Beware of BTCJam phishing email.

[munister]

Hi, I know I'm new here, but I've been a regular at Reddit and also at BTCJam. I wanted to warn bitcoin users about BTCJam. Below is the same post I've made at /r/bitcoin: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2wbvyc/btcjam_locked_me_away_from_my_account_do_not_use/

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Hi. I am munister, aka user id 43220, where you can find here: https://btcjam.com/users/43220

I've been using BTCJam for 5-6 months and invested over 13 BTC to their website. I love their community and I love the idea of helping borrowers in need to get loans. I always felt that Bitcoin peer-to-peer lending is the next step for Bitcoin to take to be regarded seriously as a currency. I've always felt BTCJam to be a leader in this industry and I was happy to be a part of that community.

So why am I writing this text? Because they've wronged me in these past 5 days.

3 days ago, BTCJam locked me from my account due their "technical issues". As a reward, they stated that they would reward me with 0.1 BTC. I naively believed them and asked will I get a notification when they resolve their issues. No response.

Less than a day ago, BTCJam stated they will not give me access to my account because they're under the rules of Money Service Business.

Then they falsely accuse me of gambling. But how can I be gambling when all I've done is invested in their loans? If investing in their loans is gambling, and gambling is illegal, then by definition, every BTCJam user who invested in BTCJam's loans is gambling.

I tried to reply back to their support, but no response.

My emails can be seen here: https://imgur.com/a/WkukO

I still hold out hope that I will get my BTC back because I believe in BTCJam crew to be good people. I do not believe that they would create a website for the specific purpose of scamming their users. I hope this is just a dumb mistake because the alternative view is that they're all thieves, and that is not something I want to consider.

But in light of these recent events, I have to warn BTCJam users to withdraw your money from that website as quickly as possible. Also to Bitcoin users, do not invest in their loans. You might not have access to those your invested funds that you've worked hard for. To BTCJam crew, it's not losing my money to you that hurt me. It's the betrayal of trust. You opened your doors to anybody who wants to participate in your site. Then you slammed the door shut when they've invested not only their earned Bitcoins but also invested their emotion into making your site a more popular and better place. This is not how a company should work, and certainly not a company that wants to be bigger that a startup.

You've all been warned.

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[munister]

EDIT: It turns out to be a phishing email. The actual BTCJam support team did respond to me and continue to help me through this ordeal. I'm probably never going to get back my Bitcoins, and I might not get access to my original account. But I just wanted to warn users of this predicament. Here is the original email headers: https://imgur.com/ukx49kT

[Madness]

EDIT: It turns out to be a phishing email. The actual BTCJam support team did respond to me and continue to help me through this ordeal. I'm probably never going to get back my Bitcoins, and I might not get access to my original account. But I just wanted to warn users of this predicament. Here is the original email headers: https://imgur.com/ukx49kT

I was checking the email and it looks pretty real looking at the other emails from BTCJam them selfs . but you should know that a lot of Phishing emails are around on Bitcointalk . so take always caution mate .
Thanks for the heads up and I hope you will get your account back , and your coins too why not .

~ Madness

[SirChiko]

Sorry for your loss and good luck, beware of phishing sites. Don't click on non vertified emails.

[munister]

EDIT: It turns out to be a phishing email. The actual BTCJam support team did respond to me and continue to help me through this ordeal. I'm probably never going to get back my Bitcoins, and I might not get access to my original account. But I just wanted to warn users of this predicament. Here is the original email headers: https://imgur.com/ukx49kT

I was checking the email and it looks pretty real looking at the other emails from BTCJam them selfs . but you should know that a lot of Phishing emails are around on Bitcointalk . so take always caution mate .
Thanks for the heads up and I hope you will get your account back , and your coins too why not .

~ Madness

Thank you. I just wanted to let everyone here know. The phisher got me good. I wasn't even angry at the phisher. I was impressed. I'm probably not going to get my coins back, but I do hope I can get my account back. I'm just glad BTCJam wasn't trying to scam me. That's a bigger blow. In any case, I've redouble my efforts on email security, so hopefully this won't happen again to me.

[cazkooo]

EDIT: It turns out to be a phishing email. The actual BTCJam support team did respond to me and continue to help me through this ordeal. I'm probably never going to get back my Bitcoins, and I might not get access to my original account. But I just wanted to warn users of this predicament. Here is the original email headers: https://imgur.com/ukx49kT

I was checking the email and it looks pretty real looking at the other emails from BTCJam them selfs . but you should know that a lot of Phishing emails are around on Bitcointalk . so take always caution mate .
Thanks for the heads up and I hope you will get your account back , and your coins too why not .

~ Madness

Thank you. I just wanted to let everyone here know. The phisher got me good. I wasn't even angry at the phisher. I was impressed. I'm probably not going to get my coins back, but I do hope I can get my account back. I'm just glad BTCJam wasn't trying to scam me. That's a bigger blow. In any case, I've redouble my efforts on email security, so hopefully this won't happen again to me.

so case closed because of this phisher email and not btcjam?
then you should change the title since it is missleading

[SirChiko]

EDIT: It turns out to be a phishing email. The actual BTCJam support team did respond to me and continue to help me through this ordeal. I'm probably never going to get back my Bitcoins, and I might not get access to my original account. But I just wanted to warn users of this predicament. Here is the original email headers: https://imgur.com/ukx49kT

I was checking the email and it looks pretty real looking at the other emails from BTCJam them selfs . but you should know that a lot of Phishing emails are around on Bitcointalk . so take always caution mate .
Thanks for the heads up and I hope you will get your account back , and your coins too why not .

~ Madness

Thank you. I just wanted to let everyone here know. The phisher got me good. I wasn't even angry at the phisher. I was impressed. I'm probably not going to get my coins back, but I do hope I can get my account back. I'm just glad BTCJam wasn't trying to scam me. That's a bigger blow. In any case, I've redouble my efforts on email security, so hopefully this won't happen again to me.

so case closed because of this phisher email and not btcjam?
then you should change the title since it is missleading

Yep, i'd change it to something along "Beware of btcjam fake email phisiers"

[munister]

EDIT: It turns out to be a phishing email. The actual BTCJam support team did respond to me and continue to help me through this ordeal. I'm probably never going to get back my Bitcoins, and I might not get access to my original account. But I just wanted to warn users of this predicament. Here is the original email headers: https://imgur.com/ukx49kT

I was checking the email and it looks pretty real looking at the other emails from BTCJam them selfs . but you should know that a lot of Phishing emails are around on Bitcointalk . so take always caution mate .
Thanks for the heads up and I hope you will get your account back , and your coins too why not .

~ Madness

Thank you. I just wanted to let everyone here know. The phisher got me good. I wasn't even angry at the phisher. I was impressed. I'm probably not going to get my coins back, but I do hope I can get my account back. I'm just glad BTCJam wasn't trying to scam me. That's a bigger blow. In any case, I've redouble my efforts on email security, so hopefully this won't happen again to me.

so case closed because of this phisher email and not btcjam?
then you should change the title since it is missleading

Yep, i'd change it to something along "Beware of btcjam fake email phisiers"

Done.