Topic: Giveaway Scam On the Rise - page 3. (Read 389 times)

The best weapons are your carefulness and you are not greed.

If you are careful, you will not click on any strange link, click on links sent to you by any stranger who DMs you first.
If you are careful, you will not download any file from strangers.

If you are not greed, you will not go first and send you money by believing in promise like "Send me your money, you will receive a double money from me".

People should have a weapon against fraudsters, scammers --or what we call that deceive people just for easy money.
That weapon could be, knowledge and awareness.
If you have all of these you will never be their victim, they are just like prey waiting for a victim and most of them are naive people who lack knowledge. Airdrops and giveaways are prone to scams --if we join we must be careful or never join with these activities and keep in mind that there is no totally free money on the internet.

Scammers now taking advantage of technology but if those greedy people will be cautious on what they are joining for sure they will never get scam by this since imagine that the word posted is a giveaway and they should never put any amount for that. If those people ask some fees for higher chances to get some huge money in return to them then this should be a shady practice which they need to avoid. But unfortunately many fall in this schemes because they failed to determine so early that what they are trying to participate is just a pure scam and they are late to realize that they became a victim of it once they already lost their money.

People just need to be aware that scammers always do anything just to deceive them so they should never fall on anything like asking money for a big profit returns since most likely this is just another scam in the making.

It was foreseeable that AI tools would be useful for more than just good purposes. However, I don’t know how naive a person needs to be to believe all the nonsense that scammers promise. It is always unclear to me that a person who believes in a fairy tale with a prize must be stupid, since it is clear to every normal person that this is a deception. At the same time, where do these stupid people get the money that they readily throw away here and there on scam projects? Probably, the fact that scammers fool greedy people is a good lesson to make their brains sometimes work so as not to lose their money.

It's important to help victims as a way of sympathizing with them by sharing methods or contributing to threads like this, as nobody can be too careful enough. Even an admin can fall for scam. Although, they're multiple ways these things happen, and I understand nobody would sympathize with a victim of a scam that promises them 3k BTC. But all form of scam still falls under the same category. And also gets us sad along the line. Since it's not the fault of some, calming them and helping out wouldn't be a bad idea.

No such thing as free lunch, look at the new method Twitter is paying influencers to participate in the revenue generated on the platform. Recently, I saw a fresh update regarding the kind of posts influencers have to make to be eligible for the funds. You'd notice that they'll begin to tighten it and make it more difficult for influencers to reach the earning threshold. I'm saying this, in line with your Idea with Axie infinity, which are not scam projects, but when it comes to money it's never too easy to get. That's why people must stay clear of easy money making methods as It could be a scam method. Since, many newbies think of the internet as an easy place to make money, the market for scammers will continue growing. With enormous different ideas. These ideas also make it possible for them to gain recurring victims, as not every victim gets wiser after getting scammed the first time. Hence, awareness can save a newbie.

I think so, the problem with these scams is that they are based on the law of large numbers: they only need a small percentage of unwary people to take the bait for it to be profitable. And there are always those who are clueless, greedy, etc., and fall for the scam. Logically, scammers are now using AI leverage, taking advantage of the technological tools at their disposal to achieve greater success, so you need to be more aware than ever.

With the rise in the usage of AI, it's definitely not a surprise to see it being used as a tool to scam people and make life easier for scammers. It's important to know that if you have something to be gotten for free, it should be within reason or else it's a scam. It is harder to prove now but it's still at the user's discretion.

If it's too good to be true, it is. That can be a guideline for everyone. It's important to let others know that rule.

In the past, we may have encountered similar offers that wanted to give giveaways to people. And with today's technological advances, scammers have started using ChatGPT to carry out their missions. Well, everything is changing with the advancement of technology.

Technology is like 2 blades. It depends on who uses it and that has been proven by the many cases of crimes used by scammers to deceive people. But technology is also used for good things so that it can provide benefits to people.

We have to be more careful and always check the truth. If the offer is too good to be true, it's better to pass it up. Don't be tempted by what you don't know because that will make you forget to check the truth.

It is disheartening to hear that scammers are now exploiting AI(Artificial Intelligence) by asking it misleading question to generate more scam ideas. It is essential for everyone to stay alert and be wary of phishing emails tweets and other promotion that claim to offer cryptocurrency giveaways.
Scammers always try to attack on the mind of a human. They just think wisely and set a good mind to grab money from other people. So everyone should be careful.

There's no problem whether your sympathizing them or not, and TBH, I don't as well, but on the other hand, those who are getting scammed are the ones who don't have any experience of getting scammed whatsoever, and let's admit it. There are times where the only way for us to learn is thru experiencing, and this is one of them. Getting scammed once is still ok, but getting scammed twice or thrice then you already have a problem - huge problem.

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I still remember the NFT game Axie Infinity where they are giving too much money for the players that it came to the point where it wasn't sustainable because players are literally getting free money just by playing the game for a few hours, then afterwards they changed the way people can earn. What's my point? Like what others already said here, there's no free lunch everywhere.

