Another SpaceX scam has reappeared, why is that?

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Quote from: 7788bitcoin on June 17, 2020, 04:18:49 PM

There are some people who are completely dumb who cannot even identify what is real and what constitutes an attempt to scam them.

People who don't bother to do their research in order to assess properly if the offer is for real or just purely scam.

Quote from: TopTort777 on June 17, 2020, 04:28:35 PM

Fully agree. I cant believe someone would seriously believe that if he sends money to somewhere unknown, that person will send back doubled amount. Especially in cryptocurrency world.

Newbies who thinks that bitcoin / crypto is a place where easy money can be attained, there's also greed people who
are taking chances thinking that if they go first they'll be able to received in return.

Quote from: TopTort777 on June 17, 2020, 04:28:35 PM

At least I would check Masks twitter and read news on SpaceX site, looking for giveaway.

Much better to do that as they surely provide information in regards to any possible giveaways.

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I think most people who keep join the giveaway is a fool person. There are many people already who told that you can simply indicate the scam attempt. There is one thing, if you are asked to send money first then you just have 99,9% you will get scammed even I'll bet 100% you will be scammed. There is no giveaway event (legit event) who ask you to send money/bitcoin/altcoin first in order to get reward. They will only ask you to promote their project through your social media account, and just it no more than that.

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Quote from: Kemarit on June 13, 2020, 10:38:19 PM

Quote from: FlashJohnathan2203 on June 13, 2020, 08:56:46 PM

Why is everyone keeps getting scammed by something so obvious and repeatedly happened? If a big company like SpaceX really wants to hold an event like that, what should they do to prove people that they're real?

It's because there are still people who blindly trust SpaceX/Elon Musk and everything he says. And scammers are using him to capitalised on his projects popularity. So scammers will (1) hacked a Youtube account with a lot of subscribers (2) change the title of their channel (3) used Musk name to promote their scam.

So the best weapon is to educate ourselves, read the signs and red flags about this fake giveaways and whatever so that we don't fall for this kind of gimmicks.

This is why these kind of scams do still exist because people are really that fool to easily believe on easy money.Who the hell would be the one to give out easy money?

with that kind of question alone then you can surely think that its really an impossible or shady stuff to be done by someone.When it comes to that hacking account thing

then thats one you should really be aware of, when everything doesnt look right then you can presume out that theres something wrong and researching or digging up
should be your next step.

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Quote from: 7788bitcoin on June 17, 2020, 04:18:49 PM

There are some people who are completely dumb who cannot even identify what is real and what constitutes an attempt to scam them.

Fully agree. I cant believe someone would seriously believe that if he sends money to somewhere unknown, that person will send back doubled amount. Especially in cryptocurrency world.

At least I would check Masks twitter and read news on SpaceX site, looking for giveaway.

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Quote from: darewaller on June 17, 2020, 03:21:21 PM

If a company as big as SpaceX wants to do giveaway, they wouldn’t tell you to send any money to them lol. They will just choose the people they want and send them whatever gift they have for them. This is an easy scam that everyone should understand, because it’s clearly written scam.

There are some people who are completely dumb who cannot even identify what is real and what constitutes an attempt to scam them off their money and majority fall for these scams on the aspect of making some free money and that is what scammers are doing it for decades in the form of mail scams and other online scams who ask them to send some money to validate and it is not a secret about these scams and still people fall for it is mind boggling.

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Bruh there is nothing there to prove. People are just the ones that decided to be stupid. How can someone claiming to be a big company and pretending to be SpaceX and telling you that they are doing giveaways, and you’re required to first send money to their address and they will double it for you, and you agree with such dumb statement? That’s ridiculous.

If a company as big as SpaceX wants to do giveaway, they wouldn’t tell you to send any money to them lol. They will just choose the people they want and send them whatever gift they have for them. This is an easy scam that everyone should understand, because it’s clearly written scam.

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Honestly I think some people really deserve to be scam (this may sound hash but it is the truth) we have grown past that time when people were extremely naive, now many people do stuff online, read and search for information, people are more enlightened than before, why will someone still allow themselves to be deceive so cheaply, this is 2020 and not 2010.

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Just report them when you see them. The scammers are simply impersonating Musk, or his companies as bait for victims to trust them into giving them money.

Scammers have always existed and will always exist, neither Bitcoin nor Musk are at fault.

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Quote from: FlashJohnathan2203 on June 15, 2020, 12:53:53 AM

That's a little too harsh I think. There are lots of real giveaways out there whose main reason is to promote the website or the associations. I have not myself received anything from them but I know somebody who did.

Shapeshift did one and really they shouldn't have done it as it looked just like all the fake ones on the surface thusly adding to their validity. If no legit company had ever done it then that adds an extra layer of caution.

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As of June 9, 2020, there were a total of around 80 thousand viewers watching the three channels. The total value of Bitcoin was collected around US $ 150 thousand in just two days.

