PSA WARNING: Current Scam Running on IRC

[kenel]

Happened to Digitalcoin, Bittrex, and a few other coins from what I can follow so far.

Someone, or some group, is making the rounds on IRC with variations of trusted coin community members nicks and contacting people asking for coins (to pump, for some project, etc.) as a loan for a few hours.

In our specific case, someone used kenei (with capital i instead of L) to fraudulently obtain crypto property under false pretenses from our channel members (in arial font they look identical).

This is a Class H felony in the United States.

The funds are deposited directly to a Bittrex account, sold immediately for BTC and withdrawn before anyone realizes this is a scam. Bittrex seems unable to help us but is aware of the situation.

As a warning, I'd like to make sure everyone is (a) aware that this scam is going on, and (b) that members of our Digitalcoin Foundation will NEVER ask for any coins from any person as a loan

Be careful out there....it's easy to get caught up in this if you aren't paying attention. Verify before sending or doing anything. These people seem to know exactly who to impersonate and exactly who to contact that would be trustful of whom they are impersonating. They are even likely idling in your channel right now.

Not sure what else I can do other than warn people of this. Let me know if anyone has any ideas -- I take this personally as it was my name used in this fraudulent scheme.

[iGotSpots]

They have several fake names of me as MonkeyTooth, as well. They already got several thousand MMXIV and others. Also posting virus links in quotes with changed wallet links

[kenel]

If this has happened to you, I suggest grouping some simple variations of your nicks so that they can be released immediately should it happen again.

[RandomBTCinvestor]

Happened to Digitalcoin, Bittrex, and a few other coins from what I can follow so far.

Someone, or some group, is making the rounds on IRC with variations of trusted coin community members nicks and contacting people asking for coins (to pump, for some project, etc.) as a loan for a few hours.

In our specific case, someone used kenei (with capital i instead of L) to fraudulently obtain crypto property under false pretenses from our channel members (in arial font they look identical).

This is a Class H felony in the United States.

The funds are deposited directly to a Bittrex account, sold immediately for BTC and withdrawn before anyone realizes this is a scam. Bittrex seems unable to help us but is aware of the situation.

As a warning, I'd like to make sure everyone is (a) aware that this scam is going on, and (b) that members of our Digitalcoin Foundation will NEVER ask for any coins from any person as a loan

Be careful out there....it's easy to get caught up in this if you aren't paying attention. Verify before sending or doing anything. These people seem to know exactly who to impersonate and exactly who to contact that would be trustful of whom they are impersonating. They are even likely idling in your channel right now.

Not sure what else I can do other than warn people of this. Let me know if anyone has any ideas -- I take this personally as it was my name used in this fraudulent scheme.

Yep thanks for this thread, happened too in #ShadowCash

[KingCaper]

They seem to try this or a variation on it in every big crypto irc channel I go in. Hard to believe it actually works on people.

[techbytes]

Even a slight variations of your nick can go unnoticed.  Like the one below.  The additional character in the end can be taken as a spec of dust on the screen.  Someone just tried that in #digitalcoin but was busted because we are very well aware of the ongoing scam.  And also because the one he tries to scam have very little DGC to give.

techbytes`

This is indeed a good thread to get more people aware of what's going on.  I registered the different variations as kenel suggested.


-tb-

[kenel]

After grouping, make sure to set enforce on so that nickserv will boot them from the name if they don't enter the password in X time. Just had a kenei scammer get booted to guest6604 and even as guest still attempted to pretend to be me.

[iGotSpots]

MonkeyTooth' and MoonkeyTooth are NOT me

[kenel]

'kenel , kenel_ , in fact any variation of kenel outside of kenel (with an L) is not me.

[SimonTower]

Happened to Digitalcoin, Bittrex, and a few other coins from what I can follow so far.

Someone, or some group, is making the rounds on IRC with variations of trusted coin community members nicks and contacting people asking for coins (to pump, for some project, etc.) as a loan for a few hours.

In our specific case, someone used kenei (with capital i instead of L) to fraudulently obtain crypto property under false pretenses from our channel members (in arial font they look identical).

This is a Class H felony in the United States.

The funds are deposited directly to a Bittrex account, sold immediately for BTC and withdrawn before anyone realizes this is a scam. Bittrex seems unable to help us but is aware of the situation.

As a warning, I'd like to make sure everyone is (a) aware that this scam is going on, and (b) that members of our Digitalcoin Foundation will NEVER ask for any coins from any person as a loan

Be careful out there....it's easy to get caught up in this if you aren't paying attention. Verify before sending or doing anything. These people seem to know exactly who to impersonate and exactly who to contact that would be trustful of whom they are impersonating. They are even likely idling in your channel right now.

Not sure what else I can do other than warn people of this. Let me know if anyone has any ideas -- I take this personally as it was my name used in this fraudulent scheme.

Thanks for opened this topic. As You know, I was the "victim" of kenei. Luckily I was paying attention and spoke with Digitalcoin's community to warning them.
As I can see that was a good idea because that person/group working at else channels too.

Digitalcoin bring the perfect cryptocurrency and defend your wealth!  

[kenel]

Thanks for opened this topic. As You know, I was the "victim" of kenei. Luckily I was paying attention and spoke with Digitalcoin's community to warning them.
As I can see that was a good idea because that person/group working at else channels too.

Digitalcoin bring the perfect cryptocurrency and defend your wealth!  

The unfortunate thing is that it's going to keep happening....hopefully we can raise enough awareness that it won't be profitable to do anymore

[jasemoney]

theyve been in a bunch of channels, #uro, #sapience, #darkcoin they usually are signed in on freenode. someone idles in the channel then they join from another ip address to talk off channel for whatever. 
Best practice it to assume anyone wanting off exchange trades is going to scam you, even if they bring in their trusted escrow. (just another ip address)  also make sure to check who your talking to WHOIS

[iGotSpots]

theyve been in a bunch of channels, #uro, #sapience, #darkcoin they usually are signed in on freenode. someone idles in the channel then they join from another ip address to talk off channel for whatever.  
Best practice it to assume anyone wanting off exchange trades is going to scam you, even if they bring in their trusted escrow. (just another ip address)  also make sure to check who your talking to WHOIS

#MMXIV too trying to get MMXIV, BALLS, and 10k. Happy to compare IP logs to figure out where all our overlaps are

[jasemoney]

theyve been in a bunch of channels, #uro, #sapience, #darkcoin they usually are signed in on freenode. someone idles in the channel then they join from another ip address to talk off channel for whatever.  
Best practice it to assume anyone wanting off exchange trades is going to scam you, even if they bring in their trusted escrow. (just another ip address)  also make sure to check who your talking to WHOIS

#MMXIV too trying to get MMXIV, BALLS, and 10k. Happy to compare IP logs to figure out where all our overlaps are

I banned these from #uro though seems they're stale. (the whole blocks)
94.242.239.*  
192.240.99.*  
212.7.218.*
141.255.162.*

[kenel]

The last IP was able to trace ended up here -- resolves to a privatelayer server: 141.255.162.187

[kenel]

This is still going on, hope everyone has made everyone else in their channels aware.