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So I am getting many emails from some scammer telling me that I have a bitcoin balance.
Heres a typical one.


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Dear Doug

A friend has transferred an amount to your wallet and the transaction has just been approved by our financial experts.
GO TO WALLET

Best Regards

CryptoInvest

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How do I get rid of these morons?
Any help appreciated!

Ignore em !

Do NOT click on any links in the emails as they will probably attempt to load malware on your system!
Then tag them as spam so they go into your spam folder to eventually be deleted.

I doubt it's what you said, nothing to do with malware. It's a phising attempt, they are trying to obtain usernames and passwords to access anything that can be related to OP (Wallets, exchanges, emails, accounts).

Just declare it as spam and be done with it, ignore any further emails that you may receive in the future.

It seems you email address could have been leaked to some scammers who will keep spamming it with different scam messages. I suggest you try;
1. To unsubscribe (the option is usually below the message). They won't be able to send you messages from the same email domain in the future unless they change it.
2. To Mark the message as spam so that future messages from the same sender with automatically be sent to the spam folder.
3. If you continue receiving more scam and spam messages, abandon the email and create a fresh one which will be strictly for serious business. Do use it for registering in random sites.

Firstly, I don't much understand if you being a scammer or not due to the thread posts, if you are not being a scam follow the instruction provided above by others. Buts what you're experiencing is what I called an impersonator attack whose impersonate a trusted organization possibly to steal some sensitive information or data from you (Credit card) but it good to understand how they work .

It's a typical phishing email or a ponzi link. They hope you will contact them to unsubscribe which will show you're reading their spam and that the email is active which will lead to even more spam.

If it's a ponzi or some other scam site they'll show a fake deposit linked to your email and will ask you to go through kyc and send some money from your bank account to prove the ownership. If you do that your ID and other stuff will be sold to other scammers and they'll take the money you send to prove account ownership.

They will even send you malware via email attachment saying it's something you have to click on to enable your account or whatever.

Dont do anything!

Dont even unsubscribe, you dont want to confirm that your address is live.

Create a rule to automatically send to spam.

If you hover the curser over the links you can see the address you
will be able to verify where the links are sending you.

I browsed some information about Cryptoinvest and mostly they said that this is a scam. And if we open their website at https://cryptoinvest.is/, it cannot be opened or it has been dead. Or maybe they use another site again.
But, clearly, from your case, this is also one of the scam schemes.
members above have told you what to do.

1. In this case, commonly, once they got your email, they will always keep sending you emails and also very super legit offering to claim any bonuses, balances, investment, and also others. that is why make sure that you will never be interested in that kind of offering.
2. if you got that kind of email, just report it as spam, and ignore them
3. Never klick any link offered, or visit certain URL link or site that they gave
Once more, they will always offer very legit rewards, so watch out

This is the reason why I mostly ignore the messages on my emails that use in my crypto exchange account, but not on my Bitcoin wallet because I'm using an open-source wallet that didn't have the required email account.  I don't even check emails that content link because I'm afraid that it might have a malicious link that will lead to a hack.  It seems the same as that, don't click the link given by the email because we don't know if that email comes from the hacker, the best thing to do if you have doubt never click those messages that you received.

I suggest you transfer your fund if there is one, just use a wallet that doesn't require an email address.  Electrum wallet for your Bitcoin will surely safe if you downloaded the right wallet, https://electrum.org/#download.

Best would be to ignore these guys. Up to a certain extent will they only be able to scam you, and that happens when you entertain them. So you risk your money the moment you took their bait. Just like what Jordan Belfort said in the true to life story The Wolf of Wall Street, whoever says something first after an offer is made loses the game. So let them lose their patience over you. Be like Jordan Belfort.

This kind of scams are up again? I remember way back around 2018, I received tons of emails about this kind of scam. I am curious why I got those email at first, they know my email address.

Tip to avoid this is to avoid giving your personal email address on random people or filling out some form about crypto, just like airdrops or bounties. The best is to have a separate email address for your personal and separate email address for work or for cryptocurrency related.

