Email SCAM: "receive Free Bitcoin and Ethereum With Bitcasino"

[1982dre]

I cant believe that in 2019 people still got scammed by e-mail... I thought it was an era of y2k.

How can scammers have a list of "pre-defined group of players" ? Did they have a man "inside" Bitcasino? What do you think ?

Even in year 2030 people will still fall for those scams. They would have stopped the scamming already if no one trapped in it.

They just send it to 1000's of users and if just 1% are trapped they keep doing it.

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[hopenotlate]

I received that email as well and it was indeed sent from original bitcasino email address: so it was quite an elaborate scam as they managed to hack email provider.
But luckily seems like average (crypto)Joe is not so ignorant :

these are the two addresses the email was comunicating :

BTC Deposits: 19tj29CzDNntm8axEtqNP84YLgmLra48wy
ETH Deposits: 0x53B48Fa8c831135a6C21d88833DD89A2A1700790


and, as you can check by yourself, at the moment I'm writing this they only collected 0.00037299 BTC and 2.066 ETH

[adaseb]

Even though it was just language preferences and email addresses leaked it's bad for the crypto community because these hackers will most likely use these email addresses in the future to scam more customers from other gambling sites or even just exchanges and Bitcoin services.

From time to time I get emails about some promo or some fake withdraw and the fake email seems legit and it wants you to click a link and asks for logins, if I didn't notice the fake URL I might of fell for it.

This is what I see happening with these email addresses, they will most likely target people who might use Binance since it's a popular exchange or other large gambling sites like Primedice, Fortunejack, Bitsler, etc.

[Spaffin]

No need to be too naive and believe in those offers that seem very profitable and enjoyable.  Not only an email, but also on Telegram, over the phone and other opportunities scammers use to trick too gullible people.  I also believe that such situations will exist constantly and will never stop, because there are always people who are scammers and those who believe these scammers.

[BTCevo]

Thanks for the information. In turn, I am surprised why people continue to be inattentive and do not pay attention to the original email. Dozens of emails with similar spam come to me daily.

I believe they are sent from the same email as bitcasino because they can create exactly the same email as the hacked email so it is pretty solid confirmatioj that you can get. But as I know there is no way any site will asking for money or any similar action because gambling site marketing skill is always by using competition to bring people to their site. Not asking more money depositing to X address, if you being sent this a few times you might be able to see some flaws on their site

[mindrust]

It is a shame that people are smart enough to use crypto currencies but also at the same time dumb enough to fall for phishing scam. I always thought crypto as a fine IQ test. I guess we are still not there. Devs should make crypto harder to use, not easier. Remove GUI's, back to the command screen.

[Pmalek]

At least they didn't get away with a lot of money. 2 ETH and some Bitcoin change.
I really don't see much difference in this scam attempt from the twitter scams where a fake Vitalik Buterin account asks for 1 ETH and people send it. It doesn't matter who it comes from, you should never send your money to anyone who is 'promising' he/they will pay you back.
If a legit service wanted to collect funds in this way they would advertise it on all fronts well in advance and not send an email that is has started all of a sudden.

[Jating]

I cant believe that in 2019 people still got scammed by e-mail... I thought it was an era of y2k.

How can scammers have a list of "pre-defined group of players" ? Did they have a man "inside" Bitcasino? What do you think ?

It's because we still have people who don't use their common sense and just believed everything they see on their email. And as much as we warn individuals around the crypto community, I'm sure majority will still fall for this kind of trap.

I suggest that Bitcasino will terminate their contract with this 3rd party because this is a no-no, hire someone more competent.

[traderethereum]

I have seen that before, but that is not from the gambling site.
I already get an email from the investment sites telling me to send some amount to get a bigger profit.
I don't trust that because nothing can give us a big profit in any investment, especially in 24 hours.
If there is any site like that, then you will lose your money if you follow.
What I did is just delete the email and forget about that.
You should not follow or do anything, just skip the email and delete it if you think it's not benefits to you.

