Yes, usually hacker will attack the user unaware and there are process on how to phished accounts specifically financial related accounts. One must know should know why phishing exist and how it became rampant. Other information about information about phishing is how it will be done(methodology).

Anyone can check my post For your ready reference on phishing and see what are the methods that hacker use to make them successful. Nowadays, we should be knowledgeable so that we can at least avoid being a victim of phishing. I think it is better to expose the phishing activity help other prospect victim of phishing usually those users verified with good financial records publicly or not knowingly it was been exposed to hacker and eventually one will become a target for phishing.

For evaluation purposes, one can check this reply  and learn how hacker make sophisticated fake sites or websites which purpose is to ask you to disclose important details of any of your account may it non-financial or financial aspect that means that one can create a fake site even for bitcointalk.org.

How would we risk into that coin when we know that the founder is national scammer coming from thr Philippines? If they intend to launder money in this method they should not have make an announcement. Clearly this is some sort of advertisement for them to get HYIP. So sad, that the guy mention by OP is good for nothing scammer and will always be a scam. I will not believe again with them and never again gets scam by them. Avoiding that guy would mean that I am avoiding of getting scam too. Thanks to this thread OP shared for this is the coin I should avoid.

Have you tried investing low amount first to try the system? If you can do transfer of parts of coin then that will do good so as you can learn how it will be done. Most of the time we can learn something by doing. So, again my advise is that when you want to sell or transfer your coins then try a small amount first so that whenever you got mistakes then losing small amount of crypto funds will not hurt.

And also follow the tips that were being given by other user like having a cold storage wallet for your coins if it has huge amount of crypto because it will be a target for phishing or stealing your funds.

The quiz was a difficult and this is the honest result I have made during the quiz. It may not be that high but at least I tried.




That was great and would like to test out other phishing quiz next time. I hope I can make a high score to other phishing quiz higher than this what I had right now in this quiz.

I had tried taking up the first quiz and it is a little bit difficult and confusing. I got low score but I am eager to try the next quiz. This is an additional information of phishing sites that may be going to encounter one day. I just have to learn the different domain extensions or probably will make a quick search to check if it is legit or  not by checking the domain extensions. Anyway, that was fun experience for me. BTW, thanks for the share.

Losses actually made the logic of overspending in gambling. As the gambler losses money and once it accumulated over time then that would be relatively huge loss. And because of this a gambler will tend to spend more to overcome the losses being made. Bigger losses means spending more to get the money back. But, the casino would not want that to happen except if you are being lucky. This is why there were some gambler who are having huge losses that others will tend to sell their valuable things to use in their betting activities.

Boston and Raptors is the most interesting upcoming match up. I agree with you in this as the last game played was really tough for both teams to come up with a winner. I thought that Raptors will going to lose in their last match but with 2 OT they make some run and even win the game.
The possible match up between la lakers and la clippers would too be great because both teams wanted to win in championship game. I guess it is still in favor of la lakers with lebron leading the lakers team.

Gambling is for fun excitement. Playing without bet is not exciting as one playing with bets. Yes, you are right OP that playing in gambling should be in moderatio  depending also on the resources that a gambler has. If gambler can afford to lose some money then that would be alright because it could also mean a huge winnings if getting lucky.

Gambling in casino is design to which advantage is for the casino but since life is boring without some sort of plays that can make excitement this is why it was been approved in some government which there is a certain areas for the operation gambling casino

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Yeah I did thanks for this info. Im sure that it will come handy for reference in the future.

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This is all about phishing activity ready reference for anyone who like to learn about how phishing activities were being done. This is not only all about cryptocurrency but other financial institutions as well like bank accounts, credit cards and etc. I have made a quick search on why phishing activity were became successful and how much losses it made from the organizations and individuals that were became a victim of phishing.

Why these kinds of activity exist?

In my own opinion phishing is one of the profitable business in the internet. It will only cost you little $ and big profits waits depending on the methods and technique in phishing being done. This is why there is a sudden increase of phishing activities that rampant here in this section of the forum.

How did it exist?

The shared information of these phishing activities here in this section made me wonder what trigger these activities and how it did came successful to scam other people. As I continue the quick search on why it was so easy for them to conduct or make phishing activities. And here were the following reasons for the increase in phishing activity I read.

Reasons for the increase in Phishing Activities

Universal man-in-the-middle phishing kit - A tool that could create a sophisticated phishing site which is sold in underground market for about 1000$. According to RSA security that the kit could allow access to almost any web sites to be configured for phishing. It added that using the kit the researchers were able to create a fraudulent URL via a simple and user friendly user interface to which hacker novice can create a sophisticated phishing attack.