Put them on spam, or just directly change emails and avoid using your email to register onto random sites that may or may not even be legit, unless you're 100% sure they are. Don't even bother unsubscribing to them, as that could just also give them proof that you're still pretty active and would probably give them more opportunities to scam the hell out of you.
It's completely possible though. A click could result in you downloading something in the background, I'm not just sure if the user would even be alerted of it or not. And with that download, hackers can easily access your pc, directly obtaining users and passwords and other details possible that is inside your pc.

This is very common but I noticed that this type of email will normally turn up in the spam folder rather than in the inbox. Regardless, ignore it. Report it as spam. The other steps are already provided above.

If I may add, make it your habit to not even open emails which are not expected, especially those whose origins you do not even know. And if your email is already pestered with such phishing attacks and possible links containing malwares, you better ditch that email once and for all.

No matter what you call it, it is still dangerous for someone's privacy and safety.

Considering it as a phishing scam, it still can have an access to your information and attack your software.

Just don't click an unknown links and that you will see online and it looks like that the OP is so done with those links.

Maybe he can download an adblocker so that those things will not bother him anymore and also to add safety and security in his device.

This is the most common theme among phishing, they try to do a social engineering attack to make you let your guard down. I think the best case is to change the email address that you typically use for personal matters and tag the emails as spams, for personal matters, I have a separate email so as to not get my things mixed up. You also have to ask yourself about this kinds of things, why would your "friend" send you money unannounced? The only way to defeat a social engineering type of attack is by thinking not with emotion.

It seems that for some reason, your email address was leaked and scammers had a hold of it. Just ignore the. If they keep emailing you even now, just change your main email address. That will save you the trouble from future potential phishing mails.

haha, I still get a lot of emails from the mtgox account/pw/email hack & public leak.

They can seduce you with huge amounts that supposedly should be in your account. But you, as a reasonable person, should understand that if nothing connects you with this office, how can bitcoins appear from them?
Divide your emails into business and everything else. Check your email addresses on this haveibeenpwnd.com site to see if your email addresses and passwords have become known to scammers.

How can you be "mercilessly scammed" by someone,if you didn't send him any crypto coins or money?
You are not scammed,you are just spammed.Your thread title is misleading,so you should change it.
I keep receiving such spam messages,but on Discord,not via email.
I wonder how the spammers got your email address.Did you submit your email on some shady crypto website or platform?
Simply mark those emails as SPAM and ignore them.I don't see a reason why you should create a topic on the forum and start whining about such small problem.

Spammers getting your email address doesn't require using your email on a 'shady crypto website or platform'.  

Yahoo alone has given up more than half a billion.

For bitcoin specific emails, if you polled a majority of bitcoin users, they'd probably tell you in 2011 that MtGox was the most reputable exchange. Someone managed to yoink the email list & then it was distributed to the public.

Despite that, in 2013 & early 2014 it handled 60-70% of exchange activity. It also did some fancy price manipulation ... or maybe that's "alleged", unsure if it was ever proven.  I believe its user list was also compromised again in 2014.  Not positive on that, though.  Didn't use it anymore.

re; "I don't see a reason why you should create a topic on the forum and start whining about such small problem." ...   yah, I agree w/ you there.

You are not getting scammed. You are receiving spam emails. Once you click on any of those links, you might get phished and then you will get hacked.
Those are random spam emails which is sent to mass people where the hacker is hoping someone naïve will open those links. You can't get rid of those "morons". You can try marking those emails are junk/spam/phishing and your provider will eventually start filtering out those emails. Or you can create a custom rule were certain words or phrases, if contained on the email will automatically delete it or send it to spam.
You email address was probably leaked somewhere online.

This is not a new thing as I have read many things like these before, just ignore any messages from stranger who message you without any reason and strictly do not click any link included in the message on your email. You won't ever get scammed if you won't even send any money to other's crypto wallet and you won't get hacked if you'll be careful and knowledgeable about technology, malware I one of the reasons for getting hacked and it came out from those links in the email or installing fake software and many more.

First off, if you know to yourself that you haven't play or invest on that website. Then do not hesitate to block that email, ignore and delete it right away. Never ever believe such emails saying you won particular amount, I'm sure the next thing they will say when you'll reply them is to send some coins for you to be able to get that money.

