Victory: the scammers off the site fake wallet Electrum Pro
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On Thursday we about fraudulent wallet Electrum Pro. According to the developers of the present Electrum, "pro-version" uses their reputation and corny steals user's money. The connection of the public gave results website Scam project went to the bottom.
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Evidence of fraudulent intent real team Electrum published on GitHub. About their actions notified on Twitter.
Here is a verifiable proof that "Electrum Pro", a fake version of , is in fact a Bitcoin-stealing malware:
— Electrum (@ElectrumWallet)
Employees said the desire of developers Electrum Pro to inspire users to link with real Electrum. In addition to such web addresses, the scammers have also used a similar site and logo, he said .
Here is an entry from their resource.
Electrum provides security of payments since 2011 and is one of the most popular Bitcoin wallets. ElectrumPro — free software on the basis of the MIT license. Everyone can start the server Electrum. No company controls the network.
After numerous mentions in the media, the fraudsters have closed the access to the resource. Now, when you switch you see the following text.
Lucas Lofgren and the Electrum Pro team complained about the destruction of reputation and false accusations. Now they will switch to other projects. Domain want to sell. The price is 25 bitcoins.
The closing of the fraudulent site can be considered a victory of the cryptocurrency community. Next step was to stop have benches on Twitter. Then trust to the niche of ordinary citizens is likely to grow.
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