A good way to start your Bitcoin journey as a beginner

[VRExpress]

Good day, my name is satoshi nakamoto, you have been selected as the few lucky Bitcoin investors that I choose to safe from the upcoming destruction of Bitcoin because I have choose to create a new version 2 since the max supply isn't going to sustain humans many years to come, to know that I am the real satoshi nakamoto is why I sent this email to you using my original email address ' satoshin@gmx.com, no one have access to my email but me. This is all I can do for the public, you either do this or risk losing all your money on the old Bitcoin.

All you have to do is send your old Bitcoin to .............. and the new Bitcoin2 will be sent back to your Bitcoin Address. 


This sounds ridiculous 😔 isn't it? That's because we know, if any lazy new investor get such mail they will likely fall for it, I come across a post from theymos that talked about how satoshin@gmx.com do belongs to nakamoto but it is compromised already, he went forward and warn that no one should believe anything from that email unless it is signed by satoshi.



This is nothing but proof that even if we receive a message from original email, phone numbers, companies, it doesn't always mean that it is from genuine source or real owner.

This trick still works on many new Bitcoin investors, I read similar stories via Reddit, if anyone from Trezor sent you email to do something with the aim to secure your Bitcoin even more it is a lie, this applies to all crypto hardware wallets too, everything can get hacked this days if you are easy to get deceived. I have to call my wife at times after I receive a text or mail from her, just to confirm that it is really from her.

[BattleDog]

Yeah, that type of email is one of those scams that's so dumb it actually works, because people see "satoshin@gmx.com" and their brain switches off.

I remember when theymos made that post about the address being compromised years ago - even back then it was already old news that the email was not safe to trust. And on top of that, the "From:" line in an email is basically a username, not a cryptographic proof of identity.

I can send you an email "from" santa@northpole.gov in about 30 seconds; it doesn't mean I control the North Pole .gov domain or that there even is one. Same for "Trezor support", "exchange security team", whatever.

If there's no strong authentication (PGP, signed message from a known address, confirmation via the official site/app), you should treat it as random internet noise.

[HONDACD125]

Scammers are getting smarter day by day. Even if they don't get access to an original email address, they will still find ways to impersonate the owners of those emails and try to scam you that way. I recently saw a post somewhere where a scammer tried to scam someone by trying to impersonate Microsoft by using "@rnicrosoft" at the end of the email. Now, a lot of people won't notice that the email is actually fake because it starts with an "r" followed by an "n" to form "m", so they will fall for it. This is how scammers do their job.

It's very important for people to always be mentally prepared for such things, and make sure that they always double-check the emails and messages they receive to make sure that they are actually from the real source and aren't fake ones that are done so well that it's not very easy to spot the difference, but if you are mentally aware of the scams and the ways scammers use, you will surely find out the reality and will be safe from the scam they are running through you. It's also important to spread awareness about such things if an attempt is made on you, it could be made on others too.

[sokani]

Bitcoin is a coin, and a blockchain with no contract address.

It is not one of those shitty tokens that the developer will ask the holders to send their tokens to a specific address when a new version with a new contract address is about to be minted.

Hence, I would expect the recipients of such mails to know it's a scam, but I won't be surprised if some persons fall for it.

[Ruttoshi]

The funny thing is that, these scammers are becoming smarter every day and make it look real as if the email is from the official company. This doesn't apply to only crypto but also to fiat.

Down here in my country, you will receive an sms telling you that your ATM card has been blocked and you should send your PIN to a number they provided in order for them to unblock it claiming to be from your bank. If you are someone that don't think twice, you might fall for it easily. I have read a lot of crypto scams especially, through wallet compromise.

[tbct_mt2]

All you have to do is send your old Bitcoin to .............. and the new Bitcoin2 will be sent back to your Bitcoin Address. 

If you use an official wallet, don't use a phishing wallet, and you send bitcoins from an old address to a new address you owns too, there is no risk of losing your bitcoin. You have to use your Bitcoin wallets properly and make accurate Bitcoin transactions while always have good security practice for keeping your devices not affected by virus.

How to lose your Bitcoins with CTRL-C CTRL-V

Satoshi also reminded that Bitcoin users should never delete Bitcoin wallets.

