Topic: Scammers are the smart ones, be careful. (Read 594 times)

I hardly respond to the PMs I receive from Telegram because I don’t chat on Telegram, and other social medias. I only join groups to get the information’s that I need, so whenever I receive any message, I already know it’s from a scammer, so I don’t waste my precious time responding to them. When some people contact you, they will be seeking help from you, you will never know they have the mindset to scam you, only when you already know about their technique or when you start trying to help them before you will know they are trying to scam you.

it is people that wants them to be involved in scam I've come to extend that I will not be a victims of scam based on you understanding the process the steps scammers do take  to deceive people, some now before you convinced to the extent of scamming me, you have to know that I'm looking for something and am desperate to achieve am looking for, can someone you don't know Dm you of business you don't know about and you compromised without looking at the effects of it, so I basically know that all over social media fraudsters or scammers has taken over and you need to be careful to things you do.

You are absolutely right, we should the ones who are smart and not them, we should make them pay for their wicked and selfish desire against them, not against us.

Yes, they might play some tricks on us, so that we can fall a victim and make them happy but we should outsmart them, when they think they are smart. For example, I was checking something on Facebook and then a message pop up and I was told to invest a certain amount and I will have my interest and my capital in the next 24 hours and they even show me the screenshots of those who have been benefitting from them, just to make me believe they are real, which I know they are scammers but I never doubt them, I picked interest and make them believe that I was on their side, so I start doing what they told me to do reaching when I was told to deposit some certain amount of money and I did but it was fake, they called me to tell me that they haven't received and I told them but I did and then they knew I was faking them and it pained them that I didn't fall for them instead they fall for me.

So that is how it should be and not the other way round, we should always be ready to outsmart them in anyway they try to scam us.

Not only Telegram, but all other social media platforms such as Email, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and web wallet are targeted by scammers to attack us. Those of us involved in cryptocurrency must use every platform very carefully. If we can control our greed, we can avoid most scams.

Telegram is one of the social media where scammers use this days. They come out with different methods everyday just to scam. We just need to be more smart and careful in this space just to avoiding falling into all this various scam.

It is good that you didn't respond to the chat, every unknown messages are treat to bitcoiners that's why we have to be careful in what ever things we are doing on the interne. Internet is a big environment that accommodates both good and bad behaviours (depending on the rules and regulations that guilds the platforms). The important thing a bitcoin should do is to be careful the kind of links they click and were they connect their wallets also.
I think this links I will be dropping can help a crypto newbie stay out of scam.
This- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/guidelines-how-to-spot-a-scam-ico-report-effectively-5004397
This- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/guide-prevent-scam-some-useful-tools-for-find-scam-fake-ico-team-4586576

I received a PM on Telegram a few days ago. One asked me for help and shared his wallet seed phrase with me. I suspected it might be some new method of scam. So I did not reply to his PM. After reading this post today I understood what is the real method. We must always be careful about Telegram, Email messages.

You're right paying attention to news online is also a way to avoid scammers, however the other way to avoid scammers is also by keeping our details very  private, and also we should be very careful with all this  malicious site that requires connecting our wallet. we really need to be careful with those site because scammers can easily gain access to our wallet through those sites, this  are few Ways in which we can avoid being scammed.

Scammers are obviously smarter because they make you dance to their tune despite what one believes in or holds dear as principles.
One way to avoid scams is to always pay attention to news online and happenings around the cryptocurrency space because whether we like to agree or not, they exist and will reap off the unsuspecting investors that want to make quick profit or diversify immediately to sort pressing needs.

Many are still going to fall with kind of scheme, the speculators think that they are on a jackpot with this if they saw some balance on it. But little did they know, the scammer is just waiting for them to send some gas fees on it. I think that they're using smart contract with it and upon receiving little amount for the fees, it's automatically going to be sent to the address of the scammer. Well, if you're greedy and gullible, you'd fall for this scam. Sadly, many are and they won't stop and will never learn a lesson because they think that they have only lost small amount.

Whether the trick of scamming is old or new, it is important to be aware of it because it is not a simple problem that, once explained and all people will understand how to avoid scammers. Day by day Cryptocurrency is becoming prominent and new people are giving commitment, and if they don't know about scammers's trap and cleverness then they can easily become part of scammer's scams. So it is very important to discuss all scam proposals whether they are old or new. Don't point out that the OP discussed the old topic, rather apply that he suggested people to avoid dirty work like scams.


No one is stupid, everyone knows whether to lose or profit. So the problem is not that he is stupid, the problem is that the poor guy doesn't know how to scam and how to avoid it. That is, no one has even informed these people that as much as the crypto industry is secure, it is also unsecure, which means that there are also scammers who return by making people victims of fraud.

