got email from localbitcoin for investing, beware (needs opinion)

[CraigWrightBTC]

We from localbitcoins.com like to announce our company are now accepting Bitcoin investments until 31 of January, 2017. With localbitcoins.com, your investments profit will be guaranted. We use your Bitcoin investments to invest in the Major Banks in India, South Africa, Singapore, Brazil, Russia, United States, Mexico, Spain and Indonesia.

Investing with localbitcoins.com, you will earn from 102% to 500% after 10 days.

 **** HOW to INVEST with localbitcoins.com? ****
1 - We accepts minimum investment from 0.25 Bitcoin and maximum 20.00 Bitcoin, you can invest any amount in between 0.25 to 20.00 Bitcoin.


2 - Send the bitcoin amount that you want to invest to:
1LocaLK8ZMjgwdV1Ad9Kua1t3x5QWyxtXp

5 - Done, if all is correct in 10 days you will receive your profit direct to your Bitcoin Account, and you can withdraw to your bank or use the Bitcoin Balance to any other purpose. The minimum profit payout will be 102% and the maximum profit will be 500%. For example: Investing 5 bitcoins today (13 of January), you will earn on 23 of January from 5.10 to 25.00 btc.

PS: The profit payout will be made to the same bitcoin address that made the deposit so avoid sending directly from exchangers. Deposit directly from your bitcoin wallet as: blockchain, multibit, electrum, unocoin, coinbase, exmo, xapo, bitcointoyou, foxbit,bitcoin.co.id, bitx, localbitcoins, coins.ph, btxindia, zebpay, paxful, block.io, bitpay, cryptopay, greenaddress, bitcointrezor, blocktrail...

All process is totally automatic, when you send bitcoin to our investment address, our system will automatically register your investment and bitcoin Address and after 10 days we will credit your  Bitcoin Address with the profit we can make with your investment.


I don't know is it legit or not but i am doubt about it and must be bewared because many scam issues
using spamming emails, how do you think about it.

[bL4nkcode]

Much better if you show us the details of the email you receive if it's really from localbitcoins.com

There are so many scammers right now using the name of big company or services to trick people simply to scam, they are using the same site's name but differs from its domain extension. This is obviously a scam attempt, beware!.

[chaser15]

Can you show the screenshot of the email together with the email address associated with it?

And is there a link below the email something like " Click here to get started " etc. While browsing at localbitcoins.com, I haven't see anything even at 1% about that investment thing so probably it's like a phishing site if there's a link provided included in the email.

And the concern here is "102% to 500% after 10 days" which is far from reality. How is that possible?

[jossiel]

Much better mate if you are going to show us the email and domain of where that email came from and together a screenshot for it.

But this is an absolute scam attempt, good thing that you have warned us here. I haven't received any email from LBC.

And the concern here is "102% to 500% after 10 days" which is far from reality. How is that possible?

It's too good to be true, you can't just plant a rice into a pot and after 10 days it will grow into a rice field. A definite scam attempt.

[mkmdoc]

We from localbitcoins.com like to announce our company are now accepting Bitcoin investments until 31 of January, 2017. With localbitcoins.com, your investments profit will be guaranted. We use your Bitcoin investments to invest in the Major Banks in India, South Africa, Singapore, Brazil, Russia, United States, Mexico, Spain and Indonesia.

Investing with localbitcoins.com, you will earn from 102% to 500% after 10 days.

 **** HOW to INVEST with localbitcoins.com? ****
1 - We accepts minimum investment from 0.25 Bitcoin and maximum 20.00 Bitcoin, you can invest any amount in between 0.25 to 20.00 Bitcoin.


2 - Send the bitcoin amount that you want to invest to:
1LocaLK8ZMjgwdV1Ad9Kua1t3x5QWyxtXp

5 - Done, if all is correct in 10 days you will receive your profit direct to your Bitcoin Account, and you can withdraw to your bank or use the Bitcoin Balance to any other purpose. The minimum profit payout will be 102% and the maximum profit will be 500%. For example: Investing 5 bitcoins today (13 of January), you will earn on 23 of January from 5.10 to 25.00 btc.

