Indeed, they will target people who are not smart and innocent. Therefore, we need to be smart as well like them and act cautiously to give no hint that we are weak and innocent. The moment we show them our greediness, and innocence and are able to communicate with them, that will give them an idea of how they attacked us.
So we have to be careful whom we talk with on social media, most of them are scammers, especially when they talk about money and investments. We have to keep our minds open and think that there is no easy money in the world nor think about quick rich investment, a word from scammers.
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Scammers will always create new strategies to deceive other people, such as this fraud case may be a new strategy because I have not gotten any reports of this case in our community, so I thank the OP for sharing this important information even though the victim did not lose much money but the scammer collected funds from many other victims.
But this scam is very unique, the scammer pretends to be stupid on the pretext of asking for help to withdraw funds, but some victims also have a bad plan to take all the balance in the wallet, but they have fallen into a trap to take the Trx balance that has been transferred.
Everyone becomes careful more particular for investors that have been scammed. Talking about the smart ones, scammers are present and will always come up with strategies that will provide aides for themselves. While the investors are concerned about their projects but they don't think proper straight due to profits. Scammers are not giving up this fight because most of them are toxic and they see scamming as easy route to generate enormous profits for themselves. But this scam is very unique, the scammer pretends to be stupid on the pretext of asking for help to withdraw funds, but some victims also have a bad plan to take all the balance in the wallet, but they have fallen into a trap to take the Trx balance that has been transferred.
Scammers will always create new strategies to deceive other people, such as this fraud case may be a new strategy because I have not gotten any reports of this case in our community, so I thank the OP for sharing this important information even though the victim did not lose much money but the scammer collected funds from many other victims.
But this scam is very unique, the scammer pretends to be stupid on the pretext of asking for help to withdraw funds, but some victims also have a bad plan to take all the balance in the wallet, but they have fallen into a trap to take the Trx balance that has been transferred.
Yes you are right I totally agree that scammers are always try with new ways to scam people. OP's case is good example of new strategy that we hadn't seen before. Thanks to him/her who shared this information we can now be aware of it. Scammer pretends to be clueless and asks for help which is sneaky trick. Some people tried to take advantage of the situation but they got caught and lost their money too. This is reminder to always be careful and skeptical when someone we don't know asks for help or offers us a deal that sounds too good to be true. Mostly which I have seen they target the new person or you can say newbie got a catch in their trap. So we should always be careful. But this scam is very unique, the scammer pretends to be stupid on the pretext of asking for help to withdraw funds, but some victims also have a bad plan to take all the balance in the wallet, but they have fallen into a trap to take the Trx balance that has been transferred.
The world of anonymity has its drama, modes like this have often occurred and many have been trapped because of greed or perhaps a higher sense of empathy but exploited by the fraudster. Some even seem frustrated because they run out of gas fees and are willing to share 50% of the available balance, it doesn't make sense 
. It turns out that the wallet has a script to trick it as if it is safe.
Lack of reading interest / people new to crypto think this can't happen and intend to help. Hopefully it will be a valuable lesson in the future for that person and everyone. It is better to be grateful for your own crypto, and if it has been identified as such, it is better not to respond. Because it's a waste of time. If you really need help, there are better ways to help others not with our crypto assets, of course he spent his own gas fee.
. It turns out that the wallet has a script to trick it as if it is safe.Lack of reading interest / people new to crypto think this can't happen and intend to help. Hopefully it will be a valuable lesson in the future for that person and everyone. It is better to be grateful for your own crypto, and if it has been identified as such, it is better not to respond. Because it's a waste of time. If you really need help, there are better ways to help others not with our crypto assets, of course he spent his own gas fee.
This is a very dubious and smart strategy, we ought to be careful online especially on telegram, alot of people are going extra miles, thinking of anything possible just to scam others. I will say not everything you see online is true, be careful even when you feel you just want to help someone.
I am seeing a lot of comments that this type of scam method used by the scammer is not new, I haven’t come across this before but base on how vast one has been on this space, you will feel some negative energy the first time you see this and try to help the victim. You have to always think smart and always be one step ahead of the possible scammers. Thank you for sharing this OP, I am now aware of prior to now and I think more people won’t have know this too especially newbies.
But this scam is very unique, the scammer pretends to be stupid on the pretext of asking for help to withdraw funds, but some victims also have a bad plan to take all the balance in the wallet, but they have fallen into a trap to take the Trx balance that has been transferred.
With this method, the scammer is already one step ahead of the other scammer that wants to take advantage of the scammer that claims to be naive and needs help. I just can’t imagine how funny it will be for a scammer to scam another scammer, but when it does happen, the scammed scammer will be +1 smarterbtge next time he comes across someone that needs help.
