Have you been scammed? How did they approached you?

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Quote from: DonnieMitchel on November 26, 2018, 03:22:36 PM

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.

There a lot of unknown groups and people that will add you and pm you in telegram ang you can easily tell if he/she is a scammer because they will convince you to invest your money with them. But mostly people got scammed in bounty campaigns and ICO project, and that is one of the reason why many people started to hate ICO projects.

CoinsOrDie

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Recently I also received a lot of messages from scammers in the telegram. When I have a few questions in the telegram group, only a few seconds later, there are a lot of scammers impersonating the admin of the project pm me and want to scam me. It's annoying for them

hesham51

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Quote from: DonnieMitchel on November 26, 2018, 03:22:36 PM

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.

Yes, I have been scammed 2 months ago when someone made an interview with me to manage their help desk and solve the problems of their customers, and they asked me to download their management client, but I recognize the risk and my antivirus catch the malware.

hildacitra

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actually I cannot differentiate between it is scam project or failed project. I felt there was something strange when reading their whitepaper. it is not as like as other projects that the requirements to engage their project is bit difficult rather than that project I participated. the first I think I can participate because it is easy. but the result is nothing, I don't get anything and It was just wasting my time and my energy.

Moxivuki

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I often receive some private emails from Bitcointalk. They reminded me that I can participate in some potential ICO projects. I originally believed and participated in it, but I lost an ETH.

Svelto

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It is very common to receive such messages in telegram. Just ignore them and report spam whenever someone approaches you. It is better to be careful than being scammed. I receive tons of messages from such scammers, never once I replied them.

Kryten12

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I haven't been scammed, but that is prinicpaly because I only follow investment opportunities either myself or from a trusted colleague. PM in Telegram is a prime way for people to make contacts and also Private message I have seen on this forum as well. I simply say no to every one of these unknown opportunities as I like to make my own choices.

No One

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Thank you for your alert. There are reports that investors and bounty hunters have been scammed by new fake icos. I have been deceived as a bounty hunter many times since i was introduced to cryptocurrency some two years ago. New fake icos collect money and run away. Strict regulations should be in place.

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That's right. That’s how they turn to people in order to commit their machinations, and therefore it is important to be vigilant!

duoduoshigexiaozhu

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Being cheated is normal, but I am not deceived because of social media. I chose gambling games because of greed, so gambling games made me lose a lot of money, but failure made me reflect, I will not participate in any gambling games in the future.

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Quote from: DonnieMitchel on November 26, 2018, 03:22:36 PM

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.

Spam, now so much extra information that is useless. And people who are ready to get at least something from you more, do not pay attention to all blacklisted.

Jadesola

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I have been scammed once why trying to purchase a coin from a group,i decided to trade directly with someone,so I got scammed.We just need to be careful

nekorakoeora

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When it was learned about the scam there is necessarily an indication of being more carefully is a top priority that needs to be done. Crypto is an easy place to get a result and also place even easy to deceive people. let alone a telegram that certainly many people are required to join of course is prone.

I've been calling someone claiming to be from the telegram and informed me that she gets the prize. of course, it is already visible that this is a scam frankly.

Crypto_lion

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The levels of scams right now are so less compared to what they where when ico where at peka in 2017. Exactly during ico time people message in telegram asking you to send eth saying they have special offer

Alisha FR

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investors who already have the experience of those who will be approached by development, so there is no need to believe what they offer, first learn their track record in the project.

Abosede

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Scammers are everywhere in the crypto space,we have them in social groups like Whatsapp,telegram and the rest,they have a way of approaching to present themselves as genuine. I was actually scammed why trying to buy eth, I decided not to use escrow on that faithful day and I ended up been scammed.There are dome scammers that put themselves together as escrows, that is why we need to be careful.

libert19

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Mostly through telegrams following the ways you mentioned. Get some emails too, saying you have won $800,000 USD.

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Quote from: DonnieMitchel on November 26, 2018, 03:22:36 PM

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.

Always remember that the admins of any legitimate project will not send you PM first, there are lots of scammers on Telegram so ignore if someone PM you first about investment. Keep safe

shadowdio

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In Telegram many scammers are there, I tried to contact the admin of the exchanges in public chat because I'm having problem, but someone pm me that he is the admin and he wants to pay me to solve the issue, these scammers are trying to advantage to those who needs help. Ignore them if someone pm you they try to scam.

