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What happened:  SCAM fake Bitcointalk forum

Fake Bitcointalk forum used for SCAM giveaways and Phishing !

Website: https://bitinfo.cc/
Archived: http://archive.is/LtqYx


They are sending PM fake giveaways in Discord and directing to this fake forum now.
Looks like they scrapped all that from original forum

https://i.imgur.com/oZ3x7By.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/BsEXJND.png  

https://i.imgur.com/Dixag93.png  https://i.imgur.com/Zfpijcj.png


Malicious virus detected:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/c14a1cc39ed84f106df83648b84a908e20f5ac9aa455224b9b4bdaf5d33627c0/detection

https://i.imgur.com/GLFlV1l.png

Always double check your address bar to avoid phishing

[LEARN] Phishing Quizzes - Beginners & Experts (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5178375) 👈

Looks like an up-to-date feed of the forums too, ideally a connection that can be cut off? This topic (https://bitinfo.cc/topic.php?topic=5193535.0) has made it on there for example.
Unfortunately without 2FA this forum will always be a magnet for phishers, looking to sell accounts I imagine.
Edit: It's a live fee for sure, my comment (https://bitinfo.cc/topic.php?topic=5193535.msg52781607#msg52781607) just appeared within seconds.
Warning: Links to phishing site

I saw that... scary and crazy stuff.
Looks like it is coming from Russia if I am not mistaken.
This should be reported quickly

there is thread about it but the thread was locked since the OP isn't updating it. here's the thread if anyone is interested (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5130480.0). I think someone should make a
new list and put it in Begginers & Help (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=39.0) or Meta (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=24.0)(which where the link I posted is from). I encountered the sites before but I knew better. but I can't say about
newbie/newcomers they might become a victim.

Yikes.  Man, the lengths scammers will go to in order to do their thing always amazes me. 

Nice catch on this one, OP and thank you for the warning.

Probably, and I've got nothing against the Russians--I just saw yesterday that most traffic on bitcointalk comes from there, with the US second.  That factoid surprised me a bit.

This people are really desperate of hacking forum accounts.. the only fake forum I encountered that I almost put my log in credentials is "bitcointalk.to" but it seems like this forum is already down now. Anyway, let's just be careful with this type of scams and we should stake our address (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=996318.0) so we can recover our account in case we will be victim of hack.

I check the login page  to see if they are really cloning the login page and I landed here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=login, their redirection is only on the home page but have not yet cloned the login page, we can conclude that the cloning is not complete and it has no effect to visitors who wants to log in to the real Bitcointalk, but we have something to worry if we are careless.

But we must be vigilant against phishing sites as mentioned above, they are not all clone bitcointalk, but I don't think there are many victims of bitcointalk account hacking.

This should be shared in as many local boards as possible because not many newbies come here or in meta to read.

I've done my share https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5193651.0

Information update:

There are also Malicious virus links detected on that website:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/c14a1cc39ed84f106df83648b84a908e20f5ac9aa455224b9b4bdaf5d33627c0/detection

https://i.imgur.com/GLFlV1l.png

If you can report this phishing website to google and symantec:
https://submit.symantec.com/antifraud/phish.cgi
https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/

Your account here in Bitcoin, if you do not have a red tag, is very precious so it's very important that you bookmark the homepage of Bitcointalk and it's login page as well, Bitcointalk now is one of the most targeted sites now by hackers, use meta cert have a very passwords and always use anti-virus that intercepts malicious websites.

The login button only leads to BitcoinTalk in the homepage. Try going to any post and click on the login button to see what happens. There is a clone of the login page.

There is another thread from OP in the other board (Fake Bitcointalk forum Warning (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5193542.msg52783210#msg52783210)) and IMO, breaking the thread in two (due to different boards) isn't that great because it divides the discussion.

I posted this in there:

Most of the people don't visit Scam Accusations sections.

What I did?

- I posted main topic with most information and images here
- I created short info in Meta and link to this topic here
- People can choose to talk where they want
- I wanted more people to pay attention faster

thank you for the notification about the existence of fake bitcointalk, I was greatly helped by your information, I think those who made fake bitcointalk for sale are bought considering the price of a bitcointalk account is now expensive, therefore we must be observant if we want to log in on a website, please note good url don't be different.

recently there are many clones of bitcointalk around.
many signature programs promoting those forums.
so be aware of impostors, bitcointalk is the only original one