PS: The profit payout will be made to the same bitcoin address that made the deposit so avoid sending directly from exchangers. Deposit directly from your bitcoin wallet as: blockchain, multibit, electrum, unocoin, coinbase, exmo, xapo, bitcointoyou, foxbit,bitcoin.co.id, bitx, localbitcoins, coins.ph, btxindia, zebpay, paxful, block.io, bitpay, cryptopay, greenaddress, bitcointrezor, blocktrail...

All process is totally automatic, when you send bitcoin to our investment address, our system will automatically register your investment and bitcoin Address and after 10 days we will credit your  Bitcoin Address with the profit we can make with your investment.


I don't know is it legit or not but i am doubt about it and must be bewared because many scam issues
using spamming emails, how do you think about it.

How can they pay such huge amount to investors really very scary because i din't think that this mail is from localcbitcoin, it's better write a mail to their support that this mail is circulating. Some body wants to miss lead the localbitcoin into investing side. Many people till now have good reputation on exchanging bitcoin through localbitcoin. By using it he send mail to people may be.

[CraigWrightBTC]

Much better if you show us the details of the email you receive if it's really from localbitcoins.com

There are so many scammers right now using the name of big company or services to trick people simply to scam, they are using the same site's name but differs from its domain extension. This is obviously a scam attempt, beware!.

The sender of email was from this address localbitcoins-no-reply@localbitcoins.co without m
i am sure it is trying scam and the real website localbitcoins.com and the sender of email use (@localbitcoins.co) without m

[deadsilent]

Whats the email address of this? It seems scammers now are upgrading tbeir styles now. This kinda look scam but it looks also legit. But i wont give them bitcoin if i were you. 500% profit is too good to be true. Thats kinda looks shady. Ponzi looking style i usually see on every hyip investments. You better not do it. Just stick on holding btc.

[morantis]

you're joking right? you need our opinion? if the site announced the desire for investments it would lead you to the site to invest. how precisely do you think the dividends get paid out? are they supposed to parse the incoming tx's for their address every time they pay out?  no, they would direct you to the site, have you login and attach the amount that you are investing to a sql field attached to your user.  BUT, if you actually thought for one second that this was legit, then you would simply be better off investing in my sister.  she is completely screwed.  she is a princess in her country and heir to the fortune of $12,000,000 BTC, the only problem is that she was traveling abroad in a country that cannot have the funds transferred to her and she is broke because the local peasants ate her by accident.  when they vomited her back up her paper money she was carried was destroyed, if you could just send her 1 BTC, she could buy and plane ticket, fly back to our homeland, get the $12,000,000 BTC and fly straight to you.  did I mention that she saw your profile online and thought you would be the perfect mate to marry, serve for life and sign all her fortune over to?  i would send her the money, but I am not completely stupid, lol.

[bL4nkcode]

Much better if you show us the details of the email you receive if it's really from localbitcoins.com

There are so many scammers right now using the name of big company or services to trick people simply to scam, they are using the same site's name but differs from its domain extension. This is obviously a scam attempt, beware!.

The sender of email was from this address localbitcoins-no-reply@localbitcoins.co without m
i am sure it is trying scam and the real website localbitcoins.com and the sender of email use (@localbitcoins.co) without m

That's what I'm talking about earlier, scammers have a new style to trick people, they will do anything as long they can scam. But people are not too noob that will easily fall this kind of trap. And I'm sure the owner of this domain is a ponzi owner also which you use to registered that email of yours long time ago.

[morantis]

Much better if you show us the details of the email you receive if it's really from localbitcoins.com

There are so many scammers right now using the name of big company or services to trick people simply to scam, they are using the same site's name but differs from its domain extension. This is obviously a scam attempt, beware!.

The sender of email was from this address localbitcoins-no-reply@localbitcoins.co without m
i am sure it is trying scam and the real website localbitcoins.com and the sender of email use (@localbitcoins.co) without m

That's what I'm talking about earlier, scammers have a new style to trick people, they will do anything as long they can scam. But people are not too noob that will easily fall this kind of trap. And I'm sure the owner of this domain is a ponzi owner also which you use to registered that email of yours long time ago.

they can go a step further and actually catch a few suckers.  with a decent amount of planning and work and the right server IP you can effectively spoof an email address AND get the recipient get it in their inbox, the second part is where the work comes in. however, there is still no real good method for spoofing an email address and controlling the reply, if you email me claiming to be dave@fbi.gov and i reply then it goes to the real dave@fbi.gov. but, a spoofed email address of whatever@localbitcoins.com can have any link in it that it wants and that is the moment you send the sucker to your faked site.  want to be real meticulous, check the header of the email BOTH for the domain URL and the IP address and ensure that the IP is for the real URL. more easily, simply look at any url from a link, rather than assuming the tag and the link are the same

[mobnepal]

I don't know is it legit or not but i am doubt about it and must be bewared because many scam issues
using spamming emails, how do you think about it.

