Quote from: giletto on January 08, 2014, 05:03:05 AM

Quote from: PulsedMedia on January 08, 2014, 04:25:49 AM

yea i haven't received tracking info neither. And no, i'm not going to mail cxboy unless sushi says it's fine - until then sounds like phishing.

Oh yeah with your name and the location can phishing alot... Roll Eyes

Actually yes - just need to be atleast a bit creative.
Weakest link in any security is the human - like you are confirming here.

By e-mailing it's likely the target will also be revealing his or hers private email address, with your full name, location and e-mail address added to the fact you can probably guess the forum name, and from there things, in conjunction to this thread tells already MANY things, spammers and con artists would love to have a list of contacts like that.
A list gathered from this thread on that regard would be GREAT addition to many spammers and con artist's lists - They know you use bitcoin (wallet trojan for example), you are a miner (you got btc), and you got enough money to purchase antminer (say long con mining equipment).
Gather a few high quality target lists like that to sum up a few thousand names, a well crafted long con is prone to gather significant return, or a well crafted wallet theft attack.

BTC mining related cons have higher success rate as well - as human greed knows no bounds. I know as i fell for BTCFPGA (well calculated risk, the refunding thing was a hoax - yet to receive my refund of 19BTC - but i'm sure most of you don't even know the what was the btcfpga long con), One lost case of GPUs back in the day, and one could argue BFL gear is the greatest con of them all.