Topic: Scammers are getting innovative. (Read 689 times)

I wanted to make a topic on innovative scams but since there's already a topic let me just say it here.

There's a very old trick that scammers use to scam people on social media, Twitter especially. What they do is, when someone makes a complaint to a company about a failed transaction they go under the tweet and reply as the company and drop a telegram or WhatsApp link that will help solve the issue.

This type of scam was obvious at the time because they were not verified accounts and their comments were automatically hidden by Twitter because the algorithm had detected them as spam accounts.

Now that Twitter verification is just a few box, any Tom, dick, and Harry can get verified and comment under your tweet like the company you're making the complaint to. They may also refer you to their DMs.

If you make a complaint about the services of a company you patronize on Twitter do try to check and verify if the people replying to you is the official company page.

If there's anything someone should put so much paramount on after owning some coins it should be security. Security is important in this space of tech and can't be overemphasized because on a daily new malware's and tricks are being invented by these scammers and dark web users to be able to gain access into people wallet either by owner's misgiving or through some sort of brute force. When we invite people to adopt bitcoin for their use we should also press emphasis as a reminder to them about the aspect of security and possible measures they case take to avoid being victimized or financially wasted.

There are newbies that got scammed or wallet hacked in their very beginning of adoption of bitcoin and the experience scared them away thinking that the might loss more money should they continue again. But when we emphasize about the security side of it to them as we do with the profit making aspect I believe it will save a lot of them from experience those losses from start to finish.

Your story proves that scammers do find different ways just to scam people either through a fake account or someone's account and more. I can only think one thing to prevent which is to be very careful on what you are going to do especially if someone send you something. Even though you have tight security there's no telling when it will get compromised that's why always keeping an eye on your security if it's still good or not or maybe needs an upgrade.

These are reason why greedy people get scammed faster. They are mostly carry away by the fake promises of the scammers. They will want to tap from the promising scam as soon as possible. This will make them not to think as usual.

You are correct, mate, despite the high risk attached, some people are just still careless about their security. There was a thread created some weeks ago where the member expressed how his assets worth about $100k were hijacked from his wallet. Although it was hard to believe, but with the transaction hash he provided, the evidence was just there. I really do feel sorry for some of these victims, who lose a great sum of money every day. Even lately, there has been some new malware that has been developed to easily track and absorb user privacy details and compromise such users security. This gives us more reason to be very careful and handle our security with paramount importance.

Things are really happening in the online space and with anyone that's not careful may end up losing both money and career to online scammers who have sworn never to rest from profiting through the energy and sweat of legally working individuals and organisations.

The risk in being an online worker is so high with many unsuspecting and unlucky ones falling victim to scammers on a daily that's why strict carefulness and security in these line of work shouldn't be neglected because a slim mistake can lead to a big loss that may not only affect you in person but extend to other people linked to your business.

Sometimes I pause to question myself on how some humans find bliss in turning the life of another human somewhere into a life of misery by hijacking assets and projects that people have put in their whole life time to bring to success. It's very scary to imagine it.

They are not only greedy, but also stupid, who do not understand that money does not appear out of thin air and have no idea how the cryptocurrency market works. For this reason, they easily believe scammers who promise to increase their deposit by 100% in 24 hours.

That's right. Their fans will never win. And even if they win, they can only win a fraction compared to those influencers.

And nowadays, the way scammers work has changed a lot compared to a few years ago. They become more creative in attracting the attention of potential investors and provide the lure of big profits in a short time. The skills of the scammers have also increased following the current trend.

And only by being careful can we avoid the traps and offers they provide. Don't be easily tempted by something that looks easy to get and can pay off big quickly because it seems too good to be true.

things like that are common. especially in games, influencers can get settings from managers to get wins or continue to win big to attract more people to play on their platform.
when you want to bet your money to play. still, you have to avoid influencers. I'm not saying all of them act like that. because indeed it is part of the marketing strategy used. it would be better to avoid them.
this may apply to all apps advertised by influencers. whether it's a gambling platform or an online money lending platform. exchange platform. maybe not all bad, but just in case do some research by searching and reading a bit more.

Of course they work to take advantage of the increasingly advanced state of technology. They exploit user weaknesses in the use of technology. Because currently not many think about the vulnerabilities and gaps that exist on smartphones or applications they use. They are getting more advanced because they understand that the techniques they use may already be known by many people. So they also need to reform their ways to harm others.

Money can manipulate one's mind. Greedy people don't investigate, don't spend time searching, but instead, they directly jump into those influencers that offer them money. It is very unfortunate but it was hard to change people's mindsets nor to stop them from believing those influencers and I see how effective it was to drag people from falling into scam projects. And this is certainly going to happen to anyone if we don't change our behavior and if we don't stop thinking about instant rich/easy money.

who noticed now that they are right in our very nose, example of these people are the content creators on social medias, e.g of the most place is TIKTOK, there is this game they just introduce as of recent... to play and win the problem with most humans is they dont take correction, now this NGAWINS is just been promoted by the content creators and they are the ones turning out to always win but their FANS are not. its really getting out of hand how we choose to make our fellow humans loss to another human and the other will go home smilling while the other go home crying. not a fair WORLD...!

