A Dumb way to scam forum members - page 2.

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Quote from: Learn Bitcoin on June 24, 2023, 12:53:02 PM

Yesterday a Newbie member Malibitc created a topic to raise funds for a cancer patient. He decided to delete the entire thread after people started saying that this was a scam. Here is the archive; https://ninjastic.space/post/62451700

I had no knowledge of that post of this user, but I've seen his Lottery post, and I was the first one to warn the members of the forum that the guy is trying to scam us. I hadn't done deep research whether he used AI for creating the post or not, but his post was totally shady in my eyes and that's why I replied in his thread.

Here is my reply from his thread:

Quote from: SamReomo on June 24, 2023, 08:26:33 AM

Quote from: Malibitc on June 24, 2023, 08:13:02 AM

Join the Bitcoin Lottery Program today and seize your chance to win $10,000! Good luck to all participants, and may fortune smile upon you on the first day of August 2023!

I can smell the aroma of a scam, and that's why I warn all members of the forum to be aware of such type of scams. The OP is asking to submit Bitcoin to his/her account so that he/she will select a participant who will get $10,000 for the entry. It's just an old school type of Ponzi scheme where a lottery program asks users to send money first so then they could add them as participant of the program, and later on they can run away with the money of the users. In such type of schemes, the innocent users won't get anything because the creator will run away with all of the money. There is nothing fair in such kind of program, everything is already planned, and the innocent users can lose a lot of money by participating in such programs. I'm again warning all members of the forum to not send any bitcoin to the address that OP mentioned.

I also found that the OP was trying to scam the users with that old school type of Ponzi scheme. Shame on such people who take advantage of the innocent members, I don't know why but those scammers are trying their best to find new ways to scam the members of this forum. I have seen many such scammers, and most of those are newbies.

The user also managed to reply with a message, and I think he used AI once again for the reply.

Here is the part of that reply:

Quote from: Malibitc on June 24, 2023, 09:22:55 AM

Dear Samreomo,

I understand that you have expressed concerns about our lottery program in the forum, accusing it of being fraudulent. I would like to assure you that our lottery program is secure and legitimate, and I would like to address your concerns in detail.

He wasn't aware that this type of scam doesn't work in our forum. However, he tried his best to prove that he was running a legit lottery program. Shame on you Malibitc for trying to scam innocent users.

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Quote from: Learn Bitcoin on June 24, 2023, 12:53:02 PM

Since his shared address is empty, I guess there is no amount scammed yet.

It's a relief it's empty so at present we don't have to worry if lazy scammers aren't smart.

Quote from: BD Crypto on June 24, 2023, 02:30:08 PM

Thanks OP for sharing with us about one of the Garbage users. Few days ago we saw a lot of doubler scam sites and many newbies lost their funds on them. Now scammer are inventing new tricks day by day.

There'll be more assorted doubler sites active they aren't slowing. I've reported doubling scam sites 1 yr ago Double bitcoin scam websites

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Quote from: Learn Bitcoin on June 24, 2023, 12:53:02 PM

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Since his shared address is empty, I guess there is no amount scammed yet.

As long as the scammers are dumb like the case in question, the vast majority of crypto users are safe. It's a situation of "dumb and dumber"! You have to be dumber than the scammer to be scammed, and that was almost impossible in this case. Cheesy

Good catch though!

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Quote from: Pokapoka124 on June 24, 2023, 01:53:16 PM

He definitely came to the wrong place, there isn’t a single person here dumb enough to fall for this stupid scam.

You'd think so, right? It's not like it's 2012 anymore, when an idiot like this might have gotten someone to send him some bitcoin, though I wasn't here then.

This guy is basically a typical scammer, the likes of which this forum has seen probably hundreds of times. What makes this case kinda-sorta scary to me is that AI was apparently used to write that text in English, which I assume the scammer wouldn't have been able to do on his own. I read that stuff that Copylinks flagged as written with AI at 94.8% confidence, and it's astounding to me how close it reads to basic public-relations-speak, if you know what I mean, e.g., a form letter from a corporation in which a lot of fluff is there but nothing of substance.

If a non-English speaker can get a program to generate something like that, this forum is fucked unless there are some volunteers who put suspicious posts through an AI-checking tool like Copylinks--but that'd take so much time and manpower that it's putting me into a very foul mood just contemplating it. Props to OP here for bringing this scammer to the community's attention, but I think we've got a much bigger threat on our hands than him.

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Thanks OP for sharing with us about one of the Garbage users. Few days ago we saw a lot of doubler scam sites and many newbies lost their funds on them. Now scammer are inventing new tricks day by day.

Now a days I saw some scam tricks from many users which is suspicious. Few days ago someone posted about donation where he said that he had been scammed worth 2000$ and now he was asking for donations with forum members where he didn't mention how he lost it or which website scammed him. I think this is also a trick to scam funds. So day by day new ways of scamming will appear and we all have to prevent them strongly. This was his speech:

Quote from: pmemorex on June 21, 2023, 04:08:19 PM

Hello friends i invest my last money 2000$ in crypto but get scam by some website cant withdraw money it say error.
Can someone help me to recovery or with donation i dont have more money i need money back.

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it's funny how lazy he is at making his scams and it's funnier that he posted an obvious scam attempt on a forum that deals with scams almost daily. the dude can't even make his own original content, he has to use an AI to make it for him(I run the content on the first thread he posted and the result shows that it has AI content).

nice catch by the way.

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He definitely came to the wrong place, there isn’t a single person here dumb enough to fall for this stupid scam. He probably done this same scam on other crypto platforms and wanted to try his luck here. What a dumb scammer, he knows nothing about the forum trust system or anything about the forum in general. I bet he won’t be posting anymore with that account. Scams are not moderated but can’t he get banned for making AI generated posts?

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This is really the dumbest method of scam I have seen so far, and it is not certain that someone will believe this scammer who claimed to be collecting donations for cancer and when he failed to convince people he came up with an idea that was stupider than the previous ones and then he created the topic of the Bitcoin Lottery Program, and he did not bother to write posts by himself, but rather used artificial intelligence instead of relying on his own intelligence, which I doubt he does not possess an iota of it, and he did not stop either, but published his Bitcoin Lottery scam topic on the Arabic board of the forum and used machine translation as well.

I've already reported his topic, and I'll tag him in red.

Thank you, OP for this topic

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Yesterday a Newbie member Malibitc created a topic to raise funds for a cancer patient. He decided to delete the entire thread after people started saying that this was a scam. Here is the archive; https://ninjastic.space/post/62451700

Today he came up with a new idea to scam again and created a Bitcoin lottery program - Win $10,000 thread. To participate in his contest, You have to send him BTC to the address where he used to raise funds for cancer patient https://ninjastic.space/addresses?address=19mfZiDGBho5Ao6SGsCK2EUkiRifMEjpAU

Quote from: Malibitc on June 24, 2023, 08:13:02 AM

To enter the Bitcoin lottery program, follow these simple steps:

1. Sending Bitcoin:
- Transfer any amount of Bitcoin to the designated wallet address: 19mfZiDGBho5Ao6SGsCK2EUkiRifMEjpAU.
- Make sure to keep a record of your transaction number.

This is not the ending. He responded using AI after SamReomo said this looks a scam;

Quote from: Learn Bitcoin on June 24, 2023, 12:38:02 PM

Quote from: NeuroticFish on June 24, 2023, 11:04:53 AM

or an AI can do that for you nowadays

Oh dear, there you go.

First of all, He is a scammer, and he is an AI poster as well Wink

Since his shared address is empty, I guess there is no amount scammed yet.

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