Be smart in this industry if not those scammers are out there to scam us weti no good. Scammers are advancing everyday And night. If you are using marketplace in Facebook then you will understand what Op is saying. There are sometimes they showcase a very fine car and in normal price the car would be sold as NGN6,500,000 but they would say #860,000 and they would even agree to payment on Delivery, Jesus Christ. and only tell you to send fuel and oil money so they can bring it to you. And that should be smart move for you. Once a seller asks you to send money first before the goods will be sent them na scammer.
If you know you don't know the person and you want to trade with person manually, tell the person to send the coins or the money if you are buying before you send the money or the coin. Be smart I the cryptocurrency market if not you fall for a very scam.
Topic: Be careful of cheap scam (Read 192 times)
Scammers have really gone diabolical of which they have been taking advantage of that to confuse their victims even i personally I have been a victim of this diabolical use of powers for manipulation but I just thank God that the money I lost before I realized myself wasn't that much. Now that binance that have been our most trusted exchange have been banned by Nigerian government, a lot of people will get scammed more especially why performing p2p transactions but we should be cautious of the person we are trading with and moreover, there are individuals that are offering p2p transactions in Naira in the forum, I think cryptoprenuerBrainboss has an exchange service https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/brainbossxchange-service-btcngn-altcoinsbtcstablecoins-rate-changed-5200468 that is reliable so people can reach out to him as he is a trusted personnel in the forum.
There is also another scam scheme that most of these scammers also use to carry out on local traders; it's just something like flash loading.
During the time when the BTC network fee was very high due to the congestion of the network, a lot of local traders preferred going through an on-chain transaction, transferring from your exchange account to the next person either through email or the wallet address, which can also be detected as an internal transfer.
With you giving them your wallet or email address to send the crypto over, they will use that to send you a successful deposit message, just like the same message you could have gotten from your exchange if the deposit was through made, but if you check the senders domin, you will notice a bit different between it and that of the exchange, and when you also login to your exchange account, you will also realise that such transactions never happened.
For someone who only uses email deposit confirmation, that email can convince them to realise the agreed payment to the next party, which they will later leave to regret. This kind of scam is also very common on CashApp and PayPal. For those who make use of those payment platforms, be very careful in order not to fall victim.
Well noted and I think things like this, are supposed to be brought to the notice of the general public as these scammers aren’t relenting on their skills to extort and steal from poor and gullible people.During the time when the BTC network fee was very high due to the congestion of the network, a lot of local traders preferred going through an on-chain transaction, transferring from your exchange account to the next person either through email or the wallet address, which can also be detected as an internal transfer.
With you giving them your wallet or email address to send the crypto over, they will use that to send you a successful deposit message, just like the same message you could have gotten from your exchange if the deposit was through made, but if you check the senders domin, you will notice a bit different between it and that of the exchange, and when you also login to your exchange account, you will also realise that such transactions never happened.
For someone who only uses email deposit confirmation, that email can convince them to realise the agreed payment to the next party, which they will later leave to regret. This kind of scam is also very common on CashApp and PayPal. For those who make use of those payment platforms, be very careful in order not to fall victim.
I think the forum has some serious warnings against using PayPal or any transaction means that can be reversed from the senders end, as they might be one easy way to get scammed.
One other thing I’ve noticed is the pressure of wanting you to send money to them after claiming they’ve sent you some money, and I will also advice that, every vendor should take their time to confirm every transaction before releasing fiat or coin as any asset released without thorough verification will end such a person in regrets.
Op I don't know if you ever feel you're getting yourself up to danger by having such communication system using your phone number with such an anonymous claimed to be a crypto dealer?
The communication was getting too social and friendly that you can't just go straight to the business of the day. You know you can also be trapped for getting your number exposed to this? Why did you still have to call and keep your face off if you needed to clear your doubt if the claimed guy was legit or not ? Why did you hide your face off from the camera instead of him who seems to be the scammer?
The story no too clear shaa. But anyhow, let's be careful on our trades and I can't contribute to how such transactions like this can be successful because I've never done it before as much as I know what our local made fellow citizens are capable of doing.
It's also dramatical of you illiciting that they uses juju to convince people to their pool of victim when you almost fall at one if not if the network delayed. Or where you also to apply your own juju which surpasses theirw? Haha.
Anyways to stand on a safer side from the scammers don't just give them that chance of communications because atleast they posseses the ability to convince one in different ways.