These scammers will never stop being innovative and creative in new ways to penetrate our minds and emotions.

I saw a post last time on Facebook where he is already an experienced airdrop hunter. Despite trying his best to avoid getting scammed, at least a scammer scored an ace on him. As a result, his computer was infected with ransomware.

Although his centralized accounts are technically safe because of 2FA and other security layers, his wallets aren’t especially the main one where he had a big balance. So all of his assets got drained and started from scratch again.

Even me a couple years ago where I did avoided to be scammed by any means necessary, but one night changed everything when a scammer scored an ace of me by penetrating my mind to “collaborate” and sign a “NDA” where it is a fake PDF that drained almost all of my assets.

Nothing to do but lesson learn and move forward. No matter how many security software and apps that are being installed, it would still be useless if we do not learn how to exercise due diligence.

You did the right thing by sharing the incident here. At least, members here are now aware of how this scam operates and will remain safe from this scam. However, this scam cannot be eliminated completely because there are still crypto users who will never come across this post.

No one will double money for free, especially if he's just a random person we meet. This will be a valuable lesson to always be reminded that, scammers will trick their victims with bonuses, give aways and some sweet promises that will give a lot of money. it's all bullshit made for gullible new users. we really have to be aware that no one is going to give a lot of money to a stranger. they are just scammers who will drain anyone's money.

Scammers are getting more innovative everyday because they understand the only way they can get people to fall into their trap is to come up with something that is so real, that people will see and believe to be through. When it comes to talking business with strangers we do not know online one needs to be very careful and not to be so fast with everything just because of money being offered.  Scammers believe coming up with the same story to people will make people know who they truly are that is why they come up with something different that is so real to believe . We just need to be extremely careful about the people we meet online, their should be that consciousness of scam when we meet strangers.

I see that they are really hard to distinguish right now and thankfully you have some technical knowledge about Javascript and you quickly know what was going on out there. That's what they are doing right now that's why most of the popular pages that I was following on social media always getting hacked by these scammers. No wonder they are using new innovative strategies as well to fool others with this kind of tactic. That would be a worse scenario when they gonna start sharing those scam investment links with your name on the front page. thankfully you were able to stop that from happening.

This is a big turnoff for me. Once I get any business proposal inbox without me being the one who initiated it, I know it's obviously a scam waiting to happen. How people fall for such cheap orchestration where they're held by the strings like puppets by people they may not even know beats me hollow.

Scammers know people easily fall for freebies and that's because greed is universal. Those who want to reap where they didn't show should've themselves to blame if they're hoodwinked. Why would anyone believe a random person would throw money at them just like that for free. There's something beneath such Greek gift and everyone who's offered one should find out what is hidden under it.

Scammers put pressure on their targets to be fast in making transactions. I experienced this by finding inboxes from strangers who told me to open the link and take my prize. Even though I didn't enter any contest at that time. scammers always promise to give me lots of profit with just a few BTC or ETH coins I can send. He kept pushing and in the end I blocked him. It would be very dangerous if it continued and would unknowingly fall into its trap. must be careful if you come across a stranger like this.

The fraudster must surpass his victim in terms of knowledge, and possibly in terms of intellectual development, otherwise he will not be able to convince his victim to voluntarily part with his money. Therefore, you should learn as much as possible about the offer before using it.

Perhaps, that was the fact that we can't deny...as the technology upgraded and so the scammers. In fact, we spread awareness to the community regarding their scam tricks but still, many people find it hard to determine if that is a scam project or not. Or, we might say that it was an indivual problem, some needs more education in order to determine scammers, or something to say that those who have too much greed will fall into that schemes.

After all, scams continues because no matter what we do, these scammers will always find way to catch newbies and greedy people.

This is a red flag. For me, once anyone is pushing me to be hasty while on a business or financial deal with them I instantly suspect a foul play. There is always something they don't want you to notice if you took your time to go through the process. So, they want to rush you through it and prevent you from seeing the trap. Don't fall for it. Take your time. Good to read you didn't. There's always something that gives away any scam plot if we scrutinized the offer without being hasty.

Talking about Discord, it has remained the hardest of all SM for me to understand. It looks disorganized and doesn't have any "accord".

You should have deleted the PM your received as soon as you read it without clicking on any links to check what it's about. That alone can be dangerous and result in downloading something to your device. People need to change their mindset where they believe someone contacted them to help them with something and make their lives better. That's not going to happen. They are looking for easy victims in one way or the other. As soon as you get a DM with an unknown person saying 'Hi', delete it.

