Topic: Have you been scammed? How did they approached you? - page 2. (Read 932 times)
I've been scammed before of about $600 already and I admit its my mistake for not reading thoroughly the project before engaging to it. It was Thor coin as I can remember where their project is somehow too good to be true, so professional also in terms of their site UI, team and dev which I think many did fall also. So I downloaded their wallet for windows; then a week after since after registering so many airdrop sites I forgot about thor anymore and didnt read about its updates and user reviews so thats why after importing my account in etherdelata when transacting I suddenly lost all my precious tokens or even eth funds already. Thats why afterwards I installed a malwarebytes then detected the thor project as the number one cause for the malware; the one responsible for stealing my funds.
I get messages everyday in Telegram.
Most of them approached me as investors, group admins or affiliates.
One way to detect them is that they will approach us first. And they always start with 'Hey User'.
Real investors or admins dont simply approach other people until we ask for their help first.
Most of them approached me as investors, group admins or affiliates.
One way to detect them is that they will approach us first. And they always start with 'Hey User'.
Real investors or admins dont simply approach other people until we ask for their help first.
Well, i think that is a common way for scammer to approach their victim.
That's why there are many telegram group admin announce that they never PM you first.
Usually the user who want to ask about something, PM the admin first, and then the admin will reply and continuing the conversation between user and admin.
There are many ways to do fraud, starting from sending via email, telegram and others. it's a shameful job! Until when will the scam continue and create chaos in the world of cryptocurrency? It only makes a lot of people afraid to join and start to worry. Whereas the crypto community people tried to go through some difficult situations when the red market. I don't understand why people choose to cheat rather than looking for a better job.
I have scammed through airdrop, when i joined the space newly, I join an airdrop and they required some little eth for the airdrop to go through, i didn't know how thing work, I was thinking i was suppose to pay the gas fee for receiving the airdrop, well i have learned a whole lot now
Yes, we must be careful. Many spammers and fraudsters approach us. Usually, developers team always warn that they will not send you a PM before you do it. Ignore if there is a message inviting for investment, also avoid the links that are included.
Of course, no one from the administration of the channel writes to you first and does not need to feed the scammers and transfer money to them
Scammers are everywhere now trying to scam us, whether its on telegram, discord or social media they are out to get us. I get many messages on discord every week with people trying to scam and act as dev asking to send a certain of amount of BTC etc... Also masternode scams are everywhere now as well so we must all be careful which projects to buy into. Never click any links in emails and this is why I use several emails when signing up to things.
They always appear every day. I have blocked many accounts because of that. So if someone is acting on behalf of the admin project, just report it. Because it is an indication that the scammer and the admin will not be sent a pm to you first.
Mostly scammers tried to approach me through personal messages in telegrams. But once they managed to hack the project site and replace the address to send funds to participate in ICO. It was Apex project and I was one of the victims 
i just ignore and block them, like the admin said they dont PM first since there is no reason to
It is very funny when people are cheated in this way. I do not understand why people are very gullible and ready to send their money to unknown people who write them personal messages. Administrators of telegram groups (ico projects) never write first. Why people are not smart enough to check the information, setting it in a group where the person is supposedly the administrator.
Its really ashamed and need to accept the fact that there are many gullible people here, and because of them the counts of scammer are also increase. But remember we need to be careful since that you are here in this business industry. Most of the scammer are good in hyping people and this was most often happened in different social media like telegram and etc.
lol yeah me to often get some message like that's, usually they start with "do you know bitcoin?" or "can you help me please"...from my experience that's most likely a scam 100%. They will give you some link and make you deposit to some site.
I get messages everyday in Telegram.
Most of them approached me as investors, group admins or affiliates.
One way to detect them is that they will approach us first. And they always start with 'Hey User'.
Real investors or admins dont simply approach other people until we ask for their help first.
Most of them approached me as investors, group admins or affiliates.
One way to detect them is that they will approach us first. And they always start with 'Hey User'.
Real investors or admins dont simply approach other people until we ask for their help first.
They tried. But they failed. Especially Telegram groups are full of SCAMmers. A few times I was the one who promised to send me Bitcoin. I've blocked all of them without reading or speaking
So if you don't like to experience problem then better to ignore it directly but sadly there are still people who got victimized but well experience of loss will always be a good learning too.
I get messages everyday in Telegram.
Most of them approached me as investors, group admins or affiliates.
One way to detect them is that they will approach us first. And they always start with 'Hey User'.
Real investors or admins dont simply approach other people until we ask for their help first.
Most of them approached me as investors, group admins or affiliates.
One way to detect them is that they will approach us first. And they always start with 'Hey User'.
Real investors or admins dont simply approach other people until we ask for their help first.
They tried. But they failed. Especially Telegram groups are full of SCAMmers. A few times I was the one who promised to send me Bitcoin. I've blocked all of them without reading or speaking
I get messages everyday in Telegram.
Most of them approached me as investors, group admins or affiliates.
One way to detect them is that they will approach us first. And they always start with 'Hey User'.
Real investors or admins dont simply approach other people until we ask for their help first.
I can't really say I was scammed personally because I was involved in a bigger deal but I basically lost money twice in a communal way.Most of them approached me as investors, group admins or affiliates.
One way to detect them is that they will approach us first. And they always start with 'Hey User'.
Real investors or admins dont simply approach other people until we ask for their help first.
First one, was cryptsy which was one of the early multi coin exchange in crypto world, think of it like today binance or bittrex. I had some money there and when they claimed they were "hacked" they just took our money and left, I can't say I was scammed because they basically took everyone money and didn't really aimed me about it but thats still money lost for me.
Second one was hashflare where I have spent money to get hashing power but in the end they claimed it wasn't profitable anymore and closed shop and I never got my money back from them neither. All of them together I have probably lost about one bitcoin in them but right now not much I can do about any of them.
yes, i ever getting scammed once. they reach me via email and telegram. i've joined an ICO, and someone sent me an email and some message on telegram chat.
the message offered me huge bonuses if we buy their token today. he sent me some message with fake Dev name. now i know what kind of message that will scam me.
the message offered me huge bonuses if we buy their token today. he sent me some message with fake Dev name. now i know what kind of message that will scam me.
as the day goes, different formats are deployed to scam people of their hard earned money and most especially the newbies and also the ignorant people happen to fall victim to all these as they often send links to emails and telegram walls for people to click and get bugged or fill a form requesting for your wallet to be signed using your private key
Very often happens on social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and telegram. They tried to send a message to me and they tried to force me to invest in a project. And after I checked, the project was inactive and unclear.
I get messages everyday in Telegram.
Most of them approached me as investors, group admins or affiliates.
One way to detect them is that they will approach us first. And they always start with 'Hey User'.
Real investors or admins dont simply approach other people until we ask for their help first.
Most of them approached me as investors, group admins or affiliates.
One way to detect them is that they will approach us first. And they always start with 'Hey User'.
Real investors or admins dont simply approach other people until we ask for their help first.
the point is never to trust people who suddenly send you a message and then they promote to take part in their investment system. Those are all lies. If you telegram, "Report & Mark as Spam" is the solution. Just leave them, you wont waste your time for nothing.
I haven't been scammed, being on the internet for so long I am suspicious of everything but I get telegram messages from fake admins, CEOs or team members of the projects. Double checking never hurts so I always double check when I see something like that. Especially on Telegram no admin, CEO or team member message you unless you ask for pm. Keep your eyes open guys. Double check the emails you get too.
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