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Quote from: romero121 on July 04, 2022, 12:18:44 AM

Even if some official social media account of any of the institution promote cryptocurrencies, giveaways or NFT, don't fall for it. By the time make a clear analysis and go further. Yesterday the British Army's Social media accounts were hacked and more scams were promoted. It is always good to stay safe as hackers are always in search of possible ways to scam common people.

British Army’s social media accounts hacked by crypto scammers

There have been a lot of this lately, more and more keeps coming up by the day even on the forum and one cannot be too careful enough. Could this be associated with the bear market?
The bear market happens to be a time where people strives to hold more coins amidst accumulating more and still seek other means of making stress free money. This could be what these guys have capitalised on to see potential of success in scamming investors. I guess when the market starts rising, more would come too.
It's of great importance that on needs to take security tips with extremely serious by being more private and concerned. The source shouldn't make you let down your guard.

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Quote from: romero121 on July 04, 2022, 12:18:44 AM

Even if some official social media account of any of the institution promote cryptocurrencies, giveaways or NFT, don't fall for it. By the time make a clear analysis and go further. Yesterday the British Army's Social media accounts were hacked and more scams were promoted. It is always good to stay safe as hackers are always in search of possible ways to scam common people.

British Army’s social media accounts hacked by crypto scammers

With so much hacking going on and hackers targetting well know personalities and organizations it's necessary that you verify posts coming from personalities and organizations you're following, and check what and why they are promoting those projects don't feel FOMO, hackers like you to feel that because they have very limited time.
That is why we have seen many hacked accounts promoting doublers and double your Bitcoin and scam Crypto projects

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Hackers and scammers continue to look for all means necessary to continue to stay relevant in this space, as scammers and hackers continue to device new means of scamming the common people, it is the duty of the common people to also device new and stronger means of keeping their funds and accounts safe and bulletproofed from hackers, there is this popular saying that, "if a bird learns to fly without perching, then the hunter will learn to shoot without missing", if the scammers are learning new ways they can scam, we should also learn to tighten the security of our accounts and funds.

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Quote from: aysg76 on July 05, 2022, 07:06:47 AM

And if you want to see more then here is the list : Twitter account hijacking 20202

Anyone who believes what's in that picture to be possible is themselves greedy because it takes a greedy person to think there's free lunch out there. Like I said in my post today in another thread that it takes just two things for scammers to hoodwink their prey – Greed and Hastiness. That picture captures both. That last part in the picture Only going on for the next 30 minutes is just to make whoever that's reading it have a feeling that they need to expedite action or miss out on a supposed goodwill of a double return on investment. So, in that adrenaline rush, the victim won't be able to reason or think straight. That's how it has been easy scamming people on that bait.

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Quote from: asimi.io on July 04, 2022, 02:32:18 AM

Its so sad, I mean if a country's ARMY account hacked, then what else is remaining. Then where is the common people security. Need to be very secure and understand how accounts can be hacked?

Hackers will attack anyone and anyone who exposes a weakness will be exploited by them, so it's best to protect yourself. Never click on any strange links, whether they come from websites, emails, or anyone. Always be suspicious of links when someone unexpectedly sends them to you.

Ensure that only one device for crypto work and don't use it for other work and make sure only you can access it, absolutely do not use cracked, non-copyrighted and unofficial software from the product's homepage.

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High-rank officials and influential people are prone to hacking. Now, dealing with these people can't even be sure if they are the original owner of this account or someone has been in control already. As noticed that some just found they got hacked once there is a report from their friends, it is likely possible that scammers had already found a victim using that account before it traces of changing hands.

Honestly, this ruin the trust system that people had built online and it was found risky even if it was your friend or any of the family members.

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Quote from: romero121 on July 04, 2022, 12:18:44 AM

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I do not trust a lot of giveaways these days now. Although that could be a negative mindset, I have far more better stuffs to pursue and invest my time for anyway. Sure, I could have missed out opportunities, but surely my security is far more valued than just these giveaways.
Either way, social media accounts are not meant to be private nor secured anyway.