This scam attempt is similar to one that i have received few months ago, actually for several days with the name of blockchain.info in place of localbitcoins.com

Better not to use personal email to signup or subscribe in random sites you will come across.

[xuan87]

Never believe anything like that, there are a lot of scammers nowadays, when an email come and state that you can earn great income, for sure it is a scam, if the method really work, they don't need to advertise, you will get the news from people's review, and it is better to not put your real email when you register to something random

[neochiny]

Definitely a scam. Stay away. lol. Do we even need to say that? 

Got me at " 102% to 500% after 10 days. " Looks too good, right? And then, they'll use your money to invest on Banks? Yet they're able to give an ROI of 102% - 500% within 10 days? Sheesh.
Those are banks! You'd be lucky to get 2% for interest and definitely not within 10 days.

Another thing is, "PS"? Wew.   

[BingoDog]

Never got such email from localbitcoins. You should pay attention to email address this message was sent from, it's very likely a scam. So many scam scheems are present these days. Maybe it would be good to send the info about it to localbitcoins customers service so that they can warn their users about it and stop further scam.

[Hazir]

It is a new are of fake emails scams. There is a thread in Service Discussion about fake emails from blockchain.info circulating around.
This mail from localbitcoins might not be that weird if scammers put some more realistic numbers in it. 500% of guaranteed profit is a fantasy scenario.

[favdesu]

at least no one did invest so far... that's a good sign http://blockr.io/address/info/1LocaLK8ZMjgwdV1Ad9Kua1t3x5QWyxtXp

[thebatletbet]

iam never believe this youre get email from localbitcoins
only phising mail, same in blockchain user, can get phising mail about open investment

if true open investment service, so can annocument in site localbitcoin, can much people see and invest in there
not only sending mail and bitcoin addres

[jackg]

That email is definitey a scam. They wouldn't be accepting investments up to in ~3 days time woud they? It's a scam designed to cause panic to the person who opens the email.

Also, could you suggest the email address that sent it and decode the email headers to get the ip address (there is advice on that online)

AND, remove the bitcoin address from the OP just incase someone decides they want to test this site.

[TastyChillySauce00]

iam never believe this youre get email from localbitcoins
only phising mail, same in blockchain user, can get phising mail about open investment

if true open investment service, so can annocument in site localbitcoin, can much people see and invest in there
not only sending mail and bitcoin addres

That's right, unfortunately, to send this kind of phishing email just need a mailer which you can get for the pretty cheap price.
I'm strongly recommend people here to use good email services provider such as GMAIL which filtering this kind of phishing email automatically and flagging it immediately.

[Pursuer]

this is an obvious scam, in fact it is too obvious that it makes me laugh.
when a known website is sending you a new offer, new feature or whatever they give a link to their website and the exact page you need to visit in your account to use that offer, feature or whatever not a bitcoin address.

also checking the email address alone doesn't prove it is legit since email can be spoofed and made look like it is sent from the legit service email but you have to analyze it deeper to  see the IP and other details indicating it was spoofed.

[lumeire]

Much better if you show us the details of the email you receive if it's really from localbitcoins.com

There are so many scammers right now using the name of big company or services to trick people simply to scam, they are using the same site's name but differs from its domain extension. This is obviously a scam attempt, beware!.

The sender of email was from this address localbitcoins-no-reply@localbitcoins.co without m
i am sure it is trying scam and the real website localbitcoins.com and the sender of email use (@localbitcoins.co) without m

Got this email too in one of my email accounts, and it went straight to the spam folder. Not sure how they got my email though. It's an obvious phishing attempt.

