WARNING!! BEWARE S11 SCAM Email!! - page 4.

keksik

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well i was one of the stupid people who got scammed.. i bought 2 miners.. Sad

they called me from official phone number of bitmain!! i checked that..and when i received email and it was from [email protected] (i cehcked previous emails from them) i said ok, something private because i bought 10 miners before..al;so they had ALL my informations..like adress, name, surname, phone number, street, and emails, everything...
fuc**ng sake, i will broke their bones if i found them, which i do no of course...4600usd out of window...

i must admit hey are really clever...

juninhodecio

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yes a lot of people, if you guys have a good social network post the warning to try to help.
my last received email came from
[email protected]

cuteman

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Quote from: slv1221 on June 11, 2018, 08:06:30 AM

Perfect SPAM attack
20 BTChttps://blockchain.info/address/1NgbuAZCSAeHqAKWVm8ussjtNju6Z1JfnK in 2 hours

terrible. It had 2 BTC just some hours ago. Seems more amd more people get scammed.

cuteman

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Quote from: shaninium on June 11, 2018, 04:17:44 AM

[email protected] is bitmains email. Ive been getting legitimate emails from this address for ages, thats why its so convincing, especially if you save this email as a contact / priority sender.

Interesting that email shows the sender's email as [email protected] - BUT if you try to reply it, it will put another address for the receiver: [email protected]

Obviously there is a trick, in which scammers succeeded to put [email protected] on the "sender's" field of their emails, somehow. BUT email arrives not from it, but from no.rply@ ... , and when you reply it, it put real address from where it arrived - [email protected] Roll Eyes

In any case, in order to send email from address belogning to domain bitmaintech.com - you need to posess that domain, don't you ??

slv1221

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Perfect SPAM attack
20 BTChttps://blockchain.info/address/1NgbuAZCSAeHqAKWVm8ussjtNju6Z1JfnK in 2 hours

Bulletdodger

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Bitmain are to blame - most probably they sold the info, and they aren't giving any statements regarding this while scammers rake their loot.
Horrible customer relations!

r01k

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Just got this email. Bitmain-style looking and showing source as [email protected], which is a real Bitmain address. Two red flags:

79.5 TH/s @ 1400W is years in the future.
Nothing googlable about any S11 ready to ship.

Note that faking the source email address is trivial, but what points to Bitmain having been robbed bare of user data is that all personal details are on the email. Or maybe scammers are using data from last year's(?) hack.

amirheavy666

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NEM (XEM) Top Coin

I receive this email from bitmain....all previous emails from bitmain was this address exactly ...what's wrong?!! they hacked??!!

From: webmaster <[email protected]>

Dear

Limited time offer for registered users!

We are proud and happy to announce Antminer S11-1 Presale!

Also, as we promised, coupon will be activated for each Antminer S11-1 purchased.

Shipping date estimated:

First 1000 Antminers S11-1 purchased will be shipped on June 20-28.
Second 10000 Antminers S11-1 purchased will be shipped on July 18-26.

Public sale of Antminer S11- starts on 31 August with 2600$ price, while we offer you to reserve your Antminer S11-1 for best price now.

Don’t miss opportunity to get your Antminer S11-1 first!

Presale expiry date is 06:59:59, 12th, June, 2018 (Beijing time, GMT+8).

Please find additional information about our offer in PDF file attached.

Customer details

Thank you for choosing Bitmain.

Best Regards,

The Bitmain team

nc50lc

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Self-proclaimed Genius

Quote from: shaninium on June 11, 2018, 04:17:44 AM

[email protected] is bitmains email. Ive been getting legitimate emails from this address for ages, thats why its so convincing, especially if you save this email as a contact / priority sender.

Ouch ok, so it must be an inside job or a sophisticated hacking incident and the attacker must have stolen more than customer's emails and contacts.
Otherwise, the "other guy" was right.

Quote from: shaninium on June 11, 2018, 03:30:42 AM

Awhile ago they did have a security issue, they told everyone to change passwords / enable authentication. That data they got must be these emails.

The first statement suggests that the hacker(s) didn't just fetched the emails but also Bitmain's admin accounts (and administration rights?) as well.

This is more serious than I thought.

shaninium

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Quote from: nc50lc on June 11, 2018, 04:02:59 AM

Quote from: cuteman on June 10, 2018, 04:58:22 PM

Anybody knows how do scammers achieve sending email from Bitmain domain?
-snip-img-

Bitmain's domain isn't "bitmaintech", plain sight obvious.

Making a non "@gmail/@yahoo" email is quite simple. Ex. I have an email account [email protected] where the spam goes.
And the hacker just bought a domain that sounds like the original, then he made an email account using that domain.

