Quote from: Hueristic on September 23, 2024, 05:43:46 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on September 23, 2024, 01:27:37 PM

Isn't kyc wonderful. I wonder which breach allowed him or her to get my name, phone, email and address.
My BTC Address: 1J7bvsov27GPY77t17f7QSgYBgKuRdPEw
I do wonder who the guy or girl is that tried to blackmail me.

https://www.bitcoinwhoswho.com/address/1J7bvsov27GPY77t17f7QSgYBgKuRdPEw
Tag this guy just in case he's stupid enough to get tracked on chain in the future.

This is why most of my accounts have been closed as I refuse to KYC.

I wonder how helpful such a thing might be? You have to log in to see tags, yet it appears that you do not need to log in in order to be able to tag a bitcoin address.

Quote from: machasm on Today at 02:09:00 AM

Quote from: Hueristic on September 23, 2024, 10:17:39 PM

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Not likely but what if this f**kstain has generated a unique address for each victim and by depositing into it has made the scammer aware that Phillipma (albeit Heuristic in this case) has made a deposit?
This might spur him/her/them on to increase their attempts for further extortion?
I would have just left it well alone.
Thoughts?

Ignoring tends to be pretty powerful within the space of attempting to phish, including paying it would put the person on a "more likely to bite" list (which is likely more valuable) than the list of those who have not yet bitten.

It seems that many people have gotten wiser in regards to their attempts to scam the scammers, and I know historically, I would hear various folks telling me about how they engaged with a potential scammer in this way or in that way and it seems that those kinds of engagements do not tend to be good ideas.... and sure, there might be exceptions.. yet as a general rule, don't engage seems a decently solid approach.

Although an interesting angle on this one is that many of us could just spam the address with a bunch of dust transactions.. which may well end up playing out as a BIG ass waste of time, since what is the purpose exactly? Just to say, "hey, scammer wannabe, we are watching one of the BTC addresses that you are never going to use again."