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Quote from: DonnieMitchel on November 26, 2018, 03:22:36 PM

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.

Yes i had ever been receiving a personal message through telegram, asking if i'm an investors, just be safe for myself, i always tried to keep my composure and stay calm to be able to be avoid being scammed by those kind of people.

labilaab

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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.

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Quote from: DonnieMitchel on November 26, 2018, 03:22:36 PM

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.

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.

karman383

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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.

vallydelly

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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

dongosquad

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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.

marcitosi

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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

vella85

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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.

GermanGiant

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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.

LukkasG

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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 Sad

Autumn.MediaGrp

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i just ignore and block them, like the admin said they dont PM first since there is no reason to

thunderbitz2717

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Quote from: IgorShumilo on November 26, 2018, 03:47:17 PM

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.

panjay

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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.

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Quote from: dewildance on December 15, 2018, 08:27:47 AM

Quote from: DonnieMitchel on November 26, 2018, 03:22:36 PM

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.

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

A must have attitude for a certain person. Anyone that approaches randomly without any expected transactions from other people then most of them 100% are scam.
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.

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Quote from: DonnieMitchel on November 26, 2018, 03:22:36 PM

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.

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

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Quote from: DonnieMitchel on November 26, 2018, 03:22:36 PM

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.

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.

tracyhayley

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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.

jerrison

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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

bignice

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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.

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Quote from: DonnieMitchel on November 26, 2018, 03:22:36 PM

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.

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.

gaslyant

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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.

jpnl0008

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this days, the community is more aware of the subtle approach by the scammers and fraudster and therefore they saw the need for innovation in their old formats and mostly targeted the ignorant and the newbies on the blockchain technology to bring about verifications that gets to prompt them inputing their wallet private key to sign and then they fall prey.

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Quote from: DonnieMitchel on November 26, 2018, 03:22:36 PM

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.

Remember. Never will project administrators write private messages to you in order to offer more favorable terms of cooperation. Throw at once a complaint to such people.

kavindra

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It is good for you if you have realized and understood to know scam. As you said that bounty manager or group admin will never approach you with such that words. They only will replay our message as long as we sent them a messages first. Therefore, we should be careful here in order to anticipate and avoid scammer that would take much advantages from the users.

oper802

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Yeah, it's good for you because you have known about the scammer's way to get you. What should you do is just being more careful in doing or giving any pieces of information to them, hopefully, we can avoid them.

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Well personally i have not been scammed yet. But friend of mine already scammed. He lost all his tokens in the wallet after he login into fraud website. The website look same as the original and after notice the domain of website is different. Its already end for my friend. We need to make sure all things that we gonna do is safe.

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Certainly. Real admins will not do to write to you asking to buy coins or something else. It is always better to be more alert and check before you answer them something.

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I didn't get scammed so far.

Because most of the scammers are obvious. And if someone on telegram sends you a private message just block him.

I could be fooled for Symmetry Fund ico, it was looking good and even posted on icodrops turned out to be a scam. But i was lucky, people find out before i can invest.

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I have never been fooled, but when seen from other people's experiences. usually they are not thorough. usually they get offers via email with a big bonus.

chipzeru

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You're right, real group admin won't approach us first. In each real ICO telegram group, there's always a warning in the pinned post about that. I also got approached by the scammers several times, pretending as an admin group offering a special deal but i didn't believe it as they have no admin tag in their post.

greg458

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Be careful of scammers !!! my friend was tricked 3 Ether from a chat on a telegram
always be alert!

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Quote from: coinbirds on November 26, 2018, 05:33:59 PM

They are approaching me in the telegram mostly under the admin name and picture.
I know that admins never PM first, so I ignore them, sometimes playing their game just to see how sophisticated they are.
For example they are following you in the telegram group and when see that you are active they pm you.
I was almost trapped by phishing sites as well.

Yes I have experienced it too, the weirdest thing is they ping in admins name and picture Grin

There people just create some shitty things and approach like a honest guys this will frustrate you more. There should be a full stop for such insane people's.

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I have never experienced fraud but if approached by fraudsters it often happens. Several times they sent my message via telegram and email. But I always ignore it, I don't believe in those who always offer me to invest. It's too risky if I respond to their message. Better to do research on the ICO project.

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Quote from: DonnieMitchel on November 26, 2018, 03:22:36 PM

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.