There is no dearth of such scammers in the online world, not only on Discot but also on various popular social media including Telegram, many such scams are seen. I also saw earlier that a scammer sent me a message on Telegram asking me to create an account on a website. Then I created an account there on his request and next time he told me to deposit money there but I was not in a position to deposit at all on his words. Because I kind of suspected that maybe he was a cheater who would take money from me like this by fooling me but I didn't care about him anymore. In that case, it can be understood that as much as we are living an easy life in the present age, there is no shortage of fraudsters. So since you have been a victim of such fraudsters, you should be careful not to fall prey to such fraudsters in the future. And you have shared this story among all who read this post who are going to step on the path of new fraud, if they read about this, then maybe they will not become a victim of fraud.

This is interesting. I have been a moderator for various crypto projects on Telegram and once on Discord, but I have never experienced this kind of attack. Although my work is mostly on Telegram, the only form of attack I do have is from an already known scamming method: either they want to convince me that they have an offer for me through my DM, which I usually ignore, or any offer that requires me to trust a stranger with funds counts me out.

Another pattern of scam that I do experience as a moderator is from all these fake project promoters, who will have to share with you a link that consists of hundreds to thousands of members in different social networks, and we want the project I moderate to be shilled on to groups, but when I try asking them to show me proof of ownership in those groups, they always fail to provide a convincing action, as I always realize that those pages or groups do not belong to them.

It's very common to happen in crypto space because scammers will target you obviously when they have self-interests. I fell surprised by seeing their efforts and laugh.
Here are some of my advices to avoid these types of scam attacks:

1. Always be aware from implausible offers or a higher payment offers. Because most of the time they are the first step of a scam attack. In this situation mostly people become greedy and make wrong decisions.

2. Never trust fully someone who send you DMs or continuously do it or even force you. When you receive a DM which may be a good proposal or a bad attempt. So always verify it and deal with causion.

3. Verify proposals from outside of Freelancing marketplace. Even you may be scammed in a reputated marketplace like Fiverr or anything else. Because I saw there are also users who try to scam service sellers.

4. Keep your personal data and accounts secured and use an alternative profile to deal with these suspicious proposals. Always use another layer of Authentication for the best security of your accounts.

5. Accuse them publicly to prevent them and to make conscious among the users. It will help others to be aware from such attempts and will be able to keep them safe.

Thanks for sharing with us. Hope this one will help others to make more awareness.

Sorry to say but they clear everything when they realized that they has been exposed. I should have taken some screenshot.


I am surprised to see their dedication about their work. There is people who can value their skill and knowledge instead they choose this path. It is not easy to convince people to do something.


Before this incident i tried to figure out how so many discord server been hacked recently and phishing airdrop been shared where people lost a lot of money. Now i know how most of them been hacked. A server admin should give limited power to their moderator so that even one of them been hacked their won't be any problem.

So, they are using such kind of phishing link.
Well, actually, phishing links have been common. However, this method is really creative, scammers don't lose their heads to get their potential victims. Almost, it could be that when you actually successfully submit and do as directed, you will lose some assets in your browser or device. You're still very lucky, and I'm sure it's not pure luck, but also a bit of precision that you still have at the end.
Just imagine if it is a person who is not too careful, then he has become a victim of this phishing site.

Ohh this is very deceiving and definitely suspicious at the same time! The fact that scammers can prepare such task just to scam one person means that they are indeed very motivated to introduce more and more ways in order to gain an opportunity to get those funds.

As someone who have been scammed in the past, it is very important and essential for you to doubt everything. Anything that can be accessed in the internet is prone to scam due to its circumstances and nature- expect these scammers to introduce more ways in the future.

Remember that prevention is better than cure- it is thousands better to prevent yourself in putting in those kinds of situations. With that being said, thank you very much OP for sharing your experience as this will definitely inform everyone about this very deceiving act.

I haven't used Discord, but a similar situation happened to me on Telegram. They sent me a link to fill a form, but being cautious about scams, I didn't fall for it and blocked them directly. If they wanted to work with me, they could have simply asked questions on Telegram and made payments to start the work. It's essential for users to learn from your post, as scammers are constantly finding new ways to deceive us.

Unlike what people think, scammers are smart and it takes smartness to be able to rip another person. For you to be scammed, the scammer should be saying something connected in order to convince you and that takes learning and research to be able to stay afresh in the happenings in the society.
The cryptocurrency industry is relatively new and that is why newbies fell for some early scams. People are wiser and the scam dictionary is almost exhausted. This is why a scammer at this stage of the cryptocurrency growth must be more than wise and intelligent to be able to device means such as explained in OP.

I'm really happy that you shared an information like this ... Alot of peeps have been complaining about cyber theft and insecurity - TBH, there's no way I won't identify a scam by just having it insight...no way!!
Sometimes, people are so gullible that they tend to believe anything on the net; so a strange person that you ain't even known from anywhere is introducing a way to make some few bucks or maybe a means to have a share in the BTC mining pool, and you admit such an offer?? Have you ever seen anyone being begged and pampered to make money for themselves?? I mean, nobody needs to tell you to not give in for this minor scams, talk more of the major ones.
P/s:These guys have really adopted professionalism; I just wish peeps would really treat this as important - cus as long as you're not informed, you can fall for it.