The communication was getting too social and friendly that you can't just go straight to the business of the day. You know you can also be trapped for getting your number exposed to this? Why did you still have to call and keep your face off if you needed to clear your doubt if the claimed guy was legit or not ? Why did you hide your face off from the camera instead of him who seems to be the scammer?
The story no too clear shaa. But anyhow, let's be careful on our trades and I can't contribute to how such transactions like this can be successful because I've never done it before as much as I know what our local made fellow citizens are capable of doing.
It's also dramatical of you illiciting that they uses juju to convince people to their pool of victim when you almost fall at one if not if the network delayed. Or where you also to apply your own juju which surpasses theirw? Haha.
Anyways to stand on a safer side from the scammers don't just give them that chance of communications because atleast they posseses the ability to convince one in different ways.
The main purpose of the buyer isn’t to scam you immediately but to watch and monitor your wallet address when there is a little money in there, he would then use their charm powers to Manipulate you and claim they just sent you the usdt since they already know how much is in your wallet through your address, you wouldn’t hesitate to trade it and send them money.
I get your vibes and thanks for sharing especially the newbies go benefit from it.
But except the charm matter come enter inside wey go make a dealer no go check him balance transaction and history to see if there is new inflow and how much wey enter to see if e correspond with the business at hand. Well if charm dey work to that extent me I no fit talk but wetin me I know be say na greed dey make people lose money wey dem no suppose lose. Like the scammer fit throw enough difference in price wey you go see better profit den you go rush and forget yourself.
So wetin scammers dey do like to accept your high price because dem no say you go want rush sell before dem go "soge demselves" but you no go shabi say na trap dem set for you like that.
If we want to escape being scammed den we go stop being greedy, stop being in a haste and rushing so that we fit delay dem and ask some questions. Scammers don't like you to be asking too many questions or to dey delay dem.
Omo just as you dey yan na so person need carry anything wey person believe for life take gum body to guide him for this scam looking at this chart the dimension of scammers no be here, the worst if it all is that they are always improving themselves in tactical means if achieving their aim. What one need in situation like this is to improve oneself all the time and try as much as possible to gather knowledge in all aspects of their tactics inorder to escape their victims even if not completely but may not be as cheap as they may speculate.
True talk, many of these scams na wattin Dem don use their brains think critically so when them use their strategy face you, you fit no even suspect say na scam sef. Because of the way this scammers them dey come with new innovative ideas to use take entice you to fall, show say some of this men na very smart people if them use their knowledge take do better thing or use the time wey Dem take brain storm for the scam take reason better business, them go fit get good business idea but na them just choose to carry scam for head.
Omor e no get wattin person no go hear for this country about scam, now see wattin people don dey do, them dey go as far as tracking your wallet so that them go use your own wallet address take get you down. Omor na WA oo. So person no go fit just do em business they go like that, anyway Sha we already don know say this crypto network na soso scammers and hackers naim full so at every point in time we suppose to dey careful especially when we wan do transactions. Any money wey you send go, e don go be that, so na you go know how you wan take, take this security consciousness matter.
Omo just as you dey yan na so person need carry anything wey person believe for life take gum body to guide him for this scam looking at this chart the dimension of scammers no be here, the worst if it all is that they are always improving themselves in tactical means if achieving their aim. What one need in situation like this is to improve oneself all the time and try as much as possible to gather knowledge in all aspects of their tactics inorder to escape their victims even if not completely but may not be as cheap as they may speculate.
Omor e no get wattin person no go hear for this country about scam, now see wattin people don dey do, them dey go as far as tracking your wallet so that them go use your own wallet address take get you down. Omor na WA oo. So person no go fit just do em business they go like that, anyway Sha we already don know say this crypto network na soso scammers and hackers naim full so at every point in time we suppose to dey careful especially when we wan do transactions. Any money wey you send go, e don go be that, so na you go know how you wan take, take this security consciousness matter.
My brother, the matter no be here and the rate at which these scammers Dey penetrate the market Dey really alarming and this an another wake up call for us to take security very serious irrespective of the area of life you Dey face, as life fit happen to you at anytime.Internet business no be small business for this recent time and anybody wey Dey deal with internet suppose Dey extremely careful and treat everything and everybody as a suspect because this days, the scam techniques and alarm don Dey really alarming.
I think it’s worthy to bring this to the notice of the users here especially those that offer exchange services like myself to stay very careful and vigilant, as these scammers are up to something else.
