I am being mercilessly scammed by somone from the bitcoin world

[radardoug]

So I am getting many emails from some scammer telling me that I have a bitcoin balance.
Heres a typical one.


CryptoInvest

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Dear Doug

A friend has transferred an amount to your wallet and the transaction has just been approved by our financial experts.
GO TO WALLET

Best Regards

CryptoInvest

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How do I get rid of these morons?
Any help appreciated!

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Ignore em !

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Do NOT click on any links in the emails as they will probably attempt to load malware on your system!
Then tag them as spam so they go into your spam folder to eventually be deleted.

[Ultegra134]

Do NOT click on any links in the emails as they will probably attempt to load malware on your system!
Then tag them as spam so they go into your spam folder to eventually be deleted.

I doubt it's what you said, nothing to do with malware. It's a phising attempt, they are trying to obtain usernames and passwords to access anything that can be related to OP (Wallets, exchanges, emails, accounts).

Just declare it as spam and be done with it, ignore any further emails that you may receive in the future.

[Bitcoin_Arena]

It seems you email address could have been leaked to some scammers who will keep spamming it with different scam messages. I suggest you try;
1. To unsubscribe (the option is usually below the message). They won't be able to send you messages from the same email domain in the future unless they change it.
2. To Mark the message as spam so that future messages from the same sender with automatically be sent to the spam folder.
3. If you continue receiving more scam and spam messages, abandon the email and create a fresh one which will be strictly for serious business. Do use it for registering in random sites.

[suzanne5223]

Firstly, I don't much understand if you being a scammer or not due to the thread posts, if you are not being a scam follow the instruction provided above by others. Buts what you're experiencing is what I called an impersonator attack whose impersonate a trusted organization possibly to steal some sensitive information or data from you (Credit card) but it good to understand how they work .

[pixie85]

It's a typical phishing email or a ponzi link. They hope you will contact them to unsubscribe which will show you're reading their spam and that the email is active which will lead to even more spam.

If it's a ponzi or some other scam site they'll show a fake deposit linked to your email and will ask you to go through kyc and send some money from your bank account to prove the ownership. If you do that your ID and other stuff will be sold to other scammers and they'll take the money you send to prove account ownership.

They will even send you malware via email attachment saying it's something you have to click on to enable your account or whatever.

[aoluain]

Dont do anything!

Dont even unsubscribe, you dont want to confirm that your address is live.

Create a rule to automatically send to spam.

If you hover the curser over the links you can see the address you
will be able to verify where the links are sending you.

[Rengga Jati]

I browsed some information about Cryptoinvest and mostly they said that this is a scam. And if we open their website at https://cryptoinvest.is/, it cannot be opened or it has been dead. Or maybe they use another site again.
But, clearly, from your case, this is also one of the scam schemes.
members above have told you what to do.

1. In this case, commonly, once they got your email, they will always keep sending you emails and also very super legit offering to claim any bonuses, balances, investment, and also others. that is why make sure that you will never be interested in that kind of offering.
2. if you got that kind of email, just report it as spam, and ignore them
3. Never klick any link offered, or visit certain URL link or site that they gave
Once more, they will always offer very legit rewards, so watch out

[sheenshane]

This is the reason why I mostly ignore the messages on my emails that use in my crypto exchange account, but not on my Bitcoin wallet because I'm using an open-source wallet that didn't have the required email account.  I don't even check emails that content link because I'm afraid that it might have a malicious link that will lead to a hack.  It seems the same as that, don't click the link given by the email because we don't know if that email comes from the hacker, the best thing to do if you have doubt never click those messages that you received.

I suggest you transfer your fund if there is one, just use a wallet that doesn't require an email address.  Electrum wallet for your Bitcoin will surely safe if you downloaded the right wallet, https://electrum.org/#download.

[Twentyonepaylots]

Best would be to ignore these guys. Up to a certain extent will they only be able to scam you, and that happens when you entertain them. So you risk your money the moment you took their bait. Just like what Jordan Belfort said in the true to life story The Wolf of Wall Street, whoever says something first after an offer is made loses the game. So let them lose their patience over you. Be like Jordan Belfort.

[GreatArkansas]

This kind of scams are up again? I remember way back around 2018, I received tons of emails about this kind of scam. I am curious why I got those email at first, they know my email address.