Lax password requirements - Not all the websites or online apps requires strict password like they allow passwords that are simple and easy to guess like username john123 and pass john123.




Fake giveaways - It could be easier to detect the common fake giveaways. Usually the common victims of these are from those social media like facebook, instagram, youtube and tweeter.  However, it could be easy to spot like having a newly created account, using famous logo or brand name, stealing images, the account had no recent activity or does not have that much numbers of followers and the giveaway asks you to complete too many tasks.




Key-logging software - sometimes referred to as keylogging or keyboard capturing, from the name itself simply shows capturing keyboard strokes from the user’s keyboard and store it in a small file which will then later on send to the hackers email or save it for viewing later. This is done by which person using the keyboard is completely unaware that their actions are being monitored.




High return Investment Scheme - “ The return on investment in phishing is phenomenal” this according to Lohman(2006). High yield investment programs (HYIPs) are usually an investment that promise unreasonably high returns. This is done by invites where new investor paid old investors and consider it as profits. HYIP operators uses social media including facebook, twitter, youtube and instagram to appeal on their victims and create the illusion of social consensus surrounding the legitimacy of these programs.




Therefore we can expect that with the volume of targeted victims it can earn huge of this fraudulent activity which is phishing that made me wonder I too should start my own Phishing business. LOL

These phishing activities had been effective due to applied methods. These methods were became known after some reports noted in the news on how the victims were able to get phished out of their accounts (banks and financial institutions specifically). This methods were being mention by ITU(2005) and Chawki(2006).


Methods of Phishing

Dragnet Method - This method involves the use of spammed emails, bearing falsified corporate identification (e.g Trademarks, logos, and corporate names), that are addressed to a large class of people (e.g., customers of a particular financial institution or members of a particular auction site) to websites or pop-up windows where they are requested to enter bank or credit card account data or other personal data.

Rod-and-Reel method – This method targets prospective victims and conveys false information to them that could lead them to disclose their personal and financial data. For example, online items that are available and are cheaper to which the victims were looking for and upon visiting the webpage then the victims were then ask to disclose personal information including financial aspect to proceed with the transaction.

Lobsterpot Method - This method focuses upon the use of fake sites(imitating sites). This is usually done by a phisher placing deceptiveURL address/links to a scam website. Once the victim is into this fake site then the victim might send personal details or financial access of the victims account.

Gillnet Phishing - In gillnet Phishing, phishers introduce malicious code into emails and websites. They can, for example misuse browser functionality by injecting hostile content into another site’s pop – up window. Merely by opening a particular email, or browsing a particular website, Internet users may have a Trojan horse introduced into their systems.

How Phishing is accomplished?




Here is an example of 2004-2007 statistics on phishing activities.

Statistics of Phishing with respect to non banking institutions




Top list of phishing email reports




Top Phishing sites hosting countries




Top brands affected by phising during 2003, 2004, 2006 & 2007




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The phishing activities clearly resembles huge losses to the organizations or individulas. This is why in cryptocurrency where these activities are present we should tend to be more careful. This is why I made this posts for you ready reference about phishing acticity. The information above are from the following references listed below. All of it were done in a quick search using google and the internet.

Resources :
 https://www.itproportal.com/2007/01/10/universal-maninthemiddle-phishing-kit-discovered/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/keystroke_logging
https://www.ques10.com/p/49373/methods-of-phishing-1/
https://www.easypromosapp.com/blog/en/2019/09/fake-instagram-giveaways/
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/high-yield-investment-program.asp
Google pictures/internet

This is why  never really trusted any forms of altcoins investment. I had been there and was scam. Yes, there are project that can be listed but its market price will be too low compared the market price during the ICO period. Many reason will be explain for the team but then again it will all end up in scamming like having a dead project team that has full of promises. Later on an investors will going to find out that project is dead and his money is lost. So, never trust anyone here with your money and if you really are notnsure with the investment then take bitcoin instead.

Yeap, that is true but OP was talking about the database for cryptocurrency thief. I think it could be added as a general data base for criminals to which every country should share. I think it is possible to country that are friends or allied as we all know that not all countries are havig good relationship like north korea and south korea. In this matter, creating database for cryptocurrency theif is will be decentralized too depending on the country if they will going to add cryptocurrency thief to their existing data base for the criminals.

The future of bitcoin is still varry for now in my own opinion because it may or may not be adapted in the future for the community consumption. But, it has the higher chance that it will be adapted because bitcoin now has excite every users like earning profits due to its market price volatility. Yet, we know that not all will going to like the system but still I am positive that majority will going to use the system for investment purposes. I think the best way to learn about the future of bitcoin is to wait until such that concern agencies or authorities will allow bitcoin consumption.

