I am being mercilessly scammed by somone from the bitcoin world

[zvs]

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.

Spammers getting your email address doesn't require using your email on a 'shady crypto website or platform'.  

Yahoo alone has given up more than half a billion.

For bitcoin specific emails, if you polled a majority of bitcoin users, they'd probably tell you in 2011 that MtGox was the most reputable exchange. Someone managed to yoink the email list & then it was distributed to the public.

Despite that, in 2013 & early 2014 it handled 60-70% of exchange activity. It also did some fancy price manipulation ... or maybe that's "alleged", unsure if it was ever proven.  I believe its user list was also compromised again in 2014.  Not positive on that, though.  Didn't use it anymore.

re; "I don't see a reason why you should create a topic on the forum and start whining about such small problem." ...   yah, I agree w/ you there.

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[adzino]

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


CryptoInvest

Transactions Received

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!

You are not getting scammed. You are receiving spam emails. Once you click on any of those links, you might get phished and then you will get hacked.
Those are random spam emails which is sent to mass people where the hacker is hoping someone naïve will open those links. You can't get rid of those "morons". You can try marking those emails are junk/spam/phishing and your provider will eventually start filtering out those emails. Or you can create a custom rule were certain words or phrases, if contained on the email will automatically delete it or send it to spam.
You email address was probably leaked somewhere online.

[Alucard1]

This is not a new thing as I have read many things like these before, just ignore any messages from stranger who message you without any reason and strictly do not click any link included in the message on your email. You won't ever get scammed if you won't even send any money to other's crypto wallet and you won't get hacked if you'll be careful and knowledgeable about technology, malware I one of the reasons for getting hacked and it came out from those links in the email or installing fake software and many more.

[maxreish]

First off, if you know to yourself that you haven't play or invest on that website. Then do not hesitate to block that email, ignore and delete it right away. Never ever believe such emails saying you won particular amount, I'm sure the next thing they will say when you'll reply them is to send some coins for you to be able to get that money.

And right, if they provide some links never clicked that as it will possibly lead you to phishing sites. I am receiving different emails related to crypto winnings and giveaways but I never believe such crap. Be wise, man.

[maculeth]

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


CryptoInvest

Transactions Received

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

Copyright © 2020. All rights reserved.

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

from email or telegram? but suppose we block their messages and their contacts, it is possible to get more messages from different people. I often do so on telegram, but in concept they offer a number of promising investments for bitcoin.

[LogitechMouse]

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

1. Ignore them all
2. Unsubscribe like they said

Either of these 2 actions will be helpful but the second will be more helpful because they will not send you scam emails anymore that really annoys you. I don't know the feeling of receiving emails like that since I know when to subscribe and when not to . Either way, I can't consider that type of scamming people as "mercilessly" and that is quite exaggerating BTW. Use "continuously" since they are sending you many emails like you said.

[irixo10]

Nowadays, people need to be careful of their Bitcoin, in fact make sure you secure it as best as you can, because these scammers are not slowing down and will keep using every possible means to scam unsuspecting people. Nevertheless, in this case, just ignore the mail, don't bother clicking on any link, because it will likely be a phishing website to collect your information and scam you afterwards, thus just report the mail as spam. Henceforth, once you didn't request for an email depending on whatever Bitcoin investments you are into, learn to ignore certain mails like this one, also once you get mails with link to certain websites you frequently use, don't click on it, rather go through the one you are sure of, phishing scam is increasing nowadays.

[samputin]

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

1. Ignore them all
2. Unsubscribe like they said
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This is also what would I suggest. I mean, you cannot really stop them doing that but what you can do is allow yourself to have the peace of mind by means of putting them in the spam folder or really unsubscribing from them.

However, thinking of the worst case scenario, it's possible that even the unsubscribe button can also be a trap. So the best thing to do is just mark them as spam and delete their messages so that you will not be tempted to click any suspicious link or even open them. But, whatever the case is, always think before you click.

[NathanielParker]

maybe you can block that email address

[Ucy]

Did you fall victim to the email? Just wondering, considering your topic says you are being scammed.

