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Title: I got this email Post by: toptek on December 04, 2017, 09:00:35 PM Quote Quote You can be hacked We represent a hacker group that focuses on hacking of crypto-currency wallets and exchanges. We know that you keep your coins on these exchanges. We got the database of users and passwords of the largest exchanges in our hands, but to get into the account we need to bypass two factor verification, collect private keys from your PCs, brute force mnemonic words. That will cost us some time. We give you the opportunity to exclude you from the base by reward us and we will remove you and we will not use your data. The amount we require is 0.01BTC Bitcoin Wallet to pay: 1492bBQhiSRgS7k25mUsaedTSjwHkaWQRh Believe me, it\'s better to pay us than are afraid that at any moment you can lose all of your funds. After payment send us a letter on (I REMOVED THE EMAIL) and we will exclude you from the database. IS this a Form of blackmail ? ....I don't keep anything on the exchanges all my wallets are off line and paper ....what A supersize they will get ...an I'm poor ... Title: Re: I got this email Post by: Immakillya on December 04, 2017, 10:39:15 PM Yeah, its definitely a form of blackmail. But what the hell? They should have hacked your funds if they got your important details. Don't get fooled by these assholes. Especially when you don't even funds stored on a exchange.😆
I never seen any email like this before. It looks stupid. They've send you an email just to extort money from you. If they are really professional hackers. They can just break in to your wallet and steal all your funds without any bullshits like this. Quote We got the database of users and passwords of the largest exchanges in our hands, but to get into the account we need to bypass two factor verification, collect private keys from your PCs, brute force mnemonic words. That will cost us some time. Yeah right. These are professional hackers😄 Title: Re: I got this email Post by: CyberKuro on December 04, 2017, 11:43:09 PM LoL, they are very very pro hackers ;D
Since you keep all bitcoins offline, nothing to worry about. If they really have skills, no need to warn people as a threat of hackers is real problem everyday. in that case; everyone has to be careful and cautious of every detail that may lead to a leak and get hacked. But, even if you save bitcoin in web wallet (not in exchanges), it seems impossible for someone to brute force, access the wallet without knowing the password. There are some people who forgot their passwords and willing to share bitcoin if someone could access their wallet by try to crack the password, but no one can do that. Title: Re: I got this email Post by: MartinTheWanderer on December 05, 2017, 02:06:06 AM I got the same nonsense. They are just spamming harvested email databases, randomly.
Looking at blockchain explorer it seems people have wisened up to this sort of extortion scam. Zero activity on that address. ;D Make sure though to report the Gmail address that they provide as contact address (not the hacked random email account they were sending from) to Gmails abuse team - usually those accounts go down a few hours later. Law enforcement is too busy hunting file sharers and protecting pedo-politicians, so... nothing much more to do. If you do however run into a spammer/scammer/extortionist IRL: don't waste a bullet. Just beat them bloody and remove their microscopic haXX0r-balls. Title: Re: I got this email Post by: CryptoBry on December 05, 2017, 04:02:52 AM Quote Quote You can be hacked We represent a hacker group that focuses on hacking of crypto-currency wallets and exchanges. We know that you keep your coins on these exchanges. We got the database of users and passwords of the largest exchanges in our hands, but to get into the account we need to bypass two factor verification, collect private keys from your PCs, brute force mnemonic words. That will cost us some time. We give you the opportunity to exclude you from the base by reward us and we will remove you and we will not use your data. The amount we require is 0.01BTC Bitcoin Wallet to pay: 1492bBQhiSRgS7k25mUsaedTSjwHkaWQRh Believe me, it\'s better to pay us than are afraid that at any moment you can lose all of your funds. After payment send us a letter on (I REMOVED THE EMAIL) and we will exclude you from the database. IS this a Form of blackmail ? ....I don't keep anything on the exchanges all my wallets are off line and paper ....what A supersize they will get ...an I'm poor ... Of course, that is a type of blackmailing but I think more than that it is actually just spamming. meaning they are sending the same message to all the email address they can harvest anywhere. And who knows there can be some who might panic and will give them the 'ransom' payment they are demanding. As for us in this forum, we will just laugh at those messages though we are ,of course, taking security seriously as getting hacked and phished is not an easy experience. As Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are right now surging in price, more and more scammers, hackers, phishers and all the evil people are getting interested to venture into victimizing people out of their kept coins. This is just the start actually since there are still newbies who can easily be tricked into their traps. We have to be very, very careful! Title: Re: I got this email Post by: Netnox on December 05, 2017, 11:06:16 AM Just ignore these sort of mails. It shows that the sender is unable to hack in to your wallet and is desperately trying to extort money from you. But at the same time, it is worrying that he came to know that you are holding Bitcoins. I would request you to immediately increase the security of your wallet, by adding 2FA.