But bitcasino.io should fix the email problem in their site, so this case does not happen again in the future. And for bitcasino.io, I hope they can search the email provider, which could give them protection so they can prevent the hacker from compromising their email account again.

[deisik]

How can scammers have a list of "pre-defined group of players" ? Did they have a man "inside" Bitcasino? What do you think?

There was no such man (and need not have been)

As explained in the first posts of the thread, the casino had been using a third party email service. That means, first, they ("the third party") knew the email addresses of the players (as all emails were going through them), and, second, the emails sent to these players were technically authentic as they were coming from legit BitCasino addresses (read, it was not some typical phishing stuff you see every other day). Hacking the email provider allowed the hackers to look and feel like they were the real casino

[pakhitheboss]

Just read on lcb forum, that BitCasino.io issued a warning about circulating email scam.  " It’s important for you to know that the email contained fraudulent Bitcoin and Ethereum wallet addresses where you were asked to deposit funds to receive future interest. These are NOT BitCasino.io wallet addresses, please do not transfer any funds."

"BitCasino.io's investigations have confirmed that their third-party email software Customer.io was compromised, which resulted in fraudulent emails being sent out to a pre-defined group of players.

Currently, BitCasino.io found out that in 24 hours three transactions were made to the fraudulent wallet addresses, totalling 0.00037299 BTC and 2.0665 ETH. This situation and wallet address will be monitored further"

Bad news..

I do not understand what did they meant by stating that they will monitor the fraudulent wallet's address. What will happen by monitoring them?

Anyways thanks for sharing this important information with the community. It is better not to believe in any kind of email nowadays. I always ignore them.

[adzino]

Looks like only user email addresses and language preference were compromised and no other personal data has been leaked (or more stuffs and they are hiding it to keep themselves clean) according to the replies found at the thread. Too bad some people fell for this "fraudulent" email scam. I sometimes wonder how can people be this stupid and fall for these kind of obvious scam. Like yeah, some random dude saying he is from "this reputed casino" and will give you free money if you deposit to this "given address" - sounds 100% legit!

[Sirait]

Thanks for the information. In turn, I am surprised why people continue to be inattentive and do not pay attention to the original email. Dozens of emails with similar spam come to me daily.

I also experienced this, dozens of fake e-mails came in from everywhere, from gambling sites, exchanges, and HYIPs.

Even in year 2030 people will still fall for those scams. They would have stopped the scamming already if no one trapped in it.

They just send it to 1000's of users and if just 1% are trapped they keep doing it.

the scammers will continue to do this, they will not stop, I also received this email a few days ago but I did not pay attention to the email.

do not be easily tempted, make sure first where the source comes from.

[Ailmand]

That is why I do not entertain emails and any other promotions that is sent to me. It is risky, there are a lot of emails which contain links that can cointain malwares or virus or can be a phishing site. Good thing that you were able to share this and spread awareness and only three transactions were only made. Just be cautious. Verify everything with the developers first if the announcment is legitimate or not before sendig any money.

[carlfebz2]

Looks like only user email addresses and language preference were compromised and no other personal data has been leaked (or more stuffs and they are hiding it to keep themselves clean) according to the replies found at the thread. Too bad some people fell for this "fraudulent" email scam. I sometimes wonder how can people be this stupid and fall for these kind of obvious scam. Like yeah, some random dude saying he is from "this reputed casino" and will give you free money if you deposit to this "given address" - sounds 100% legit!

Their email third party provider had been hacked thats why hackers do able to make use of those email list and sent out fake scamming emails all over the place.
For people who played on the site will surely receive it out and since they had read up that it do came out on an original email then there would be a few will surely
believe it out yet the offer is irresistible imho.Its always been a hit for you to back off everytime you do see some wallet address because no matter how legitimate the service was when the time comes you read up something like this then you should think twice or just simply ignore it.

[Yatsan]

I cant believe that in 2019 people still got scammed by e-mail... I thought it was an era of y2k.

