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I received this message a while ago, but came to know about it recently, I am not a crypto expert, but I do have some idea that this is some sort of phishing attack. But honestly, at first, I thought it was not, because the member has a copper account means he must have paid some amount to register the account. I came to know about copper membership from here ( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5198278.msg52972617#msg52972617 ). I thought he had paid some amount so he must be generic because he has spent money so why would he try to attack others using the same account? While can get banned after doing it?

I have learned a lot about this forum, and also learned a lot about crypto from it too. But I think we should all avoid these types of messages. But I thought I should have shared it here for confirmation purposes and to warn others about these types of scams. I hope I am not posting something that is already been discussed. TY

If you haven't reported him already, do it now as sending unsolicited PMs is against forum rules, especially since he included some scammy/phishy website like in your case.

Regarding him using Copper Member, he probably got that so he can lift some newbie restrictions like inability to share images.

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This exchange is looking 100% scam and contains full of malware. I am doing some research and then will update this post.

Being a copper member is not sign of trust. buying copper membship is so cheap, kindly do as Rikafip suggested ASAP.

100% scam, don't click on the link, or you might lose control of the wallet, which you will attach or link with the link the scammer has sent you. If earning money would be that easy then why would people work hard, why would he be sending you the link, why would he not claim that for himself? Actually, he is trying to lure you into clicking that link so that a second thought of skepticism will not come to your mind and you will abruptly click on the link and attach your wallet and end up losing your wallet access.

You did the right thing in avoiding this link, and I hope after seeing this topic someone will report that person, even you can report him. I doubt if he is banned, because he is not active from long time, but still, it worth to report him.

You gave a good advice to avoid such links, because if someone is telling you that you can make free money by just attaching your wallet with the link then believe me this is nothing but a scam. Recently, when Vitalik's twitter account were hack then, scammers posted a tweet in which they asked the fan following to link their wallets to this link in order to get some NFTs. And at the end, they all lost their access to their funds once they connected their wallets. You can learn more about it here:

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/09/11/691k-stolen-as-hackers-take-over-vitalik-buterins-x-account/

Yeah, mozilla also gave me a warning when I tried to acces that website.


According to bpip he is not banned yet so yeah, its definitely worth it to report him. https://bpip.org/Profile?id=3459991

You have to spend capital to convince potential victims, buying Copper Member status is one of the strategies used by Scammers to get a larger amount of money than they spent when buying the Copper Member position. Ignore all messages from Newbies for your convenience while active in the forum and is very effective in preventing you from getting caught in the traps set by Scammers. In this message, the scammer asks you to visit the site provided, fortunately you quickly realize that the message is a kind of phishing attack.

Thanks for reporting this, and yes, it's an obvious scam. Nowadays, 0.005 is a significant amount of money already. When converted to USD at the current price, it's $132.9. So, it's too good to be true for a site to be giving away such a large amount just for signing up with them. If there's a link, don't automatically click on it, as sometimes it will redirect to a different URL, probably a phishing site. This is just some basic information to protect our crypto assets, and it's imperative that we all know this.

There's a link sent thru pm so I guess that person have evil plan to you and its good that you ignore him since no people will give you easy money thru pm so think so many times about link sent to you. Much better if you ignore all of it especially those unfamiliar links and entertain only the links where you know you engage with or sent to you by legitimate people. To many scams happened by clicking those dangerous link so don't let yourself included on their victim list.

This is definitely a phishing attempt, you should report this message so that he can't send such messages to other members. The SuperPad user has been offline for a long time, which means that his purpose for coming here may have been fulfilled. Because his actions seem like that. He might come back again with some new phishing idea to try to scam forum users.

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It is definitely a phishing attack, you can see that the forum warns against just message. Don’t be carried away with the copper membership account he purchased, scammers can invest a lot to get their target. Also this is a forum account that can easily be hacked and the hacker could attempt a scam with such account so in general if you receive a message from anyone even if it is high ranking member containing a link i would just advice you not to click it. If it is something important I notice that prominent members would rather create a thread about it rather than sending unsolicited messages to anyone

You should not take copper or paid accounts as for granted or to trust someone. If you really wanted to differentiate that either you should trust this dude or not then simple before clicking on any link, use your common sense, like why would he want you to make money. If I can show you, my twitter, and other social media accounts are filled with such phishing message in which they try to give your many offers, like free nudes, free money, free burgers in your area etc. etc. They are just trying and making attempts on newbies, because they know that newbies don't know that much and they might fall for their shit.

I am relieved to know that you did not clicked on any link. And reported the person here. I am sure that many members will have reported the person till now and I am also going to do the same and I might give him red trust or negative feedback using your pic's reference. But I think that's won't be needed if he will get ban.

A quick advice for you OP.

It is not uncommon for scammers to spend their money on anything or anyone to gain your trust, and if you are someone who believes getting things for free is normal then you will end up paying back more than they have given.

Occasionally, I receive messages on this forum from newbies, and there is always a link included in the message. Since I am not new to the internet, I know what scammers do to lure their next victim.

In my opinion, no high rank member on this forum will attempt to scam you because they realize it will put their account at risk, and they realize how hard they worked to get to the high rank. Be more concerned about newbies, stay away from them at all costs, because their accounts are brand new, even if they are copper accounts, they have nothing to lose.

When someone sends you a PM with a link, they're up to no good. Use common sense.

It's unsolicited PM, deserves to be reported and banned.

The information is too generous, with 0.005 BTC to claim for each user. That platform must be very rich to run such give away, first in bitcoin, and second with very good value to claim. Rules to claim, no rule at all, it's easy and very sensitive for cheating.

Many red flags including the warning you see with their website as posted by one member.

