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I received an email with the following content using Coinbase and MicroStrategy as the main actors in this fake giveaway. Given how popular both companies are, I warn everyone to be careful not to participate in such things in any way - it's 100% scam.

The address from which this e-mail comes is listed below, so you can add it to your spam filter and block it, if your e-mail provider has not already done that.


https://i.imgur.com/SdInPgY.png

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I know this may be more appropriate for a Scam board, but for better visibility let it stay here for 24-48 hours.

The site where the email "Participate Now" button takes you to seems to be down now. Nevertheless, the warning is certainly worth a read for those not accustomed yet to receiving and discarding this kind of scam spam.

Besides, the people behind can easily create multiple A/B versions of the email, redirecting to different clone-alike sites, or play on variations overtime.

This is the style of scammers and hackers, apart from putting that 'participate' link. There's also the other story that they make.
And it's like that you've won a large amount and you have to 'claim it now' which they're replacing that participate immediately link button to phish victims. One time we register our emails to the wrong website that are just data mining and selling it to scammers and other companies, we're likely to receive such scam emails.

We have arrived to the point where you can almost safely assume that everything you receive in your email that resembles promotions or giveaways can be classified as spam and a scam attempt. You need to be careful even with emails you expect to receive. Always double-check if it really comes from the official location and if in doubt, just delete it. No point clicking or giving any data to someone you aren't really sure about.

That's why always validate what we saw on our mails since we all know that certain exploits happened there so we need to be careful opening the emails we receive and better to ignore it before it can penetrate to us since its sp dangerous if the one we click is malware and other scam promotion like this which possibly caught our attention since for sure that huge name can attract especially to those new.

That's right, someone tried to bring it down very quickly and it would be great if there was such a quick reaction in every scam that spreads via e-mail or social networks.

I've done a little research on whether scammers have been successful in previous scam attempts using Saylor and his company, and reportedly someone sent as many as 3 BTC to one such address - though we should keep in mind that scammers sometimes do it themselves to convince others that it's legitimate.