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Topic: HOW TO protect yourself from Scammers - page 15. (Read 3984 times)

legendary
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฿ear ride on the rainbow slide
June 05, 2018, 02:07:22 AM
Type 1. ICO as a SCAM

Check out the team - find out whether they are using their real names or just "stolen" pictures from social media sites.



Like with this FAKE ICO https://www.uatchain.com/
The photos on that ICO are so fake that they used the same photo for two of their team members.
"James" and Tony" must be identical twins.

Google image search is handy for that.

Find out what other projects they have been involved with before.

If in doubt don't invest.

Type 2. Scammers who sell FAKE COINS (name / coin code is same but coin generating contract is different)
How to protect yourself: Check the contract address of these coins, if it came from the same contract address

Ethereum tokens are notorious for this. - But other token platforms will be targeted too as they become more popular.

Also be aware of non scams that can fool you. Different exchanges use the same ticker for different coins. BTG could be BitGem or BitcoinGold

Waves platform - ensure you buy VERIFIED bitcoin, waves and Ethereum. (Indicated by a green tick)

Every verified asset has a green tick.







Type 7: Phishing website attempts
How to avoid getting your exchange account HaCkEd or pHiShEd

ADDITIONAL:
Bitcoin Gold wallet scam
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/2017-11-24-bitcoin-gold-wallet-scam-nets-3-million-in-illicit-earnings-2452110
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/scam-aware-stolen-btc-fake-bitcoin-gold-claim-2336309

I am starting to think that this might be a convoluted scam by the bona fide members of the bitcoin gold development team themselves.

In any case, can someone post a guide on how we get our share of BTG, and is this site safe to use?

https://btgwallet.online/



In an interview, victims blamed the association of the website with the official bitcoin gold project as a source of the effectiveness of the operation.

One of the victims, Mikel Martin, explained to CoinDesk:

"I reached this site by following the link at [the] bitcoingold.org official website so I trusted it. Yesterday afternoon I noticed both my BTC and BTG stored in that wallet were gone."

Before the thefts became apparent, the team behind bitcoin gold – an effort to create a new version of bitcoin that would restrict the types of hardware that can be used for mining – promoted mybtgwallet.com on their Twitter account, assuring users that it was safe to use on multiple occasions.

The person behind the service was, to an extent, ingratiated in the nascent BTG community, including its Slack channel. The website was developed by a user named John Dass, though it is unclear whether this is the developer's actual name or a pseudonym.


Read the full article https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-gold-wallet-scam-nets-3-million-illicit-earnings/


When a coin forks it requires using the private key on the new chain - this potentially provides the key to your wallet. With the Bitcoin gold scam the scammer changed the code for the conversion wallet to steal the users Bitcoin.

Self escrow scams-  where a scammer uses their other "trusted" alt to "escrow" the funds. This happens on forums where the same or symilar names can be used to that of admins or other trusted people. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/quickseller-escrowing-for-himself-1171059

Smart contract scam:
Clever honeytrap scam where users are tempted into sending ETH as "gas" to "claim" 75000 ICX tokens.
Instead the ETH is transferred by the smart contract to another wallet after one confirmation.

Dear all member .
   Current appear fraud by smart contract at the market cryptocurrency, and my is it's victim, so I want to alert to all cryptocurrency member to avoid it.
  I has already received  like bellow :
*****Hello! I will help you to get 75 000 ICX tokens
 
Look at this wallet and log in with your private key
0xA8015DF1F65E1f53D491dC1ED35013031ad25034 ETH
 
PRIVATE KEY of this wallet (ATTENTION! do not transfer your eth to this wallet, your money will be stolen, only I can help you with the withdrawal of ICX to your ETH wallet!)
668a369e87c01da5bfca9851e6ee86d760e17ee7912d77b7dffe8e0cdf63bcb5
 
Send me 5 ETH and I will unlock tokens ICX for you and help bring eth wallet to you
My ETH for payment
0x8e40cAC7F4e5FA4ac81e1127b92C3C8b43501965
 
Write on my mail ([email protected]) after sending eth using your TxHash
 
Thanks. *****

   As you can see , they also give to me PRIVATE KEY of  wallet and actually I can open this wallet , BUT THIS IS SCAM, this is a ETH wallet based on SMART CONTRACT " IF YOU SEND TO THIS WALLET ETH IT'S Automatic transfer ETH balance to other ETH wallte.
   They have scammed 391 ETH until now and you can see on the picture bellow :

 So all member  be wary of it .