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Yeah, you are right; scammers and hackers are operating almost everywhere they think they can benefit. About two years ago, my Facebook account got hacked without my notice. I woke up the next morning and realised that my account had been hacked, so I checked my email, and there was a message from Facebook telling me that my password had been changed and that if I was not the one who performed the action, I should click on block to lock the account, which I did. Later that day, I tried to regain access to my account and passed some questions from Facebook about people I knew and communicated with on my account. I answered all the questions correctly, and they asked me to wait for two days, which I did, and after that, my account was recovered. But what happened was that the hackers sent several message to some of my relatives, asking them to send money to an account number, which some people complied with. So, it's just wise for people to take their security very seriously.

Yeah it was new to me as well. But after seeing that weird form my sense told me not to submit that form. The way they took my interview was amazing. They behave like a pro and their accent was like some native english's speaker. After seeing their skill i understand it is not easy to be a scammer as well though i do not have any wish to be one of them.

That’s entirely new to me, not the attempt but the technique at play. Anyone with a mindset for huge pay and a fast securing of opportunity might fall for this kind of scam. They play the fast game of holding you on the phone so you don’t have the time to do any form of evaluation on them and with the fact that your been deceived to be speaking with an authority or a well positioned person, time becomes of the essence but hey,
You’re sort out for because of the values you provide and as such, you show your quality as well by going through the details and the organization giving you some time to do this doesn’t hurt.

When it’s speedy, you question the process. It might save you from any rushed attempt.
Thanks for sharing as this needed some exposure.

You can take it to the bank, it is just a sure prove that you have to look out for and get alerted when in such situation. A scammer must try to make you do whatever he is asking you to do very fast because if you take your time then you are likely to get what trick he wants to play on you and this is common with online scammers. So no matter how smart a scammer is, you are likely to distort his game when you slow him down.



That is the trick. Put pressure on the victim and make him act fast and before you know it, you are already losing out and can't retrieve the mistake made. Most times the pressure appears to you like if you don't provide information sort for, you will be losing out on the business deal. Those are just the trick, take your time because a genuine business transactions wants you to take your time, think over it and be careful not to make mistakes so that the business will go through. If they are forcing you or pressure and threat then becareful on it.

This constant rushing is quite common among scammers, which should have been a warning sign, but honestly, the nature of this particular scam isn't alarming you. Scammers are constantly flooding discord groups, posing as channel moderators or project developers. Setting up this whole story to gain access to the OP's account isn't the first thing that comes to mind. I honestly wouldn't have suspected it, and probably the majority of us here wouldn't either. I don't see a valid reason to attempt such a scam, apart from being a little more persuasive, since he'd be posing as someone who's already known in the community.

Online is a place where scammers are always trying to get scammed.  So every thing online has to be kept very secure.  Always try to be careful while dealing with strangers. Scammers are always using new ways of scamming and hacking and attracting people.  So one needs to update with latest technological knowledge to keep one's funds safe.  And to refrain from sharing your access with strangers. Anyway, you had a good forehead when you realized that people tried to hack your account into a Discord server and try to scam you by posting fake airdrop promotions.

It's not easy to be smarter than those guys. They will always perfect their scam before bringing it out to people. That is why we need to be extra careful when dealing with any online investment.

The cryptospace cyberspace is full of scammers constantly looking for targets to take advantage of, it's great to see OP survived this one, But how certain are you that this script you discovered has been cleaned out of your system?? And is a normal anti-virus scan able to detect such or perhaps an anti-virus like malwarebytes can do the cleaning??

Agreed,  I have watched several YouTube videos of guys trying to scam others ,and one thing I have noticed is that they put you under pressure so that you don't think straight and will do as told...before your senses are back the damage is done.

This is a line for all those who want to avoid being scammed should look at. A scammer will always give you something to suspect them with. They will urge you to go fast in whatever they want to play you on because they know a smart person may discover or sniff something when they go slow. So be watchful when dealing with some guy online and he is asking you to jump right in fast and start riding with them. I think they are either going away from asking for money first but to offer it and then want to work their way through getting you to it.

These people are well organized they are trained to communicate effectively they have a ready script for this, and they work as a group, our authorities have busted a lot of scammer groups they are housed in a building and they have admins on the groups and they are fully equipt and they know who to target people.

They have ads everywhere we don't know but they might infiltrate our community, but on social media especially on Telegram they are more active we have to educate ourselves on how to fully secure our environment and moderate our greed they target our emotions so if you are profit driven you are a likely target.

I never heard this kind of M.O before, this kinda scary to be honest. The scammer build a very intense situation and rush victim, and the use of javascript on browser is kinda hard to be realized if a person is in a hurry. There has been so many attempted scam to me, but most of the time it's just via chat.

And to be honest I am kinda curious about the link, if you don't mind, I hope you can share the link.

