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Topic: Giving Eth To Receive Eth Scam (Read 998 times)

member
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May 03, 2019, 05:15:42 PM
#51
Even the so called airdrop now needs your full info so you give out something to get something in return. No one knows what all these companies use our personal info for in the so called airdrops
member
Activity: 560
Merit: 11
May 03, 2019, 05:13:05 PM
#50
You don't really needed any software to help you from being scammed, logically it's obvious to know that there's no body that'll give you free eht by sending your own personal ether. No freebies in the crypto sphere, you earn what you get
full member
Activity: 868
Merit: 104
April 21, 2019, 12:07:07 PM
#49
I have one rule in my life, I do not send money to any unknown person. If person is asking for money to provide to more money than 100% he is a scammer. Although most of crypto traders are aware of such scams but still some of them fall pray to such scammers. One of my friend who is an experienced crypto hunter rather he brought me to this crypto world fell pray to one scammer claiming to send more ETH, around 1 ETH was scammed in that transactions. Sometime even an experienced person becomes victim. One should be very careful while sending money online to any such person claiming to give you more profit in return.
sr. member
Activity: 1176
Merit: 301
April 16, 2019, 11:23:58 PM
#48
I don't think that there are still some people who would fall for this kind of scam.
I mean even kids this days wouldn't fall for this one,
Why would they ask you for money at first if they would just give you more in return.
I have encounter so many people who tried this trick on me and I only had fun talking to them.
I would just ask them to send me my profit first then I would send back the amount that they are asking.
jr. member
Activity: 166
Merit: 1
April 12, 2019, 04:02:31 PM
#47
They now use telegram to scam newbies.
They add people to their group chat and you will start seeing fake testimonies about sending and receiving profits within minutes.
You get banned/muted immediately if you try to raise an alarm. Telegram needs to look into this act of cloning groups and channels.
jr. member
Activity: 209
Merit: 1
November 15, 2018, 04:01:08 PM
#46
First time I saw that trick on twitter, I nearly fell for it. But funny enough is that its more rampant on twitter and lots of novice seems to keep falling for the scam. That's why its good to get updated on this forum as it will help inform any novice about this or any other kind of funny scams.
legendary
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Merit: 1225
November 14, 2018, 05:36:04 AM
#45
You should educate that such things are happening and let them know various methods scammers and hackers are doing to steal your coins, knowledge is power if they know these things, they know what to avoid and who to avoid and how to react on those situations.
jr. member
Activity: 108
Merit: 1
November 07, 2018, 05:43:20 PM
#44
If everyone can tame the greed in them to the barest minimum, then such will die a naturally death due to no or very low patronage. I think the best way to be truly safe from such is knowing that there are no father Christmas in this space and is every man for himself. Always engage your brain in dealing with anyone and be on the look out for red signs/ flag/ signal or other appearance of scam.
member
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Merit: 97
November 07, 2018, 08:52:08 AM
#43
All we need is more education. If it sounds too good to be true, it's not
full member
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Merit: 157
November 04, 2018, 09:43:40 AM
#42
My question is, what do you suggest we can do to prevent our friends and family from falling prey into such scam? Do you use any software or add-on to block fake accounts from appearing on your Twitter timeline?

I am not using any software to detect the scam project amd I think there is no software to detect scams. It is really hard to determine which is which. In the point that the project is already requiring to donate some eth, even though I spend my time in this project, I am avoiding it and does not donating any amount. Some project also requires to buy a certain amount of coin using eth, I am rejecting that project and just find another project.
legendary
Activity: 2730
Merit: 7065
October 29, 2018, 12:22:53 PM
#41
People should really not fall for these tricks with all the information about scams available for free all over the Internet. It is like falling for those email scams when you get contacted by a US General stationed in Iraq who found $20 million and wants to send you a cut. Just tell your family there is no such thing, if people on the street dont come up to you and offer you give them 50$ in return for 100$ why would it work online.

But be aware that there are campaigns that have a smart contract where you need to send them 0 ETH or a very small amount - like 0.00001 ETH and in return you receive their native tokens. This is not a scam and I have seen that two campaigns did this successfully.
member
Activity: 445
Merit: 71
October 29, 2018, 07:05:16 AM
#40
Many people type me in Telegram with such offers, giveaways and bla-bla-bla
full member
Activity: 686
Merit: 125
October 20, 2018, 06:08:10 AM
#39
This is an old school trick. I am a new comer here in the forum and I knew already about this. Definitely there were many members spreading awareness about scam activities.

I do not think that my relatives will going to fall on this scam. It is so easy to understand that the offer is scam. No one will ever give you ETH for free. I do not know why other members fall into it. Maybe they were just have much trust in this "ANONIMITY" world where scammers could take some courage to scam others because of this features.
full member
Activity: 602
Merit: 103
October 16, 2018, 10:53:50 PM
#38
My question is, what do you suggest we can do to prevent our friends and family from falling prey into such scam? Do you use any software or add-on to block fake accounts from appearing on your Twitter timeline?


It's a social media, what do you expect? If someone posted that way, that is his/her rights. If there is something to cheat on you, then you would be cheated, no bots could stop that.

use your brain, or close your twitter account.

Sounds rude but true. Slap him with the reality

If you get scammed by things like that, I'm sorry to say but you deserve it. A little bit of common sense can go a long way.

Common sense nowadays are not too common.

You don't need to be stupid to fall for a scam - same as being religious.  You just need to be gullible

Makes sense. Best comment for the thread
copper member
Activity: 224
Merit: 14
October 12, 2018, 06:48:54 AM
#37
I was surprised to see TWITTER isn't taking a proactive stance to solving this 'giving away eth' posts..
they have even given a verified badge to one of the scammers posing as Elon Musk... as seen in the image below.

full member
Activity: 616
Merit: 118
October 08, 2018, 06:11:00 AM
#36
don't expect someone to give you free money that should be the key for this kind of situation, just try to use regular method to have some income (trading, etc). There will be always much scam methods, people just need to know there is no free money without any effort.
you're right bro, moreover for now people have started to be critical in choosing bounty or airdrop, if there is a requirement to send a number of eth, surely most people will not join it
jr. member
Activity: 72
Merit: 1
October 05, 2018, 03:14:29 AM
#35
I have seen this scam everywhere. How is this possible to believe in this Give to Take ETH? You should be very naïve to do that.
newbie
Activity: 84
Merit: 0
August 31, 2018, 12:13:20 AM
#34
This actually happened and still happening...have you heard about self drop bounty? Where a project creates an advertising announcement with profile provided of the prpject... Inviting people investors to buy invest to the project coin..with certain rates and amount of how much youre willing to buy.. And waits up until the goal reached for sold out... Then once on exchange..people can wait for the price of the token to rise and get profit...
There are self drop ico projct like this that were scams.. Its still up to us if how much we know 1st the project before getting into it..
member
Activity: 258
Merit: 10
August 29, 2018, 05:26:18 PM
#33
In logic it is very obvious scam bounty. When I'm reading the content of your topic. I don't imagine even 1 person fall in this trick. As a bounty Hunter, I'm here to participate and earn free token then sell to get eth other btc. How do someone do a campaign and ask by the team to send eth.
Bigggg scam
hero member
Activity: 2492
Merit: 542
August 28, 2018, 01:05:31 AM
#32
This is true this kind of scam is very rampant in twitter comments impersonating popular cryptocurrency related accounts whoever fall in this shit is stupid because of ignorance but we can help of fellow friends to avoid this by reporting this accounts on twitter If we found this kinds of account twitter will review and deactivate it immediately. 
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