I was playing along and looking for fake Trezor site. I posted my find here, {Warning}: Fake Trezor (geo-target). When suddenly another Google Ads caught my attention,  https://bit2.to/?ref=6388&gclid=CjwKCAjw4KD0BRBUEiwA7MFNTfPSZtzq0CEeu9DPYRJAYBNXi5veADpihWo58PWuGbuWCT6b4ALsvxoCNLUQAvD_BwE This is obviously another bitcoin doubler and not to be trusted.  Archived: http://web.archive.org/web/20200404115204/https://bit2.to/Whois Record for Bit2.to
Domain Profile
Registrar Status taken
Name Servers TIFFANY.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM (has 22,303,685 domains)
WESLEY.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM (has 22,303,685 domains)
Tech Contact —
IP Address 104.27.158.147 - 559 other sites hosted on this server
IP Location United States Of America - California - San Francisco - Cloudflare Inc.
ASN United States Of America AS13335 (registered Jul 14, 2010)
Hosting History 1 change on 2 unique name servers over 0 year According to the website, they have started last March 16, 2020. And I'm pretty sure that in about a months time, they will pull an exit scam. |
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I did exactly what you wrote, but it doesn't seem like the ad is aimed at just one country, because I did not get any error - page is open quite normal for me in EU. I see that ad also without using google . hk, but only when turn off uBlock which, in conjunction with Firefox, successfully blocks such attempts.
Weird though, when I tested it prior, I was getting a 403 forbidden error (I should have screen shot). Maybe they adjusted something or Google really f**k it up again. Anyways, I have reported this site, hopefully Google will take it down. |
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There is a new phishing attack the cyber criminals are carrying out, through geo target. This is one example. Go to https://www.google.com.hk/ and type "Trezor". And then the first thing that you will notice is this ad.  And when you click it, you will be redirected to this website. The website will give you a 403 Forbidden Error if it detected that you are not from the location .hk (hence geo-target). Obviously, this is a phishing website and I do hope that some of our friends in Hong Kong will not fall for this trick. https://wallet.trczor.com/#/  Whois Record for tRcZor.com
Domain Profile
Registrant REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Country ru
Registrar ERANET INTERNATIONAL LIMITED Eranet International Limited
IANA ID: 1868
URL: http://www.eranet.com
Whois Server: whois.eranet.com
(p)
Registrar Status clientTransferProhibited
Dates 28 days old
Created on 2020-03-06
Expires on 2021-03-06
Updated on 2020-03-27
Name Servers SERENA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM (has 22,313,248 domains)
TONY.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM (has 22,313,248 domains)
Tech Contact REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
REDACTED FOR PRIVACY,
REDACTED FOR PRIVACY, REDACTED FOR PRIVACY, REDACTED FOR PRIVACY, REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
(p) (f)
IP Address 190.115.18.221 - 2 other sites hosted on this server
IP Location Belize - Belize - Belize City - Ddos-guard Corp.
ASN Belize AS262254 (registered Dec 05, 2012) |
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Nice thread, paki check lang yung sa SECURITY, parang may sablay na entry lang. Maybe you can add this one, sa SECURITY Category rin. sa MISCELLANEOUS |
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I tested it on the following. (1) Google Chrome version: Version 80.0.3987.149 (Official Build) (64-bit) - it will download (2) Brave Browser Version 1.5.115 Chromium: 80.0.3987.149 (Official Build) (64-bit) - it will download (3) Safari Version 13.1 (14609.1.20.111.  - negative (4) FireFox 74.0 (64-bit) - negative (5) Opera Version:67.0.3575.97 - negative So it looks like the problem is with Chromium based browsers. |
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archiving it on a centralized database is a bit weird...