You are right. The only way to be one step ahead of the scammer is be updated about latest technical advancement of the industry. Using a offline devices can add an extra layer of protection from the scammer. Furthermore everyone should change their account password in a regular basis and always keep their 2FA on to enhance their security against any potential threats.

No matter the nature of the work security is supposed to be taken seriously, one thing have noticed with things about security is that any were there is money scams are always not far from It, and they keep creating new strategies of taking advantage of people, from your brothers experience they don only ask for money again but documents of such value, and they will try anything possible just to earn trust, scammers are taking over telegram that's how I got a message from an unknown user telling me he got a slot to win a game, did not even ask questions immediately blocked the user, we need to be careful some people are careless to even send there nude, blackmail is real we all should be careful out there so we don't become victims of scammers.

I can't think how they are going to access your discount account or your browser that easily, I mean there are some cases where they think that if you click something like a link you're automatically get hacked by the hacker and them already going to have access to your account. I don't really think it is going to be that easy to access an account or computer, for sure if that is how is easy it is probably half of the accounts are already hacked, I mean this website cost millions or billions of dollars it can't be that easy. One of the most common things that I see is they are going to be predicted to a fake website that is similar to the website you visiting then you're going to think that you are on the login page, and the moment you put your details there the hacker already has access on your account.

There's nothing we can do about this because for sure hackers and scammers are always going to make new ways how to scam people what we can do is adjust and be aware of that things and always be updated for example here in the forum we could learn a lot of how the scammers do their things.

You guys need to stay safe out there...i am hearing a lot of similar Discord hack stories like this one. One person was sent a link to join a Discord server with over 5000 plus members. After joining the server, verification was this next step and to do this they need to scan a QR code. What they didn't know was that by scanning this code, they are giving access to the hackers to their account. Which was then later used to send the same Discord server join in link to the individuals friends to further propagate the hack. Be wary of links and QR scores especially on untrusted servers and change your password the money you suspect anything do not wait for confirmation.

I also think about this multiple times before, how will you be comfortable spending the money you didn't work, how will you make people cry just because you want to make money, but scammers don't care if anybody fall, all what they are after is how they are going to make money, and their are lots of legitimate things they can do both online and offline, but they prefer scamming people.

scammers are coming up with different strategies just to scam people that's why we have to be careful, don't trust anyone you meet on the internet, even if you are about to be hired for a job or anythings, scammers are always trying to be real, so that they will get earn your trust, and they wont look suspicious, but its left for always of us to be smart, they offered the Op a juicy amount so that he wont be able to reject their offer.

If you look closely they use they same scheme where they promise a lot of profit to their victims. But they are just adopting what will be the next technology hype or famous at the moment since the money and people is there.

If many investors especially newbies will just avoid anything obvious scam they can avoid to be their victim. The problem with other is they think they can out smart the scammers but they don't know that scammers have their own ways to make people believe that they are in control but end up to be caught on scammers hand.

Scammers? Scammers will do anything to get you to fall into their trap. Thank God you recognised them as scammers right away, because if not, they would have gained access to your browser and would have been able to access everything on it. I never wanted to fall into the trap of scammers, so I never replied to their messages or even checked them. If they bothered me too much, I would also block them to prevent certain things. You can also see that, based on the way you tell your story, they also offer you money, making it impossible for you to refuse them. As a result, it will sometimes be wise to restrain our appetites and learn to be content with what we already have because greed never yields positive results in life.

Many individuals find it difficult to refuse some con artists because they will offer them sums of money they can't refuse, and some con artists use charm to subtly sway people; I hope they never succeed in doing this. My recommendation to everyone is to play smart on social media or any other site to avoid letting anyone mislead you because the majority of individuals who fall into the trap of the fraudsters are newbies and also those people who are not content with what they have.

Greed is the probably the leading factor in my opinion on why people get scammed. I had read through the OP and when I came upon the quoted sentence, I chuckled. You’re right, Scammers are getting innovative and are always cooking up new schemes to defraud people. But a common trait in these schemes, old and new alike is that the victims are lured in with the promise of huge returns and profits.
In this case, the OP was observant enough as well as a bit cautious. If all he had been doing what thinking about what he stands to gain while filling out the form, the scam would most likely have been successful.

As time changes, fraudsters are becoming more modern, fraudsters are now trying to cheat people in a modern way. Times have changed and new technology has arrived but fraudsters have not stopped cheating them. To avoid being cheated by fraudsters, we must be smarter than the fraudsters. Although fraudsters cheat on different sites, the type of fraud is almost the same.  

I have seen several people who have been cheated in mobile banking. First, the fraudsters will call the customer's number and pretend to be a mobile banking agent and then start scamming them. Those who have little idea about this matter will easily fall into the trap of fraudsters and lose all their money.

On the other hand, Crypto fraudsters will first send messages on Telegram or Discord with various tempting offers, and those who believe them without realizing it will end up being scammed, so beware of these fraudsters.

