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Topic
Board Service Discussion (Altcoins)
Re: Scammers claiming to be Poloniex, but are not
by
VBCryp@
on 15/10/2018, 05:42:05 UTC
A comment today on this page of my site:
https://bipcoin.org/?page_id=25

says:
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Hi,

I am Busoni admin of Polo Exchange,

we have been reading through your thread and are wondering if you would like to be added to our exchange. We feel we could bring a lot of attention to your project from our customer base.

We currently offer:

Coin addition: 1 BTC
Holding of ICO: 2 BTC

Please let us know how you feel of our offer,

Regards
Tristan D’iagosta


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It claims to be from  Tristan D’ agosta
at email
poloneixexchange@gmail.com

IP
86.45.252.233
 is in  Ireland, Laois, Portlaoise
is not a proxy. Is sent from a mobile network.

While I'm sure the person at the other end of this email would take my Bitcoin if I responded enthusiastically, I'm sure it would not result in my coin BipCoin being listed on Poloniex Exchange.

First, that's not Tristan's email. I know Tristan's email address because a friend whose coin is on Poloniex gave me an introduction. Tristan's email is not a gmail address.

Second, I doubt anyone at Poloniex Exchange has a gmail address that misspells "Poloniex"!  lol.

Just wanted to give a heads up for any other altcoin devs who recieve the same scammy message. It's not Poloniex. And these people will probably come up with a different email now that spells Poloniex right, like
PoloniexTristan@gmail.com
or something like that.


Poloniex company email addresses are not gmail addresses.



MWD
BipCoin dev team
This seems to be a trend for scammers. I also noticed a warning at Idax.mn. Be careful and do not believe any email or DM you receive from anyone.
https://idax.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016108471--Risk-Warning-Be-wary-of-fraudsters-posing-as-IDAX-employees-for-illegal-activities-