Fraudulent e mail

[Belarge]

Hello this is my 1st post here. I am fairly new to BTC and have dabbled a little and have an account with Coinbase. I made a small amount of profit and it is held in cash in my coinbase account ATM. This morning I received an e mail from Coinbase telling me I had to immediately move it into an online wallet and gave a link. It all looked v legit until I looked at the e mail address - events@byhealthmeans.com needless to say I won't be transferring the funds but has anyone else had such an e mail from this address before? It was far more professional than other phishing e mails I have had.

Phising mails are everywhere and common these days, we just have to be dealing with our problems one by one. One needs to be more wiser when making decisions, I know it's going to be challenging but everything will become ease with time. We just have to stay off from sectors we know nothing about and focused our time towards making solid stands in the system. Don't be left behind, scammers are topping up their game and they've been their very best efforts been channel towards their prey.

[Alphakilo]

Never go to any links from an email unless its one you have requested yourself at that time such as when you ask to reset a password and they send you an email at that time. If you ever get an email you are not sure of, go to your web browser and visit the legit website yourself rather than using a link from the email.


The lot of us receive these emails all the time. Some will say my Binance account is closed or my paxful will be closed, I simply laugh when I read them because, I don't use any of them.

[Cricktor]

People should learn how to read and interpret the extended email headers (you have to look at the email's source text to view all email headers; if your email client can't show you all of them, ditch it). Nowadays all large and major email providers require proper DKIM and SPF setup (mostly). This makes it difficult to forge certain email headers.

A fraudulent email could be in perfect language and styling, but that shouldn't be a reason for you to click on links. The receive chain shows usually where the email came from and which mailservers passed it along. It is mostly pretty obvious that a fraudulent email doesn't come from the required email domain it pretends to come from.

Reading, analysing and interpreting the most important email headers is a skill which will benefit you not to fall on scammy email garbage. And it's a vital skill as long as email is basically broken.

[KingsDen]

I think that kind of link came from someone who knows you in person. Maybe they know you have joined cryptocurrency and you are a newbie, they wanted to try you. You could consider not telling people much about your investment.
It could also come from where you have linked your address before for a free coin or an airdrop. Ignoring such attempts is the safest thing you could do.

[nakamura12]

It is a phishing mail where the scammer pretending to be from coinbase or other websites so they can steal your funds. A person should always think that when someone asked you or when you read something where you must do something then it is a scam. As some websites say in their customer support chat that they never ask for your password or seed phrase. As what KingsDen explained that it cool be from someone who knows you and pretend to be from coinbase. Anyway, just ignore the email you received unless you are the one who requested.

[Potato Chips]

What concerned me about this e mail was that whoever it was seemed to have inside knowledge about the state of my account  

What made you think so BTW? was it because they mentioned coinbase? because there's a good chance it's pretty random and they just happen to hit a bullseye with you. Scammers typically mass send scam emails to thousands of people so it's not impossible the email would be sent out to several people who happens to have an account at the platform in question.

From my experience, I happen to have gotten both kinds: phishing emails about a service I actually have an account and those where I've never touched lol but tbf, I think it's only a matter of time for everyone to experience the same.

[Orpichukwu]

The lot of us receive these emails all the time. Some will say my Binance account is closed or my paxful will be closed, I simply laugh when I read them because, I don't use any of them.

I have even gotten some emails that state I have some balance that needs to be cleared on or before a particular date, with a link below for me to try and login.
 
Those links they send us are just a means to get the person's login details. If you make the mistake of trying to login to the exchange account, they claim to be using their own link. It's only those who are not wise enough and sometimes blinded by greed that easily fall into this guy's trap.

[Wakate]

Hello this is my 1st post here. I am fairly new to BTC and have dabbled a little and have an account with Coinbase. I made a small amount of profit and it is held in cash in my coinbase account ATM. This morning I received an e mail from Coinbase telling me I had to immediately move it into an online wallet and gave a link. It all looked v legit until I looked at the e mail address - events@byhealthmeans.com needless to say I won't be transferring the funds but has anyone else had such an e mail from this address before? It was far more professional than other phishing e mails I have had.

It is quite wise of you for you to be able to quickly understand that the email was never an original one.
Some persons could easily opt in and do what was ask and could find out later that they had been scammed. It is good we read some novel about some many ways these scammers are using to get funds from their victims. We shall never be a victim of scam but it is good we open our eyes and make sure that we don't put money in a place where we will not have to the comfort to remove it anytime. The  scammer wants you to send the fund to a particular wallet where you are not going to have access to it anymore.