Scammers claiming to be Poloniex, but are not

omonuyak

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Quote from: MWD64 on January 02, 2017, 12:32:41 AM

A comment today on this page of my site:
https://bipcoin.org/?page_id=25

says:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Hi,

I am Busoni admin of Polo Exchange,

we have been reading through your thread and are wondering if you would like to be added to our exchange. We feel we could bring a lot of attention to your project from our customer base.

We currently offer:

Coin addition: 1 BTC
Holding of ICO: 2 BTC

Please let us know how you feel of our offer,

Regards
Tristan D’iagosta

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

It claims to be from Tristan D’ agosta
at email
[email protected]

IP
86.45.252.233
is in Ireland, Laois, Portlaoise
is not a proxy. Is sent from a mobile network.

While I'm sure the person at the other end of this email would take my Bitcoin if I responded enthusiastically, I'm sure it would not result in my coin BipCoin being listed on Poloniex Exchange.

First, that's not Tristan's email. I know Tristan's email address because a friend whose coin is on Poloniex gave me an introduction. Tristan's email is not a gmail address.

Second, I doubt anyone at Poloniex Exchange has a gmail address that misspells "Poloniex"! lol.

Just wanted to give a heads up for any other altcoin devs who recieve the same scammy message. It's not Poloniex. And these people will probably come up with a different email now that spells Poloniex right, like
[email protected]
or something like that.

Poloniex company email addresses are not gmail addresses.

MWD
BipCoin dev team

You are smart enough to be able to cut the scam and many people are fall victim of this scam activity every day. I will advice that we should be careful especially this time that we are new in cryptocurrencies development. Many experts scammers are going to come out with many ways of scamming people and our thinking before fall victim is very important as it is easy to identified scam if you are not greedy.

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Quote from: MWD64 on January 02, 2017, 12:32:41 AM

A comment today on this page of my site:
https://bipcoin.org/?page_id=25

says:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Hi,

I am Busoni admin of Polo Exchange,

we have been reading through your thread and are wondering if you would like to be added to our exchange. We feel we could bring a lot of attention to your project from our customer base.

We currently offer:

Coin addition: 1 BTC
Holding of ICO: 2 BTC

Please let us know how you feel of our offer,

Regards
Tristan D’iagosta

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

It claims to be from Tristan D’ agosta
at email
[email protected]

IP
86.45.252.233
is in Ireland, Laois, Portlaoise
is not a proxy. Is sent from a mobile network.

While I'm sure the person at the other end of this email would take my Bitcoin if I responded enthusiastically, I'm sure it would not result in my coin BipCoin being listed on Poloniex Exchange.

First, that's not Tristan's email. I know Tristan's email address because a friend whose coin is on Poloniex gave me an introduction. Tristan's email is not a gmail address.

Second, I doubt anyone at Poloniex Exchange has a gmail address that misspells "Poloniex"! lol.

Just wanted to give a heads up for any other altcoin devs who recieve the same scammy message. It's not Poloniex. And these people will probably come up with a different email now that spells Poloniex right, like
[email protected]
or something like that.

Poloniex company email addresses are not gmail addresses.

MWD
BipCoin dev team

This seems to be a trend for scammers. I also noticed a warning at Idax.mn. Be careful and do not believe any email or DM you receive from anyone.
https://idax.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016108471--Risk-Warning-Be-wary-of-fraudsters-posing-as-IDAX-employees-for-illegal-activities-

carlfebz2

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Didn't expect to read up that there are still some coin developer or owners do able to receive such emails even nowadays knowing that these scamming attempts is already been known and wont really work
because basing on the current support system of poloniex it would be a surprising thing that they would have the time to scrape up coin owners and sent out some emails about listing.
In first place it is already shady as hell.

bible_pay

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Jesus is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords

From: Tristan D'agosta <[email protected]>
Subject: Addition Of Biblepay

Message Body:

Hi,
I am Tristan admin of Poloniex Exchange,

We have been reading through your thread and are wondering if you would like to be added to our exchange. We feel we could bring a lot of attention to your project from our customer base.

We are adding 5 new tokens to our exchange on October 15th. If we could here back about our proposal before then would be great.

We currently offer token addition 0.25BTC.

