Topic: How to protect yourself from fake giveaways. (Read 1298 times)

Most legit advise. Since my starting in crypto, I have joined countless giveaways, they have only given me $2-$5 here and there. Even legit giveaways require several tasks to be completed just to be eligible and you earn pennies.

I have checked the website:https://bit555.io/
and that is a perfect clone, i would say it's guarantee 100% the owner of bc.game the one who create the clone.

If you try to play live casino and using their free game coin, the error still say: "website do not support JB" ... while their ingame coin is "GC"

Unless bc.game whitelabeling their casino? for 100% the same owner

There is no shame in making mistakes and everyone makes them. But every mistake should teach you something and make you smarter, more cautious, and more knowledgeable The days of good airdrops are gone. Even if you receive some tokens that will eventually be listed on an exchange, the airdropped amount will be insignificant and you won't be able to sell them. $1 or $2 of some token will cost you more in transaction fees to move them to an exchange the way the Ethereum network has been running the last couple of years. Not to mention trading fees, minimum trading amounts, and withdrawal fees later on. 

Thanks bro for all things you said, because I am a victim of all. The amount of money I normally see seduce me to engage myself. Upon the loss of money, I keep saying that one day I will cash out, not knowing that they are scammers I have lost a lot in the hands of scammer. Thanks this will be the bus stop.

Locking to many phone, making people to no the password  you use to locking, that may cause to scam.

IMHO, the best way is to not sign up for these in the first place.  Problem is people want free stuff and the scammers know this and prey upon it, leading to successful exploits.  Remember, everything comes with a cost.

Most fraudulent airdrops have the goal of forcing you to join your wallet to their site after you are unable to sell the scam coin on DEX. Thus, you simply sign a permission to debit all your coins from your wallet. Therefore, do not forget about the rule, do not connect your wallet to unknown sites.

For me, the simplest way to protect yourself on any giveaway is to avoid joining on any of it. I lost already my interest on joining with this kind of marketing scheme due to the risk of joining fake giveaway and also the chance of winning on this contest is very slim due to the fact that many user are joining and using bots to cheat the result. It’s not worthy the risk for a slim chance of winning. For now I’m only joining on exchange giveaways which only requires a certain trading volume to qualified in the contest unlike giveaways on social media that requires to fill up form and do task just to get an entry.

Some people still fall with this kind of fake giveaway most of the time I see a giveaway and make them follow to Twitter and say that they are giving away a large amount of tokens and there's an instruction to follow them and once they get a lot of followers they make a post that you won in their giveaway and by that there's a link you need to visit if you make a proceed with this it causes to lose your wallet and all of the assets included. It is already 2022 and technology and the internet is one of the known things so being literate with this is a good thing upon learning crypto to prevent getting in with those scams.

The safest way to not fall victim of these scams in the name of giveaways is to totally avoid it completely. Majority of these giveaways will end up scamming you if you are not careful.
Some may even request that you send them token so they can send your rewards, while others will request for your seed phrase.

Like what @Smartvirus mentioned, you have to remain vigilant and responsible every single time.

Remember that there are no free things in this world- everything has a price. If something is given free, expect that it has something to be returned as well. Given the fact that there are lots of fake giveaways circulating around various social media platforms, those type of notices should spark a red flag against them. Never believe giveaways unless you can accurately tell (by doing research, etc.) that what they do is genuine.

Lol, all these giveaways makes make smile when I come across then mostly on Twitter, and it's shocking that people still fall for such scams, this isn't one of the way I've lose money in crypto space and it's never going to be because I don't believe in free things.

Control your mindset, nothing is free, if you can have this in your mind you won't even hunt for free giveaways in the first place, when you come across them you will ignore them with no issue, instead I recommend hunting for airdrops since they requires your social media accounts to spread awareness for their projects, that's still something

Throughout 2020 until now, I can ensure that I am never again involved in various giveaways program on telegram, twitter, facebook and others. I feel like telegram has been a scammers paradise for a long time and I think people already know a lot about it. Ignoring everything about the giveaway is the best way to avoid scams on my part. I wouldn't bother testing too far each time a giveaway exists although some of them can be verified as legitimate. Several times I was put in a telegram group that I didn't want, usually I would report the group if there were a lot of suspicious link there.

The best way to avoid fake giveaways maybe just does not join giveaways at all. Joining a giveaway at this time doesn't really give you a high profit most of the time. But we could notice a lot of legit giveaways like for example from Binance that actually do big giveaways. Anybody could just do a giveaway at any social media platform so when it doesn't come from the legitimate website or pages do not trust it at all. I mean on twitter we could identity legit accounts. One more thing is giveaways do not require any amount at all so when someone is asking for funds or money just don't fall in it because it is obviously a scam.

Indeed. Never let your greediness in earning free money fool you because the best way to protect yourself from fake giveaways is only by staying away from them. It is really not that hard to ignore them, even you used social media platforms like Twitter and Telegram and you see these kind fake giveaways or fake schemes.

People are easily be lured by free money schemes, they think that those are legit and people are willing to send free money.

They should understand that there's no easy money in this world and you need to work and take actions in order for you to help yourself grow and survive.

Work hard and do an effort because money will not instantly or automatically will go to you. Patience and hardwork pays off in this life full of struggles and opportunities. Don't wait for a fake giveaways, fake schemes, and etc. If you have more questions regarding this just visit more topics related to scams.

Informative readings are always welcome!
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We must start to stop wanting to take users "like kindergarten children", how many warnings of this type exist in the forum and on the Internet (!?)


So, there are examples of traps, that if you fall there, you need to go to a psychologist, because you have common sense problems.

I have just seen this thread:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/actual-blockchain-games-5224817

I think it must be the approach, the new approach; that if it is necessary to point out and say with first and last names which projects are scams, but when this exists, we cannot continue to be general with these social platforms, because there are many people doing it well and giving opportunities.
You and I understand it, but someone who is newcomer, you can understand that there is nothing good to look for.


Epitome:
- without a doubt there are people in those niches creating healthy and valid opportunities, I guarantee you they are more, than these stupid fool-hunting projects.

- We must have to look for good projects and also give them cavity in the positive part. Search for users, websites that are oriented in the review of projects related to the cryptographic world that make reviews and become reliable sources of consultation.

- No more propaganda for the "popular" Exchange and until when "Eloson Mocho*," etc.
Speak badly of the adversary, is ads for free!

- Let's look for the glow in the dark of these social networks, which are formats used to promote, but also to generate a profit in both parts.


In conclusion, let's stop saying that Telegram, Twitter and any social network is a farm of traps, that is easy, rescue the "good" that is there, is a new better guide, for any newbie, because the villain exist in so many places that only an real fool ignores so many signals.

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Important:
Everyone without exception, even the most expert can sometimes ignore the signal, so in some way, we are all included.
This theme of cheating is so important that experience is what matters the least, scams are made for all types of users.
* It is not an error it is intentional, everyone knows what the real name is.
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Absence is always the best way to stay away or avoid a thing but then, absence requires you to be knowledgeable about that thing that requires you avoiding them else, how then can you tell what to avoid if it happens that your ignorant of it and the dangers that follows it...?
It's quite an elaborate post and I enjoy the fact that, it points out direct individual steps you can take to protect yourself against these scam schemes. I'm sure to try that out anyway but then, why the heck should we even cultivate the ideas of giveaways. Besides, nothing really comes free if you look at it objectively. Before you know it, your being asked to complete a task and if we know giveaways always comes with some level of discomfort, it's best we just avoid them.

Not entering giveaways is the method I typically prefer. Although if you trust the entity running the giveaway it shouldn’t be much of an issue.