Topic: Scam Alert (Read 152 times)

That should be the first big red flag, I think it is a rather general and common understanding that a legit and reputable service --any service-- will not try to reach their customer first. Included within, not adding people to their tg group through any means.

Probably through adding members

How do they lure their victim on the first case? They're a telegram group, so either you need to be invited by someone or you joined yourself with a link provided somewhere, correct? So how does it exactly begin?

Don't you think we can't tell if the group is running a scam p2p service just by looking at the screenshot the Op provided? When the Nigerian government banned cryptocurrency, most citizens began operating local peer-to-peer networks on WhatsApp and Telegram, and there are still hundreds of legitimate networks operating, as well as scams.

OP can you provide evidence at least to back up your claim?

I hope this scam warning can be read by many beginners, don't immediately trust the telegram group that offers various tokens, airdrops and so on for free.

I once read in one source about a fraud case with Telegram group mode, most of the victims who were deceived from Telegram were beginners who were new to crypto, they did not think long to give money in exchange for the tokens they promised in the end the tokens were not received, the money was lost.

For this reason, it requires thoroughness and understanding, especially for beginners, if you join a telegram group, never trust something that is free without having to do work.

So Nigerian princes are now providing Telegram crypto exchange and middlemen services. Awesome! What could possibly go wrong?
The whole point of using the services of an intermediary is that both people involved in a deal can trust that 3rd party. Their reputation should be publicly verifiable and they need a clean track record. What can you verify on a platform like Telegram that allows channels admins to silence, ban, and remove anyone whose feedback you don't want others to see? Absolutely nothing! Even your private chat records can be deleted by the other person.   

this reminds me of another user who posted that he was scammed by a telegram group with over 10k+ members. not sure if this is the group the user is talking about since he never mentioned the name of the group. anyway, I am sorry for your loss.

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This is not a new way to scam people. You can easily buy a Huge telegram at a cheap rate. Most of them are bots. I remember a year ago; I got scammed for about $150 from a Facebook Group admin. I was looking for a Free Fire account (Battle royale game). The group admin offered a game account with a reasonable price with another fake account. It's easy to get scammed on the internet if you don't use a trusted escrow service.

Exactly the group was filled up with members using the procedure you just stated. But as newbies looking for how to make it heavy in cryptocurrency with proper knowledge. These are parts of the scam they fall into. Even the old me was totally scammed with such. But knowledge they say is light, although I learnt it the hard way

Actually the second was the only one I was scammed. Due to being a newbie. Actually after learning lots from this Bitcointalk I can only laugh at my own stupidity now

Ok i will try to do that. This is actually my first time posting images

I want to cover this one, the number of people in a group is not an indication anymore that the group is trusted and secured it used to be that way, people used to look at the number in the telegram to trust the project, it's not anymore there are many service provider that can offer you thousands of new members in the group for a small fee.
Some of these are bots some are random, they accept membership in return for a useless token, people should take away the telegram group as one indication or criteria to trust the project.

It's still unbelievable how people get scammed with these cheap old tricks.

Why would someone leave a platform like Binance p2p which even had displayed offers to trade in a random telegram group that isn't even an official group of Binance?

The second case consists of common "investment" scam. I don't know how you fell for them, but you should know that there is nothing like "Invest this amount so that you can earn 2% daily"
It's a;ways scam.

quick question:

were you deceived in these 3 scams?

in the first case it was your friend, but what about you? weren't you deceived in the 3 cases? Anyway, it seems to me that they are Nigerians, at least in the first case, it seems to me that they are a citizen of Nigeria, if that is the case, everything is easy. you can report this case to the nigeria police that they will investigate and arrest the scammers, as for the second and third case, well you need to know how you found these scams so you can get an idea of who is behind these projects

Why does everything appear to me to be a newsletter? Everyone is aware that these are obvious scam channels, but your friend was blinded by greed and chose to go for quick cash.

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Scam Alert

There's a particular channel/group on telegram acting as a P2P Escrow for cryptocurrency trading. The group has about 10, 000+ members so it looks more like a large and secure group. Which can trigger any naive or gullible newbie to trade in.
This is how dey work;
Someone will bring out an offer to sell his/her coin at a cheaper rate and negotiate with you after the agreement as been sealed you would be ask to pay in FIAT to the admin's account plus some minimal amount as transaction fee (<$1). After the payment as been done and confirmed by the admin and you are now waiting for your coin, the coin trader will now come up with an excuse which might lead to you requesting for your money back from the admin and you will eventually be remove from the group and all your chats deleted so the next scam victim won't find out. I later found that most members of the group/channel are not real. How they add them up is what I don't know.

The two images below are how two groups look like.

The first image was the group my friend was scammed $50 and was later removed.

The second image is a new group going round





Scam 2;

I joined tron.ac since November and I invested 1000trx later increase it,  though I made substianal profit on it. Yesterday I noticed I couldn't withdraw,  I thought it was network.  This morning same thing so I decided to contact their customer support,  I was told to pay additional  30% of total of my investment.  I quickly rushed to trxblue.com to check,  I withdrew with confirmation that it was successful but I didn't see any coin in my wallet.  So I contacted Joanna one of the customer support,  she replied that i should pay 20% of my total investment to continue mining.

 
Scam 3;
 
Today I was able to uncover two scam airdrops.

1 wirtual

2: yam finance

This two are pure scam. They will mandate you to pay certain network fee for withdrawal, after you paid you need to validate your payment, when it's confirm they will block your account.

Yam is a token designed to phishing your wallet to unveil your private information.