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To be clear, I've never signed up on Coinbase's platform.

"Privacy Policy" looks like a like in the email but doesn't direct to any site.

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I just searched my emails and this is the first time I've ever received an email from Coinbase.

Maybe it is a phishing email?

I have a feeling its this.

It doesn't make sense that Coinbase would send you an email if you aren't a user. I would agree it is just a phishing email that isn't legitimate. The chances that a company has your email address is probable but for it to be one for a bitcoin related company when you have never conducted business transactions or even reached out sounds unlikely they are authentic emails from Coinbase.

Was the email address that you received the coinbase email also used for your bitcointalk.org account?
A hacker managed to get full access and partially downloaded the bitcointalk.org database, a few months back.
I do not believe the email contacts were hashed, so it could be possible they got your email through that.

Otherwise it is strange, if you never signed up with coinbase ever.

Looks like they are starting to pull bitcoin address that their user base has sent or received too and have a team to information mine from there.
They are cleverer than you think.

It is both SPF and DKIM validated. Not easy to do this unless the phishers have access to the DNS zone file for coinbase.

are you an idiot? did you read the email? did they ask for any longin or identification details? you should just go kill yourself

OP a site you signed up on probably sold them your email, or someone used your email to signup

Information mining is big business..
and keeping them from getting your information is even bigger business.
Learn to use distraction tactics and tunneling methods such as TOR to keep off the radar and become a information hermit.

2 options

1. phishing site where the link for the 'privacy policy' goes to a phishing site that then asks to login
2. Gleb signed up a couple years ago to claim the 0.05btc they were offering to new signups, and never used it since.. forgetting all about it

I received also an email from coinbase don't know if they are real or just a phishing email.

The first link is not well formatted, it is http://legal/privacy maybe it was a mistake

But other links seems to be correct it links to the official coinbase website.

If you never signed up for coinbase, they shouldn't have sent you an email like this. I suspect that it is a phishing link. There is really no other explanation. Unless someone figured out your email, signed up on coinbase with that email, and then hacked your email and confirmed the account. That is a pretty elaborate scheme though.

It is very easy to understand. This email is not from Coinbase. Coinbase is a serious business and don't do any illegal behavior. have no need to do so. That email it is a spam or a phishing one. Who knows what was their aim in sending this kind of email. To many time are sent emails like this with or without links  which are not emails come from the sender which is named. Most of them are not well made because there must be some error in the conception of those or something were going wrong in their "project". But not few times these are perfect. I had several times such kind of emails which have copied perfectly the email of important sites (I will name only two: Payza and EgoPay (when was live)). One time I had even put my data but immediately after the put of those had a doubt and changed immediately the data given. After 1 or 2 hours that my account was blocked and when I asked the reason the answer was that my account was subject of an attempt to be hacked. It was my Payza account.

Definitely not #2, for I didn't try to take advantage of that offering, with this being the first time I've read about it. With the exception of trying (but never succeeding) to get bitcoins via faucets, I've never enrolled in any giveaways pertaining to any cryptocurrencies.

The email of mine used is (I believe) connected with only one user account (honestly, don't know which one sans investigating) I have in my control on this forum. I'm almost positive I haven't used that email address for anything else related to cryptos. That's why I'm finding this email sent to me so odd.

Probably an error on their part, they could have got your email from another company as these companies like to do and sent you the wrong template, maybe they're meant to email something else like a marketing email.

You could reach out to them via their site and forward them the email to see if it was legit or not.

Just received a follow-up email to let me know that they've corrected a link issue that I've pointed out in this thread. What are the odds?

https://i.imgur.com/qt6weAY.jpg

I had also received this email yesterday and am glad I deleted it, not sure if a phishing scam or not.

They said they do this every year, but I don't remember receiving it last year or the year before that.

Not one iota of my vitals belong on their servers, yet somehow they have my email address gleaned from somewhere.

I am also a member there let me also check it, but i will also delete it like you if there is any. Phising site and malware link are obvious in email.

I dont think its phishing.

I got the email too and I have an account with them.

Bruno i think the other poster's theory has gotta be correct,
you signed up to get free coins years ago and forgot.

i got the same email...TWICE.

Deleted it instantly.

I also got same email from coinbase and don't think that is phishing because i have account with them so that it seems op had account with them and forgot about it.

I hope it's really a spam email from someone who tried to use the name coinbase to do things that are not good, because I look at your post, there is a difference between the second email. support@coinbase.com and contact@coinbase.com
The second email was different.

Is it possible that Coinbase are collecting emails in their database while serving as payment processor for other business (or charity donations)? Just checked BTC donations to Wikimedia, and the screen for personal details (incl. email address) is hosted by Coinbase.

Looks like a phishing scam. Whenever I get emails like these, I never click on any links. Hopefully you haven't done this either. Thanks for bringing this up to the community though.
It let's some of us be more alert on these things.

i doubt a serious company like coinbase would end an email in this way "Thank you for using Coinbase!"

seems a childish ending, usually they end it with regards or whatever, and yes that thing is 100% pishing

OP said, he did not sign up for their service... why are you still insinuating that he did? How secure are your email address? I have some fake addresses and I set some honey

traps and they have been hacked 3 times already. It could be that someone else hacked your email address and signed up for the "signup bonus" when it was on offer.

Just check with Coinbase on the particulars of your account linked to your email address and find out who signed up and when. If they do not respond to this request, then it

is possibly a phishing attempt.  ::)

Very odd, yah I'd be very careful that yes, it is a phishing scam.

i got mail from coinbase once beside the welcome mail. and that was when i tryed to widrawl my money from my vault space to my wallet. this sounds like a phising mail or someone used ur mail for referal maybe all i can think of.

I've never signed up for any free coins on any site, and I have no other emails from Coinbase until recently after searching my emails in this particular email account that has sparse bitcoin related mailings.

Weird indeed.
Seems legit right but you say you never used them ?
hmm maybe coinbase can verify things ?
email them & ask ?

I never used them either or ever gotten an email form them.

You think there was some in the past that got flagged for spam etc ?
I get some that bypass my inbox and are auto deleted by Microsoft's spam criteria (not of my choosing)

I bet Coinbase made a mistake and sent you one but WHY ?
How did they get it then ?
They should be able to shed light on this either way.. think about it.. EMAIL THEM !

Coinbase trying to hack the Gamow ? Ohhh snap.. oh no you didn't !
They be begging for the FULL Bruno me thinks ..duck & cover Coinbase (hide under your bed maybe)

I got this email as well. Twice actually, once on an email I have registered with them, and one on an email I don't have registered with them. This is indeed very strange.

At least I'm not the only one that sees they're using an email list sourced from somewhere else.

Wait one Goddamn minute! I just realized that the email account was used when I was corresponding with BFL when they sent me a bogus tax form last year. BFL put all my vitals on their servers that I did not provide them.

Somehow your post triggered that truism in spite of having the info stare me in the face the other day upon searching archived emails, not making the connection expressed above.

Don't go for such emails as these may either be phishing attack trials or might be someone trying to scam you with their name either, or it may be them too trying to get something from you (no exchange can be trusted these days, so who knows!?!?!)...