Be careful about some messages to your DM - page 3.

Mpamaegbu

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Quote from: BIT-BENDER on April 08, 2024, 03:45:04 AM

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Quote from: Zaguru12 on April 08, 2024, 04:16:48 AM

CryptoPotato is actually a reputable site for crypto news and for someone to actually get a job offer as a journalist there, is not something that will be offer to just anybody. So for him to actually get the job without knowledge proves that it is a scam.

A journalist with zero knowledge of syntactic structure and punctuation marks 😏. That dude is far from being one.

boyptc

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He messaged me and answered him since I've got time to chat a bit but just basic questions about crypto and different from what has been asked to OP. I don't see any scam on his message to me.

He asked about how to keep his bitcoins and if electrum was good, I said yes and adviced him to buy a HW. No links were given, etc.

And with that cryptopotato, I sometimes read articles there.

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Quote from: BIT-BENDER on April 08, 2024, 03:45:04 AM

I believe some members are already knowledgeable about such but also I still believe that some aren't. The forum is a big place and any big platform that discusses crypto-currency is always a target for scammers.

Several times I've gotten DMs from some members on this forum that are like that, or there are slight differences. but the method is the same. Usually their rank is still quite low. So, sometimes this is something you don't need to think about. especially if you see they have red trust, never mind, there's no need to read any more. And if anyone sees the link, never try to click on the link. Because it is quite risky to see what the condition of the link is. I'm afraid there will be phishing links or other types of malware. So understand that being alert is quite necessary

Myleschetty

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Based on the message posted by the user accused, CryptoPotato is indeed a well-known crypto news platform but there's a chance that you're right about your accusation toward the user in the subject since he/she never comes out to clear the air.

Quote from: YOSHIE on April 09, 2024, 09:36:29 AM

I'm sure if you use and make some changes to beginner DMs, you won't receive messages from beginners anymore, I'm sure this feature is useful for you and anyone who is annoyed by unknown messages.

Yes, you're right but the accused user is a full member user and the only he won't receive a message from the user is probably by adding him to his ignore list.

BIT-BENDER

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Quote from: YOSHIE on April 09, 2024, 09:36:29 AM

I'm sure if you use and make some changes to beginner DMs, you won't receive messages from beginners anymore, I'm sure this feature is useful for you and anyone who is annoyed by unknown messages.

I thought about this mate but I think the rank of the fellow is full member and I don't think they are in the bracket of new beginners for restrictions. Also I think this person may also be knowledgeable in terms of crypto-currency so as to perfect their cooked up scams. One law I always go by is never click a suspicious link, this is my first rule.

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Quote from: BIT-BENDER on April 08, 2024, 03:45:04 AM

Be careful about such newbies, they come with all these enticing stories all to draw you in and then telling you how it's not a scam. In your best interest it best not to find out so don't even click the link. I would find better ways to protect my DM from such in the future.

I saw the message sent to the OP, it seems he praised you too much for your crypto experience, yes, maybe that needs to be questioned and suspected if the message comes from a beginner, but you also need to be careful, Sometimes there are also a lot of fake beginners here, aka fake ones, indeed they were created to deceive under the guise of beginners.

In the past, when I was still at SR rank, I often received DMs from people I didn't know, they said the same thing, maybe, but I didn't forget that there was a mode in the profile section.

I'm sure if you use and make some changes to beginner DMs, you won't receive messages from beginners anymore, I'm sure this feature is useful for you and anyone who is annoyed by unknown messages.

moneystery

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Quote from: Odohu on April 08, 2024, 04:02:05 AM

Assuming you shared any link attached to this message, it would have been easier to know if there is something fishy about it or not. From what I have read in that message, I did not see scam, it can just be someone looking for who to help him him write content, the only risk you stand being the time you will waste writing the article which you are not sure of being paid.

don't be too innocent on the internet. it's clear that it has the potential to be a scam, because the journalists at cryptopotato don't take information from forums, but from other sources, and usually they don't send messages like that, but starting from whether they can contact you or not and include their identity directly, and usually it's done from email.

and what's more the account doesn't seem very trustworthy. so just be careful of people like this who claim to be journalists from one of the reputable platforms, because it could be that they are just disguising themselves.

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Quote from: Cryptomultiplier on April 09, 2024, 08:24:16 AM

I hope you didn't try to hold a conversation in the least or if you did, the best sign if he's a scammer will be when he uses the lure of what you stand to earn, after you do few tasks for him, and such task might entail you divulge personal information without much thought.

If you read some previous responses, you'd understand that the sender of that message isn't actually a scammer and i don't think he would have pulled a fast one on OP even if he held a conversation with the sender. It was just someone who was confused about what was happening in the forum with "merits" on April 1st. That being said, it is obviously good to be sceptical about unsolicited PM's and take many of them as a scam, until proven otherwise, especially when coming from a user that is not reputable or one you are not familiar with.

