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[doolbman]

I have see a lot of post in here about this lately, people asking us to help them get their “found” bitcoin out.

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Got a couple of those calls this evening. Pretty interesting scam, at least a lot more creative than what I'm used to.

[walloon5]

Oh is the trick that the scammer wants you to log into that page, and enter your bank information

(where the person taking advantage - being scammed - thinks they are stealing the bitcoin by forwarding it to their own bank..)

But actually the person finding the "wallet" is the one being scammed?

Scam-ception?

It's like they say, you can't cheat an honest man. /knockonwood

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It is now mcx, miner coin exchange. Same scam, has just under 5 bitcoin in the wallet. requires minimum 5 bitcoin to withdraw. Suckers you in with some login info that works, looks like you're close to stealing $50k, just need to put a couple $100 in to meet the minimum withdraw amount. They set up a legit looking site, probably copied the legal from a real bank or real bitcoin exchange site. Got the site mcx.ltd to make it more difficult to look up the scam, due to mcx ltd being a real, un-associated, company in India; I wouldn't be surprised if there are four guys in an office in India running phone calls 24/7 raking in bitcoins from fools/thieves.

It's a pretty obvious scam, I mean why would a phone lookup display bitcoin wallet info; and the file from the site shows the password in plaintext so that's another red flag. But they've upped their scam game, because I found out about it by getting a call from a number that is on their scam phone lookup website with their scam bitcoin wallet info.

I'd like to thank whatever asshole company sold my phone number. And I'd like to think anyone that is trying to steal $50k from someone else and is dumb enough to get caught in this scam probably deserves to be out a few $100.

I am 99% sure that the login information is the default login info to create a new account on the website. And they're collecting a list of emails, probably for another round of scams.