I got a message from a random number on my WhatsApp wanting to trade $550 late yesterday but since the network was very bad for Airtel users, I couldn’t meet but got his message mid night and he was still interested to trade with me which is very unusual as most people wouldn’t be patient to wait for a vendor and I tried delaying the whole process as I was I’ve a victim of these scam that I even lost $40 but this time, I was very conscious and I delayed the trade further till now and the seller was still interested to trade with me then I realized, something is actually fishy.
The main purpose of the buyer isn’t to scam you immediately but to watch and monitor your wallet address when there is a little money in there, he would then use their charm powers to Manipulate you and claim they just sent you the usdt since they already know how much is in your wallet through your address, you wouldn’t hesitate to trade it and send them money.
My fellow traders, please be careful, not to trade with any random number that can’t even explain how they got your contacts.
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When we talk about scam it’s a like a day to day thing in our society.so tackling business in the internet you need to make research,knowing about it and next to verify it’s guarante.asking of questions about it matters a lot.anything that have to deal with personal information or income level shouldn’t be disclosed easily but with a good reason and mostly report suspicious activity. I got a message from a random number on my WhatsApp wanting to trade $550 late yesterday but since the network was very bad for Airtel users, I couldn’t meet but got his message mid night and he was still interested to trade with me which is very unusual as most people wouldn’t be patient to wait for a vendor and I tried delaying the whole process as I was I’ve a victim of these scam that I even lost $40 but this time, I was very conscious and I delayed the trade further till now and the seller was still interested to trade with me then I realized, something is actually fishy.
The main purpose of the buyer isn’t to scam you immediately but to watch and monitor your wallet address when there is a little money in there, he would then use their charm powers to Manipulate you and claim they just sent you the usdt since they already know how much is in your wallet through your address, you wouldn’t hesitate to trade it and send them money.
My fellow traders, please be careful, not to trade with any random number that can’t even explain how they got your contacts.
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There is also another scam scheme that most of these scammers also use to carry out on local traders; it's just something like flash loading.
During the time when the BTC network fee was very high due to the congestion of the network, a lot of local traders preferred going through an on-chain transaction, transferring from your exchange account to the next person either through email or the wallet address, which can also be detected as an internal transfer.
With you giving them your wallet or email address to send the crypto over, they will use that to send you a successful deposit message, just like the same message you could have gotten from your exchange if the deposit was through made, but if you check the senders domin, you will notice a bit different between it and that of the exchange, and when you also login to your exchange account, you will also realise that such transactions never happened.
For someone who only uses email deposit confirmation, that email can convince them to realise the agreed payment to the next party, which they will later leave to regret. This kind of scam is also very common on CashApp and PayPal. For those who make use of those payment platforms, be very careful in order not to fall victim.
well, This is very true. I think the world is more exposed than trusting information on your mail without actually confirming from the platform itself, there have been tons of campaigns against these lazy approaches to transaction confirmations. I honestly think anyone that falls for this is to be blame because this is an act of pure laziness and limited proactivity. With the exclusion of old people and those that are less tech savvy, I really don't think someone should be fooled with just an email confirmation, then they log into their application, go straight to releasing funds without having a peep at their balances. Even as less tech savvy as my mum will first check her account balance when she receives her credit alert, before proceeding with any transactionDuring the time when the BTC network fee was very high due to the congestion of the network, a lot of local traders preferred going through an on-chain transaction, transferring from your exchange account to the next person either through email or the wallet address, which can also be detected as an internal transfer.
With you giving them your wallet or email address to send the crypto over, they will use that to send you a successful deposit message, just like the same message you could have gotten from your exchange if the deposit was through made, but if you check the senders domin, you will notice a bit different between it and that of the exchange, and when you also login to your exchange account, you will also realise that such transactions never happened.
For someone who only uses email deposit confirmation, that email can convince them to realise the agreed payment to the next party, which they will later leave to regret. This kind of scam is also very common on CashApp and PayPal. For those who make use of those payment platforms, be very careful in order not to fall victim.
The only way I can be convinced of this scam patten being acute is if there is a way of releasing your funds from your email without logging into your account, and I really don't think that's possible. Proactiveness in crypto space is really key to securing your funds from hungry scammers.
This is a very common scam in the crypto space but it's more likely to happen in our localities, this scammers are also crypto personnel's that knows the in and out of the market hence use such medium to keep you convinced that they are true dealers. There is an app that sends emails, messages, credit alerts messages etc just like the normal messages that one would expert from his or he bank or crypto wallet, this messages look very real and if one isn't careful enough can easily get scammed.
