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Re:Database containing personal info of 106M visitors to Tha... by tekstar on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @11:20AM (#28605913)
When I get those I like to look up the bitcoin address on block explorer. Last time I checked one, two people had paid it out. No clue how many messages the spammer had sent, but there was at least a bit of payoff
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Re:Database containing personal info of 106M visitors to Tha... by ericbarrett on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @12:22PM (#28606643)
I haven’t looked in a while but I think every example, even though the text was identical, had a different address. So if the one you saw already had two transactions...
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Re:Database containing personal info of 106M visitors to Tha... by BrandoElFollito on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @03:15PM (#28608716)
Same here. I noticed they in the early days of the scam there were very payments (cannot say obviously if all were talked to that scam).

Then it was mostly empty wallets with the occasional one or two transactions.

The early scammers made a lot of money.

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