Quote from: Potato Chips on January 25, 2018, 03:12:59 PM

Quote from: anthello on January 25, 2018, 11:26:36 AM

Yep I recently saw a slew of them on Facebook. I googled them to find the scam but couldn't. They are all claiming to offer phenomenal daily returns using the fast S9 Antminer. Most of them are obvious asking you for the password as in this case however the one that got my attention created the wallet for me on blockchain.info. But then I realized he will still access to the wallet since he created it. He is patiently waiting for to add funds to the wallet to get the process started.

Lol what an absurd way of scamming people.

First, There is no guarantee that he has an Antminer S9
Second, You can use whatever address in mining and there is no need for you to sync it as mentioned by carlfebz2 or any authorization to be done before you can use it.
Third, The rule of the thumb applies: If it's too good to be true, it probably is.
Fourth, I wouldn't ever trust my money with a stranger over the internet Cry

Quote from: anthello on January 25, 2018, 02:13:47 PM

He's now saying he would need email verification to recover the wallet using the backup phrase. Is this true? Or email verification is not needed?

I haven't tried recovering my wallet using this tool: https://blockchain.info/wallet/#/recover but well the purpose of your seed is to recover your funds even if you lose everything and not to mention, you can import it on a different wallet without email verifications of course e.g. electrum

Is that guy asking for your email? Then he's probably nervous that you won't ever fund the wallet so he'll just ask for your email to reset every password of your valueable accounts. But vven if its just asking you to click and authorize something, it's still fishy so NO

Anyways, Don't ever fund the wallet and don't give any sensitive information. Lastly, Block him Cheesy

Correct and correct. I will block him. There are so many out there.

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