Like you, I also had recent experience about scam. Scammers approach my accounts using the links they sent me on my gmail account. I don't really know what those links use for and I click it , I signed in my accounts and it is the time I have been scammed. They change the password of some of my accounts. There are also times that my MEW is using by someone and he/she is requesting some transactions on it. From that day, I learned some lessons.

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I have not been scammed but I almost got scammed early this year.
I opened my mail and saw a message asking that I confirm my etheruem wallet address for onward receipt of an airdrop that I never did applied for.
The money was huge, so I clicked on the link provided, it took me to my eth wallet page ,then it dawned on me that it could be scammers.

qiwoman2

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Way too many scammers in crypto, we can't get enough of them lol. Hackers, scammers and even bounty cheaters who try to steal our work to get paid. I have seen every type of low life crawl out of the woodwork and unfortunately the greed for money has brought way too much of the scum of the earth into this niche and that's why many law-abiding regular folks won't touch this with a barge pole until there are enough regulations and safeguards in place to protect people's money. I feel sad that most of the worst in human nature has come out in crypto and I realize that we are not very civilized as a creation. Someone somewhere has tampered with our DNA and turned us into ugly little critters with no sense of morality or empathy, shame really.

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I also meet such scammers every day in a telegram. I always start joking at them and write to them- "Hello, friend. Wait a bit and I will now send you my private key from the eth wallet")

castiloros

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It could be that it is a new way for scammers to launch the action. need to be careful in the field of crypto because scammers are pretty much hanging around. the telegram became a much used way possible for scammers in action because this is certainly related to the many projects that require to join in the telegram. so it is mandatory to carefully be important.

itasannah

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These scammers can contact us through anything. I am often contacted via e-mail and telegram. They offer a very promising investment and they provide the project address. But after I examined the project, that person was not on the project team. And I think that person tried to cheat me.

bamb

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I think it is unanimously agreed that scammer approach first, another style they ue in scamming is to determine what your desire are and gauge the level of that desire in order to bait you into releasing your fund! In this case, you are the one that approach them first!

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I've never been, I'm not interested because it has happened a lot, and there are still many who are trapped, even though the group admin has often reminded "admin is not PM first", don't be too greedy because just want to get big profits to be tempted by the lure of scammers , follow the procedure that you have for investment.

KingDome

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That's mean you are on the target list, where the target list is usually spammed by rid of messages in term of scamming you. Be careful and do not send any money first.

cattano

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I had ever experienced getting scammed by a project, I think it's not they approach me, but it's rather I make the wrong mistakes when i choose a project to join into.

grifinmch

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such indications can already clearly visible. that kind of fraud should have been able to read because it showed the motion or suspicious actions. certainly, large projects do not have to do it one by one on every person there and with the way easy to know or identify that it is a scam.

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Quote from: Question123 on December 13, 2018, 07:49:57 PM

My money lost too because of the scammer when I invested to investment site. But in telegram I did not get any message to invest because I did not join to any group only needed in campaign if needed or mandatory because in reality scammer used telegram to scam people.

What type of investment you are invited to invest with?

Is this sort of HYIP that was told you to put your money and it will grow automatically?

Telegram is full of scammers nowadays tbh..

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Quote from: DonnieMitchel on November 26, 2018, 03:22:36 PM

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.

Its happen to me too. Scammer trying to approach me and want me to transfer ethereum to their wallet. I am always ignoring them and not replying their message because i know, good group admin wont give a first pm. Beside on telegram, i am always receiving suspicious link on my email and trying give me a free token and coin, better never click on that link

Question123

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My money lost too because of the scammer when I invested to investment site. But in telegram I did not get any message to invest because I did not join to any group only needed in campaign if needed or mandatory because in reality scammer used telegram to scam people.

bartusv

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Luckily I was not scammed but I was approached several times in telegram . They are following your activities and they use
the name and the picture of the admin and offering different options for buying tokens with huge sale. We always have to
check who the real admins are not to fall into their trap.

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Quote from: Enzos on December 12, 2018, 05:22:30 AM

Being cheated is normal. When you first enter the cryptocurrency market, greed will cost you a lot of money. Because investors don't understand cryptocurrencies, I learned cryptocurrency knowledge when I lost cryptocurrencies, and now I gave up ICO investment. Grin

You are right, but not the best. Although saying no ICO investment is right but you have looked at more than 30% of the ICO very well, deserve to trust us and invest. The money you spend is lost, which is also considered as money for you to gain experience later. Do it slowly and make money safely Grin

Abuchi2

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I could have been scamme on telegram a guy that claims he’s an admin and told me to invest in an ico but he send a different eth wallet of the main ICOs that’s when I no he’s a scammer.

