Suspicious PM from a newbie

[DireWolfM14]

I got this PM from a newbie, ElectrumwalletTeamAssist, and it causes me to suspect he's trying to pose as a representative of the official Electrum team.  He's not.  The subject shares similarity with the title of a thread pinned in the Electrum board, and the username itself is an obvious attempt to mislead those who may not know any better.  The official representatives of Electrum on the forum are ThomasV and ghost43.

Subject: How to Safely Download and Verify Electrum [Guide]

Hello there! We apologize for any inconvenience caused, kindly let us know if you still need any help?

I have reported the PM to admin.

[libert19]

Suspect? Be sure in your tag cause he's not suspect but deffo an imposter rep. Looks like they took your topic to be a question, and hence offered the, 'support'.

[Bitcoin_Arena]

Obvious imposter!
And indeed a bad one. What kind of scammer still does this in this present day and age, especially via Bitcoin forum  

I am tagging and flagging them using this thread as reference. Thanks, DireWolfM14.

[Sandra_hakeem]

I got this PM from a newbie, ElectrumwalletTeamAssist, and it causes me to suspect he's trying to pose as a representative of the official Electrum team.  He's not.  The subject shares similarity with the title of a thread pinned in the Electrum board, and the username itself is an obvious attempt to mislead those who may not know any better.  The official representatives of Electrum on the forum are ThomasV and ghost43.

We have seen numerous attempts like this in the past years, especially when we are in a disoriented state like this.  Every petty thief wants to take advantage of the recent hacks and we all need to be careful. You wouldn't fall for something like this, neither would I but I get it, that's exactly the point of making this post and leaving a tag on that moron.

Hundreds, millions of people's money have been stolen allegedly and the exchange/ casino involved have only given a feedback that assures the protection of the leftover. Years of hard work has been lost. The scars are still fresh and then another shows up with this. I wonder how many people they have reached out to already.

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I got this PM from a newbie, ElectrumwalletTeamAssist, and it causes me to suspect he's trying to pose as a representative of the official Electrum team.  He's not.  The subject shares similarity with the title of a thread pinned in the Electrum board, and the username itself is an obvious attempt to mislead those who may not know any better.  The official representatives of Electrum on the forum are ThomasV and ghost43.

Subject: How to Safely Download and Verify Electrum [Guide]

Hello there! We apologize for any inconvenience caused, kindly let us know if you still need any help?

I have reported the PM to admin.

I received a very similar PM, but from a different account. Is this some new scam method?
User: OfficialSupportTeambitcoi
I cannot remember that I have ever participated in a similar discussion as the subject of this PM

[FinneysTrueVision]

I received a very similar PM, but from a different account. Is this some new scam method?
User: OfficialSupportTeambitcoi
I cannot remember that I have ever participated in a similar discussion as the subject of this PM

It’s an old scam method on Discord, Telegram, and Reddit. I guess they are now trying it here, but I doubt they will have much success because people are generally more experienced here. This kind of phishing attempt is most likely to succeed only against a complete newcomer to cryptocurrency. This forum also shows user activity, which for these accounts is much lower than you would expect from a customer support representative. If that’s not enough, there’s a giant red warning message.

[MarryWithBTC]

I received a very similar PM, but from a different account. Is this some new scam method?
User: OfficialSupportTeambitcoi
I cannot remember that I have ever participated in a similar discussion as the subject of this PM

I wonder why they are targeting old and experienced members. Newbies, jr members and member ranks should be their target because it's simply impossible for a legendary member to fall for this.

How about sparing a few minutes to reply them, and say that you are having an issue to see their next steps. Possibly they'll send you a link to download the real version of Electrum lol.

Hope, the newbie - newbie pm restriction is still functional.

[The Cryptovator]

I got this PM from a newbie, ElectrumwalletTeamAssist, and it causes me to suspect he's trying to pose as a representative of the official Electrum team.  He's not.  The subject shares similarity with the title of a thread pinned in the Electrum board, and the username itself is an obvious attempt to mislead those who may not know any better.  The official representatives of Electrum on the forum are ThomasV and ghost43.

He isn’t just impersonating Eletectrum, but also he is a scammer. He hasn't posted anything on the forum yet, but he is sending PMs to the forum users. So it’s pretty clear his intention is to scam and hack the Electrum wallet. Otherwise it doesn’t make sense to create such a username and then PM forum users.

