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Got an odd e-mail from news@coinbase.com:



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   Get 150% profit with Coinbase Invest Fund

Dear **************,

We're happy to announce a new product - Coinbase Invest Fund, reliable platform for
small and medium scale investments. Fund assets are diversified among emerging Forex
positions at Coinbase Exchange. Deposits are risk-free insured by institutions such as the New
York Stock Exchange.

Want to become a professional investor?
Our first short-term investment program starts today - GET 150% FOR A 10-DAY DEPOSIT.

Investment offer is active from 20th of April 12:00 AM Pacific until 30th of April.
Coinbase offers you a fixed return with a 50% growth for a 10 day period.
You can deposit today from $100. Maximum deposit amount per one person
or legal entity is 60 Bitcoins. That's an astonishing opportunity to earn up to $8,500 per 10 days!

Investors who want to apply, please make a deposit to

    13uFnb22f9hKqjMSfWv295TUhoLAcbXamS or click the link below
    https://blockchain.info/qr?data=13uFnb22f9hKqjMSfWv295TUhoLAcbXamS&size=400

Once a payment is made you will get an e-mail about successful participation.
Please note: Initial deposit amounts exceeding +30 Bitcoins will qualify your membership for a 2nd level upgrade.

We will return your initial deposit with dividends on 1st of May, 2015 12:00 AM Pacific Time.
(for example: investing 10 Bitcoins today will return 15 Bitcoins in a 10 day period)
Profits are withdrawn without any delay and Coinbase waives all fees for 1st level investments.

Hurry up! This is a limited, one-time opportunity.

Kind regards,
The Coinbase Invest Fund Team

Do not reply to this e-mail

Looks like an email trying to look like its from coinbase, theres scripts where you can send an email to anyone while claiming to be anyone.

Definitely fake. Thanks for warning others

Just received a mail.

Is this true?

10 days 150% profit ?!   ???   

RED ALERT ?!

Got the same one..  "Deposits are risk-free insured by institutions such as the New York Stock Exchange."  LOL

Did CB get hacked though the sender appears to know my name..

Way to good to be true. Hopefully people aren't foolish enough to fall for this.

Nothing of the sort is posted on their website. Thanks for warning others.

Yeah, I got the same email today and it was to an email address that I ONLY use for financial stuff, so the scammers are not sending this mails out randomly, they have hacked Coinbase's mailing list!

It is not their database that was hacked.
I use this mail for sensitive things only, but i never registered at Coinbase.

Yup, received this same email just now too!

Slimy bastards got a hold of Coinbase email database some how...

I just received the exact same email as well.  I sent ALL of my bitcoins - am I doing it right? /s

Hmm i'm signed up at coinbase but i didn't get this email, hope no serious info was leaked from database..probably just emails even if that.
It even may be insider job ;)

And I used to trust coinbase's security.
Now the question is will coinbase honor the btc from the victims that will fall for this.......I think not.

Just got the email myself. Reaction went from greed  :o to skepticism  ??? to google in seconds.

Looks like no one has fallen for it yet:
https://btc.blockr.io/address/info/1NzeMHuhuxcPji9v8BsVJ65SPGaS39uf3B (https://btc.blockr.io/address/info/1NzeMHuhuxcPji9v8BsVJ65SPGaS39uf3B)

The balance is 0.

If Coinbase did get hacked, they should address on their blog or send a mass email warning all their userbase immediately.

That said, if you've been using Coinbase, you most likely have 2 Factor Authentication involved for any transactions, so any fool that falls for this, kinda deserves it.

2FA man, 2FA!  No one blindly sends money to an address or QR code without 2FA!!!

Yep, I also got this email. I am done with Coinbase either way now.

Whatever the connection is it came from BTCJam's email DB not Coinbase's; the email I got it at was only used there.

It must be multiple sources, as i have never registered with that mail at Coinbase nor "Bitcointalk, Localbitcoins and Kraken" as suggested in the other thread.
And i dont even know what BTCJam is.

Anybody get one who _doesn't_ have a Coinbase account?

It was most likely the Coinbase DB that was hacked.

I got the same. It not trustable at all. What make me nervous that they inlcude my name in the mail the same way how I have it in the my Coinbase profile. This smell fishy ???

I received the same email.

I just chatted with someone at Coinbase and confirmed that it is a scam.

Z

I hope nobody fall for this!

