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Re: Email from bitcoingiveaway
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andy35
on 13/10/2015, 00:34:57 UTC
Quote from: Bifta on October 13, 2015, 12:18:10 AM
Quote from: Hugroll on October 12, 2015, 11:52:26 PM
Quote from: andy35 on October 12, 2015, 11:50:13 PM
Quote from: 7788bitcoin on October 12, 2015, 10:39:50 PM
This is scam obviously. It is like a stranger who promises you a $500 by asking you to hand over your ATM card and pin.

It wouldn't cost the scammers anything to send out hundreds of thousands of those emails. They make profits if they get one person out of a hundred thousand to respond to them. It's little different to those email spam adverts that most users ignore. It only needs a tiny number of people to respond to make it worth while for a scammer/advertiser to compose an email and mass mail it.

If we make sure nobody responds to that scam email the scammer might give up because there's no reward for him.
ya but if someone owns bitcoin on blockchain.info they probably know how bitcoin works meaning they have they intellect of not giving random people their money
I don't think so. A lot of newbies go to blockchain.info first and use them as their wallet for some reason. I suspect that most of them don't even know what doing what the email says means.

I made some really dumb mistakes when I first started learning about crypto. I didn't know how a wallet worked so used a scam online wallet to send my first faucet coins to. It happily accepted them, but unfortunately wouldn't let me withdraw them.

Noobs might be suckered by that email scam the same way I was suckered by that scam online wallet. It's easy to forget green you were when you started finding out about crypto.