Sigh... why delete a wallet instead of moving it aside and keeping the old copy just in case?  You should never delete a wallet.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

Scammers know how they fake things to make it appears as if they are being sent form the original source, it is also important that we should often may a confirmation on receiving offers that we do not merit and someone sending to us to be claimed, scam is everywhere and we should not because of being greedy of receiving something free ended up losing more.

I understand that some of us may want something free, but honestly it does not matter at all that we should be greedy, because offers like this are even merely impossible to occur, there is no Santa Claus anywhere willing to make offers to random people in such manner used.

[Smartprofit]

I remember being deeply impressed by an article online. It discussed two types of human thinking: strategic and operational-tactical. A person with operational-tactical thinking, when asked to perform a certain action, immediately does it. Such a person is an ideal employee (very fast and efficient).

A person with strategic thinking, when asked to perform a certain action, always asks themselves: "Is it worth it?" A person with strategic thinking is a potential manager, business owner, investor, politician, consultant, analyst... 🧖

Scammers primarily target people with operational-tactical thinking. These are the people who may send their bitcoins to scammers, believing they will receive some other, "better bitcoin" in return.  A strategist, receiving a letter from Satoshi Nakamoto himself, would at least wonder where Satoshi Nakamoto has been for the last 15 years and why he suddenly decided to show up... And a strategically minded person certainly wouldn't run at 30 km/h trying to get to their Ledger and empty their hardware wallets (by transferring the money to scammers). 🙆

[Joy_learns_crypto]

Scammers are getting smarter day by day. Even if they don't get access to an original email address, they will still find ways to impersonate owners of those emails and try to scam you that way.

But the scammer impersonating Satoshi is not smart, from Theymos post he thinks people should should this before his warning and I think so too.
If the scammer had not used bitcoin maybe he would have been smart, even if the email is from Satoshi original email I won’t believe he will just come after being inactive to sending mail to people about Bitcoin 2. When a mail reads that you send bitcoin I don’t think the email account is important because the real Satoshi will know that it will be suspicious and will not use that method.

[Hatchy]

It's funny how many people would still fall for such scams. Though I cant call it petty, because a mail coming from satoshis email address would look too good to be true. The problem here is that many people would fail to ask questions, or do research about such mails and immediately respond out of fear.

But the scammer impersonating Satoshi is not smart, from Theymos post he thinks people should should this before his warning and I think so too.

Don't underestimate those people, they are capable of pulling even the best scam tricks ever and can target any one and still get away with it. What matters is that at the end of the day, we on the forum would be aware of such things and if in the future come across, we have a community to share and confirm as well. No one is too small to fall prey to these scammers we only hope not to become victims out of fear.

[Sticky Bomb]

It is no news that scammers are getting increasingly smart these days in creating fake originals to scam people. Common sense should tell people not to trust anyone, even satoshi himself even if he mysteriously reappears as the creator of bitcoin an requests you give him some sort of custody of your bitcoin, he is nothing but a third party and you shouldn't trust the entity. They look out for unsuspecting people who have brought the trust mindset inherent in traditional finance system to decentralized bitcoin. Unfortunately they may succeed with some people since ignorance is a point of failure in guarding you digital assets.

[retreat]

One needs to be more careful when they hold Bitcoin because there is a big possibility that they could become a target of scammers. Nowadays scammers are more sophisticated and creative in carrying out their actions, they no longer just rely on simple phishing methods, but they can do more complex ones than that. That's why it's important for us to always be skeptical of offers that are too good to be true in our emails, never share the seed phrase with anyone, and always VERIFY before taking action. Just remember that the security of your assets is with you, and one mistake can make you regret it forever.

[Mrbluntzy]

As soon as I read "you have been selected as the few lucky Bitcoin investors that I choose to safe" I remembered the the warning that says never believe any free offer or reward that sound too good to be true and with that spirit of awareness in me, I can never pay attention to continue reading such unsolicited mail or PM. I see some mail on my spam box that reads almost similar to this one, their message always starts with "you have been selected among the [call any number] lucky person to win..." And ends with "click on the link to claim your reward"

This is a very old method of scam, even newbies should not fall for this kind of scams again because it is old and known by many people except for people that doesn't even know anything about the internet. Some persons might not be into the crypto space yet but as long as they are involved in other activities on the internet space, they are supposed to know this method of scam. Information is key, people need this kind of information to remain informed.