Scammers are more deceiving now that they are already using AI that's why we need to stay vigilant at all times, and not get attracted by things like this. Now greedy people, and newbies will be having a hard time distinguishing which is legit or which is not, so I guess the best thing to do is to just ignore those giveaways. Well if you're curious then be careful I guess.

people today are not only just gonna worry about scam giveaways but other things that scammers might exploit, scammers using AI are expanding their horizons, they are becoming more cunning and deceptive, if I remember correctly, there is a thread here in the forum where it talks about AI being used to mimic someone's voice to scam someone. as Upgrade00 has said, "Technology is advancing so fast we barely have time to catch our breaths".

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here is the thread that I am talking about https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/warning-ai-voice-replicating-scams-5450912

This scam method is not new, it is something that has been in existence. It is just that some people are not careful enough to study and master these strategies in order not to fall pray to it. Apart from what is said above, people ought to know that manner doesn't fall from above. You do not reap where you did not sow. People need to know that;
1. Nothing is given anyone for free
2. Stranger that wants to offer you financial help will likely scam you
If people are conscious of all these, they will not fall pray so often.

Yes, and I think we have to be more careful while we also follow the latest trends in technology in other to fall victim to online scammers.
The deep fakes have ruined alot of people's reputations and also led to the loss of some people before major online users understood the possible manipulation of facial formation that can done by deep fakes. Besides, I learned days ago that scammers are also using the Anydesk app to access victim computers remotely once they download or click on a certain link.

There are people who fell for this kind of scam before they know that you should have stay away from giveaways like that although there are real ones but a giveaway can also be used to scam people that's why a person should not believe giveaways l the time and make sure to check all the time if you are interested to join so that the chances of getting scam will be less. You should also keep this in mind, there's no such thing as free money. Yes, there are some people or a company that will give free money but not all the time or they give free money during their celebration. I received free money before around $2000 worth of crypto but that's the only time they have a giveaway.

Sometimes I don't have much sympathy for the victims of such scams. Giveaway scams are always going after people who are greedy or don't know much about crypto.  They make big promises that you know can't be real, but some folks fall for it anyway.  The scammers know we all want easy money and so they try to trick us with things that look amazing but are really total scams.  It just shows that we have to be really careful in crypto and watch out for deals that seem too good to be real.  If it looks like a totally crazy giveaway or whatever, take a step back and double-check it and  the scammers are hoping you'll be so excited you dont think twice.  We've all gotta keep our eyes open so we don't get fooled.

Once a new technology is introduced there are scammers who are out there deducing methods of how to use it to scam gullible and naive people. This giveaway scams in cryptocurrency doesn’t seem like something that will die off soon or even slow down because of the bounties run by upcoming Altcoin projects. So many of the people new to the cryptocurrency ecosystem and some greedy folks will fall prey to it. Another thing is the new blue tick rule on X (formerly twitter) before it was actually given to not just anybody but now just a subscription will grant you that. This has made scammers to create celebrities catfish account and use it to scam the followers through this giveaway of a thing.

One thing remains on this space do not trust anyone, there is no free money outside.

The content would have always been the same about them if you're good at spotting them but the trouble is there for the newbies whom they're always targeting. I think Coinbase should use all of its channels to keep users and nonusers reminded about these scam tactics that have been spreading at all seasons. The article also mentioned the YouTube giveaways that are playing some background like Elon speaking at a conference as well as such giveaways where the instruction is about depositing a certain amount. Those channels that have been hacked with hundreds of thousands of followers to millions make it also look legit, and it can easily get targets and victims.

When I joined this industry newly I used to wonder why whales wouldn't send coins to random wallets or do giveaway until I realized that's not how those in this industry behalf. Even when I read tweets supposedly from Vitalik Buterin, the Ethereum creator, I still won't blink an eye. I've got to that point now where I don't believe random strangers can make anyone rich online.

The sad truth is that only greedy people will be enticed to participate and expect a giveaway mirage to be true. If anyone gets scammed participating in any giveaway, I don't waste my time consoling them. They brought it on themselves.

The most praised AI is now used as a means of getting idea to scamming people. This is very unfortunate and the invention of this have just been hit by another big disadvantage of using it as it promotes and enhance scam. They better have a way to control this because it won’t mean we’ll fit them for the intention they created it for.

I never liked AI since it was already prohibited in the forum, if you don’t depend on AI, it will only make you think more vastly and put your ideas into good use and improve your English here if it’s not your first language.

New scams keeps coming everyday, and it is a bad sign for the modern technology we are embracing already. With time, they should be more solutions to most of this and it will help make the internet more cleaner for better use.

Technology is advancing so fast we barely have time to catch our breaths. Deep fakes can be made to look a real that it is almost impossible to tell the difference, meaning we can see the most realistic videos and pictures being used by scammers posing as other people and majority of the population will not be able to tell the difference.

More than ever the best approach is to consider everything to be a scam until proven otherwise. This way you are skeptical of everything you see and are looking to doubt as the first approach. Scam attempts are already considered scams and it will take a whole lot to convince you otherwise.