Funny: "Nigerian" Scams Shifting To Bitcoin?

[iamTom123]

Attention: You Handsome Receiver!

BlockChain Have send the sum 150 bitcoin to your bitcoin wallet Ending 82LtfkyJvk, We tried to called your office number but no response. Kindly Check the payment slip attached details and verify that the 150 bitcoin we transfer was made to the right bitcoin wallet details you provided to us. You are advise to View Attachment for your Payment slip

your soonest reply will be appreciated

Thanks Regards,
Block Chain Payment Department

Source: from my email account!

I almost fell from my chair while reading this spam email on my Gmail account. It was not long time ago that "Nigerian type" of email scams circulated all over the internet enticing unsuspecting victims about their winnings of this and that...but you have to pay something in order to get what you have won.

Now, with Bitcoin getting popular, these scammers can be back in the business and this time around they would be using of course Bitcoin as the background of the story and of course as the mode of payment in case anybody can still be willing to be the sacrifice in the altar of learning what can be scam and not a scam.

Hmmm...I better be attending to a Halloween sale below.

Note: I want to clarify that I did not say that emails like this originated from Nigeria...take a look I said "Nigerian type" meaning it has some resemblance with those supposedly emails from Nigeria many years ago...and this info is all over the internet...it is not me who called these emails as "Nigerian"...please know that before you make such a report.

[berluscoin]

They are always on track, now they are switching from Forex to Bitcoin... 2 perfect legal things that look like a scam because of these people 

[erickkyut]

I think it is not only for Nigerian because I received a similar email before. Upon reading it, I knew that it was a scam because who would send me 150 BTC? Lol. I didn't open the link because I thought that it was a phishing site. I decided to immediately delete the email.

[naf]

I think this a good sign of bitcoin increased popularity. And you know what they say, there is not bad publicity!

[Beerwizzard]

Fortunately people should already have some brains to understand what is bitcoin and it works so they won't get scammed this way. Also for newbies it will be another barrier because they might not get how it works and give up with an idea of sending money to someone else. I would recommend to send this type of scam to different scam allerts so people can easily google it.

Please do not be racist, there is no where in that message that confirms the location of the sender.

It is well known that these scams emanate from countries all over the world like; Russia, Greece, Indonesia to name a few.

Calling this a Nigerian scam is quite pathetic and racist so I have reported your post

Holy cow! SJWs are invading this forum.
This type of scams is called nigerian because a huge amount of such e-mails was sent from the name from the name of the ex nigerian president, his wife, daughter etc.

[Tyrantt]

Fortunately people should already have some brains to understand what is bitcoin and it works so they won't get scammed this way. Also for newbies it will be another barrier because they might not get how it works and give up with an idea of sending money to someone else. I would recommend to send this type of scam to different scam allerts so people can easily google it.

Please do not be racist, there is no where in that message that confirms the location of the sender.

It is well known that these scams emanate from countries all over the world like; Russia, Greece, Indonesia to name a few.

Calling this a Nigerian scam is quite pathetic and racist so I have reported your post

Holy cow! SJWs are invading this forum.
This type of scams is called nigerian because a huge amount of such e-mails was sent from the name from the name of the ex nigerian president, his wife, daughter etc.

Check your full member privilege! Dude, we don't want antifa to come and wreck this forum apart.

Joking aside, it's nice to see that even the nigerian price has adopted bitcoin. Tho, I wouldn't find this attempt of scamming, in bitcoin community, to be that successful or be successful at all. Why? Well because people that are using bitcoin need to have just a little knowledge to know and to identify a scam like this, as with fiat many more people are using it without that much thought at all, so the community won't let this scammer get anything.

[JE666]

I don't think there has been any racism here, the majority of all scam emails originate from Nigeria. I have received 100's of scam emails into my email account and funnily enough every single one was from Nigeria. 

I don't feel they will be able to get the same response from the bitcoin trade as they have with fiat.

We are just lucky to have some of you lot guiding us!

[cryp24x]

Please do not be racist, there is no where in that message that confirms the location of the sender.

It is well known that these scams emanate from countries all over the world like; Russia, Greece, Indonesia to name a few.

Calling this a Nigerian scam is quite pathetic and racist so I have reported your post

I agree, even in Philippines scammer are shifting from forex to cryptocurrency trading disguise.  Scammers are everywhere, its that some place were too much exploited because of lack of knowledge but if you look at the profile of these scammers, they came from different country and mostly from developed country since they know the weak spot of these poor people.

[DaddyMonsi]

I've receive those kind of offers in my Facebook account, email, Twitter DM. I tried to let them feel that I am convinced with their scheme but they somehow detected that I am just playing along and maybe they are not really a Nigerian, they are just saying that they are Nigerian to put Nigerians in a bad light. I'm not going to be surprised to see them (Nigerians and pretending to be Nigerians) in the lending section.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Please do not be racist, there is no where in that message that confirms the location of the sender.

It is well known that these scams emanate from countries all over the world like; Russia, Greece, Indonesia to name a few.

