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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
In the last week, we’ve seen multiple coronavirus scams pushed by bad actors, including RAT attacks via fake health advisories, bogus e-books working in tandem with Trojans, and lots of other phishing shenanigans. Now we have another one to add to the ever-growing list: dubious coronavirus Bitcoin missives landing in your inbox. Reworking a classic spam tacticThis is a retooling of an older spam run involving British comedian Jim Davidson, the older form of which was seen bouncing around in November 2019. As they put it, “Jim Davidson bounced back from bankruptcy with Bitcoin.” Even before that, in the first half of 2019, he was being used alongside other well-known British celebrities such as Jamie Oliver and daytime TV presenters to promote a variety of misleading Bitcoin get-rich schemes. This is common for Bitcoin scams, and you can dip into any year you like and find a few of these floating around at any given time.What do we have this time?In short, these coronavirus Bitcoin scams are older attempts to havepeople part with their cash hastily retooled to make hay with the current global pandemic. It’s incredibly lazy—the landing pages and follow on websites seem to be untouched from whenever they first appeared. The only new ingredient is the email content mentioning coronavirus, but sadly, that’s often more than enough to have people part with their money. Click to enlargeIt begins with a non-stop drip-feed of emails, from many different addresses pumping out spam. In the above mailbox, it’s a total of 11 in six days. All of the email addresses are rather optimistically called “coronavirus positives”, letting you know that staying at home thanks to a global pandemic can actually make you rich beyond your wildest dreams.Some of the subject lines read as follows: Staying at home because of COVID-19!! Spend your time making thousands on Bitcoins. The positive impact of staying home (Corona-virus), Make thousand a day trading Bitcoin.Join 1000s of Brits making 1000s a day. Bitcoin is back – and this time you can make a million.Without a larger sample selection to go from, we can’t say which missive is the most popular subject line, but the one mentioning “work from home” is at least the most popular in this particular mailbox and a few others that we’ve seen.Coronavirus Bitcoin email styleThe emails are formatted in much the same way, emulating the British newspaper “red top” style—most specifically, The Sun.Here’s the text from one of the samples we looked at: Click to enlarge Click to enlargeThe text reads as follows:Jim Davidson Reveals How He Bounced Back After The Bankruptcy – He claims anyone can do it & shows ‘Good Morning Britain’ How!Appearing on ‘Good Morning Britain’ show,
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