Snake9999

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When I join the telegraph group, I often encounter such news, but my strategy is not to give them any reply, it is as simple as that!

losiva

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Yes there are a lot of scammers in telegram if you did not take care the will use fake profiles and claim the are the admin and scam you by requesting for some money.

Enzos

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Being cheated is normal. When you first enter the cryptocurrency market, greed will cost you a lot of money. Because investors don't understand cryptocurrencies, I learned cryptocurrency knowledge when I lost cryptocurrencies, and now I gave up ICO investment. Grin

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Quote from: Thefrolly on December 10, 2018, 12:07:36 PM

Mostly I have come across a lot of scammers but I have never been scammed. The one I remember most that almost got me is when I was doing this airdrop, it looked shady at first but I did not think much of it. After I was done the page redirected me to a page that looked exactly like myetherwallet to put my private key, I only escaped because I looked at the site and turns out it was a phishing site

I have been scam few times and that's all a lesson learn for me.

That helped me to avoid such scammy schemes and techniques which I also tell to others so many can avoid those scammers. Don't visit any website that you are unaware and don't ever input your private keys, they will ask for it but don't ever give it.

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Yeah it was about 9 months ago. The coin's name is Envion. I participated bounty campaign (signature campaign). I posted for more than 20 days and i would earn a lot according to the calculation said by the team. But they never delivered the tokens we deserved. F*cking scam project.

Thefrolly

sr. member

Activity: 672

Merit: 250

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Mostly I have come across a lot of scammers but I have never been scammed. The one I remember most that almost got me is when I was doing this airdrop, it looked shady at first but I did not think much of it. After I was done the page redirected me to a page that looked exactly like myetherwallet to put my private key, I only escaped because I looked at the site and turns out it was a phishing site

patz22

full member

Activity: 1176

Merit: 104

Impersonating an admin whenever you ask something on any group - ico. Yes it is very obvious wherein they will give you higher bonus than the current one. Actually, me and my friends were victim of a scam ICO(hashcard), they had a good project wherein we invested immediately without knowing that there was a scam accusations already on scam board with strong evidence.

kier010

full member

Activity: 532

Merit: 100

i have experienced being approach by someone but i don't respond to them. better block them because they won't do any good. why trust the stranger with your money? but there are still some that get fooled by this.

oioioi

jr. member

Activity: 294

Merit: 1

I would believe more if they were all scams, who approached us first, even if they approached a new member, so it was enough to ignore anything they said to the message, especially with the promise of a large investment

kerzhake

jr. member

Activity: 182

Merit: 1

I have never received such messages and honestly do not really understand what is at stake

makadaka

jr. member

Activity: 154

Merit: 1

I do not respond to such messages at all because I think that it is unnecessary to do this as we can be deceived

coinbirds

full member

Activity: 588

Merit: 104

They are approaching me in the telegram mostly under the admin name and picture.
I know that admins never PM first, so I ignore them, sometimes playing their game just to see how sophisticated they are.
For example they are following you in the telegram group and when see that you are active they pm you.
I was almost trapped by phishing sites as well.

MCJamison1987

newbie

Activity: 185

Merit: 0

Very few Telegram groups warn their members and give the list of admins.
If there's any new comers or basic questions, these people become the victims.
We should take note of the pinned note as well

bartolo

hero member

Activity: 1176

Merit: 501

Quote from: IgorShumilo on November 26, 2018, 03:47:17 PM

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.

I guess most of their victims are people who are not familiar with telegram or even with ICOs. Maybe they don't even know what a pinned message is. In addition, it seems clear that they are a little naive as well.

IgorShumilo

full member

Activity: 518

Merit: 105

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.

Yaddady

jr. member

Activity: 112

Merit: 1

Never been scammed before and because I know their modus operandi, especially on ICO telegrams, they slip into your private messages in the guise of admins seeking to trying to help, it's very easy the detect the crooks

eagleman

hero member

Activity: 1190

Merit: 504

Their strategy is very obvious so if you think that they will offer you the way they are doing, just ignore them.

It's funny to see on how they are approaching "new members". That's fishy as if they are really approaching one by one, that's just their strategy on how they can fool new members as if these people don't know that they are scam.

DonnieMitchel

jr. member

Activity: 194

Merit: 2

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.

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