AlphaBay mod BigMuscles is asking for our PRIVATE pgp key to help verify/unlock our account. Uhhhh....what?

We had lost our pneumonic (account pre-dated those things to begin with and I swear we never had one to begin with. Whateva

So we message support and bigmuscles asks for some info to verify account. We provide as much info as possible and send back.

He replied "i need not public pgp, i need private pgp"

What do you guys think?

We have a decent amount of coin stuck in there we would ilke to see back, but .......


Comments


[7 Points] sapiophile:

Yeah, that's nonsense. All that's needed is for you to GPG Sign some challenge text that they provide, which will prove that you control the private key. There is no reason, basically ever, to hand over one's private key to anyone else.


[2 Points] alphabaysupport:

@pantsoffdanceoffs, you must never release your private PGP key to anyone, it is only for your eyes only. Please provide us (or any other Staff member) with proof BigMuscles had required of you private pgp - visual, text, message ID or any information to able to confirm your claims. If it were true, consequences would follow.

Thank you. -AlphaBaySupport


[1 Points] Methyl__Ethyl:

My AB account was just unlocked for me without my private PGP key. Big Muscles was my mod as well. Tech support unlocked it and disabled 2FA for me (I was unable to access my private key due to hardware failure and I had basically locked myself out). So it can be done.


[0 Points] RosyPalm:

If you enabled 2FA then there is no way to access your account without the private key.

Once you give up the private key you've given up control of your funds.

Your choice seems to be: * give him the key and hope he doesn't rob you * don't give him the key and never get your funds back