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Hai all, I've got this email today :

What will you see?

Dear MyEtherWallet Member:

In connection with the recent theft of a large amount of ETHERs from users' wallets, we have adopted new security measures. We have done a great work and ready to share with our users!

    update the private key encryption protocol (completed)
    update the site protection against phishing attacks (completed)
    update traffic encryption from third parties (completed)
    transition to a new private key generation system with Secp256k1 on ECDSA (in progress)


HOORAY!

This is a huge success for our team and the entire crypto community. Unfortunately, the new computer code for generating private keys is already ready and we will implement it this fall.

You need to fill out the form and reserve a place for yourself. The form will be open from 16:00 GMT+8 on 30th March, 2018 to 16:00 GMT+8 on 30th September, 2018. Otherwise, you will not be able to activate your account with the old encryption key Secp256k1 from October 1, 2018.
Fill me :)


MAKING CRYPTO GREAT AGAIN!

Jack Warton
MyEtherWallet & MyEtherWallet CX developer
1044 Sunny Day Drive
Santa Ana, CA 92705
2 April, 2018
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is this true? or phising?

During the MEW hacking controversy, did your coins disappear? Was there real stealing that occured to you? That is the first question that you need to ask yourself. If you are not involved in any of those then that is probably some fraud trying to steal infos from you. I'd rather not reply and do what he ask if that's the case.

By the way, I just wanted to share that during the MEW hacking controversy, I did not experience losing my coins in contradict to what other people are claiming.

e-mail from MEW?
I use also MEW,  but i can not remind me does i have register with a e-mail adress.

so i think is not a legal e-mail.

It sounds very much like a phishing attempt. What address/domain was the email sent from? No doubt the form you need to fill in will ask you for your private keys, at which point they will clean out your wallet.

Smells like phishing... I have carefully highlighted phrases in red that made me convinced that this is nothing but an attempt to farm personal info and private keys. Note how the mail consistently mentions private keys in a suggesting manner.

I think thats a scam dong try to update or use your private key in that website or email i was using MEW wallet too but i did not recieve an email and when i fill up MEW you dont need email address so the question is why MEW have your email since they are  not collecting email when you make your new wallet in MEW?

it seems that is not true if you get a message via email about the update from MEW there could be people who want to hack your eth address!

no.. i did not losing my coin..and i dont reply this email.

I thought that MEW never asking your email when you are trying to signup to create a new ethereum address through MEW service. And that's obviously scam email. Because you need to fill that form and if that was true and MEW developer or kvnuhke must make an official announcement regarding it and that's totally a pising email.

i dont know bro..first i read about this i thinks its phising site. its so suspicious.

this email come from :
MyEtherWallet <myetherwallet@zoho.eu>

I don't think the information is coming from MEW because I am suspecting some phishing attacks from idiot scammers who want to continue their fraudulent activities. Please be careful and know the kind of registration forms you fill these day using your private details because you never can tell where the attack it's going to come from. Our security is very paramount in this our kind of business.

MEW's emails are from "@myetherwallet.com". That is 100% a scam email. Do not reply, delete the email, block the sender.

it's a phishing email don't fall for it, don't click the link or else your tokens will be gone, myetherwallet not required email for registering your account, they only give you the private keys and the JSON file save them and don't share to anyone.

Better not to reply, its too suspicious just like everyone said I don't remember MEW ask for email during registration. Better block the sender and don't click any link. Let's all be careful and don't fall easily.

Do not believe in such emails, I'm sure that's a scam because myethewallet does not do that. Particularly there is another form of requesting privatekey on myetherwallet. This is a clear scam so do not trust these people anymore and find out on this website at Myetherwallet

First thing you need to remember is whether you have registered any email with MEW. I don't think you did because there is no option or prompt for you to put your email so it's probably a phishing attempt.

The most important thing that must be kept confidential and security is our Private Key, do not give to others, lest anyone know besides our own and do not get lost. Because the scams effort is endless and they always come up in different ways.

