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New Bitcoin Scam Unfolds: Old Wallets, Fake Lawyers - Coin Surges

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BitMEX Research sounded an alarm on 8 July after spotting what it calls “an ongoing Bitcoin scam.” In a X post the analytics desk described a wave of tiny “dust” transactions sent to pre-2012 Bitcoin addresses that still contain large, untouched balances. Each transaction carries an OP_RETURN message that reads: “NOTICE TO OWNER: see salomonbros[.]com/owner_notice.” One of the targets is the famous 1Feex wallet holding almost 80,000 BTC stolen f…
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The past never dies in the blockchain. More than ten years after the Mt. Gox scandal, a bitcoin address containing the equivalent of $8.7 billion resurfaces... targeted by an attempt to phishing as discreet as it is ambitious. At the crossroads of cybercrime and digital memory, this new episode raises a troubling question: Are the forgotten treasures of the bitcoin condemned to become the eternal prey of modern crooks? Article Mt. Gox: 8.7 billi…

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ZyCrypto broke the news in on Tuesday, July 8, 2025.
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