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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: gubidahubida on February 25, 2013, 05:09 am

Title: Watch out for this scam or you could lose your account and BTC
Post by: gubidahubida on February 25, 2013, 05:09 am

I don't know if anyone has heard of this before, but there is a site (http://silkroadxmx45vk4.onion) which looks just like the silk road login, except it also asks you for your PIN. This is obviously a scam to hijack accounts.

What troubles me is that if you look up the Hidden Wiki on google, the first onion url result takes you to a possibly fake identical hidden wiki, that links you to the scam site with the link to the Silk Road. Be wary, my friends. NEVER enter your PIN at login, DPR would never require this.

Title: Re: Watch out for this scam or you could lose your account and BTC
Post by: scout on February 25, 2013, 05:34 am

This is a well-known scam, you're right.  It's best for users to try to memorize the correct URL and to remember - like you mentioned - that the real SR site NEVER requires your PIN at login!

Title: Re: Watch out for this scam or you could lose your account and BTC
Post by: WatLanBoon on February 25, 2013, 10:13 am

Thx for the heads up.

I had not heard of this.

Not a word of it in the newbie section we've been quarantined in for the last 50 posts..

Title: Re: Watch out for this scam or you could lose your account and BTC
Post by: XXXotica on February 25, 2013, 12:55 pm

Quote from: scout on February 25, 2013, 05:34 am

This is a well-known scam, you're right.  It's best for users to try to memorize the correct URL and to remember - like you mentioned - that the real SR site NEVER requires your PIN at login!

Yea, memorizing the correct SR address is best. Ive seen a couple of horror stories about the phising site getting account info and withdrawing members BTC. 

Title: Re: Watch out for this scam or you could lose your account and BTC
Post by: BishBash on February 25, 2013, 03:10 pm

There's plenty of steps you can take to ensure you're not going to get virtually robbed.

- Remember the URL
- Don't keep any BTC's in the SR wallet that you're not willing to lose.
- Use a decant password, letters numbers symbols etc etc

People should not be browsing through the clearnet (non-onion links and search engines) to click through to SilkRoad. Just remember the URL, and type it yourself. vb5piz3r is not hard to remember. Silkroad and .onion should be common sense. :)

Title: Re: Watch out for this scam or you could lose your account and BTC
Post by: jailbirdslanger on February 25, 2013, 03:20 pm

Man one day I started to get a feeling I was on a imposter site, matter face I think this was when the BTC was depositing crazy lol, I made sure every page load I was on the right one.

Good info though! Memorize it people, its not that hard, think VB5 vbulletin5 xanax pfizer - f/e --- piz3r