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Re: Network Attack on XVG / VERGE
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boxalex
on 05/04/2018, 23:58:10 UTC
Quote from: NowandLater on April 05, 2018, 11:44:24 PM
Quote from: Dogedarkdev on April 04, 2018, 09:52:44 PM
Quote from: boxalex on April 04, 2018, 09:51:16 PM
Quote from: Dogedarkdev on April 04, 2018, 09:33:16 PM
we are not doing a rollback and we are preparing a fork to patch this up.

Sorry to mess up this thread and topic a bit, but after i do not get for hours an answer on twitter, neither does the email function on the Verge homepage work, nor does someone respond on the Verge Bitcoin thread i have to try my luck here.

I visited some hours ago the official Verge Twitter profil to read the news about the hash hack. While reading the tweed i noticed several messages offering a compensation for the attack by Verge. Send x Eth and you get some bonus back. Sounded legit to me as it was affilated to the hash attack and i suffered from it as well having had some hours only orphaned blocks on all my baikals, hence i fall victim to this damn scam on the official twitter page.

Now, while i have myself for sure some vault for this i'am seriously angry about how on the official verge twitter page 100s of scams and fake messages that say they got the ETH back are tolerated and nobody cares about it?!?! How is this possible. After i realized i got scammed i even made a post in this tweet that its a scam and to remove it asap, nothing happened and people still fall after that scam. Only on that scam by now 12+ Eth have been transfered the last hours.

Damn, i'am not a twitter guy and very rarely use it, but from an official Verge twitter profil i personal await its clean and at very least if this for some reason is not possible that there are warning messages about these scams!!!! But no, nothing, the whole official Verge Twitter profil is FULL of scams that are tolerated and people like me, fall victims to it. Fine, i lost some 1.8 ETH, but hourly these scams seems to collect a huge amount of ETH that way and nobody there at Verge cares?

Seriously, so far i wondered about the twitter decision to ban crypto, but i begin to understand the decision. They must get shitload of complains from victims like me.....

And what makes me even more angry ... no response:
- Messaged some hours ago verge on twitter .... nothing, scams are staying and getting more and more
- Put a tweet on the Verge tweet to remove the scams .... nothing, scams are just staying there
- posted in the official bitcointalk Verge thread, nothing ......
- tried to email Verge about the ongoing scams .... email function on the homepage isn't even working, it just loads forever. And after 5 attempts to load it still loads after 2 hours, lol.

I'am writting this as a XVG miner and lover, but this all makes me really sad and angry .....

not sure if you thought we had the ability to delete them, but we dont. we have written to twitter about this. it's happening to all major coins right now. =\

I fell for the scam too, with another coin.

Now when I see the scammers on Twitter, I report them right away, and warn everyone not to buy into the scam.

It's a whole group of people, and they respond like they got a good amount for what they sent.

I did a search on "Etherscan," and found the address they used. They are literally taking in thousands with their scam. https://etherscan.io/

If you look at the transaction, you can find the address where you sent it, and it will even show the address it's associated with.

There's got to be a way to catch these thieves.

I for myself reported that scam i felt on the verge twitter account to the FBI internet crime complaint center (IC3) with all links and full description how this happens. Hope other victims follow this step.