I have tagged him from my end as an impersonator. Other forum users are should also aware of this scammer and shouldn’t fall into the trap. He will act as an official representative, and then he might want to help you. At the end of the day he will try to get access to the wallet.

[LoyceV]

I wonder why they are targeting old and experienced members.

Based on the Subject, OP was selected because of this topic. They probably searched for people who created a topic about Electrum.

I received a very similar PM, but from a different account. Is this some new scam method?
User: OfficialSupportTeambitcoi

Someone's been busy creating accounts:
Electrum
3769290. ElectrumwalletTeamAssist

Support
3750136. GeminiAIhelpsupport
3750697. devsupportclose
3754724. Fat_Tony_Support
3756542. dexfo_support
3757576. eluxesupport
3759544. fm_support
3759933. Binance Support
3760949. BitMafiaSupport
3762443. Ninja_Support
3763460. gtpoolsupport
3763499. A-Parser Support
3765006. HeraclesSupport
3767862. tokenz_support
3769335. OfficialSupportTeambitcoi

Team
3749955. steamdeckz
3751109. Team-SNRG
3752247. steamdeck2z
3753124. ClawCoinTeam
3753410. tbotteam
3753857. team.razrab
3754209. Allstars.io Team
3754739. Hometeam Solutions
3755280. Team Tecpinion
3756427. teamtor
3756692. blackJAPANteam
3758358. npprteamshopcom
3758489. npprteamshopcom1z
3759031. FusionLayerTeam
3760034. GLIP Team
3762468. TRSTEAM
3762716. team86z
3763740. airedteamcertification
3764542. Hedgeteam
3767044. Team_Cryptodom
3767880. nonsense-team
3768595. weblabteam
3769290. ElectrumwalletTeamAssist
3769326. BlueWalletTeamAssist
3769327. BlueWalletioTeamAssist
3769335. OfficialSupportTeambitcoi

Help
3749673. irelandassignmenthelp
3750136. GeminiAIhelpsupport
3750332. bitcoinhelp2026
3750679. coffeehelp2026
3752266. KarCryptoHelp
3753220. BIT-HELPER
3756225. coffeehelpz
3756227. coffeehelpza
3756502. aol_help
3758330. Helppp27
3758547. CryptoHelper2026
3758574. HelloIneedhelp
3758709. helpformike
3759292. evakakuatorhelp
3759641. Helpbaboon
3760760. coffeehelp24a
3760921. coffeehelp24z
3760922. coffeehelp24zz
3760995. @CRYPTO LOST HELP
3764651. algebraclasshelp
3765056. VIPHELPER
3767414. German-help.com
3767611. ClearSheetHelp
3767875. Helpmeeeeee

Official
3749687. spiderofficial48
3749934. officialmoderator
3750663. KMSOfficialz
3750823. OfficialWiseMan
3750882. ZSXLXH_official
3751471. GGPanaloOfficial
3751705. mariaaliofficial44
3753099. GYMBRO_Official
3753763. Casinok Official
3754155. TSL_Official
3754624. INTcoin official
3754788. Zunabet Official
3755696. UrutokenOfficial
3755799. ak9_Official
3755966. CiforusOfficial
3756004. officialjesusmichael
3757629. SleepLeanOfficial
3758015. officialpincoca
3760072. panchainofficial
3760719. Krbetofficial
3760954. thelocalsofficials
3761444. Lynx Official
3761667. 1xbetofficialus
3762395. Exitlab_official
3763155. Bignykofficial
3763610. ShivaluxeOfficial
3764642. BitBlendOfficial
3764648. SwapSpaceOfficial
3765320. nVPN_official_bot
3765472. SatRushOfficial
3766499. BTC Official
3766558. BTC talk Official
3766890. Gryphon_Official
3766904. fiatxpayofficial
3768115. MoonSeekerofficial
3768355. Official Twoore
3768544. ABRSofficial
3768591. sazidofficial24h
3768982. HIYOKO_official
3769335. OfficialSupportTeambitcoi
3769456. HaoPayOfficial

Note: Not all of those are scammers.
I only searched the last 20,000 accounts, so anything created in the last half year.

[MarryWithBTC]

I wonder why they are targeting old and experienced members.

Based on the Subject, OP was selected because of this topic. They probably searched for people who created a topic about Electrum.

What a dumb way of searching... among everyone that wrote in the thread, they decided to target the thread author(the teacher) himself

[decodx]

I wonder why they are targeting old and experienced members. Newbies, jr members and member ranks should be their target because it's simply impossible for a legendary member to fall for this.