Title: Re: I got this email Post by: MartinTheWanderer on December 05, 2017, 11:13:26 AM Just ignore these sort of mails. It shows that the sender is unable to hack in to your wallet and is desperately trying to extort money from you. But at the same time, it is worrying that he came to know that you are holding Bitcoins. I would request you to immediately increase the security of your wallet, by adding 2FA. They are actually just spamming harvested addresses from spam-mail databases. They know NOTHING, these disgusting fake-hacker tards. The email where I received that threat is one that I never used on any exchange/webwallet etc. ;D Title: Re: I got this email Post by: matuson on December 05, 2017, 12:19:25 PM This is not blackmail. It's child's play. What a clever person will send them money? Lol. These letters anyone can write in the hope that someone will be scared. Can not be afraid. They will not be able to bypass the 2 factor authentication. They break the accounts only when the owner is helping them.
Title: Re: I got this email Post by: aleistermarley on December 05, 2017, 03:25:07 PM Could be that they have access to the Bitfinex user database ???
That is the only exchange i am registered with the exact mail address they sent to. I received that mail just a few hours after i registered at Bitfinex. :o Title: Re: I got this email Post by: MartinTheWanderer on December 05, 2017, 03:55:42 PM Could be that they have access to the Bitfinex user database ??? That is the only exchange i am registered with the exact mail address they sent to. I received that mail just a few hours after i registered at Bitfinex. :o coindidence, likely. They have been spamming this nonsense for several days now, and to a lot of completely unrelated addresses that never were used on any exchange. They are spammers, not hackers. Title: Re: I got this email Post by: Taki on December 05, 2017, 04:01:44 PM They must be took your e-mail from some crypto oriented site and sent this letter to everyone, I would call it as basic letter. Of course they don't know that your wallets are good protected and they just have no chance to hack your comp, but just imagine those people who believed to this letter, believe me there are many a little bit silly users who can take this blackmail as the truly one and I don't doubt there will be people who will send 0,01BTC to that guy. Even if he sent it to 1000 people there is going to be at least 10 who will believe it and in scare will follow the instruction and the blackmailer will get 0,1 BTC and it is not little money at all!
Title: Re: I got this email Post by: carlfebz2 on December 05, 2017, 04:03:40 PM Quote Quote You can be hacked We represent a hacker group that focuses on hacking of crypto-currency wallets and exchanges. We know that you keep your coins on these exchanges. We got the database of users and passwords of the largest exchanges in our hands, but to get into the account we need to bypass two factor verification, collect private keys from your PCs, brute force mnemonic words. That will cost us some time. We give you the opportunity to exclude you from the base by reward us and we will remove you and we will not use your data. The amount we require is 0.01BTC Bitcoin Wallet to pay: 1492bBQhiSRgS7k25mUsaedTSjwHkaWQRh Believe me, it\'s better to pay us than are afraid that at any moment you can lose all of your funds. After payment send us a letter on (I REMOVED THE EMAIL) and we will exclude you from the database. IS this a Form of blackmail ? ....I don't keep anything on the exchanges all my wallets are off line and paper ....what A supersize they will get ...an I'm poor ... Title: Re: I got this email Post by: btc-facebook on December 05, 2017, 04:24:05 PM Better for now spread out your email detail into nowhere since bitcoin is getting expensive, people will do anything to earn it even though they have to attempt in bad way (ex blackmail,ransom,etc )
As long as you don't panic, do not worry ! Title: Re: I got this email Post by: MartinTheWanderer on December 05, 2017, 04:26:43 PM definitely just spam, I cross-checked with Reddit, Twitter, etc. - they spammed a stolen/purchased address database, many of the addresses had never been used for anything crypto-related...
