Bitcoin Forum

I'd like to start a thread that would list fraudulent, scam or risky wallet addresses + explanation of why it is being accused. I understand this will not be a perfectly ideal one, but it at least gives someone a chance to check the background twice before sending one's BTC.
Please, share the wallet address if you've been scammed.

This is a nice idea, but given how easy it is to rename and repackage malware, I think the premise is flawed. I would rather suggest that new users go to https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet and choose a wallet that the community considers reliable.

You're right we have to be more careful when we send bitcoins, a fatal mistake will make us regret longer or forever.thank you for the information

this might be a quick win in at least some cases: http://bitcoinwhoswho.com/

Better to just make a list of 10 safe wallets rather than a list of 1000 unsafe wallets.

It is very necessary once to check over and over again to make sure your address delivery is correct before an error occurs and you experience regrets for life.

There are some android wallet that I've installed a month ago. But somebody told me that my bitcoin wallet is not legit so I decided to uninstall it.
I don't know what is the basis of a legit bitcoin wallet. But as of now, I've use mycellium and I think it is good to use.

I think you've misunderstood the meaning behind wallet address and wallet service.

My apologies, I though you were referring to addresses from which unsafe wallets were distributed. But you mean Bitcoin addresses? As they are designed for single use (a practically unlimited number of addresses can be generated from a single private key), it seems a scammer could easily circumvent any blacklist.

good point, sadly.

I have been a victim of phishing twice and it cost me some valuable coins and tokens just to learn the lesson of being careful in dealing with links just shared everywhere (it was an email from Slack and we know how this thing goes). We should also be careful with wallets we downloaded as some are just there to create havoc on your private keys.

Now, having said that, it is just quite easy for anyone to be changing wallet address so it would just be futile to be listing it here. Not unless we know the owner of the wallet, of course. And this is the price we have to pay for decentralization and being antonymous in the cryptocurrency market.

however, there could be some kind of initiative from blockchain's perspective to somehow map fraudulent public keys with private ones and freeze them. I do understand this is not easy to filter legit fraud cases and not to blame the  innocent ones, etc etc but something should be done regarding this issue.

Public key cryptography is based on the premise that it is not feasible to compute a private key from its corresponding public keys. If that could be done, the entire Bitcoin concept would become unusable.