Re: Don't buy "wallet.dat" files with lost passwords. EXCHANGE THEM!

The wallet that circulates on internet with 362BTC and file size ~ 700 - 770KB it's fake:

Code:

Balance = 362.00495819 BTC. (Main Bitcoin Address: 1Jkn9wg1WbJdASNBPtQqdmm7wtrcSiATbf). (With recent outgoing transaction. UNDER WATCH.)

, the wallet is forged.

Tried to unlock the wallet with the cracked hash password and obviously received the error:

Code:

"some keys decrypt but not all. Your wallet may be corrupt"

Ok, tried to get it through pywallet and after the dump of privkey, discovered the sec of the address:

Code:

1Jkn9wg1WbJdASNBPtQqdmm7wtrcSiATbf

which of course after was imported in a electrum wallet, nothing, empty.

So the moral of the story is this, it was a fun experience, but the thing is that whenever you receive/find by accident or buy a wallet.dat file and the size is less < 500KB, not always the case and not to mentions recent transactions sent to a "supposedly" lost wallet [...] anyway, an old wallet with many transactions must have at least 1MB of data size, if it's otherwise then probably you got scammed or fooled.