What happenedFake BTC wallet with lost password.
Scammers thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5181931.0Description.
One of my Russian friends contacted me regarding this. He was about to buy that wallet, but I recommended him to avoid doing so.
What happenedOne Russian dude announced that he was selling a 850 BTC Wallet.dat with lost password. He was claiming that it was a 12 digit password and he knew first 7 digits and another 5 were lost. First 7 digits = Skipper and another 5 was a combination of marks @%&*(_+)!$^ Then he said that there were 7 addresses imported to one wallet and published the addresses. Of course someone asked him to publish the
hash of the wallet (Available via
https://github.com/magnumripper/JohnTheRipper/blob/bleeding-jumbo/run/bitcoin2john.py) so anyone could try to recover the password, without having a Wallet.dat file. After he published that hash, couple of users cracked the password easily. So they immediately bought that wallet (It was listed on satoshidisc) Of course the wallet was fake with spend only addresses imported and without keys.
Final Result = Scammer sold two copies of the wallet.dat file for 0.2 BTC each and despaired.
Use google translator for reading the thread, if you don't understand Russian
BE WARY CAREFUL AND DO NOT BUY ANY WALLET WITH LOST PASSWORD, EVEN IF YOU CRACKED THAT PASSWORD VIA HASH OF THE WALLET !!!