WARNING!! BEWARE S11 SCAM Email!!

[BenRickert]

Yup. Me too. Pretty messed up. Truth is....no one will even pursue these scum. They will also make a LOT of money off of unsuspecting idiots.

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[juninhodecio]

unfortunately yes. ive checked the btc address they sent on my pdf and there are deposits there. Somebody got scammed

[cuteman]

The attachement just gave you the Crypto payment bar codes. Yeah......79 Ths with 1400 Watts. LMAO!! The sad thing is....as absurd as that claim is, the profitability of those metrics is only $24.00 a day with .10 per KWH. Which means......that.....when the REAL new S11 or whatever they name it comes out, it will be well inside of that. I doubt that from 16nm to 7nm will get more than 30 THs at 1400 watts. Bottom line.....even the NEW technology will NOT be very exciting. Pretty depressing.

New bitcoin miner from Japan company GMO which is on 7nm tech process, and it produces only 24Th/s with nearly 2000 Watts consumption - which is about 15% more efficient that S9.    So yes, the NEW technology will NOT be very exciting.

[shaninium]

Bitmain was not hacked. They sold your details.

Awhile ago they did have a security issue, they told everyone to change passwords / enable authentication. That data they got must be these emails.

[cuteman]

Scammers use data from the shipping addresses. I conclude this from the fact that they use my friend's name when greeting me in email.      

With BM i use a shipping address to my friend's location, for some reason.  So scammers don't have access to the inner BM database, where my real name is mentioned.

[nc50lc]

Anybody knows how do scammers achieve sending email from Bitmain domain?
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Bitmain's domain isn't "bitmaintech", plain sight obvious.

Making a non "@gmail/@yahoo" email is quite simple. Ex. I have an email account trashcan@randomace.tk where the spam goes.
And the hacker just bought a domain that sounds like the original, then he made an email account using that domain.

Example: bitmain.com, the hacker bought bitmaintech.com then he created webmaster@bitmaintech.com as the fake administrator email account to scam noobs.

[shaninium]

Anybody knows how do scammers achieve sending email from Bitmain domain?
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Bitmain's domain isn't "bitmaintech", plain sight obvious.

Making a non "@gmail/@yahoo" email is quite simple. Ex. I have an email account trashcan@randomace.tk where the spam goes.
And the hacker just bought a domain that sounds like the original, then he made an email account using that domain.

Example: bitmain.com, the hacker bought bitmaintech.com then he created webmaster@bitmaintech.com as the fake administrator email account to scam noobs.

webmaster@bitmaintech.com is bitmains email. Ive been getting legitimate emails from this address for ages, thats why its so convincing, especially if you save this email as a contact / priority sender.

[nc50lc]

webmaster@bitmaintech.com is bitmains email. Ive been getting legitimate emails from this address for ages, thats why its so convincing, especially if you save this email as a contact / priority sender.

Ouch ok, so it must be an inside job or a sophisticated hacking incident and the attacker must have stolen more than customer's emails and contacts.
Otherwise, the "other guy" was right.

Awhile ago they did have a security issue, they told everyone to change passwords / enable authentication. That data they got must be these emails.

The first statement suggests that the hacker(s) didn't just fetched the emails but also Bitmain's admin accounts (and administration rights?) as well.

This is more serious than I thought.

[amirheavy666]

I receive this email from bitmain....all previous emails from bitmain was this address exactly ...what's wrong?!! they hacked??!!


From: webmaster <webmaster@bitmaintech.com>

 
Dear

Limited time offer for registered users!

We are proud and happy to announce Antminer S11-1 Presale!

Also, as we promised, coupon will be activated for each Antminer S11-1 purchased.

Shipping date estimated:

First 1000 Antminers S11-1 purchased will be shipped on June 20-28.
Second 10000 Antminers S11-1 purchased will be shipped on July 18-26.

Public sale of Antminer S11- starts on 31 August with 2600$ price, while we offer you to reserve your Antminer S11-1 for best price now.

Don’t miss opportunity to get your Antminer S11-1 first!

Presale expiry date is 06:59:59, 12th, June, 2018 (Beijing time, GMT+8).

Please find additional information about our offer in PDF file attached.

Customer details


Thank you for choosing Bitmain.

Best Regards,

The Bitmain team

[r01k]

Just got this email. Bitmain-style looking and showing source as webmaster@bitmaintech.com, which is a real Bitmain address. Two red flags:

• 79.5 TH/s @ 1400W is years in the future.
• Nothing googlable about any S11 ready to ship.

Note that faking the source email address is trivial, but what points to Bitmain having been robbed bare of user data is that all personal details are on the email. Or maybe scammers are using data from last year's(?) hack.

[Bulletdodger]

Bitmain are to blame - most probably they sold the info, and they aren't giving any statements regarding this while scammers rake their loot.
Horrible customer relations!

