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Economy => Scam Accusations => Topic started by: logfiles on June 23, 2019, 03:18:34 AM



Title: [SCAM] WHO - WhoCoin - Wallet is a confirmed Ransomware!
Post by: logfiles on June 23, 2019, 03:18:34 AM
What happened: Whocoins wallet is infected with a ransomware, website is created using wordpress.com

Scammer's Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2633179

ANN: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5157425.0 (archived) - http://archive.fo/W4KZS

Website: https://whocoincrypto1.wordpress.com/2019/06/22/welcome/ - [Archived (http://web.archive.org/web/20190623032147/https://whocoincrypto1.wordpress.com/2019/06/22/welcome/)]

Scammer also had an article about his scam on one of the blogs
- https://coinhub.news/cs/article/bitcointalk-ann-who-whocoin-a-new-tor-based-anonymous-cryptocoin-using-new-cryptography



5 Antivirus Engines Positively detected that the wallet is malicious
Virus Total results: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/22e4eabd8b8afd31ab692eccf7fc0d4da79ddbaa5b01afd1cefc112d6c6c18a5/detection
https://talkimg.com/images/2023/07/19/ndZeP.png

https://talkimg.com/images/2023/07/19/ndCQq.png



Reports from users also show that the wallet asks for 3 Monero after locking the files

1.
do not download
it is virus!!!!
it will lock all your files and ask 3 XMR
what a fukcing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2.
good thing i put this crap in a VM; looks just like that spritecoin crap I got last year

and just a reminder: DONT RUN THIS ITS RANSOMWARE AND THEY WANT 3 MONERO

Additional Notes:

DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE WALLET AND RUN IT ON YOUR WINDOWS PC


Title: Re: [SCAM] WHO - WhoCoin - Wallet is a confirmed Ransomware!
Post by: witcher_sense on June 23, 2019, 10:03:00 AM
Hello OP, good find! Why not go further and create a flag for such obvious try to steal money? This guy who officially represents this scam - whocoincrypto, truly deserves his own yellow flag.


Title: Re: [SCAM] WHO - WhoCoin - Wallet is a confirmed Ransomware!
Post by: LFC_Bitcoin on June 23, 2019, 10:14:55 AM
Hello OP, good find! Why not go further and create a flag for such obvious try to steal money? This guy who officially represents this scam - whocoincrypto, truly deserves his own yellow flag.

I’ve created a flag, support it here please -

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=259


Title: Re: [SCAM] WHO - WhoCoin - Wallet is a confirmed Ransomware!
Post by: TalkStar on June 23, 2019, 05:10:44 PM
I’ve created a flag, support it here please -

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=259
Support submission done from my end. Thanks for opening the flag LFC_Bitcoin. As much as we will use our new flag system as much as we will be able to keep our forum users and investors far from those heartless scammers.