Topic: It's a shame people still falling for this - page 2. (Read 410 times)

That’s true. No one would guarantee profits unless you are not doing something for that. As it’s like there is no shortcut to success so you have to put a huge effort on yourself and never simply believe on the promises of strangers that they will offer you the wealth that they are experiencing right now. Always know that you reap what you sow, if you do nothing, then you have nothing to expect too. So work on it and stay away from all types of scammers.

I once had this experience some months ago, I received an SMS from an unknown number which was hidden anyway, the  informations the message carried were; password:......., Username:......., And a link I should click on and then key in the said password and username.
Like they said curiosity kills the cat. Though I was skeptical about it but I end up clicking the link ,keyed in the informations as given then an account worth some huge amount of usdt opened, (I can't really tell if it was one of those virtual accounts) , but when I scroll through the account I discovered it requires a payment password. Lol, I guess that's what the sender is in search of and I don't understand why he/she thought they could get that from me
I just had to delete the whole link cause it done on me it was a scam thing. Let's be guided about this trick.
Here's a screenshot.

Omorr... It was a hard lesson, oh my 🤣🤣. You say greed, though, for some people, but in my case it was not greed; I was new then, and I felt maybe that's just how the system works; that was just me being a real newbie, and it was painful 😖😣. But the experience taught me a hard lesson, and I also learned one thing that day: to run away from any offer that looks too good to be true, like in the OP's illustration.

These are exactly the people this scammers are targeting, they aren't targeting those that are OGs instead the newbie just coming into the space especially immediately there's a pump in the market and that's when you'll notice this kind of scam popping up. The sad story is that people will keep getting this cheaply scam because they fail to understand how things should be. You don't just go from knowing nothing about a new innovation to wanting to earn. You should first scarified sometime to learning then you gradually move up to earning.

Good thing we keep getting reminders through threads like this as this could save one or two users from getting scammed. For users not familiarized with the scams ongoing in the space, pay closed attention to the scam accusations boards as these scammers are quite innovative in the ways they try to steal your coins. Never trust any random person that contacts you online and feel free to ask questions on the forum before engaging in any proposals you receive online, be safe out there.

There are 2 kinds of people who will fall into this kind of trap. The newbie ones and the greedy ones.

Newbie is understandable because they don't know what they are doing in crypto. The problem with them though is that, most of the newbies are invest first before learning which is wrong. I included greedy ones because I guess they're the ones who will fall into this kind of trap because they think that they will get money for free and knowing that it's a huge amount, they really will fall.

Dream that becomes a reality isn't it?

In reality, there is no people or person who will just give you money for free. In this cruel world, we need to work hard in order for us to have money. We need to work smart for us to get money. No dumb people will just give money for free especially if it's a stranger. If you encounter this kind of thing, just avoid and don't let your greediness eat you.

I agree with this.

People always want something in return. It's a shame, but we can't blame them for their decisions especially those newbie ones. Like I'm always saying, the best teacher right now is experience. Let them experience it and they will realize what's right and what's wrong. What's scam and what's not. Experiencing them to fall into traps and scam will change them and their way of thinking.

Pretty much. I'd imagine that this scam isn't one of those scams where the scammer could steal hundreds of thousands to millions with a single victim, but instead it's something that has a very low reward(small deposits for fees) but far higher chances of success.

Exactly,you will only get scammed when you want to make excess money.Scammers are every where looking for people they will scam,but what will make you not to be a victim to their scam trick is when you have the ability to detect who a scam is,when you can also detect their techniques,and the skills they use.They used to say experience is the best teacher,if you have been scammed ones,I don't expect you to be scam again,except you are just too greedy,and rush after every link you see to make money.
Be watchful,scammers are everywhere.protect your coin.

Scammers always find a way to fool people no matter how smart they are, they always come up with a unique proposal where peoples fall into their trap and get scammed.
No one with millions of dollars will come to me and give them a share of that money. With that scam strategy, only people with huge greed fall for it, even a newbie won't fall for it, if he or she has common sense.

Experience crypto users don't fall for this because they know how that scams works, but newbies seeking new things and find something that can generate them money thru online sometimes they fall on this schemes and got victim by they think legitimate. They always use Trading or whatever related to crypto because this is somehow new thing on some people and always use this as trap for people who's innocent about such things.

Whew! Looks like you have been scammed multiple times, glad you learned your lesson. Finding your way as a newbie can be difficult, newbies come into this space with dreams of making six figures. This makes them easy to scam, I don’t think scammers are creative they pretty much use the same old tricks. It works on greedy people who want to make thousands of dollars with a few bucks.

