Private message Phishing in Bitify?

[elusive1]

Received this PM today from user named "bitifyAdmin" , whose username was created yesterday. If anyone has personal contact info for management please pass along.


Read Message: Your account has been locked Your account has been suspended.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO ... http://bitifiy.com/update-new-rule-QWERTY (slightly changed to protect the innocent)


account works fine

[Bitinity]

Received this PM today from user named "bitifyAdmin" , whose username was created yesterday. If anyone has personal contact info for management please pass along.


Read Message: Your account has been locked Your account has been suspended.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO ... http://bitifiy.com/update-new-rule-QWERTY (slightly changed to protect the innocent)


account works fine

I have just received the same information, but I got it in my own email. Surprisingly I do not even have an account on bitify 
Here is the email from info@bitify.com (just the opening email) :

We have received multiple alerts from users informing us of a phishing attempt currently being made from a user known as "bitifyAdmin" Users have received private messages from this account informing them that their account has been suspended and to click on a certain URL. This URL takes you to a domain "bitifiy.com" (note the extra 'i' in the name).

[twister]

I learned on this forum itself that hackers are able to send emails which looks like they came from original accounts, which is why it is recommended to not click on links sent in email and if you must just copy paste and check the domain name if it is the original one or not.

[elusive1]

Funny, the the phishing PM is removed from my Bitify messages, but they never sent me the warning letter to change passwords or whatever if you clicked through on link. I suppose it was likely because I forwarded it to them through support. I am not really sure what someone could do if they gained access to ones account short of messing around and ruining reputations or releasing escrows to strangers.

[KenR]

And the website is down.Nice,Bitify handled the phishing scam faster .Its quite common nowadays for hackers to open phishing site to scam users.You should see blockchain.info phishing page.

[elusive1]

Some sites support are notoriously absent on Sundays. I suspect that is why the scammer did this on a Sunday

[Bitinity]

Some sites support are notoriously absent on Sundays. I suspect that is why the scammer did this on a Sunday

Yap it is a phishing effort, I have check my other emails and so surprised to see the same emails from the scammer.

[crazyivan]

Probably phishing, just erase and always make check the address of the website you try to access.

[paulthetafy]

Yep it was reported fairly quickly and the user on the site was banned/ IP blocked.  We also issued an email/PM to all of our users warning them of the scam. 

It's not clear what the phishing site would actually achieve though, as even if they gained your Bitify username/password there is very little they can do without also having access to your email (bitcoin/litecoin address change requires email confirmation).

[adicted]

I got an email from bitify last february 1 warning users to beware of the phishing attempt with the site www.bitifiy.com. Didn't know it started here on bitcointalk People should be aware of that phishing site, the original was www.bitify.com , without a letter "i" between "f" and "y". Good thing that phishing site was not working atm.

[Rude Boy]

JUST IGNORE!

the link you've received is just a pishing attempt and if you say that this mail was came from bitify's official mail, then someone might snoofed their mail. (there are plenty of free services were available to do like this, just google)