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This scam accusation is not against someone who is a member of Bitcointalk (I am not sure if he is a member or not so omitting that part).

I received an email from someone claiming to give too many returns of money exchange.  You agree after viewing this email screenshot,


I know 99 out of 100 recipients ignore such emails but this post is for that single person (mostly newbie) who wish to test this service. PLEASE DO NOT EVEN CLICK THE LINK YOU RECEIVE IN SUCH EMAILS.

Fortunately, Gmail is identifying classifying it under spam, and thus it reduces the number of victims but still few people fall for such scams.

Simple advice that I been following (Through which I saved thousands of bucks) is that

DO RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING EVEN A PENNY OR ASK ABOUT IT ON APPROPRIATE BOARD BEFORE INVESTING.

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Dudeperfect

Sane people will ignore and never trusted these obviously fake emails, it is very old and classic scams.

Exactly but still there are few people who fall for this kind of classic scams and since this time scammers are using bitcoin to attract prospects, I thought it’s our responsibility to make everyone aware of this kind of scam. We might miss a prospective bitcoin user if he gets scammed at his first step and hence awareness is necessary in a mission to build the strong concrete bitcoin user base.

If you are a long time online you knew that spam are phishing emails that should be ignore but if you know the sender then that will be the time that you whitelist it,but never click any emails that comes from spam..

I've received similar emails from "Bitcoin-Market" yesterday and today both went straight to spam (there's some bullshit about McBook pro in them). There must have been email data leak on one of the bitcoin related websites.

I suspect Poloniex, but can't be sure. I received those to 2 different email addresses. I use one of them for multiple purposes (registrations on various website etc), the other one is more 'official' and I rarely used this one for any registrations (submitted it to maybe 3-4 established sites), I don't recall receiving any bitcoin related spam to this email before.

Both emails were used to register on Poloniex (I have 2 linked accounts), hence my suspicion.

@OP - are you registered on Polo with this email address?

Edit: I also found similar email in yet another email account of mine, so Polo may not be to blame after all.

Golden rule - just ignore such spam emails. I'm sure that mostly people receiving more or less similar spam. Just check sender contacts and if it looks suspicious - ignore it or report it. And don't use your main email for registrations in various unclear sites.

Yes, I have registered on Poloniex using the same email address and thus probably your suspicion is true.

I have not maintained different mail id's for different purpose so probably the email address was leaked out of 100s of websites on which I have registered.