The risk of Chat GPT has made things more easier for the scammers and for us to improve our knowledge about there capability, then we need to make sure that we try and understand how they do there things. There are more scamming tricks that will be introduced as artificial intelligence get more sophisticated and that is one of the reasons why Elon Musk had been warming the government to ban artificial intelligence because of the harm it might cost in the future. AI is making work to be more easier for them and we ought to upgrade our intelligence and skills to meet up with there evil agenda.

The NFT he was trying to sell didn't had much gain or trade or anything nor it was from a popular artist/source. Just some random art NFT with a price tag. It wasn't even unique at at. There were many similar duplicate NFT listed by same person.

I also bought some NFTs and they paid off at the start. Whoever holds it too long will only make a loss and sometimes it cannot be sold. Many NFTs are well known and they do have buyers up to hundreds of thousands of dollars just for the sake of NFTs. offering NFTs at unreasonable prices and without any marketing, that's something to watch out for. Because only successful NFTs are developed by well-known artists and have good development. Do not buy NFT through scammers who only copy images.

Yup that was my first though. But the person who was willing to buy the NFT was new to this. You can say inexperienced. That's why he came to us for help. We quietly figured it out and got saved.

Scammers will always try to be creative at all time just to lure you of your hard earn money, so it's left for you to always be at alert not to fall victim to it, because what scammers does is capitalize on people's greed, which is what I noticed about this statement given above, as how will someone sell an NFT that generate $20 daily for just $300, when he/she can just keep the NFT and generate that same $300 in just 15 days and more. Which is a clear sign that when something looks too good to be true, it's a sign it's likely to be a scam.

some certain things do come my mind when i hear the word SCAM like i try to be in their shoes which seems not to fit YES. like what do they gain to see your own fellow human fall. i will keep saying it over and over what ever means you know to PROTECT your hard EARNED money GO for it and be careful at all times.

Recently I witnessed an almost got scammed. I don't know how he got connected with the scammer but the scammer was trying to sell an NFT (300$) listed on Binance. The scammer said it would generate 20$ per day or something. I heard many things but never heard a NFT can generate money. When he tried to transfer funds Binance blocked him due to some irregularity. Then we got suspicion. We checked their Twitter account (not even 10k followers), checked the NFT, it didn't have much gains or anything special. The scammer was continued to call message text like he was really impatient. Then we were confirmed it was a scam project and trying to fool us with a random NFT. Luckily in the end he didn't buy it.

Scammers are getting creative these days. They are creating new ways to scam people everyday. Wish they used their creatively in honest ways. Anyway we were caution enough. We should always research/investigate before investing our funds. So don't just buy anything anyone says.

That is why never click a random link from a stranger. You'll never know what's inside of it and you have to be always vigilant if it comes to these matters.

Whether it's work related or not, always check first what's inside on it using some feature from anti-virus and have it checked by them. Or if you've got other methods of checking it, always do.

Verify and don't be hasty if it's a link from the guy that you've just met.

Well say that there are lot of Nitro scammers there spamming the crap out of my inbox from wherever the hell of a server they came from. This is just like any other attempt to session hijack you and you should know like always to never ever click a link from any people out in the internet.

Sure there were legitimate Discord mod jobs out there but surely a "handsome amount of money" is a bit skeptical considering on the difficulty of work. I might bite if it is still a bot development work, but mod? Nah. I had freelanced in Upwork before and Discord mod payment isn't that quite high considering the scope of work.

thank goodness you weren't fooled. you are nimble enough to draw conclusions from something that isn't working as it should. maybe it will be different if the victims of the scammer's experiments are new people in this business.
you are safe from scammers because indeed you have high skills and vigilance in this field. Cases like this could happen to anyone, but let's hope it doesn't happen again.
from what you describe, the scammer is quite professional in carrying out his fraud. they are quite neat in drawing up approaches to victims. scammers nowadays don't just advertise fake sites like most of what we see. stay alert with strangers.

To steal funds from people you should have technical knowledge and find an innovative way that sounds genuine or they are not even aware about it that it's a pure scam attempt which is what they have been doing it from a long time.We come across many cases where we see new ways of scamming and hacking and they also know how to bypass the tracing like if exchanges also block their address.

So this is why it's always suggested that you also be updated with latest technical knowledge to safeguard your funds from them or even better if you store them on airrgapped devices that are not connected to internet.You can use dummy address on which you can have minimal funds you need in case of usage so if anyone gain access to it they don't steal all from you but your security depends on you as hackers are always smart to come up with better ideas.

I have deleted those spam message and even blocked those accounts. I have tightened the security after that so that other members won't fall for this type of trap as well. Still these spammer come back with more accounts to spam the server which is pretty annoying.


Usually my community members DM me sometimes if they need any help. That scammer also came for help and try to be my friends. There was no way to suspect him as a scammer.