They also have zero results so far. Good. ;D https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/address/1492bBQhiSRgS7k25mUsaedTSjwHkaWQRh/ Title: Re: I got this email Post by: SM23031997 on December 05, 2017, 04:33:21 PM IS this a Form of blackmail ? ....I don't keep anything on the exchanges all my wallets are off line and paper ....what A supersize they will get ...an I'm poor ... I know they are unable to hack into the system and that is why they are trying to blackmail. Although, I won't take this warning seriously at the same time change my password from all the places just to make sure I won't get 2FA email on my email ID on regular basis in case if he sells any database he owns.Title: Re: I got this email Post by: darkangel11 on December 05, 2017, 09:02:36 PM definitely just spam, I cross-checked with Reddit, Twitter, etc. - they spammed a stolen/purchased address database, many of the addresses had never been used for anything crypto-related... They also have zero results so far. Good. ;D https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/address/1492bBQhiSRgS7k25mUsaedTSjwHkaWQRh/ Eventually they will. There are some dumb people out there and it's just a matter of time before this email finds the right person. I just wish they paid good money for that database and will never make it back. The only thing somebody who knows your email address can do is try to hack that mailbox and pray that they can find emails from an exchange like login notifications in there. Word of advice: always keep your mailbox clean and delete all confirmation links after use because they may contain your client number and other details. You never know when someone will try to bruteforce your password. Title: Re: I got this email Post by: TheBarMan on December 05, 2017, 09:20:54 PM Quote Quote You can be hacked We represent a hacker group that focuses on hacking of crypto-currency wallets and exchanges. We know that you keep your coins on these exchanges. We got the database of users and passwords of the largest exchanges in our hands, but to get into the account we need to bypass two factor verification, collect private keys from your PCs, brute force mnemonic words. That will cost us some time. We give you the opportunity to exclude you from the base by reward us and we will remove you and we will not use your data. The amount we require is 0.01BTC Bitcoin Wallet to pay: 1492bBQhiSRgS7k25mUsaedTSjwHkaWQRh Believe me, it\'s better to pay us than are afraid that at any moment you can lose all of your funds. After payment send us a letter on (I REMOVED THE EMAIL) and we will exclude you from the database. IS this a Form of blackmail ? ....I don't keep anything on the exchanges all my wallets are off line and paper ....what A supersize they will get ...an I'm poor ... change bitcoins to a new wallet and create new keys in the old, so finally get it back and ignore this stupids... Good day man. Title: Re: I got this email Post by: jossiel on December 05, 2017, 11:42:33 PM Ha.ha.ha this gave me a good laugh. Since you know what you are doing for not keeping your money on exchanges, you can answer this if this is a blackmail or not.
They are real hackers though, trying to beg through email and they are being nice by asking you to send to their bitcoin wallet address. Quote Believe me, it\'s better to pay us than are afraid that at any moment you can lose all of your funds. This is a very big LOL!! ;DTitle: Re: I got this email Post by: audaciousbeing on December 06, 2017, 06:39:12 AM Quote Quote You can be hacked We represent a hacker group that focuses on hacking of crypto-currency wallets and exchanges. We know that you keep your coins on these exchanges. We got the database of users and passwords of the largest exchanges in our hands, but to get into the account we need to bypass two factor verification, collect private keys from your PCs, brute force mnemonic words. That will cost us some time. We give you the opportunity to exclude you from the base by reward us and we will remove you and we will not use your data. The amount we require is 0.01BTC Bitcoin Wallet to pay: 1492bBQhiSRgS7k25mUsaedTSjwHkaWQRh Believe me, it\'s better to pay us than are afraid that at any moment you can lose all of your funds. After payment send us a letter on (I REMOVED THE EMAIL) and we will exclude you from the database. IS this a Form of blackmail ? ....I don't keep anything on the exchanges all my wallets are off line and paper ....what A supersize they will get ...an I'm poor ... You really don't need any special knowledge tonkniw this is not even a blackmail but a cheap one and a general message sent randomly to people. Its the same format you see people send to your mail address claiming your bank details has been block but unfortunately for them, you don't even have a bank account in the bank they are claiming. Aside the above, I have not seen a situation where hackers will notify you of their intended heist, rather they would finish then ask for ransom. Title: Re: I got this email Post by: jaylhynne018 on December 06, 2017, 08:17:20 AM Quote Quote You can be hacked We represent a hacker group that focuses on hacking of crypto-currency wallets and exchanges. We know that you keep your coins on these exchanges. We got the database of users and passwords of the largest exchanges in our hands, but to get into the account we need to bypass two factor verification, collect private keys from your PCs, brute force mnemonic words. That will cost us some time. We give you the opportunity to exclude you from the base by reward us and we will remove you and we will not use your data. The amount we require is 0.01BTC Bitcoin Wallet to pay: 1492bBQhiSRgS7k25mUsaedTSjwHkaWQRh Believe me, it\'s better to pay us than are afraid that at any moment you can lose all of your funds. After payment send us a letter on (I REMOVED THE EMAIL) and we will exclude you from the database. IS this a Form of blackmail ? ....I don't keep anything on the exchanges all my wallets are off line and paper ....what A supersize they will get ...an I'm poor ... Title: Re: I got this email Post by: Swenna on December 07, 2017, 01:24:16 PM Definitely a black mail. But don't be fooled. Based on their actions, it looks as though it's not legit. No legit or real hacker will email the people with accounts they're supposed to hack just to ask for a ransom or small amount of btc. If they really want your coins that badly, they can just hack your account since according to them, they have your security details, instead of blackmailing you. You can ignore messages like this.
