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Re: Is this message is Official?
by
Don007
on 08/05/2015, 18:46:05 UTC
Indeed, it is to warn you that a newbie is PMing you.

I've found the actual post what caused Theymos to implement this:
Post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1029623.msg11217900#msg11217900
Scam transaction ID; https://blockchain.info/address/1MxUUsWjqCAE169sA1e8ZoqNXV4JvVcBmG

Theymos then implemented this, saying:

FYI to everyone in this thread, I was so happy to "win" my bitcointalk ad, I didn't check the username close enough before getting scammed for 3.6 btc:

Sorry for your loss. To hopefully make future cases of this sort of thing more difficult, I added a warning to all PMs by newbies.
--> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1029623.msg11249135#msg11249135