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Quote from: Lida93 on July 07, 2023, 11:13:29 AM

...If someone mistakenly send you a token that doesn't belong to you, fair enough you should rather see it as an opportunity to do good by sending back such token to the rightful owner...

It would be very interesting for me to see the results of such a social experiment, when 1 BTC would be sent to a certain number of wallets in order to find out how many people would return it to the sender. How many people do you think would actually return this 1 BTC received by mistake?

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That's a good point mentioned by OP. Never claim something that is not yours. If you see something valuable for free then always doubt it.
Nobody would give something away for free or at a huge discount unless something is fishy about it.
In this case, it was more like fishing for the scammers where they were showing seeds to people just to lure them into depositing money into their wallets.

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Quote from: Outhue on February 27, 2023, 07:37:05 AM

How many of you are getting this messages? I bring this on this forum because it's nothing new to me, the motive behind this is to confuse new crypto investors that they mistakenly send you this picture.

Now, if you are very greedy like how many people are, you will want to import one of these seed into a wallet, hoping you will find one or two coins in the wallets.

And guess what? Such wallets always have coins in them, if they are empty how will you even think of sending ETH as gas fee into these wallets to move out the coins that's never yours?

The fact here is the wallets are wired to move out any deposited amount automatically once you send ETH into the wallets.

Moral lesson of the day

- Why are you even trying to claim what's not yours? You never hustle or work for this and you want to steal from someone else hustle, this is a very bad habit, it means if someone mistakenly send you a BTC or two you won't ever think of sending them back, there are good examples of people that return BTC mistakenly sent to them to the rightful owners, be a good example.

- Do not consider yourself lucky because People don't go online displaying their seeds, even new unpopular crypto wallets will warn you the first time you try to create a new wallet, to never share your seed with anyone, so if you come across any seeds online, it is intentional, to lure Greedy people.

Some people mistake greed for luck just to justify their unacceptable behavior forgotten that whatever you wouldn't want another to do onto you same should you not do to another. If someone mistakenly send you a token that doesn't belong to you, fair enough you should rather see it as an opportunity to do good by sending back such token to the rightful owner.

Scammers prey one our greed by eluding us with figures that doesn't exist. I do receive such messages on my telegram, just this year I have received about two or more from different channels. Knowing fully well that lucks like that doesn't exist in the crypto world I just ignore them by deleting. If newbies could develop the culture of ignoring certain messages relating to mistakenly-sent-tokens from social media platforms they would really be saving themselves from much troubles from scammers.

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Quote from: Outhue on February 27, 2023, 07:37:05 AM

Moral lesson of the day

- Why are you even trying to claim what's not yours? You never hustle or work for this and you want to steal from someone else hustle, this is a very bad habit, it means if someone mistakenly send you a BTC or two you won't ever think of sending them back, there are good examples of people that return BTC mistakenly sent to them to the rightful owners, be a good example.

- Do not consider yourself lucky because People don't go online displaying their seeds, even new unpopular crypto wallets will warn you the first time you try to create a new wallet, to never share your seed with anyone, so if you come across any seeds online, it is intentional, to lure Greedy people.

Truth be told that life isn't easy and anyone who is a victim of scam was at one point or the other greedy and anyone who maybe because of a cheap scam like this, get scammed then is a fool.
Rather than eat money that might keep you restless, why not keep the money till the right owner comes and then you can boldly ask for a commission if its a must to get you paid for that.
This scam is a cheap scam to me because personally I'm not moved but the things and wealth of others and that's why I believe in deligency in labor and considering the kind of country I come from just incase the transaction gets traced to you and the consequences and punishment you might face because it might be tagged stealing.

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Quote from: tvplus006 on July 07, 2023, 08:13:18 AM

The basis of any fraud is greed. And when someone sees that he has a chance to make a profit without making his own efforts for this, he forgets about security. Of course, the right decision would be to just pass by if you don't have the moral right to this profit.

Yes, greed is in most cases the factor that lures people to put their money into shady business proposals with unbelievable amounts in profits within a very short time. The greed in people is what would initially cloud any sense of reasoning until the scam is done and the person starts thinking straight again.

There are always people who looks out for the easy way out. They would want to make ridiculous amounts in profits without putting in efforts of their own. These are the type of people who would receive a text or an email stating a cash prize has been won and would go ahead to try to claim such a prize knowing fully well they didn’t enter into any contest to win any prize. Such persons would easily fall prey to fraud.

