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Beware of SCAMs! "funds recovery", "help centers", "live support" are all scams

Open SomberNight opened this issue 1 year ago • 6 comments

This is an issue tracker for tracking bugs and development. Anyone mentioning telegram/whatsapp numbers, providing email addresses and redirecting people to 3rd party websites, is most likely a SCAMMER.


There is no private support, Electrum is a free/libre open source project, we do not have the resources for that. If you have a problem and there is an existing issue about it, comment there; if you cannot find an existing issue about it, feel free to open a new issue. Issues and comments are publicly visible, and the community or developers will reply. Be extremely suspicious of anyone offering help in a non-public way. Scammers will want to chat with you in private as then other people will not get a chance to point out the scam.

SomberNight avatar Aug 19 '24 18:08 SomberNight

( looks topical again :/ )

SomberNight avatar Nov 24 '24 21:11 SomberNight

( looks topical again :/ )

Hm I don't recall unpinning this, sorry bout that.

accumulator avatar Dec 02 '24 10:12 accumulator

(clicking the little "x" button at the top of the issues page unpins the issue, which is easy to do accidentally)

SomberNight avatar Jan 16 '25 08:01 SomberNight

Beware: There is a phishing Electrum Core. They have a YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLLcCKGnbnQ so please report the video and channel. They also created a fork on Github with only one change: author name https://github.com/michaeltrevino800/electrum So please report the repository too.

stokito avatar Jan 27 '25 16:01 stokito

I've added a warning about this in the issue template, in https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/commit/2d6ad49a38eaef01c12b684839cdc8c57486be1a.

but I think we can still keep this issue pinned, to increase visibility. Also note that the issue template will only be seen by users who open the issues, but the potential victim pool includes other people too.

SomberNight avatar Feb 19 '25 16:02 SomberNight

This is an issue tracker for tracking bugs and development. Anyone mentioning telegram/whatsapp numbers, providing email addresses and redirecting people to 3rd party websites, is most likely a SCAMMER.

There is no private support, Electrum is a free/libre open source project, we do not have the resources for that. If you have a problem and there is an existing issue about it, comment there; if you cannot find an existing issue about it, feel free to open a new issue. Issues and comments are publicly visible, and the community or developers will reply. Be extremely suspicious of anyone offering help in a non-public way. Scammers will want to chat with you in private as then other people will not get a chance to point out the scam.

Hello, I found my Bitcoin from 2013 but it has the old seed phrase , how do I recover and gain control of it. Most of the wallets are now using the new seed phrase mnemonics that started from 2014 Help !please !

Coldmilk25 avatar Jun 04 '25 16:06 Coldmilk25