Scammers are using the name of Airdrop to take the wallet's private key. - page 3.

smyslov

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Quote from: ScamViruS on November 03, 2020, 01:51:27 PM

The private key of your wallet is a very secret thing not to share it with anyone. It is very important to know well about those things before investing in anything. You don't have to provide a private key to get the official airdrop, the main purpose of those who say to provide your private key is to gain access to your wallet. So be smart yourself and fu** the scammers.

There is no valid explanation by any developers that you should give them your private key, you do not know Cryptocurrency and decentralization if you do not know this.
There are two guides and mantra that every investors should know, and that is not your key not your coins and only invest what you can afford to lose, these are the two things that people should make a mantra.

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Private keys and mnemonic phrases are the new targets of the hackers and is crazy to see every day a new method that hackers implement to get access to this data. So, we should give a warning to all the users, and let them know the risk of exposing our keys.

This kind of airdrops represents an enormus risk, but this problem doesn't comes only with airdrops, the hackers has multiple methods to get our mnemonic phrase. So, be careful and play it smart.

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Quote from: Mr.right85 on November 04, 2020, 04:42:07 AM

Yeah, this information really is a huge help to me as a biginner, all thanks to you, but do we have a way or a relevant solution to stop this scamming scheme?

We can't stop these scamming schemes because greedy people will always find their ways to scam other people. But for now, the best we can do to ensure the safety of our funds is to raise awareness of how the scam works in varied forms. As scams constantly increasing, we should be vigilant because a defrauder is using different marketing strategies to draw attention. In such an instance, we should not easily assume a homonymous website or a project conducts a legitimate airdrop or giveaway. Some of those are a phishing website, which is a method of a defrauder to steal your personal data. Educate yourself by reading this, it will guide you in identifying a phishing website.

Link: [GUIDE] Use this for identifying Scam/Phishing Websites & Exchanges in Crypto

Also, we can conduct an investigation on their website and social media platforms if there’s a precise announcement. Protect yourself by checking this out, it's an informative post that discussed how we can avoid fake giveaways.

Link: How to protect yourself from fake giveaways.

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Yeah, this information really is a huge help to me as a biginner, all thanks to you, but do we have a way or a relevant solution to stop this scamming scheme?

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Quote from: Rikafip on November 04, 2020, 03:46:29 AM

Quote from: pooya87 on November 03, 2020, 11:13:02 PM

the funny thing is that when the shitcoin shitshow starts up again (which i think it will between 6 to 12 months from now) we will see a lot of newbies come in who get scammed by those altcoins and these obvious scammers alike.

Unfortunately it already started few months ago, fueled by DeFi and greed. Funny thing, bunch of those that lost money during ICO craze are investing again in similarly risky things like they didn't learn anything, and that brought even more newbies who probably read stories about x1000 returns in couple of month. For them slowly acquiring BTC is too conservative, they want profit now.

After all, there is an endless supply of naive people, like in that old saying "there's a sucker born every minute".

I'm sure they know the risk already about the DEFI but some think that they will last longer the same when ICO introduce here but suddenly the ending is the same where many people still lose their money so better this one will be the lesson for people on not even think about investing on tokens who seek money for investors.

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This scheme is already common and I’ve seen those fake airdrops doing that from time to time. When I see an entry that requires “private key” to claim the airdrop, it’s a freaking scam. Until now, newbies and beginners in the crypto industry are prone to “shiny figure syndrome” when they see the reward for completing the airdrop without questioning its legitimacy.

And the sad reality is that it’s hard stopping them from getting victimized. We can only educate or give them advice, but we cannot really control them because of the “reward” that they see without checking if it’s legit or scam.

