NEW SCAM METHOD EMBRACED BY CRYPTOCURRENCY SCAMMERS - page 3.

guoyu78

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Quote from: upyem2k on March 16, 2019, 12:57:57 AM

Everyone that joins ICOs, bounties or airdrops might recently be receiving some emails purported to be from a project administrators informing you of that your earlier contact of the support has been escalated and you need to be a certain sum of bitcoin or ethereum in order to abade the problem otherwise, you lose your investment or earnings.

It is a scam. Beware!!!

LOL. I am sure I will be the list person they will scam with something like this, this scamming method is really an old fashioned one that has even existed in our traditional online banking system whereby people tell you similar story in order to get your credit cards details. Crypto scammers are really trying everything possible nowadays to get access to someone’s account and we really need to be smart too.

Just this morning, I woke up and found so many alerts on my mail from goggle informing me that my Gmail account password was to be change which required my authentication and at the same time, received email from my exchange wallet that my account password needs approval for reset I dint make.

MUG1WARA

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of course it is a scam and when you reply to that email they will surely ask you to send eth or btc, which needs to be remembered if the admin will never ask or ask for it

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Quote from: upyem2k on March 16, 2019, 12:57:57 AM

Everyone that joins ICOs, bounties or airdrops might recently be receiving some emails purported to be from a project administrators informing you of that your earlier contact of the support has been escalated and you need to be a certain sum of bitcoin or ethereum in order to abade the problem otherwise, you lose your investment or earnings.

It is a scam. Beware!!!

Only fool will fall in that kind of stupid scanning strategy,you are pointing to the investors and bounty hunters has nothing to do with that because for sure we as bounty hunters will never give even a smaller amount of ethereum or bitcoin just to get the token or coins as payment for the job when we know that most of the ICO are value less so there is no assurance of gaining

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No kidding, it's not new, scammers have been using that tactic for years now & alarm bells should be going off in your head once they ask you for money.
It's practically the same as those scams where websites promise you a free amount of BTC supposedly with 'no strings attached' and then when you want to withdraw, they charge you a small amount.

You'd have to be a real fool to fall for one of those scams...

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Quote from: upyem2k on March 16, 2019, 12:57:57 AM

Everyone that joins ICOs, bounties or airdrops might recently be receiving some emails purported to be from a project administrators informing you of that your earlier contact of the support has been escalated and you need to be a certain sum of bitcoin or ethereum in order to abade the problem otherwise, you lose your investment or earnings.

It is a scam. Beware!!!

Well I don't need anyone to tell me that it's obviously a scam and the admin of the project can never ask me for fund to solve any problem, it's very unprofessional and not done anyone, I just still wonder while people still fall for this kind of those in the space, we really need to enlighten newbies so that they don't end up losing their funds to scammers all of the time, let's make sure we try to expose all of these scammers that want to bring down our community.

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Email are just tip of the iceberg. Sensitive private data of users are being revealed and traded due to fradulent ICOs and KYC, there are thousands of passport, credit card numbers and social securities number available for trade.
Users should now be much more aware of whom they are providing their private info. Risking once privacy for a few dollars is not worth it.

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Quote from: upyem2k on March 16, 2019, 12:57:57 AM

Everyone that joins ICOs, bounties or airdrops might recently be receiving some emails purported to be from a project administrators informing you of that your earlier contact of the support has been escalated and you need to be a certain sum of bitcoin or ethereum in order to abade the problem otherwise, you lose your investment or earnings.

It is a scam. Beware!!!

One of the reasons for origination of such scam oriented spam is the bounty managers openly displaying users email address on the bounty spreadsheet. Email are a bit matter of privacy and as bounty is an important task, people tends to provide their primary email of use rather than the one used for secondary uses.

Leonardo7

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Any bounty or ICO that need your fund for deposit activation or any sort of logistic is a pure scam, I once flagged a project called Ethereum ChashPro, and this prevented an exchange from listing it,, because they would done more harm, although some greedy persons who are bent on testing new waters will never yield such an advise.

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Quote from: upyem2k on March 16, 2019, 12:57:57 AM

Everyone that joins ICOs, bounties or airdrops might recently be receiving some emails purported to be from a project administrators informing you of that your earlier contact of the support has been escalated and you need to be a certain sum of bitcoin or ethereum in order to abade the problem otherwise, you lose your investment or earnings.

It is a scam. Beware!!!