And right, if they provide some links never clicked that as it will possibly lead you to phishing sites. I am receiving different emails related to crypto winnings and giveaways but I never believe such crap. Be wise, man.

from email or telegram? but suppose we block their messages and their contacts, it is possible to get more messages from different people. I often do so on telegram, but in concept they offer a number of promising investments for bitcoin.

1. Ignore them all
2. Unsubscribe like they said

Either of these 2 actions will be helpful but the second will be more helpful because they will not send you scam emails anymore that really annoys you. I don't know the feeling of receiving emails like that since I know when to subscribe and when not to :D. Either way, I can't consider that type of scamming people as "mercilessly" and that is quite exaggerating BTW. Use "continuously" since they are sending you many emails like you said.

Nowadays, people need to be careful of their Bitcoin, in fact make sure you secure it as best as you can, because these scammers are not slowing down and will keep using every possible means to scam unsuspecting people. Nevertheless, in this case, just ignore the mail, don't bother clicking on any link, because it will likely be a phishing website to collect your information and scam you afterwards, thus just report the mail as spam. Henceforth, once you didn't request for an email depending on whatever Bitcoin investments you are into, learn to ignore certain mails like this one, also once you get mails with link to certain websites you frequently use, don't click on it, rather go through the one you are sure of, phishing scam is increasing nowadays.

This is also what would I suggest. I mean, you cannot really stop them doing that but what you can do is allow yourself to have the peace of mind by means of putting them in the spam folder or really unsubscribing from them.

However, thinking of the worst case scenario, it's possible that even the unsubscribe button can also be a trap. So the best thing to do is just mark them as spam and delete their messages so that you will not be tempted to click any suspicious link or even open them. But, whatever the case is, always think before you click.

maybe you can block that email address

Did you fall victim to the email? Just wondering, considering your topic says you are being scammed.

The message looks suspicious...
Probably written that way to get their victims to be desperate, make them to pay certain amount or send something valuable or exploit them in other ways in exchange for the "transferred money", and then the victims get scammed once they obey and pay.

I would investigate how they got my email address in the first place, as I don't expose my main address that much.

If there is an email saying that we get Bitcoin from a friend, and have to click an unknown link or register on a certain website. It's better to
avoid this. because I believe 100% scams, so many messages in my email like that too. Don't be easily attracted because we can get free money.
Because in this world it is impossible to have free money that easily, there must be a strong reason why we can get free money. Because
the method of scammers has never changed, it always offers free money.

This is the crypto industry's major problem but thankfully right now they are nothing to worry about because you don't really need to read everything they offered you or just simply delete everything they sent to you. This has happened when you joined some fake giveaway event like joining some airdrops or any other bounties because most of them are fake and the only thing they want is to get your email address and to sell them in bulk with the other victims to the scammers to send you those scam emails and any other fraud regarding crypto currencies.

You must be new to the internet. These are just your regular phishing email attempts. Just blacklist the email address sending you this and add it to the trash. What email client are you using and what service?
Surely they block this sort of thing because it is quite obviously spam phishing. I always wonder what their "lead rate" is. How many emails they must send before someone falls for it. It must be worth their while or they would not do it.

OP, Next time you should inform that you are getting fraudulent emails and fake deposits. The first step to overcoming such temptation is to flag such emails as spam; so it never appears again; and then you ensure that you do not use your personal email for frivolities' or tasks such as airdrops, bounties, giveaways etc. Keep yourself safe from third party hacks and attack. And do not keep your bitcoin secret phrases on email.

It is very easy to get rid of them, block the sender or filter those type of message and put them right away to trash. Scammers are everywhere and they will not care whether you are innocent or not as long as they can get some money from their victims.