Calling this a Nigerian scam is quite pathetic and racist so I have reported your post

Suck it up, buttercup.  It's not against the rules to be racist, and this doesn't even come close to racism.  The fact is, Nigerian scammers brought this upon themselves with their scams.  Every country in the world has scammers, of course, but some are way worse than others, just like Filipinos are some of the worst shitposters on bitcointalk.  They earned their rep.  If you're this sensitive, maybe  bitcointalk isn't the right forum for you.  Me, I'm glad these things aren't censored.

[Harlot]

When it smells to good to be true or even smell like a scam your best bet is to stay out with it. Thank you for informing us this new type of gimmick on an attempt on stealing our Bitcoin and money. These "Nigerian Scams" are often routed to them but other nationalities are now doing it as well the best thing you can do is to turn down the email and don't reply to it, even giving your personal information such as your bank account would endanger your money.

[w5pn73]

I doubt this will be very successful for them.
Most bitcoin users aren't the kind of people who would fall for something like this..at least I hope.

[gentlemand]

I'll be curious to see how this approach pans out. Not very successfully is my guess. Your average Bitcoiner is hyper paranoid to start with and they'll be a thousand times more internet savvy than most people to begin with.

The average 419er victim is some grandma who got her first computer that week or a horny grandpa.

[Nilda]

Bitcoin is the thing of the future. Scammers know this, that's why law enforcement agencies should at least try to keep up with the syndicates.

[DAVETUN]

Attention: You Handsome Receiver!

BlockChain Have send the sum 150 bitcoin to your bitcoin wallet Ending 82LtfkyJvk, We tried to called your office number but no response. Kindly Check the payment slip attached details and verify that the 150 bitcoin we transfer was made to the right bitcoin wallet details you provided to us. You are advise to View Attachment for your Payment slip

your soonest reply will be appreciated

Thanks Regards,
Block Chain Payment Department

Source: from my email account!

I almost fell from my chair while reading this spam email on my Gmail account. It was not long time ago that "Nigerian type" of email scams circulated all over the internet enticing unsuspecting victims about their winnings of this and that...but you have to pay something in order to get what you have won.

Now, with Bitcoin getting popular, these scammers can be back in the business and this time around they would be using of course Bitcoin as the background of the story and of course as the mode of payment in case anybody can still be willing to be the sacrifice in the altar of learning what can be scam and not a scam.

Hmmm...I better be attending to a Halloween sale below.

Note: I want to clarify that I did not say that emails like this originated from Nigeria...take a look I said "Nigerian type" meaning it has some resemblance with those supposedly emails from Nigeria many years ago...and this info is all over the internet...it is not me who called these emails as "Nigerian"...please know that before you make such a report.

This is quit funny, to confirm the scammer is a not inform about how Bitcoin runs,but this also call for caution for everyone to becareful with you wallet,hackers and scammers on the increase daily

[TrumpD]

I'll be curious to see how this approach pans out. Not very successfully is my guess. Your average Bitcoiner is hyper paranoid to start with and they'll be a thousand times more internet savvy than most people to begin with.

The average 419er victim is some grandma who got her first computer that week or a horny grandpa.

Dig a bit deeper and you will be surprised by the number of smart and educated people that have fallen victim to the 419 scam. These guys can be convincing and very persuasive. I doubt that bitcoin users are as paranoid as you think, with the number of scams that are being perpetrated daily on this board, I think the will have some reasonable level of success.

[SyGambler]

lets face it the easiest way to open a scam or a ponzi is to accept bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies , so this is a normal thing to happen
ponzis won't deal with ewallets where the members can somehow figure out who are the owners , also it's just easier to take bitcoin payments
and ponzi lovers are riding the wave of cryptocurrencies since they care mostly about the fast gains

what we should do here is spread the awareness in the forums if it was a scam product or a ponzi site , cause that's all what we can do

[Don Pedro Dinero]

Lol! Even this, which we can think of as negative, because it links bitcoin to scam, has a positive side. Bitcoin is spreading. There are still many people that haven’t heard about bitcoin but soon bitcoin will be a common word for everybody, just as dollar is.

I haven’t received that letter (yet). I have always received that type of letter saying that someone had left millions of dollars for me as his inheritance. The fact that scam is changing from dollars to bitcoins make me optimistic.

[gentlemand]

Dig a bit deeper and you will be surprised by the number of smart and educated people that have fallen victim to the 419 scam. These guys can be convincing and very persuasive. I doubt that bitcoin users are as paranoid as you think, with the number of scams that are being perpetrated daily on this board, I think the will have some reasonable level of success.

True. The level of stupidity on display here constantly blows my mind. People seem to genuinely want to throw their money away. There is a bit of a difference between being sucked in by a load of horse shit on here with a fancy site and some shills versus being solicited via a crappy email, but maybe I'm crediting people with too much intelligence.

[gabbie2010]

Scammers are always devising new methods of scamming people on daily basis, truly it is the gullible ones that will fall from this type of scam, imagine someone sending 150BTC to me and requesting for my hard earned bitcoin  this is absolutely unrealistic this is a wake up call for everybody to always verify any source of information.