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Quote from: TrezorMade on December 09, 2018, 09:24:31 AM

Hello

Watch out for this new scam! I have encountered a new type of scam recently. The scammer says he will pay first (he gives you a trustworthy vibe) but only if you send him the cashback. What cashback? Well, he will send you to a website where you need to download an extension. And yes its a malware extension, he will obviously steal everything from you Grin

Fortunately I have been a very long time on the internet and didn't fall for it.

Anyway watch out!

Good to know, thanks for this warning! I generally avoid any suspicious downloads, especially if someone on Telegram PMs me and I should download something. There's a big no for me. Finally it's only a story he spins around this scam to lead you to download something.
The story is just fluff and his argument to send first. Before he requires you downloading the malware download.

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Please support your claims with links to they website in other to first proof your point is right and secondly helping the members of this forum to stay away from such site. Well we all need to be careful on what extension we download from any site cause the cyber space is full with different people with different motives.

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There are lies, damned lies and statistics. MTwain

There is a thread created yesterday on the Scam Accusations board which goes into some of the details of how the conning process works, and the related chat conversation with someone representing that site (see Amazing attempt to scam! Read laugh and report it. cryptocashback.org).
I also found a comment saying that there was a second team behind the project now, being the first accused of performing an "exit scam" (see https://coincodex.com/crypto/cryptocashback).

Just stay away from sites of a kind, and even more if you are required to install anything to operate and the rewards are too good to be true ...

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Quote from: TrezorMade on December 09, 2018, 09:24:31 AM

Hello

Watch out for this new scam! I have encountered a new type of scam recently. The scammer says he will pay first (he gives you a trustworthy vibe) but only if you send him the cashback. What cashback? Well, he will send you to a website where you need to download an extension. And yes its a malware extension, he will obviously steal everything from you Grin

Fortunately I have been a very long time on the internet and didn't fall for it.

Anyway watch out!

u have the link can share out?

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@OP: You should share the website that the scammer give so that everyone here would know if the website is a 100% scam and 100% malware that will only take what's yours. As we all know safety nowadays are not that great because of the greedy ones that will take whatever they can get by scamming or malware attacks.

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Quote from: jeromix on December 09, 2018, 10:02:59 AM

hopefully we can get rid of anonymity here in the forum. I know it is against cryptocurrency feature but because of these scammers they can easily use and roam in this forum to scam other users. It might be good to have a real account to be used so that scamming and illegal activities will be minimized. There are many in this forum so you should not trust any of here and just mind your own business and this is what Iearned the most here.

I'm pretty sure most(if not all) people here values anonymity a lot. If they add something like KYC to be able to reduce scammers, I don't think it would work. People would probably just leave bitcointalk all together, irregardless if the admins are trustworthy or not. I think the small BTC requirement when registering new accounts on sort of "evil IPs" sort of works decently.

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@OP
If someone says he will go first then he should just go first. If the condition of him going first is that you need to click on some weird link, download a file, extension, attachment - stay away from that - report it and be safe. You don t need to do any of that in order to get a payment sent to you.

Why don t you want to say who the user is who talked to you over telegram? What is his profile here on the forums and can you prove it is him contacting you via telegram, any PMs with his telegram id sent or other proof?

Also regarding your 2nd post for the Paypal scam.
Financial institutions like your Bank or Paypal state your Full Name in their email correspondence! The first sentence in the email usually goes:
Dear Name Surname,

If it starts with Dear user, Dear Sir/Madam, Dear John - it is usually fake!

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Just keep in mind that if they say that they will send the payment first if they are asking for you to do something either than to look for an escrow service you should back out of the deal and never talk to that person again. People saying that they will pay first but you need to do something else is really a red flag that the person wants to gain something from you and will really not send any kind of payments at all, also try not to fall victim to them as they really know how to be convincing to what they are saying.

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Guys don't fed your greediness if someone says he'll send you first bitcoin. This isn't actually a new scam but this happened in the past too which has been known for 'cashback' scam.

They will dispute and reverse the transaction with their invalid reason but as a sender their side will be in favor of the payment processor. Don't fall for these cashback scams and that's another fishy thing if they requires you download an extension.