[mbuk81]

Have you informed local bitcoins sited admin about the email If it was true I'm sure you will see something on there site I hope this does not mean that they have had a data breach what did tell you todo with the email and did they say how they got you email and is was this a big problem nice of you to let other members now so we now know.

[morantis]

Have you informed local bitcoins sited admin about the email If it was true I'm sure you will see something on there site I hope this does not mean that they have had a data breach what did tell you todo with the email and did they say how they got you email and is was this a big problem nice of you to let other members now so we now know.

really?  you guys are making a big deal out of something that happens 10-50 times a week.  I am sure they do not care about a spam/phish email that this schmuck got

[lumeire]

Have you informed local bitcoins sited admin about the email If it was true I'm sure you will see something on there site I hope this does not mean that they have had a data breach what did tell you todo with the email and did they say how they got you email and is was this a big problem nice of you to let other members now so we now know.

really?  you guys are making a big deal out of something that happens 10-50 times a week.  I am sure they do not care about a spam/phish email that this schmuck got

If they care about their customers they're gonna warn them - and I'm sure they do.

[morantis]

Have you informed local bitcoins sited admin about the email If it was true I'm sure you will see something on there site I hope this does not mean that they have had a data breach what did tell you todo with the email and did they say how they got you email and is was this a big problem nice of you to let other members now so we now know.

really?  you guys are making a big deal out of something that happens 10-50 times a week.  I am sure they do not care about a spam/phish email that this schmuck got

If they care about their customers they're gonna warn them - and I'm sure they do.

they assume their customers are not stupid and that they do not have to hold their hands over the stupidest things, i am sure that they do not warn their customers to not hand out their credit card information to anyone and everyone.  this is the reason that people need to be intelligence tested before being allowed to do business

[CraigWrightBTC]

Much better if you show us the details of the email you receive if it's really from localbitcoins.com

There are so many scammers right now using the name of big company or services to trick people simply to scam, they are using the same site's name but differs from its domain extension. This is obviously a scam attempt, beware!.

The sender of email was from this address localbitcoins-no-reply@localbitcoins.co without m
i am sure it is trying scam and the real website localbitcoins.com and the sender of email use (@localbitcoins.co) without m

Got this email too in one of my email accounts, and it went straight to the spam folder. Not sure how they got my email though. It's an obvious phishing attempt.

Well I think we just needs ignore this emails because it is realy trying scam 
because if it is true must there are clarification from official localbitcoin.com

[streazight]

No need for a discussion here. It is obviously a scam. Do not trust people who seem untrustworthy. They may even have high trust ratings and great previous Works but that doesn’t make them trust worthy in bitcoin World. There was zenhash in this World where everyone put so much money into and defended them to the core and thought they were the saviors of bitcoin and so on, they happened to be scammers. Just because most people believe in a website or a person (look at mt.gox) doesn’t mean they are trustworthy, you need use your gut feeling about these things.

[hardtime]

Totally a scam attempt, no reputable company would say send here for investing or something along those lines. If they really needed some sort of investments, they'd probably be going and asking for it on the LBC site itself.

If they did that and sent that type of email, it would make it look less scammer-ish. Though, I wouldn't send a dime to that address.

[mbpinewatch]

I would be worried about how they got you email address you must now this is a scam a any thin like this always Is I cant see local bitcoin ervey doing this type of think and what did staff at the site say about it fi u have contacted them about it

[Zadicar]

I would be worried about how they got you email address you must now this is a scam a any thin like this always Is I cant see local bitcoin ervey doing this type of think and what did staff at the site say about it fi u have contacted them about it

Its easy to get someones email specially when you do use phishing or any web site do have email subscriptions or something like that because those sites are just getting up your email and if you are careless enough they would really get your email and be part on their target email list to send those scam attempt.

[veleten]

this email has been circulating for at least 3 weeks now
they just change the company:localbitcoins,blockchain.info etc.
and needless to say that you mark them as spam and don't open,there can be malware inside
this what happens when you join "cloudminings" or HYIPs of dubious reputation,they will sell your email address to spammers and steal your coins,too

[pinkflower]

This is a scam. Instead of asking us please post the email address and all the other meta data that came with this email. Dont pretend to be wondering about it. You know at first look that this is a scam.

But thanks for posting it here. It spreads the news. The next step is to inform localbitcoins.com.