Topic: How I got Scammed. (Read 634 times)

I consider it a big mistake for you to trust p2p in a telegram that they can be Faithfull to you, Real p2p exchange that is reliable can not be in telegram. Their are p2p exchange that are known who trying their best to be like exchange like Binance but are not still trusted. Talk much of a p2p in telegram,  it can be real.

Don't know why you would have chose that telegram group instead of the P2P exchange. But you have complained against that bank account to which you transferred your 50$? So that the police could arrest him. Even scammed amount is small, but still, he deserves punishment.

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There is no fault of the platform (Telegram) in this.  If someone cheats on bitcointalk, it doesn't mean that bitcointalk is bad.

It is too unfortunate that the majority has no trust in this platform(telegram) anymore due to so many cases of scams. Though I've not become a victim of such scam issues, however, I condemn those things and never wanted to newcomers will suffer things like this.
That suggests not only for newbies but for everyone that we need to do these things...
 * Don't trust easily to strangers - know the people you have talked to or dealt with
 * telegram transactions are not safe- use escrow or an exchange if we want safe and successful transactions
 

Op it's sad you fell for the scam but, most of the people that do business on telegram fell for scam before they found the legit seller of what they need especially for digital assets like cryptocurrency. The show doesn't mean that you can't get legit sellers on telegram, since you are a first timer stay away from Telegram and do business here with legitimate and trustworthy member. Always carry out your research about any group or site before doing business online. Good luck.

This is the reason too why I don't trust any group page came from just the social media it's all just a doubt to your heads even though its already recommended by a friend but still at the end of the day it's your decision why not taking too much risk into the thing we don't know too much why not stick to the realible because sometimes the convenient too. In these groups it's not ideal to trust anyone even though it's admin too it's a crypto thing once you send the funds there's no report and back your funds. I guess this will serves a lesson to OP better make more aware next time still it's lose funds.

Trusting people online is so wrong ,anyone can pretend to be nice just to get what interest them. Scammers online are one of the nicest people. The best thing to do from being scammed is to take anyone who is into doing cryptocurrency business online as a scammer. Telegram can not be trusted because they are not reliable,  nothing to prove that they are real.

Binance is the world's leading cryptocurrency exchange so no wonder newbies fall for it even if it was used indirectly. It only proves that any exchange even if they are affiliated with those exchanges that are already established, still they cannot be trusted. I guess you have learned your lesson OP not to trust easily, and before you trust any site or any telegram group, make an in depth research first before entrusting your money to them.

Firstly , falling victim to crypto scams is caused by the victims eagerness for money at a rime, so whatever that appeals to the immediate meeds of the victim ,he accepts and secondly, most scam sites are made up of a circle of structure of scammers.. in order not to fall victim, prospective buyers of crypto must;

Avoid cheap sales or urgent give away type of sales.
Accept only a known and tested platform for buying and selling of crypto currency.

I have come across this group in my Telegram and i was even planning to transact with them, not until now i read how you are being scammed everything about the group is so real you will think they are legit and the discussions of the group members make everything look real. I guess i will go and delete the group now.

I think you have given priority to the subject of emotion here. You must understand that the number of scammers in cryptocurrency is innumerable. There is no point in relying on faith. You wouldn't be a victim of this scam if you used exchange's  P2P. So it was your fault which is always should be avoided.

Any thing telegram group, means of payment is totally scam, and it may work at initial time, but it wont last long, which i was a victim of that long term ago, therefore binance exchange has make it easy to make any transaction in difference angle as a means of buying and selling of crypto coins on escrow, and highly verify member, with a function of Knowing Your Customer (KYC). And is 100% Confidence trading on Binance Exchange base on the country listed respectively. 

You know about these things, you will always be shocked. Do these groups have a name? Then it should be made public so that no one else is stumbling in this direction. I have seen these scammers many times in many Buy Sell groups and they do a lot of damage to many. We have to be careful about this and be careful that no one is harmed by this scammer later on.

All their scam analysis or experience they share here none is real.. all the newbies make such post for people to have sympathy on them, because not many of them creating similar thread of scam can bring the backup or evidence to prove when it happens..one newbies here that created a thread of returning either $300 and so, when the time needed for it to make prove of returning such values of fund's it was fluctuating in write up..i have forgotten the thread...so newbies should create innovative thread and stop present blah blah scam.