This price can also be paid in partial with token bounty payment + BTC

Please let us know how you feel of our offer,

Regards

Tristan D'agosta

Tomahawkcoin

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A True Token of Appreciation

Here is my experience with Busoni

Name : Tristan D'agosta
Email Address : [email protected]
Message : Hi,

I am Busoni admin of Polo Exchange,

We have been reading through your thread and are wondering if you would like to be added to our exchange. We feel we could bring a lot of attention to your project from our customer base.

We currently offer:

Coin addition: 0.25 BTC
Holding of ICO: .5 BTC

Please let us know how you feel of our offer,

Regards
Tristan D' agosta

https://steemit.com/crypto/@tomahawkcoin/busoni-scam-don-t-fall-for-it

onGcoin.io

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Just received that email ourselves. Thanks for posting this.

notnormals

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We have one at insane coin as well, what a twat. i bet someone falls for it.

Razzoel

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Quote from: MWD64 on January 02, 2017, 12:32:41 AM

A comment today on this page of my site:
https://bipcoin.org/?page_id=25

says:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Hi,

I am Busoni admin of Polo Exchange,

we have been reading through your thread and are wondering if you would like to be added to our exchange. We feel we could bring a lot of attention to your project from our customer base.

We currently offer:

Coin addition: 1 BTC
Holding of ICO: 2 BTC

Please let us know how you feel of our offer,

Regards
Tristan D’iagosta

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

It claims to be from Tristan D’ agosta
at email
[email protected]

IP
86.45.252.233
is in Ireland, Laois, Portlaoise
is not a proxy. Is sent from a mobile network.

While I'm sure the person at the other end of this email would take my Bitcoin if I responded enthusiastically, I'm sure it would not result in my coin BipCoin being listed on Poloniex Exchange.

First, that's not Tristan's email. I know Tristan's email address because a friend whose coin is on Poloniex gave me an introduction. Tristan's email is not a gmail address.

Second, I doubt anyone at Poloniex Exchange has a gmail address that misspells "Poloniex"! lol.

Just wanted to give a heads up for any other altcoin devs who recieve the same scammy message. It's not Poloniex. And these people will probably come up with a different email now that spells Poloniex right, like
[email protected]
or something like that.

Poloniex company email addresses are not gmail addresses.

MWD
BipCoin dev team

Sounds like they wanna make some money when people don't do their research properly. Polo wouldn't offer this also, it'd cost more.

mylinx

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Yep, same here too.

Minutes after our ANN was posted the other day, Poloneix (lol) offered to list it :

Quote

Hi,

I am Busoni admin of Polo Exchange,

We have been reading through your thread and are wondering if you would like to be added to our exchange. We feel we could bring a lot of attention to your project from our customer base.

We currently offer:

Coin addition: 0.5 BTC
Holding of ICO: 1 BTC

Please let us know how you feel of our offer,

Regards
Tristan D'agosta

EthMediator

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Just got the same:

Quote

Hi,
I am Busoni admin of Polo Exchange,
We have been reading through your thread and are wondering if you would like to be added to our exchange. We feel we could bring a lot of attention to your project from our customer base.
We currently offer:
Coin addition: 0.5 BTC
Holding of ICO: 1 BTC
Please let us know how you feel of our offer,
Regards
Tristan D' agosta

From: [email protected]

MWD64

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Quote from: vginacoindev on March 16, 2017, 08:33:00 AM

There still at it, received this this morning.

Poloniex Exchange <[email protected]>
8:37 AM (54 minutes ago)

to me
Hi,

I am Busoni admin of Polo Exchange,

We have been reading through your thread and are wondering if you would like to be added to our exchange. We feel we could bring a lot of attention to your project from our customer base.

We currently offer:

Coin addition: 1 BTC
Holding of ICO: 2 BTC

Please let us know how you feel of our offer,

Regards
Tristan D' agosta

sheesh.

vginacoindev

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There still at it, received this this morning.

Poloniex Exchange <[email protected]>
8:37 AM (54 minutes ago)

to me
Hi,

I am Busoni admin of Polo Exchange,

We have been reading through your thread and are wondering if you would like to be added to our exchange. We feel we could bring a lot of attention to your project from our customer base.

