i got a strange payment today, i dunno what from.

[aarons6]

here is the details
https://blockchain.info/tx/71b063976b2435517ca8463a04f1bb21802e022ff5cb5a3bb31b4e91c2f1011d

says its some return on investment thing, .0001 btc was deposited in my account.

looks like alot of people got some payments.

i dunno why, or what from.


is it some new type of spam, where they sent you a payment with a url and you are supposed to check it out.. i didnt go to that site btw..

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[achow101_alt]

It is a part of an ad campaign probably run by some scammer.

[aarons6]

It is a part of an ad campaign probably run by some scammer.

thats strange, do they just random sent people btc?

[ausbit]

It's your lucky day!  
These sorts of things always seems to pop up from time to time, i have probably received about 0.1BTC all up from different sorts of btc advertising over the years.

[achow101_alt]

Yup. If you read the note on blockchain with that transaction, they are saying that you have received a return on investment from their website. The idea is that you are tricked into thinking that the site will pay out and that you will earn money. However, it is probably a ponzi, and by going to their site, you may also get a virus or lose bitcoin because they got you to think that they were legit.

[dothebeats]

It is a part of an ad campaign probably run by some scammer.

thats strange, do they just random sent people btc?

Yup. Idk what is the point of that, but to me it seems that they are just helping to clog the blockchain by sending small amount of bitcoins to random addresses. That isn't a good thing to advertise imo. There are many other options for advertising, not by just spamming the blockchain.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

I'd just like to say, if anybody would like to send some free satoshis my way, my address is 13SxntLeuC2Y9z3pE8n53oxNBTFas5SE6D, and any funds sent there will NOT be used for any illegal or nefarious purposes.  It is true that I don't like most people, but the sucker in me keeps looking for the good in each everyone.  I like sunshine and puppy dogs and would do just about anything which is the equivalent to standing on my head and spitting nickels for BTC.

Thank you all and have a good day.

[BayAreaCoins]

... and any funds sent there will NOT be used for any illegal or nefarious purposes.  

I only donate for illegal and nefarious purposes! Guess you're shit out of luck jk

[The Sceptical Chymist]

... and any funds sent there will NOT be used for any illegal or nefarious purposes.  

I only donate for illegal and nefarious purposes! Guess you're shit out of luck jk

*twirls evil moustache*

But I will keep an open mind.  Bwah hahahahahaha!   

[bitllionaire]

You can see the public note: it is advertising what it looks to be a ponzi scam or something like that
Avoid it

[OROBTC]

...

The Pharmacist wrote:

It is true that I don't like most people, but the sucker in me keeps looking for the good in each everyone.

That is a most excellent thing to write, why it´s quite, oh never mind, would not want to offend any atheists around here.

Also your whole note was very funny, made my evening.

A "ZeroHedge Style" + 1, sir!

[aarons6]

wow looking at the blockchain it looks like they gave out 0.0001 BTC to 1000s of people totaling just over .5 btc.

crazy..

[northwesttactical]

When I went to their "last payouts page" on their site, I noticed that the payments were sent from all different addresses. I would guess that they just found transactions on the blockchain and linked them to their site but I could be wrong.

[crazyivan]

New form of marketing. They send you dust and they you go and search for the source of that dust. Very cheap and effective.

[Kprawn]

New form of marketing. They send you dust and they you go and search for the source of that dust. Very cheap and effective.

I do not know, if it is VERY effective indeed. If you know about the effect of "dust" in a account, it would most probably frustrate you more than being curious to investigate where it came from.

I doubt if I would support companies, who is spamming the blockchain and my Bitcoin address.

For it being "cheap"? ---> For sure it's cheap... but you pay for quality, and you get peanuts for this type of "blind" marketting. It's similar to these Ad spam bots... people hate it.   

[Shindo1988]

It is a part of an ad campaign probably run by some scammer.

thats strange, do they just random sent people btc?

Yup. Idk what is the point of that, but to me it seems that they are just helping to clog the blockchain by sending small amount of bitcoins to random addresses. That isn't a good thing to advertise imo. There are many other options for advertising, not by just spamming the blockchain.

It's to lure more victims in their "business", which is most likely some ponzi scheme/scam.
These sort of transactions seem to pop up from time to time.

[CrackedLogic]

New form of marketing. They send you dust and they you go and search for the source of that dust. Very cheap and effective.

I do not know, if it is VERY effective indeed. If you know about the effect of "dust" in a account, it would most probably frustrate you more than being curious to investigate where it came from.

I doubt if I would support companies, who is spamming the blockchain and my Bitcoin address.

For it being "cheap"? ---> For sure it's cheap... but you pay for quality, and you get peanuts for this type of "blind" marketting. It's similar to these Ad spam bots... people hate it.   

It is most probably to be very effective and extremely cheap. There's a lot of people it can get to. Once the transaction confirms as well, it's there forever. So on famous addresses that gets thousands of views, like satoshi's first block.

