BEWARE Fake BTG Wallets Flooding Market

[bitcoinfuck]

be careful, with all these fake google ads and other links promoting BTG Wallets


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[worldofcoins]

Where did you get this info?  is a good warning as there might be hackers trying to scramble for every penny they can get a hold of

[Spendulus]

Where did you get this info?  is a good warning as there might be ARE hackers trying to scramble for every penny they can get a hold of

This is good advice.

Any downloaded "wallet" that gets access to your use of the blockchain is a obvious threat.

[figmentofmyass]

Where did you get this info?  is a good warning as there might be ARE hackers trying to scramble for every penny they can get a hold of

This is good advice.

Any downloaded "wallet" that gets access to your use of the blockchain is a obvious threat.

absolutely. i've been watching newbies flock to download malware when altcoins launch for years now. it never ceases to amaze me. at the very least, one should do a basic amount of research: the bitcoin gold team has an official website (btcgpu.org) and twitter. start there. cryptocurrency user or not, nobody should be downloading anything straight off the google search results.

there's already been a pretty widely circulated scam also: twitter.com/btcgpu is an imposter, and he's been sending people to a web site where users input their private keys to claim their BTG. it's clearly a total scam. this space really is a scammer's paradise.

[Rozita]

With the experience of Bitcoin Cash, most probably a lot of hackers try to steal Bitcoins and Bitcoin Gold. Any one should be very careful and don't trust to any wallet or instruction to get Bitcoin Gold.

[exstasie]

With the experience of Bitcoin Cash, most probably a lot of hackers try to steal Bitcoins and Bitcoin Gold. Any one should be very careful and don't trust to any wallet or instruction to get Bitcoin Gold.

In times like these, I wish we could input private keys and have exchanges sweep them, so we don't need to deal with any software. Of course, you would want to be very careful to make sure that the private key held only BTG when you used it on an exchange. Otherwise they might sweep your other currencies and not credit them.

I'm hoping that a reputable wallet provider like Blockchain.info or BTC.com or Jaxx supports BTG, so I don't have to deal with its Core wallet. I don't know or trust the developers, so I don't really want their software on my machine. I just want to dump the coins...

[Spendulus]

With the experience of Bitcoin Cash, most probably a lot of hackers try to steal Bitcoins and Bitcoin Gold. Any one should be very careful and don't trust to any wallet or instruction to get Bitcoin Gold.

How about this strategy.

Download/install/create login to web ....

NOTHING.

[blockman]

be careful, with all these fake google ads and other links promoting BTG Wallets


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Surely they will come and going to take the advantage of bitcoin gold wallets since there are so many claimers that wants to get their free BTG. Just secure yourself, don't download something that you don't know and don't ever try to put your private keys into those wallets that are asking for it without further notice that wallet you'd downloaded is trusted and recommended by the community. Since up until now there's no update coming from bitcoin gold website itself on how to claim it.

[Restmand]

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It was a good advice now that Bitcoin is starting to become more bigger , famous and in demand to others some fake Bitcoin wallet will exist. Because of greediness of some people they are trying trick some people. So its better to take some precaution and safety on what you are going to open site which advertise Bitcoin maybe some are fakes and trying to fool and trick people. So lets make a move so that no one will be tricked by the fake BTG wallet.

[arpon11]

Of a truth a lot of scaming activities are on going and many people are been scam every days. Wallet provide services are pumping up every day and we do hear story of how much people are lose on bitcoin related scaming activities. I just read a story just now on how a guy lose  0.11bitcoin due to fake wallet providers online. I will keep to what I know and that is using blockchain.info wallet and xapo if I most use online wallet. I lose money true ethereum wallet providers in April and I did not expect to make the same mistake again.

[InvoKing]

be careful, with all these fake google ads and other links promoting BTG Wallets

Fake Blockchain phishing site, fake Bitcoin "generator", fake shitcoins, fake ICO, wouldn't be surprised to see fake wallets since this trick was used before 
Just stick at what the official site says (and your brain people)

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I think theymos will make a post about how to claim your BTG like he did with BCC

[Lipe490]

Some people are so innocent and they believe that will receive some BTG for free if they put their bitcoin adress and their private key in a malware site. I've seen at least 3 people losing bitcoin believing on those sites and even calling people to do the same thing. Maybe they are the owners of those sites and are trying to scam people. Just avoid them and make sure you have your coins in safety wallets or exchanges (some are exchanging bitcoin for btg at 1:1 ratio)

[faithupgrade]

This is serious. Google Adwords must hire people with deep crypto knowledge before approving any ads related to crypto.

These scammers will do anything to hack your money. Fake domain names like replica of myetherwallet.com , fake ICO sites.. Must be banned by Google SEO team. Fake sites must also be banned from Google Adwords.

be careful, with all these fake google ads and other links promoting BTG Wallets


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[Ryan Dugan]

It amazes me that good allow this. They should know the wallet is not out yet and this is a scam. I knew that that were bound to be lots of fake wallets making their rounds, it doesn't surprise me it is an ease back for a scammer to make. Please be careful everyone and always transfer your bitcoin to a new wallet so that nothing can be stolen.

[Vatimins]

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Yes a lot of faje wallets are really flooding the market taking advantage of all the newbiews wantung to get their fair share of bitcoingold coins that is why hackers do many things to hack and scam people by phising or anything else in the crypto world because they are lazy to work for anything thet want in this field and in this life.

[Pearls Before Swine]

This same stuff happened with the BCH fork.  I wouldn't trust anyone with this until all the
dust has settled.  But this time I do have a small amount of bitcoin and should therefore
have some bitcoin gold....which is going to be worthless, mark my words.  But yeah, be
careful.

[Crypington]

Really good advise here, and one more thing to add is be careful when you transfer your Bitcoin, Bitcoin gold, and Bitcoin cash ... I've been hanging around the exodus wallet slack channel, and everyday they get people who mixed up Bitcoin/Bitcoin Cash addresses.  Bitcoin Gold is just going to add one more address into the mix to confuse.  And be warned that many exchanges and services will not assist you in recovering the private key if you mix up addresses.

[freedomno1]

It's best to be cautious with forked coins while there can be price advantages to being first losing your main asset aka your Bitcoins for a smaller stake such as Bitcoin gold is not worth the risk. I agree when a fork happens act with prudence and caution before executing any trade or launching a new wallet to extract coins with.

[DirtyMartini]

Yes I've noticed all the fake ads/sites/wallets popping up for BTCGold. It would be easy to get fooled as newbie so well done for putting this warning out.
I've temporarily stored my Bitcoin in a burner wallet for this as I won't be giving out my main private key to anyone, legit or not..

[Beicin]

Don't rush into getting your BitcoinGold if you had money on a private wallet. It is better to be safe than sorry, just wait out the initial craze. Its not worth losing your entire stack for a coin worth so little right now.