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The Crypto industry continues their speedrun of rediscovering all of the reasons for why the global financial system exists. What you've described is the same thing that many Crypto enthusiasts call a "Bank"
except banks staff can easily be bribed too. There is plenty of bank fraud happening.
I guess I can walk downtown to CB HQ, but something tells me I won't get past the front desk.
I have been receiving regular spear phishing calls from these guys, or someone who bought the leaked data, with classic tactics like claiming that I need to confirm a potentially fraudulent transaction. They speak perfect English with an American accent, sound very friendly, and have knowledge of your account balance. Thankfully on the first call I realized it was a scam right away, and Google's call screening featur…
I was looking through some phishing e-mails the other day out of curiosity and found a weird unicode character mistranslated. Immediately knew it was an artifact of bad translation. So they're not perfect, but they're damn good.
I have been receiving regular spear phishing calls from these guys, or someone who bought the leaked data, with classic tactics like claiming that I need to confirm a potentially fraudulent transaction. They speak perfect English with an American accent, sound very friendly, and have knowledge of your account balance. Thankfully on the first call I realized it was a scam right away, and Google's call screening featur…
Same with my Microsoft account actually
I usually just ignore it but I assume someone is testing if my email can be used to login.
I have been receiving regular spear phishing calls from these guys, or someone who bought the leaked data, with classic tactics like claiming that I need to confirm a potentially fraudulent transaction. They speak perfect English with an American accent, sound very friendly, and have knowledge of your account balance. Thankfully on the first call I realized it was a scam right away, and Google's call screening featur…
Coinbase not only leaked your full name and address, they also gave up your balances, your transaction history, and images of your government identification.
People with "significant" crypto balances are being assaulted on the street and in their own homes, and family members are being kidnapped for ransom.
"Significant" in this case can be $10k or less.
Until now, your best defense secrecy. Never talk about crypto in public in any way that could be traced to your real-world identity.
Thanks to Coinbase that defense is now gone.
The bad guys can see who has ever had a significant balance on Coinbase (even if they don't right now), whether that balance was sold for cash and how much, or if you've ever transferred tokens off the exchange to a self-custody wallet.
Now the bad guys know who's worth kidnapping for ransom and where you live. For most people, a Google search of your name and home address turns up the names of family members who would would also be lucrative targets for kidnapping and threats of violence.
Coinbase will never be forced to reimburse all the damage they've done because the true cost would bankrupt the company.
I have been receiving regular spear phishing calls from these guys, or someone who bought the leaked data, with classic tactics like claiming that I need to confirm a potentially fraudulent transaction. They speak perfect English with an American accent, sound very friendly, and have knowledge of your account balance. Thankfully on the first call I realized it was a scam right away, and Google's call screening featur…
I just switched to iPhone from a pixel device and I’m shook by all the spam calls. How do iPhone users deal with this?
I have been receiving regular spear phishing calls from these guys, or someone who bought the leaked data, with classic tactics like claiming that I need to confirm a potentially fraudulent transaction. They speak perfect English with an American accent, sound very friendly, and have knowledge of your account balance. Thankfully on the first call I realized it was a scam right away, and Google's call screening featur…
I just switched to iPhone from a pixel device and I’m shook by all the spam calls. How do iPhone users deal with this?
I have been receiving regular spear phishing calls from these guys, or someone who bought the leaked data, with classic tactics like claiming that I need to confirm a potentially fraudulent transaction. They speak perfect English with an American accent, sound very friendly, and have knowledge of your account balance. Thankfully on the first call I realized it was a scam right away, and Google's call screening featur…
I just switched to iPhone from a pixel device and I’m shook by all the spam calls. How do iPhone users deal with this?
I’m not usually a huge fan of crypto folks, but I applaud this.
I hope they are serious about paying the reward, and aren’t planning to rug-pull it.
> Instead we are establishing a $20 million reward fund for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the criminals responsible for this attack. I’m not usually a huge fan of crypto folks, but I applaud this. I hope they are serious about paying the reward, and aren’t planning to rug-pull it.
They could always pay it in crypto.
Whatever you think of Coinbase, this is a pretty good response IMO: > and will not pay the $20 million ransom demand we received. Instead we are establishing a $20 million reward fund for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the criminals responsible