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by tekstar 1733 days ago
When I get those I like to look up the bitcoin address on block explorer. Last time I checked one, two people had paid it out. No clue how many messages the spammer had sent, but there was at least a bit of payoff
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I haven’t looked in a while but I think every example, even though the text was identical, had a different address. So if the one you saw already had two transactions...
Same here. I noticed they in the early days of the scam there were very payments (cannot say obviously if all were talked to that scam).

Then it was mostly empty wallets with the occasional one or two transactions.

The early scammers made a lot of money.