Mt. Gox Database For Sale

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A scam regarding a scam? Metascamming? Is that even a thing now?

Bitcoin stinks and it enables scams like this.

Yeah and the internet stinks because of the Nigerian Prince scams. And fiat stinks too, because, well, billions worth of smuggled drugs each year in the US alone, human trafficking and who knows what.

Not really. Nigerian scams rely on human psychology, not so much on Internet. Those scams work offline, too. Bitcoin enables other types of scams that are not possible without it.

Which scams aren't possible with real money?

This isn't /r/Bitcoin - if you only want positive comments in hopes that this will somehow magically increase the fiat-equivalent of your stash or at least will stop the price from falling, well, as I said, this is not /r/Bitcoin.

That's a not an answer. You claimed that Bitcoin introduced new kinds of scam, and I asked for an example. How does that make me a lunatic waiting for my stash to grow?

The only thing I can think of is software mining cryptos in stealth, which is not a scam but a trojan. The idea to outsource computing to hacked machines is not new, so even then it would barely qualify.

And pyramid schemes which we both know are as old as trading itself.

The scam only works for those scared into removing themselves. Since the scammers have already admitted they gave away info anyway... there is no reason to trust them or give them money.

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