Title: Re: I got this email Post by: MoonJeina on December 07, 2017, 07:16:07 PM Quote Quote You can be hacked We represent a hacker group that focuses on hacking of crypto-currency wallets and exchanges. We know that you keep your coins on these exchanges. We got the database of users and passwords of the largest exchanges in our hands, but to get into the account we need to bypass two factor verification, collect private keys from your PCs, brute force mnemonic words. That will cost us some time. We give you the opportunity to exclude you from the base by reward us and we will remove you and we will not use your data. The amount we require is 0.01BTC Bitcoin Wallet to pay: 1492bBQhiSRgS7k25mUsaedTSjwHkaWQRh Believe me, it\'s better to pay us than are afraid that at any moment you can lose all of your funds. After payment send us a letter on (I REMOVED THE EMAIL) and we will exclude you from the database. IS this a Form of blackmail ? ....I don't keep anything on the exchanges all my wallets are off line and paper ....what A supersize they will get ...an I'm poor ... This is totally a spam . I've got such threats in the past aswel . Do not fall for such spams . The clear indication of the scam here is that the person does not have any details of your address or specification is not clear that why the account can be potentially hacked . Thus , this clearly smells something fishy . The devil is in details. Getting such databases is not easy , actually near to impossible until and unless there is some authorian access of the developers . Other than that , one cannot have a data base of private keys . Someone ask the spammer to present the private key of an address with zero balance . That would be pretty interesting to know whether you will get the correct key or not. Title: Re: I got this email Post by: BitGeoCol on December 07, 2017, 08:46:19 PM Definitely nothig to worry about ! However we as a community should promote the good practices and values regarding security, So everyone please be cautios of this kind of blackmailing, phishing, ramson malware. We need to alert and stop any of its kind on time. So thank you for sharing and letting us know. I also want to point out they have bad English even to extort. No words.!! BTCBTC
Title: Re: I got this email Post by: cynical on December 08, 2017, 10:55:37 AM Quote Quote You can be hacked We represent aN UNKNOWN hacker group that focuses on TRYING TO hack crypto-currency wallets and exchanges, BUT WE FAIL EVERY TIME. We THINK that you keep your coins on these exchanges. We MADE UP A database of users and passwords of the largest exchanges in our hands, but to get into the account we need to bypass two factor verification, collect private keys from your PCs, brute force mnemonic words. That will cost us some time AND WE CANNOT DO IT OURSELVES. We give you the opportunity to exclude you from the base by reward us and we will remove you and we will not use your data. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE THIS IS OUR ONLY HOPE!!! The amount we require is 0.01BTC Bitcoin Wallet to pay: 1492bBQhiSRgS7k25mUsaedTSjwHkaWQRh Believe me, WE HOPE YOU pay us than are afraid that at any moment you can POSSIBLY, MAYBE, BUT PROBABLY NOT lose all of your funds. After payment send us a letter on (I REMOVED THE EMAIL) and we will exclude you from the database. IS this a Form of blackmail ? ....I don't keep anything on the exchanges all my wallets are off line and paper ....what A supersize they will get ...an I'm poor ... i took the liberty of including some words that were left out of the original mail ;D this is just a general speculative mail, i dont think this would actually work because nearly all crypto users have some sort of tech savvy. in this actual case you could just move your funds to a different wallet i checked that wallet address and guess what . . . no transactions Title: Re: I got this email Post by: Lancusters on December 08, 2017, 01:09:11 PM This is clearly a form of blackmail. But I don't understand how this is possible. If you get in the mail a letter from unknown person or company you don't have to open it. Why did you do it. If it was hackers then there is a chance that after that your computer is infected with a virus. Better to be safe and change the passwords on their accounts and resetting the system.
