bitpay / insight

A bitcoin blockchain explorer and API
https://insight.bitpay.com/
MIT License
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Testnet should have big caution warnings for newbies (scam prevention) #946

Open BPatrick92 opened 6 years ago

BPatrick92 commented 6 years ago

Recently there's been a lot of issues regarding people getting scammed. As one would guess, the scammer tricks the user into making a testnet address and sends them worthless testnet coins. The scammer then says "Hey, look. Here's the confirmation for the transaction".

FOR EXAMPLE

It doesn't help that the domain is also bitpay.com - this will look completely authentic to a non-technical user.