[slv1221]

Perfect SPAM attack
20 BTChttps://blockchain.info/address/1NgbuAZCSAeHqAKWVm8ussjtNju6Z1JfnK in 2 hours

[cuteman]

webmaster@bitmaintech.com is bitmains email. Ive been getting legitimate emails from this address for ages, thats why its so convincing, especially if you save this email as a contact / priority sender.

Interesting that email shows the sender's email as webmaster@bitmaintech.com - BUT if you try to reply it, it will put another address for the receiver:  no.rply@bitmaintech.com

Obviously there is a trick, in which scammers succeeded to put   webmaster@bitmaintech.com  on the "sender's" field of their emails, somehow.    BUT email arrives not from it, but from no.rply@ ...  , and when you reply it, it put real address from where it arrived - no.rply@bitmaintech.com

In any case,  in order to send email from address belogning to domain bitmaintech.com - you need to posess that domain, don't you ??

[cuteman]

Perfect SPAM attack
20 BTChttps://blockchain.info/address/1NgbuAZCSAeHqAKWVm8ussjtNju6Z1JfnK in 2 hours

terrible.  It had 2 BTC just some hours ago.  Seems more amd more people get scammed.

[juninhodecio]

yes a lot of people, if you guys have a good social network post the warning to try to help.
my last received email came from
info@preorder.bitmain.com

[keksik]

well i was one of the stupid people who got scammed.. i bought 2 miners.. they called me from official phone number of bitmain!! i checked that..and when i received email and it was from webmaster@bitmaintech.com (i cehcked previous emails from them) i said ok, something private because i bought 10 miners before..al;so they had ALL my informations..like adress, name, surname, phone number, street, and emails, everything...
fuc**ng sake, i will broke their bones if i found them, which i do no of course...4600usd out of window...

i must admit hey are really clever...

[BenRickert]

Anybody knows how do scammers achieve sending email from Bitmain domain?
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Bitmain's domain isn't "bitmaintech", plain sight obvious.

Making a non "@gmail/@yahoo" email is quite simple. Ex. I have an email account trashcan@randomace.tk where the spam goes.
And the hacker just bought a domain that sounds like the original, then he made an email account using that domain.

Example: bitmain.com, the hacker bought bitmaintech.com then he created webmaster@bitmaintech.com as the fake administrator email account to scam noobs.

This makes sense because the first one they sent to me was from nrply@bitmaintech.com. Then they changed it. They also had my old address on the email. So whatever they have in data is not particularly "current" it would seem.

[r01k]

Here's my exchange with Bitmain Support on this:

 

hong.wang (Bitmain)
Jun 11, 21:19 CST
Dear xyz,

Please be advised that Bitmain haven't contacted customers by telephone or email to announce Antminer S11. Do not purchase from such a caller or an email and do not give them your personal information. For more detail please see this article: https://blog.bitmain.com/en/fraudulent-websites-and-scams-alert/

For official updates and Bitmain news please follow our blog: https://blog.bitmain.com/en/

For information on our products please refer to our official website, Facebook or Twitter feeds. You may also subscribe to email announcements.

We continually monitor our system to ensure the security of customer information. Thank you for your continued support.

We will appreciate it if you could offer us evidence of this scam in any form(email screenshot/ PDF), it would be a great help for our Legal department to trace down the Outlaws.




Best regards,
hong.wang
Bitmain

________________________________________
Always order products directly from our website: www.bitmain.com
"Solved" means we replied - we still work on your issue until it is resolved.

 
xyz
Jun 11, 20:18 CST
I received an email from webmaster@bitmaintech.com with contents as shown attached. It announces a presale of a purported Antminer S11 with 79.5TH/s capacity @ 1500W for $2300. Is this real? If not -as I suppose-, how did scammers get my personal information? Has Bitmain security been compromised?
Attachment(s)
Email.pdf
Limited Offer Details S11.pdf

[BenRickert]

well i was one of the stupid people who got scammed.. i bought 2 miners.. they called me from official phone number of bitmain!! i checked that..and when i received email and it was from webmaster@bitmaintech.com (i cehcked previous emails from them) i said ok, something private because i bought 10 miners before..al;so they had ALL my informations..like adress, name, surname, phone number, street, and emails, everything...
fuc**ng sake, i will broke their bones if i found them, which i do no of course...4600usd out of window...

i must admit hey are really clever...

That seriously sucks man. I admit i got pretty amped up when I saw it, but realized that everything about this process was outside of Bitmain's way of doing business. That and the 79Ths claim. That's what really tipped me off. It's just not possible while pulling 1400 watts or anywhere near that.

[PRC_May]

i have receive email from bitmain ... there is invoice at attachment

i do not open it ...but if that scam ... how they got my email  ?? and Scammers use my shipping addresses !!

what happen ??