[Scam]: Fake BTC giveaway by Chamath Palihapitiya

[Kemarit]

What happened: Fake BTC giveaway by Chamath Palihapitiya

Website:

Code:

https://btccham.info/

Archived: https://archive.is/JNVjH



This is a fake BTC giveway, supposedly by Chamath Palihapitiya, CEO of Social Capital

BTC address: 1Cham1hgP6wD4SqyzP1cYhPYLDQoAvMY2W

Code:

Registrant Country 	pa
Registrar 	NameCheap, Inc
IANA ID: 1068
URL: www.namecheap.com
Whois Server: whois.namecheap.com

(p)
Registrar Status 	clientTransferProhibited, serverTransferProhibited
Dates 	14 days old
Created on 2020-09-28
Expires on 2021-09-28
Updated on 2020-09-28

[Raflesia]

After I checked the BTC address, there was a balance of BTC0.05, I didn't know if there had been many victims so that the balance had entered the scamer's hands.

I checked the site on google cannot be accessed but at Mozilla it can be opened but I have reported this so that it is immediately removed and cannot be accessed again.

Especially beginners, don't be tempted, especially scamer always using popular names.

[ScamViruS]

I checked the website. And since I found this website unsafe, accessing this website is risky. They have made this website a fake giveaway as well as a phishing website.

Now scammers are busy using different strategies, So you should refrain from clicking on any link sent by the scammer.

Source: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/7a7e0e7280b2d24234bdd00c2ffabbca5c2049d27a65f0520a21a39d6dc806ef/detection

[btc_angela]

And you know what? Scammers may have read this, Billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya Says He Bought 1,000,000 BTC in 2013, Warns Bitcoin’s Success Will Spell Global Economic Catastrophe.

So it looks like someone already fallen for the trick? or it is just the scammers depositing bitcoin to their address (mind you it's a vanity address, it could add up to the whole legit thingy). But for more experience crypto enthusiast, all red flag are present, so this is a scam attempt again using some famous names in crypto industry.

[cryptoaddictchie]

After I checked the BTC address, there was a balance of BTC0.05, I didn't know if there had been many victims so that the balance had entered the scamer's hands.

Could be a victim also of the scam. But sometime these guys are tricky they are sending their own other wallet funds to this scam address to make it seen that some users are actually depositing and lure others.

This isnt a new trick. Ive even have some reports before that is exactly the same trick with these guys. What worse is they are using legit people and companies for their scam actitvity. Damn those leeching scammers.

[TalkStar]

Could be a victim also of the scam. But sometime these guys are tricky they are sending their own other wallet funds to this scam address to make it seen that some users are actually depositing and lure others.

This isnt a new trick. Ive even have some reports before that is exactly the same trick with these guys. What worse is they are using legit people and companies for their scam actitvity. Damn those leeching scammers.

You can call this a common trick by which they try to attract new crypto users. Basically who are comparatively new in the crypto world they have less knowledge about fake transactions and after seeing a long list of transaction they start to think that its a trusted platform and providing good profits to depositors. Although it doesn't work for experienced guys because they know that adding section of fake transaction list is nothing new and most scammers keep it exactly same like they got from the 50$ template.

Giveaway related scammers always misuse the popularity of established project, person and companies too. Actually they target the existing users of a specific community who are currently using that a specific token. Even IMO they have less interest about new peoples who don't have proper knowledge about that specific token.     

[Raflesia]

After I checked the BTC address, there was a balance of BTC0.05, I didn't know if there had been many victims so that the balance had entered the scamer's hands.

Could be a victim also of the scam. But sometime these guys are tricky they are sending their own other wallet funds to this scam address to make it seen that some users are actually depositing and lure others.

This isnt a new trick. Ive even have some reports before that is exactly the same trick with these guys. What worse is they are using legit people and companies for their scam actitvity. Damn those leeching scammers.

It's true, maybe scamer fills their wallets first to make it look more real, even though this is just a trick that many scammers often use, still they also use phishing sites to do this, unfortunately there are also many fake giveaway spreaders.

I think this scamer only has a little capital to create a fake giveaway site, then they spread it to those who are tempted but I'm sure newbies will know if they respond to this and won't get stuck again.