I'm invincible to these schemes, I play Eve Online. Go into a random trade hub and you get people shouting SEND ME E-MONEY AND I'LL DOUBLE IT!<p>They link to a 'public' API showing that player's financial transactions over time, giving 'proof' that what he claims is legit. And for low quantities, it works too - to build trust, of course. But when the scammed sends over a large quantity of money, the scammer will add that to the 'API page' and claim the user's trying to scam him or there's supposedly a technical problem, or something.<p>In this case, the scammer could improve by linking to a 'transaction log' online, and by offering to double someone's small amounts of bitcoin. With the current rates, that'd have to be like 0.01 BTC ($7). Those would be used to lure people in, going OMG IT WORKS, until they transfer, say, 10 BTC, after which the scammer simply doesn't return the money.
Can someone elaborate on how this could even work? If someone asked me to give them a dollar and I'd get 3 dollars back in one hour, I'd want to know what they are doing with my dollar. I assume the subtext is "we have some guaranteed way to arbitrage bit coins at a 300% return - send us your money and we'll give you at least that much back". I realize it's a scam. I just don't understand how the scam could work.
How can any bitcoin miner be that naive?<p>As you can see for now none fell for that (assuming they have one address for all "investments"): <a href="https://blockchain.info/address/18PyfH1AqV2DbEweh6USf1HYg7D9HuC2Uf" rel="nofollow">https://blockchain.info/address/18PyfH1AqV2DbEweh6USf1HYg7D9...</a>
Bitcoin needs to make it much further into the non-techie markets before this yields enough to make it worthwhile. Of course if this con is run by a pro, they'll actually profile each mark and return the amount promised during the first round, hoping for a much bigger score on the second round.
Heh: <a href="https://blockchain.info/address/18PyfH1AqV2DbEweh6USf1HYg7D9HuC2Uf" rel="nofollow">https://blockchain.info/address/18PyfH1AqV2DbEweh6USf1HYg7D9...</a><p>No transactions found for this address, it has probably not been used on the network yet.
I also got this email and noticed it's from a bogus mail server:<p>Received-SPF: softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning noreply@bitcoin.org does not designate 62.149.157.234 as permitted sender)<p>Wonder why Google's spam filtering didn't catch it...