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Well if it's what's a thinking the this is an old mode of scamming where the scammer suggest a tool to you which could be a malware or phishing site

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Could you please elaborate a little bit more? Where did the scam attempt happen, how did the scammer contact you, why?, ...
Would help other people a lot to avoid being scamed!

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Scammers have been sending malwares since Adam and it definitely isn't s new scheme nor a new thread, I'll advice you make use of the search button next time

Quote from: erickbarkley29 on December 09, 2018, 10:28:51 AM

scammers can't be helped just as you can't avoid bad people. let's just choose to be good to each other.

But you sure can help yourself,and try to protect yourself,by staying away from suspicious links or engaging in suspicious,shady deals owta greed
"Those who make a profession of goodness in everything,will necessarily come to grief amongst those who aren't good"--Nicollo Machiavelli.

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Quote from: TrezorMade on December 09, 2018, 09:24:31 AM

Hello

Watch out for this new scam! I have encountered a new type of scam recently. The scammer says he will pay first (he gives you a trustworthy vibe) but only if you send him the cashback. What cashback? Well, he will send you to a website where you need to download an extension. And yes its a malware extension, he will obviously steal everything from you Grin

Fortunately I have been a very long time on the internet and didn't fall for it.

Anyway watch out!

Hey this is not a new way of scamming people, it's an old one seen it couple of times you need to understand that anything which is to good to be true online is a scam until proven it's not a scam. I keep getting such links and mails everyday, and each time I simply ignore them to be on a safe side as I don't trust such links. If these links come via a mail see if they addressed you via name or email, as the ones that address you via your email are guaranteed scams and a must avoid.

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There is a different type of scammers everywhere. Just one thing we can understand and we have to do. The thing is to please don't make deal with random people without any escrow or trustworthy method. The scammers can bind malware with digital goods, then my personal opinion is don't make deal with random people.

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Quote from: Upgrade00 on December 09, 2018, 09:53:51 AM

If this attempt happened on this forum, then you should drop a link to the account or group, and what they are selling.
If not then this topic should not be in Meta.
And it's the basic idea that all scammers use and have been using.
Don't click unverified links.
Only enter dealings with credible individuals
Avoid unauthorized mails from unknown sources.
Also avoid promotion groups on platforms like telegram.

Actually it was a user from this forum but he contacted me on Telegram. The link is https://cryptocashback.org/ [WATCH OUT!]
Also watch out for another new scam, people who are trying to pay you in Paypal, they will ask for you e-mailaddress and will send a fake e-mail to you that you have received the payment. If you look on your actual paypal you will see that you did not receive the funds.

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Quote from: jeromix on December 09, 2018, 10:02:59 AM

hopefully we can get rid of anonymity here in the forum.

It's not going to happen because this has been discussed before and theymos said this.

Quote from: theymos on March 10, 2018, 09:29:15 PM

I'll get right on that, just as soon as hell freezes over.

Quote from: kingpin4321 on December 09, 2018, 09:56:02 AM

This is against the rule although you stated the link you still did not source it rather you copied and pasted.

He did state the source where he got the definition so plagiarism is out of the picture. I think it's just a poor way of posting he could've done better by quoting the entire thing instead of only quoting the word from the OP.

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scammers can't be helped just as you can't avoid bad people. let's just choose to be good to each other.

jeromix

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Ako Bayot!

hopefully we can get rid of anonymity here in the forum. I know it is against cryptocurrency feature but because of these scammers they can easily use and roam in this forum to scam other users. It might be good to have a real account to be used so that scamming and illegal activities will be minimized. There are many in this forum so you should not trust any of here and just mind your own business and this is what Iearned the most here.

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Quote from: BlueMoonLight on December 09, 2018, 09:36:08 AM

I understand that the merit hunt is quite a no joking matter and members are really doing things to attain it but be very sure that if you make it a do or die thing then you would from time to time fall on the wrong side of the rule

The original owner of the post was just stating some security measures he fill would be helpful to others and mentioned malware which he/she definitely know about it and if any one don't know about it can just search it up

But you copied and pasted the post from this article
https://www.malwarebytes.com/malware/

This is against the rule although you stated the link you still did not source it rather you copied and pasted.

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