installing other software. In the details of the file they downloaded, Dell Datasafe was mentioned. It looks like a service similar to Dropbox.

Chad

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Quote from: Moebius327 on July 04, 2013, 04:19:53 PM

Mods should forbid account trading.

And just how are they going to police that

No, mods should just get rid of the self-mod thread already. Delenda est!

Moebius327

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Quote from: BitTrade on July 04, 2013, 04:17:04 PM

Quote from: r3wt on July 04, 2013, 04:06:43 AM

Quote from: PrintMule on July 04, 2013, 03:53:07 AM

I cant believe someone fell for that

this times like, 5 billion. people these days

***USERNAME r3wd (who posted in this thread) might be a legitnick sockpuppet*****

In the thread below, username "obama" (likely another legitnick sockpuppet used in his "award" pm's), offers to buy r3wt's account:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2591196

Mods should forbid account trading.

BitTrade

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Quote from: r3wt on July 04, 2013, 04:06:43 AM

Quote from: PrintMule on July 04, 2013, 03:53:07 AM

I cant believe someone fell for that

this times like, 5 billion. people these days

***USERNAME r3wd (who posted in this thread) might be a legitnick sockpuppet*****

In the thread below, username "obama" (used in his "award" pm's, and likely a legitnick sockpuppet), offers to buy r3wt's account:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2591196

Now, r3wd is posting in these scam-alert threads, acting like he's appalled at such an act.

BitTrade

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Quote from: 🏰 TradeFortress 🏰 on July 04, 2013, 04:05:36 AM

He was hacked with the last wave.

Legitnick was 100% NOT hacked. Proof:

the username "Obama" is one that he lists in every one of his phishing award PM's.

Interestingly, in this thread, the username "obama" (likely operated by legitnick) made a post asking to buy other user names. legitnick "responded" to obama to offer his usernsme for $3.50 - likely to try to get others to do the same:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2525299

This was long premeditated, folks.

He also had hundreds of posts in only a few weeks, to raise his "activity" rating.

freedomno1

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Learning the troll avoidance button :)

Quote from: Welsh on July 04, 2013, 03:51:18 PM

I always just in case it is legit. Even though I know how stupid it is. I knew it was going to end up like this. As soon as I saw the link I was like....not again. I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same guy as last time. I would search the old thread which was so successful last time. I can't remember the name or the person who did it. I don't know if it got deleted either. Otherwise I would expect to see legitnick posted on there claiming he had received his Bitcoin.

This isn't the last time this is going to happen either. It's going to happened again and again. People will still fall for it. I have not fell for this or the last one. It's just stupid. You don't know the person. The person claimed no links would be involved and the Bitcoin would just be sent to you're address. Yet, he went against his word. That raises another flag. I know when people look at the message and think "OMG" and want to rush to receive their Bitcoins and that's when most people don't think about it just do it. Then say later how did I fall for that. Well, I hope in future people will not fall for this.

It was anyroll last time

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