This scam method has been around for a long time and I decided to block and report all of my DMs first and say that he is the admin of some project.
Money is never easy to find and the opportunity does not come to us easily. Be careful and wise, don't be greedy.

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Quote from: upyem2k on March 16, 2019, 12:57:57 AM

Everyone that joins ICOs, bounties or airdrops might recently be receiving some emails purported to be from a project administrators informing you of that your earlier contact of the support has been escalated and you need to be a certain sum of bitcoin or ethereum in order to abade the problem otherwise, you lose your investment or earnings.

It is a scam. Beware!!!

That's why in the bounty spreadsheet, bounty manager need to hide the email column so our email won't be leaked.
Email is one of the most used method for phishing activities by scammers and hackers.
If you have to pay some ETH or BTC to get your reward, then it is clearly scam.

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Yes this are scams and i got this kind of emails, mostly last year, but i never open that links and i delete the emails, but scammers are bad for crypto and they will try all to scam.

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those emails are totally scam.. you would have call yourself st*** if you fall from it.. scammers are smart now, they will use everything they just to scam people

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Quote from: upyem2k on March 16, 2019, 12:57:57 AM

Everyone that joins ICOs, bounties or airdrops might recently be receiving some emails purported to be from a project administrators informing you of that your earlier contact of the support has been escalated and you need to be a certain sum of bitcoin or ethereum in order to abade the problem otherwise, you lose your investment or earnings.

It is a scam. Beware!!!

Every ICO has their own telegram channel, before doing anything, you must first confirm it in their telegram channel, if you are an investor you must be educated to know what is right and wrong and your communication should always open to the developer of the coin you are following.

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everytime I receive an email from some project I always ask directly to telegram group if email si real or fake, this is a good method to eliminate scams.

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I can not believe that you first encountered a similar method of scam. I would call it classic. Keep in mind that any person who comes to contact you by offering incredible investment services is most likely a scammer.

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Quote from: upyem2k on March 16, 2019, 12:57:57 AM

Everyone that joins ICOs, bounties or airdrops might recently be receiving some emails purported to be from a project administrators informing you of that your earlier contact of the support has been escalated and you need to be a certain sum of bitcoin or ethereum in order to abade the problem otherwise, you lose your investment or earnings.

It is a scam. Beware!!!

I think most are aware here regarding this modus.

TIPS: Dont ever click anything on your email specially those who saying that you have been rewarded of coins or tokens and just verified the link to claim the prize. Those are petty scam that if you click say goodbye to your tokens on your wallet cause it is 100% phishing site.

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Thank you for the experience you shared, of course this will be very useful for all of us in this forum. In order not to experience fraud in a new way. I have also experienced almost the same thing, namely getting emails and private messages on the telegram. This is very troubling, and cases that need to be taken seriously. For that we must be more careful at all times, and always actively communicate or discuss. Once again I say thank you very much..

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Quote from: upyem2k on March 16, 2019, 12:57:57 AM

Everyone that joins ICOs, bounties or airdrops might recently be receiving some emails purported to be from a project administrators informing you of that your earlier contact of the support has been escalated and you need to be a certain sum of bitcoin or ethereum in order to abade the problem otherwise, you lose your investment or earnings.

It is a scam. Beware!!!

First advice I give to my friends joining cryptocurrency is don't click on any link contained in a mail asking you to verify one thing or the other it's all phishers trying to have access to your mobile devices.

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Quote from: abstractednerve on March 16, 2019, 04:46:18 AM

Anyone can understand they are a scam. Everyone should block them in email and report them as spam! Every bitcointalk bounty and signature users receive such email almost every week. Because some lazy Bounty manager don't hide email and eth address from the spreadsheet and then scammer got people's email and they start to scam or spam with shitty airdrop and bounty email!

Hiding the ETH-Address shouldn't really be neccessary but not hiding the E-Mail-Address in the spreadsheet is kind of irresponsible - that's why I'd recommend using a second E-Mail-Address/alias for participating in bounties/airdrops/etc. so at least your main-inbox won't get spammed by "crypto-scammers".

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It is a scam that you have to see it easily. I believe if you really understand the scam situation when you got one. The scammers (i am calling them labour thiefs) will always be in this cryptocurrency market and they would try to steal from someone every day again and again. Specially the newbies getting scam from them but as far as i can see that there are many people could get scam more than ones. So newbies should make researches and study about it and they should avoid scam at least after the first time.

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