Someone doing a phishing scam on BTCe using Feathercoin as bait

chrisj

This came in from Birddog on the BTCe trollbox. He received this message. I have not visited featherscoin.com but thought I would pass this over to you guys in case there is anything you can do?

C

BEGIN MESSAGE:
FROM marjoriejhupp651
23:19 08.08.13
Hi,
My Feathercoin giveaway has began! I am a large holder in Feathercoins and want to boost it’s popularity. To do this I am offering the equivalent of 10$ in feathercoins for every person that gets the feathercoinQT wallet and sends me their newly made address.

I will be doing this up to the one hundredth address I receive and depending on the results I get on the ftc market I will either continue or discontinue these giveaways. Please do not attempt to send me multiple addresses, I have my ways of finding out. After downloading the wallet send me a pm on here with your ftc address. Hope you realise the investment opportunity that is feathercoin!

You can get the wallet from featherscoin.com

ghostlander

Oh yes. They cloned our front page and changed the download links to their trojan crap.

Ruthie

I’ve removed the link from this page in case someone clicks on it.

Oopps, its down;-)

MODERATOR EDIT: Sorry Markus, we cannot condone DDoS attacks on anyone, illegal activity is illegal activity and 2 wrongs don’t make a right. Let’s stick to putting out the information to stop people falling for this phishing scam.

[b] RIGHT, thx to the moderator[/b]!!!

ghostlander

Reported their crap to Google Safe Browsing and StopBadware.org. This is going to hurt the scammers.

chrisj

[quote name=“ghostlander” post=“24998” timestamp=“1376042438”]
Reported their crap to Google Safe Browsing and StopBadware.org. This is going to hurt the scammers.
[/quote]

Thanks, how I need to report it to Google too? I have given a couple of announcements in the Trollbox

ghostlander

[quote name=“chrisj” post=“25024” timestamp=“1376061207”]
[quote author=ghostlander link=topic=3272.msg24998#msg24998 date=1376042438]
Reported their crap to Google Safe Browsing and StopBadware.org. This is going to hurt the scammers.
[/quote]

Thanks, how I need to report it to Google too? I have given a couple of announcements in the Trollbox
[/quote]

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_badware/
https://www.stopbadware.org/

Thats what INFORMATION space in the client (intro at startup or a specific unused area in the client) would be perfect for - to quickly spread the word

wrapper

https://www.moniker.com/contact.jsp

I have also sent a complaint to moniker.com. I’m sure the perp will be popular if we all complain!

corather

Reported to google and badware.

Is it possible to buy up all the domain names that sound similar to feathercoin.com? I know it’s probably an expensive proposal, but it will keep the jackasses away and add to credibility.