Another scam email (99% sure):

Note, it looks similar to real announcement, but contains some fishy stuff and I closed my account anyway so I don't think I should be getting their messages.

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*WEX. Rising*,

9/16/2017 12:41:01 from admin

Dear users!

Team of WEX is glad to welcome you on our new platform!

This is our first official announcement!

We thank all ex-users of BTC-E for their patience at such a difficult moment for
all of you guys. We on our part have spent a lot of efforts and energy to create
a new platform for trade in the shortest time limits. Our platform will operate
according to AML/KYC laws and world legislation in this field. You can find all
the detailed information here https://wex.nz/page/1

*Great News Today!

All users who deposit at least 1 BTC on our platform will get in 5 days , 60% bonus.
Clients who want to apply and invest on WEX, please make a Bitcoin transfer to:

**1QGbpENUv3xJCtiqTcUPM1Vvnwx5FRR6uZ *
[Origial address left intact in case anyone wants to compare, but to reiterate this is a scam]

***
We will refund your first deposit with dividends withing 5 days at 00:00 Pacific
Time. (For example: investing 3.00 Bitcoins today will return 5.50 Bitcoins
after 2 days at 00:00 Pacific time) The profits are withdrawn immediately and
Blockchain or WEX waives all rights for 1st level investments.

To trace your investment please send an email to clients@wex.nz , And subject to
put your Bitcoin address. The Bitcoin address must be the same as you used to
invest. If you put in the email a Bitcoin address you not used to making
investments, you will only receive an email with your status. If you submit a
correct email with a correct address Bitcoin (the same used to make your
placement), you will receive an email with the total Bitcoin invested and the
date and time of your payment will be made.

Hurry up! This is a Iimited license, unique opportunity. ***

Thank you, that you believed in us. Thank you that you are with us.
With respect, WEX team.
****

Just chiming in to say I opted for the refund and received it as promised.

I'm aware. Hard drive space isn't really an issue, I could fit five or six more copies if I wanted... But honestly there's a good chance I'll do like the comment above said and sell it off, after which I guess I won't need to keep both.

As far as they security goes, knowing all that is ideal, but I'll settle for "Do other people use this?" "Does it work?" "Did it steal their money?"

Alright, better safe than sorry. I guess that's what I'll do then. Anyone have a clue on #2? Whether I can just copy the block data over? Or shall I just give it a go and see what happens? No risk in that one at least I suppose.

And yeah, I get the impression not very many people use full nodes anymore, but I'm old fashioned like that.

Like I said, I'm going with Bitcoin Classic unless someone knows why I shouldn't. But I suppose this advice still applies, "First of all, move your coins". But why, may I ask? Is that just a "be on the safe side" kind of thing? Or is this a critical step for some reason I'm not grasping?

I know it's technically an altcoin, so I donno if this is the right forum section (please tell me the right one if not) but it's a fork, not something completely separate so I hope this is OK.

Alright here's the situation, I am a long-time, but not very active Bitcoin user. I've always used good old bitcoin-qt. So I've got a little bitcoin in that, right? And now I hear that I automatically have Bitcoin Cash too, without even knowing (score! I guess?) but I'm not sure how to make use of it. I look at bitcoincash.org (horrible website, by the way, entirely made of javascript) and check out the list of supporting clients. One is a special version of Bitcoin Classic, so the same old interface I'm used to. I intend to go with that unless someone knows a good reason to do otherwise.

With that out of the way, I've got a couple questions:

1. Would most people consider that client trustworthy? Is it OK to let it directly access a copy of my regular wallet?
2. To avoid having to downloading ~140GB of blocks all over again, can I copy the blocks and chainstate folders from my regular client? Or will it get confused if that contains blocks passed the split date?

Anything I should know? But again I'm am just looking for a quick substitute exchange, not some kind of fancy wallet system.

Thanks for giving actual useful advice. As a heads-up for anyone else who looks at this, they seem to use BCC instead of BCH as the symbol for Bitcoin Cash. Almost didn't think they had it at first. But they do, so thanks again.

Eh, I don't really consider installing experimental unsupported software "no-hassle". I'm just looking for an online exchange where I can quickly stash the less valuable coins until I decide what to do with them, and have the option of converting them to BTC if I decided that's the best course of action.

A multi-curency wallet program sounds cool and all, but it's not what I'm not really up for messing with that at the moment.

Yes, but just that means they keep the rest. I think the current wording is "To refuse payment (donate)..."

This is pretty annoying for me. The part where accepting an immediate refund closes our account was an unexpected twist. I have small amounts on there in a couple of currencies that I don't have my own wallet for. So now I have to scramble to set something up or else abandon those if I want my BTC back.

Can anyone recommend a no-hassle (probably crypto-only) exchange that deals in all of BTC, BCH, LTC and ETH?

I see.
I concur. The above was all the confirmation I needed. That doesn't make any sense that they're asking each person to send the form to a different address on their own domain. I've got a couple suspicious bitcoins related emails in the past, so this isn't a huge shock. Still not sure how they got my address, but whatever, hopefully they don't actually have anything on my actual BTC-e account and this was just semi-targeted phishing.

So yeah, anyway if anyone else got that, DO NOT OPEN IT.

Yes I did, look just above your post. Is the redacted address in yours also btce@<your email domain>?

Did anyone else get an email purportedly from BTC-e this morning? I did, and it doesn't make any sense. I donno if it's a scam by someone who got a hold of my BTC-e account info or what...

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At the moment 55% of funds are available, 45% of funds will be converted into
tokens, which we will redeem from you. Tokens can be bought and sold on our
stock exchange. On September 14 we will start making money transfers to your
wallets. Before September 5, you must fill out a form that you can download from
the attachement, and send it to btce@<my email domain>
Passphrase: *btc-e*
Thank you for your understanding, BTC-e team.

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By <my email domain> I mean if for example my address was "bob@aol.com", it would be "aol.com", but it's something much more obscure than that so I don't think it could be a coincidence. And I'm quite sure BTC-e does not have an account at <my email domain>.

Attached was RefundForm.zip and inside RefundForm.doc which I have refrained from opening since this all looks incredibly sketchy.