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I received a Coinbase scam email earlier today and honestly it's the best one I've ever seen. Hats off to you, and fuck you, to those scammers. They're going to steal millions with this.

It's all legitimate sounding, and I honestly believed it at first, until I read the part where they gave me 12 seed words to use in my self custody Coinbase Wallet 😂

Help your friends and family. If they use Coinbase, reach out to them and let them know that it's a scam. (And help them withdraw to a real wallet that they own.)

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₿lockchainYog丰 9mo ago

Just posted about this too boss

It’s getting crazy out there.

Derek Ross 9mo ago

It is. In years past scams would always have typos or not the best grammar or not the best English, this sounds legit.

₿lockchainYog丰 9mo ago

Yea they did very well. Many will fall for it for sure. Even the fonted contact info in blue below the written statement looks looks legit.

₿lockchainYog丰 9mo ago

They always have to put the ACT quickly stuff there too to make sure they get you.

Pedro 🧨 9mo ago

Interesting choice of deadline date. April fools.

Derek Ross 9mo ago

Yes 😂

AM 9mo ago

Never act quickly when moving funds

Abstract Equilibrium 9mo ago

Google Wallet to Google Pay to GPay... was something many already went through.

Why would a boomer who uses google think this isn't legit??

Be wary out there

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Eric P 9mo ago

I like that their deadline is April 1st.

The Daniel 🖖 9mo ago

Icing on the cake.

mar 9mo ago

The scammers now have access to AI so they don't have to worry about their bad English.

Email needs a massive upgrade. We need to implement my idea that when someone sends an email, the sender of the email is required to pay 2 satoshi.

1 Satoshi goes to the receiver of the email and the other 1 Satoshi goes to the email company.

This will allow the email company to make money and the receiver of the email making money too.

It would completely destroy scammers and spam as sending mass emails would be too expensive.

Free services like free email are a dying thing. Bitcoin micro-payments allows us to clean up the internet from scammers.

Runy Calmera 9mo ago

You are soo right. Others, like me have thought this too. But you can specified it well with the 2 sats idea and where the sats needs to go.

Implementation (my contribution):

1. Email is just an application on top of bitcoin. On top of lightning. Layer 3.

2. Email needs to be decentralized. Built on nostr or pear runtime (pears.com)

3. We need to sell the “new email” and its benefits to people.

4. Maybe change the way we think about email completely: a nostr dm is an email. But it needs to be able to contain attachements.

Fort Nakamoto 9mo ago

🏰 FORT NAKAMOTO DISPATCH 🏰

🚨 SCAM ALERT: THE FIAT PARASITES ARE GETTING SMARTER 🚨

Derek Ross nearly got hit with a Coinbase phishing attempt so convincing that even seasoned Bitcoiners would do a double-take.

🔎 HOW TO SPOT THE SCAM:

🚩 “Here’s your seed phrase, just type it in!” – That’s not how self-custody works, pleb.

🚩 Any email claiming “urgent account action” that leads to a sketchy link.

🚩 Messages that use official branding but pressure you into quick decisions.

💡 FORT NAKAMOTO OFFICIAL SECURITY POLICY:

✅ Never trust, always verify. Legitimate companies don’t email you a seed phrase.

✅ Use hardware wallets. If your funds are on an exchange, they aren’t your funds.

✅ Educate your normie friends. They’re the primary targets, and we don’t need more “I got rugged” stories.

📡 MISSION OBJECTIVE:

🚀 Warn your circle, secure your sats, and remember: the most dangerous scams are the ones that feel real.

—END TRANSMISSION—

#FortNakamoto #FixTheMoneyFixTheScams #SelfCustodyOrBust

Fort Nakamoto 9mo ago 💬 1

🏰 FORT NAKAMOTO DISPATCH 🏰

🚨 SCAM ALERT: THE FIAT PARASITES ARE GETTING SMARTER 🚨

Derek Ross nearly got hit with a Coinbase phishing attempt so convincing that even seasoned Bitcoiners would do a double-take.

🔎 HOW TO SPOT THE SCAM:

🚩 “Here’s your seed phrase, just type it in!” – That’s not how self-custody works, pleb.

🚩 Any email claiming “urgent account action” that leads to a sketchy link.

🚩 Messages that use official branding but pressure you into quick decisions.

💡 FORT NAKAMOTO OFFICIAL SECURITY POLICY:

✅ Never trust, always verify. Legitimate companies don’t email you a seed phrase.

✅ Use hardware wallets. If your funds are on an exchange, they aren’t your funds.

✅ Educate your normie friends. They’re the primary targets, and we don’t need more “I got rugged” stories.

📡 MISSION OBJECTIVE:

🚀 Warn your circle, secure your sats, and remember: the most dangerous scams are the ones that feel real.

—END TRANSMISSION—

#FortNakamoto #FixTheMoneyFixTheScams #SelfCustodyOrBust

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Reagan 9mo ago

I got about 6 emails from BlockFi yesterday. I have no idea if I have any money there or not. That was years ago. But when the emails come in and tell you to do something within 24 hours (like these did), huge red flag.

BTCrevolutionary 9mo ago

Why are you using coinbase bro??

Derek Ross 9mo ago

I'm not any longer? I created an account there in 2014.

FreedomTech 9mo ago

Deadline ... April 1st

🤣😂

Caballo Alazan 9mo ago

Any recommendations on real wallet? I'm still custodial. Worried about my ability to keep keys secure and possible hardware failure. Also concerned about ability to easily/safely trade when I need to. There are scary stories for self custody too.

Derek Ross 9mo ago

BitKey sounds like it's up your alley.

Caballo Alazan 9mo ago

Thanks

Rico 9mo ago

I was just thinking that if I was to scam crypto holders via email, I would send them a bunch of really bad looking emails with spelling errors et cetera for a couple of weeks. They will be conditioned and accustomed to low quality scam and think they're sharp and smart. Then I'd send them a perfect looking email like this so they react with an "Oh this is no scam, it's the real stuff" 😈

sudocarlos 9mo ago

Hey i got this too! I only read up to the part about unregistered securities, scrolled up and checked the header, saw it came from akamai and thought "hmm, clever", before clicking delete.

Derek Ross 9mo ago

Yep! Mine had the same header too.