Even when we think we know it all, scammers are not relenting. They are busy inventing new ways of scamming people of their coins. Just like OP rightly said, scammers are smart. They know quite a lot of tricks they can easily use to attack their victims, we wouldn't know about all these scam tricks if we do not discuss them like this. Sometimes, we do not need to wait till these scam discussions are brought to us, it is high time we pick interest in reading, watching and listening to news related to scam so we can know how to protect ourselves and those around us better.

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Most people who fall victim to most scams are usually led by greed to their own doom. Indeed there is really a lot to earn from investing online, but do a thorough research first to ascertain the authenticity of whatever you are doing.

We should stay away from all these people as much as possible. Today there is no shortage of scammers, they steal information from us by showing the greed of different money. Our full devices can be hacked. We need to be more aware. Do not be suspicious of such people, remember that no one will give you money just like that. So avoid any kind of financial posts on X platform or any other social media platform, where it is said that you will be paid. The farther away you are from them, the safer you will be.

Not everyone in the cryptocurrency space is aware of all the tricks that scammers do use. There are many people who are new to the cryptocurrency industry and are unaware of these old tricks. By discussing these scams now, we can help these newcomers understand the risks involved. Scammers are very smart and can come up with any trick after studying someone. Sometimes, scammers use old tricks to scam people, so it is important to stay informed about these old tricks. This way, newcomers can be aware of them.We cannot learn everything at once, but by discussing about these scams, we can gradually become more knowledgeable and protect ourselves from falling victim to them.

Fraudsters will not succeed unless they are extremely clever and constantly change their strategy. At such times they use methods to deceive so that naturally their things seem true but if we are not extra careful we can easily fall into their trap of deception. Cheaters are very smart and they will discuss with you first about the topic they are going to cheat with and by discussing it with you they will make a place in your mind and you will trust them easily. When the fraudster sees that you trust him, he will start his real activities and all your saved money can be lost in a moment due to your little mistake. So it is very important that we are careful not to give our hard earned money to fraudsters.

Sometimes, an old trick still works to deceive people, no matters if they are beginners or veteran. They will not thinks that way is a trick that can makes them lose their money. When we panic, we can not thinks clear about that and just follow what other people suggest.

We don't thinks that suggestion will deceive us because we see that way is make sense but there is something that we are not checks with details. That makes us gets deceive by an old trick without we realizes about that. Maybe we don't knows how they can tricks us but that is happens to us.

It is why we must be careful and make sure that will not deceive us. We can search for other information to find out that will not makes us lose money. What we see in internet will not always right so we must make sure before we decides.

Thank you so much for the information, actually I'm still new here and also in this crypto space, I don't have full knowledge about all this things that has been happening in the internet more especially in this telegram platform, moreover this strategies is still very new to me but just mere looking is very obvious that the person is a scammer. is very hard for someone to fall a victim to this type of scam, is only those people who are very greedy that can fall victim to this type of scam. However I want to say a very big thanks to op once more, this information is really helpful mostly for those who have not come encounter such tricks before just like me but now that you made it well known to people more especially newbies like us so that whenever time we come encounter such tricks we can know how to face them.

This is not something new as this I encountered this year's ago and I am wondering how people are still being fooled with such tactics because I remember sharing such incident during 2018 and this scam method is still prevalent in 2024 which means people never learn that no one pays you anything for free and we need to understand that there is no freebies here you need to earn it and if something is coming easy it means there is some sort of scam associated with it.

What do you think is the reason behind them getting so much success with what they do? You will often hear people getting scammed, either through phishing links or any other way, which proves that scammers are never out of business and they always find prey when they go hunting.

The reason is that newbies, at least most of them, are internet illiterates and they barely know and understand much about it, but they have heard from somewhere that they can earn money from the internet, and they got it somehow, either by watching some tutorial or getting help from someone around them who set their wallet up and everything and taught them the basic things such as how they can send and receive cryptocurrencies, how they can connect their wallets with websites, etc.

Now, scammers know this thing very well, and they are always on the lookout for such users because they know they are the most vulnerable creatures available on the internet and that they won't even need to try hard in order to trap them, all they need to do is give them some offer that will make them think that they are going to get rich very soon, and then take their money and run away.

A high success rate in scams is due to a lack of knowledge among new users joining the industry or the internet in general.

Bro, their is nothing like old tricks when you actually don't know about it, because most crypto enthusiastic in this space are flawed, they actually don't know how to be safe from this scammers, it's mostly we that has the privilege of knowing about this kind of scamming strategy base on the fact that we have heard or gotten knowledge of this scamming strategy in this forum, most people are just hearing it for the very first time as you even mentioned it, so my brother, what you actually don't know, is always more difficult to combat.

My only advice  to crypto enthusiastic is that they should know that scammers are getting surphisticated everyday , so the best way to fight it is to also get surphisticated with knowledge so as to know how to navigate your way safely in the crypto space without get caught of guard.