One channel asking viewers to send Bitcoin to the address 1ELonMUSK14JSGNYAcPJNqubuFByZPyjcj, has received 29 Bitcoin transactions with a total of 4.08 BTC. This amount is equivalent to US $ 39,840.18 at the current exchange rate.

The address does look convincing, because there is the word "Elon", suggesting that it is a legitimate Bitcoin address belonging to Elon Musk. In fact, to create a "unique address", the service is available on the Internet, one of which is Bitcoinvanitygen.

this really has to be a big concern, chances are this will continue to be repeated if there is no real handler. people who fall into this trap of deception certainly don't join the crypto community (independent crypto players) and never opened the official site Bitcoin.org because there was clearly a warning listed;

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https://bitcoin.org/en/scams#blackmail
https://bitcoin.org/en/scams#fake-exchanges
https://bitcoin.org/en/scams#free-giveaways
https://bitcoin.org/en/scams#impersonation
https://bitcoin.org/en/scams#malware
https://bitcoin.org/en/scams#meet-in-person
https://bitcoin.org/en/scams#money-transfer-fraud
https://bitcoin.org/en/scams#ponzi-schemes
etc..

I hope we are always safe, avoid fraud under the guise of Bitcoin & Altcoins, and always share the latest information..

DoubleEdgeEX

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Because there will always be a tiny minority of people who fell for it. It has a reason why the "Nigerian price" emails are still floating around. If they send it to 1M people and manage to rip off just 3 or 4 it was already a success. Here a better way to deal with such people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QdPW8JrYzQ

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This is a well known scam.Some hackers are stealing established Youtube accounts and launching fake video streams using the names of well known tech billionaires(Musk,Gates,Bezos) and running those fake BTC giveaways.In the video description they are posting something like:"Send one BTC,get two BTC back"
It's a pretty stupid scam,but the Youtube algorithm was boosting those videos,therefore giving them fake authority and credibility.Anyway,Youtube recently changed their algorithm and now those scam video streams aren't ranking.

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Quote from: pakhitheboss on June 13, 2020, 11:36:42 PM

All kinds of Bitcoin Giveaways are SCAMS

That's a little too harsh I think. There are lots of real giveaways out there whose main reason is to promote the website or the associations. I have not myself received anything from them but I know somebody who did.
Maybe you said that because you haven't received anything from giveaways? Just kidding, don't be too difficult with giveaways, I think if your mind is clear enough, you will be able to tell the difference between the fake/ scam giveaways and the real ones.

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The main reason, is other people are just extremely gullible the lust for money blinds them to invest or send Bitcoin to unknown people.
Even though the scammers just takes a popular company and create a poorly made article or page.

I mean if it's to good to be true then it's not true.

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"I will give you twice tomorrow what you give me today"

Lol, Do I really need to say anything more? It reminds me of that "sir I will gladly pay you Friday for a burger on Wednesday" or however it goes. But that is just an exchange of debt, not a promise of 2x your money back.
If this is how easy it is to scam people I am not surprised they do it. I don't feel anything for people who are scammed this way. If you believe what someone says who's faults that. I mean yes they scammers but can you really blame them? Cheesy

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Quote from: Kemarit on June 13, 2020, 10:38:19 PM

It's because there are still people who blindly trust SpaceX/Elon Musk and everything he says.

I've never really figured why so many scammers settled on him. He's an erratic druggist. Then again maybe they think he'll be off his trolley enough to do a real one some day.

After all this time I can't rustle up any sympathy for anyone who falls for this type of thing any more. It's so obvious it's painful.

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Scammers chose SpaseX cause Musk definitely has some sympaty for crypto industry. Dogecoin story and some of his interviews are definitely helping to make it look plausible

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Majority of the people that always fall victims of scam like this are those newbie that do not always do their findings before making a decision. Even if SpaceX is going to give anything, it will strictly be a donation particularly at this moment that the owe world is witnessing Covid19 pandemic. Alot of scams are being perpetuated on the internet using Elon musk as a bait. You hardly come across any post made by him without scammers spamming the post with that tesla giveaway scam and it is imperative to see now that they have move on to SpaceX scam.

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Quote from: FlashJohnathan2203 on June 13, 2020, 08:56:46 PM

Why is everyone keeps getting scammed by something so obvious and repeatedly happened? If a big company like SpaceX really wants to hold an event like that, what should they do to prove people that they're real?

I just recently watched a documentary regarding the NASA and SpaceX and I didn't think that they will be using SpaceX too in a scam attempt Cheesy

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People are getting scammed because of 2 things:
1. They are newbies - they don't have any information or knowledge regarding scams.
2. They are ignorant - being ignorant can lead to a loss of your money too.

Scammers will always be there as long as there are investors who are ignorant or newbies. They don't need to prove themselves that they're real if they are launching an event like this because at first place they aren't doing things like this. For me, it would be better if they will just focus on what they are doing right now which is the plan of putting the 2 astronauts into the ISS.

Anyway, thanks for sharing this. I just hope that some investors will see this thread.

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