Founder of ethereum warned users via his official twitter account about intruders who wanted to steal money using an email vitalik@buterin.me.
@VitalikButerin there's a scammer using a vitalik@buterin.me email to try to steal funds. pic.twitter.com/28kOT6Wsi6
— Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) October 31, 2018
One user receives a massage from that address in which “Buterin” asks for 250 ETH for one day in order to donate them to Metamask.
I do not control vitalik@buterin.me; any email you receive from that address is a scam. All my email addresses have .com or .org domains.
— Vitalik Non-giver of Ether (@VitalikButerin) November 1, 2018
Right now Vitalik Buterin is participating in Devcon4 in Prague, an annual developer conference that is devoted to the ethereum blockchain.
Yesterday Buterin ended his presentation with a song that listed "the graveyard of ideas" from the past five years of ethereum research.
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