Funny: "Nigerian" Scams Shifting To Bitcoin?

[miyaka26]

The attachment might be a malware or virus that will steal your private key and hack your desktop wallet, for the btc enthusiast like us it is funny to see some scammers trying to fool us to open and run the attachments that is pretty obvious but for the newbies and starters to the crypto they are the most victims of it no wonder why i saw a lot of thread about getting their coin lost because someone withdraw it from another wallet.

[hasmukh_rawal]

The attachment might be a malware or virus that will steal your private key and hack your desktop wallet, for the btc enthusiast like us it is funny to see some scammers trying to fool us to open and run the attachments that is pretty obvious but for the newbies and starters to the crypto they are the most victims of it no wonder why i saw a lot of thread about getting their coin lost because someone withdraw it from another wallet.

That is the exact reason why the email was sent to him. The email mentioned him eagerly to open the attachment and that is what the scammer wanted him to do. The attachment could have had any program injected in it that would have stolen the user's money form his PC. Programs such as the one which replaces the copied BTC address with another one are in circulation these days. So the attachment could have had one of these too. The wise ones will always ignore such emails while the beginners often fall for such scam.

[thenameisjay]

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!

Oh this is rich! Made me laugh as well! How desperate are these "Nigerian Hackers". I too got an email about this prompting me to send the Bitcoins SUPPOSEDLY sent me. I didn't even have their coins to start with so jokes on them.

I had a similar experience and they're telling me to send their share of the stakes because they told me I was this campaign manager for an ICO. I don't even own not one token of whatever campaign they told me I'm a part of. I'm not even qualified to be a campaign manager anyway.

[dreamer81]

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

Of course its not racism. The term nigerian scam, doesn't mean it's from nigeria, it's the codex the scam has been named.
Don't feel sorry for yourself, we are all humans regardless of color, playing the racist card is pathetic

[Herbert2020]

sometimes some of these scams are pretty funny. some scammers are way too lazy to even come up with an elaborate scheme to rob people. they want everything to be easiest and cheapest possible. i pity those who fall for these types of scams because they are the biggest idiots in the whole world. i mean if you want to be robbed at least be robbed by someone who is smart not some lazy ass idiot with not enough IQ to come up with a better plan.

[filharvey]

Nigerians are already well known for their internet scams.Now,i think that they have found bitcoin to be the safe haven completely free from the hands of government.

Bitcoin related businesses have become an ever growing sector.I would say that nigerians have come a little bit late to this field.

They have found that still there are lots of newbies who don't exactly know what bitcoin is and how it works.So,they have now targeted these bitcoin holders.

Already,we hear bitcoins being stolen by fake wallets.Now,definitely nigerians would become a huge problems to the bitcoin community as a whole.

[noormcs5]

Good to see, it means that Bitcoin is growing up, lol. Actually, years back I saw eBay being used to scam on BTC. They may be doing it now. I remember a few eBay sellers carefully wording listings to imply that the buyer was getting BTC at a deep rate, but it was simply another coin, basically worthless I think, so the outside scammers have been in the same vein for a while now.

That, and the phishing is pretty standard for addresses and keys, so it is the average scamming that I have seen up to this point.

[Zorbak]

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

Why is this racism? Are we getting mad?

It's well known where they come from.this kind of scams and saying that it is not racism at all.

[Prodigan786]

Hmm even people around me where realting with ransomeware virus because of bitcoin payment . Now If some victims falls in this trap again they will relate bitcoin with this traps. Again its a free publicity for bitcoin in negative side.