The First rule in the crypto world especially by online is:
don't trust anyone.
Sometimes someone is likely very friendly and kind enough, but in fact, we don't exactky know him or her.
Additionally, crypto world is risky enough with scams. That is why we must be double careful because we don'ylt know exactky they are scammers or not.

And your case is actually not new. Telegram group with many members and seem to be active is not guarantee that the group is legit and trusted. Many are also scams with fake members.

Wow, almost every newbie will get scammed in this same scenario, thank God you brought this up. Never get to eager to make a lot of cash in crypto world, there are a lot of scammed group whicj look so real and we'll organized. So stay careful out there and trust no one.

That pattern is almost old fashion now. Scammers hardly get victims that way this day. The supposedly smart ones among them don't like coming with that pattern because they know there's always warning from most group bots or admins that no admin will pm anyone. It's not a nice thing to ask questions about wallet issues in a public group because that's what attracts scammers to send those pms. If anyone has an issue to resolve, it's better to look at usernames wearing an admin tag before sending them a pm. Many people get scammed because they're hasty and wouldn't take a second to research on whatever they want before parting with their cash.

5000 members on a group is not enough reason to make it legit. Using trusted exchange is the only secured way to stay out of scammers. Any p2p system involving direct interaction without any form of escrow service should look suspicious no matter how genuine the initiator tries to present it. And the funny story about scammers is that the try their best not be traced after executing their plots

How did you get to know that friend of yours that introduce you to the telegram group? Is it on telegram? Cos am very sure he or she is among them. He knows fully well how the group operate.
When it comes to investing in crypto through any social media platform don't be moved by what the mod is saying. Many project owners paid chillers to chill (promote) their project to win investors' hearts. Once they achieved their aim by scamming enough investors, they will delete the group. That's the kind of world we find ourselves in crypto

I had similar experience (I luckily escaped the scam though) and I mentioned it in this thread I created some weeks ago. Isn't it discouraging for beginners who are so enthusiastic about cryptocurrency that their first experience with it is scam. These scamming groups are many on social media, though my experience has been with telegram mostly. My advice would be that people should just avoid social media, it should not be a ground for cryptocurrency exchange in the first place because their are many exchanges now where people can securely make their transactions (especially the centralised exchanges like Binance and Kucoin). And Binance P2P shouldn't be happening on the telegram (as the name of the group implies), Binance P2P is only secure on Binance because there's an intermediary to monitor the transaction procedure, any breach in terms of the transaction could easily be savaged my the exchange administrator.

Binance created p2p platform on thier exchange not on Telegram group.
Moreover, if a friend of yours introduced anything to you via WhatsApp or any online platform, your friend's account might have been hacked by scammers.
So the best way to avoid being scam is to follow the right procedure and never get greedy of cheaper or seeing higher price to sell in any third party platform.

The problem is not only in Telegram, there are scams on Discord, Facebook groups, etc. The advice is not to deal with people you do not know, even if you find proofs of previous successful dealings they had with other members, most of these proofs are fake messages and pictures, so you should do your p2p dealings on a trusted exchange platform and choose the one who has successful dealings above 90%.

For beginner who doesn't know that he is into a lion's den wouldn't think of the group as a scam, the fake chats and transactions will be their focus and they wouldn't find any flag since it is too good to be true in their face (a pro can easily know that it's a scam group) and before you could say jack, they will fall such for such scams, before they realized, they will be removed from the group and wouldn't be able to capture the group ID. What they do sometimes is that they even go to the length of banning your accounts, when you search for the group, it wouldn't be visible.

A tip for beginners, avoid: Avoid Telegram dealings, I do that too not because I know too much about crypto, I do take caution with Telegram.

A link will be shared saying this is about football gambling and will lead you too something else, once you see such thing it's advice you leave immediately, another thing that harm's us or makes us get scammed is greed wanting too much without doing appropriate research about what you're delving into.
Thanks for sharing also as others should not Learn from success stories and also bad stories,like you said it's okay to change your circle and not Fvck with too many people, not everyone is a friend.
When it comes to social media, y'all should be very careful, currently I have observed how it's very highly at Coinbase,too many people are lossing funds and it's painful, very very painful.

Telegram scam is a an easy way to scam newbies and I was scammed too but I have learnt my lessons. My lessons is that I have to change my friends circle to people that are into crypto and so it does not give me difficulty or trust issues to trade btc or any other coins. I have also learnt how to use exchanges and I am learning how to make a completely anonymous transactions. At some stage in life you will fall for cheap scams but when you grow in knowledge you will escape some scams.

