Topic: Recent Corona Virus Scams - page 4. (Read 1193 times)

It's not annoying, it's a smart move from them for choosing an untraceable means of payment. Using fiat as ransom money will just get then in danger and they don't want that thing to happen at any less of the situation so they are with bitcoin. What bothers me is that these people are trying to scam even they know how the life for a normal people in this kind of situation with pandemic and market collapse, It's very cruel on their part, they can't excuse that they are also needy this time. I'm with bitcoin no matter what happens, but if bitcoin will be widely use for this kind of doing over the world then I'm out.

The most annoying thing about this news is that they are requesting for Bitcoin as payment, it’s very annoying, why don’t they request for payment in fiat and stop ruining Bitcoin for those of us that loves it? . This is really annoying to be sincere, now when they keep doing this it might cause the government and the world to see the cryptocurrency community as a bad one and try to stop it.

These foolish hackers and scammers are really bringing us a bad name, I wish there was a way track down these people and capture them so that they will pay severely for the crimes they have committed.

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Thanks for the fair warning, specially that we are under a crisis, even those scammers will not rest and have taken advantage of the covid-19 and created a lot of fake websites trying to lure a lot of people. So all of us need to be very vigilant as there are reports of people losing their money on such scam like this one.

PLEASE BEWARE - 14,000 XRP stolen from Ledger. So we really need to educate ourselves and people around us that they need to be very careful and cautious.

In my country,the scammers are calling old people on the phone and telling them that their relative has been infected with coronavirus,so they have to donate a certain amount for his/her medical treatment.This doesn't involve cryptocurrency payments,but it's a nasty scam nevertheless,because old people are naive and can get panicked very easy.
The fight with the hackers/scammers will continue despite the pandemic.

Exactly! Scams are everywhere, and most of the time-poor and illiterate people get affected by it! In developing countries, poor and middle-class people are suffering too much because of the long Quarantine time! But bad people did not stop cheating others to make more money. I read the news that government gave 500K USD for a limited area where people received only 150K USD worth goods, rest of money is vanished by ministers! Crypto Scammers are creating corona coin, scam exchange like Yobit supporting them and many scammers keep mailing people by asking donations! These people making the world toxic, I hope they will learn well when COVID-19 catch them!

I read on the cointelegraph today about how scammers are using the recent pandemic to scam people using phishing, malicious malware attack and other scam tactics to scam people. I think this is well informative and worth peoples attention. That is why I brought it here on this forum. There are major things that I read:

1. Scammers are using fake donation platforms to trick victims to pay bitcoin.
2. Use of phishing attack tricks claming to sell products for residents of specific affected areas. They claim to sell hand sanitizers and face mask and demands high price but will not deliver the items.
3. Using phishing attack to steal private data or to install malware or ransomware into crypto wallet devices.
4. Also, hospitals are not left out, victims of cyberattack in hospital are willing to pay to regain access to hospital compromised equipments by cyber attackers.
5. A new ransomeware called CoronaVirus was discovered on malicious websites. A given amount of bitcoin will be demanded by the scammers in order to unlock back their devices.
6. Lastly, the use of corona virus map that infect users with malware and also using it to get access to passwords and other sensitive information stored on the website browsers.

This is the link to the news on cointelegraph is very helpful and I will like you to read the news in full details.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/beware-scammers-are-out-for-crypto-amid-the-coronavirus-pandemic

Let us all inform our people of this cyber attacks from the scammers, do not think only wallet owners can be affected,  some cyberattacks can also steal our banking or other sensitive information if you read the number 7above.  We should be safe and also handle our wallets and cryptocurrencies  as if scammers are always at work.

I have written some articles here on this forum about how to protect ourselves from scammers and about how to secure our crypto wallets. The two articles are well informative. Only the donation scamer tactic was not included as all these scam tactics above are what we wallet owners know about and avoiding daily. You will see the two articles helping using this link:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.54021683

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.54107672

And lastly, let us tell our family, friends about this scams because not we only wallet owners can be affected. Stay safe.

I do not know who to blame anymore. Govs thieving medical equipments from each other, sellers and even big companies rising the price of many goods in addition to hiding some of the basic ones to sell it x2-4 its price, regular thieves profiting from quarantine to stole things without much stress, people calling for fake donations... Piracy, scams everywhere!

how come that you will be easily fool with that scheme even they say it to you , you still need verified this situation you will contact them directly in thier number and social media accout and if that was true.

You will never send any money to people even they said that its part of your family without verifyng it.

To older people you need to always watch thier move every time and also remind them about this scheme so if ever this things happen they know how to react to that matter.