It seems from numerous reports the website bitcoinblackfriday.info could be a host of phishing scams. The website that premiered sometime two weeks ago looked seemingly like a competitor to the real BitcoinBlackFriday.com website. The possible fraudluent website ending in .info has a fake Trezor site, a fake Gyft site and others that everyone might want stay away from.
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“Yep it links to buy-trezor.com, the real site is buytrezor.com” ~ /r/bitcoin commenter
Another interesting aspect of the case was that the phishing sites were using previously used Bitcoin addresses at checkout. This had caused alarm for those early, and some immediately reached out to processors like BitPay. BitPay denied any involvement with the “appgyft.com” and supplied a warning to the community via their Twitter feed.
It is recommended you stay away from the website bitcoinblackfriday.info and its associated links until the owner comes forward. Theses pages could lead to malicious acts on your private accounts, computers and devices. Phishing is an attack on personal account information typically, but the websites can also pack viruses and keyloggers as well. The website ending in .info is not affiliated with John Holmquist and the original BitcoinBlackFriday.com, who has had a reputable service since he started the operation in 2012. It’s unfortunate that these people decided to create a scam like this for today’s buying festivities. Some may have most likely fallen victim to this accused website. The website is still running so; please pass the word along that the service is suspect. There has been no commentary from the accused host of the phishing inquirie links. This type of scam has also happens regularly to other non-bitcoin related Black Friday offers in fact the Black Friday shopping day and Christmas always has had high levels of phishing attempts.
There are no official links here on this article to the website itself as it is not recommended to visit the domain.
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