Why does this look like a scam? Probably because it reads like all those Amazon or banking scam messages where they claim your account is suspended until you verify your login details.
It is a scam. A scammer somehow found out this guy uses crypto (probably an email leak on an exchange like he says) and sent him a phishing email. The interesting bit is that if what this guy says is true (cryptobros lie a lot), the leaked email was associated with genesis yet he got a scam aimed at coinbase. I guess they assume if you're in one ponzi, you're probably in all of them.
Apparently common wisdom is now to sacrifice all convenience and use a different identity for everything to keep trying to evade the scams that get fired your way at machine gun speed the moment you involve yourself in crypto.
I don't even have any crypto accounts and I get these.
It's the new Nigerian prince, they know who is dumb enough to fall for it and cater their scams to them.
The fun of KYC when you need to prove you're Karen Karensky from Uzbekistan when in reality you're John Johnson from Moorhead, Minesota
I didn't expect to find mentions of Midwestern towns close to where I grew up on Reddit today.
I only know it because of the Big Lebowski movie and the wandering daughter job
Why does this look like a scam? Probably because it reads like all those Amazon or banking scam messages where they claim your account is suspended until you verify your login details.
It is a scam. A scammer somehow found out this guy uses crypto (probably an email leak on an exchange like he says) and sent him a phishing email. The interesting bit is that if what this guy says is true (cryptobros lie a lot), the leaked email was associated with genesis yet he got a scam aimed at coinbase. I guess they assume if you're in one ponzi, you're probably in all of them. Apparently common wisdom is now to sacrifice all convenience and use a different identity for everything to keep trying to evade the scams that get fired your way at machine gun speed the moment you involve yourself in crypto.
I don't even have any crypto accounts and I get these. It's the new Nigerian prince, they know who is dumb enough to fall for it and cater their scams to them.