I have heard someone sometime ago complain of how they credited him a fake funds in his cashapp and another time wallet then asking him to send back because the amount sent to him was huge mean while it was all fake funds. So this person has to use her own real funds to send back the extra which is also a very huge amount of money now that the economy is very bad. If felt same way here after reading this thread.
Perhaps traders/vendors have to be very vigilant with who they deal with because a lot of people are going to a different level in doing fraud. Anyways you did well at least for informing the community on your notice about this new fraud.
I have heard someone sometime ago complain of how they credited him a fake funds in his cashapp and another time wallet then asking him to send back because the amount sent to him was huge mean while it was all fake funds. So this person has to use her own real funds to send back the extra which is also a very huge amount of money now that the economy is very bad. If felt same way here after reading this thread.
Perhaps traders/vendors have to be very vigilant with who they deal with because a lot of people are going to a different level in doing fraud. Anyways you did well at least for informing the community on your notice about this new fraud.
I think it’s worthy to bring this to the notice of the users here especially those that offer exchange services like myself to stay very careful and vigilant, as these scammers are up to something else.
I got a message from a random number on my WhatsApp wanting to trade $550 late yesterday but since the network was very bad for Airtel users, I couldn’t meet but got his message mid night and he was still interested to trade with me which is very unusual as most people wouldn’t be patient to wait for a vendor and I tried delaying the whole process as I was I’ve a victim of these scam that I even lost $40 but this time, I was very conscious and I delayed the trade further till now and the seller was still interested to trade with me then I realized, something is actually fishy.
Yes we must be ready and carefull this days, because criminals are everywhere with the mind of stealing out from people this days not minding that things are hard and stealing from people. Not only him such thing has happened to, many other people here in one way or the other have found ourself in different situation like that but when such happened we should just be careful. I got a message from a random number on my WhatsApp wanting to trade $550 late yesterday but since the network was very bad for Airtel users, I couldn’t meet but got his message mid night and he was still interested to trade with me which is very unusual as most people wouldn’t be patient to wait for a vendor and I tried delaying the whole process as I was I’ve a victim of these scam that I even lost $40 but this time, I was very conscious and I delayed the trade further till now and the seller was still interested to trade with me then I realized, something is actually fishy.
Even with the paste your address twice a sensitive person can observe quickly, the scam method op explained above is very trickish besides some people no go quickly observe. One thing I observed about customers and traders generally, a buyer will never wait for a particulate trader when many traders sell the same goods etc except your goods is the best in the area. I believe you're not the only one doing such so why wait. The contact issue is more serious cause when people like this save your contact they'll always forward to their mate with same evil motive and I sure say na group of people dey do this scam, this is not a matter of being careful when giving your contact out but a close friend can still do this.
But that been said, me sef dey wonder how people still dey possibly fall for all these scams dem sef.
People go definitely fall cause no be everybody dey sensitive and smart besides check the economy out na? People go just dey believe free money matter like mad. Like why will someone think of owning a huge amount he/she never worked for but he/she go get the money if them pay such amount and some scammers dey get sweet mouth like if you pay such amount for two months the amount go double ×2, lol very funny. People don really identify crypto space say na money area na why new scam method dey come always 
Omor e no get wattin person no go hear for this country about scam, now see wattin people don dey do, them dey go as far as tracking your wallet so that them go use your own wallet address take get you down. Omor na WA oo. So person no go fit just do em business they go like that, anyway Sha we already don know say this crypto network na soso scammers and hackers naim full so at every point in time we suppose to dey careful especially when we wan do transactions. Any money wey you send go, e don go be that, so na you go know how you wan take, take this security consciousness matter.
Omo no too reason am oo because even as Nigerian dey popularized scam and dey promote yahoo globally when dem count countries or places wey dey scam Nigeria no go even fit come out because other countries no dey too publicize their scam especially for those countries wey we dey even think say all these things no dey happen. But that been said, me sef dey wonder how people still dey possibly fall for all these scams dem sef.
Omor e no get wattin person no go hear for this country about scam, now see wattin people don dey do, them dey go as far as tracking your wallet so that them go use your own wallet address take get you down. Omor na WA oo. So person no go fit just do em business they go like that, anyway Sha we already don know say this crypto network na soso scammers and hackers naim full so at every point in time we suppose to dey careful especially when we wan do transactions. Any money wey you send go, e don go be that, so na you go know how you wan take, take this security consciousness matter.
