Quote from: TheQuin on May 21, 2019, 01:25:26 AM

Quote from: BTCevo on May 20, 2019, 11:29:35 AM

@TheQuin, I would like to know if this is a scam or not regards, I got the email exactly from you guys. The email is exactly the same, I just want to verifiy this, if it is a scam or not. Thanks before

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From:Freebitco.in <noreply@freebitco.in>
Congratulations
We would like to inform you of our dear business. You won the silver prize in our annual competition. And you win one BTC.
Now we want to deposit the prize into our account.

But there is a problem currently preventing filing
Your account balance must be equal to 20% of the value of the prize
If there is no minimum balance in the account please send the remaining value to the following address before 11 pm GMTFrom Monday, 20 May 2019
the address is
3PviFE1rGwc2nXCirnPPboD1rHPVLZv9P1
We would like to inform you that if this value is not sent to this address, the prize will be withheld from you and given to another competitor
FreeBitco.in, 3rd Floor, J and C Building, PO Box 933, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands

I do not know if my email is being hacked or what but somehow they know that I am playing this lottery all the time. Just want to reconfirm again this

As the others have already said that is an obvious phishing attempt. It is easy to fake the sender's address on an email.
Anything that asks you to make a payment to claim your prize is a 419 advanced fee scam. We wouldn't send an email with such bad grammar. Is that BTC address your freebitco.in deposit address? Is there any mention of the alleged competition on the site or have I announced it here?
It isn't that you have been hacked but rather the scammers have probably purchased a list of email addresses associated with Bitcoin on the dark web and are phishing them.

How is it so easy to fake an email address? I mean honestly that email contents are clearly yelling scam but I would have probably thought freebitcoin sent it to me nevertheless when I saw the email address.

I have learnt a new thing today that faking an email address is quite easy, I would have never known. People are really improving the scamming quality lately, they have been really working hard to make everything look as real as possible, even on twitter where someone asks for money like he is Elon musk was a very known scam for a short while but I remember dude making over 20 thousand dollars there too.

Thankfully I have never been on the bad end of a scam attempt, not that I never fell for a scam attempt, there was literally no scam attempt specific to me (didn't fall for tweets like that or anything but that wasn't directed to me).