The typo error of writing "safe" Instead "save" Is also an indication for me to know that this kind of mail is a scam especially when it is coming from a source that I'm not even expecting to receive such mail from.

[Alphakilo]

It is no news that scammers are getting increasingly smart these days in creating fake originals to scam people. Common sense should tell people not to trust anyone, even satoshi himself even if he mysteriously reappears as the creator of bitcoin an requests you give him some sort of custody of your bitcoin, he is nothing but a third party and you shouldn't trust the entity. They look out for unsuspecting people who have brought the trust mindset inherent in traditional finance system to decentralized bitcoin. Unfortunately they may succeed with some people since ignorance is a point of failure in guarding you digital assets.

The real question is why would someone who has suffered long consistent effort to accumulate, suddenly decide to give all the bitcoin to someone who claims to be Satoshi. It is a scam of course, because the real Satoshi made Bitcoin for everyone to have as a hedge against inflation, as a personal power to secure financial freedom and guarantee wealth in the long run by using the decentralized system, which of course worked perfectly.
 If anything, the real Satoshi should be generous to send every investor and holder of BTC a certain amount of his already accumulated BTC and am sure he wouldn't be broke or feel the impact in the leanest bit.

[FirmWars]

This is nothing but proof that even if we receive a message from original email, phone numbers, companies, it doesn't always mean that it is from genuine source or real owner.

This trick still works on many new Bitcoin investors, I read similar stories via Reddit, if anyone from Trezor sent you email to do something with the aim to secure your Bitcoin even more it is a lie, this applies to all crypto hardware wallets too, everything can get hacked this days if you are easy to get deceived. I have to call my wife at times after I receive a text or mail from her, just to confirm that it is really from her.

If we receive message from the original email of an individual or company, it means that it's real but how you can find out that it's from a scammer is that those original source will never ask for any private information of you and they will not ask you to send money to an unknown destination, some people are not smart enough that's why they fall into all sorts of dumb scam.

Long time ago in 2020, the Twitter account of some CEOs was hacked and the hacker started messaging different followers that he was doing a giveaway and to qualify for the giveaway you must send your funds to the address provided by the hacker, many naive followers started sending their coins to the address and the hacker made away with the victims money before the account owner regain back access to his account and broke the news that his account was hacked.

Same thing has happened to few exchange's twitter account and the hacker asked their followers to send their coins to an address that he provided, some naive people did and the hacker also smiled home with some reward.  The exchange that were victim of this hack are binance, coinbase and bitstamp.

The two examples I gave is to explain to us that when a company or a rich individual like Satoshi wants to reward you through a giveaway, he will never ask for your money first and he will not demand for your private information.

[uchegod-21]

The title of this post says a different thing from the content of the post.

Scams are very common with online investments. Scammers can come,  disguising themselves as familiar people or people/institutions we hold at high esteem to lure bitcoiners into sending their bitcoins or disclosing sensitive information that will give them access to their wallets.

No matter what happens, bitcoiners should know when to draw the line. No sending of bitcoins to unknown persons without confirming their identity and no disclosing of sensitive information. Everyone needs to be smart to survive in this space.

[Lida93]

Bitcoin is a coin, and a blockchain with no contract address.

It is not one of those shitty tokens that the developer will ask the holders to send their tokens to a specific address when a new version with a new contract address is about to be minted.

Hence, I would expect the recipients of such mails to know it's a scam, but I won't be surprised if some persons fall for it.

Yea, that's correct about bitcoin being no coin with contract address but what the OP as I understood was trying to send as message is that even what might seemingly look credibly genuine might likely be a scam despite it having a 99% likelihood of coming from the right person or group. Just like the example in the op about the message received by theymos from what was appearing to be a genuinely from Satoshi Nakamoto's email.

We should at all moments make sure to go the extra mile to verify any calls or messages before doing anything about what it says, it's how to stay safe in today's smart world.