Agree. Still, not a bad idea. I believe some people will use a torrent to preserve it. Or even uploading it on multiple cloud storage. I think torrent is still going to be a better place for a somewhat better decentralization. This decision from Github is a form of appreciation of the impact that the Bitcoin source code had on the world. When it comes to keeping the source code for the future generations,the dichotomy "centralized vs. decentralized" doesn't matter.It's OK for the source code to be kept on both torrents and centralized servers. This is a historical event and the future programmers will honor it. The keyword here is "preserved", doesn't matter if it's going to be on centralized or decentralized. As long as the goal is to keep it safe in the next hundred or thousands of years so that people in the future can analyse and see the evolution of those softwares, (not just bitcoin). |
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Those cyber criminals are global, it's just that the Philippines has been very attractive to them lately.
There must be a reason why cyber criminals target your country as the right place to look for profits through their fraud schemes. So far I can say that the Philippines is a country with good growth in cryptocurrency users and at this stage people is enthusiasm for cryptocurrency investments can be used by fraudsters to carry out their goals. Or maybe they see Philippines as a good ground to run their scheme because people are gullible to invest on anything without doing proper research. I'll give you one example: Php 900 Million Bitcoin Scam Rocked the Philippines. So that's close to $20 million. In addition, I do not expect that they will also deceive and target us as cryptocurrency users from Indonesia and finally this case can be used as a warning so that we can also continue to be aware of the risk of fraud committed by cybercrimes through such investment schemes.
That's good if they don't target your country. But it is better to prepare and again educate ourselves here. You just have to look at how scammers are pulling off scam stunt now, and taking advantage of Covid-19 hysteria. So we really can't tell when and where are they going to strike. |
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What happened: Fake Telegram ICOWebsite: https://telegramcrypto.net/  Archived: http://web.archive.org/save/https://telegramcrypto.net/
Whois Record for TelegramCrypto.net
How does this work?
Domain Profile
Registrant Pavel Zuev
Registrant Org Private Person
Registrant Country ru
Registrar Registrar of domain names REG.RU LLC REGISTRAR OF DOMAIN NAMES REG.RU LLC
IANA ID: 1606
URL: https://www.reg.com,https://www.reg.ru,http://www.reg.ru
Whois Server: whois.reg.com
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Registrar Status clientTransferProhibited
Dates 2 days old
Created on 2020-04-01
Expires on 2021-04-01
Updated on 2020-04-01
Name Servers BRIANNA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM (has 22,313,248 domains)
TOSANA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM (has 22,313,248 domains)
Tech Contact Pavel Zuev
Private Person
3-liniya, 2 polovini, 23 korpus, 3,
Sankt-Peterburg, Sankt-Peterburg, 187021, ru
(p) (f)
IP Address 104.27.156.130 - 554 other sites hosted on this server
IP Location United States Of America - California - San Francisco - Cloudflare Inc.
ASN United States Of America AS13335 (registered Jul 14, 2010)
Domain Status Registered And No Website
Hosting History 1 change on 2 unique name servers over 0 year
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According to this report, the author of of Monero's white paper and Satoshi himself maybe one and the same person/group. Bitcoin appeared during a financial crisis on October 31, 2008, with the release of a whitepaper authored by the unknown Satoshi Nakamoto. Three years later, December 12, 2012, saw the presentation of the technology behind the cryptocurrency Monero in a whitepaper authored by the unknown Nicolas van Saberhagen. Historical research and textual analysis now indicate Satoshi Nakamoto and Nicolas van Saberhagen may have been the same person or group.
Nakamoto, despite celebrity-level fame, has eluded identification. He, she, or they are largely defined through the document “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,” called the Bitcoin Whitepaper (PDF). It describes the multiple parts a cryptocurrency, including the blockchain and the proof-of-work algorithm that secures it without a central authority.
Saberhagen’s CryptoNote whitepaper, “CryptoNote 1.0,” also defined a new cryptocurrency, one focused on privacy and empowerment. It improved on Bitcoin by changing the blockchain structure and using a new proof-of-work, addressing issues that had arisen since Bitcoin’s invention. It also made a number of smaller enhancements to Bitcoin, like simplifying transaction scripts and dynamically adjusting block reward and size. The CryptoNote Whitepaper led to the creation of Monero.