Also if a member or admin of the group drops a pm just have in mind their is an agenda the person is coming after, most telegram group are plenty of scammers, if one is so conscious knowing that telegram groups their many scammers it will be difficult to fall into their hands.
If their is no evidence for you to see how real is a telegram group is, it is better not to run any trade or investment.

You used a p2p strategy without fully understanding what P2P is all about, you can't deal with someone online without a trusted third party between the two of you, this is so wrong, binance exchange for example have warned people not to deal with anyone off the platform, when it comes to money do not trust anyone.

Its awful, i fully understand your pain bro
a year ago i was scammed for 650$
but your not so bad like me
i tried to buy working cryptocurrency exchange project, but after the programmer started to configure it in my way, we realized that just used api from third person project

If I were you I would stay away from that platform if it doesn't give you peace and besides, there are other platforms that you can use just do some research. If someone got scammed on that platform you should not follow them since there's only one way you will find yourself and it's getting scammed and kicked at the same time. It's hard to trust strangers these days and I think Binance is way better to use than other platforms only if KYC is not your problem.

I will say that person is not your friend because no friend will introduce someone she cares about to a plain scam p2p exchange. How do you know this so call friend?

All these are marketing strategies just to gain the trust of their victims.

You see something on a telegram and you believe it was real when the telegram is the major venue of crypto scammers.

This doesn't determine the scammer's destination and for the record scammer, don't always use their real location. This is online and anyone can claim to be from Nigeria while she's from some where else.

It's a pity and painful to experience a bad occurance like this, am always scared to be on cryptocurrency platform on telegram,  their might be real ones but it is very difficult to differentiate the scam ones from the real one. Sorry about your lost ,this will be an experience that you won't fall into again.

OP, to start with:

- If you get added to a telegram group without your consent, know a scam is about to go down.
- If a group tries to imitate an already established group, know a scam is about to go down. Did you observe the spelling of Binance in the picture as shared by the user above.
- If you are desperate to get into a P2P so you can do your crypto business, take time to monitor the supposed transactions of others in the group. This saved me a lot of times.

Let me briefly explain my experience, relating with the last point I put out there. I've been added on a couple of times to such supposedly P2P groups and my first reaction was to check up the transaction ID some of them put out. I discovered that all the transactions actually happened but most of them dated back as far as six months and some a few weeks in unrelated manners to the claimed transactions at hand. This is a strong point of the blockchain. Nothing is hidden. Every transaction can be viewed at any time.

Since you're a Nigerian, I would advise you to trade with well trusted Nigerian citizens @Cryptopreneurbrainbox or @Igehhh. Both of them are respected members of the forum. You gat not worry when trading with any of them.
Am sorry, you fall into the wrong hands of a fake Binance p2p group on telegram. The legit Binance group on telegram are @binancenigeria,
@binanceexchange, @binance_announcements, and @BinanceNigeria_Announcements. You can join any of them to find out the happenings on Binance

I'm saying a big heartfelt sympathy for that loss mate! You have seen and felt how bad it is too scam someone, but double up on yourself know who you trust henceforth in the social medias world.
Bunch of scamming activities in the following Apps below, you should know who you trust, if you don't know them person form time don't you give him or her your fund's.

Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, Telegram, Instagram and lastly Coin telegraph be careful of them all.
Get yourself in order and don't get distracted and disturbed by the loss, march onwards and maintain a high level of privacy.

 It is always heartbreaking to read about people being scammed, On this forum, I have noticed an increased number in stories of how people here were scammed. I took time out to use the search engine here and have read an ample number of post especially the most recent ones to familiarise myself who scammers and their new antiques. I urge everyone who have not been victims to read and try to learn from the experience of people here so you can avoid becoming a victim yourself.

Is that group this one?

Currently, they are using the username @binace9995(id: -1001751270456).
Scam tele groups usually change usernames periodically to remove traces. The thing that can be done to identify that it's the same group is to find out their group id using id finder bot.

Is your friend aware of your situation? Because I don't think that he really your friend, she/he can't be trusted anyway.

I have some contacts in the telegram group but never I've trusted them especially when it talks about money or there is someone who could offer trade and it asks you to do the payment first. Even if the offer deal is high we should have to think about the SAFE transactions, telegram isn't the right place when it talks like that. We'd rather use an exchange to make sure that we can receive what we bought.