Tip to avoid this is to avoid giving your personal email address on random people or filling out some form about crypto, just like airdrops or bounties. The best is to have a separate email address for your personal and separate email address for work or for cryptocurrency related.

[Wexnident]

Put them on spam, or just directly change emails and avoid using your email to register onto random sites that may or may not even be legit, unless you're 100% sure they are. Don't even bother unsubscribing to them, as that could just also give them proof that you're still pretty active and would probably give them more opportunities to scam the hell out of you.

Do NOT click on any links in the emails as they will probably attempt to load malware on your system!
Then tag them as spam so they go into your spam folder to eventually be deleted.

I doubt it's what you said, nothing to do with malware. It's a phising attempt, they are trying to obtain usernames and passwords to access anything that can be related to OP (Wallets, exchanges, emails, accounts).

Just declare it as spam and be done with it, ignore any further emails that you may receive in the future.

It's completely possible though. A click could result in you downloading something in the background, I'm not just sure if the user would even be alerted of it or not. And with that download, hackers can easily access your pc, directly obtaining users and passwords and other details possible that is inside your pc.

[Darker45]

This is very common but I noticed that this type of email will normally turn up in the spam folder rather than in the inbox. Regardless, ignore it. Report it as spam. The other steps are already provided above.

If I may add, make it your habit to not even open emails which are not expected, especially those whose origins you do not even know. And if your email is already pestered with such phishing attacks and possible links containing malwares, you better ditch that email once and for all.

[Latviand]

Do NOT click on any links in the emails as they will probably attempt to load malware on your system!
Then tag them as spam so they go into your spam folder to eventually be deleted.

I doubt it's what you said, nothing to do with malware. It's a phising attempt, they are trying to obtain usernames and passwords to access anything that can be related to OP (Wallets, exchanges, emails, accounts).

Just declare it as spam and be done with it, ignore any further emails that you may receive in the future.

No matter what you call it, it is still dangerous for someone's privacy and safety.

Considering it as a phishing scam, it still can have an access to your information and attack your software.

Just don't click an unknown links and that you will see online and it looks like that the OP is so done with those links.

Maybe he can download an adblocker so that those things will not bother him anymore and also to add safety and security in his device.

[Lorence.xD]

Do NOT click on any links in the emails as they will probably attempt to load malware on your system!
Then tag them as spam so they go into your spam folder to eventually be deleted.

This is the most common theme among phishing, they try to do a social engineering attack to make you let your guard down. I think the best case is to change the email address that you typically use for personal matters and tag the emails as spams, for personal matters, I have a separate email so as to not get my things mixed up. You also have to ask yourself about this kinds of things, why would your "friend" send you money unannounced? The only way to defeat a social engineering type of attack is by thinking not with emotion.

[meanwords]

So I am getting many emails from some scammer telling me that I have a bitcoin balance.
Heres a typical one.


CryptoInvest

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Dear Doug

A friend has transferred an amount to your wallet and the transaction has just been approved by our financial experts.
GO TO WALLET

Best Regards

CryptoInvest

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How do I get rid of these morons?
Any help appreciated!

It seems that for some reason, your email address was leaked and scammers had a hold of it. Just ignore the. If they keep emailing you even now, just change your main email address. That will save you the trouble from future potential phishing mails.

[zvs]

haha, I still get a lot of emails from the mtgox account/pw/email hack & public leak.

[lovesmayfamilis]

They can seduce you with huge amounts that supposedly should be in your account. But you, as a reasonable person, should understand that if nothing connects you with this office, how can bitcoins appear from them?
Divide your emails into business and everything else. Check your email addresses on this haveibeenpwnd.com site to see if your email addresses and passwords have become known to scammers.

[davis196]

How can you be "mercilessly scammed" by someone,if you didn't send him any crypto coins or money?
You are not scammed,you are just spammed.Your thread title is misleading,so you should change it.
I keep receiving such spam messages,but on Discord,not via email.
I wonder how the spammers got your email address.Did you submit your email on some shady crypto website or platform?
Simply mark those emails as SPAM and ignore them.I don't see a reason why you should create a topic on the forum and start whining about such small problem.