If the OP's wallet turns out to be one of the same batch and it's just some trickery or worse, then we got punked just the same. It would also mean these last 10 pages and deep discussions of ethics and mushrooms was all for nothing.
How sad that would be.
Oh well, we can't say we didn't have fun, right.. How sad that would be.
Quote from: Dad
What do you call a mushroom that buys you drinks?
A fungi to be with! 
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
This would mean that the Reddit OP has no idea about Bitcoin though, right? I mean: 'access the account'? Which account? There are no Bitcoin accounts.
It must be targeted at people who don't actually know this. People who think a website saying: 'here is an address with X Bitcoin on it, send us $50 to access it' isn't something out of the ordinary.
Now I kind of want to see the website..
It must be targeted at people who don't actually know this. People who think a website saying: 'here is an address with X Bitcoin on it, send us $50 to access it' isn't something out of the ordinary.
Now I kind of want to see the website..
I also got the impression that the Redditor isn't very knowledgeable about bitcoin. The terminology does kind of give it away.
If my imagination is serving me accurately, I picture the inside of this "wallet" as a QR code which directs to a URL, and some access code that allows you to "login" to the website. And, it's starting to sound like there's only one QR code, not two as I would expect. Certainly there wouldn't be a private key, but the access code makes it look like there is to a neophyte. Another purpose the access code may have accidentally served is to confuse a neophyte into thinking it is a private key, even if he were to call a more knowledgeable friend (as has been demonstrated by these last 10 pages.) The other odd thing I noticed about the wallets in the Reddit photos; there's no QR code for the public key.
If I've got it all pictured correctly, I expect anyone with most basic knowledge of bitcoin would recognize this as ruse. Even the Redditor who seems to have little knowledge of bitcoin recognized it as a potential scam.
I would really like to see this website too. At this point, I wish someone would post photos of the inside of the wallet, I'm sure there's nothing to lose. They probably all have the same the codes anyway, just like they have the same address printed on the outside.