Just send me a PM if you would like me to explain anything in more detail.
member
Activity: 364
Merit: 37
June 05, 2018, 01:38:37 AM
I guess the missing type from this list is

Make a coin with a fake idea, airdrop it to everyone. Pump the coin up in the decentralized exchanges and then dump everything and vanish.

The solution varies from not joining low grade airdrops to sell your coins in the early rise (Scamming the scammer.)

Hopefully this will be added to the list by OP..  Grin
newbie
Activity: 71
Merit: 0
June 05, 2018, 01:38:00 AM
Inorder to be safe from being hacked, we must to secure our private key, we must keep it within us like if you are good in memory you can memorize it,  or put it in a piece of paper and keep it to the safest place where you’re the only one who knows, or create your own wallet and store the private key -offline-.
member
Activity: 350
Merit: 10
June 05, 2018, 01:26:56 AM
Because im beginner I didn't experience scam right now, but i suggest we don't let yourself to people who you don't know, and don't invest your bitcoin just hold it in your wallet hold it for a long time until the price high and if its right time you can sell your bitcoin and be careful to the scammers.
member
Activity: 233
Merit: 10
June 05, 2018, 01:20:40 AM
in fact for new players it is definitely going to be difficult to protect yourself from scamers but for old players are very familiar with scamers, to protect yourself you better look and find information from the coin you want to buy.
member
Activity: 231
Merit: 10
June 05, 2018, 01:04:58 AM
full member
Activity: 429
Merit: 102
June 05, 2018, 12:59:30 AM
Scammers are really active now they are unstoppable. The only way to prvent those scammers are being knowledgeable enough about this forum because no one can fool anyone if you are aware and knowledgeable. And avoid joining projects that are too good to be true and lastly don't give any personal information in any sites and avoid clicking links.
Be conscious on every sites that you visit, search and get information if there is someone offers earning easy money because your investment gonna lose if not and cannot irreversible. Those knowledgeable people cannot be a victim of scam because they have techniques and do not be greed on the higher offer. Protecting your account in any scam is like protecting yourself to be down of anybody.
full member
Activity: 280
Merit: 100
June 05, 2018, 12:51:24 AM
First of all to avoid scams do not give up on this huge amount of money in exchange for your investment because of this much scam.all will do a scammer cheat and then one should not believe especially in the easy money offered us.I'm avoiding these things because i do not want to lose those things and i dont believed in the strangers.
jr. member
Activity: 83
Merit: 1
June 05, 2018, 12:36:09 AM
Scammers are always there to disturbed you, you just need to be careful in every stage.
full member
Activity: 294
Merit: 100
June 01, 2018, 08:01:32 AM
Scammers are really active now they are unstoppable. The only way to prvent those scammers are being knowledgeable enough about this forum because no one can fool anyone if you are aware and knowledgeable. And avoid joining projects that are too good to be true and lastly don't give any personal information in any sites and avoid clicking links.
jr. member
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Merit: 1
There are lots of scammers out there so one have to be extremely careful.One of the ways of being carefull is by being mindful of the site we visit
member
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full member
Activity: 420
Merit: 106
This is very helpful to us not only for the investors but also to the bounty humters who are working to promote the coins but in the end they will end up empty handed and lost thier time and effort.
full member
Activity: 323
Merit: 100
newbie
Activity: 27
Merit: 0
They prefer to use a lot of things. For example to pretend like YouTuber, admin in Telegram, write to you from fake e-mail and etc.
newbie
Activity: 14
Merit: 0
Easy as hell.
Download Metamask.
Keep your Private key and valuable informations highly-secured.
As much as possible, get a printed piece of your informations in BTC instead of storing it onto your computer.
newbie
Activity: 102
Merit: 0
thanks, it is a very helpful post for the newbies including me.
member
Activity: 574
Merit: 10
I always encounter scammer in telegram,they dm with offer,saying hey user do you invest later on i said hey scammer and then block.Also in airdrop so most of them scam,they want to get our private key,donation eth.So i know that kind of strategy is scam no legit airdrop asking for 0.5 eth donation.Ignore report and block
newbie
Activity: 196
Merit: 0
For me, we must learn to take good care of our belongings, it is just the same as that, take good care for your bitcoin accounts, use it wisely, be sensitive, research and be sure to accept the reality that you are taking a risk so bitcoin holders are risk takers.
newbie
Activity: 95
Merit: 0
Do some research first before joining in any ICO.

To protect yourself from scammers you should not trust anyone your password account. Also if you want to join any campaign you should read and do some research about that campaign. Protection starts from ourselves so we need to be careful all the time.
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