Yeah, we'll still have alot of peeps falling for the same thing again and again' ...... Even as everyone has been assumed to read this overtime in here.
When I got registered, I realized so many things as the result of my taking time to study; I wasn't waiting for anyone to tell me what I was supposed to do cus I had a reason, and it motivated the potentials in me. Since I had an interest to forsee against any form of fraudulence, I got my ass stucked up in the most important discussions and I gradually got the knowledge in folds. I fear for the future: cus I realized most peeps won't learn until they get scammed already.

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

@OP, Have you been scammed before? If yes, how did it happen? You can quote me a reply if you like. 

But what you must know is that every body is not the same. While some people are so hard to crack, some people are too fragile and can easily be wined. 

There are some people who have high enthusiasm for the crypto space, but they don't have anyone to educate them on the knowledge they sick. They have read some articles and watched some videos, but all of that may not have exposed them to all the logic of scammers. But, like the popular saying goes, "experience is the best teacher."


There was some time around 2019 when my Facebook account got hacked. They successfully hacked my Facebook account after hacking my brother's first, and then the hacker sent me a message through my brother's own Facebook account. message from the hacker: "Hello, big brother, please, I mistakenly added the wrong number to my Facebook account, so I need to replace it with my number, but I am not receiving an OTP, so I decided to initiate the OTP on your number; could you please pass me the OTP?"

I was so dumped at that moment that I just felt like I was doing something for my brother.

To cut the story short, I noticed my Facebook account got logged out of my phone after sending the OTP to him, so I decided to call my brother and ask him what was going on; it was then that he told me his own account had been hacked an hour ago. 

I have also made the mistake of sending $50 Tron to an address on telegram with the promise to release $500 to me earned from airdrop.

I have sent $100 to an address on Telegram too, all in the name of investing to get 50% in 12 hours. 

So there are just lots of logics used by scammers that a newbie has not become too familiar with. 

A warning I like to give newbies is to avoid every offer that seems too good to be true.

even a novice wouldn't be too hasty to make such a mistake. even if they reveal their large enough balance to tempt you to open their account.
currently, I see quite a lot of situations like this. and I'm sure there won't be enough people who can be fooled by scammers with such a model.

just remember to ourselves to stay focused on what we have. never be too greedy to see opportunities or other people's property.

Might be a little...off-topic, but kinda reminds me of those random followers in Twitter that poses as a hot girls, but would just bait you out for a dating scam which is another typical scams out there and they're targeting 30s to older people. How the crap would someone reach to certain stranger just to trust them randomly?

If trust is even earned, what more could be said for money as well?

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I recall a lot of threads of what you mentioned. There are also those giving their PKs to you and entrusting you like "wut".

AFAIK, this is a different type of scam where anyone who imports the keys would see a balance in the wallet, but would need to make a deposit before they can send it out to cover the feea. This seems more believable as no one is directly prompting them to do anything and it looks like free money.

The scammers has already used a sort of script which sends out any asset deposited into the address, so once they make a transaction,bit is instantly sent out from the wallet.

It's not even just today — it's pretty much the same since forever when talking about the internet/web. And unfortunately, delusional people will always exist — hence such scams will always exist. All we can do is to potentially lessen the number of victims a bit.

I don't believe that it's only being greedy while being unaware of the danger. I was also almost scammed through a Discord group when I was promised a higher yield on a smart contact. It wasn't greed, but being completely unaware of the dangers and being fooled by someone posing as a group administrator. As funny as it may sound, even experienced users may fall victim under certain circumstances. But yes, for the most part, people still think there's a way to earn money quickly, but unfortunately, there's no such thing. Telegram and Discord groups are filled with these scammers.

Scammers are always come up with new ideas to scam people especially in cryptocurrency industry, I am not surprised seeing this that of strategy.but I believe many people that fall under victims scammers are those who are so agreed. I have came cross many of scammers in different social medias try to scam me with different methods but I done escape due to that I don't like doing money deal in social medias with person I don't for a long time. So everybody hav e to be very careful online especially newbies.but the best way to be avoiding this this kind of messages is for a person not to be exposing Gmail and always try to ignore any messages from strangers.

It is safer to ignore all of these strangers who send links and other things. Already we are already 2023 and these direct strategies for committing fraud are not giving up. More people are beginning to understand these online modus operations. In order to gain the trust of their intended victim, some con artists will first attempt to speak casually. However, it is also carefully observing and waiting for the right moment to strike.   

I will never respond to incoming messages like that. when an unknown person sends a message that he needs help to retrieve his assets or other things related to high money, of course it's a scammer. No need to believe in this bullshit, I also keep getting messages about all kinds of prizes up for grabs, but I don't feel like I'm taking on quizzes or contests of the sort.
Twitter, telegram which is the place for the most scammer messages. I blocked such an account from contacting me again.
Never believe in the big prize bullshit, nothing is instant and no one is going to give a lot of money to a stranger.