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Quote from: pooya87 on November 03, 2020, 11:13:02 PM

Quote from: ultrloa on November 03, 2020, 06:52:07 PM

I remember the days where the airdrops are rampant here which other scammers use this just to get the private keys of careless users, many of them succeed to penetrate and get the PK and get many $ for that scheme before. But now this act is lessen up and the most common thing we can see is the airdrops and giveaways by certain developers and dump suddenly after they hype and bought by the traders.

it is happening a lot less now because ever since the ICO scam started dying a couple of years ago and all the tokens and the altcoins also started dumping hard, the majority of newbies who were then in huge losses left the market with something between 10 to 20% of their capital. the remaining people weren't such idiots to believe such obvious schemes so these methods stopped being successful.

the funny thing is that when the shitcoin shitshow starts up again (which i think it will between 6 to 12 months from now) we will see a lot of newbies come in who get scammed by those altcoins and these obvious scammers alike.

Although ICO is dying but there are still few running, but there are changes and now it has change to DEFI scams which is currently happening right now that's why it's best for people to not easily believe on new technology or anything that promise to change everything especially when they say they can change your life and earn with the platform since most of them are scams.

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Quote from: pooya87 on November 03, 2020, 11:13:02 PM

the funny thing is that when the shitcoin shitshow starts up again (which i think it will between 6 to 12 months from now) we will see a lot of newbies come in who get scammed by those altcoins and these obvious scammers alike.

Unfortunately it already started few months ago, fueled by DeFi and greed. Funny thing, bunch of those that lost money during ICO craze are investing again in similarly risky things like they didn't learn anything, and that brought even more newbies who probably read stories about x1000 returns in couple of month. For them slowly acquiring BTC is too conservative, they want profit now.

After all, there is an endless supply of naive people, like in that old saying "there's a sucker born every minute".

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I also found same airdrop last day what's even more frightening is that he uses a well-known decentralized exchange that actually issued free tokens back then to it's users.

And there is a humor a second proposed airdrop will be given away to users of unisswap last day but they failed to get the enough vote . And this phising website came from no where offer an airdop but asking for your keys or mnemonic phrase to get it which is a websites that will steal your keys .

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As far as I know, and I think it is what realy it should be, is that no one should input their private keys on any other websites, applications, or any plaforms except your wallet.
If you happen to enter the key on that site or plaforms like that who's asking for your private keys or seeds, your wallet will be more likely be compromised sooner or later.

Keep those private keys and seeds to yourself, and never share them to anyone specially anyone on cyberspace, unless you really trust the person(e.g. family).

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Two ways that are currently usually done by scammers, besides sent a phishing link via email
1. Ask to give PK whose wallet must have a balance
2. Send some funds to the scammer's wallet
Always remember Private Keys is confidential info, if need to send funds first to get airdrops, then you can be sure it's a scammer work.

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Quote from: pooya87 on November 03, 2020, 11:13:02 PM

Quote from: ultrloa on November 03, 2020, 06:52:07 PM

I remember the days where the airdrops are rampant here which other scammers use this just to get the private keys of careless users, many of them succeed to penetrate and get the PK and get many $ for that scheme before. But now this act is lessen up and the most common thing we can see is the airdrops and giveaways by certain developers and dump suddenly after they hype and bought by the traders.

it is happening a lot less now because ever since the ICO scam started dying a couple of years ago and all the tokens and the altcoins also started dumping hard, the majority of newbies who were then in huge losses left the market with something between 10 to 20% of their capital. the remaining people weren't such idiots to believe such obvious schemes so these methods stopped being successful.

the funny thing is that when the shitcoin shitshow starts up again (which i think it will between 6 to 12 months from now) we will see a lot of newbies come in who get scammed by those altcoins and these obvious scammers alike.

Yeah at this time the ICO scam is getting bigger where the scamer is doing this seriously and making money. Many newbies who just entered have a loss and they leave because they have been tricked and don't believe it, after a long time now they definitely come back again and it's all because of developments crypto that is getting faster and also the token hype that is being created will also be an attraction for beginners to come back again.
Well here the scamer will continue to watch how to trap the victim with what they make to get their private key, therefore their awareness is very important for us to save it.

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Quote from: ScamViruS on November 03, 2020, 01:51:27 PM

So be smart yourself and fu** the scammers.

