Topic: Devalued coin scam attempt, newbies please be aware! - page 2. (Read 280 times)

With what I have noticed, I think scam is beyond greediness, most people that have no knowledge or experience about this can be become victim. People needs education about scam, what our government do not give us, they rather prefer to deprive us of our privacy when they are not educating people on how to avoid scam with real life examples. It will be good if people can be visiting forums like bitcointalk.org, but there are still far many people that do not know how scam can occur because they do not visit forums like Bitcointalk.

I recently like watching celebrity shows that focus more on how to avoid scam, but only few I have watched on YouTube. I believe celebrities can also help in educating people how to avoid scam.

Why would anyone who got an unsolicited message from a stranger on the internet choose to trade with them on an escrow platform they are not familiar with (considering the point of an escrow service is trust)? The only reason I can think of is greed, as it offers an attempt to cash out on the shitcoins they hold in their wallet.

The scam may not be about the coins, after user sends them, the scammers would promise an unreaslistic amount for them and then come up with a bogus reason to lock up the funds requesting xxx amount of Bitcoin or ETH to confirm the payment.

As the title says, there are a few scammers (or a single scammer) trying to scam in a new way. It's new to me since I have seen such as attempt for the first time although this kind of scam isn't new in the forum. I will share the story.

I got a few PMs yesterday from several Telegram users. I have received PM from 3 individual users, but I am assuming it's a single person comparing writing style. They have asked me if I have any devalued coins to sell. When I receive this spam message then I realized a scammer trying to scam me. Then I said yes, I have a few devalued coins to sell. I just want to make sure they are a real scammer. Then I ask how the transaction will happen. So they provide me an escrow website called www.chesterpact.com. Then I realized that they will scam people with that website. I took a deep look at that website but didn't found any useful information at all. But eventually got a forum thread about this website, here is it. It's pretty clear there that the escrow website is a scam site. So, if you receive such as PM from any platform means you are going to get a scam if you make a deal with the scammer. Just don't be greedy for your devalued coins and don't lose them. Who knows if your devalued token sometimes becomes valuable assets. It's crypto and we don't know what will happen near future.