Quote from: BTCevo on May 20, 2019, 11:29:35 AM

@TheQuin, I would like to know if this is a scam or not regards, I got the email exactly from you guys. The email is exactly the same, I just want to verifiy this, if it is a scam or not. Thanks before

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From:Freebitco.in <noreply@freebitco.in>
Congratulations
We would like to inform you of our dear business. You won the silver prize in our annual competition. And you win one BTC.
Now we want to deposit the prize into our account.

But there is a problem currently preventing filing
Your account balance must be equal to 20% of the value of the prize
If there is no minimum balance in the account please send the remaining value to the following address before 11 pm GMTFrom Monday, 20 May 2019
the address is
3PviFE1rGwc2nXCirnPPboD1rHPVLZv9P1
We would like to inform you that if this value is not sent to this address, the prize will be withheld from you and given to another competitor
FreeBitco.in, 3rd Floor, J and C Building, PO Box 933, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands

I do not know if my email is being hacked or what but somehow they know that I am playing this lottery all the time. Just want to reconfirm again this

I don't think you have to worry, this is a pure phishing attempt.
Don't look at the mail address in the message, it can be added in the text or modified to show as the scammer wants you to see and is even possible that the L in "noreply" is an uperrcase i (it depends on fonts, this forum uses a proper font that shows a different i/I) so neither checking the real sender mail address can be a solution to demonstrate that is a fake address (but you can try it simply pointing mouse cursor or clicking on the sender, not in the mail message, just on the name displayed as a sender).
Anyway, the most probably thing that happened to you is this: you used the same freebtc account mail on other sites, probably a scam site or more than one. In the best scenario you used DIFFERENT PASSWORDS to create/join accounts (both on freebtc and the scam site/sites) and in this case the owner of the scam site can only knows that you have used a mail to get access on some other sites, but he/she doesn't know your password. In the worst scenario you have used SAME PASSWORDS so for the scammer now is possible to ge access to all sites you have used that password. Best thing to do is to change passwords on legit sites and activate 2fa if possible.

ps. if someone ask to make a deposit in order to be elegible to obtain a prize 99.99% is a scam anyway.
pps. that btc address is empty and never used (no transaction in or out, never).

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