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Quote from: BIT-BENDER on April 08, 2024, 03:45:04 AM

I believe some members are already knowledgeable about such but also I still believe that some aren't. The forum is a big place and any big platform that discusses crypto-currency is always a target for scammers.

The forum has done so much to frustrate those fraudsters and I think it should be commended although this scammers are dogged with their actions. They do send messages to your DM with all sort of crazy format.

I have gotten some recently and I would be posting although I have edited the link so it won't be clickable.

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Quote from: tajimas on April 01, 2024, 06:58:28 PM

Greetings mate
Judging by your merits and answers on the forum,you are an experienced user of cryptocurrencies
The fact is that a few months ago i was hired as a cryptocurrency consultant and journalist at a well-known cryptopotato
At the moment i am writing articles on the topic "Development of cryptocurrency in the current world order"
I can only get true and comprehensive knowledge from the members of this forum
This is not spam,scam or a prank
I collect statistics for some articles
If the article will be popular,i will share part of my profit with you
To be honest,i'm afraid to create a topic,because now,under the new rules,the merits of the account can be removed Cheesy

I'd be glad to talk to you

-Regards

I haven't checked the authenticity of this message but it already spells scam. I won't even want to find out if I am wrong or right on that.

Be careful about such newbies, they come with all these enticing stories all to draw you in and then telling you how it's not a scam. In your best interest it best not to find out so don't even click the link. I would find better ways to protect my DM from such in the future.

I used get messages almost as similar as this with tempting offers too. However once I learned to ignore the message they either just resend it or stop in total.

This community is very large and it is true about scammers being here looking for victims too. Don't be fooled, as long as one attends to the duties that brought them here, which could either be to learn, earn or for sport, these individuals with bad intentions will look elsewhere.

I hope you didn't try to hold a conversation in the least or if you did, the best sign if he's a scammer will be when he uses the lure of what you stand to earn, after you do few tasks for him, and such task might entail you divulge personal information without much thought.

Ojima-ojo

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This is such a good reminder to how we should be security active, some time ago I received a fraudulent message and when I read through it I discovered that the offer was too good to be truth, this raised interest to wanting to know more about the project.

Many still fall victims to this kind of scam and as a matter of fact it becomes a necessity for us to always stay up to date with events as they happens around them and staying safe from every attempt scam.

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I doubt it was a scam attempt. But it does draw attention to the @tajimas account. From his post history, he was very active in Indonesia local board until he woke up last year and stopped posting there. His merit history is also worth noting since it may have connections with $weetne$$. I suspect the account has changed hands, and would be very cautious of entering into any kind of financial transaction with this account.

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Quote from: BIT-BENDER on April 08, 2024, 03:45:04 AM

I believe some members are already knowledgeable about such but also I still believe that some aren't. The forum is a big place and any big platform that discusses crypto-currency is always a target for scammers.

The forum has done so much to frustrate those fraudsters and I think it should be commended although this scammers are dogged with their actions. They do send messages to your DM with all sort of crazy format.

I have gotten some recently and I would be posting although I have edited the link so it won't be clickable.

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Quote from: tajimas on April 01, 2024, 06:58:28 PM

Greetings mate
Judging by your merits and answers on the forum,you are an experienced user of cryptocurrencies
The fact is that a few months ago i was hired as a cryptocurrency consultant and journalist at a well-known cryptopotato
At the moment i am writing articles on the topic "Development of cryptocurrency in the current world order"
I can only get true and comprehensive knowledge from the members of this forum
This is not spam,scam or a prank
I collect statistics for some articles
If the article will be popular,i will share part of my profit with you
To be honest,i'm afraid to create a topic,because now,under the new rules,the merits of the account can be removed Cheesy

I'd be glad to talk to you

-Regards

I haven't checked the authenticity of this message but it already spells scam. I won't even want to find out if I am wrong or right on that.

Be careful about such newbies, they come with all these enticing stories all to draw you in and then telling you how it's not a scam. In your best interest it best not to find out so don't even click the link. I would find better ways to protect my DM from such in the future.

This is not a straight scam to me but that doesn't mean it won't end as one, but why not confirm first before maybe tagging this account owner as a scammer? I do get PMs like this but there is no malicious link sent to me unlike before.

It seems they want this person to work for them using their level or rank on the forum, but like I have said, it's possible that this will end up in a sorry case, I believe that they should instead be open about such things instead of sending PMs.

If one has a clean motive they will not try to hide it, looking for people to work for you isn't hard, but the reason why they should be interested must be legit enough.

Either ways, I don't like the idea, most PMs are scams, its better to avoid them at all cost, thanks for sharing.

