{"id":662,"date":"2017-12-17T04:39:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T04:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/?p=662"},"modified":"2019-09-12T23:23:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T03:23:43","slug":"fake-coinbase-support-phone-number-1-888-455-1155","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/17\/fake-coinbase-support-phone-number-1-888-455-1155\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Coinbase Support Phone Number 1-888-455-1155"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BitcoinWhosWho received a couple reports about a Coinbase support phone scam. 1-888-455-1155 is not a real Coinbase support number! It&#8217;s a fake that shows up in a lot of web search results.<\/p>\n<p>The scam according to one report.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Users google &#8220;coinbase phone support&#8221; and get a phone number from google&#8217;s search results that leads them to a sophisticated scam in which an operator tells them to send money&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The scam has yielded at least 13.75 BTC so far.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reported Bitcoin Addresses<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bitcoinwhoswho.com\/address\/13cumVEbnT3SSaYGtFzoQojwkMzT8ZGHud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">13cumVEbnT3SSaYGtFzoQojwkMzT8ZGHud<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bitcoinwhoswho.com\/address\/3J9NPJ2sgUms19xnhL9MB2Ms7ynydzyBgb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">3J9NPJ2sgUms19xnhL9MB2Ms7ynydzyBgb<\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are several search results that appear with this phone number but <a href=\"https:\/\/community.spotify.com\/t5\/Desktop-Mac-old\/Coinbase-Customer-Support-1-888-455-1155-Coinbase-Customer\/td-p\/2920960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">community.spotify.com<\/a> is the most convincing. This <a href=\"https:\/\/kdp.amazon.com\/community\/thread.jspa?threadID=1038556\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">amazon.com<\/a> page is the one that was reported to us. Suspicions about the phone number first started in October on <a href=\"https:\/\/800notes.com\/Phone.aspx\/1-888-455-1155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">800notes.com<\/a> and related to Kraken support.<\/p>\n<p>CallerSmart.com\u00a0 has a great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.callersmart.com\/guides\/56\/reverse-phone-lookup\">Reverse Phone Lookup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Always report scam addresses to <a href=\"http:\/\/bitcoinwhoswho.com\/\">BitcoinWhosWho.com<\/a>. The more we know, the more we can police and deter future frauds. Just lookup the address and select \u201cReport Scam\u201d.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bitcoinwhoswho.com\/address\/1DVhaBdbp5mx5Y8zR1qR9NBiQtrgL9ZNQs\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-617\" src=\"http:\/\/bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/report-scam-example-page_small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"521\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/report-scam-example-page_small.png 521w, https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/report-scam-example-page_small-300x132.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may also report to the FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/complaint.ic3.gov\/default.aspx\">https:\/\/complaint.ic3.gov\/default.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All scam reports are accessible by keyword search on our website or from our &#8220;Blacklisted Bitcoin Address&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/bitcoinwhoswho.com\/api\">API<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BitcoinWhosWho received a couple reports about a Coinbase support phone scam. 1-888-455-1155 is not a real Coinbase support number! It&#8217;s a fake that shows up in a lot of web search results. The scam according to one report. Users google &#8220;coinbase phone support&#8221; and get a phone number from google&#8217;s search results that leads them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/17\/fake-coinbase-support-phone-number-1-888-455-1155\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fake Coinbase Support Phone Number 1-888-455-1155<\/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":[62],"tags":[56,61,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662"}],"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=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}