[BTC_Superman]

It's a part of marketing I guess.

[gadman2]

This is still happening?

[ffe]

It ties your one address (the one receiving these BTC) to some of your other addresses. This happens when your wallet bundles amounts from your various addresses into one total amount you happen to send.  Transactions with many inputs to form a larger output give whoever wants to look assurance that the same person owns all the input keys.

Like dust sprinkled to make a light beam easier to see, this is just dust sprinkled randomly to make block-chain key ownership analysis easier.

[alani123]

Isn't blockchain.info the only block explorer that displays such messages? Perhaps they should remove their public note feature because of spam like this.

[ebliever]

Isn't blockchain.info the only block explorer that displays such messages? Perhaps they should remove their public note feature because of spam like this.

Or make it viewable but only if you click an extra link, so that it is barely ever seen and then only by those specifically looking for it. Still, I bet people will still waste time trying to spam the blockchain even if it's completely ineffective. Kind of like the people that craft a virus to turn smartphones and tablets into hijacked bitcoin miners despite the ridiculously low hashrate.

[LiteCoinGuy]

It is a part of an ad campaign probably run by some scammer.

thats strange, do they just random sent people btc?

yes. called advertising.

[Slark]

New form of marketing. They send you dust and they you go and search for the source of that dust. Very cheap and effective.

I do not know, if it is VERY effective indeed. If you know about the effect of "dust" in a account, it would most probably frustrate you more than being curious to investigate where it came from.

I doubt if I would support companies, who is spamming the blockchain and my Bitcoin address.

For it being "cheap"? ---> For sure it's cheap... but you pay for quality, and you get peanuts for this type of "blind" marketting. It's similar to these Ad spam bots... people hate it.    

No. In fact it really is very effective marketing strategy. People often do not care about 'dust' at all. You can see how faucets are popular among newbies, you can observe that people are enticed by free stuff - even if that is just fracture of dollar if its free its great. And judging how we all are talking about this advertising strategy tells me that for this company it is a win win situation.

[fox19891989]

here is the details
https://blockchain.info/tx/71b063976b2435517ca8463a04f1bb21802e022ff5cb5a3bb31b4e91c2f1011d

says its some return on investment thing, .0001 btc was deposited in my account.

looks like alot of people got some payments.

i dunno why, or what from.


is it some new type of spam, where they sent you a payment with a url and you are supposed to check it out.. i didnt go to that site btw..

you guys are lucky, free bitcoins, I hope they will spam me in the future, money rain is coming. 

Actually I have seen 2 threads like yours, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1038528.0

This guy also got money from limitblabla.com, I just wonder how do they choose people, why not me?

[bri912678]

New form of marketing. They send you dust and they you go and search for the source of that dust. Very cheap and effective.

I do not know, if it is VERY effective indeed. If you know about the effect of "dust" in a account, it would most probably frustrate you more than being curious to investigate where it came from.

I doubt if I would support companies, who is spamming the blockchain and my Bitcoin address.

For it being "cheap"? ---> For sure it's cheap... but you pay for quality, and you get peanuts for this type of "blind" marketting. It's similar to these Ad spam bots... people hate it.    

No. In fact it really is very effective marketing strategy. People often do not care about 'dust' at all. You can see how faucets are popular among newbies, you can observe that people are enticed by free stuff - even if that is just fracture of dollar if its free its great. And judging how we all are talking about this advertising strategy tells me that for this company it is a win win situation.

Some IPO scams worked like that. They gave away a small fraction of the premine which enticed the recipients into buying the rest of the IPO coins. The dev usually dumped loads of coins and disappeared straight after the coin launched.

[ausbit]

here is the details
https://blockchain.info/tx/71b063976b2435517ca8463a04f1bb21802e022ff5cb5a3bb31b4e91c2f1011d

says its some return on investment thing, .0001 btc was deposited in my account.

looks like alot of people got some payments.

i dunno why, or what from.


is it some new type of spam, where they sent you a payment with a url and you are supposed to check it out.. i didnt go to that site btw..

you guys are lucky, free bitcoins, I hope they will spam me in the future, money rain is coming. 

Actually I have seen 2 threads like yours, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1038528.0

This guy also got money from limitblabla.com, I just wonder how do they choose people, why not me?

Be careful what you wish for, i have a old dust payment to my blockchain wallet that had a tx note of "child porn is awsom" on it, i even changed wallets just so i didn't have to read it anymore. There was a few post on this forum about it.

[Soros Shorts]

It's your lucky day!  
These sorts of things always seems to pop up from time to time, i have probably received about 0.1BTC all up from different sorts of btc advertising over the years.

And how much did you spend in fees using up the 0.1 BTC?

[pooya87]

it is the new way of advertising a scam. i received similar transactions before. they just send out dust to people's bitcoin address to maybe reel some fish in!