If a newbie send you a message, it will show a warning in such regards because some of them are not sending PM on important cause, just as we expect a user to have been experienced on the forum before he may have anything to do with sending other people PM, such content newbies send could be physhing, malicious or spam, if you don't know or have an important thing to do with a member, then always disregard their message, if you engage on any deal with any user, you're doing that on your own risk.

@Dictator69, apart from the fact that you can (and should) report such PMs by clicking on the "report to admin" button, you can also protect yourself from receiving such messages from newbies by simply blocking them from sending you messages.

Profile -> Personal Message Options -> Allow newbies to send you PMs. (uncheck)

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Of course we know that such links from newbies are automatically removed in public posts, the question is why are they even allowed to send such links through PM?

Hopefully there are no victims of this kind of fraud, the method used by the perpetrator has violated the forum rules because he has included a phishing site that can harm other people.


Always be careful with PMs like this and don't get caught up in the Copper Member status of the perpetrator, he deliberately bought it to make it easier to post content containing images. If there are any suspicious elements, report the issue to the Scam Accusations board.
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Yes bro, He bought copper membership to use it for phishing attack as a newbie cant send the PM's as fa r I know, well i haven't encountered such PM yet but if in future i could than firstly i will report it, as our seniors said you should report it, there is no doubt left now that it was a phishing attack.

I am surprised this guy isn't banned yet, but he will be soon if enough people report his messages to moderators.
My rule is to never click on any links I received inside message, even from so called trusted members, it's easy way to get your account hijacked or get redirected to some phishing website that steals your data.

Thanks to all for responding to this query, I am glad I made the right choice of not clicking the link and I have reported the message to the admins, and let's see if the person gets banned or warned. But I wanted to thank all of you, for your valuable suggestions and guides, I have come to learn some things related to messages and some message settings, like not receiving messages from newbies thanks to Lucius. All of your replies were valuable and thanks again I will keep your suggestions in mind.

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Newbies can send PMs but it is restricted to one in an hour and max of two in a day. These numbers can not be used to spread phishing links, so the user had to purchase copper membership to be able to send more PMs to more recipients and hop that at least one of them clicks on it.

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It is a scam and it is best for you to report any links you find in private (unless you trust the account holder). These links may contain viruses or, at the very least, will lead to revealing your identity.
I think it was not sent to you randomly, but rather part of a social attack, so be careful about sharing your data and always ask about any service, especially those that seem too good to be true.

0.005 is approximately equal to more than $132, which is a large amount to get for free.

Technically, the account wasn’t really phishing through the link he sent in the PM, but rather scamming. At least that is the impression I got reading through the Untrusted Feedback on his profile:

I believe that the above Trust entry was written in relation to a thread he created at the time on the forum with the same content:
https://ninjastic.space/topic/5461045

Theoretically, the account could have been banned in view of rule number 29 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0):
I figure it will depend though on people actually reporting having received this type of unsolicited PM, and the amount of recurrence (a one off likely won’t get him banned, but if he sent the same PM to quite a few there should be grounds for a ban of some sort).

As mentioned, spending some sats on acquiring a Copper Membership is no measure of trustworthiness, though perhaps it is something that people see as "meaning something" until they know better.

Well regardless if it was a phishing attack or not, you should never trust any links send by someone in any forms of communication. Back in the days that I was trying to do airdrops, some random email came through coming from the dev team of the airdrop reached out to me saying that I can now claim my tokens in their site. Turns out it was an attempt to get my PKs stolen.

Others input isn't only exclusive to this forun, OP. Stay safe out there!

Just as the first person said, you should report this kind of PM, as it's unsolicited. I think while I was a member rank, I received this kind of PM twice, and I only ignored those users because their PM was pointless. OP, in the crypto space, a lot of things are happening. Scammers and hackers are working 24/7 just to develop a new strategy to hack investors assets, and with all their ploit, it would not even be difficult for them to pay some small amount just to make sure they get what they want. To obtain a copper account, it does not require you to pay a significant amount of bitcoin, so it's easy for a scammer or hacker to just pay that little amount in order to obtain a copper account. Everybody should trade cautiously.

I had to check the site myself to see to the outcome how it  would be. It seems that what members replies here suspected it to be is truth. How can they be sending  unsolicited messages to people just to get at them. This is against the forum policy so there I will join other members here to advise you to report that message and account to moderator to keep track of the activities of that account holder so as to forestall any further occurrences which would emanate to members been hacked.

Looking at the content of the message,one would easily tell the nature of this message and where it is point towards..it would only take a smart trader to decipher their gimmicks and do away with them. This is scam and as such should be deleted immediately without any further delay.

Thank you OP for sharing it in this thread, I'm sure the scammer account only sent private messages to small accounts because I never got the message, whatever it is, as long as the message isn't sent by a trusted member then don't ever believe that message, keep your account password confidential because it is very valuable.

And even so, one needs to be sharp on his wits. It wouldn’t be the first time that a high-ranked account has been hacked on the forum, and used to try to scam people, or even gone rouge.

The link sent around in the image shown in the OP, and the site it subsequently took one to, would likely make one suspect, disregarding the actual account that sent the PM. Nevertheless, some people might be captivated by receiving a PM from certain accounts (high-ranked/Trusted/Reputable) and go for it blindfolded.

Do you have news here? Did moderators issue a ban or warning?
Because for such fraud, action needs to be taken to prevent more suspicious link cases.

Yes, it's a scamming attack and you have done a great job by reporting it to the moderators. That user will soon get banned because sending such messages with such links often leads to a permanent ban. This scammer was so clever that he bought cooper membership in order to scam other members. I hope that you reports will soon come to fruition and the scammer will get banned from this forum.