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September 05, 2014, 05:21:51 AM
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i noticed someone sent me .00001 btc recently.. it hasn't been verified yet actually. looked up the address and he's made plenty of donations, and some signatures contained links to peoples' accounts on here. thanks, whoever it is. so far .238 btc have left his account.

https://blockchain.info/tx/1a599d230ae08259e257db0e7fea65d7fb1a2b1d2d4d93f158db8227a529309c
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September 05, 2014, 06:55:24 AM
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They're not donating, they're fishing.

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September 05, 2014, 06:56:52 AM
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I got a payment too from a similar party
Ignore them, they are trolling for what they can get

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September 05, 2014, 11:13:57 AM
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They're not donating, they're fishing.

Fishing? like hoping a whale sends back a big sum or something?
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September 05, 2014, 11:41:26 AM
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They're not donating, they're fishing.

Fishing? like hoping a whale sends back a big sum or something?
Shit, does this actually work? Cause I could use some free money.

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September 05, 2014, 12:34:33 PM
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they are donating hehe. tell themt o stop its not worth it
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September 05, 2014, 06:01:30 PM
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I also received a small amount to one of my addresses.

What do you mean by fishing? How can this benefit them?
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September 05, 2014, 06:12:06 PM
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Seems like a newbie trying to amaze everyone/ trying to get everyone's attention. He is member of this forum too, I suspect.
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September 05, 2014, 06:29:59 PM
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They're not donating, they're fishing.

Fishing? like hoping a whale sends back a big sum or something?

Trying to find active BTC addresses is more likely. 

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September 05, 2014, 08:46:07 PM
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They're not donating, they're fishing.

Fishing? like hoping a whale sends back a big sum or something?

Trying to find active BTC addresses is more likely. 

What's the point of that?
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September 05, 2014, 09:47:09 PM
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They're not donating, they're fishing.

Fishing? like hoping a whale sends back a big sum or something?

Trying to find active BTC addresses is more likely. 

What's the point of that?

Tracking who owns which address and eventually discovering the identity of an address.
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September 05, 2014, 09:53:45 PM
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I've received many of these dust transactions. they never finalize, they are a pain in the  butt, ive always wondered what good does it do the person thats doing this? i know that multibit just kicks them out now, but still I hope they arent trying to find a security flaw or something..
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September 05, 2014, 09:56:05 PM
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It really isn't a donation spree. It's merely advertising. And threads like this prove that it's working Smiley Interestingly the entity seems to be sending Bitcoins to every address that's tagged on Blockchain.info!

I should have gotten into Bitcoin back in 1992...
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September 06, 2014, 05:05:51 AM
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I've received many of these dust transactions. they never finalize, they are a pain in the  butt, ive always wondered what good does it do the person thats doing this? i know that multibit just kicks them out now, but still I hope they arent trying to find a security flaw or something..
There was one set of dust transactions that happened several months ago that was sent from addresses that were associated with addresses of known gambling sites. I would not discount the theory that the same rationale is behind a lot of these types of transactions.

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September 06, 2014, 05:15:21 AM
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They're not donating, they're fishing.

Fishing? like hoping a whale sends back a big sum or something?

Trying to find active BTC addresses is more likely.  

find more active addresses for what?
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September 06, 2014, 05:16:56 AM
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If you look at the blockchain link you'll notice they tagged the address they sent from, it links to their website. They're trying to advertise their Bitcoin-accepting Forex website. They're using the Blockchain to spam essentially, kind of fitting seeing as forex sites have a reputation for sending spam emails.

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September 06, 2014, 05:25:24 AM
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Yeah, it's spam, clogging up the block chain. It's like junk mail, a total nuisance.
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September 06, 2014, 05:43:21 AM
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laxo trade seems to be a investment firm (seems to be but having dug that deep)

so what crypto exchange service are they linked to, apart from this scammy HYIP "scheme"

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September 06, 2014, 08:00:36 AM
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They're not donating, they're fishing.

Fishing? like hoping a whale sends back a big sum or something?
Shit, does this actually work? Cause I could use some free money.
No it does not work. Have you ever looked at addresses with very big balances? Have you noticed that these addresses receive a lot of spam transactions with public notes (on blockchain.info) that are begging for people to send money back to them? 
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