Topic: Avoid becoming the next victim - page 2. (Read 373 times)

Of course he has a right to know so he is surfing the web pages. But you have to be careful as fraudsters will constantly try to trap you. Everything from your wallet is at risk when you join a fake project and join your wallet there. Don't click on a link without knowing the details or because you are creating an opportunity for him by clicking there. Where scammers impersonate legitimate organizations to steal personal information, verify their authenticity before you provide them with any information.

Sometimes you don’t even have to actually input anything for them to try and hack onto your system. Always be one step ahead of everyone.

Learn immediately how to differentiate a real website from a fishy suspicious one. Don’t be too lenient and always be on your toes: alert and vigilant. Sometimes clicking a link has a lot of malware which could infiltrate your devices and even track your activities.

Perhaps I'm very pleased to see threads of this nature having the security of people in mind, because this days all I see are just shitcoins promotion threads and topics.

Well, personally I don't do free things because I believe they are more prone to dangers than what one buys with their own money. in the crypto space right especially with the success of Notcoin being launched a lot of newbies and non crypto person have joined the community having the belief that there will be another Notcoin that can turn them to millionaires as their influencers do advertise, so claiming free NFTs would seem like a big opportunity for them whereas the risk of having ones wallet being compromised is very high.

Apparently, I will add to this by advising people not to take part in whatever that seems too good to be true, don't expect to get a free NFT and in few months it turns out to make millions which is insane.

Clicking on links is high risky for your assets as some malwares, crypto spies can be embedded in this links and once clicked it begins it's job without ones notice. Everyone's security is in their hands.

Thanks for the information and I just hope that many people would be this useful and stay very careful when they see something like this.
I have been seeing many adverts about claiming Not tokens about 60k NOT for doing no task. Anytime I see this, I just laughed because I know it's a scam. For those that might not be aware about this before now, we all have to stay away from such kind of advert because it is quite dangerous and could make us to lose all our funds with in a second.

in this case, I personally will ignore the NFT for the sake of wallet security. I try to avoid tokens, or NFTs that suddenly appear in our personal wallet, especially since the wallet has never been used for any event.

Generally one should not wander to different web pages on the web. Because there is always criminal activity going on here. You can become a victim of someone at any time. A fake wallet scam tricks users into believing they are using a legitimate digital wallet to store their assets. Fake wallets ask users to enter their private keys information that should never be shared and then scammers use those private keys to steal users crypto holdings.

And strangely I don't feel like I participated in anything regarding NFT on the TON network but I see some NFTs in my TON wallet. I don't know if this is some kind of free airdrop? but for sure if you find something suspicious then you should avoid it.

Can you be specific on how the scam works. How come do you need to claim ownership if the NFT is already on your wallet? NFT is just a non fungible token which means it’s already in your possession once it was transferred to your wallet.

This is what makes me confused on what will be the potential method of scammers when the NFT is already on your wallet?

I knew this is possible in crypto airdrops since the scam happened when you try to exchange it on DEX but I’m not sure what is the method for NFT in able to scam.

Other than that, people should revoke their wallet after they connect their wallet to Web3 sites and they should avoid to claim anything that free regardless it's airdrop or giveaway. The best is to learn computer security in the first place, people forget if installing pirated software, clicking unknown link or watching porn will raise the chance to get hacked. If you can't yet afford to subscribe the official software, you should use free and open source software.

Safety first as they say, always empty your wallets that you're going to use for claiming. Don't say about don't claim because as octradism said, every bounty hunter and airdrop people have to claim all of the possible rewards that they have. They know the procedure and they have to be careful with everything that they're claiming. Whilst the newbies, they're likely the ones that are going to fail and fall for such scams by these fake airdrop copycats.

I am bit surprised to know if people still deal or consider NFT as legit? I think the era of NFT has come to an end and you need to be specific about the kind of risk it carri s when you touch these NFTs which you didn't pay for but it's in your wallet, because your post is open ended as one cannot conclude about the kind of risk involved if we hold those NFT which we got for free.

The only scam with NFT I can think of at the moment is the whole concept of NFT but money laundering was behind those exorbitant amount paid by some people to buy an NFT.

The way people attack people today is that some chains have changed, with TON it is also impossible to avoid this situation where imposters have performed analytical activities on bananas that come with things. are emerging to combine malicious tokens/nft/links... to attack users. But I think for newbies, always consult with people who have experience about what's appearing in wallets, there have been many cases of hijacking and loss of a lot of crypto assets in this space. The lesson of being alert to everything is always noticeable and sometimes it seems that everything goes so easily that we can ignore some risks of death.

