Email Fraud Alert received from: Janine
I recently received an email with this subject line: Payment from FreeBitco.in and I am concerned that it could be an attempt at defrauding me. Let me know in the comments section what you think, please.
The full contents of the suspected fraudulent (phishing / scamming) e-mail appear below:
This email was sent to REMOVED@gmail.com because you have registered an account at FreeBitco.in. To unsubscribe from future payment notification emails, please opt-out here.
We have just sent a payment of 0.00100117 BTC to your bitcoin address 13bVa3kmpXN6fF5JahWahVY5atHzbdC16R.
To view the transaction, go to http://btc.blockr.io/tx/info/e28c7eb1cc94ead7be93a8ec62800ec82514a390ab74e7b6ca491605b46111b0.
It might take upto 6 hours for the coins to appear in your wallet.
If you use a desktop wallet software and are unable to see the coins, please leave your wallet software running to let it sync with the network after which you will be able to see the full balance in your wallet.
The above email was sent by “FreeBitco.in” from this email address: noreply@freebitco.in
I, Janine, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “FreeBitco.in”:
I would KNOW if I signed up for any Bitcoin transactions and I didn’t.