Topic: Did I just went too far? (Read 281 times)

You did your part already and that warning simply means to stop him, but he did what he want and you're not a part of it anymore, that was his decision. And he has no right to blame you because that was his fault in the first place. If the case he is still blaming you despite his mistakes, you'd rather ignore him or block him.

Don't get tricked out by these scammers. In some cases, they threaten and ask for money. You shouldn't deal with this person anymore.

peoples experiences educate us, so we need to be charitable to their experiences. you have learned a valuable lesson, nobody just sent random coin to your wallet, also make research about the token to know about the token, since you didn't sign up for a bounty or worked for it. he should not use that wallet again because the address has been gotten by the scammer.

This is quite an interesting and new method for scammers. They just target some wallet that is currently active and sent a scam token to that address. Somehow they use a scam dex created by themself where the price shows the abnormally higher price. Most of the time greedy one fall for the trap and lost all of the other assets too that he was holding in their wallet. One of my colleagues loses all of his funds to this trap.

I think he is talking about something like this:

It was only one time that I got a token I didn't work for, but then, I did something that made them give me the tokens, I filled their bounty participation form but later changed my mind and didn't participate in the bounty, I honestly didn't do it on purpose, and I also wasnt expecting any form of payment because I didn't work for the company, and again, my application was rejected on the spreadsheet because I wasn't wearing the signature, so I took it everything was fine.
So when the time for token distribution came, I was surprised to see the tokens land in my wallet, I tried reaching the bounty manager on telegram but it seems he wasn't seeing my messages, so I didn't get reply from him, and after hodling those tokens for about 8 months, I ended up selling those tokens and spending the money....

Now does this make me a scammer?

Even in the court of law, you can't be sentenced to death for killing someone in genuine self defense, some one was trying to kill you but you ended up killing the person first, I don't think it's a crime even before God almighty.... So @op, if someone is trying to scam you, and you are smart enough to out-smart him or her and scam him, as long as you don't go about scamming or trying to scam other persons who aren't trying to scam you, you are not a scammer.
So honestly, you friend is not a scammer for selling tokens which were sent to him by scammers for the purpose of scamming him, but it's rather unfortunate that he ended up being scammed because he couldn't out-smart the scammers.

No, you didn’t went to far about the whole thing. You are indeed truthful and have your friend success at heart. He did made a mistake and you corrected him about it, that’s what a true friend does. He might think he won an airdrop or something big and will fall into their trap. Just encourage him to desist from such sites.

This kind of story is not new, I think it's somewhat repetitive around this space.
If you receive a reputable coin from a random site or whatsoever for promotional purposes or airdrop or whatever name they might call it, you can sell in exchange or convert to your preferred coin, possibly leave the coin. But it is pertinent that this will not happen, they'll rather send you some worthless coins to lure you to destruction.
For you to succeed in this space, you must have the consciousness that nothing is free.
Scamers get you by promising you what they cannot give or gifting you what does not exist.

But, it is not right that you called your friend a scammer, he was just being smart by trying to reap where he did not sow.

That's cold, your friend isn't trying to steal from someone or trying to scam anyone, he may have probably thought he won a free airdrop, try to encourage him and tell him to learn from his mistake, this is better than calling him a scammer.

The above-mentioned story is repetitive and its value is in human greed. People are trying to get money with the least effort and therefore when they hear the word (free money) or (easy profit), their mind stops logical thinking, especially if they hear that someone has won from that money.
This greed is exactly what referrals are looking for by making people believe that they will earn fast or make money effortlessly and thus linking your wallet to that site seems like an easy activity.

If you are so greedy, link wallets that do not contain any balance, but remember the free money means a risk and it is better to avoid any suspicious site.

Your frend is a victim. Most of us have pobably recieved tokens in our wallets and somehow it looks like it has some value especially if we look at it on the dex. I tried to take the money but that doesnt make me a scammer. It was given as airdrop, its just unfortunate your friend landed on a dex that also grab his access to the wallet. 

It must be worth swapping that he was lured to try. Transaction fee is high even on pancake so if he tired still even with your warning, the amount must have been very tempting.

Your friend doesn't know about consequences of what he did that's why he end up on that situation. But since you know that will be the end point if you do that then better ignore what you see. And also don't call your friend a scammer because that is normal thing we do especially if there's no one claiming that their balance is lost and they want to recover it on your or his position.

You received tokens in your wallet, you ignored it.

Your friend received tokens in his/her wallet, then he/she sold it, ends up being a scam, then lost money.