We currently offer:

Coin addition: 1 BTC
Holding of ICO: 2 BTC

Please let us know how you feel of our offer,

Regards
Tristan D' agosta

Ryan Dugan

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Just pushing another agende is all. Taking advantage of the polo name to gain interest on whatever ot is they trying to achieve which could be anything who's to know. Never believe anything like this it is far too easy to do and why would it be done this way ? Clearly fake dont be fooled. They hoping to catch a few folks off guard with their antics.

aiwe

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karbo.io

Received that mail too Grin

We're getting popular.

HI-TEC99

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Quote from: MWD64 on January 02, 2017, 12:32:41 AM

.

We currently offer:

Coin addition: 1 BTC
Holding of ICO: 2 BTC

Poloniex haven't held ICOs for years. It's obviously fake.

ArdiPrabowo

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don't believe another dev coin
is claim can get response to poloniex added coin
reputable dev, never say this coin added poloniex, and poloniex nothing publish, until release to added
if dev say added to poloniex only get buyer ico selling

casinobonusgiveaway

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There are so many scams in the Internet, Negirian scammers know to scam with bitcoin program now, hilarious. Only fools trust these scammers.

rancemo

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Anyone who falls for this kinda deserves to be ripped off. Tongue

MWD64

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Quote from: Beyond the Void on January 02, 2017, 08:16:29 AM

Hi !

We just received the same e-mail. Hilarious, especially when you know we are already added on Polo, but if they didn't take the time to check that probably means that they are sending these e-mails to a great number of people/projects.
I'll send Polo an e-mail to let them known too.

Thank you for your service!

MWD

Beyond the Void

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Hi !

We just received the same e-mail. Hilarious, especially when you know we are already added on Polo, but if they didn't take the time to check that probably means that they are sending these e-mails to a great number of people/projects.
I'll send Polo an e-mail to let them known too.

MWD64

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Quote from: SHAWN-MIDWAYS on January 02, 2017, 04:27:18 AM

Why not contact Poloniex to alert them of the scam that's brewing under their name so that the alert any potential victims from falling for this cheap scam! Better late than never Wink

Done. Thank you. I was really busy and multitasking when I got it, didn't think of it. But good idea, and I just wrote them.

MWD

SHAWN-MIDWAYS

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Why not contact Poloniex to alert them of the scam that's brewing under their name so that the alert any potential victims from falling for this cheap scam! Better late than never. Wink

MWD64

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Quote from: ?? on ??

Nice info! Thanks

Yup. I could totally see someone anxious to get listed there falling for that. Wanted to make sure people were aware of it.

If it happens to anyone else, please post here. Though I figure they're likely to switch it up because they probably follow this site and might see this post.

I'm also curious if anyone gets similar but different scam attempts as web comment posts or emails. And it's good to post them to help others avoid them.

I look at altcoins, especially CryptoNote coins, as something where it's go to be in cooperation rather than cutthroat competition.

King_Of_Ancapistan

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Hello, Bipcoin Dev Team!

If you pay me 1 BTC I can get you onto Mt. Gox!

Please respond at [email protected]

But you must hurry, I am moonlighting as the Minister of Finance for Nigeria, and the rebels are closing in on the capital, I must find a generous person to help me secure the treasury's balance outside of the country!

MWD64

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A comment today on this page of my site:
https://bipcoin.org/?page_id=25

says:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Hi,

I am Busoni admin of Polo Exchange,

we have been reading through your thread and are wondering if you would like to be added to our exchange. We feel we could bring a lot of attention to your project from our customer base.

We currently offer:

Coin addition: 1 BTC
Holding of ICO: 2 BTC

Please let us know how you feel of our offer,

Regards
Tristan D’iagosta

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

It claims to be from Tristan D’ agosta
at email
[email protected]

IP
86.45.252.233
is in Ireland, Laois, Portlaoise
is not a proxy. Is sent from a mobile network.

While I'm sure the person at the other end of this email would take my Bitcoin if I responded enthusiastically, I'm sure it would not result in my coin BipCoin being listed on Poloniex Exchange.

First, that's not Tristan's email. I know Tristan's email address because a friend whose coin is on Poloniex gave me an introduction. Tristan's email is not a gmail address.

Second, I doubt anyone at Poloniex Exchange has a gmail address that misspells "Poloniex"! lol.

Just wanted to give a heads up for any other altcoin devs who recieve the same scammy message. It's not Poloniex. And these people will probably come up with a different email now that spells Poloniex right, like
[email protected]
or something like that.

Poloniex company email addresses are not gmail addresses.

MWD
BipCoin dev team

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