Blockchain wallet email

marymart

I received an email from Brendon Johnson of Blockchain Support Department in my junk folder saying my account was classified as dormant due to inactivity. It also said my wallet holds a balance of 2.6 BTC equivalent to €255,619.72 EUR. TBH I don’t know anything about this as cannot recall ever investing. Is it a scam ?? Have others received this email. I think they’ve tried calling me too but at the time I blocked it thinking it’s just a scam. 

MeteredOut

Yes, its a scam. You would know if you'd bought bitcoin.

If you spoke to them, they'd probably ask for an up-front fee to "recover" your BTC for you.

silverwhistle

What do you think?!

But it'll be interesting to see if others have received it. Sounds like 'won a competition time' when you never even entered..

arfster

Common scam. There will be fees to withdraw, and then "taxes", and then more fees, etc etc.

Aretnap

Obvious scam is obvious.

No, you can't invest in Bitcoin without being aware of doing so.

As above, if you contact than (which you should not do) then they will ask for a fee to "recover" you Bitcoin. If you pay the fee (which you should definitely not do) they will come up with a reason why you need to pay another fee before they can unlock your Bitcoin for you. Then there will be yet another fee that you need to pay. Eventually you will either run out of money, or realise that you have been scammed, at which point you will never hear from them again.* At no point will you ever get your Bitcoin back, because they don't exist.

* I say you'll never hear from them again. In fact there's a reasonable chance that the same people wll contact you a few months or years later, claiming to be a fraud recovery outfit this time and offering to help you get back the money that was stolen from you. In return for another fee, of course. A popular variant is to pretend to be another victim and ask for funds for a class action lawsuit. Basically if you show any sign of being susceptible to this story if thing your name will be added to a suckers list and you can expect the number if scam calls and Emails that you get to increase exponentially.

Aretnap

silverwhistle said:

But it'll be interesting to see if others have received it.

Will it? People get phishing Emails for this sort of advance fee fraud every day. Most of us delete then without a second glance, or just let the spam filter do its job. What makes this one interesting?

marymart

The only reason I’m asking is that when I googled them, they seemed to be a genuine company but I’ll ditch it like I do with all the other junk I receive daily. 

Eyeful

There are widespread reports of scammers impersonating Blockchain.com support, creating fake websites and support portals with very similar URLs, or contacting users and claiming to represent Blockchain.com in order to steal funds or sensitive information

poseidon1

marymart said:

The only reason I’m asking is that when I googled them, they seemed to be a genuine company but I’ll ditch it like I do with all the other junk I receive daily. 

Most people do not know the first thing about verifying by way of appropriate due diligence whether they are dealing with a genuine business (as the victims of Moneda Capital found to their cost). Merely googling the name tells you nothing, other than the firm actually exsists. That does not constitute verification  they are the people who contacted you.

Not a fan of BTC, but with Blackrock now offering a regulated etf in this space, there is now a safe option to gain exposure to BTC for those so inclined.

Sg28

I get phonecalls of this nature all the time. They are good fun to wind the callers up.

I like hearing the excitement in their voice when I tell them I think I had some bitcoins years ago but cant remember how or where.