So..... big drama in the Bitcoin forums today!
This guy with the user name "anyroll" came in last week, saying he's done
really well with day trading Bitcoins, and he starts a 10 Bitcoin Giveaway!
You read that right.... 10 Bitcoins. Giving away. For free.
The game was basically to guess a number between 1 and 1000 that he had
already picked, and post that number with your Bitcoin wallet address. The
person guessing closest would win the Bitcoins. Here is the thread for his
giveaway...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=198694.0
Well, sometime early today, people started getting private messages from the
"anyroll" account, saying they won the contest and to go to BTC-e to claim the
prize, and providing a link to get there... well, you guessed it. The link was
fake, sending people to a phishing website, which would collect login names and
passwords so the phisher could loot their accounts on the real BTC-e.
People started posting about this toward the end of the giveaway thread, as well
starting new topics giving everyone the heads-up that "anyroll is a scammer"...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=204533.0
The "anyroll" account posted that his account had been hacked, and the private
messages with the phishing link were sent by the hacker. Several users posted,
however, that "anyroll" was still sending PMs with the phishing link AT THE SAME
TIME that he was posting in the threads that his account was hacked.
Well, the moderators got involved, suspending the "anyroll" account and locking
the original givaway thread. Discussion of what happened centered on the second
link I posted above.
So, what's the latest word, you ask? It turns out that "anyroll" may have been
legit... one of the other users came in to say that "anyroll" started a new account
and messaged them to let them know they had won the giveaway. When the winner went
to check their wallet, sure enough.... 10 shiny new Bitcoins were there!
So, it looks like "anyroll" was legit (would a scammer actually send out 10
Bitcoins?)... the moderators were informed of this, so perhaps "anyroll" will get
his account back and continue to hold contests.
We will see.....
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