Watch out for phishing PMs! | Bitcointalksearch.org

PangPang

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Quote from: skull88 on November 17, 2013, 08:31:24 AM

Got the following PM:

Quote from: bajanboost on November 17, 2013, 12:07:53 PM

Be careful where you mine and exchange bitcoins for money. Most mining pools are a scam, bitcoin exchanges too(they will hold your money for months), look in the scammers section and see for yourself deleted url

The url went to a page that looked exactly like the login form of the forum.
Check the url if you get a PM with a link in that supposedly directs you to a forumtopic! They try to trick you into believing you are logged out!

This url was sent to more people from what I could see, so don't give away your password, if you did, change it ASAP!

Thanks for the report

skull88

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Quote from: Vod on November 17, 2013, 07:13:57 PM

FYI, it's written phishing, not fishing.

oops, I changed it Embarrassed

BadBear

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I doubt they'd buy accounts for that, they get banned as soon as the first report comes in.

AuroraHF

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Quote from: dominicwin on November 21, 2013, 01:48:57 AM

Are these the result of purchased forum accounts???

Perhaps, or just new forum accounts as I recall there is no restrictions of messaging someone when they are still restricted to the Newbies subforum.

dominicwin

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Are these the result of purchased forum accounts???

maurya78

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Thanks for highlighting this

Yet more scamsters! Sigh

Maged

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Quote from: ?? on ??

LoL...
still does not works that divine script

Me got such PM too, from member "andrewarn"
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/andrewarn-163017

Kill him plz, or at least his registration

We try to kill them within a few minutes of the PM being reported with the report button.

noviapriani

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I saw some thread about themos adding some anti phishing script. Once the script is finished and installed I think phishing would hard to do.

CliffordM

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Good kattch

jackjack

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May Bitcoin be touched by his Noodly Appendage

The problem is that the people who read the Meta forum would have checked the link anyway

Vod

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Licking my boob since 1970

FYI, it's written phishing, not fishing.

skull88

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Got the following PM:

Quote from: bajanboost on November 17, 2013, 12:07:53 PM

Be careful where you mine and exchange bitcoins for money. Most mining pools are a scam, bitcoin exchanges too(they will hold your money for months), look in the scammers section and see for yourself deleted url

The url went to a page that looked exactly like the login form of the forum.
Check the url if you get a PM with a link in that supposedly directs you to a forumtopic! They try to trick you into believing you are logged out!

This url was sent to more people from what I could see, so don't give away your password, if you did, change it ASAP!

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