Mysterious Payment

[BTC_Superman]

No, just ignore it.

[JarvisTechnology]

You cant stop it. This has been going on since the start of bitcoin people sending dust to advertise their services just look at satoshis address and how many people have sent small amounts asking for donations and such

[sgk]

I don't mind the dust at all. All payments are welcome. Free money! 

[e1ghtSpace]

I woke up this morning to see this:

A Payment has been received into your bitcoin wallet.
Public Note: YOUR RETURN ON INVESTMENT FROM -> LIMITLESS-BTC.COM <- You will receive next payment in ...
It was only 0.0001BTC, besides I have never joined this site before.
Since I don't like dust in my account, is there anyway to prevent this from happening again?

Someone else on BCT had posted the exact same thing. I wouldn't go to that website as it is probably just a scam.

And if you have never joined before, then they must have found your address somewhere. I wonder where...

[nihilnegativum]

I'm constantly getting them on my onename wallet.

[solstoce]

It's only going to get worse as time goes on just like when email spam started, it was small amounts then grew to what it is today.

[tvbcof]

When this first started happening (the 'enjoy'/'sochi' tags were widely seen) it dawned on me that the method would be a convenient and low-cost way to put an unforgable tag on certain addresses.  Perhaps, say, those for whom the owner had taken the time to properly register with an authority of some sort.

Dunno about your tag, but the earlier ones would never confirm (and this never became part of the persistent blockchain because the offender was to cheap to include a fee.)  The message was, however, transmitted to all semi-functional nodes in the network, and anyone could rather easily maintain a record of all messages unconfirmed or not.  'Disk is cheap' after all.  If one was mandated as a function of holding a certain style of 'Bitcoin License' to retain a chosen set of messages it would be low overhead (since they can freely discard all others.)  This is how I would (if I were evil) design a reasonably low-overhead solution to gain some control over Bitcoin and, of course, save our children from ISIS and Putin and so forth.)

[bitboy11]

Although the first couple of posters did answer the question, I'll just keep the topic open in case people want to say something that concerns them and this type of situation. 

[photon_coin]

not really realated to the topic but i will teach you a way to really get mysterious tx in your wallet,


not recommend you use this on you primary qt client

go to brain wallet and obtain the private key for all blank spaces
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import it into your wallet and rescan


lol

[pooya87]

I woke up this morning to see this:

A Payment has been received into your bitcoin wallet.
Public Note: YOUR RETURN ON INVESTMENT FROM -> LIMITLESS-BTC.COM <- You will receive next payment in ...
It was only 0.0001BTC, besides I have never joined this site before.
Since I don't like dust in my account, is there anyway to prevent this from happening again?

it is just spamming a scam
you can think of 0.0001BTC as a fee payment which you can use later when you want to spend your bitcoin

[Jeremycoin]

For anybody who don't want to keep the spam on your wallet, just send it to me and I will use it for more valuable thing
Hey, why don't we just send it to some donation. We could call it the "Donation from Spam"

[g0ter]

Those payments are indeed mysterious. Because i don't post often my addresses to public i usually do not get them, only time it happened it was on this forum, and when address was posted thru Private Messages. It's weird, as i have full trust in people i give addresses not to post it anywhere and only use it for one time TX. Logical conclusion would be that some bot is parsing even thru PM's on this forum, but that would mean cooperation from administration.

Did anybody figure out how exactly "spammers" (they are not exactly spammers, let's call it more like GreyHat SEO, in the end You have more money:)) got their address? It's impossible for me they've got it from any public place. Just as little side note, gathering addresses from public internet it's really simple so be carefull what You exactly post on forums like this which are connected with YOUR money.

[sgk]

Those payments are indeed mysterious. Because i don't post often my addresses to public i usually do not get them, only time it happened it was on this forum, and when address was posted thru Private Messages. It's weird, as i have full trust in people i give addresses not to post it anywhere and only use it for one time TX. Logical conclusion would be that some bot is parsing even thru PM's on this forum, but that would mean cooperation from administration.