They target members who post or ask questions about a specific issue. I don't think they care about account rank. It's probably just a bot. Like FinneysTrueVision mentioned, this is a pretty well-known scam method on Discord and Reddit.

How about sparing a few minutes to reply them, and say that you are having an issue to see their next steps. Possibly they'll send you a link to download the real version of Electrum lol.

Probably. Or they will point you to some phishing site, or they will try to get your seed phrase or private key in some other way to "fix" the issue.

What a dumb way of searching... among everyone that wrote in the thread, they decided to target the thread author(the teacher) himself

Exactly. It's a low-effort method that very likely won't yield any results, but on the other hand, it costs them nothing.

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Someone's been busy creating accounts:
Electrum
...
Note: Not all of those are scammers.
I only searched the last 20,000 accounts, so anything created in the last half year.

I assume that they are mostly bot accounts. How do they bypass evil restrictions at all?

I wonder why they are targeting old and experienced members. Newbies, jr members and member ranks should be their target because it's simply impossible for a legendary member to fall for this.

They target members who post or ask questions about a specific issue. I don't think they care about account rank. It's probably just a bot. Like FinneysTrueVision mentioned, this is a pretty well-known scam method on Discord and Reddit.

I replied to the PM I received, but there’s still no answer. I’m really curious to see what kind of suggestion or support they want to offer me.

[ABCbits]

This kind of PM is why i've disabled accepting PM from newbies. Most of them are spam or scam attempt, that i don't even even feel like to report.

Someone's been busy creating accounts:
Electrum
...
Note: Not all of those are scammers.
I only searched the last 20,000 accounts, so anything created in the last half year.

I assume that they are mostly bot accounts. How do they bypass evil restrictions at all?

My bet is they already have proxy or VPN with IP address that isn't included on evil list yet.

[LoyceV]

I assume that they are mostly bot accounts. How do they bypass evil restrictions at all?

My guess is most of them are proxybanned. We can't know for sure until they post or PM someone.

[Lontor]

This is honestly the type of PMs i would expect from newbie accounts, anyone who wants to scam people on here would use new accounts instead of risking high ranking account, it's very obvious that this person is a scammer.

Unlike someone on the forum saying people should be careful with old accounts sending PM, I've never received such from old accounts on this forum, but new accounts? Sure, something similar to what OP posted.

I don't even bother creating anything about it like OP did here, I ignored because I know it's scam out right and they will PM others who will eventually report them.

[Coyster]

I don't even bother creating anything about it like OP did here, I ignored because I know it's scam out right and they will PM others who will eventually report them.

It is good to create a topic like this after reporting the PM to the admin. Because these scammers could send this PM to other users who aren't so vigilant, and may have started a topic about a certain subject, were they need some kind of help or solution.

It could be a quick way for the scammer to deceive the unsuspecting victim. So better to create some kind of awareness about this.

[PrivacyG]

Based on the Subject, OP was selected because of this topic. They probably searched for people who created a topic about Electrum.

They do not even need to search for people who created Topics.  It is enough to send multiple such Private Messages to random people.  Those who know it is a scam will ignore or report but there will probably be at least one person who actually has problems with Electrum and will answer.  Considering who they sent this message to, I really doubt they were allocating enough brain resources to realise they could use the Search!

[libert19]

I don't even bother creating anything about it like OP did here, I ignored because I know it's scam out right and they will PM others who will eventually report them.

It is good to create a topic like this after reporting the PM to the admin. Because these scammers could send this PM to other users who aren't so vigilant, and may have started a topic about a certain subject, were they need some kind of help or solution.

It could be a quick way for the scammer to deceive the unsuspecting victim. So better to create some kind of awareness about this.

If there were to be frequent topics reporting this petty scammers, it would get repititive real quick; better idea would be to have one topic where this scammers are reported (as, 'report ai generated posts' one) and users can tag them there if they like.

Edit:

That account has been dealt with.

As in?

[Mitchell]

That account has been dealt with.

[DireWolfM14]

That account has been dealt with.

Striking similarities in the naming of these three account mentioned by LoyceV, and they were all created within a very short span of each other.  It might be worth looking into the other two to see if there's more that can tie them together.  I wouldn't be surprised if they all share the same IP address.

3769290. ElectrumwalletTeamAssist
3769326. BlueWalletTeamAssist
3769327. BlueWalletioTeamAssist