The message looks suspicious...
Probably written that way to get their victims to be desperate, make them to pay certain amount or send something valuable or exploit them in other ways in exchange for the "transferred money", and then the victims get scammed once they obey and pay.

I would investigate how they got my email address in the first place, as I don't expose my main address that much.

[Wawa2013]

If there is an email saying that we get Bitcoin from a friend, and have to click an unknown link or register on a certain website. It's better to
avoid this. because I believe 100% scams, so many messages in my email like that too. Don't be easily attracted because we can get free money.
Because in this world it is impossible to have free money that easily, there must be a strong reason why we can get free money. Because
the method of scammers has never changed, it always offers free money.

[yazher]

This is the crypto industry's major problem but thankfully right now they are nothing to worry about because you don't really need to read everything they offered you or just simply delete everything they sent to you. This has happened when you joined some fake giveaway event like joining some airdrops or any other bounties because most of them are fake and the only thing they want is to get your email address and to sell them in bulk with the other victims to the scammers to send you those scam emails and any other fraud regarding crypto currencies.

[Mike Mayor]

You must be new to the internet. These are just your regular phishing email attempts. Just blacklist the email address sending you this and add it to the trash. What email client are you using and what service?
Surely they block this sort of thing because it is quite obviously spam phishing. I always wonder what their "lead rate" is. How many emails they must send before someone falls for it. It must be worth their while or they would not do it.

[youdacapt]

OP, Next time you should inform that you are getting fraudulent emails and fake deposits. The first step to overcoming such temptation is to flag such emails as spam; so it never appears again; and then you ensure that you do not use your personal email for frivolities' or tasks such as airdrops, bounties, giveaways etc. Keep yourself safe from third party hacks and attack. And do not keep your bitcoin secret phrases on email.

[lebregone]

It is very easy to get rid of them, block the sender or filter those type of message and put them right away to trash. Scammers are everywhere and they will not care whether you are innocent or not as long as they can get some money from their victims.

And it will be better also if you are going to report the sender so there is a chance the sender will be block but I am sure that the scammers have plenty of backups if it will happen, what we can do is to ignore that kind of emails and make sure to not click any of the attached link that they are sending to protect ourselves.

[shoreno]

that mercilessly word from your title caught my attention and i think this was verry serious but nah what happened to you is just a common scam attempt via email . to get rid of them is easy but no dont ever click any links from the email or the unsubscribe button on the email they provide because that can be fake . just mute them and report spam

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

you already know that he was a scammer and still want confirmation with us ? okay thats fine . this still gives awareness to others that cant easily detect crypto scams . 

[cr1776]

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.

Spam it for sure.  

It could easily be a malware link.  So don't visit it from any device.  Even from your phone it might not have been safe - in fact yesterday's iOS 14.4 release patched to fix at least one code escalation bug that might have been exploited, and a webkit vulnerability that could allow arbitrary code execution. 

Always avoid those type of spammy links.  

(You could use something like VirtualBox to check them out, but that is overkill if you know it is fake.  Just spam it.)

[LittleBitFunny]

The best thing to do is to ignore those emails. You can put them on a blacklist or block them if you want and change the privacy setting that's how unknown email sender will go to the spam folder by default. Do not click on any of the links provided by the unknown sender, And refrain from revealed email addresses everywhere. When registering in an untrustworthy place, use a dummy email address instead of the main email.

[thesmallgod]

You are either receiving a phishing mail with aim of stealing your login credentials or a sort of mail that redirect to website build by scammers. You will see the bitcoin in the wallet but you will be asked to deposit in order to unlock it. If you fall for this, ur deposited fund is going. The scammer must have bought email niche of people trading crypto from hackers that is the reason why the mail appear as if they know you by calling your name on the mail.

[CarnagexD]

Moat likely a phishing mail if you're being asked to login, be wary not to enter anything as not only could your bitcoins be at risk, your overall privacy and connectivity within the internet will be on the line. Better yet, don't entertain these scammers. They only get an edge over you if you give them the chance to talk to you and win your favor over. If you don't do that it won't happen.