A very organised petty scam [I almost fell for it]

Patatas

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Quote from: hilariousetc on January 13, 2019, 02:55:54 PM

I'm not sure almost falling for this deserves any merit Grin

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. I have little sympathy for anyone who gets suckered into these sorts of things though as it's the absolutely classic scam that only the greedy fall for. It has all the hallmarks that should set alarm bells off for anyone: Double your money. Quick, offer only lasts for short amount of time. Just send money here first to verify. Why would any company offer to magically increase your money for nothing but require something first?

The old adage if it sounds too good to be true should immediately spring to mind. Did anyone send any money to the address?

Apparently, they made around 0.37 BTC assuming the transactions were sent by the poor fellas. The comment, however, is deleted. I didn't exactly mean that I felt for it but I gave it a second thought because it wasn't as obvious to me in the first look. Also, I thought to exaggerate it would get more attention and probably make noobs aware of the scam.

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Patatas, how at any point you could think it was a legal thing? It is a classic scam method - send me money and I will send you more back. And even more ridiculous is a partnership with Bitcoin, we all know blockchain.com site is support BTC from the moment when their site exists.

By checking posted address it seems that the scam did not succeed, only one victim send 0.02, and total balance of address was 0.20 BTC, but also includes some previous transactions.

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/34dM8xtHmYX3z1CqveoH9K5LkGqqqCuSj2

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Quote from: Steamtyme on January 14, 2019, 01:04:15 AM

Wasn't this a big deal mid 2017 with Twitter I think. It was with ETH and Vitalik, and something with Elon Musk at the time to.

It's funny ever since Oprah gave away cars everyone thinks celebs are just dolling out the dollars.

I think coblee/litoshi did something similar actually, a giveaway worth 10k ltc for who's going to solve the puzzle. Funny story, they posted a donation address that got in 3 weeks like 3000 ltc Tongue

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Wasn't this a big deal mid 2017 with Twitter I think. It was with ETH and Vitalik, and something with Elon Musk at the time to.

It's funny ever since Oprah gave away cars everyone thinks celebs are just dolling out the dollars.

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Well, it's not new scam scheme, I see similar things on Facebook and Twitter for years. It's quite primitive, but probably very effective scheme.
From first sight it's difficult to spot difference between original and fake page. But exchanges and wallets aren't making such giveaways, especially with requirement to deposit money. And partnership with Bitcoin - wtf is that? Why not partnership with Satoshi or something similar lol?
If giveaway is real, all information can be found on official website, like Stellar airdrop on Blockchain.com, but not in comments under Facebook post.
I see that comment already deleted and comment is gone. Good. When you see similar scam attempts it would be best to report such accounts to Facebook administration to suspend account.
I would partly blame social media managers of exchanges/wallets that such scam schemes exists. The aren't paying attention to what's going on in their comments section, they should moderate it more strictly.

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Quote from: Patatas on January 10, 2019, 12:04:17 PM

To understand the nature of this scam, you have to refer to this facebook post by Blockchain.com's official facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/blockchain/photos/a.687327834633133/2262695280429706/?type=3&theater

Under the comments section, you have this post then

It's very easy to think that it's the actual account which is posting the airdrop comment and people have actually fell for it. If you click on the page that has posted the airdrop information, it takes you away from the original blockchain.com's facebook page to this https://www.facebook.com/Bl%D0%BEckch%D0%B0in-365157564266368/?rc=p

These are two different pages one being run by a scammer. Be careful out there folks, even official blockchain.com's account didn't bother removing that comment.

LOL, a partnership with Bitcoin. 😂😂😂

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this types of scams are happening on discord telegram icq for like 2-3 weeks without stop..

at least on telegram I am sick of how many channels I get in.

it's also so strange, I woke 2-3 days ago checking what trust wallet group did with the last update. suddenly I am in 4 different trust app groups....3 of them doing amazing giveaways through their app lol

I know some people that were scammed but unfortunately we can do nothing to help them. not only your post here ..

right now there are 3-4 pages like this on going so...

anyhow I am quite impressed of the work they have put in it

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I'm not sure almost falling for this deserves any merit Grin

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. I have little sympathy for anyone who gets suckered into these sorts of things though as it's the absolutely classic scam that only the greedy fall for. It has all the hallmarks that should set alarm bells off for anyone: Double your money. Quick, offer only lasts for short amount of time. Just send money here first to verify. Why would any company offer to magically increase your money for nothing but require something first?

The old adage if it sounds too good to be true should immediately spring to mind. Did anyone send any money to the address?

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its like on twitter.

and it is too good to be true. the name does not matter.

Patatas

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Quote from: mdayonliner on January 10, 2019, 12:08:15 PM

Quote from: Patatas on January 10, 2019, 12:04:17 PM

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Long ago I received an email with same sort of contents. I knew immediately that something is wrong there. When I checked the email address then I found it was from a random email address.

Problem is easy going people falls for this kind of scams.

True but posting a comment on their official post with an account that looks exactly like their's is something to worry about. One wouldn't realize how different are these two services unless they check the other account out and review it. Anyway, it's our duty to spread the word.

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Quote from: Patatas on January 10, 2019, 12:04:17 PM

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Long ago I received an email with same sort of contents. I knew immediately that something is wrong there. When I checked the email address then I found it was from a random email address.

Problem is easy going people falls for this kind of scams.

Patatas

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To understand the nature of this scam, you have to refer to this facebook post by Blockchain.com's official facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/blockchain/photos/a.687327834633133/2262695280429706/?type=3&theater

Under the comments section, you have this post then

It's very easy to think that it's the actual account which is posting the airdrop comment and people have actually fell for it. If you click on the page that has posted the airdrop information, it takes you away from the original blockchain.com's facebook page to this https://www.facebook.com/Bl%D0%BEckch%D0%B0in-365157564266368/?rc=p

These are two different pages one being run by a scammer. Be careful out there folks, even official blockchain.com's account didn't bother removing that comment.

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