Crypto giveaway scams and how to spot them - page 2.

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Quote from: New_order on June 13, 2020, 02:55:10 AM

For every scam giveaways there will always be something you have to give first and that's your own coin, it's obviously a scam, any giveaways that ask you to make a deposit first isn't a giveaway

You make a good point but scam giveaway operate in different ways cause it all scam giveaway that ask people to make some few deposit first, and any giveaway that ask people to do some set of tasks and end up not paying people for the task executed is also a scam giveaway.
With that been said, such giveaway is hard to spot and i think people need to understand the risk involved in every giveaway or bounty campaign before participate.

Emilyearl

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In reality nothing is free. Why would someone or an organisation be interested in doing giveaway? What do they intend to achieve with it? Those are the questions we should ask ourselves. Now if someone asks you to send money to receive bigger money then it's outright scam we should run away from it.

niisarearning

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To avoid this only one thing we can do is stop believing that your going to get free money . Compare with real world scenario. Is somebody giving free money even you font ask same for online USD common sense that's the only solution get out of this kind of scams.

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A very suspicious rewards that gives a website to be a scam and fraud giveaways. It is very hard to convince a good crypto enthusiast with a good intelectual mind that is not easily baited about the high rewards, it would only result to a scam.

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Information can spread very rapidly on the internet. Scammers try to abuse this by allegedly offering free Bitcoins or other cryptocurrencies. You would only have to pay a small fee or provide a bit of personal information to register for such giveaways. If you see such an initiative on a website or social media, always treat it with suspicion. This way, you avoid that you and other people will fall victim to this type of scam.

New_order

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For every scam giveaways there will always be something you have to give first and that's your own coin, it's obviously a scam, any giveaways that ask you to make a deposit first isn't a giveaway

rz20

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The Tesla scam thing I see them in almost every big exchange twitter post with a couple of comments claiming they really got it. I recently started them on old telegram channels as well. Now that market is moving up be extremely careful 'coz now the scammers will come out in full force.

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Quote from: Bitbtc8 on May 18, 2020, 01:30:38 AM

Every scam giveaways will always ask for money or coins in the end, that's how you will spot them, giveaways should be 100% free, who ever asked for deposits to get giveaways aren't real, that is a scammers move

That's true and there are some new scam give away used a new mechanism that the participants must deposit or unlock the wallet to be able to get their coins.

Anything that claimed to be a giveaway if that was forced the receiver to pay some money and that's a scam coin.

coinfinger

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This is not the first time I have been seeing these type of scam, I have seen them a lot of times, especially the one of Tesla. It’s only dumb people that will fall for this. In fact why would anyone be doing giveaways and still tell you to send money to their wallet?

Lol that’s really stupid and no one who is truly doing a giveaway will request for you to send money to their address. And the worst part is, they always make use of Photoshop to create fake tweets and then you will see some of their agents come to a Tweet and comment with the picture and a link and say things like 'thank you to Elon Musk, thank you Coinbase' and things like that. And when you check their live stream they always disable the comments, so that people who don’t know, won’t be informed.

Santri

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see real or fake social media accounts and avoid airdrops that require participants to send a small amount of ETH, another thing I remember, never join an airdrop that requires you to do KYC.

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Quote from: Crypto_lion on May 18, 2020, 12:35:56 AM

I stopped participating in bounties and airdrop which requires KYC for token distribution. Kyc for projects and exchanges is one thing but if you provide them to airdrop you are more likely to see them in dark web.

It depends on the bounty I participate in, if they offer a good reward then I will probably do KYC. But if they offer a low reward and ask for KYC then I will quickly ignore it

saint_casanova

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So most of your take is on the impersonation trick to scam people into believing they are real. Cool, I guess but this kind of scam is quite old. Unless you ain't very bright, everyone could spot this scam tricks mile away.

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I'm not against cryptocurrency giveaway but I don't participate much in giveaways because the givers use that to expose their profiles and project while giving out pennies. I only recommend giveaways from coins that are already listed on the market with real value.

Wilfrer

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Exactly. I agree with your thoughts. It's hard for new people to realize it's a scam. Giveaway is one of the most popular scams. Besides, there are some ways of fraud through currency exchange and it seems that they do not receive anything because they are irreversible transactions, and when we realize it is too late, they do not can get their money back. Besides, I think one of the biggest scams is investing in projects. And it seems that the coins of the fraudulent projects cannot be used or exchanged. It was like garbage. So be careful in the right investments

Bitbtc8

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Every scam giveaways will always ask for money or coins in the end, that's how you will spot them, giveaways should be 100% free, who ever asked for deposits to get giveaways aren't real, that is a scammers move

thekrakennnm

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Something must gone wrong with YouTube moderation since there are scam live streams going on a daily basis impersonating famous and rich people. The easiest way to avoid it is to report/block such channels. Don't fall in it and be careful!

Crypto_lion

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I stopped participating in bounties and airdrop which requires KYC for token distribution. Kyc for projects and exchanges is one thing but if you provide them to airdrop you are more likely to see them in dark web.

ashmodeus

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I dunno why people still get that shitty bait,i mean that a old tricks,by a fake twitter account, just their go to official web and see, if there have a description about some giveaway,that must be real, if not, its totally fake.
Dont u say u too lazy to check it and prefer to do what they say on twitter or even youtube.

nadia001

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Firstly I never ever clicked these type of links. When I see them, the first thing I do is, I go to official channel and search if there are such event they posted or so. Btw thanks for this post.

ReliabilityAlert222

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I agree with you and declare that by boycotting them we have to risk our own wealth free of our own. Thanks

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