And it will be better also if you are going to report the sender so there is a chance the sender will be block but I am sure that the scammers have plenty of backups if it will happen, what we can do is to ignore that kind of emails and make sure to not click any of the attached link that they are sending to protect ourselves.

that mercilessly word from your title caught my attention and i think this was verry serious but nah what happened to you is just a common scam attempt via email . to get rid of them is easy but no dont ever click any links from the email or the unsubscribe button on the email they provide because that can be fake . just mute them and report spam

you already know that he was a scammer and still want confirmation with us ? okay thats fine . this still gives awareness to others that cant easily detect crypto scams . 

Spam it for sure.  

It could easily be a malware link.  So don't visit it from any device.  Even from your phone it might not have been safe - in fact yesterday's iOS 14.4 release patched to fix at least one code escalation bug that might have been exploited, and a webkit vulnerability that could allow arbitrary code execution. 

Always avoid those type of spammy links.  

(You could use something like VirtualBox to check them out, but that is overkill if you know it is fake.  Just spam it.)

The best thing to do is to ignore those emails. You can put them on a blacklist or block them if you want and change the privacy setting that's how unknown email sender will go to the spam folder by default. Do not click on any of the links provided by the unknown sender, And refrain from revealed email addresses everywhere. When registering in an untrustworthy place, use a dummy email address instead of the main email.

You are either receiving a phishing mail with aim of stealing your login credentials or a sort of mail that redirect to website build by scammers. You will see the bitcoin in the wallet but you will be asked to deposit in order to unlock it. If you fall for this, ur deposited fund is going. The scammer must have bought email niche of people trading crypto from hackers that is the reason why the mail appear as if they know you by calling your name on the mail.

Moat likely a phishing mail if you're being asked to login, be wary not to enter anything as not only could your bitcoins be at risk, your overall privacy and connectivity within the internet will be on the line. Better yet, don't entertain these scammers. They only get an edge over you if you give them the chance to talk to you and win your favor over. If you don't do that it won't happen.

transactions without txid are certainly just scammer nonsense. This email is only intended to plunge you into a trap that the scammer has created. Mark e-mails like this as spam if they arrive in your regular e-mail. Usually I also receive this kind of email in the spam folder. Don't ever respond to it. Nobody will give money easily. Be a smarter user, don't be easily tempted by a gift that doesn't exist. Scammers will continue to do so and it will never stop

It is a trick to lure you to their site and get you scammed with whatever unjustifiable sentences they'd use afterwards, just stay off their mails. You can easily unsubscribe, mute or even ignore them from henceforth. Don't pay them any attention.

I agree.

Also don't click the link because sometimes it is a key logger, making you think that you're logging in a legit platform but you're logging instead on their platform that collects account name and password that they need to hack your account and stole your money. I don't know how they get our emails but just simply ignore them and put them into the spam section.

I even get spam emails from "google" suggesting that I need to change my password to secured my google account (which is funny, sorry for being Off-topic a little bit)

A lot of scammers are taking the opportunity to scam people online since we're all doing everything online because of the pandemic.

The solution that you provide will not solve everything that, unsubscribing, mute or ignore will not be enough if that email account has been compromised. Check for your account if it has already been leaked online. This is a scary thing because you might be using that email for something important or personal and suddenly it is mixed with scam offers that you might accidentally click on and you might think that it is a legitimate email. I myself have multiple emails that have different functions, one is for everything not so important things but needs an email and the other one is exclusively for private matters.

If I were you, I would delete the email without thinking about their offers because I know that is a fake offer that will only want my funds. You do not need to respond to the email, and you need to be responsible for your money if you do not want to lose your money. I suggest you not click any link inside the email because they can get your info and use it for their benefit if you do that. I am sure there are more emails from the scammers that will try to convince you and steal your money without you realize.

You've come to know it is a pure scam approach. Then whats more to be done, just ignore such kind of e-mails. Clicking those emails could cause malware attack and hacking of funds. This isn't a merciless approach compared to different people who have been made to beg to get back the scammed funds. Here just an e-mail is received, it is upto you whether to get scammed or stay on the safer side.

I am sure that the step you are taking will only help you to stay out of your email for a while. You'll get the same email from scammer if you don't report it as spam. The main thing I took into consideration was that the user's email had been leaked and was discovered by a scammer. So even though we can still report it, the point is we will also receive other email from the scammer.