Actually you did absolutely well by sharing this information, I think this will serve as a big note of warning to those people you're still new in this crypto space, and also in telegram, a lot of things is really happening in the internet this time. the knowledge of scammers keep increasing day by day, that is how they are also coming up with different strategies so we need to be extremely careful this time so that we won't fall a victim to them.
Scammers will always create new strategies to deceive other people, such as this fraud case may be a new strategy because I have not gotten any reports of this case in our community, so I thank the OP for sharing this important information even though the victim did not lose much money but the scammer collected funds from many other victims.But this scam is very unique, the scammer pretends to be stupid on the pretext of asking for help to withdraw funds, but some victims also have a bad plan to take all the balance in the wallet, but they have fallen into a trap to take the Trx balance that has been transferred.
The rate of scam that has been happening in telegram seems to be increasing day by day and i was surprised with this strange strategy adopted by scammers so i decided to share it to prevent more people from falling victim. I recently stumbled across a post on a telegram group where a user claiming to be having difficulty withdrawing his funds of $270 USDT from his wallet to Binance and seeking for other people’s help to withdraw the funds. See image below
He posted his wallet seed phrase and private key and also a screenshot of the balance of the wallet just to lure poeple because he knows alot of people will try to steal his funds from him.
I was suspecting it to be all fake but then i thought he mistakenly shared his seed phrase and private key due to ignorance but to my surprise he actually came up with this idea to steal from people who try to steal from him. I was scared that he’d lose all his money and was expecting him to complain on the chat that his money was stolen but an hour passed no one complained so i decided to import the wallet and saw that his wallet was still intact that was when it rang a bell and when i checked the transaction history i saw lot’s of TRX being received from people trying to steal from him or rather people trying to help him send out his funds and later the received TRX are being send out by the scammer to a different address and all sent out TRX were all sent to the same address. The TRX was supposed to be used as gas fee to send out the USDT.
See transaction history below
This is a very dubious and smart strategy, we ought to be careful online especially on telegram, alot of people are going extra miles, thinking of anything possible just to scam others. I will say not everything you see online is true, be careful even when you feel you just want to help someone.
He posted his wallet seed phrase and private key and also a screenshot of the balance of the wallet just to lure poeple because he knows alot of people will try to steal his funds from him.
I was suspecting it to be all fake but then i thought he mistakenly shared his seed phrase and private key due to ignorance but to my surprise he actually came up with this idea to steal from people who try to steal from him. I was scared that he’d lose all his money and was expecting him to complain on the chat that his money was stolen but an hour passed no one complained so i decided to import the wallet and saw that his wallet was still intact that was when it rang a bell and when i checked the transaction history i saw lot’s of TRX being received from people trying to steal from him or rather people trying to help him send out his funds and later the received TRX are being send out by the scammer to a different address and all sent out TRX were all sent to the same address. The TRX was supposed to be used as gas fee to send out the USDT.
See transaction history below
This is a very dubious and smart strategy, we ought to be careful online especially on telegram, alot of people are going extra miles, thinking of anything possible just to scam others. I will say not everything you see online is true, be careful even when you feel you just want to help someone.
Actually you did absolutely well by sharing this information, I think this will serve as a big note of warning to those people you're still new in this crypto space, and also in telegram, a lot of things is really happening in the internet this time. the knowledge of scammers keep increasing day by day, that is how they are also coming up with different strategies so we need to be extremely careful this time so that we won't fall a victim to them.
Thanks Op for bringing back the discussion again even if it has been discussed, because it will enlighten the newbies to be watchful and careful when dealing with their coins and also serve as a reminder to old members on the forum.Scammers are always coming up with new updates,that even old bitcoiners are also falling for it.The only way we can avoid being vulnerable to scam is to stop participating in activities that sounds or look too good to be scam.The activities that looks too good to be scam are more likely to be scam.So let's be guided and wise in the crypto space.
This is not a new method my dear. Anyone who chooses to fall for this type of scam is greedy and is a scammer as well. And if a scammer gets scammed then it fine by me. This is because it's only a scammer who would want to help an unknown person to withdraw their funds from there wallet. Wen it is very simple for anyone to withdraw funds, only a YouTube video tutorial can guide the person. Yet people feel they can scam such person. This is why being greedy is not good, anyone who falls victim should bear the consequences.
There are many different crypto scam we need to be aware about because scammers are now taking new strategies.If ought to ask questions before we make some certain decisions if we are still new in the crypto space.
Scammer are using new ways and means to keep getting money from their victims.
We need to be wise and take every opportunity to ensure that we don't fall for their scamming attempts to steal from us and take away our hard earned funds.
