Is this message is Official?

[irfan_pak10]

Today I received this message and its first two line says this



Is this is an official response, Because I never sees this before?

By the Way what does it mean?
"If you are expecting a message...........this is an imposter"?

[Don007]

It is new indeed. The reason; someone got scammed; he placed a bet in an auction for advertisement space on this forum.

He received a message of someone called 'Theymfos' or something like that (a newbie), who send him a BTC address to pay too.. And he got scammed, as he thought Theymos was sending him that PM.

So, it's new in order to warn you for such scams. I'm going to look up the topic now.

[arallmuus]

Today I received this message and its first two line says this



Is this is an official response, Because I never sees this before?

By the Way what does it mean?
"If you are expecting a message...........this is an imposter"?

Yes it is official, theymos announced this new feature a while back then , you might want to read about it here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1043941.0

If you are expecting a message...........this is an imposter

means to protect new user from scam attempt which use almost the same username since they cant really differentiate imposter and the real one

[Don007]

Indeed, it is to warn you that a newbie is PMing you.

I've found the actual post what caused Theymos to implement this:
Post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1029623.msg11217900#msg11217900
Scam transaction ID; https://blockchain.info/address/1MxUUsWjqCAE169sA1e8ZoqNXV4JvVcBmG

Theymos then implemented this, saying:

FYI to everyone in this thread, I was so happy to "win" my bitcointalk ad, I didn't check the username close enough before getting scammed for 3.6 btc:

Sorry for your loss. To hopefully make future cases of this sort of thing more difficult, I added a warning to all PMs by newbies.

--> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1029623.msg11249135#msg11249135

[irfan_pak10]

Ohh thanks every one for your replies. I was not much active for last two weeks that's why couldn't reach to that post of theymos, but any how thanks you people who posted above