Ignoring email and not clicking on any link and reporting email as spam is a possible solution if the user still wants to use email for a long period of time. But if it's too annoying and risky then I believe that replacing new email and deleting old ones is the solution.

I just wanted to tell anyone how to protect your email from leak and scam attempt based on my experience so far.

• Don't use your primary email to register on any website or project as they might leak it and sell it to others for scam attempt.
• The primary email you use on the exchange that you normally use for trading should be different from the email you list on any website or project you participate in.

These two steps really help me protect my main email from spam message and email leaks to other parties. If another email is leaked or there is a scam attempt then I can still delete it easily without disturbing anything related to my fund.

Maybe the OP has listened to the news a lot and knows that fraudulent methods via email with a certain link can do something very dangerous, because this kind of trick seems like a long time ago and it's weird to not know. maybe if the OP is not active in the circle related to the internet because obviously there are a lot of news like that and social media is also clearly reporting.

I hope that you provide clearer information so that in the end everything returns to the OP whether they want to listen and not do it. because sometimes someone asks but does not do what the answer is given, in the end it is useless and there is no benefit that happens, but let what you tell may be for others and we have to be kind.

Ignore them. I also always get similar messages on my email. I just matched several times them as spam messages. Now all such messages automatically move to spam. Once a month I delete them. It’s not a problem at all, if you don’t click any links inside.

The only way you can avoid them is to just stay mute and not reply to any of those emails you’re getting from them, because if you reply they will know that the email is active and they will put more focus on you. So, just avoid replying any of their mails, and report them as spams, so that they wouldn’t be disturbing your inbox, they will all go straight to your spam mail and you can click once and delete all of them.

I also get such mails, and I don’t even have their time. Sometimes it’s due to where your email have leaked online and those hackers and scammers are just sending random mails to all the mail’s they have gotten to see those that will fall victim.

Lol! you haven't being scammed yet bro and you say you are being mercilessly scammed, there is a difference between being actually scammed and someone sending emails that looks like scam, to me i would report to spam and unsubscribed that simple, if you don't open the link and do anything that was told in the email am sure you are okey, i see this kind of useless mails in my crypto mail most times and i just block them by reporting and unsubscribe if it is available.

It’s could be your email has been leaked somewhere in the knowledge of scammers, we all have to be careful of the email we receive and following the instructions. I never knew until my colleague at work who is the head of  our department technically team told me about a software know as mailextractor is used by these scammers to extract emails from different locations based on their target. So anyone can have your email but the only good you can do for yourself is to be careful of the emails you pay attention to especially those in the spam box.

Reporting as spam email is another option every user can do. By the way, if there is a subscribe and unsubscribe option, he can choose the unsubscribe option, so he will not get any email from the same person. Usually, users opt-in on the website to get any updates to be added as a subscriber on that site.


Your suggestion is recommend to all people, so we can prevent from the scammers. But that does not always guarantee because the scammers will try to find the other way. That way can be the first thing that we can do. Thank you for the tips.

if you are not expecting coins from someone then you don't have a friend who sends you BTC. most of us have an email that had been exposed many times that's why its scraped by email marketers. ignore those emails whether they are legit or not, you will know if you have some cions on your wallet.

the title of this thread is I am being mercilessly scammed by somone from the bitcoin world, how does this email attempt had mercilessly scammed you?

Do not open the emails from unknown sources. You probably click the phishing link in your system. You learned a bitter lesson now. You must avoid clicking links in the future whatever the offer reflects in your email and always mark spam from unknown sources.

Yes, that's the solution in my opinion and the recommended one.

Of course, this step will not guarantee that everything is safe and one should remain aware that there are quite a number of ways scammers are using just to profit from bitcoin users. Remember that your bitcoin are your responsibility to keep them safe. Bitcoin is designed with good security, only user error can cause the bitcoin balance to be lost.

This seems to be a common phishing tactic! do not fall for it, surely ignore it and report it as spam

First you need to ensure you don't click any links sent with such mails like this. Secondly, you just need to spam this message so you won't receive them again and also unsubscribe from receiving such mails and stop exposing your mails.