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Bitcoin Scam Poses as a Lottery and a Marriage Proposal

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday August 18 2016, @04:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the people-are-so-weird dept.

jdavidb writes:

Motherboard reports on a strange Bitcoin "lottery" that is now claimed to be a marriage proposal.

Strange event #1: someone claiming to be the anonymous hacker who stole 119,000 Bitcoins from the Bitfinex Bitcoin exchange announced a "lottery" to win 1000 Bitcoins on Reddit, garnering over 7000 responses on the thread from people posting their Bitcoin addresses on the chance that this was somehow legit.

Strange event #2: the Reddit poster actually sent 1000 Bitcoins to the address of one of the users in the thread. Almost immediately the money was sent from that destination to yet another address, one with a public note attached that says "Please send me some money. I'm very poor."

Strange event #3: the poster on Reddit who received the money emerged, admitted to knowing the original poster (not surprising), and revealed that somehow this entire event is some sort of wedding proposal to her (very surprising).

I'm not sure what to think of this. If it's a scam I'm not quite sure who got ripped off.

Previous Coverage: Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex has been hacked. 119,756 BTC Stolen

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by nitehawk214 on Thursday August 18 2016, @07:48PM

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Thursday August 18 2016, @07:48PM (#389710)

    My get rich quick scheme involves selling my 4-digit uid when Soylent hits 1 million subscribers.

    NOW DONT ANY OF YOU TRY TO COPY ME.

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  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Friday August 19 2016, @12:01AM

    by edIII (791) on Friday August 19 2016, @12:01AM (#389799)

    That implies we can change our names around here. I don't think we can. Can we?

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    • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Monday August 22 2016, @02:17PM

      by nitehawk214 (1304) on Monday August 22 2016, @02:17PM (#391636)

      You can't. Someone would start posting as me, and I would create a new account.

      Apparently there were account sales or transfers on the green site.

      I have no idea why.

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