Example: bitmain.com, the hacker bought bitmaintech.com then he created [email protected] as the fake administrator email account to scam noobs.

[email protected] is bitmains email. Ive been getting legitimate emails from this address for ages, thats why its so convincing, especially if you save this email as a contact / priority sender.

nc50lc

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Quote from: cuteman on June 10, 2018, 04:58:22 PM

Anybody knows how do scammers achieve sending email from Bitmain domain?
-snip-img-

~~Bitmain's domain isn't "bitmaintech", plain sight obvious.~~

Making a non "@gmail/@yahoo" email is quite simple. Ex. I have an email account [email protected] where the spam goes.
And the hacker just bought a domain that sounds like the original, then he made an email account using that domain.

Example: bitmain.com, the hacker bought bitmaintech.com then he created [email protected] as the fake administrator email account to scam noobs.

cuteman

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Scammers use data from the shipping addresses. I conclude this from the fact that they use my friend's name when greeting me in email. Grin

With BM i use a shipping address to my friend's location, for some reason. So scammers don't have access to the inner BM database, where my real name is mentioned.

shaninium

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Quote from: Etherion on June 10, 2018, 06:01:11 PM

Bitmain was not hacked. They sold your details.

Awhile ago they did have a security issue, they told everyone to change passwords / enable authentication. That data they got must be these emails.

cuteman

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Quote from: BenRickert on June 10, 2018, 06:02:32 PM

The attachement just gave you the Crypto payment bar codes. Yeah......79 Ths with 1400 Watts. LMAO!! The sad thing is....as absurd as that claim is, the profitability of those metrics is only $24.00 a day with .10 per KWH. Which means......that.....when the REAL new S11 or whatever they name it comes out, it will be well inside of that. I doubt that from 16nm to 7nm will get more than 30 THs at 1400 watts. Bottom line.....even the NEW technology will NOT be very exciting. Pretty depressing.

New bitcoin miner from Japan company GMO which is on 7nm tech process, and it produces only 24Th/s with nearly 2000 Watts consumption - which is about 15% more efficient that S9. So yes, the NEW technology will NOT be very exciting.

juninhodecio

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unfortunately yes. ive checked the btc address they sent on my pdf and there are deposits there. Somebody got scammed

BenRickert

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Yup. Me too. Pretty messed up. Truth is....no one will even pursue these scum. They will also make a LOT of money off of unsuspecting idiots.

juninhodecio

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just got another email right now i just removed my data but its 100% correct phone address everything

Second Round! Limited Time Offer – Antminer S11-1
Dear

Limited time offer for registered users!

We are proud and happy to announce Antminer S11-1 Presale!

Also, as we promised, coupon will be activated for each Antminer S11-1 purchased.

Shipping date estimated:

First 1000 Antminers S11-1 purchased will be shipped on June 20-28.
Second 10000 Antminers S11-1 purchased will be shipped on July 18-26.
Public sale of Antminer S11- starts on 31 August with 2600$ price, while we offer you to reserve your Antminer S11-1 for best price now.

Don’t miss opportunity to get your Antminer S11-1 first!

Presale expiry date is 06:59:59, 12th, June, 2018 (Beijing time, GMT+8).

Please find additional information about our offer in PDF file attached.

Customer details
Thank you for choosing Bitmain.

BenRickert

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Merit: 110

Quote from: shaninium on June 10, 2018, 04:21:08 PM

Received same email, but never opened attachment, very convincing, except for the 74-79th bit lol Wouldnt be surprised if bitmain name the new sha256 miner a s12 or 13 cause of this fraud.

The attachement just gave you the Crypto payment bar codes. Yeah......79 Ths with 1400 Watts. LMAO!! The sad thing is....as absurd as that claim is, the profitability of those metrics is only $24.00 a day with .10 per KWH. Which means......that.....when the REAL new S11 or whatever they name it comes out, it will be well inside of that. I doubt that from 16nm to 7nm will get more than 30 THs at 1400 watts. Bottom line.....even the NEW technology will NOT be very exciting. Pretty depressing.

Etherion

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Bitmain was not hacked. They sold your details.

Nimmitabel

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Quote from: cuteman on June 10, 2018, 03:24:07 PM

Quote from: juninhodecio on June 10, 2018, 11:55:50 AM

And bitmain know the data was compromised since the first day and still no official statement.

Bitmain sent emails a few days ago to his customers telling about this:

https://i.imgur.com/Jitnp9t.png

I never received this email from Bitmain, I only got the scam email this morning.
weird.

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