New Telegram Crypto Scammer Technique

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Quote from: JeromeTash on October 20, 2019, 03:17:40 PM

Looks like it's the trending trick right now. It's related to the scam technique talked about last week : New scam technique on Telegram.

People who fall for this kind of scam are usually less informed, less alert and at times very desperate to get their accounts issues solved as soon as possible

I also think that having this Telegram scam topic twice here in the beginners board shows a sign that an enormous scamming activity in telegram happening and many has been victimized. This is why beginners or the so called newbies should always consider vigilance and take advices from well experienced trader or crypto enthusiasts so they could avoid being one of the fools that are victimized. The strongest sword that everyone could use against scams and evrything is knowledge. Just be educated enough about things like this then they won't be able to do anything to you.

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Additional is always double check, it can also be checked in the telegrap chat group settings then navigate thru list of members, there you can see list of admin there especially if they are labeled as admin.
And the best also to do once you see the member/admin in the list you can click it and click message, there you can see if the one that messaging you is an impostor or fake.

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Quote from: JeromeTash on October 20, 2019, 03:17:40 PM

Looks like it's the trending trick right now. It's related to the scam technique talked about last week : New scam technique on Telegram.

People who fall for this kind of scam are usually less informed, less alert and at times very desperate to get their accounts issues solved as soon as possible

You're right and this is why this thread was created on the beginners section cause the newbie need to be inform. As you can see the wallet is receiving simultaneously transactions.

Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on October 20, 2019, 02:19:39 PM

Seriously, who is falling for scams like this?

Newbie and impatience/desperate exchange user.

Quote from: JeromeTash on October 20, 2019, 10:36:02 PM

Quote from: BitMaxz on October 20, 2019, 04:40:07 PM

This ETH address 0xC88F7666330b4b511358b7742dC2a3234710e7B1 have 850ETH and he is holding PAXOS standard with the amount of 31,341.512 PAX which is worth of 31328.88 USD

How this scammer has this big amount of token? it seems all sources are from scamming.
The ETH address is actively receiving and sending a few amounts of token and ETH daily.

I think it's an exchange wallet address. Look at the activity of the transactions in the address. No way those low life scammers can get such amounts.

It definitely not an exchange wallet. If you have the time check the received and sent transaction done by the ETH add sent to me by the scammer, you'll that they are actually belong to the same person and he used the 0xC88F7666330b4b511358b7742dC2a3234710e7B1 as him main storage.

Quote from: BitMaxz on October 21, 2019, 02:35:18 PM

Quote from: JeromeTash on October 20, 2019, 10:36:02 PM

I think it's an exchange wallet address. Look at the activity of the transactions in the address. No way those low life scammers can get such amounts.

I don't know if it's actually an exchange wallet address but I tried to search about this address here on the forum and this is what I found.

Check this post: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.52583302
It seems a gambling site which is known as BetHash who uses this address and read the whole thread as you can see Boris007 scammed by BetHash he didn't receive the BTC as Bethash promise.

The transaction activity might be from his own gambling site. So the scammer owns a gambling site that is holding a large amount of ETH and Big amount of token.

I think it's better to report this on DT members to investigate or to tag him early before someone becomes a victim again.

You're right with what you said since he scammed Boris007 there's possible chance that he might behind the scam issue posted but I'll still examine the wallet later when I have free time.

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- 000webhostapp.com as domain

- "You would have to proceed with the rectification deposit of 0.025BTC into the rectifying synced wallet address in order to complete the ongoing process on our account"

- Aggressive:

"how much was the balance on my account?
We're not to dip into your personal details user, the official BOT in charge of your account is responsible for that
Let's get this issue resolved now
We're having limited time in getting this done
Proceed with the deposit now
Are you on it now?Huh"

This kind of scheme is not new anymore. Not also related to the upcoming halving as it happened every day. Since this isn't new anymore I wonder if there's still a few who will fall on this (or did someone already fall on this?). Thanks for the heads up. You can also report that user to Telegram and they will nuke that account after checking. In fairness, Telegram now improved their approach handling on such reports compare back then. Although it will not minimize the scam activity on their platform, at least they are doing something better than nothing. Still, especially for newbies, stay vigilant.

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Quote from: JeromeTash on October 20, 2019, 10:36:02 PM

I think it's an exchange wallet address. Look at the activity of the transactions in the address. No way those low life scammers can get such amounts.

I don't know if it's actually an exchange wallet address but I tried to search about this address here on the forum and this is what I found.

Check this post: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.52583302
It seems a gambling site which is known as BetHash who uses this address and read the whole thread as you can see Boris007 scammed by BetHash he didn't receive the BTC as Bethash promise.

The transaction activity might be from his own gambling site. So the scammer owns a gambling site that is holding a large amount of ETH and Big amount of token.

I think it's better to report this on DT members to investigate or to tag him early before someone becomes a victim again.

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Quote from: Taskford on October 21, 2019, 08:15:50 AM

Lol! Encounter this also and mostly this kind of scammers are on big groups, they are just waiting for users who have an issue and they strike asking for your details or rather ask for money for solving issues and newbies should notice so that they will be aware in this schemes. If there are idiots who pm them much advisable if they will go to the legit telegram channel to verify the real admins name.

True I have co managed some bounties in the past and I have received similar complaints from the bounty hunters and group members wherein they even pretend like they are the group administration and sometimes they adopt the name of founder of the project as you can change your name numerous times in telegram without any restrictions. As you have mentioned they target vulnerable who are going through some or the other issue.

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Quote from: superving on October 21, 2019, 08:43:03 AM

Many scammers are doing that thing,but its so easy to know if the person is a fake one. Every scammers will ask for money and thats the number 1 and support will never pm you first.

