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Scammers are going around copying peoples email from
1. bounty spreadsheets
2. Fake airdrops bots

just to fool the real email users to get into their freewallet account and steal funds, I here to reveal their new moves, I personally use a different email to claim airdrops and bounties but I am surprised that all these mails of mine got the same message from fake freewallet team that some is trying to log into my account from unknown location that I should click a link to change password, the fact is I never like freewallet and I've never used any of my mails to registered for freewallet account. Be careful especially crypto newbies

After two weeks a friend of mine called from afar and asked me the same thing, this is no doubt a new move from scammers, here is the image of the mails

https://i.imgur.com/qFXkEa7.jpg

Hi Balladtony77,

Following the breach of data of 1.4 millions GITHUB users, many service providers chose to warn their customers of any suspicious logins to their accounts.

These notifications are solely to inform you about login attempts whereas no actual login to your account takes place.

We recommend you to change passwords to your email box immediately.

One of the reasons why I don't open much of my e-mails now.
First is because of HitBTC. After seeing a lot of e-mail from them that I had logged in from another country or something like that I had been lazy opening e-mails.
I haven't even freaking opened my HitBTC account.

Then a lot more from ICO's or new projects which I haven't signed up with.
That is already a sign that someone is copying e-mail addresses. Also shows there is no privacy in their end.
Somehow it will still be leaked thanks to the spreadsheets.

Bounties spreadsheets is what's giving scammers access to send fake mails to people's email address, I am not surprised, its same thing with HITBTC and Cryptopia exchange too, welcome to the scammers new tactics

We only need to be careful on whatever links we would click or open we should also be more cautious to some spam mails that we would receive.
And if you really wants to join or try it out you should first do your own research if the project is real or if they really have some airdrop or free wallet just like what you received.
There are already so many free wallet on the web so you should just search for the best that suit your needs.

SO, recently, those who don't consider technology  as an innovation that will move the globe forward, rather a means of extorting money from innocent and well meaning technocrats have started looking towards the fraudulent part of the technological space. I will advice everyone to always confirm the sender of the emails before clicking any link in the email, that is if there is need to do so

Take my merits, I nearly fall for this trick days back because I have a freewallet account with few bitcoin in it but since the Bitcoin is not much I just ignored the mail and after a while I heard same thing from a friend nearby who doesn't even use freewallet at all, that was what raised my eye brow lol, good post

This doesn't only happen for this wallet but it's almost everywhere whenever your email has been posted or filled up to any form, expect that there will be a wave of emails from unknown sources.
They are spreading it or others are copying it and do data mining for the sake of their bad plans to the people that they will take the emails. Never click a link that's very suspicious.

This is a common problem in crypto space today, every time you submitted your email address for airdrops or bounties be expecting such from scammers and spammers, most new projects aren't what they claimed to be, there is always more that meet the eye

There are different forms of strategies and attempts by scammers, most especially when it comes to anything that deals with mails. One of the safety precautions I deploy is that I have told myself that I will never click on any link directly from my email, let alone providing details to them. So, if you can abide by this, you can be sure to be safe. Then, as a bounty hunter, make sure you separate your main email address(s) from the ones you use for anything bounty or cryptocurrency-related.

Freewallet is a well know scam and it's their attempt to raise their userbase as active users are being aware of their deeds. Whenever a person finds such mail, the first thing they do is to reset the password and in this case to create a new account on a scam wallet. It's spamming for users. One of the worst kind of advertising.

I have personal issues with freewallet teams themselves, they can't be trusted because their wallet are all online/web based wallets, this means your funds aren't safe since you aren't given any private keys or recovery seed, something tells me that this email issue is from the real Freewallet teams, they are too shady for my liking

I got mails from other websites as well not just only freewallet, most especially exchanges, claiming someone signed in from unknown IP address or location, even exchanges that I've activated their 2FA, always knew they are scam

Hi Stanlo,

Would you tell us more about your issues with our service? Is there any support ticket number or user ID, that we can check?

Thanks.

I have been receiving several login attempts to some of my exchange accounts but because I have 2FA installed, this has not been possible. I hate when BM will always insist we carry out a full KYC and even submit our emails.

You're right, i have hitbtc exchange account and this old account i did not use it from long time. Sometimes i getting login attempts monthly 1 or 2 times. I am asking hitbtc support team their respond those spam message. But they suggest to make strong security such as two factor authentication, than i did not receive again. 

Good for you this is a must protocol in order to save yourself from scam bounties. Also those free airdrops like what OP mentioned is usually professionals when it comes to spamming one's email with am invitation to join certain giveaway or confirmation to receive rewards once you clicked it. You already been compromised.

Ive been hearing some cases already about freewallet or maybe they are just using the platform's name and imitate those signature or their social to message you via email there are lots of scammers like this and to be honest the message seems legit but its a fake one. So extra careful when dealing with some free giveaway. Much better avoid joining and using your email frequently for this.

Just ordinary emails are target to carry out these evil strategies, I wonder what they are doing with our KYC details, I heard some buy KYC details, for what? Nothing good ever coming out of that (KYC) too

Its nothing new, bad people buy emails from people this days to carry out this kind of operations, if you fall for it your funds is a gonna, I don't click on links through emails unless the one I am expecting to enter my email address, be careful people, this is 2020 and many scammers will be on hunt

I prefer wallets that dont know my email or any other information. OWNR wallet, Exodus, etc

I don't trust freewallet team, they can be the real culprits behind these mails, I once lost funds to their crappy wallet and till date I still can't recover it, same as xapo wallet too, once you have problem with log in you are in big trouble

Too risky to give out your important email address just like that or use it on any kind of site. Better to handle your most important email address like you would handle your private keys. Decentralized platform is probably one of the safest things I would trust such email address and other personal identifications on.

