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I never had register on exchange.bitcoin.com but I received a mail to complete registration there. It has been more than one year when I last visited bitcoin.com, I even didn't knew about the subdomain exchange.bitcoin.com, this is very stupid way to reach people. I am surprise where they got my mail, I have used it in bitcointalk and some other places which are non crypto website.

Presumably you have open a spam email and click the links on the spam messages that can lead your email address be leaked or either you have been posted it publicly and someone tried to use it for registering in bitcoin.com  :)

It should have an "Unsubscribe" option.

If it still spams, then there's something "unusual" happening and it needs to be reported.

But it really weird that you have become an email subscriber without your permission.

I presume Little Mouse has just received an email that contains "to complete the sign-up process, please follow the link or copy the code" something related to that, which it don't have the "Unsubscribe" option on the sent email. If so, the "spamming" word in title should be change somehow.

I'm assuming you have received similar emails more than once.

The sender address can be forged easily so there's a fair chance it's a phishing email, you can try checking where do all the links redirect using https://checkshorturl.com/

Although, given bitcoin.com's rep, I wouldn't be surprised if they're really doing this.

It happened to me with a lot of exchange platforms (unknown to me for most).

I believe hackers try to sign up using your email and if the registration is successful (waiting for your confirmation email) the hackers don't need to try to brute force your account password... since you didn't have one.

It's a way to save time for them and to clean their email lists.

Looks like someone tried to use your email address to sign up to the platform but didn't complete the registration process since it required you to confirm from your email address. They could have got your email from a leaked list or a fake website that required you to sign up at one time. What you can do is just unsubscribe from their mailing list.

What is so stupid is how Bitcoin.com is trying to spam your email telling you to complete registration. The look very desperate and unprofessional.

Mostly, you signed up using this email on a site or offered it to the public, and then the hackers discovered that the user of that email has linked to any crypto platform and thus they sent this message to you to access your account.
Sometimes it is caused by viruses, random clicks on links, etc.
Contact the support team on this site to verify what happened and do not click on any untrusted link.

Try ---> https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Same thing happened to me too. I received same email to complete a registration which I never did. Days later, I got to realise that they were conducting some sort of airdrop and I'm sure someone must have been trying to use my email address.

I get spammed with offers to trade on local.bitcoin.com. I reported it as a phishing email since it could easily fool people into thinking it is associated with Local Bitcoins and steal their login information.

I think most exchanges do this tho. I got the same thing from Huobi and some others (my address is probably leaked but no big deal, it's a throwaway e-mail after all).

They'll send you this kind of e-mail once every week at least, sometimes every 2-3 weeks. It is also possible that they'll send you a new e-mail if anybody who's using your address logs in on their website. They should at least have the option to report that the registration is not done by you so you can stop receiving e-mail like this.

If they are sending you spam you can use unsubscribe option and move sender to spam folder to avoid receiving any emails from them.
They have low volume and nobody is trading there, and they look desperate  ;D

But the thing is the OP never had signed up to exchange.bitcoin.com and that's what makes me wonder why he is receiving emails for their offers. I only have one know possibility here and that is his email is somehow included to the strings of emails being bought in the market to be included in their forward spam list which is really common to email marketers especially in the crypto industry. Now knowing how they got is email is the question here and maybe it is possible that the user has provided it carelessly in one of those newsletter subscription or created an account on a shady service connected to them.

This happened to me as well in different exchange. It seems that many exchanges are not aware of this when someone registers through the leaked email and didn't end the process.

I haven't tried to reply with any of those emails but, maybe someone here has reached to the legit email notification of an exchange to let them know that this happens.

Usually it's not possible that website like bitcoin.com would send message to anyone. I think you have tried to register there, may be you have forgotten which you did long ago. Otherwise, the chance is very low unless I think.

He said that he never signed up onto their website. But there's a possible reason why he's receiving it.

The possible activity made by someone who used his email was explained well by Legalouis and Jerome.

Possible reasons is you join in the airdrop before then all data have that airdrop sold to that bitcoin.com and your email belongs to it.


Other possible reasons is if you registered in a website investment scheme faucet etc that data is being sold to that website.