Suspicious PM

[BTC Turkiye]

I was having trouble with my transaction not being confirmed and I wrote about that in the forum here. Pretty soon I received this PM.

This transaction will never get confirmed, the fees are way to low:

https://blockchain.info/tx/339b84974d2fcb46b77c4a0167a92517c5122600165f4ee167dfc0595f5816f5 100.592 sat/B

If you would like this transaction to confirm you have to do the following:

In your Electrum wallet click Tools -> Load transaction -> from text

Input the following encoded raplecement transaction - this is the stuck transaction in encoded RAW but with higher fee:

Code:

0100000005d00b50f6c9fb91423a457b8f415a8f2be215055fa5e4696cd7b00be9d5d46bd8000000001976a91410b9eb243632d27d2e7597ce803d51b697e5350688acffffffffcb89b12aa47c89e7e17bc4d047a2531662f0ba5bf915acd288881f92aca116a8000000001976a91410b9eb243632d27d2e7597ce803d51b697e5350688acffffffffe93c34c54ac2533b37b597d4a363aeb594f9e88c4ab0c11d926d24c8bb462591000000001976a91410b9eb243632d27d2e7597ce803d51b697e5350688acffffffffbda0b89e8bb377ab5dcd43aa9bae7fe7db10089a4ceafc34d0c7a8fda4db9af6010000001976a91410b9eb243632d27d2e7597ce803d51b697e5350688acfffffffff516585f59c0df67e14e5f16002612c51725a967014a7cb746cb2f4d97849b33000000001976a91410b9eb243632d27d2e7597ce803d51b697e5350688acffffffff01809ff9f4000000001976a91455d83ffe39b5b1f3940052b48b039e2d914b43e088ac00000000

Now click on "Sign" and after this "Broadcast".

Now a new TX will be created with a higher fee and will be imported to a new change address created by Electrum causing the miners to pick the TX with the highest fee and old one to drop. (CPFP or Child Pays For Parent Transaction)

Can someone tell me if this is true? and should I follow these instructions?

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[AriBitcoin]

Take a look here: https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/decodetx/

Decode it and verify yourself.

[AriBitcoin]

Don't blindly sign some raw hex and broadcast. Instead, make your own transaction with same inputs, set higher fees, sign and broadcast it. The miners will choose the one with higher fee and ignore the other. This is also called double spend.

[TheQuin]

From the Tx id, it looks look you are sending from address 15E3Py1JLg4T8zNK3LQLriiRTEeafmFejN to 12XSXv3kfxwLBwPs9bCwE1FrMmmRfNn3JP and from that decode, it looks like an attempt to send from address 12XSXv3kfxwLBwPs9bCwE1FrMmmRfNn3JP to 18puVcnygSobzZgDGywvadCYYZKTTa1tCW and I'd guess that's not where you want it.

[BTC Turkiye]

From the Tx id, it looks look you are sending from address 15E3Py1JLg4T8zNK3LQLriiRTEeafmFejN to 12XSXv3kfxwLBwPs9bCwE1FrMmmRfNn3JP and from that decode, it looks like an attempt to send from address 12XSXv3kfxwLBwPs9bCwE1FrMmmRfNn3JP to 18puVcnygSobzZgDGywvadCYYZKTTa1tCW and I'd guess that's not where you want it.

Yup. That`s exactly what I thought.

Thanks everyone. I will report that a-hole for trying to phish

[BTC Turkiye]

Any idea who should I forward that PM to? Who in the forum takes care of these kind of scam attempts?

[TheQuin]

Any idea who should I forward that PM to? Who in the forum takes care of these kind of scam attempts?

Hit the Report To Admin in the bottom right corner of the message. Also, you should start a thread in Bitcoin Forum > Economy > Trading Discussion > Reputation https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=129.0 to raise awareness and hopefully get someone on DT to leave negative trust so fewer people are likely to get caught out.

[BTC Turkiye]

Any idea who should I forward that PM to? Who in the forum takes care of these kind of scam attempts?

Hit the Report To Admin in the bottom right corner of the message. Also, you should start a thread in Bitcoin Forum > Economy > Trading Discussion > Reputation https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=129.0 to raise awareness and hopefully get someone on DT to leave negative trust so fewer people are likely to get caught out.

Done. Thank you. Hope it`ll be helpful for some people

[carlfebz2]

From the Tx id, it looks look you are sending from address 15E3Py1JLg4T8zNK3LQLriiRTEeafmFejN to 12XSXv3kfxwLBwPs9bCwE1FrMmmRfNn3JP and from that decode, it looks like an attempt to send from address 12XSXv3kfxwLBwPs9bCwE1FrMmmRfNn3JP to 18puVcnygSobzZgDGywvadCYYZKTTa1tCW and I'd guess that's not where you want it.

Yup. That`s exactly what I thought.

Thanks everyone. I will report that a-hole for trying to phish

Thanks for this one which I didn't really expect since I don't have much idea on decoding those which I have received also this message when I do tried out to ask and someone did pm me regarding about this and luckily I didn't even bother to follow up what he instructioned which it would turn out I would be got victimized and lose those bitcoin I did transfer.