Thank you, OP for sharing. When I was reading your thread I saw a well-planned scam setting. It was made to look like a formal employment process with little concern to suspect it was a fraud. But this experience is a lesson that everything on the internet should be treated with suspicion. Every offer is a scam or fraudulent until it is proved otherwise. Having this mindset will help one not to reduce the security standard while using the internet. I am always careful when strangers promise to pay me high sums that is hard to refuse. When I am asked to click on a link to fill a document,  I am also alert. It is better to send the information through other safe means.

For someone to be referred to as scammer, such an individual must have veen a highly interlectual fellow which out of greed or lack of opportunities makes them to invent on scamming people who are very careless of how they handle their portfolios in cryptocurrency, i used to say this that if scammers could be so desperate to learn and know various ways they could steal our funds from us, how much more we that owns the asset not to learn how to secure them from scammers by regularly being updated and being on security alert.

Regarding a sudden post on official discord its better to confirm that on other social media or at least noted or posted on their website. Cause there were a lot of cases in the discord that they pinned post an airdrop link that is quite suspicious that when you check their other socials there is no details about it. Means posisbly it got compromise. You need to be careful and check first if the announcement made is totally from the team and not a hacker who take over the group discord.

As a head moderator of that Discord server, you should delete those spam messages and ban those members. Ignore such messages and members is not good moderation.

DM first is very early signal of potential scammers.
No project will find moderators by joining other projects' Discord servers to do head hunting.

Always be suspicious and careful with links from anyone and if it is from people who DM you first, I think if I was you, I would have one more reason to not click on the link.

[SCAM] Hiring Discord Moderator from @Saruc. One senior member was scammed and lost his Discord account.

Yes. this is a message for users and you certainly probably understand very well. The general rules that we have to remember in Discord, a moderator or admin never DM members directly and these are the most common rules, for example in the NFT world. So, how do you avoid these bandits? Turn off the "allow direct messages from server members" feature in the Discord privacy settings menu, then right-click the Discord group logo, then select Privacy Settings and turn off the DM feature. If this feature is turned off, the fraudster joins. the group won't be able to DM you.

For example, another example. Suppose we want to install the Metamask wallet extension in a browser, then we open Discord in the same browser. If you click on the DM link, the fraudsters let alone approve the contract.
     

I would love to do that but the problem is deleted those data as soon as i found out they were scammers. I should have take some screenshot before clear those chatting history.  I posted it here because i think a lot of newbies use this board so they might notice and be cautious.

Scammers have always been innovative. With computer systems being harder and harder to hack as time goes, they'll continue to gear towards attempting social engineering attacks. All we can do is to keep our eyes peeled all the time because there's simply just so much scam variations to have an article for each.

Thanks for sharing your story. I think it highlights that the broad attacks can be easy to avoid - many people know not to open spam letters, respond to messages that offer something, click on ads, etc. But if you get attacked personally by a realm human who can convince you, especially if they make a realistic offer, that's a whole another level. Especially if they don't ask you to give them money, but instead try to hack you.

That's actually a good precaution method. Running a VM is another way to compartmentalize potential problems. I advise to do the same whenever you wanna dabble into the unknown. I'd say it's also a good idea to create an alt account (that'll only stay on VM) for job interviews and such so you don't place the servers you're managing in your main account in danger.

However know it's not 100% safe method as there's an unlikely chance some malware/s could escape to your host OS hence I would treat VMs as your plan B. - backup plan. The plan A is knowing when to stop. In this case, the bit where there's a handsome fee ++ they need you to drag and drop in order to submit the form doesn't make sense hence extremely sus.

With lots of Discord channels that I am in right now, I've seen this many times already.
As a member of the channel, you will just surprised that a moderator or an admin of that channel will just share some information that isn't normal for an admin to do such as sending links, promoting scams blah blah. The last one that I remember was the Discord channel of Apeswap where the hacker posted a link. Same with Pegaxy, and Axie Infinity as well.

I guess simply ignoring these type of random DM's is the best solution for it. I mean I understand that OP is a community moderator, and there might be some people who are interested in his/her service, but I don't think that the legit ones will just simply send you a DM out of nowhere and telling to apply for their project. Only scammers are doing that. Scammers right now are becoming more, and more clever as technology is evolving in such a rapid pace. I just hope that we all remain vigilant at all times, and always be careful in clicking the links online.

OP, you should know that the more advanced  technology gets the more scammers Improvise to continue with their nefarious act. They know that there are still people out BB there who would fall victim of their acts so they do not lie low. They keep using new tactics to survive.
You as a moderator should know that you are always a target because you have large number of followers or community you moderate and as such, you are a good target to scammers because only you the community listen to as a result of your position so of the scammers can take that position of yours then they could play a very fast game on they community hence you see the reasons moderators are always a target.

So it would be nice you protect your account so as not to get hacked because if they succeed in hacking your account, they next thing they target is your community and those you moderate.

I think the person who was the master mind behind this hack attempt must have been a moderator for some other server or has the experience of a moderator to have been have to pull up this slick move up to that point.

