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Market => Rumor mill => Topic started by: nomad bloodbath on September 17, 2011, 09:15 pm

Title: DANGER SCAM ALERT!!!
Post by: nomad bloodbath on September 17, 2011, 09:15 pm
Silk Road Customer Service
Do not respond to this PM until i confirm with SR.


"From: SR Customer Support
5 minutes ago
Seller Account Renewal

Dear Seller,

due to a renewed cleaning of the seller accounts, all sellers who wish to continue operating in the Silk Road Marketplace are to pay a mandatory fee of 10 bitcoins.

All seller accounts that do not pay the fee will be downgraded from seller status.

We believe this to be necessary in order to maintain a high standard of quality for our customers.

Payment Addresss: 12pS1bcs43wGejCZJdviRjni8316hv9GRg

Regards

Silk Road Marketplace Customer Support"


I see scam.
Title: Re: DANGER SCAM ALERT!!!
Post by: anarcho47 on September 17, 2011, 09:45 pm
Yeah I just got one of these and messaged back that SR himself needs to post this in the forums signed and verified before they would be getting any coins out of me.  I smell a scam as well.
Title: Re: DANGER SCAM ALERT!!!
Post by: PsiloTRON on September 18, 2011, 06:12 am
I got a message from anothe SR member letting me know about the message, I looked on the forum and found another thread under Security warning others about this possible phishing scam. I really hope it's a scam.
Peace.
Title: Re: DANGER SCAM ALERT!!!
Post by: rake on September 18, 2011, 12:30 pm
Absolutely 100% scam, as my selling accounts were not messaged.
Title: Re: DANGER SCAM ALERT!!!
Post by: Missit on September 18, 2011, 09:50 pm
I was instantly suspicious just by the user name....I never ever got a message from SR with a name like that, they sent me 3 messages within an hour...LAME!
Title: Re: DANGER SCAM ALERT!!!
Post by: OpiateGeek on September 19, 2011, 10:34 pm
According to Blockexplorer two people have already paid.

Very unfortunate.