Highlighted red.- This is one of the best indicators that you should keep an eye on because as said no support will ever in the world would tend to pm you first when it comes to
issues and with that alone you can already spot out the scamming attempt of those fellas out there.If they do ask out for money then thats a solid sign of a scammer.
Lots of techniques had been created to deceive out newbies and getting up their hard earned cash easily.Just be sensible and using up your common sense will be the greatest weapon against them.

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They don't hide their username they didn't create username instead they put someone's username into their bio. I think this is a duplicate thread there is already a thread about this matter. If you are interested you can read some replies there it was created just this October 11 read it here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/new-scam-technique-on-telegram-5192101

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Many scammers are doing that thing,but its so easy to know if the person is a fake one. Every scammers will ask for money and thats the number 1 and support will never pm you first.

Taskford

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Lol! Encounter this also and mostly this kind of scammers are on big groups, they are just waiting for users who have an issue and they strike asking for your details or rather ask for money for solving issues and newbies should notice so that they will be aware in this schemes. If there are idiots who pm them much advisable if they will go to the legit telegram channel to verify the real admins name.

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There are different types of scam is the telegram. Then you have to understand one thing, the random telegram message will be not giving good things for you. Then read carefully about the message. It looks like a scam, delete it.

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Quote from: Lafu on October 20, 2019, 04:55:55 PM

The same is on twitter !

Yup, I've had the same experience some months ago, I made a ticked on Yobit and since it was not answered for days I tried to wake them up in twitter. (I wanted to sell some coins available only there).
A (fake) yobit support became very active, but were asking for far too many details. I told him to just look to my ticket, but no, he wanted account details. (I cannot show now all that because I see them deleted.)

Always be super careful with the details provided and, where possible, just use support tickets and redirect the "helping hands" to use those. Only the support is qualified to see account internals and they don't need too many details either.

And btw, this is not new and it's not related to halving. Of course, the more valuable crypto becomes, the more scammers it'll attract.

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Good guide.

Just to add though, this can not only happen on telegram where this type of scam may be new, but also on a variety of platforms. For instance, on yobit, there is a ton of scammers who PM you posing as support if you complain about an issue on their chatbox.

Don't reveal any unnecessary information to an unnecessary audience when you have a ticket open. That's the general rule of thumb.

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Quote from: BitMaxz on October 20, 2019, 04:40:07 PM

This ETH address 0xC88F7666330b4b511358b7742dC2a3234710e7B1 have 850ETH and he is holding PAXOS standard with the amount of 31,341.512 PAX which is worth of 31328.88 USD

How this scammer has this big amount of token? it seems all sources are from scamming.
The ETH address is actively receiving and sending a few amounts of token and ETH daily.

I think it's an exchange wallet address. Look at the activity of the transactions in the address. No way those low life scammers can get such amounts.

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The level of scans these days is just getting high. As crypto is going wider, scams of different form are popping up every now and then. Scams on telegram from people posing as group members is one of the petty scans I have seen. If you're chatting on telegram group chats, don't respond to PMs offering one help or the other.

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The same is on twitter !
There are sometimes posts that there is an big givaway of ETH coins .
You just have to send at the address they posted min of 0.2 -0.5 ETH and you get 1 back.
And to make it realy good some fake accounts posting how great the giveaway is and all kind of shit so that you thinking about that all.

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There are many of them on the telegram they usually targeting newbies and I have the same experienced but not on telegram. They are pretending as support or one of the team and they sometimes ask for sensitive information like password, private keys, seeds, etc... If you are just a newbie you can be another victim of this scheme.

I thought that you will end up sending ETH Cheesy

This ETH address 0xC88F7666330b4b511358b7742dC2a3234710e7B1 have 850ETH and he is holding PAXOS standard with the amount of 31,341.512 PAX which is worth of 31328.88 USD

How this scammer has this big amount of token? it seems all sources are from scamming.
The ETH address is actively receiving and sending a few amounts of token and ETH daily.

Lafu

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There are the same Scammer Techniques as it is at Discord .
Specialy the lowest trying of scamming is that they write if you can help them with a problem and they get you in some kind of discuss.
After a few min of write they ask if you can send them coins and you get more back or that they dont cant send coins from an exchange and you should do it for them.
There is nothing that they dont doing for scam people or user on every platform like Telegram , Discord and and and its always the same .

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This is not new anymore, this technique was used even way back (2017) when ICO was its peak of demand. Simply, don't post/chat to the telegram group about a specific issue you're facing, just PM one of the admin/mod in that chat room about your issue.

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Quote from: posi on October 20, 2019, 02:06:45 PM

Posi After finding out that the above ETH wallet is connected to the below ETH this is what I said.
I'm not stupid buddy. I'm among the higer ranking member of a bitcoin forum and I will hunt you down
despite you holding more than enough crypto you still scam poor people online
https://ethplorer.io/address/0xc88f7666330b4b511358b7742dc2a3234710e7b1?from=search#pageSize=50
as i was speaking to you i'm also talking to the real Sash Imi
How could you be so heartless. Do you know how much the ETH in the address i posted will worth next year?

It's sad that some people could still be tricked into send BTC or ETH no matter the warnings we put across here.

BTW OP, the address the scammer gave you is most like an address to an exchange: https://ethplorer.io/address/0xc88f7666330b4b511358b7742dc2a3234710e7b1

The transactions are happening in and out very out and the address has over 307,273 transactions so far and yet it had it's first transaction on 2018-10-08(about a year ago)
No way a human can have such transactions within just one year unless its an address to a busy exchange's wallet.

The problem is that it's had to know which exchange this is. Probably the scammer owns an account in there.

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