The author of the Bitcoin Whitepaper had clear motive to write the CryptoNote Whitepaper (PDF). In a newsgroup posting on August 13, 2010, Nakamoto first posted the concepts for privacy in cryptocurrency that would later appear in the CryptoNote Whitepaper: the ideas of stealth addresses, which hide receivers in a cryptocurrency transaction, and ring signatures, which hide senders. Also, by the time of the CryptoNote Whitepaper, Nakamoto had witnessed the struggles with Bitcoin’s block size changes (Nakamoto himself stealthfully inserted a 1 MB block size limit into the Bitcoin codebase in 2010) and mining reward halving that the new whitepaper tackled. https://www.monerooutreach.org/stories/satoshi-van-saberhagen.htmlI'm not familiar with Saberhagen, but maybe someone here who have been following Monero from the very beginning can shed some light on this. |
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Keep up the good work man, we have been through this journey, and congrats for ranking up. Just remember that we are part of the Scam Busters gangs  . |
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It's pretty obvious that the people behind those projects are bad actors and criminals. What the hell is corona coin by the way? Crypto people who are in the right frame of mind can simply smell scams from afar. That's why we need to be very careful of new projects suddenly popping up, specially in this crisis as they might take advantage of people hysteria and panic and emotions. So yes, everyone should be very very careful right now. |
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Speaking of Excel, this one is a Covid-19 related them attacks, Phishing Attack Says You're Exposed to Coronavirus, Spreads Malware. Email will tell that you need to print the attached spreadsheet. And when you open the attachment, it will asked you to "Enable Content" view to see the protected document. And once you enable, it will download a malware. - Search for and possibly steal cryptocurrency wallets.
- Steals web browser cookies that could allow attackers to log in to sites with your account.
- Gets a list of programs running on the computer.
- Looks for open shares on the network with the net view /all /domain command.
- Gets local IP address information configured on the computer.
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I'm sad to hear that someone falls for this trick, and it involved huge money. And especially in the crisis that we are in right now, you can't help but feel emotional to those who lost their hard earn money from those scammers. So I do hope that with this kind of warning from the community, no one here will be another statistics in the growing list of victims.
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This has been discussed in our local board: Bitcoin Revolution Scam. And I don't think that it only targets Philippines. Those cyber criminals are global, it's just that the Philippines has been very attractive to them lately. |
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( 1 ) Bitcoin doubler, I will assume that all transactions there are fake just to lure potential victims. I also try to find the registered company, but so far I didn't get a hit so obviously, they wanted to look legit by having a company number but its all fake. https://crypto-crown.ltd/  ( 2 ) Another one: https://bit-coinvestor.com/  |
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On my fair assessment of the website I would say that KawBet isn't legally operating in the Philippines. Sa una palang na sinabi nila na sila ang unang Bitcoin Casino sa Pilipinas ay magtataka ka na kasi hindi naman na nag-iissue ang PAGCOR natin ng licenses either than PhilWebs' egamecasino.ph which is the only known locally licensed E-gambling site the Pilipinas. Kaya pili lang ang tanong na sinasagot ng OP and parang iniiwasan din nya yung mga tanong about legality dahil alam nila wala silang license dito. As for international license for KawBet wala din itong pinapakita sa website nila. Tama kayong mag-hinala sa website na ito na prinipromote nila na Philippine-based e-casino kasi as of now isa palang ang meron tayo, I would advice anyone to stay away from this website.
Tama, kita mo naman ang pag bakbak natin sa kanila, LMAO, pero parang wala lang sa kawbet ni walang sagot na galing sa kanila. The good thing is that sama sama tayong nag kwestyon sa legitimacy nila. Ginamit lang talaga ang pangalan ng coins.ph kaya misleading sa mga nakakarami. Di ko naman sinasabing na mabuting na-ban sila dito, pero mahirap pagkatiwalaan ang mga ganyang klaseng online games. |
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Yeah, it is a good beginner courses as each lesson are laid out perfectly.
You just have to keep it updated though, specially the regulation thingy, we all know that it is always an evolving process. Just like what happened to India lately, I think it will be good if you can add it up to the list.
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I thought criminals have shift their attention to covid-19 theme related attacks, but there's a new one in the wild.  |
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