I have seen and also heard some complain about being hacked after clicking links sent to a discord channel by a random stranger but this, I haven’t seen before. It’s not everyday you see a scammer arranging an interview with someone they wish to hack some might just try to cajole you introducing a mouth dripping amount that’s almost impossible to resist.

Well, you should follow the advice of the post above and either create a thread in the scans accusation board or just move this one there. And just add the link in “code” and also add a little warning so as to give us a general idea of what to do when we come across such url since you said it was not out of the ordinary.

Scammers' tactics and methods being exposed need them to think of another way to lure and trap their victim.  For them, they need to be one step ahead of everyone since their scams can be effective in a limited time when they are not exposed.  Once they got a victim, then information about their dirty tactics will be spread out in the community where that victim belong and eventually outside their group.

In referene to your story, I am glad that you are able to detect the scam and the possible hacking.  This revelation will give us information on how to avoid these kinds of scammers so I thank you for sharing your experience with us.  Btw, have you run anti-malware and anti-virus on your system?  It is better to check whether there is some malware injection in your system and eliminate them completely.

In a way we wanted to avoid scams, we should always stay vigilant and detect if the offer is too good to be true and if we are uncomfortable with the communication, we can always put a stop to it and avoid the people we are suspecting of a scam.  It is better safe than sorry and let us not greed take over our decision.  Greed is the area that is commonly exploited by scammers.

I hope he didn't steal anything from your browser or even your Discord account. You should be more careful about these types of scammers as they constantly come up with new tricks to make victims falls into it. They may try to hack your accounts using suspicious links or other methods.

Being protected from such tricks should be your top priority to be honest, since you're already a Discord Mod. Don't pursue new opportunities without ensuring your safety first as one mistake could mess up everything you've built online.

Not surprised at all, and thanks so much for share here your story.
Why not create a topic also in https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0 scam accusation board maybe providing some details / screenshot and so on? For sure this can help other people since it's an uncommon way for a scam....

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One thing you just need to know is that it only take a professional to scam people, of which whenever you are dealing with total strangers, you should always have that in mind to make security your top most priority so you don't fall victim to what you will later regret. But I'm happy you discovered quickly and didn't fall for it, because one thing scammer do is put their client into pressure, which is a clear sign to always look out for whenever dealing with total strangers online, as whenever you noticed you are been put under pressure, just notice it's likely to be a scam.

I do know another incident where a scammer tries to hack the victim's computer by asking him to be a game tester in their P2E game. The victim was a professional gamer and was not aware of the security risk from crypto-related projects. He was lucky that he uses VMware to run that games on his computer. He later found that wasn't any games instead it was an application that can inject malware into the system and gain access to that system.

Well, someone in your field of work should know how to make security a top priority because if, by mistake, anything leads to your security being compromised, it can cause losses not only to you but also to others. My brother also had a similar experience where he was asked to submit some country IDs, a resident permit, and a utility bill before he could be accepted to work just as a telegram moderator, but he was wise enough not to submit those documents, and later it was discovered that those guys were just scammers. Who knows what they were going to use those IDs for? Everyone who is just into any online-related work or investment really needs to take their security seriously; otherwise, it can ruin their reputation, depending on what the case is, or cause them to lose their assets.

I wants to share one of my stories where some people try to scam my Discord server. At first, i need to give a quick intro about my work. I am a full time community manager in discord and i am working with a project where i am the head moderator. Now lets get to the main story.

There were some members who were actively making posts on our discord server about hiring moderators in some kind of NFT-related discord server. At first, i thought it was just a spam message and start ignoring it. After few days one guy messaged my inbox by saying he is very impressed with my work managing discord server so now he wants to hire me into their discord server as a community moderator. For being a professional discord community moderator i show interest and start asking about his project. In the meanwhile, he invite in into a group he created where his so called boss wants to talk with me. After doing some general conversation he said he is interested and wants to take an interview of me before making any job contract. So we start talking through voice call and he asked me some basic moderation related questions.

It was just like a professional job interview and there was no way to be vigilant till this points. After the interview, he offered me a handsome amount of money that i can not reject so i accepted his offer. He sent a url and told me i need to fill up this form right now with my details before we can make the contract. That URL looks pretty normal to me so i clicked it and start filling the form.  But when i tried to click submit button it written there is a problem with the submit button so drag the url of the submit button to your browser's bookmark bar to submit the form. When i drag that button i have noticed there is a script written in there. In the meanwhile, i was still connected with that guy in voice call and he was constantly pushing me to do the work fast. I disconnected from that call and delete cookies from my browser. After some investigation, i found out that there was a javascript written in there which will give that scammer access to my browser and my discord account. Furthermore i found out they are a group of people who hack Moderators account into a discord server and post fake airdrop promotion to scam people.



Crypto space fast-paced technological innovation to bring simplicity and add more security to human life. So scammers are also finding new ways to scam people. Do not fall for the same kind of trap if you are a moderator in any crypto project. You might lose your server and job as well.