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I just received a text message alert from my wallet stating I've received .25 bitcoins

Sender:

1BW9AYABR72GEWY4gwe5nXwNsAoZkJmxhL

Me:

1ARESQKa1AjMvRPfiBGkrc4981uzu8ecbd

good day for you

want share?

Pass it along if you do not want it. My addy is in my sig.  :D

pay it forward

i think it was this guy^

It does not look very different from some of your other transactions.

https://blockchain.info/address/1ARESQKa1AjMvRPfiBGkrc4981uzu8ecbd

Could you be a little more vague?

Congrats that's cool when it's out of the blue.  I got a .1 donation onceand I was stoked, it gave me bitcoin fever.

Tip? Perhaps someone like a post?

Looks like a complicated transaction...funds in an exchange get dispersed?

Why the hell is it every few months we get people complaining about being given money for no reason? LOL :P

lol we are using that saying in Greece as well

You guys used it first.

I'm not complaining.  In fact I hope this is a weekly occurrence.  I just find it strange to randomly and deliberately receive money.  Just wondering if anyone can give me a clue as to who, what, why. 

Also the address they were sent to is not the one I have in my signature, or my avatar QR.  I think the address was my very first paper bitcoin wallet.

Congratulations are in order.

Enjoy it.

People without a wallet can never receive random bitcoins.

Anything is possible in the Bitcoin world, including the Nigerian-419 style out of blue sky winning, the difference is in the Bitcoin world you don't have to pay a processing fee through Western Union. ::)

LOL I can just imagine rich Bitcoiners doing this as a pass time to mess with people and laugh at them :D

No see then they would be sending very specific amounts down to the satoshi e.g. 0.23590128

Someone accidentally wrote the wrong address? Or perhaps you have a secret admirer ha ha!

Ha ha that give me a the tickling of an idea... anonymous telephone directory  ??? send a an amount equal to your phone number to an address. Not sure what you could use it for but maybe a text message lottery  ???

sucks if you live in Azerbaijan 00994xxxxx but pretty good if you live in the states 001xxxx   :P

This type of thing could contribute to Bitcoin adoption momentum.

Get a Bitcoin Wallet now (and learn how to use it) for your chance to receive money over the internet, while you sleep.  Watch the money being sent right now at http://blockchain.info/

What's in your wallet?  When was the last time you looked?

Or [conspiracy theories on] maybe someone was trying to find the owners of different wallets involved in a chain of suspicious transfers/payments to see if they would post a question about it somewhere... did you use Liberty Reserve recently? :)
[conspiracy theories off]

No I've never used liberty reserve.  I believe the only people I ever gave the address to were bitinstant, and casascius.  I don't think it's ever been public.

It looks like it could be a resolved bet from [urlhttp://www.bitbet.us]BitBet[/url]. May just ended so they closed out a bunch of bets. This weekend I had a moment of confusion as I wondered where some of the coin I received came from, but the address seems to match this bet:

SatoshiDice will be Taken Down/Seized By the US Government Before June 1st. (http://bitbet.us/bet/138/satoshidice-will-be-taken-down-seized-by-the-us/)

Nice find: 17-01-13 04:56    No    99`501    0.20100000    1Buyh    0.25052637    1ARES

Even better in my country: 370xxxxxxxx

I think all international phone numbers start with 00.

Thanks I forgot all about that.

That was why I was being vague.  I did not want to put it in writing.

got 0.10 BTC no idea where it came from ? :)

Will I tell you that was my mistake?

That was in error. It should have gone to my wallet. Please forward it to the address in my sig.

(SCNR ;)) Onkel Paul

Donate all of them to me..

I've made myself a public wallet (sort of by accident in my first post). Not sure what use it's going to be but it seemed a shame to waste it so I've put it in my sig. You could send it some coin and we'll all watch and see where it ends up.  8)

You are welcome.

Double them at our casino, it just takes 1 bet on red or black to make it :)