Watch out for phishing PMs!

[skull88]

Got the following PM:

Be careful where you mine and exchange bitcoins for money. Most mining pools are a scam, bitcoin exchanges too(they will hold your money for months), look in the scammers section and see for yourself deleted url

The url went to a page that looked exactly like the login form of the forum.
Check the url if you get a PM with a link in that supposedly directs you to a forumtopic! They try to trick you into believing you are logged out!

This url was sent to more people from what I could see, so don't give away your password, if you did, change it ASAP!

[Vod]

FYI, it's written phishing, not fishing. 

[jackjack]

The problem is that the people who read the Meta forum would have checked the link anyway

[CliffordM]

Good kattch

[noviapriani]

I saw some thread about themos adding some anti phishing script. Once the script is finished and installed I think phishing would hard to do.

[Maged]

LoL...
still does not works that divine script

Me got such PM too, from member "andrewarn"
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=163017

Kill him plz, or at least his registration

We try to kill them within a few minutes of the PM being reported with the report button.

[maurya78]

Thanks for highlighting this

Yet more scamsters! Sigh

[dominicwin]

Are these the result of purchased forum accounts???

[AuroraHF]

Are these the result of purchased forum accounts???

Perhaps, or just new forum accounts as I recall there is no restrictions of messaging someone when they are still restricted to the Newbies subforum.

[BadBear]

I doubt they'd buy accounts for that, they get banned as soon as the first report comes in.

[skull88]

FYI, it's written phishing, not fishing. 

oops, I changed it 

[PangPang]

Got the following PM:

Be careful where you mine and exchange bitcoins for money. Most mining pools are a scam, bitcoin exchanges too(they will hold your money for months), look in the scammers section and see for yourself deleted url

The url went to a page that looked exactly like the login form of the forum.
Check the url if you get a PM with a link in that supposedly directs you to a forumtopic! They try to trick you into believing you are logged out!

This url was sent to more people from what I could see, so don't give away your password, if you did, change it ASAP!

Thanks for the report