We read about phishing emails targeted at domain name owners all the time, things from verification scams to update your payment details and so on. The world of crypto currency is seeing the same thing, with the latest scam detailed on Monday by Liam Tung on ZDnet. It seems people are getting duped into believing they are receiving emails from the Bitcoin Foundation when these are spoofed versions of the foundation website.
From the article:
The latest ruse to scam Bitcoin owners out of their holdings is websites posing as The Bitcoin Foundation and capitalising on concerns over the cryptocurrency’s falling price.
The Bitcoin Foundation said on Monday that it has seen a spike in complaints to its helpdesk over a fraud campaign where scammers direct Bitcoin users to spoofed versions of the foundation’s site.
The two scam domains the foundation is aware of are: bitcompensation.com and bitsecuretransfer.com. According to whois.is, both were registered in mid-November by what appears to be the same person.
“The Bitcoin Foundation’s website is being cloned and spoofed at web addresses and domains that have absolutely nothing to do with the Bitcoin Foundation,” it said.
“If you are contacted and directed to a page that looks like the screenshot below, please close your browser as you are about to be scammed out of your Bitcoins.”
Read the full article on ZD Net