Title: Re: I got this email Post by: Aamir1 on December 08, 2017, 03:29:07 PM What a poor scam attempt. If a group of hackers get the databases of users in a exchange, they won't let them know it by email and ask them to donate them just 0.01 bitcoins for excluding them from their list which they are gonna attack.
I don't understand why some people think such things will work for them and they will really get some money out of it. And i also i think, what if a person really gets afraid of such a thing and send the money asked for? ;D He should be called the fool of the year. Title: Re: I got this email Post by: Kemarit on December 08, 2017, 07:26:00 PM Quote Quote You can be hacked We represent a hacker group that focuses on hacking of crypto-currency wallets and exchanges. We know that you keep your coins on these exchanges. We got the database of users and passwords of the largest exchanges in our hands, but to get into the account we need to bypass two factor verification, collect private keys from your PCs, brute force mnemonic words. That will cost us some time. We give you the opportunity to exclude you from the base by reward us and we will remove you and we will not use your data. The amount we require is 0.01BTC Bitcoin Wallet to pay: 1492bBQhiSRgS7k25mUsaedTSjwHkaWQRh Believe me, it\'s better to pay us than are afraid that at any moment you can lose all of your funds. After payment send us a letter on (I REMOVED THE EMAIL) and we will exclude you from the database. IS this a Form of blackmail ? ....I don't keep anything on the exchanges all my wallets are off line and paper ....what A supersize they will get ...an I'm poor ... LOL. Very professional hackers indeed *insert sarcasm* and very funny indeed. This form of blackmail will not succeed and I don't know if one will fall for this kind of trap. Maybe they just harvested a lot of emails and try this form of blackmail to see if it works. But as of the latest, that wallet address is still empty so I guess this is an epic fail. This just shows the everyone is targeting those crypto enthusiast around because of the huge money involved. This is likely candidate for one of the most dumbest criminals ever. LOL. Title: Re: I got this email Post by: joeyvdt on December 08, 2017, 07:26:51 PM Just stay strong and be responsible of what you do in this cryptoworld.. This world will attract even more scammers and hackers in the future.
Title: Re: I got this email Post by: boyptc on December 09, 2017, 08:26:46 AM Just stay strong and be responsible of what you do in this cryptoworld.. This world will attract even more scammers and hackers in the future. Responsible and also be aware that these hackers will do something that is really unusual just to claim some fine bitcoins from other people. That email is really sick a hacker that says "You can be hacked", it's just an email and not a ransomware that is just a person that doesn't have hacking ability but still don't fall for those people.Title: Re: I got this email Post by: Netnox on December 09, 2017, 08:40:00 AM Just ignore these sort of mails. It shows that the sender is unable to hack in to your wallet and is desperately trying to extort money from you. But at the same time, it is worrying that he came to know that you are holding Bitcoins. I would request you to immediately increase the security of your wallet, by adding 2FA. They are actually just spamming harvested addresses from spam-mail databases. They know NOTHING, these disgusting fake-hacker tards. The email where I received that threat is one that I never used on any exchange/webwallet etc. ;D Then there is nothing to worry about it. But I am sure that a lot of noobs are going to fall prey to such dirty tricks. I feel pity about them. Everyone should remember that purchasing the Bitcoin is not the end of the job. The real effort is to store it safely and securely from the hackers and wallet thieves. Title: Re: I got this email Post by: yojodojo21 on December 09, 2017, 09:56:59 AM Haha pro hackers, no need to tell you anything if they are really pro, I think the statement that should be send to you must be like this "we know your email address username so we will blockmail you with our foolishness". OP should reply like this " since you message me I am able to trace your IP address and have taken all your information's you fool" feeling cool.
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