That's the sole purpose of this crypto community, we learn and equip our selves with different ways and things that are happening and in case where what is being shared is based on the knowledge related to scam we buckle and learn from these posts because learning from other people's mistake to avoid making one yourself is simply the best thing to do and this forum have made sure that all available information and happening through people experience is made available for everyone.
Well this is a low level scam and at such we should have outgrown that aspect of scam, and also I will advice anyone that you never confirmed a transaction that you did not have the records in your history, many times I chooses to use email confirmation, this way alot can go wrong and the chances of getting fake alart will be near zero.
We should be more concerned about the virus part of attacks which see to it that scammers may want to drop some spam in your wallet most especially altcoin wallets and when you try to view them you accidentally click the link that deposits a virus that watch your device for a long time and stealing your essential details such as passwords and other personal datasthat could be used to hack into your accounts and wallets if you save the seed phrase online.
We should be more concerned about the virus part of attacks which see to it that scammers may want to drop some spam in your wallet most especially altcoin wallets and when you try to view them you accidentally click the link that deposits a virus that watch your device for a long time and stealing your essential details such as passwords and other personal datasthat could be used to hack into your accounts and wallets if you save the seed phrase online.
There is also another scam scheme that most of these scammers also use to carry out on local traders; it's just something like flash loading.
During the time when the BTC network fee was very high due to the congestion of the network, a lot of local traders preferred going through an on-chain transaction, transferring from your exchange account to the next person either through email or the wallet address, which can also be detected as an internal transfer.
With you giving them your wallet or email address to send the crypto over, they will use that to send you a successful deposit message, just like the same message you could have gotten from your exchange if the deposit was through made, but if you check the senders domin, you will notice a bit different between it and that of the exchange, and when you also login to your exchange account, you will also realise that such transactions never happened.
For someone who only uses email deposit confirmation, that email can convince them to realise the agreed payment to the next party, which they will later leave to regret. This kind of scam is also very common on CashApp and PayPal. For those who make use of those payment platforms, be very careful in order not to fall victim.
During the time when the BTC network fee was very high due to the congestion of the network, a lot of local traders preferred going through an on-chain transaction, transferring from your exchange account to the next person either through email or the wallet address, which can also be detected as an internal transfer.
With you giving them your wallet or email address to send the crypto over, they will use that to send you a successful deposit message, just like the same message you could have gotten from your exchange if the deposit was through made, but if you check the senders domin, you will notice a bit different between it and that of the exchange, and when you also login to your exchange account, you will also realise that such transactions never happened.
For someone who only uses email deposit confirmation, that email can convince them to realise the agreed payment to the next party, which they will later leave to regret. This kind of scam is also very common on CashApp and PayPal. For those who make use of those payment platforms, be very careful in order not to fall victim.
Well, na correct update you bring come for us like this bro. The matter of these jobless and lazy Nigerians wey wan chop food for where Dem no keep Dom tire me like dis. For one of my other post wey I make, na so Dem take thief one of my guy money up till now, d warey say e no receive the coins and so the money e no send. I just dey tell our people make Dem dey very careful because this binance wey just spoils so, many thief's Dem go wan use am as opportunity to take scam others. I dey Imagine the rubbish life wey these people dey leave. Person go just come life say na people e wan dey use juju take thief.
U try sef wey u no take paste address because Omo Dem for don run the matter and u for Don send funds.make our members too we dey run any trading weather na buying or selling still dey careful. If u know gge person no or advertise ur trade, no try do any transaction with person. This one na warning for our people Dem.
U try sef wey u no take paste address because Omo Dem for don run the matter and u for Don send funds.make our members too we dey run any trading weather na buying or selling still dey careful. If u know gge person no or advertise ur trade, no try do any transaction with person. This one na warning for our people Dem.
Dis na real serious matter, person wey no get experience for dis crypto matter na sorry be dem name, scam and hacks just de too much, anyway thanks for sharing your experience with us, I no even know say jaz levels don enter crypto matter. From Yahoo with all the plus plus de go, now dem don enter crypto, so we sef suppose upgrade our intelligence to see di signs of di scam jazmen, like you take decode di scammer plan, so we no go fall victim, because if dem fetish charms catch person im no go understand anything until dem accomplish dem evil plans. I know say as we de enter bull run, scammers go de device new methods to steal people coins, so we need to de very alert and vigilant for every crypto transactions wey we de do with people, especially strangers.
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