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Title: Received very small payment at random. Why did this happen? Post by: key2 on March 11, 2013, 07:55:05 AM Hi All,
Very new to the forums and have been doing a lot of reading. Today I received a VERY small payment to my wallet. .00000005btc came in and I have no idea where it came from or who sent it. Has this happened to anyone? Is it normal? I am worried it may be a sign of compromised security like the same way someone who steals your credit card puts a small charge on it to see if you notice. Maybe I'm just being paranoid. Title: Re: Received very small payment at random. Why did this happen? Post by: EtherDais on March 11, 2013, 08:00:19 AM Your paranoia has no technical basis: small payments to your account cannot result in compromise without some other social engineering or malware/virus shit going on.
Did you ever go to one of those "free 0.000005 BTC" sites? There are a few of them and they will pay out.....eventually. Perhaps you gave them your address a few days ago and their transaction finally went through/out. Title: Re: Received very small payment at random. Why did this happen? Post by: battmann on March 11, 2013, 08:14:58 AM Your paranoia has no technical basis: small payments to your account cannot result in compromise without some other social engineering or malware/virus shit going on. Did you ever go to one of those "free 0.000005 BTC" sites? There are a few of them and they will pay out.....eventually. Perhaps you gave them your address a few days ago and their transaction finally went through/out. This is more than likely what happened. Don't worry, be happy ^.^ Title: Re: Received very small payment at random. Why did this happen? Post by: key2 on March 11, 2013, 08:15:30 AM Your paranoia has no technical basis: small payments to your account cannot result in compromise without some other social engineering or malware/virus shit going on. Did you ever go to one of those "free 0.000005 BTC" sites? There are a few of them and they will pay out.....eventually. Perhaps you gave them your address a few days ago and their transaction finally went through/out. Yea I think I did one actually - that must be it. Forgot about that. Ok, thanks for your reply! |