Yes, bitcoin really could be profitable but also risky as an investment due to its market price volatility. This is the reason why we need to be careful and do own research before investing in a cryptocurrency. However of all cryptocurrency I can suggest to invest in bitcoin or it could also be good to those strong altcoins. However, it is not recommended to invest in an ICO project for most of them are scam and  not really that could ear profit. They just boosting campaign for it to earn money from the crowd.

I am for boston celtics because theynhad great players that are young and strong. They just need to cooperate and trust each other and coaching for them is very important. They just need to synchronization on their plays to outsmart the other teams. When it comes to 3 point shooting they too have it but of course not likely to Golden State to which curry and thompson are really good to it. I am also wishing to see celtics in the championship to see how really strong they are after they will going to beat strong team like lakers.

Always see the top of the coin being toss and usually the top of the coin will come out. I do not know what is a good explanation to this but base on experience in hantak (Filipino visayan term for tossing 3 coins) the top of the coin will always come out. This is why in hantak it is always the tails on top and this is the challenge that the one tossing the coin to flip it along to come up with 3 heads of the coin to win. The rule is very simple 3 heads winner goes to who toss the coin while 3 tails winners will goes to who bet against the one who toss the coin. If the coin will not turn 3 the same faces then the one who toss will continue until such it come up for the three coins to flip the same faces either head or tails.

So the update now with PBA is that players already in a bubble creating space for them keeping away from these virus. I actually think that players are not high risk to this virus because they are athletic. But after I had know that one of the athletic I had known had died because of the virus that complicate his present condition. Usually, an atheletic has different ECG result because the heart itself had been evolvinfg due to rigid physical activities. He has different rythm to which most likely athletic has and that when virus transmitted to him it went directly complicated through his heart lead to cardiac arrest. However, this is still an assumption with the story of people close to him. In regard, these players should be always careful not getting the virus.

Another phishing site. Just how many actually are like these in the internet?

So sad that hackers or scammers had done their best too to scam other people being creative enough to make replicate the original site or a hacking program that could record important details of crypto wallet. It may be difficult to deal this fake sites but as long as everyone will keep an awareness to this then it can minimize the possible number of getting phished out of this phishing site. Just always do share and report this kind of activities.

Do not worry OP your post is just only shows that you are newbie and there is nothing wrong about it. Later on you will going to learn how to do things in the forum. As I read the reply of other users they are right and I agree with them. Simple tip is that try to use the search button next time when you want to ask something. In my opinion there is nothing wrong to open a new topic like this because these should be the common questions newbie should ask and not how to earn on bounties. Somehow starting a new thread discussions will not going to hurt you when you wanted to learn something that is just normal user should do when everything is unclear.

Do not get intimidate by other users as well especially the high ranks. Other users may be rude but mind you that they are very helpful. I always read their replies as usual they are very informative it is just that others had little patience on newbie or low rank users but see they still replied on your thread. LOL, Again , high rank users here are the one who had experience and can share a lot of things to learn. Respect is always present in here (the forum) so no need to worry about it.

The beginners & help section had blasted with new threads lately on scam related threads. I have seen that many wanted to help as it is their intention is to keep everybody aware from the current events and news of scam topics. It was indeed helpful to us newbie or not newbie users as for the awareness of the information posted by these users.

This is good sign that the B&H section had started to become active to users especially the low ranks. We cannot expect higher ranks to help us always from their sharing of knowledge in regards to cryptocurrency. Low rank users are now also striving hard to learn and be educated sharing the same goals and intention and that is to help instead of shitposting to attain certain posts required from bounty while earning few merits to rank up. This is the design that the management wanted to happen for the forum in line of what a forum should be.

The transition of shitposting, copy and paste posts and bounty reports had minimized already. Seeing that joining bounty campaign does not really pay at all times then other bounty hunters strive to make a post to get merit to rank up. My guess is that this is not a problem in fact the shitposting activities had somehow stabilized to a minimum level and hopefully it will be completely eradicated. I am not sure that rank and merit system implemented is a hindrance to rank up but to what I observe is that it is indeed effective in the change of the way users behave. I was happy seeing this happen and I am also helping in little ways or things that I can do for the other users by actively participating in the discussions and learning the replies of other users. I am barely like to start a thread but this time I made this up for the gratitude that other users had been always helping each other.

In this post, I just wanted to express my thoughts regarding on rank and merit system and how effective it was and how it change a lot for the forum. I myself too wanted to rank up and this is why I had changed a little bit to earn merits but I am not begging in this posts just wanted to give feedback to management about the current system. The forum certainly headed towards an ideal forum plus with the new forum to be released soon that I am positive the management could attain great achievement to it. So Congratulations to the management. Job well done!