Depends on giveaways since there are legitimately held by real platform and they didn't ask anything in return just for you to participate so its good to join them since we get chance to win without spending. But there are made for scam and used hack accounts and we should start to doubt if they ask something important information like our private key or ask some money because this is pure BS since for sure they will just scam people who believe on their scam promotion.

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Quote from: romero121 on July 04, 2022, 12:18:44 AM

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I do not trust a lot of giveaways these days now. Although that could be a negative mindset, I have far more better stuffs to pursue and invest my time for anyway. Sure, I could have missed out opportunities, but surely my security is far more valued than just these giveaways.
Either way, social media accounts are not meant to be private nor secured anyway.

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Quote from: kawetsriyanto on July 06, 2022, 06:39:28 PM

Agree. Don't easily be influenced by any crypto promotions although they are published by popular social media. Scammers can hack or imitate top social media accounts. Scammers are getting smarter, they know how to get people's intentions in varied ways. It is actually not surprising if British Army social media account was hacked, it's not happening for the first time. There have been many cases of hacking top social media accounts before, verified status doesn't guarantee being safe from hackers. So, if any top social media tries to promote cryptos suddenly, we can suspect there is something wrong with that account. Especially since the account never posted anything about crypto previously and has nothing to do with crypto world.

The bottom line is, don't easily trust anyone on the internet and that should be a warning to everyone. Social media accounts of famous people are targeted for hacking because hackers know what they want to get out of it. This is why anyone starting to get involved in the crypto world should be extra careful with any offer, even if it comes from a famous person. But sometimes people are so greedy about money that they don't want to do any verification before they get swayed by an attempted scam or something.

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Quote from: romero121 on July 04, 2022, 12:18:44 AM

Even if some official social media account of any of the institution promote cryptocurrencies, giveaways or NFT, don't fall for it. By the time make a clear analysis and go further.

If one is being observant and careful enough, there are things that by just getting on them you will discover such to be suspicious and call for alarm, how will you believe seeing a shitpost from a well reputable person of integrity with high profile and just concluded believing in everything written, there's a phrase been said that is common, _ by their fruits we shall know them" you need to verify things of uncertainties before accepting the authenticity, call to confirm, research about it, and think twice before talking a single step that could landed into problem.

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Quote from: Kelvinid on July 05, 2022, 05:33:43 PM

Don't trust ANYONE even if it was coming from a known social media account unless it was verified already because of too many cases that many were hacked already.

Agree. Don't easily be influenced by any crypto promotions although they are published by popular social media. Scammers can hack or imitate top social media accounts. Scammers are getting smarter, they know how to get people's intentions in varied ways. It is actually not surprising if British Army social media account was hacked, it's not happening for the first time. There have been many cases of hacking top social media accounts before, verified status doesn't guarantee being safe from hackers. So, if any top social media tries to promote cryptos suddenly, we can suspect there is something wrong with that account. Especially since the account never posted anything about crypto previously and has nothing to do with crypto world.

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Quote from: Russlenat on July 06, 2022, 04:52:45 PM

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It’s very suspicious to see a giveaway launch on official government social media account especially if it’s involved crypto and providing private key to there registration form. Hacker can hack almost anyone on social media if they will allocate resources on it so it’s important for people to educate about this kind of scam scheme to avoid being a victim in the future. I believe many newbie fall victim on this especially those follower of that particular page because it looks legit at first glance and if you didn’t know exactly how this kind of modus work.

Most of the time, those who looks too good to be true are mostly the one with red flags that make it as scams. Sadly, only few people have realized this and that it takes a wise and knowledgeable individual not to fall for victims from scamming. But as they say, the more knowledgeable we become, scammers have always taken an edge. They can always be more than we can expect.

This is why we have to be very observant and careful with our every move once in the internet because scammers/hackers nowadays are getting better almost everyday. It's better if we practice how to safely use the internet to avoid such people in the internet or better to do the basic safety guidelines to avoid scammers/hackers. Let's just educate ourselves if we want to really avoid these bad people because most of the time newbies were only the first victim they will get.