Not a new technique, but there are still investors who are still falling to this way of scamming other people.
I guess sometimes, being ignorant is good because I used to ignore everything that I feel is a scam. I mean if I'm the one who saw this personally on Telegram, I will just ignore it or delete it.
Like what other said, I would share my thanks to the OP for sharing this. For sure, there will be 1 or 2 people out there who will see this and learn from it. Scammers are becoming more and more smarter as years pass by. They are adopting to what's happening hence, they are doing everything just to be successful in what they're doing. As for the investors, we should be smarter than them. How? Learning more. Gaining more knowledge overtime would help us not get scammed. Learning how to secure our funds would help us. Learning what are the ways these scammers are using to scam people will be a helpful one because we will know how to avoid them.
Sometimes, trusting your gut feeling works, and that works to me all the time.
It might not work for some, but being knowledgeable is always better.
I guess sometimes, being ignorant is good because I used to ignore everything that I feel is a scam. I mean if I'm the one who saw this personally on Telegram, I will just ignore it or delete it.
Like what other said, I would share my thanks to the OP for sharing this. For sure, there will be 1 or 2 people out there who will see this and learn from it. Scammers are becoming more and more smarter as years pass by. They are adopting to what's happening hence, they are doing everything just to be successful in what they're doing. As for the investors, we should be smarter than them. How? Learning more. Gaining more knowledge overtime would help us not get scammed. Learning how to secure our funds would help us. Learning what are the ways these scammers are using to scam people will be a helpful one because we will know how to avoid them.
Sometimes, trusting your gut feeling works, and that works to me all the time.
It might not work for some, but being knowledgeable is always better.One of the problem with most people is always wanting to involve themselves in everything. Just like the op said, if you check those people who wanted to help most of them has another thing in mind that is to say that most of them were actually trying to take advantage not knowing that it was a trap though some may truly want to help but will I call it ignorant or what I mean why will someone fall for that, that was so fake to be true however, I believe they have learnt a lesson of their life and no one will tell them to back off next time they see stuffs like that online and I think if there's no example people won't understand or learn. I hope most people learn from this.
Scammers understands that the only way to get people is to offer free money people would want to gain without making any effort and this is how many people wants to make money that's is why they fall victim to scam.
Yes, that's correct. Most of those who fall into scammers' schemes, whether old or sophisticated tactics, are people desperate to make money in any form and to rush to experiment without any experience, research, or seeking advice from someone with long-standing experience in this field.When we find a stranger who sends his seed phrase and private key of his wallet or accounts on exchange platforms and the like and who attaches a screenshot of the stuck money and asks for help from the public in exchange for a percentage of these funds in return, the best solution is to ignore what he sent and refrain from opening the wallet because it will likely be infected with a honeypot. The account will belong to a scam exchange platform. As a result, any funds deposited by the person tempted by the money will fall into their traps easily. Therefore, it is best not to trust strangers to stay safe.
The rate of scam that has been happening in telegram seems to be increasing day by day and i was surprised with this strange strategy adopted by scammers so i decided to share it to prevent more people from falling victim.
I spotted it myself before i even read about possible ways to get scammed on telegram. During my newbie days, I was introduced to a kind of pay-to-get-paid telegram channel for traders. Everything sounded a little bit convincing for me cause I barely had an experience on copy trading. I logged on my telegram one evening on seeing several notification Links about how reliable the platform is; reading through, I discovered that most of those updates were made through the same IP addy and almost from the same device. I haven't followed any link since then, up until now.
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I recently stumbled across a post on a telegram group where a user claiming to be having difficulty withdrawing his funds of $270 USDT from his wallet to Binance and seeking for other people’s help to withdraw the funds.
This is trap! The moment you try to verify the seedphrase, your funds is gone! This is not a new method my dear. Anyone who chooses to fall for this type of scam is greedy and is a scammer as well. And if a scammer gets scammed then it fine by me. This is because it's only a scammer who would want to help an unknown person to withdraw their funds from there wallet. Wen it is very simple for anyone to withdraw funds, only a YouTube video tutorial can guide the person. Yet people feel they can scam such person. This is why being greedy is not good, anyone who falls victim should bear the consequences.
Actually I think it depends reason is because most people can do it due to lack of ignorance, though the method might look very old to you but still new to some people, we are different people with different thought and also with different mindset. there are so many things you can experience in the internet, that most people don't know. Of course sometimes it happens as a result of being greedy, maybe thier intention might be maybe after withdrawing the funds probably they will run away with the money, without knowing that the person that he's planning to run away with his Money also have bad intention towards him.
Whether it's an old trick or not people would still fall for it and thanks for sharing because I believe there are persons here who are getting to know about this kind of scam for the first time.
