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April 22, 2015, 11:26:21 PM
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I saw an ad for btclowen that looked pretty genuine.

Then some press releases like
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSnPn3JKnn5+98+PRN20150403?irpc=932
and
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/sell-bitcoin-btclowen-10-extra-124000191.html;_ylt=AwrT6VvHKzhVov4AJQZHnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTBzazUwcGJqBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMTEEY29sbwNncTEEdnRpZAM-
which looks like a Yahoo news article and is on Yahoo Finance.

The address on the website is https://blockchain.info/address/13M5fwkMuFT7t3VY6Rm5tmZwm3kATUDmJo and it looks like they've already scammed about 158 bitcoin.

When an address is a known scammer, and any coins sent to that address are going to oblivion, shouldn't there be some warning in the bit coin client? Like "Warning, that address has been reported by several dozen people to be a scammer".

Not to mention News sites running what amounts to free scammer ads.

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