Topic: How to protect yourself from fake giveaways. - page 4. (Read 1298 times)

Yes you are right. But many people fall into these scams. We have seen before and still see many victims of giveaway scams. The last victim, he was lost $3k by participating in a fake giveaway. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.53515867 posted by: Baofeng
So I want to warn those who are new to the crypto from such scams.

If you have to send money to get money it is not a giveaway. Crypto isn't created from thin air, except worthless tokens. If the asset that is created had any value people would be ready to pay money to own it. These airdrops and giveaways are useless.

Fake giveaway is another easy way for scammers to scam. They have trapped many innocent people with such fake giveaway. After being scammed, many say they were victims of scams and many did not say they were victims of scams. I have seen many victims of such scams lose their money. Most of the newbies here fall into such scams. Because they don't know how to verify everything.

They think, since they are offering 10x 5x profit, why not join the giveaway with my fund and raise the fund! And this thought turns into his biggest mistake. Recently fake giveaway scammers are more active, they are releasing new ideas to show themselves loyal. But scammers get caught up in the experience. Newbie has to think, how is it possible to give 10-5x profit? One thing to keep in mind, a company does not ask to send funds before giving any kind of giveaway. They make giveaway names in the name of big companies. Which makes the newbie more attractive in that giveaway. The names of the companies they use more often Binance, Coinbase, Ethereum, XRP, Tesla etc

I want to write in detail about their promotion ways. And how to keep yourself out of this promotion.

Their four main ways of promoting.

• Telegram.
  
• Twitter.
• Youtube.
• Medium.

Telegram.
The highest amount of fake giveaway groups are created on the telegram. In the name of several big companies. You will see thousands of members in their group in a very short time. Their team members give fake screenshots and say they got giveaway 5btc 10btc. All of which is to scam people by fooling them. Many newbies send funds by looking at these fake screenshots. And their journey into the crypto world ends as soon as they start.



Twitter.
On twitter, scammers post giveaway photos by creating an account in the name of the company's ceo or company name. Because such links on Twitter, Twitter is considered spam.



Youtube.
Editing ama video of ceo of different companies and uploading the name of giveaway. Recently many crypto related YouTube channels have been reported to be hacked. All these channels hack purpose, use to perform such scams.



Medium.
There is now a huge amount of fake giveaway posts available in medium. They make it seem like they are actually giving a giveaway by posting it. They design posts like the same original website. As a result, newbies become confused.

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How to protect yourself from such scams?

To keep yourself away from such scams, you must bookmark the websites which you need. Because official websites have all their social media links. If you are offered any kind of giveaway, you must check official website's social media or official announcement, for confirmation really they are offering any giveaway or not.  

You can set privacy setting so that no one can add you without your permission in any telegram group. I've got a post that will help you know how to do telegram privacy setting : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/how-to-prevent-telegram-users-from-adding-you-to-telegram-groups-5072351

Newbies please keep in mind In the real world there is nowhere such a huge amount of profit for free,100% chance of being scammed where huge profit is shown.

Feel free to share more information if you think it is important.