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Quote from: tvplus006 on February 28, 2023, 11:39:27 AM

Quote from: Cantsay on February 27, 2023, 09:17:38 AM

...When you finally import the wallet you'll be asked for add some gas fee and as soon as you add Tron to the wallet it will be moved automatically to another wallet. ..

I don't think that this kind of fraud can cause even minimal financial damage. If a similar situation happened to you, how much would you deposit TRX for the commission? I am sure that no one would have transferred more than a few cents, since this amount would have been enough to withdraw coins from the wallet.

It is not many people that will fall for this type of scam. It can only be some naive people or people who do not know much about cryptocurrency.
It all depends on how much was displayed in the wallet. If the scammers decided to display 50,000 dollars worth of coins, it will not be difficult for anyone to pay $100 as a fee to withdraw fifty thousand dollars worth of coin.
If not for greed, no one is supposed to fall for this type of scam. It is just a clear example of reaping where you did not sow.
It is not that you mistakenly discovered where someone hid their seed phrase. In this case it was sent to you outrightly in your inbox, which shows that the sender has some hidden intention.
The best thing is to delete the message and disregard it totally. But then anyone who falls for this type of scam does not deserve my sympathy.

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Quote from: Outhue on February 27, 2023, 07:37:05 AM

- Why are you even trying to claim what's not yours? ...

The basis of any fraud is greed. And when someone sees that he has a chance to make a profit without making his own efforts for this, he forgets about security. Of course, the right decision would be to just pass by if you don't have the moral right to this profit.

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Normal things in the different platforms can easily message those accounts. Not only in telegram even in Twitter and Discord this always happen Someone add you or even message and have a small talk so they can promote their platform, afterward they will invite you to their links it could be possible that it's legit or not, but most likely happens its a scam or a phishing platform included with an attack with a trojan virus that could get your wallets. The reason why ideal to avoid clicking links to unknown persons is to prevent these. If there's a chance you can check the profit itself if its legit or not do it its not a waste of time for your safety.

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The people that fall for these sort of scams deserve this to be honest, I might be sounding brutal but you can't just be like that someone sent you seed of their Bitcoin wallet holding millions.
Also, the scammers also send email with a malicious PDF file which when you open, install some malware and keeps the track of your private seeds which many of you store in notepad.

Be aware of these sort of emails, messages. Do not download any random file from internet.

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Quote from: Baccarat222 on June 29, 2023, 09:53:47 PM

Messages like this are prevalent in many apps like Twitter, Telegram, but it's a fairly old joke. But there are many people who are ready to take risks. Otherwise, it wouldn't be able to fool people continuously.

I have to remove the invisible link you've attached on this post of yours before replying.

It's true that this can be found almost everywhere and these tricksters still manages a few people because they're not aware that it shouldn't be shared. It's not about them ready to take risk but it's about them that's not aware of what they're doing, that's why little knowledge is dangerous as they say.
@OP, I think you should change the image link and do it with talkimg.

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Quote from: mu_enrico on February 27, 2023, 11:40:59 AM

This is an old scam, and I've listed it on my top most annoyingly dangerous crypto scam ever existed Grin

I think newbies still get jebaited from this method, as it's not a stupid scam like sending money to get 2x in return or impersonation from Vitalik's Twitter. It is seemingly technical with a private key and has some tokens in it, so the victim thinks they are smart to steal the money. This isn't for Timmy who can't even swipe a wallet and transfer tokens.

Anyway, for all kinds of scams, this quote will help you: "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably shit."

" for all kinds of scams"
How would someone tell you to send a certain amount of Bitcoin and get back double the amount in an hour and you fall for that shit? That's absurd.
Some will come to you with risk-free investment. How does anybody believe that? Every investment has a certain level of risk, so if an investment doesn't have a risk it means that person is lying to you.

We can't be too careful these days. A lot of these scams these days look legit. They don't come with only the too-good-to-be-true offers anymore. In any case, there is always something that points out something is a scam, there's always a red flag, a sign. We should never ignore the red flags. Greed would try to make us ignore but we have to be better than that.

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Some people came to me back in 2022 asking me to help them out on an exchange saying that they cannot access it because it is restricted in their country. I thought to give it a look as I knew it's a scam, but wanted to understand the complete procedure. He promised to pay me 1% of whatever is found in the account. I logged in.
Now, he asked me to transfer some BTC in the account to pay as a fee to move the funds out (withdrawal), I denied.
He said I must do it because now I have the credentials, so I may move out the money and keep it with me.