Did anybody figure out how exactly "spammers" (they are not exactly spammers, let's call it more like GreyHat SEO, in the end You have more money:)) got their address? It's impossible for me they've got it from any public place. Just as little side note, gathering addresses from public internet it's really simple so be carefull what You exactly post on forums like this which are connected with YOUR money.

Block chain is a public ledger. You don't need to post your address anywhere to make it 'publicly visible'.

Spammers parse the block chain to gather addresses that have ever received any amount of Bitcoins (non-zero / active addresses).
If your address has ever received any incoming transaction, chances are spammers already have your address.

[Q7]

That's the problem when you post and made available your public address in open discussion. I don't think you can do anything at this point to stop the transaction, so the only way is to switch to a new address. Sometimes when you made a payment or request or accept payment, it will also mean giving away your address

[JarvisTechnology]

Funny enough I just recieved one of these advertising payments. I had never had one before only saw that other people have

[sgk]

That's the problem when you post and made available your public address in open discussion. I don't think you can do anything at this point to stop the transaction, so the only way is to switch to a new address. Sometimes when you made a payment or request or accept payment, it will also mean giving away your address

You don't need to post your address publicly in order for spammers to obtain your address.
Remember CLAM coin initial distribution?  Anyone can parse the open block chain and retrieve a list of non-zero balance addresses and then send coins to them. In CLAM's case it was done for good cause to distribute clam coins to existing bitcoin holders. Spammers do it for spamming purpose.

[BTCevo]

I woke up this morning to see this:

A Payment has been received into your bitcoin wallet.
Public Note: YOUR RETURN ON INVESTMENT FROM -> LIMITLESS-BTC.COM <- You will receive next payment in ...
It was only 0.0001BTC, besides I have never joined this site before.
Since I don't like dust in my account, is there anyway to prevent this from happening again?

it is just spamming a scam
you can think of 0.0001BTC as a fee payment which you can use later when you want to spend your bitcoin

This is not a scam. This is just one of their method to advertise their site so it will attract people and hope many people want to play at their site. I guess this is not something that bother you since you got a free payment. May be it will cover your transaction fee for one time 

[Amph]

Those payments are indeed mysterious. Because i don't post often my addresses to public i usually do not get them, only time it happened it was on this forum, and when address was posted thru Private Messages. It's weird, as i have full trust in people i give addresses not to post it anywhere and only use it for one time TX. Logical conclusion would be that some bot is parsing even thru PM's on this forum, but that would mean cooperation from administration.

Did anybody figure out how exactly "spammers" (they are not exactly spammers, let's call it more like GreyHat SEO, in the end You have more money:)) got their address? It's impossible for me they've got it from any public place. Just as little side note, gathering addresses from public internet it's really simple so be carefull what You exactly post on forums like this which are connected with YOUR money.

Block chain is a public ledger. You don't need to post your address anywhere to make it 'publicly visible'.

Spammers parse the block chain to gather addresses that have ever received any amount of Bitcoins (non-zero / active addresses).
If your address has ever received any incoming transaction, chances are spammers already have your address.

well who care to be honest(i received it too), if they want to give me free bitcoin, the more the merrier, i accept every satoshi, one those satoshi can be worth a ton, we could treat them like we treat a full unit now

[Kyraishi]

I woke up this morning to see this:

A Payment has been received into your bitcoin wallet.
Public Note: YOUR RETURN ON INVESTMENT FROM -> LIMITLESS-BTC.COM <- You will receive next payment in ...
It was only 0.0001BTC, besides I have never joined this site before.
Since I don't like dust in my account, is there anyway to prevent this from happening again?

It's just spam to get you to visit their website.
There is nothing you can do to prevent this shit from happening unfortunately.

[pooya87]

For anybody who don't want to keep the spam on your wallet, just send it to me and I will use it for more valuable thing
Hey, why don't we just send it to some donation. We could call it the "Donation from Spam"

these spam transactions are usually so small, for example 0.00010000 BTC if anyone wants to spend them he has to pay the fee which is more than what he gets