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Quote from: YOSHIE on April 26, 2022, 10:25:03 AM

As reported here:
NFT Bored Ape marketplace gets hacked, people lose 'millions' in ape pictures.

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There was no new mint, as the Bored Ape Yacht Club warned on its other social media account. Many customers were suckered by the official-seeming messages, however, and clicked on a link connecting their wallet, which then transferred its ape-y contents to the hackers. This is like the 'double your money' scam in every MMO ever, except it's somehow even dumber.

I'm sure, if Bored Ape NFT lovers don't read the news, there will be more victims and will be deceived, hacked has mastered all of that.

Actually, that is the reason I post it here because I can see Bored Ape NFT got so much hype and it will be easy for a newbie to fall for those traps. Every day scammers are getting smarter but social media channels also verify those advertisements before promoting them. Investing money to promote the fake sites is not something new.

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Quote from: DVlog on April 16, 2022, 01:05:28 AM

Do not fall for it if you see similar kinds of promotional ads on other social media platforms.

Every time such hype comes up, such ads also increase drastically. Remember the meme coin hype? ICO hype?

Yes I can remember meme coin hype and there was so many of them with just copy cate project. Scammers always use trendy topic to fool people.

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Quote from: Saisher on April 16, 2022, 09:19:19 AM

And I thought I'm the only one, these ads keeps popping in my feed maybe because I am very active in Cryptocurrency and have followed many Cryptocurrency related pages, I just ignore ads coming from Facebook I prefer to check projects posted here and reputable medias than on Facebook and Google ads, we all know scammers are utilizing ads to advance their project and scam people.

Facebook gathers personal data including all your searches and browsing history to sell it to advertisers. That why you as seeing such adds pop up on your feed. I have a Facebook account that I have never linked with cryptocurrencies and such ads never show up

Quote from: DVlog on April 16, 2022, 01:05:28 AM

Do not fall for it if you see similar kinds of promotional ads on other social media platforms.

Every time such hype comes up, such ads also increase drastically. Remember the meme coin hype? ICO hype?

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Quote from: DVlog on April 16, 2022, 01:05:28 AM

Do not fall for it if you see similar kinds of promotional ads on other social media platforms.

You, I think it is necessary to add one more information about NFT Bored Ape, I think it is important, maybe it has something to do with the information circulating on social media so far.

As reported here:
NFT Bored Ape marketplace gets hacked, people lose 'millions' in ape pictures.

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There was no new mint, as the Bored Ape Yacht Club warned on its other social media account. Many customers were suckered by the official-seeming messages, however, and clicked on a link connecting their wallet, which then transferred its ape-y contents to the hackers. This is like the 'double your money' scam in every MMO ever, except it's somehow even dumber.

I'm sure, if Bored Ape NFT lovers don't read the news, there will be more victims and will be deceived, hacked has mastered all of that.

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Facebook and twitter are very prone to this scam ads and sometimes you can also get a scam advertisements on your email so be very careful on clicking any links, and don’t ever try to invest on a project that you don’t understand how it works, meaning analyze on your own. Ads sometimes are very attractive but if its already asking for a money, that should be a first warning to you, and stay away from that.

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A lot of scam ads on social media platform and I’ve seen one this before but I don’t usually click any ads because I know its too risky and I might be a victim of hackers as well. I don’t know the standard of social media platform but they should also fact check the project because it can really scam a lot of people if left unattended, this is a warning to everyone.

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Quote from: Saisher on April 16, 2022, 09:19:19 AM

And I thought I'm the only one, these ads keeps popping in my feed maybe because I am very active in Cryptocurrency and have followed many Cryptocurrency related pages, I just ignore ads coming from Facebook I prefer to check projects posted here and reputable medias than on Facebook and Google ads, we all know scammers are utilizing ads to advance their project and scam people.

I have been seeing this NFT ad on Facebook for the last few days. The scammers are working on one trending thing after another to scam and Facebook ads are helping them to implement this work. People like us know that these ads are intended to be fake and scammed. But those who are inexperienced in these matters and they are busy looking for ways to make quick profit, they will easily fall into this kind of trap. So Facebook should check whether it is real or not before giving approval to any advertisement.

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And I thought I'm the only one, these ads keeps popping in my feed maybe because I am very active in Cryptocurrency and have followed many Cryptocurrency related pages, I just ignore ads coming from Facebook I prefer to check projects posted here and reputable medias than on Facebook and Google ads, we all know scammers are utilizing ads to advance their project and scam people.

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From the Reputation section to Meta, although I would say that this belongs more to the Scam Accusations section. You also can follow the scam report format to make scam reports properly from pinned posts on there.
Sponsored ads on Facebook behind which stands scam, is nothing new. Unfortunately.
Although I do not see a basis for big value for most NFTs, so I consider most of them as a form of fraud, because the price is unjustifiably raised and creates the illusion of high value than it is.

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I have recently seen some suspicious NFT sale ads in my Facebook news feed. All of them are using Bored Ape NFT hype to scam people. I have checked one of their websites and there was no info about team members. Their Twitter handle has insane amounts of followers which I think is a brought account. Now scammers are using promotional ads on Facebook. Do not fall for it if you see similar kinds of promotional ads on other social media platforms.

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