Quote from: refinement5 on July 14, 2019, 08:31:23 AM

My main point was that I would imagine that people who own BTC would be at least somewhat tech-savvy in the first place, and thus would be aware of such scams

How can somebody be simultaneously smart enough to own BTC, but stupid enough to fall for that kind of generic spam message, i honestly don't get it?!

Just a simple google of the BTC of the scammer gets him exposed - how is this even possible....

You don't need to be "smart enough" to own Bitcoin. Haven't you seen the news? Whenever BTC goes mainstream because of a new ATH or just some government talk about it, a lot of regular joes try to get into it for the money.

"If you had bought BTC 1 year ago, you would have earnt 100% profit", then he searches "how to buy BTC" and do it without any research.

Also, you don't need to actually have or even know BTC to fall for this. If someone receives a email saying that will release stuff about them if he doesn't send $300 in BTC to them, they will just google what is BTC and maybe even buy it just to pay the scammer. If you believe in the email of course.

Quote from: refinement5 on July 14, 2019, 08:31:23 AM

Sorry to post in the wrong place you can delete my thread mods.

Move it to the right board. "Move topic" at the bottom-left corner of the page.