Why is it that every time a story of actual importance hits the main page it gets moved to one of the near-invisible sub-pages that nobody ever visits?

They are pretty sophisticated, even generated separate Bitcoin address for each email.

I also got this email, and I have never been on the Coinbase website.

I have been on Localbitcoins, but I never registered there or shared this email address there. Editing this because I just checked past emails and I did use this email address with localbitcoins in June 2013. So they must have gotten my email address there.

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In This Issue:
   Get 150% profit with Coinbase Invest Fund
 
Dear xxxxxxx,
 
We're happy to announce a new product - Coinbase Invest Fund, reliable platform for
small and medium scale investments. Fund assets are diversified among emerging Forex
positions at Coinbase Exchange. Deposits are risk-free insured by institutions such as the New
York Stock Exchange.

Want to become a professional investor?
Our first short-term investment program starts today - GET 150% FOR A 10-DAY DEPOSIT.
 
Investment offer is active from 20th of April 12:00 AM Pacific until 30th of April.
Coinbase offers you a fixed return with a 50% growth for a 10 day period.
You can deposit today from $100. Maximum deposit amount per one person
or legal entity is 60 Bitcoins. That's an astonishing opportunity to earn up to $8,500 per 10 days!
 
Investors who want to apply, please make a deposit to
 
    17egZFXbzzm1NwEnejZ3o6whXLr8TQAmek or click the link below
    https://blockchain.info/qr?data=17egZFXbzzm1NwEnejZ3o6whXLr8TQAmek&size=400
 
Once a payment is made you will get an e-mail about successful participation.
Please note: Initial deposit amounts exceeding +30 Bitcoins will qualify your membership for a 2nd level upgrade.
 
We will return your initial deposit with dividends on 1st of May, 2015 12:00 AM Pacific Time.
(for example: investing 10 Bitcoins today will return 15 Bitcoins in a 10 day period)
Profits are withdrawn without any delay and Coinbase waives all fees for 1st level investments.

Hurry up! This is a limited, one-time opportunity.
 
Kind regards,
The Coinbase Invest Fund Team
 
Do not reply to this e-mail

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Also got this, but I don't think I registered on coinbase. The email doesn't mention my name though, just repeats my email address.

thanks for informing, coinbase would not ask to make deposit directly to a btc address, must be on their site... :)
that's what I know.. :D

Received warning from coinbase:

Hi there,

Earlier today, a spam email claiming to be from Coinbase was sent to some of our customers, announcing a "Coinbase Invest Fund".

If you received this email, please disregard it. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Note: This email in no way affects the safety of your Coinbase account, and no customer data was compromised.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact support@coinbase.com.

Kind Regards,
Coinbase Security


Weird is both email received from xxxxxx@coinbase.com   ::)  :o

I got it, never even been to coinbases website. I do however have a btcjam account, someone else suggested a connection there?

Please dont send money to they !
=> https://blockchain.info/address/13uFnb22f9hKqjMSfWv295TUhoLAcbXamS

Best regards
Christian

They used a distinct address for each email sent, so we wouldn't know how many people fell for it.

Ohh... OK Thanks

Coinbase needs to display their public IP used on their email headers, or this could become a bigger problem than it is today, since users have no means of confirming these emails.

Coinbase would never provide a BTC address to send to, especially through regular text email.  They'd announce it on their official Twitter or on their blog first.

https://twitter.com/coinbase

https://blog.coinbase.com/ 

For any payments, you'd have to login to Coinbase first, provide 2 FA code, before you even get to submit any sort of payment.  Never to a direct wallet address.

Some people will fall, whenever these mails appear many people fall, such as fake paypal emails, there have been a lot of spam and as always many people fall because it seems real.

Thank you very much for letting us know, i use coinbase and knew nothing about this

Oh i've already been proud of bitcoin community that nobody fell for it as i thought they used the same address for every mail.

I don't think I got i but I learnt that coinbases send grid account was hacked. I don't think any relation is there but maybe,
Here's the link:http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/sendgrid-email-breach-was-used-to-attack-coinbase-a-bitcoin-exchange/?_r=0

It is obviously a scam,  that should not even be debated.  What is bothersome is Bitjams inability to keep our email addresses out of the hands of parasites that cannot earn a living without outright theft. Karma! The hurt you cause someone will one day haunt you and will inflict 10x the pain back.