Topic: Methods that fraudsters use to scam people - page 2. (Read 942 times)

This is a problem faced by everyone who has previously engaged in bounties and airdrops. As part of these programs, we were forced to leave our email address. Now fraudsters have created huge databases of such addresses for sending spam messages and various types of fraudulent links.

If somebody will actually take their phones.
Where's the actual owner? is she/he isn't on the phone while charging? if I'm doing that, I wouldn't allow someone even just to touch it.

There are various methods used by scamers, including filling out forms to claim high prizes,bot telegram and many more methods used by fraudsters to deceive their victims. and it's important for everyone to think intelligently that there is no fast way to get rich overnight. in any industry requires a process, including this cryptoqurrency industry.

Ya, it would make more sense if someone wireless hacked your phone while it was charging or by physical method when you are not around. But doing it just by the charging plug seems impossible, especially when you are caring your own charger.

He is definitely referring to people in countries where they have a shortage of electricity supply. Most times, people just go out in the public to get their sets charged. If you do not stay with your set, a scammer might take your phone and export some important information that will make him gain access to your fund, most especially your crypto fund in this case.
Since not so many people do this, I think, we might not see lots of cases on that. However, it should not be overlooked.
Another major means could be through mishandling or being careless with important documents.
there are some people that store or write important info in their dairy, in case their set gets lost. Such a diary should be well kept.

Scammers or hackers do that.
There are youtube videos that shows how they can easily do this using public spots or connections like WiFi.

Scammers use public charging spots for scamming? That's certainly a new one. I guess soon we'll be no where safe. Aerial malware attacks, even when offline will be the new trend!!

Scammers are really smart, if you have ever invested in an ico and you revealed your email it is not rare for the developers of a bad coin to sell their email list to however has the money to pay for it, scammers buy those email lists knowing the people behind those emails had some money to invest, then the only thing they need to do is to scheme a way to deceive some of those people and get their coins, and unfortunately with the thousands of people that can sometimes invest in a project even if their success rate is 10% this means they could get a lot of money out of those people.

for email in my opinion is not something new because I have heard this for a long time, what I think is new and have never heard of it is post number 3

Be careful and be mindful on cases like this because once you have provided a KYC (Know Your Customer) process into unknown or scammer individual, you are taking your identity into risk since on that process, you are in need to take a photo of your identification card or other valid documents to provide or state your real identity and that can be mishandled once you have provided it into a wrong person which can lead to identity theft. So before doing such, contact your bank or anything that was asking you to do such before proceeding into doing the process.


This one was already very common way of doing scam schemes nowadays. It is just easy to resolve this. Contact the unknown number or the included company or group to see if the SMS is legit or just a fake one trying to scam you. Never ever share any private informations through SMS because if that was important, then the bank will call you to get into the office to talk about it. Not through SMS.


This was just new for me and I have not heard of any cases like this that it can be possible to get an intruder do have access on your information stored in phone by just charging at public charging ports. Well, if that's the case better do have your own power bank or just make sure you do charge your phone or any gadgets at full battery to avoid charging on public ports.

People really have to be careful and mind the way they give out information, so that they won’t fall for all these things.

This is the same thing that made delete an email I was formerly using for work; I used the email on a fake site, won’t blame myself , because I was still new to all these online things, and after I used my email there, the site gave out my email to other Fake sites that are owned by scammers and even gave out some of my information and I had to delete the email and stop making use of it. They will keep sending you some dumb messages and keeping waiting for you to click their links.

Methods used by the fraudsters keep goes on without any end so its not possible to compile them in a single thread, for more methods you can visit scam accusation and beginners section where we can find more threads and guides hoe scammers target their victims.

Fraudsters are becoming more sophisticated every day.In any case, you need to be careful.There are actually even more methods than You showed in the example.This conclusion can be made from news reports.Of course, you need to be more attentive to your documents.After sending them to scammers, You can suffer greatly.This is a fact.

The most common method which is so stupid yet so many people Fall for this is that where the fraudsters would create accounts on Facebook and Twitter with similar handles to the projects and lure people into sending some money saying they will return it back to them multiple times.

It's just scary that some people are willing to give their real information in crypto or to any platform that they think they can make money on it.
Without proper investigation of the site you submit your information, you will be put at risk as they can use that for illegal activities, and it's know to us that crypto is very risky as there's a very high rate of scams happening here.

maybe if it's a reputable platform and we are aware that its registered to the authorities then maybe we can trust them.

Yes, such fraud is often not immediately identified as such. But I often meet such ICO, in which their creators try not to invest any real money at all. In such cases, they use someone else's whitepaper and fake team. Therefore, you need to check both the team and the whitepaper to better understand where you are going to invest your money.

This are very easy way to catch their pray, now that most project requires kyc to be done for proper verification, it is now a common tool for scammers to use lure innocent people into falling victim of their scams, the use of sms is another way, they will send random SMS out about dufferent products from different company's and waiting for anyone will click of the link provided in the sms, then they will strike, people should be more vigilant.

Fake SMS has always have their method and sadly that is still been used today. And the not well informed are falling for this old fraudulent trick. In some nations any customized SMS not directly from the bank are quickly identified and blocked as such they use a regular phone number or other name to send this SMS, so customers can always be aware.

Fraudsters use various methods to deceive people, and the main problem is that still many people believe in easy money and unfortunately very few scammers can be found and punished for it, fraudsters constantly find new loopholes to deceive people, so you need to always be everywhere very careful.

especially in part number 1, like participants who do KYC to claim project tokens or register on their platforms. I am always careful with KYC systems like this, my advice is do your research in detail and not enter your data in the shady project platform. if not mistaken like bithumb or systemkoin they reported also indicate fraud, this is my mistake, that I have put my personal data on their platform.