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I want to share my experience about a person in this forum who just try to scam me.

Beware of the username quintiilieo in bitcointalk. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=715575 this is the link.

He pm me and say Hi! then he gave a link. After clicking it, the website is like as the bitcointalk welcome page. Then asking for me to login, I notice that I already login and there is no CAPTCHA required. So I dont login.

https://i.imgur.com/0iILVzS.png


BEWARE TO ALL. HOPE TO HELP YOU WITH THIS. THANKS!

Report the PM to Admin, so he get perm ban.

Of course, who need a scammer ? we all don't need it. Very non sense reply, please be careful of what you reply. Just saying.  :)

Thank you for the tip, I will do it. People like that deserve to be banned permanently. They have no help in this forum yet they infesting here in community.

As I understand, he gave you link to a phishing website? Good that you didn't tried to login. Otherwise I would recommend to change your password ASAP.
I see that this guy was already tagged as account farmer in past. I suspect that he is hacking accounts with help of phishing links. If victim tries to login on phishing website, he just collect login details, change password and later sell account.Scammers can't get ban on bitcointalk, but I think he can be banned for spreading phishing links. Report him to global moderator would be a good idea.

Yes, Sometimes even Google results show mirror sites above than the original site. The phishing is gaining momentum these days and it's not just about Bitcointalk but even this is happening in the case of popular crypto individuals or exchanges. Just go through tweets of any popular crypto exchange, you will find dummy accounts with exactly same information replying with a fake giveaway. Since crypto is all about self-responsibility, one should take extreme precaution while taking any decision.

Thank you for the lesson. Your security is all depended in your own hand.  It is a pleasure to be notice by a hero member like you.

Two hero member in one topic so glad to be notice by you two. The website that he send is too suspicious, so I didn't login. Hackers are upgrading this days so upgrade yourself too to prevent lost. Thanks by the way. :)

Why scammers can't get banned from the forum. Is there any rule like that ?. But I have seen lots of people have been banned due to posting same thing again and again/ sending PMs/ etc. So why scammers can't get banned ?

According to forum rules:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0

But that guy can be banned because he break 6th rule:

Thanks for the heads up. Much appreciated.

According to his history, he started at least one bounty program: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1995197.msg19866306#msg19866306

P.S. And this makes for an interesting read: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1983595.0

It gets better. He carries the signature and avatar of this bounty campaign: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2436249.0

Yet, his username isn't on the spreadsheet of their signature campaign. That's nothing though, check the trust rating of that bounty manager (aTriz). I smell a big fat, dead rat there!

I don't get it, does phishing attacks works till now? I thought they are useless nowadays as because everyone knows about them. And I think this user is just wasting his time by sending others a phishing link there is no way that someone will click on that link and fill it with their real username and password. Come on it's 2018 bro no one is stupid enough to do that. It's good that you report to admin he should be perm ban for trying such stupid stuffs.

Yeah, they still work and not only for stealing forum accounts, as in this case, but to steal users money as well. I see so many posts about ETH and tokens stolen from MEW after a person enters his private key on phishing MEW

It's a common thing since bitcointalk accounts are worth quite a lot of money. Even more after the introduction of the merit system.
I'll repeat for those who tend to skip to the last post ignoring the rest of the content:

1. Never click on suspicious links from random people, especially if those links are being PMed to you.
2. Report PM spam, unwanted advertising, links.
3. Check the person's trust page and leave negative trust. Een if this won't be visible as red trust because you aren't trusted yourself, you will be seeing this person as untrusted (painted red) until you decide to remove the comment. This will help you to avoid him later on and possibly make others do the same.

This is why I never click on links from people that I don't know.

It's kinda crazy that someone would want to hijack a BitcoinTalk account haha. Never would've expected it.

Established forum accounts are worth quite a lot, actually, and people do try to steal them, so you want to protect them in two ways.
1. Use a robust password and change it periodically. Definitely change it since your account was targeted, just in case.
2. Protect your reputation. Be careful about what you promote and how you behave on this forum.

In general, don't click on links you don't know, and certainly don't enter any credentials into them. You can go to the sites you go to by finding them on your own, typing in the url yourself, etc. Check for spelling as phishing sites are often just off by one character.

If you suspect that you compromised your account, then your best recourse is to quickly change the password to a new one, and be more careful.

So glad you caught on to this early! Great job!

But how to know who to trust when a member that has 200+ merit does this kind of things?
I though that the more merit the member has the more trustworthy that person is.

that a big mistake most newbies do, you don't trust someone according to his rank or merit, you trust him according to his trust rating and deals he had in the past.

I guess I can't see that trust rating yet.
Thanx for the tip.

You definitely would be surprised knowing how much phishing attacks are successfull :). Yes, it's 2018 but still a lot of people are naive and careless (or stupid) about their's data safety in internet. And threads like this could help in decreasing people's ignorance and increase awareness.

I think he will not continuing doing that if he doesnt have a victim. I guess his target are those newbies or jr member out there who is reckless.

I'm definitely agree to you, his target are those reckless. Hoping that this thread will make everyone wake up in their recklessness and stupidity.

Thanks for the advice, this would be a great help. Can I ask if you already encountered this kind of shit people?? (sorry for the term but they deserve it)

That scammers nothing to do in they life just to destroy and collect our money without investing their energy and knowledge. They are so bad to do that all.