Pokapoka124

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I don’t see anything here that indicates that this person was trying to pull a scam. There was no phishing link neither did he try to take the conversation to a different platform like telegram or ig. The date of the message was April 1 and it seems he didn’t understand the new merit system was an April fools joke by Theymos. I don’t think he meant anything malicious or tried to scam you, regardless of his true intentions, he’s learned the hard way the risk of sending unsolicited messages to members you don’t usually interact with on the forum.

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Quote from: SamReomo on April 08, 2024, 11:39:23 PM

The user seems like a scammer to me because he sent that message on 1st April and that's April fools day.
~snip~

He doesn't necessarily have to be a scammer, because there is a high probability that he was just (like many others) confused by the April Fool's joke and if you read the post from @lovesmayfamilis, then it is logical to conclude that he really believed that he would lose his merits with each published post.

Alone055

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So basically, he was approaching people who are good posters to write articles or provide points for him about the subject he mentioned so that he could compose articles with those points and publish them and then share the profit he gets for doing that, and he said he is afraid to create a topic about this service of him because his Merits would be removed (according to theymos' April Fool's prank). So it's not essentially a scam where you would be asked for money or anything but he would only get some content out of you probably for free.

Even if he is telling the truth about being an employee of that reputable platform, he is most likely not going to pay the people he is approaching to get points or articles from, so yeah, it can be said that he is trying to scam people out of their time and material they might write for him if someone believes him and falls for his offer.

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Better manner of staying out of scamming victim is to be contented to your state of being, don't feel too hastening to reach the top for nothing good comes easy. So always have those fast claimed possibilities of quick enrichments to be suspicious and do stay away and be adamant to whatever way they may have told about your profile probably claiming that they've been on some last engagements with you and now have some work to do with you with the potnetials of making profits.

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The user seems like a scammer to me because he sent that message on 1st April and that's April fools day. If anyone who received such message from that user and report him/her then he/she could easily say that it was just a joke to April fool of someone.

Anyone with common sense can understand that whatever that user said in that private message is totally wrong and can't be trusted at all. CryptoPotato is a reputed crypto news platform, and I'm pretty sure they will not even look at the articles of such users with so many grammatical errors.

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Quote from: BIT-BENDER on April 08, 2024, 03:45:04 AM

I believe some members are already knowledgeable about such but also I still believe that some aren't. The forum is a big place and any big platform that discusses crypto-currency is always a target for scammers.

The forum has done so much to frustrate those fraudsters and I think it should be commended although this scammers are dogged with their actions. They do send messages to your DM with all sort of crazy format.

I have gotten some recently and I would be posting although I have edited the link so it won't be clickable.

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Quote from: tajimas on April 01, 2024, 06:58:28 PM

Greetings mate
Judging by your merits and answers on the forum,you are an experienced user of cryptocurrencies
The fact is that a few months ago i was hired as a cryptocurrency consultant and journalist at a well-known cryptopotato
At the moment i am writing articles on the topic "Development of cryptocurrency in the current world order"
I can only get true and comprehensive knowledge from the members of this forum
This is not spam,scam or a prank
I collect statistics for some articles
If the article will be popular,i will share part of my profit with you
To be honest,i'm afraid to create a topic,because now,under the new rules,the merits of the account can be removed Cheesy

I'd be glad to talk to you

-Regards

I haven't checked the authenticity of this message but it already spells scam. I won't even want to find out if I am wrong or right on that.

Be careful about such newbies, they come with all these enticing stories all to draw you in and then telling you how it's not a scam. In your best interest it best not to find out so don't even click the link. I would find better ways to protect my DM from such in the future.

The scammer claim to have been recruited by the cryptopotatio as a cryptocurrency consultant and he has no true and comprehensive knowledge of cryptocurrencies. This is very laughable.

How do you get a crypto job without having knowledge about it. Who hires a dummy in an area of interest?

t's obvious it's a scam technique and he has to take it to the wrong person. It it was to be a newbie receiving this DM chances are that he would have fallen for it. Great to know about this that it doesn't matter the rank from whom a DM is coming from in the forum don't take it as genuine until proven true.

Lucius

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To me, this seems like a waste of time, for the person who sent the messages, but also for everyone who had to read them. It is obvious that the member who sent the messages was definitely confused by the April Fool's joke and it seems that there was nothing more to it than that.

Personal messages are part of the features of the forum, and there is nothing dangerous if you receive and read them, just don't click on the links that can be found in them and do what the sender asks of you without first checking what exactly it is about. If you suspect that the sender has bad intentions, you can report any such message to admin directly with the link from the message.

Y3shot

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To me having random messages in this forum is nothing strange and if you check users profile that are sending messages like this you will discover that they have done something wrong before and if you go through their profile you can see a scar(red trust) that pass information to know who they are. The best thing to do when you get strange messages in your dm that are not okay with you is for you to just the user to your ignore list.

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