Being a newbie is not an excuse that we really have to suffer from being scammed. That is why we should be cautious enough upon dealing with any online transactions as this P2P is quite known for its scam intention.

wonder the nature of comfortability people have with social media transaction, telegram and Facebook social media is another house of scammers that always hurt for people they will scam every day, but by now think people should have understand that any social media p2p transaction is scam, if want to do transaction take it to known exchange and perform your transaction, while some people like all this social media p2p is because they seems that their rate maybe higher than binance, so with higher the rate attraction, the higher the scam

Sorry for your loss mate and I hope you've learned from this mistake and avoid that will not happen again.

Telegram is a house of scammers, never trust if there's someone PM you asking for financial advice or any that related to a financial because they are usually scammers.  I have been there before and was a victim of this kind of bogus, unfortunately, the scammer didn't succeed in his plan because I know how to verify.

You shouldn't trust random people on the internet, especially on Telegram or any kind of social media that you don't know personally.
However, despite your losses, you admit it here and warn newbies not to do the same as you did.

Never trust telegram groups even you know the person personally introduced you to that group. That's why exchanges are existing and they're safer than those p2p transactions that are happening in telegram groups. You've got no safe guard there and if you want to do p2p deal, much better to go on platforms like localcryptos. But since it has happened and it's so nice of you that you still get to share what has happened to you. There will be other newbies that will see this and it will serve as warning for them.

Firstly, so sorry to hear that.
Secondly, this kind of scam is actually common to happen enough, many people have been scammed in this kind of very simple way.
Here, actually, I want to say something:
"rules no 1: Never trust anyone es[ecially in the online world"
This is not a kind of judgment, but we don't know about other people exactly in this forum and in this online world. We don't know them exactly.
This experience can be also taken as very worthy lesson because we can see that scammers still use these very simple ways of scamming and many people are still scammed. Additionally, never trust any telegram group especially one that leads you to buy something without escrow, transfer funds, to join a very promising investment with very big APY or profits. never trust them, because if something is too good to be true, it emans scam.

Thank you all for your concern and good advices, I appreciate.

I am wondering how your friend suggests that kind of group where he isn't sure whether that is a scam or legit. Telegram is just full of scammers, especially if you are going to deal with Nigerians then need to be extra careful. Good thing that you lost a small amount, learn a big thing. This is the lesson why should avoid dealing out of a trusted platform. To save a small amount of money you may lose a big amount. If necessary use the forum escrow service to secure your funds. Don't believe in a few random groups or users.

I bet the bots on the group are hailing the peer to peer transaction, saying all sort of good news about it, isn't it? When something is called P2P there would be someone (who doesn't take a side) right in the middle to make sure the seller gets payment and the buyer also get a successful transaction done, so tell me, how is this going to happen on telegram?.... A platform where anyone can pretend to be any body.

This is one of those instances where I emphatize with you- unfortunately, these so-called "telegram groups" should raise dozens of red flags already. Of all the scammed topics that I have read on this board, almost all of them involved people joining these "telegram groups" and they tend to fall to scams where they trusted users there.

Newbies and/or veterans, never trust these telegram groups. Though I do understand that there may be legitimate groups out there, better to avoid them as much as possible and trade only with people you really trust (e.g. sending KYC documents, etc.).

I suspect that any group with a name similar to "BINANCE" or another popular exchange is a scam. It is obvious that they are illegally using a well-known name to falsely present themselves as a legitimate group, which is a big red flag. I know it's too late for the OP, but you should avoid these type of P2P exchanges if at all possible.

I feel you, bro. Way back a few months ago when I am new in telegram and I joined a group then someone trying to catch me, he offers a lot and he said that he is one of the owners of an investment site that offers a big amount of return.  I trust him because of the testimony videos that he sent to me then I'll give him a small amount of $40 and then he said to me that he does not receive any money from me and then I'll send him a proof but he not answered me. And the lesson learn of that is we must not give our trust to someone or in a group in a small period of time we must study their movement and platform before we are going to transact with them.

How did the broker receive money? Did he give you a personal address or a Binance P2P address?
I don't know, but did you trust them because they only bear the name "Binance"? Will you believe a group in the name of Elon Musk that gives people free money or a group in the name of Apple that sends $ 100 and earns an iPhone?
If the address is on Binance platform, it is completely centralized, contact the support team and the funds may be frozen in that account.

The presence of numerous people in the group does not mean its legality. Telegram groups are bought up, the name changes, and only bots remain. I'm surprised that nowadays there are people who trust strangers and also call people from the Internet friends. Some scammers have been preparing people for months, pretending to be beautiful dash girls, future brides, or real "partners". Of course, $50 is not a big amount, but you have gained experience, which I hope will give you a good trigger in the future, so as not to be deceived again.

