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Title: [NOT CONFIRMED] Bitcointalk users info leaked?
Post by: rme on May 10, 2013, 12:50:39 PM
Today this email arrived in my inbox:

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Does you company accept Bitcoin ?

Interested in paying for some advertising ?

We have access to all the email accounts from most of the large bitcoin forums ,

This is your chance to let people know about your bitcoin company ,

Contact us


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Pricing

100,000 bitcoin users emailed for 1BTC
300,000 bitcoin users emailed for 2BTC

Paypal also accepted.

forum names shall not be given , but I got them ALL .

kind regards


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The emails have been legally obtained , I am happy to blast 10,000 email address's with your company and email address ( this means the email replies come to you)

I will do the 10,000 for 0.1 BTC and you will be able to see the results

kind regards


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Your email address was also on the lists I have , hence how we are chatting now


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No proof of where or how I got this list will be given ,

If you wanna get your company seen by a crazy amount of bitcoin users get intouch .

kind regards


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        Fri, 10 May 2013 03:26:01 -0700 (PDT)
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        Fri, 10 May 2013 03:26:01 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Advertising to bitcoin users
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Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 11:24:57 +0100
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Sender email: http://services.nexodyne.com/email/icon/W3SLs.sOA8nPUUbxPw%3D%3D/RyfeUb0%3D/R01haWw%3D/0/image.png

This might be fake, but it can be also true and some Bitcointalk admin has looked for emails in the database.
I am posting this for calling the attention of admins and do some investigation about.

Title: Re: [NOT CONFIRMED] Bitcointalk users info leaked?
Post by: mokahless on May 10, 2013, 01:04:41 PM
I have my email in my profile and have not received such emails yet.

Title: Re: [NOT CONFIRMED] Bitcointalk users info leaked?
Post by: rme on May 10, 2013, 01:12:06 PM
Quote from: mokahless on May 10, 2013, 01:04:41 PM
I have my email in my profile and have not received such emails yet.

The guy apparently is only sending to Bitcoin Bussines emails.

The original email (fist one) was sent to the mail I use in the contact page of a Bitcoin related website.

Title: Re: [NOT CONFIRMED] Bitcointalk users info leaked?
Post by: Tuxavant on May 10, 2013, 02:10:59 PM
I have evidence that this list of addresses was scrapped from at least one DNS registrar.

Title: Re: [NOT CONFIRMED] Bitcointalk users info leaked?
Post by: John (John K.) on May 10, 2013, 02:31:35 PM
Nah, the only active admin here is theymos, and I don't think he will leak the info here.

Title: Re: [NOT CONFIRMED] Bitcointalk users info leaked?
Post by: Evolyn on May 10, 2013, 03:36:18 PM
got the email, too

but the email wasn't sent to the email i use for bitcointalk.org, it came to an email i use for unsecure and unimportant stuff and/or likely spam.

Title: Re: [NOT CONFIRMED] Bitcointalk users info leaked?
Post by: Ekaros on May 10, 2013, 04:06:48 PM
I do get some spam for LTC pool, hasn't noticed much else...

Title: Re: [NOT CONFIRMED] Bitcointalk users info leaked?
Post by: SgtSpike on May 10, 2013, 04:08:32 PM
I have not received such an email.

Title: Re: [NOT CONFIRMED] Bitcointalk users info leaked?
Post by: Lethn on May 10, 2013, 07:39:19 PM
This is why I use fake emails, suckers.

Title: Re: [NOT CONFIRMED] Bitcointalk users info leaked?
Post by: Welsh on May 10, 2013, 08:01:41 PM
Yeah, I haven't received a email of this kind.
I doubt there is information leaked, I think it's just a troll move.
If it isn't, many people are going to be...furious.

Title: Re: [NOT CONFIRMED] Bitcointalk users info leaked?
Post by: repentance on May 12, 2013, 01:34:59 AM
Yeah, I'm a bit skeptical.  Even if you add /r/bitcoin and Bitcointalk together, you're still not going to come up with 300,000 accounts.

Title: Re: [NOT CONFIRMED] Bitcointalk users info leaked?
Post by: grue on May 12, 2013, 03:05:19 AM
checked my email registered with bitcointalk. nothing unsolicited in my inbox and nothing bitcoin related in my spam either.

Title: Re: [NOT CONFIRMED] Bitcointalk users info leaked?
Post by: tysat on May 12, 2013, 03:29:00 PM
Sounds like it was just someone spamming trying to scam some bitcoins.

Title: Re: [NOT CONFIRMED] Bitcointalk users info leaked?
Post by: Maged on May 15, 2013, 02:51:00 AM
Quote from: rme on May 10, 2013, 12:50:39 PM
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Pricing

100,000 bitcoin users emailed for 1BTC
300,000 bitcoin users emailed for 2BTC
This forum only has 115,000 users. Clearly they didn't think this through...

Title: Re: [NOT CONFIRMED] Bitcointalk users info leaked?
Post by: dexX7 on May 15, 2013, 04:05:57 AM
Bitcoin-related spam [Update: not resolved!]
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=201024.0


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