He started screaming "you are a scammer, you took the credentials and now not helping me". I asked him to send me the required BTC for the fee, he denied. I understood he's trying to scam me because the exchange he gave me was not even having an SSL certificate, so I asked him to go and look for someone else to scam and he deleted everything, blocked me and left.

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Perfectly put, mate. There are some good Samaritans who will refund your bitcoins if you send them to their wallet by mistake, but some people are very greedy, self-centered, and dissatisfied with their lives, which is why some fall victim to scams, Telegram is the most popular platform used by scammers to confuse victims by sending links or promising quick money, lol, I know we are not all doll we should be careful with the type of people we meet online.

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Very old scam but keep coming with new approach, I didn't get any of those so it isn't that effective so scammers are not reaching more people.

The moral thought you shared is right but its kind of unstoppable when you find a hundred dollar bill while you are walking and just keep walking because you know its not yours. Cheesy

Well, if someone found a wallet with tokens unexpectedly then just check the transaction history of the address to know the thing you found is actually a gem or trap!

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Quote from: Cuda911 on March 02, 2023, 12:36:12 AM

Quote from: tvplus006 on February 28, 2023, 11:39:27 AM

Quote from: Cantsay on February 27, 2023, 09:17:38 AM

...When you finally import the wallet you'll be asked for add some gas fee and as soon as you add Tron to the wallet it will be moved automatically to another wallet. ..

I don't think that this kind of fraud can cause even minimal financial damage. If a similar situation happened to you, how much would you deposit TRX for the commission? I am sure that no one would have transferred more than a few cents, since this amount would have been enough to withdraw coins from the wallet.

Imagine if up to 100 or more people fall for this trick per day and they deposit up to 30$ each to move out the tokens, how is that not a big enough? But you are correct for saying that it won't cause a big financial damage for the victims because all they will deposit is just a gas fee, tron is cheaper than Ethereum.

Why deposit $30 to your wallet if a few cents will be enough to make a transaction? Yes, and you obviously came up with such a number of 100 people a day yourself)) Show me such a wallet and we can discuss it specifically. Earlier I investigated a similar type of fraud and then I could not understand why it was necessary to freeze such large funds in the wallet for the sake of a few cents of profit.

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Quote from: tvplus006 on February 28, 2023, 11:39:27 AM

Quote from: Cantsay on February 27, 2023, 09:17:38 AM

...When you finally import the wallet you'll be asked for add some gas fee and as soon as you add Tron to the wallet it will be moved automatically to another wallet. ..

I don't think that this kind of fraud can cause even minimal financial damage. If a similar situation happened to you, how much would you deposit TRX for the commission? I am sure that no one would have transferred more than a few cents, since this amount would have been enough to withdraw coins from the wallet.

Imagine if up to 100 or more people fall for this trick per day and they deposit up to 30$ each to move out the tokens, how is that not a big enough? But you are correct for saying that it won't cause a big financial damage for the victims because all they will deposit is just a gas fee, tron is cheaper than Ethereum.

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Quote from: Cantsay on February 27, 2023, 09:17:38 AM

...When you finally import the wallet you'll be asked for add some gas fee and as soon as you add Tron to the wallet it will be moved automatically to another wallet. ..

I don't think that this kind of fraud can cause even minimal financial damage. If a similar situation happened to you, how much would you deposit TRX for the commission? I am sure that no one would have transferred more than a few cents, since this amount would have been enough to withdraw coins from the wallet.

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Quote from: Outhue on February 27, 2023, 07:37:05 AM

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How many of you are getting this messages? I bring this on this forum because it's nothing new to me, the motive behind this is to confuse new crypto investors that they mistakenly send you this picture.

I have never received anything similar, especially not on Telegram, which I rarely use and which I consider a much greater evil than any benefit it brings. Countless scammers send such messages to millions who want quick and easy money, and anyone who believes that a complete stranger wants to help them get rich will have to learn the hard way that this simply cannot be true.

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In the past, fraud of this kind was common. In the past, I kept receiving and seeing messages and images of addresses with balance. I thought it had already subsided. Anyhow, the growth of crypto currencies continues. Since more businesses and individuals are interested, it should come as no surprise that these fraudsters will keep trying to entice newcomers to these types of schemes. Newcomers with morals will question why they are receiving coins they do not own and the answer is the address is up for grabs to the fastest to send fees.

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