Yes, i always receive email from HitBTC that tell me someone login into my accounts, i think they do that because lack of traffic that visited on their exchange.
just delete & block all email from HitBTC, never use that exchange anymore because fee is to high for small traders like me :/

I also encountered the same situation. Every day I receive hundreds of spam emails coming from ICOs and bounty projects. I don't know why they can know my email and name, I never gave them my primary email and my real name. It's best to never visit these links, it's scary

well it turns out there is the same as me, I have 11k emails piling up from the first I made an e-mail and first learned about cryptocurrency and when participating in a bounty campaign or airdrop suddenly many e-mails came in from cryptocurrency and other offers really terrible e-mail someone's identity is very easy to obtain from such methods, imagine those who do KYC in airdrops and bounties aimed at scams, then their identities will definitely be easy to use for crime without the knowledge of their owners.

Hello,

Did you contact our support team on this issue? May we have your user ID or support ticket number?

Are you part of free wallet team? if yes then its good to have you on here, please do upgrade your wallet from online/web to full wallet and let users control their private keys themselves and you will notice a huge increase users of your wallet, having private keys for users is a shady business

That's right, your suggestion is very good and I totally agree with the phrase you say, because like myetherwallet and trustwallet wallets that have been very widely used by crypto lovers, because they know that the wallet is really safe and they can hold privatekey

Well, I do get the same emails from numerous services. Seems that hackers just got my address in their databases  :-[

This kind of mail comes so to my e-mail address too which i use for bounty campaigns. Recently they have been sending fake spreadsheet mails especially. The best way is to ignore and delete such mails.

That's is, spreadsheet and fake Airdrops are the easiest ways to get emails reason why it's important for bounty managers to always hide their participants emails for security reasons. Also, it is good you pointed it out for others to leans and take caution about it as most might be gullible to fall for such. Furthermore, you can access your account, change password or take other precautionary measures to ensure the safety of your account.

This one also sent me a mail, I don't know the reason how the hell did they know my email address, thankfully I didn't do anything crazy, because for sure, I might get scammed again like what happened before, I try to report it, but it keeps on sending mail, so I block it to stop.

I also got series of such mail, but what made me raise an eyebrow was when I got the message  from email I never used to sign up for the free wallet, I think we really need to be very careful, scammers would go to any length  just to ripe one of their earnings.

That's actually an old trick they used to use it on Paypal holders, so be wary on the url or the domain where you are going to land I'm 100% sure that it will be a different domain or sites that you usually login , scammers are everywhere you should be aware of all their dirty tricks.

I think they got emails not only from bounty spreadsheet and fakes airdrops. They can got email in fake project too. Like a Newsletter in fake project.

Its better to memorize private key than to use Freewallet.
Always use  wallet where you hold your private key there are many proven out there FW is not one of them.

but who would have used that wallet anyway ? i dont know if i already heard of that wallet before but  i wouldnt trust a wallet that im not familiar with . being familiar to me is when they are advertise on this site and i can see them everyday . other than that if many people use them and post great feedback or recomend them to others . i havent recieve exact same email but i recieve other emails from other sites that i havent visited or signed up . its clear that they are unsafe so i just stay away

I used to receive similar emails that I registered for bounty hunting and airdrops thats why its not new to me anymore.

I just ignore those messages especially if I dont have any business to them.

Scammers are everywhere nowadays and they will do everything they can to take advantage the weakness of others particularly the newbies who dont have enough knowledge on how things work online hence be cautious and dont trust easily.

LOL so it appears that the emails are actually coming from the real freewallet team?

@OP can you confirm that the screenshot in your post is the email sent to your friend?
I would be amazed if that's sent to you  :D
How on earth would they know your email if you haven't created one there.

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Guys, aside from the emails, you should also be careful using fake wallets like freewallet. They are like a centralized exchange that freezes user's funds anytime they suspect you are doing something suspicious in their eyes. They won't release it until the user had undergone account verification.

Free wallet have been around for so long and many crypto miners use them back in those days until issues start riding up and they quit using them, lose of fund, slow transaction speed, hacks etc, people who don't know can easily fall for this so called old trick

Any wallet that doesn't request for mails and password always have backups like private keys and mnemonic seeds, any wallet that ask for mails to sign up wallet accounts are dangerous and you can only recover your fund with email and password

I finally know why my email is getting hundreds of spam emails every day. But I do not understand why my email was stolen by them, I did not use that email to participate in any bounty or airdrop in this market, it seems that Google's security system or some exchange was information theft

In this case, using the paper or hardware wallet is the best instead of giving personal data. Controlling the wallet with private key is better than using the combination of email-password for access. The third-party wallets also support tons of altcoins, no need to use online wallets.

what kind of thirdparty wallet  ? there are many kind of thirdparty wallet . it could be offline or offline  .

 thirdparty wallet means they can provide extra features or can act as an alternative if you find difficulty or missing feature on the existing walet that you use which i prefer them or they prerfer by most users the most .

hardware wallet or offline wallet  is okay  though but those who are sturdy and shock proof or water proof only , i dont recomend paper .

Not at all.Try to look blockchain info which do need some identifier and password but you could at least get up the seed which is important when you try out to import into other wallet.

I just dont suggest to make use of custodial wallets or simply to those wallet service or even exchange wallets that dont give out its users with the wallet keys
There are lots of scamming attempts that do happen into this market and you should be aware and be sensible in any actions you made if you dont like
for your funds to be compromised.