Can you provide the link source sir?
I also do not know that MEW will update

for register and create an account on MEW they never ask your email or any personal information for contacting you, never trust any mail claimed as Myetherwallet team or other.

I always check the information that comes to me through the official twitter accounts of developers, projects. I think that this is the best way to check. Or write on their official e-mail address.

Do not use email attachments, so use Bookmark for peace of mind! I usually like that!

I don't need to even finish reading before concluding that this is a scam attempt. The mean reason for that is because even when opening an account on MEW, I can't remember registering with email address how then did they have access to have sent the mail  to it. Its just a cheap way and they are asking you to fill some details, I hope you have not fallen for this because if you have, then its purely your fault and your funds is never coming back.

There is no email questions when we create an ethereum wallet in myetherwallet
How can MEW sent you an message to your email address ? Just Becareful my friend

I also don't get email from MEW, is this news right? should be accompanied by a link.

I have not received any email from myetherwallet, while i have a wallet with them from many years, so looks like the email guys are looking for your private info to access your wallet, i will suggest not to reply them or click any links in that email to stay safe.

I'm going to guess about it, the form you need to fill up ask your private key? and the wallet address? just a guess well don't open any attachment from that email as it may infect your own PC or device with a virus attached to the file, just like others opinion this is an attempted phishing and hacking from hackers via email, they will not gonna announce something from a suspicious email as they are not asking email to create a wallet in the first place, how the hell they will know your own email? as far as I know, they always do the updates on the official website and social media.

My believe is that this kind of mails created by the scammer rackets, whose are always makes plans to stolen the coins of innocent peoples by hacking their private keys. As we all know that while creating the MEW, at that time MEW is not asked about our mail address, then how MEW can send us mail.  Please do not reply to any of these types of mail and should be promptly deleted if you want to save your coins.

Good news for all the MEW holders, at least now their burden about their account will lessen if that is true, but for sure it might true as the MEW team will do something about the number of holders hacking their account.

It immediately looks like phishing. MEW developers will not send you email, they will notify their users on the official website. Especially since we do not specify mail when registering, then where do they know it from?  8)

Any emails from MEW = a phishing scam mail . The first thing you need to ask your self is , did I sign up with my email ? the answer is no of course , then how the hell they got my email ! the answer is they didn't got your email and this is just a scam that a lot of users fall for it and there is already a lot of threads warning people from it .

NEVER GO TO EXCHANGE OR YOUR WALLET FROM A LINK SENT BY EMAIL OR IN CHAT .

MEW Team will never email anyone cause they dont have any datas about their user email so this kind of tactic is obvious as scam. Dont trust anything about emails that you recieved better dont click anything that you dont know if you participated or not. Beware of this kind phising tactics.

Seems like another scam, these are huge updates and I don't understand how these differences avoid phishing attacks because it is nothing to do with my ether wallet.

An e-mail from MEW, i dont remember receiving one. You need to be more cautious, i never do what they want me to do. As soon as they use the word "Fill", i delete the message. There are a lot of scammers lately. Be careful

That is strange! Just be careful not to reply such email.... Looks like someone is trying to scam you. If there is any  genuine development of that kind, then all users of MEW ought to receive the message, but that is not the case.

Thanks for notifying us. MEW will never send email since we did not register our emails at all. Please discard all emails claiming they are from MEW.

I also received a letter today, but I did not even read it, I immediately deleted it. I do not believe that MEW can send us something. Most likely these are swindlers as always  :o

A lot of acquaintances, and I received letters from MEW, I think that there is no need to fill out any forms, you need to be very careful!

Hmm it's a scam actually.
Official MEW won't ask you to fill any form because they have all your data.

the email from this scammer is sending by random, if you never share email or any contact info, you're not get this mail, i don't understand the method their used for getting our personal information if we never share the mail.

i think is fake and they trying to get your private key.
i use MEW too and i dont receiving email like this. and i dont remember use email for make wallet.