Very similar testimonial to that which I found on this website, whilst further looking-up the matter:

The thread has reports from further back (2020, 20201) with similar modus operandi and captured screenshots of the dialogues: https://www.nairaland.com/5895583/telegram-crypto-scam-town

Although this can obviously happen anywhere on the planet, perhaps there are places that are more prone to carrying out P2P TXs through Telegram and such, and thus, these malpractices surge with more emphasis. From my stand, I wouldn’t go near one whatever the offer.

So indeed they used Binance as affiliated name for their modus operation? I see they are doing their own version of p2p wherein using telegram and members numbers in the group to attract potential victims. Telegram is the least place you should do a teansaction. This is the site where I was scammed before and from that experience never gonna do a teansaction on telegram again. Very risky, sorry dude for what happened to you.

Hyphen, I'm very sorry because of your experience.
You have learned the hardest way that it is very hard to trust anyone on the Internet, especially to some private groups without real contact and information about what kind of people they are.
Even if someone claims to be doing business on behalf of a company, this is not a guarantee either, because nowadays it is very easy to register a legal company and hide the personal data of the owner.
Even if you continue to trade on Binance be very careful and take all possible measures to keep your transactions safe there and that no one can hack you.
If you don't need some crypto funds on a daily basis, don't keep them on online wallets but offline, I use ledger.

Oh no, man, Telegram is the last place you'd want to go to do that kind of job. Well, you definitely learned that lesson now. Also, that "friend" you mentioned, I think it's safe to say that is not your friend and you should be careful who you consider your friend on the internet. At least the lesson wasn't that expensive, other people have lost fortunes in scams.

This is a well organized scam group, the amount of members or subscribers on telegram should not be criteria for legitimacy of a platform. The members could be inactive accounts or bots.  the admin could very well be the same person posting the sales advert with a different account. Sorry you got scammed.

You’re right, no one should be trusted. I suggest from now on you trade with reputable forum members (check trust ratings and feedback). All transactions will be done here or via their telegram (make sure it’s theirs). There’s much more to bitcointalk than discussion crypto, join our local thread, some of us render p2p services CryptopreneurBrainboss for example.

@Hyphen(-), The telegram is a real paradise for scammers, especially because it is possible to erase the entire history of the conversation and the one who is the victim can not prove what happened at all. In the future, stay away from doing business with strangers through social media, no matter how legitimate the opportunity may seem at the time.

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Are you sure this is a friend? It seems to me more like an online friend looking for victims like you and then directing them into a trap.


Have you used a bank transaction or any form of payment where you can report fraud and claim a refund? If you have any evidence be sure to report that group directly through the Telegram.

On binance there are literally warnings advicing one not to carryout deals with strangers off the platform. That is how scammers get your money and there is no way to get it back or appeal.

Telegram is the last place you would think about making a deal from.

If you don't like KYC then try out exchanges like localcryptos.com, hodlhodl etc

Does the group have a name? if so, it would be best to share it here so it can be avoided in case someone stumbles upon it. as for the way they scammed, I've seen this type of scam a lot on MMORPG buy and sell groups on Facebook.

It's annoying when someone gets scammed because he or she places too much trust in someone. I was scammed in a P2P transaction this morning, not from Binance directly, but from a Telegram group. I was introduced to the Telegram group by a friend who suggested that if I am interested in purchasing cryptocurrencies through pear to pear, without involving exchanges, I join the group, which has over 5000 members, and the way the group was created, I never thought I would be scammed there, the group has Telegram bots, and more than one Admin. They've planned their guidelines, rules, and regulations.
So seeing all of this, I thought it was real. Then I saw many sells adverts by group members, and I chose the one I wanted to buy, I wanted to buy $50 worth of BTC, and the admin came and gave me instructions on how to go about the payment, the admin is the middle man, he will receive the payment first before the seller will release his coin.
We both agreed, and I paid the Admin in Fiat while waiting for my crypto; however, the seller did not send my crypto, and I was removed from the group immediately after making payment.
I share this not only to express my FEELINGS, but also to alart my fellow newbies who may fall victim to such a scam. No one should be trusted anymore.
Also more advice is needed in order to avoid being scammed again. THANKS YOU ALL.
Group Name: BINANCE NIGERIA P2P (Binance Trusted Escrow).