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It’s very suspicious to see a giveaway launch on official government social media account especially if it’s involved crypto and providing private key to there registration form. Hacker can hack almost anyone on social media if they will allocate resources on it so it’s important for people to educate about this kind of scam scheme to avoid being a victim in the future. I believe many newbie fall victim on this especially those follower of that particular page because it looks legit at first glance and if you didn’t know exactly how this kind of modus work.

Most of the time, those who looks too good to be true are mostly the one with red flags that make it as scams. Sadly, only few people have realized this and that it takes a wise and knowledgeable individual not to fall for victims from scamming. But as they say, the more knowledgeable we become, scammers have always taken an edge. They can always be more than we can expect.

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Quote from: romero121 on July 04, 2022, 12:18:44 AM

Even if some official social media account of any of the institution promote cryptocurrencies, giveaways or NFT, don't fall for it. By the time make a clear analysis and go further. Yesterday the British Army's Social media accounts were hacked and more scams were promoted. It is always good to stay safe as hackers are always in search of possible ways to scam common people.

British Army’s social media accounts hacked by crypto scammers

The scammers might have studied it well and succeeded it after a long term preparation. So that's how scammers are very hands on to their operation so that their target will finally bite it with just a single mistake. Now i realized that when it comes to scamming, no one is an exemption. Even armies these days fall to their traps, and if we continue taking every chance to do carelessness, scammers in the end will build the biggest wealth in the world.

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Quote from: romero121 on July 04, 2022, 12:18:44 AM

Even if some official social media account of any of the institution promote cryptocurrencies, giveaways or NFT, don't fall for it. By the time make a clear analysis and go further.

If it requires you to connect your wallet to receive those free crypto or nft from a website link that they will give, then it is likely a scam. Once you connect your wallet, they will have access on your private key and can steal your assets anytime they want. Refrain also from downloading any files if they told you to claim your prize.

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I used to feel the best Cybersecurity experts are in the Army and now my assumptions has been proven void. Falling for this cyber attack is like a bridge of trust for a common person. Although if the Army chose to do an NFT giveaway to those the defend it is not a bad idea but making their database vulnerable to attack tell bad on their reputation as it concerns their security against the Digital Dark Art.

Double checking links and keeping your keys far from their servers and possibly using newly created email for most of this tempting giveaways can save people from this Callous and malicious attacks

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Hacking social media account have no joke at all, it continues to grow and a lot of known personalities become a victim. This was an indication that we no longer assure the safety of our accounts as one day we might fall into their hands and ruin our reputation in public by using this to scam people.

At this time, we have to be more careful dealing with other personalities especially online transactions as we never know who is that person behind that account. We simply put everything in cautious action, we just proceed once verified and confirmed by the original owner. And we also have to dig deeper to see changing behavior as it was a sign of changing hands.

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Hackers are everywhere. So, it is important for traders and investors to be aware of their methodologies to avoid getting scammed.

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I just want to add some advice that you need to check:

after guys all above me said that don't click any link that gives by a stranger is very true and never approve it
too good to be true if someone stranger gives you a lot of money
if you are still curious double-check the website and check it on WHO.IS so you know piece information about the website if the web relative young never visit
never fall if there is someone DM you need some help and send you a chunk of BITCoin to your email and they can't withdraw it happen all the time

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Unfortunately, there is not 100% safe in the network or in online work. There will always be even a small gap for hackers to be able to enter, disrupt, steal, and hack a site, wallet, platform, device, or anything else. Let alone those of us who don't really have a strong security system, official government sites, and certain platforms that have a high level of security can still be hacked.
This is a warning for us to be more careful in any case. Especially not to let hackers know about our whereabouts, our wallets, or our existence and the number of our assets. Indeed, this may not be easy, but we can prevent it by not disseminating our assets or our crypto activities, especially on social media. In addition, we are also more careful to click on suspicious links.

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