I use MEW too but I did not receive any such email. All in all, it doesn't sound like a true email. I think it is a phishing email more than anything else. If u truly.understand block chain, u will know that MEW is not an exchange and they do not hold your private keys. There is no way that they will do that

I use myetherwallet also but I never received any email such as this, this look fishy to me may be it some scammer trying to get your info in other to hack you account. What I will advice you do right now is to take your time and not to reply to that email for now until you get an authentication.

What email?? MEW sent email to all their users?
I think it's not MEW. In the registration of wallet they not ask us to fill our email. They only ask us to fill a password. It's strange if MEW can sent email to us if they don't know our email.
And also it said to fill form with your own data. Dude it's surely a phising. Don't touch it dude, be aware

How did you get an email from MEW? I don't recall providing an email address when I registered. Unless it is something new they are requesting now a days I would say that is a phishing attempt.

EDIT: I just saw the message were you mention the email came from "myetherwallet@zoho.eu" . Definitely a scam then. Always check the sender before doing anything. Too many people trying to scam crypto users now a days.

I don't really know how true is the MEW update..i do see an option to update each time I want to open it but I've never went for it

Such this mail is 100% scam. "You need to fill out the form and reserve a place for yourself". LOL

Its a phising, MEW does not email their members or users and They dont hold any of our email addresses.

Its a pure scam. stay away from it. There was no MEW Theft or Hack happened.

I can't remember that i used my email on MEW so i think this is somekind of a phising.

I think this grammar is wrong: "Unfortunately, the new computer code for generating private keys is already ready and we will implement it this fall." And using a service mail like Zoho mail is already a red flag right there. Report it as a phishing scam mail.

We don't give our email id ....so how do they send us email .please be careful while opening such emails.

Ok, more discussion we don't need.
The e-mail adress Show it, it's a fake / phishing e-mail.

I never got it,probably some fake information,you need to be careful.So as not to lose your savings.

I think we definitely do not need to hurry. you need to wait, there is still time. and this issue is resolved by itself.

This is phising email bro . MEW won't send email to anyone . If MEW has any update , then all will be updated on MEW website

better delete it because mew won't send email to anyone. we know scammer got improve everday so be careful. if mew really update then only their site will update and won't ask for any personal/private infos especially private keys.

How come that MEW knows your email address? I don't think I indicated it anywhere on MEW website. So, it is likely to be a scam.

Any mails regarding MEW are SCAM. If you see any links to myetherwallet in your mail then it's definitely a phishing link. The only resource you can trust is MEW official twitter. So if you hesitate whether MEW is compromised or not, just visit their twitter page and read the last tweets. And always use Metamask to unlock your wallet.

This is just web phishing deliberately created to include our PV on the web, be careful if you find such things because they will take all the assets you have if you give your PV to the web, because this if MEW saves their updates do not will never email us specifically.

I've got this e-mail too, im sure this is the phishing. Firstly , look at the e-mail sender, looks like really scam. And i don't believe that ethereum developers could make e-mail newsletter, i think they would make official announce on MEW website. How did they get our e-mails? we didn't put them by creating a wallet.

That pishing email, when registered MyEtherWallet account we dont need provide any email address, so that to be sure is pishing email that want to hack your account. Always login from bookmark link is more safe for account, and keep the private key in safe place and becarefull there are alot of scammer in crypto space.

I am also using MyEther Wallet but I did not receive any message like this.  Maybe it just part of the agenda of the scammer to threatened MEW users.  So,I think those who receive such email should check first who is the sender of it.  Because if that is legitimate from the MEW team, all members should receive the same advisory but why some of the members do not receive such e-mail.  I smell something fishy from that.

What just do not invent scammers so that people themselves will tell them their secret keys. Administration MyEtherWallet has nothing to do with the addresses of wallets and their secret keys. They are generated randomly. Therefore, no update can in any way affect our secret keys to this purse. Therefore, such letters should not be paid attention. Moreover, when creating this purse, we do not leave any information about ourselves and no one can know your e-mail address.

it seems that i also get incoming email about it, but i didnt open that content. I agree with you, if the mew address is generated randomly, and if there is a renewal, there must be a notice on the main wall of MEW

Don't trust those messages. I would just wait it out until there is an official announcement on the their service thread.