This is bullshit. I received a blatant marketing email (and nothing else) from this site. After examining the headers, it's clearly from his site and sent from him. Not hacked, not fake, not phishing. A pure, unadulterated spam email sent to the leaked MT Gox list.
This guy is a spammer and should be painted as such. No one should do business with him and he should be fair game for being ripped off left and right to pay for his spam. I charge $1500 per spam piece for reading, so he owes me $1500... whatever else other people charge, that's what he owes if he wants to pay for my time of reading garbage and using my bandwidth and hard drive space to store the email on my servers.
Just a point of reference:
Mail was sent from 62.76.188.230, casascius.net resolves to that IP address.
Can you read?
I seriously think this is nothing more than just a Marketing Plan to do exactly what has happened. Generates hits and traffic to Casascius.com. make people virally aware of Physical Bitcoins, Rank on BitcoinX.com....
and allow plausible denial of course.
Interesting the "Phishing Site" has now disappeared.
Brilliant!
Or it could have been a bunch of people taking steps to report it...
Fucking A, it upsets me to see people bitching about getting an apologetic piece of spam to prevent them from being scammed. You are a bunch of douches.