{"id":1978,"date":"2021-01-01T23:16:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T03:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2021-06-22T17:14:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T21:14:32","slug":"the-most-frequently-reported-scam-bitcoin-addresses-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/01\/the-most-frequently-reported-scam-bitcoin-addresses-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Frequently Reported Bitcoin Scams Of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Top 25 Most Frequently Reported Bitcoin Scam Addresses to BitcoinWhosWho.com in 2020* received 9.5994793 total BTC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every single address is associated with the &#8220;sextortion&#8221; email scam first reported <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/12\/bitcoin-blackmail-scam-reports-surge\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/12\/bitcoin-blackmail-scam-reports-surge\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> in March 2018. There are many variations of the scam, but basically claims to have webcam footage of the email recipient visiting adult websites and demands payment in bitcoin or else the video will be sent to their contacts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The average amount scammed was .092 BTC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Top 25 Most Frequently Reported Bitcoin Scam Addresses of 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Bitcoin Address<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>of Total Reports<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Total Received<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinwhoswho.com\/address\/3K3vVqkxeDeD8Qbex4MzXe2WdAcfw2WXzF\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/bitcoinwhoswho.com\/address\/3K3vVqkxeDeD8Qbex4MzXe2WdAcfw2WXzF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">3K3vVqkxeDeD8Qbex4MzXe2WdAcfw2WXzF<\/a><\/td><td>0.82%<\/td><td>0.00378742<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>19A5rdrxb4MREtyGWo944uRoNDBxBPNNG8<\/td><td>0.24%<\/td><td>1.32188011<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1B567KBJcMwtbp3FyZ1BFudQvn9ojWKEEB<\/td><td>0.21%<\/td><td>0.55272969<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1DxHp8B96ZC6o48UByifrZVEeSnFBZJPH7<\/td><td>0.21%<\/td><td>0.31985655<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1KxcLRkaN9hfx3dZWurCNKbKhYsHzxa7xR<\/td><td>0.20%<\/td><td>0.21537332<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1HMsu3Dg3ocegPN2psqQtnsgZESeHVuxmN<\/td><td>0.19%<\/td><td>0.49253946<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>125HTdfjM3QQsNDwnWAS4is9vTdeeAuGmX<\/td><td>0.19%<\/td><td>0<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>18Jro9LNFqBQarcc63WYGf3w7PdDAiwXpk<\/td><td>0.17%<\/td><td>1.59747032<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>18jKnKeFXHvCAc7qBTzHxtj1ZqP2fYM5dS<\/td><td>0.15%<\/td><td>0.0896<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>12xk9Y83nFJZm1fFFC2vswKz3WQV1QR2w7<\/td><td>0.13%<\/td><td>0.10129769<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1CWVMC84vdVc9XPAEtNDSAjCY7CcKrXj5S<\/td><td>0.11%<\/td><td>1.36406703<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3QAcDipRs8MwEbLBHVYKN3kNJ7nPveuGi5<\/td><td>0.11%<\/td><td>0<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>18HFyZfSZT8GXJJbUPTgPXZojoNEEjHE58<\/td><td>0.11%<\/td><td>0.09512574<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>13hbXZp2aeHTcnGZy66Z1CVTLby5k7t1s4<\/td><td>0.10%<\/td><td>1.13799599<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>18U6Mdpn8WCqPaAx5LoZaesWDnVq52CbdL<\/td><td>0.10%<\/td><td>0.12353839<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>188GAEkY9vX7mpgqgyizszPxjp5xKSotd7<\/td><td>0.10%<\/td><td>0.17205242<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1DrcvFna9nBNpwKUb9nGmmG1JJDCbA9jxS<\/td><td>0.10%<\/td><td>0.16187482<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1EMQ94wN7SDJDaws85V75VqWKzqDsvVCkR<\/td><td>0.09%<\/td><td>0.52845832<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>12BpuwoQbFXXcC3CtYGUsqBuWbVdoLgrQa<\/td><td>0.09%<\/td><td>0.1031906<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1PuwKYAxk7xQ7seCeA2XuthJPwta2eMkRQ<\/td><td>0.09%<\/td><td>0.06860782<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>14YN1AMjSLfZAajj8sunGHkNxi6iC7aSkd<\/td><td>0.09%<\/td><td>0<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1FVZHKGS3PNuEc3Sphv73hqfqaNQ1MBmBz<\/td><td>0.09%<\/td><td>0<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1BcpAGfamAy81enJtHahKedaWx1yATTXT7<\/td><td>0.08%<\/td><td>0.46407104<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1FW7YKWkaFqtTS6X9tBYy3cXNQvKSb1vSo<\/td><td>0.08%<\/td><td>0.05544<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1K8DQbAupiGg95FdU9YVPoM3ANSHZ9EGgT<\/td><td>0.07%<\/td><td>0.63052257<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>*Not including the bitcoin address from the July Twitter hack bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Top 25 Most Frequently Reported Bitcoin Scam Addresses to BitcoinWhosWho.com in 2020* received 9.5994793 total BTC. Every single address is associated with the &#8220;sextortion&#8221; email scam first reported here in March 2018. There are many variations of the scam, but basically claims to have webcam footage of the email recipient visiting adult websites and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/01\/the-most-frequently-reported-scam-bitcoin-addresses-of-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Most Frequently Reported Bitcoin Scams Of 2020<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,31,62],"tags":[122,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2010,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}