It is not about Telegram in general, it is about wallets which have balance. These scammers will tryto lure the wallet owners to try to sell their scam NFT or tokens which will be valued a few dollars. Doing so somehy exposes the wallets private key as these tokens or NFT are not listed on prominent exchanges. Such scams do happen when you have tokens or coins of a particular blockchain n the wallet.

It should be the common sense for people to not interact with something so fishy when it comes to dapps, NFT, or even any smart contract there is, these scammers are taking advantage the fact that some newbies are too lack of information to know that just blindly interacting with malicious smart contract could drain them their money.
these fake shady free NFT are just generally only one of many ways that people can be deceived into approving some smart contract of their ERC20 tokens, there are even cases where you interact with shady platform advertising themselves as a swap platform but ended up draining people of money so its a problem.

usually its the people that lack of knowledge that falls victim, even though the NFT trend isn't a thing anymore but many project are still utilizing the technology of NFT as sort of identifier, right now NFT isn't frequently being used for sell and buying digital arts, instead it works like a club pass, like ladys and so on where you might be eligible for an airdrop. this also the reason why many scammers also trying to use NFT as a way to scam people.
you know some people just so eager to get some precious NFT they often just recklessly claiming whatever NFT there is.
even sometime some scammer are just trying to impersonate the popular NFT by creating their own and listing it in market place deceiving people into buying the fake NFT and if you see the volume, whether artificially created or not, there seems to be some people that get deceived.

I never thought of NFTs as potentially profitable investments even when it was “trending” but now that almost no one is talking about it people are becoming more and more desperate to try and profit with their NFTs. But seriously, if you get scammed from NFTs that’s beyond unintelligent.
I agree that telegram is a very popular platform for scammers. Though some projects seem legit and if we check properly these projects can even be rewarding. We just need to be very careful and know our way around signs of red or green flags.

Nothing is free any project that you don't understand the road map, it's best advisable to ask questions and make thorough findings or better leave them. Airdrops are free but not entirely because you've to stick to anticipating with the tasks inother to pass and gain eligibility to accumulate them in your wallets. I know how hard crypto can be if one is planning to start with nothing but with the right resources, one needs to start having good path to bring in promising projects to one's ends.

Its obvious that people want to earn something big without doing anything or by giving little contribution to earn a lot, this is the way of life many are so positioned to take and go for in cryptocurrency, i know this on set on TON network will spark on many scammers from introducing their own shitty coins or tokens and make offers as well for airdrops for people to claim, we have to be watchful on accepting free offers.

Nah, you can just claim those free NFT's. I mean it's free, so why not claim or mint it? There's always a number one rule when it comes to these kinds of things, and many YouTube influencers also said it, and that is "TO ALWAYS USE A BURNER WALLET".

Burner wallet meaning wallets that you will only use for that particular mint of an NFT. No more, no less. Don't use your main wallet to mint free NFT's because like you said, your wallet can get compromised. There's no problem claiming or minting it especially for free, but always take note of the risks, and don't ever, ever use your main wallet for these things.

I don't think that this is entirely true. We can't make our conclusion on the entire crypto system based on what happened with a particular project. It's just like airdrop, we've seen countless numbers of airdrop were participant waste all there time and energy to engage in them and at the end they don't get anything from the campaign but that's not enough reason to discourage people from getting into airdrops. In the midst of the board ones we still have some good project that one can still involved in but the key here should always be to go about them with caution.

I totally agree with you. For those that have been into bounties for a while, it's a mix of failed and succesfully projects but you can't write them off entirely. The best security measures to be taken would be to use an entirely different wallet and device if you have the means while keeping your main wallet entirely offline or not related to your bounty stuff.

It could even be that your mobile device could serve to take care of those kind of project while your desktop device would be in charge of your main wallet. Whichever way that's convininece for you is totally okay as long as you're being security conscious and you're not loosing or endangering your coin in the process.

OcTradism is on point, as always. The OP wonders why so many people are willing to risk their hodlings for a NFT that's not worth a dime, but many people, specially those interested in altcoins and, even more specially, bounty hunters, are all day looking for this kind of micro-payments in order to grow their portfolio at the end of the month.

For these people, the correct advice should be "stay safe" rather than "don't claim freebies", because they won't follow the latter.