Ok, regardless if you warned your friend or not, what's the point of calling your friend a scammer? Or better yet, what the heck is your point with this thread? What specifically do you want us to talk about here? Want us to laugh alongside you?

Your friend is one of the victim who fell for the trap and you didn't that's the difference, yeah he can be saved if he paid attention to your words but the common psychology says we never want to hear the advices so only the real life experience can make them better after the real cost.

Your friend experienced a big disaster for your actions, caused by tokens that he never did, aka token scam, suggest to your friends, sell all his remaining valuable tokens and tell him to make a new wallet, don't use the wallet again, because the keys have been obtained by the fraudster, if he keeps using the wallet, he will lose it again.

this is weird, if you have done it (warning), why does he keep accessing the fraudulent website.

In my opinion, if you have warned your friends from the start you are not bad, but if you force your friends to sell on the website you mean, it's evil, the point is: it's an experience for you and your friends, in the future.

Yes you did went too far in your friend. Why did I say that?. It is because you called him a scammer even though your friend only wanted to sell the tokens that was sent to his wallet address. The term you should have use to call your friend should be greedy instead of scammer if you are going to say something mean. It is much better to say mean things if it is true instead of saying things that are not true instead of making fun of him. Serve it as an education to your friend. That should be a lesson for your friend.

No, your friend is not a scammer. Maybe greedy, because he expected to make some financial gain, and definitely pretty gullible, since he fell for it. But not a scammer.

Put down your pitchfork and accept this tidbit as the curious fact it is: You were right, he was wrong.

You are mean OP, it looks like you are making fun of your friend for losing those tokens, I won't dare do that to a friend unless I've warned them several times and they still do it anyway.

Thats a scam token. You told yourself that you didnt bought it or earned it so dont believe that therr will be a chance to monetize something out of thin air. Be cautious since lot of wallets received different tokens, sincr you do some trading. I think they are attaching some malicious things on those tokens and once you sell or do something on it. They can be harmful or source of possible hack on that wallet.

It would make you a pretty gullible person and a future to be scammed one, not a scammer.
Why do you think people throw random useless coins at unknown wallets, out of charity, especially after you have seen what that leads to?


Nope, if your friend has lost all his money and you're making fun of him it simply means you're an ass### and I wonder why anyone would want to be friends with you! "am I too meany?"


There are a lot of those
- tokens that appear to be listed only on one shady exchange, set up only to get your KYC data and a bit of extra if you;re foolish enough to deposit something else
- tokens that give errors redirecting the user to some phishing websites
- the worse of the worse that trick you into connecting to a fake swap, the moment you do you can kiss all your coins goodbye

I remember bumping into a thread of a period when there was a split of chains on the bitcoin network that result in a Hardfork, coins like bitcoin cash and others were created, that was when I heard of the word 'Airdrop' but the concept is now different from that new projects give it out to people just to create some level of awareness, boosting of marketing and audience growth, it is possible that you can also have received those tokens when you do some task too. However, where there is a good deed, there will always be some who play foul to fool others.
Binance smart chain and Ethereum chain are now the most target place where scammers mint any token they want and go to any public spreadsheets with addresses and spam them with those tokens, these tokens smart contracts are programmed in a way that when you interact with them, they sweep everything on your wallet. So, your friend is not a scammer, he was just trying his luck and got trapped by scammers.
By the way, tell your friend that there is nothing free on the internet, you have to do something to get something.

His friend has tried to trade some scam tokens which I think require to connect wallet in some sort of fake dex. By that way, scammer steal the private key or something and also all the coins. OP knows that and doesn’t want to trade that coin. But he called his friend a scammer for his shit acts. Nothing else here.

I doubt you can sell those tokens.
Most probably, they are worthless tokens that have't been listed on any exchange and can't be traded at all.


I'm not sure I am getting you correctly.
Your friend tried to sell the tokens that have been received freely and then lost all his tokens. Am I getting you correctly? If so, why do you want to do the same thing?

This funny question has been bugging my mind all day, trying to sell a token that landed in my wallet, which I never worked for, bought or earned, doesn't that makes me a scammer myself?  my friend was a victim to this act today and lost all valuable tokens in his wallet, I called him a scammer himself, am I too meany? Hope he forgives me.

UPDATE

It seems that some are getting me wrong, I'm not making fun of him, I've warned him about this scheme and others that I knew of, I just don't expect him to still went ahead and connect his wallet to a website trying to sell a token he never worked for, I DO WARNED HIM.