Scam or not? Coinbase offer up to $8500 dollars to small investors

[mkc]

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[redsn0w]

In This Issue:
   Get 150% profit with Coinbase Invest Fund
 
 
We're happy to announce a new product - Coinbase Invest Fund, reliable platform for
small and medium scale investments. Fund assets are diversified among emerging Forex
positions at Coinbase Exchange. Deposits are risk-free insured by institutions such as the New
York Stock Exchange.

Want to become a professional investor?
Our first short-term investment program starts today - GET 150% FOR A 10-DAY DEPOSIT.
 
Investment offer is active from 20th of April 12:00 AM Pacific until 30th of April.
Coinbase offers you a fixed return with a 50% growth for a 10 day period.
You can deposit today from $100. Maximum deposit amount per one person
or legal entity is 60 Bitcoins. That's an astonishing opportunity to earn up to $8,500 per 10 days!
 
Investors who want to apply, please make a deposit to ....

I think it is not a real email from coinbase.com  in these days a lot if people have received these type of phishing email. Here more information: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/31wjt7/coinbase_scam_email_alert/

[DannyHamilton]

This is NOT the Coinbase that operates www.coinbase.com.

This is at best a Ponzi scam that is using the coinbase name and email spam to trick foolish greedy people into giving away their bitcoins.

More than likely, it's just a straight up send us your bitcoins so we can immediately disappear with them scam, and not even a ponzi.

[mkc]

Not a legit email, I can not find information in coinbase web site.

[Lauda]

You should definitely avoid such emails in general. You could get infected through them.
Especially avoid those that want funds or details to be sent to them.

[TaunSew]

Sounds like the BTER investment plan.   

[magic ice]

In This Issue:
   Get 150% profit with Coinbase Invest Fund
 
 
We're happy to announce a new product - Coinbase Invest Fund, reliable platform for
small and medium scale investments. Fund assets are diversified among emerging Forex
positions at Coinbase Exchange. Deposits are risk-free insured by institutions such as the New
York Stock Exchange.

Want to become a professional investor?
Our first short-term investment program starts today - GET 150% FOR A 10-DAY DEPOSIT.
 
Investment offer is active from 20th of April 12:00 AM Pacific until 30th of April.
Coinbase offers you a fixed return with a 50% growth for a 10 day period.
You can deposit today from $100. Maximum deposit amount per one person
or legal entity is 60 Bitcoins. That's an astonishing opportunity to earn up to $8,500 per 10 days!
 
Investors who want to apply, please make a deposit to ....

Be careful, scammers are all over the cyberspace

According to reports, a team of scammers breached an outgoing email from Coinbase.

Read more: http://bitforum.info/t/hackers-got-hold-of-coinbase-outgoing-email/799

Be sure you make a lot of research before you make a move.

[crazyivan]

Scam, definitely. Somehow they stole our email addresses from some service we all registered to. Coinbase s got nothing to do with this email.

[ashour]

It was a scam , don't invest anything. Coinbase made an official statement regarding that on their blog.

[bryant.coleman]

Bitcoin-based ventures have recently become a safe heaven for con-artists and scammers. It is impossible to educate everyone about these type of scam attempts. Obviously hundreds, if not thousands might have already lost their hard earned cash by now. 

[Amph]

in my case those kind of email usualy go directly in the spam folder, and i don't even read it at all, i just delete, you should do the same next time

[kpitti]

In This Issue:
   Get 150% profit with Coinbase Invest Fund
 
 
We're happy to announce a new product - Coinbase Invest Fund, reliable platform for
small and medium scale investments. Fund assets are diversified among emerging Forex
positions at Coinbase Exchange. Deposits are risk-free insured by institutions such as the New
York Stock Exchange.

Want to become a professional investor?
Our first short-term investment program starts today - GET 150% FOR A 10-DAY DEPOSIT.
 
Investment offer is active from 20th of April 12:00 AM Pacific until 30th of April.
Coinbase offers you a fixed return with a 50% growth for a 10 day period.
You can deposit today from $100. Maximum deposit amount per one person
or legal entity is 60 Bitcoins. That's an astonishing opportunity to earn up to $8,500 per 10 days!
 
Investors who want to apply, please make a deposit to ....

This is scam and mail is not from Coinbase. Coinbase sent email to the clients with explanations and they denied any connection with this investment offer.

[Kprawn]

Coinbase will become a target now, as they grow bigger and bigger... there are already people claiming that their accounts have been hacked.

Source : http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/324lh3/apparently_my_coinbase_account_was_hacked_not/

There are also some disgruntled people out there, who was kicked out of Coinbase, due to it's strict application of KYC and AML and they could drive this too.

Why would they want to offer a service like this? They have enough investment capital and a steady income from it's operation.  

[Q7]

I can't find anything related to it stated anywhere on the official coinbase website. Also if you happen to be at the reddit subforum, there is already an on-going discussion warning users against clicking any link to leads you the investment site. It's a clear cut example of a possible scam.

[LiteCoinGuy]

[odolvlobo]

...
Investors who want to apply, please make a deposit to ....

Think about it.
If everyone invests by sending to the same address, then how would they know who sent how much?

[Eastwind]

...
Investors who want to apply, please make a deposit to ....

Think about it.
If everyone invests by sending to the same address, then how would they know who sent how much?

Exactly. If it is too good to be true, then it is not true.

[twister]

Hey OP remember the generous Nigerian Prince who wanted to give us all of his wealth and he only wanted us to send him the Bank Transaction Fee $150-$300 so that he could transfer the money to us?


This is him and he has a lot of Bitcoins now that he wants others to have. 

tl;dr
This is a scam, stay away from any such offers.

[pereira4]

This is NOT the Coinbase that operates www.coinbase.com.

This is at best a Ponzi scam that is using the coinbase name and email spam to trick foolish greedy people into giving away their bitcoins.

More than likely, it's just a straight up send us your bitcoins so we can immediately disappear with them scam, and not even a ponzi.

Thanks for clarification. Before I ended reading I was already thinking "obvious ponzi is obvious" and hoping it wasn't a legitimate Coinbase offer, since as far as I know I respect that brand a lot.

[maku]

I find it really funny that Op posted this here and was not sure whether it is real or not. But after first fast glance at this message from "coinbase" I can tell that these conditions are so surrealy insane that either coinbase went rogue and are trying to scam everyone or this is some sort of fake coinbase/scam attempt. Knowing that it is not from coinbase.com is assuring. I just hope there won't be many idiots who will fell for it.