Scammers’s strategies are not always so difficult to fish out, but newbies are always falling for them because they don’t really have experience. No matter how old a trick is, we are still going to see people who will be falling for it, so it’s better we keep on enlightening ourselves about all these strategies that scammers are using, whether they're old or new. Some scam strategies might be old, but we should know that people just joining the crypto space won’t know about them, but if we keep on talking about them, new people might end up seeing them. 
Thanks op for this reminder because I believe there may be ones whom may have not heard nor seen this kind of method in term of scamming. Don't let greed push you into what you don't know, just be careful in learning and using the right platform.
Scams happen everywhere and this is just part of the battles we face for been trying to use a new tech and people that fall victims the most are the ignorant ones who invest into coins without investing into knowledge and security. The funny thing about crypto scams is that people that indulge in it are just regular people like us but they happen to be knowledgeable than others, they look beyond what others do or some complexity we don't often look at and they hide behind that to tie advantage of people, that's what scammers are doing here in crypto.
Furthermore, some people are blind by greed just as you mentioned, they love to make money where they didnt put anything, even conservation of energy stated that you can't create energy without not using energy but scam victims want to create money where they don't put any money or sometimes they want to create more than what they put. How can someone be expecting 300% interest in 3 days with your small change, that's ridiculous.
This is a very dubious and smart strategy, we ought to be careful online especially on telegram, alot of people are going extra miles, thinking of anything possible just to scam others. I will say not everything you see online is true, be careful even when you feel you just want to help someone.
Scammers are very wise, they love using Telegram among all the remaining social media because they catch victims always and they imply several strategies on telegram which help them in achieving their goals.This strategy used by this scammer is an old strategy, they have used it several time, now they are trying to bring it back so that they can get newbies that are yet to know about it. Some of them do even clone exchange and ask you to login for them to take some percentage of you help them withdraw their funds; all these are strategies to scam you. Be wise and stay away from any message from an unknown user on telegram.
Scammers are smart enough today that many users don't understand their techniques. Scammers usually make big offers, many are tempted to swallow those offers. People who haven't actually been victims of scammers don't realize how far things can go, scammers will rob you of everything you can't imagine could happen. The biggest thing is that we give opportunity to scammers, we often step into the trap knowingly. Personally, I would say that if we always refuse the tempting offers, then the scammers will not get any help in getting their hands on anything personal.
The reason why people easily for victim to scam is because of greed and the mindset of making money so fast in the Internet. It is only greed that will make someone to believe free offers from the Internet and if people can learn to change their mindset concerning getting quick money it will be difficult for them to fall victim of scammers. Scammers tries to bring up new techniques in which can be used to scam people in getting money from them but if people can understand not to have interest of getting money from strangers online it will really help to fall victim to scammers. Scammers understands that the only way to get people is to offer free money people would want to gain without making any effort and this is how many people wants to make money that's is why they fall victim to scam.
I have seen a lot of scam but this is quite different, I know scammers are very smart now I can even see more evidence to prove that scammers are even more smart than those who claim to be smart in their ways.
Just as profirii said, if you think it the other way the scammer was smart enough to make the scam look like they are the real scammers for trying to hijack his funds. it's a great lesson for them anyways.. one don't have to be so greedy to the extent of wanting to exploit someone else.
Just as profirii said, if you think it the other way the scammer was smart enough to make the scam look like they are the real scammers for trying to hijack his funds. it's a great lesson for them anyways.. one don't have to be so greedy to the extent of wanting to exploit someone else.
The rate of scam that has been happening in telegram seems to be increasing day by day and i was surprised with this strange strategy adopted by scammers so i decided to share it to prevent more people from falling victim.
Telegram is the favorite place for scammers, you will see all sorts of scamming attempts happening there and they also find a lot of success in scamming people in Telegram because they know there are a lot of newbies joining Telegram to participate in airdrops and giveaways or joining the groups of their favorite projects to stay up to date, and they lure them with such offers by going into their DMs and most newbies who are new in this industry fall victim to such things pretty easily.Even though this is an old trick, you can still often see people posting such things on different social media platforms, especially Facebook where you can often see such things being posted in cryptocurrency-related groups or the comments of related posts.
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This is a very dubious and smart strategy, we ought to be careful online especially on telegram, alot of people are going extra miles, thinking of anything possible just to scam others. I will say not everything you see online is true, be careful even when you feel you just want to help someone.
Whether it's an old trick or not people would still fall for it and thanks for sharing because I believe there are persons here who are getting to know about this kind of scam for the first time. Also, I don't know if I would say the victims got what they deserve because it's only persons with bad intentions that would try to move the USDT to a different wallet.
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