Topic: Scammers are the smart ones, be careful. - page 4. (Read 594 times)

Actually its old scammer trick by sharing their seed phrase and telling us about difficult withdrawing their assets, many people looking how interested with how much fund in scammer wallet by sending fees for withdrawing all assets in that wallet. I saw this post in my community group on Facebook social media, but most of our community understood well with scammer trick after sending fees automatically send to scammer wallet without few second.
The scammer have set up with bot of automatic sending fund after some one deposit fees in that wallet, be careful with old trick and don't make you blame after seeing with how much fund in the scammer wallet.
For the most experienced trader or investor in cryptocurrency understood with this trick and not interested for depositing fees because scammer said difficult withdrawing their assets.

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.

It could be an old trick, but a lot of users are still falling for it, and I so much believe there are Others in this forum who don’t even know about the trick. I particularly don’t know about the trick till of recent, so it not right for you to just right the post off like you did. You could have just enlighten me more about the trick than saying I’m a new member in the forum, you were also new here years ago too.

Being new or old in the forum doesn’t have anything to do with your knowledge about bitcoin. There are people with versatile knowledge about bitcoin and are not in this forum so chill and speak reasonably.

Yeah, I have read the same case like this in the forum several months ago so this kind of strategy to scam people isn't new at all.  But, it is still a good thing to remind people to be warry about the old and new tactics of scammers so that we can be reminded about the scamming tactics of these wicked people and at the same time inform newcomers.

I believe only people who have ill-intention of stealing those funds will fall victim to that scam so I think that serves them right to get scammed trying to steal other people's property though I say that this kind of activity is still wrong.


They are not stupid but wicked,  stupid are someone who lack intelligence or common sense while wicked use their wit to do evil things.

 

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.

The (not so) new part is that blockchain, crypto, gas... are involved in the scam, but the fact that the scammer tries to take advantage of the bad intentions of the scammed ones is very old. It is very reasonable because, on one hand, the scammer can feel less guilty because he scammed people with bad intentions, and on the other, the victims will think it twice before disclosing the details of what happened. Although being reasonable doesn't make it ethical, and even less, legal.

Thank you OP for sharing. Maybe some readers will think twice before falling into a trap like that.

This scam type is very old one and you are new member in the forum, this market so welcome to your discovery on this scam type.

They used same scam type in the past, like I can not withdraw my bitcoin from an exchange because of many reasons, and I need your help to withdraw it. If you can hep me to withdraw it successfully, I will give you 50% or any good bonus.

Scammers are the smart ones?

No, they are not. They are pretty stupid.

This is an old tricks and I thought people have grown past this level. The operate this scam by draining the TRX of whoever attempt to transfer the USDT as fees. This is similar to the recent iron airdrop that they scam each of the people that attempt to swap the token about $12 in Matic. This thread explains details about this fake airdrop.

I will continue to advice people to apply wisdom all the time. Anyone that have a way of earning USDT should be able to know how to send it, and it takes only someone greedy to fall for this scan.

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.