How can scammers have a list of "pre-defined group of players" ? Did they have a man "inside" Bitcasino? What do you think ?

It's because we still have people who don't use their common sense and just believed everything they see on their email. And as much as we warn individuals around the crypto community, I'm sure majority will still fall for this kind of trap.

I suggest that Bitcasino will terminate their contract with this 3rd party because this is a no-no, hire someone more competent.

Maybe they trusted the email-sender since it is the bitcasino's 3rd party email software however the said email software has been compromised by some hackers and used the gathered email addresses to send malicious emails. Bitcasino is already working with this, and assured that the data being taken was only the email addresses and not the personal player's documents. Bitcasino also warned their players about emails that may contain deposit address.

It is my first time to encounter a problem with the 3rd party email-software, I also suggest Bitcasino to apprehend the customer.io after the data breaching incident.

[kryptqnick]

Wow, sending it from an email that is exactly like the one that Bitcasino uses is an elaborate scam indeed. Some people mentioned they cannot believe people still fall for email scams, but I'd say that the amount of money the scammers received signifies that they actually don't! People did not lose much, even though they had reasons to trust the email, as it looked very official. I did not even know such scamming were possible! But in the end, only hundreds of dollars were sent to scammers' addresses. I did not receive such an email, by the way, even though Bitcasino sends me offers from time to time.

[JohnBitCo]

I cant believe that in 2019 people still got scammed by e-mail... I thought it was an era of y2k.

How can scammers have a list of "pre-defined group of players" ? Did they have a man "inside" Bitcasino? What do you think ?

Even in year 2030 people will still fall for those scams. They would have stopped the scamming already if no one trapped in it.

They just send it to 1000's of users and if just 1% are trapped they keep doing it.

These are called phishing attacks and gamblers / online users need to be aware of it. When we receive an email, we should verify its source and the sender. Usually there is little different in domain names which can be noted if we carefully see the email id. The scammers know that there are people who will believe the email is real and will act upon it without any verification.

[notblox1]

Just read on lcb forum, that BitCasino.io issued a warning about circulating email scam.  " It’s important for you to know that the email contained fraudulent Bitcoin and Ethereum wallet addresses where you were asked to deposit funds to receive future interest. These are NOT BitCasino.io wallet addresses, please do not transfer any funds."

"BitCasino.io's investigations have confirmed that their third-party email software Customer.io was compromised, which resulted in fraudulent emails being sent out to a pre-defined group of players.

Currently, BitCasino.io found out that in 24 hours three transactions were made to the fraudulent wallet addresses, totalling 0.00037299 BTC and 2.0665 ETH. This situation and wallet address will be monitored further"

The real question is, did scammers sent this emails to registered BitCasino.io users,
or to some random people from witch collected emails?
Maybe someone was hacked and email stolen?
In any case you should always double check who is sending you emails, to avoid scams

[deisik]

I cant believe that in 2019 people still got scammed by e-mail... I thought it was an era of y2k.

How can scammers have a list of "pre-defined group of players" ? Did they have a man "inside" Bitcasino? What do you think ?

Even in year 2030 people will still fall for those scams. They would have stopped the scamming already if no one trapped in it.

They just send it to 1000's of users and if just 1% are trapped they keep doing it.

These are called phishing attacks and gamblers / online users need to be aware of it. When we receive an email, we should verify its source and the sender. Usually there is little different in domain names which can be noted if we carefully see the email id. The scammers know that there are people who will believe the email is real and will act upon it without any verification

This seems to be a different case

The sender was authentic because emails came from a legit source which had been hacked (at least, as far as domain names are concerned). In this manner, it is not a typical phishing attack (if at all) as you would find no difference in domains. That likely explains why people fell victim to this attack as they saw that the source was authentic but they didn't expect it to be compromised (hacked). Really, if you trust the casino with your money, you would trust emails received from them unless they ask you something which they explicitly made clear in advance that they would never ask under any circumstances