[Scam]: Fake SpaceX Foundation BTC and ETH giveaway

[TravelMug]

What happened: Fake SpaceX Foundation BTC and ETH giveaway

Website:

Code:

http://spacexfoundation.com/

Archived: https://archive.is/4wbHn

ETH Address:

Code:

0x8C4cB3433993B4FAd3C78f692A7d417fAAab3eb9

BTC Address:

Code:

 1FD4WGrzw3rt2k3Z6xbKLNLren6WAaGfCi

XRP address:

Code:

rU86spAgMAx3X36ro38nmmCPwu9Neaz4A2 

I check the BTC wallet and it looks like someone has deposited already:

Address 1FD4WGrzw3rt2k3Z6xbKLNLren6WAaGfCi
Transactions: 7
Total Received 0.21658020 BTC
Total Sent 0.21658020 BTC
Final Balance 0.00000000 BTC

Domain Name: SPACEXFOUNDATION.COM
Registry Domain ID: 2561649688_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.reg.com
Registrar URL: http://www.reg.ru
Updated Date: 2020-09-23T19:32:33Z
Creation Date: 2020-09-23T19:31:32Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2021-09-23T19:31:32Z
Registrar: REGISTRAR OF DOMAIN NAMES REG.RU LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 1606
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@reg.ru
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +74955801111
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Name Server: KARSYN.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
Name Server: KAYDEN.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM

Newly created website, but the domain seems to be worth if they do it the correct way. Reported it to Google already.

[witcher_sense]

Where did you find it? I am aware that scammers use different social media and messangers like Twitter, Facebook and Telegram in order to promote newly created fake websites. They usually impersonate famous persons thus trying to make their giveaways more attractive for newcomners seeking for rich quick schemes of any kind. Personally, I find it useful to immediately report such giveaways, doublers, ponzi schemes to a well-known website created by Whale Alert team. If you report certain bitcoin address as fraudulent, they will add it in their database and announce it on Twitter if there is any big transaction happens.

https://scam-alert.io/


Unfortunately, it is not possible to prevent newcommers from depositing their money into scam, but we still can spread awareness using the same tool scammers use - social media.

[Yaunfitda]

I agree that they could have used this domain name, I'm not that well averse on domain flipping, but a .com and SpaceX? might be good if they just re-sell it. Anyhow, this are criminals,  and I'm sure that the thought didn't crossed their mind. It seems that the Ethereum address has been flag already as phishing, so that's good at least when some noobs try to check it, they will see the notifications and might not deposit at all. Sadly, both addresses have funds already, so some beginners are not regretting being greedy because they have been scammed already.

[TimeTeller]

I agree that they could have used this domain name, I'm not that well averse on domain flipping, but a .com and SpaceX? might be good if they just re-sell it. Anyhow, this are criminals,  and I'm sure that the thought didn't crossed their mind. It seems that the Ethereum address has been flag already as phishing, so that's good at least when some noobs try to check it, they will see the notifications and might not deposit at all. Sadly, both addresses have funds already, so some beginners are not regretting being greedy because they have been scammed already.

Or maybe, the funds come from them to bait naive users.
Because these scammers will do their strategies to catch the attention of these gullible users.
They added xrp on their list of coins. Maybe, they will add more in the coming days to get as much as potential buyers.



But the site itself is giving impression that they are fake. No security protocol.

[btc_angela]

Wow, this scammers are fast, as @TimeTeller has said, they added XRP already to bait more victims. This sites needs to be taken down fast, reported it to https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?hl=en

And potentially, those funds are fake or it come from these scammers to get others feel that everything it legit.