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          I think this is a scam email, but I'm not sure how it works
                                        
I received the following email last night:

> From: Sergio Rios <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
> To: Undisclosed recipients:;
> Subject: transfer done
> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 22:43:09 +0000
> 
> Hi Carlo,
> 
> Trust you are having a good day. As earlier discussed in our last week
> meeting, your bitcoin wallet has been funded with 48 .99 BTC (Bitcoin)
> making a total of 1,433,296.04 USD (United States Dollar). Please login
> with below details to confirm your BTC balance.
> 
> Website : XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
>  Customer ID (Identity) : XXXXXXXX
>  password: XXXXXXXXX 
> 
> I’ll be joining the team coming week for a symposium in Switzerland. Give
> me a call if anything else is needed.
> 
> Regards,
>  Sergio
> 

I don't understand this email. It was sent to an email address I have that is
the target of a lot of spam (it's the address I use for my domain
registration and as I never opted to “hide” that email address, it's gotten
around to a lot of spam lists), although the “undisclosed recipients” kind of
gives it away as spam anyway. The website exists (I checked DNS (Domain Name
System)) but I have not visited the site, so I don't know of the customer ID
or password actually work. A quick web search on the domain name has revealed
a lot of suspicion about the website, and a search on “Sergio Rios” doesn't
reveal anything either.

So I have to wonder—what's the angle here? What's the scam? How is this
supposed to work?


Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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