If you want to really f**k scammers, then it's not enough just not to fall into the traps they have set. In order to f**k them, you need to create some kind of counter algorithm that will lure the scammer into your own trap and compromise his in accordance with your personal scenario.

And this is not as easy as it seems. Most beginners still have a huge chance of losing their money, not to mention even punishing the scammers.

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[Nope]No hype delivers more than hope

Currently this method is still used mostly by sending bulk private messages directly to email and telegram messages. Fraudsters know that promoting it publicly will be annoyed with warning reviews and risk the site being reported more and going down faster.

I received a lot of these airdrop messages over the past 2 months in the spam folder, mostly the 2nd to Xth uniswap airdrops. And it only consists of 1 phishing page using the Amazon website service (AWS)

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Quote from: ultrloa on November 03, 2020, 06:52:07 PM

I remember the days where the airdrops are rampant here which other scammers use this just to get the private keys of careless users, many of them succeed to penetrate and get the PK and get many $ for that scheme before. But now this act is lessen up and the most common thing we can see is the airdrops and giveaways by certain developers and dump suddenly after they hype and bought by the traders.

it is happening a lot less now because ever since the ICO scam started dying a couple of years ago and all the tokens and the altcoins also started dumping hard, the majority of newbies who were then in huge losses left the market with something between 10 to 20% of their capital. the remaining people weren't such idiots to believe such obvious schemes so these methods stopped being successful.

the funny thing is that when the shitcoin shitshow starts up again (which i think it will between 6 to 12 months from now) we will see a lot of newbies come in who get scammed by those altcoins and these obvious scammers alike.

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Not your keys, not your coins!

Quote from: ultrloa on November 03, 2020, 06:52:07 PM

I remember the days where the airdrops are rampant here which other scammers use this just to get the private keys of careless users, many of them succeed to penetrate and get the PK and get many $ for that scheme before. But now this act is lessen up and the most common thing we can see is the airdrops and giveaways by certain developers and dump suddenly after they hype and bought by the traders.

Back in days, in 2018 (?), there are many scam forks or clones of Ethereum. Those scammers try to create many clones of Ethereum, Ethereum Dark, Ethereum Classic Vision, .... and to claim those clone coins, people have to waive their mnemonic seeds. Metamask reacted and mark all of clone coins that require seeds to claim as scam.

Community helped to report scam clone coins. [ANN] [ETCV] Ethereum Classic Vision | Fork 3:1 of Ethereum

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I had received similar message for stellar airdrop many moons ago, everything seemed legit including email, finally when they asked for private key my brain lighten up. Not that I was holding any xlm but still whenever anything asks for your private key, it's likely to be a scam.

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Things to remember to be safe in this kind of scheme

Airdrop only needs wallet address - asking for private keys is 100 % scam
Asking fee's to be able to send your token to you are one way to scam
personal message pretending that they are VP or head of the team, no one in the right mind will send personal messages especially if he is the president VP or head of the development.
No website, no team, no projects, remember contract address can be copied and pretends it's their coin, I've seen this in some airdrops after they get what they want they will vanish.

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Quote from: Hamphser on November 03, 2020, 03:42:03 PM

One of the most basic scamming scheme on this market where airdrops, giveaways and other promotions that just masking out to be legit but
in the end they do really try to pull out some scamming attempt for them to lure in people to input their private keys.For people who doesnt have
much knowledge about on how important their private key is will most like to be victimized by this one.. Someone shouldnt really be giving out
these sensitive information because once a certain person do have these keys then they do have the full access into your wallet.Its just common sense.

I remember the days where the airdrops are rampant here which other scammers use this just to get the private keys of careless users, many of them succeed to penetrate and get the PK and get many $ for that scheme before. But now this act is lessen up and the most common thing we can see is the airdrops and giveaways by certain developers and dump suddenly after they hype and bought by the traders.

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Yes, they are not only targetting btc but also the small amount of crypto you had in eth wallet or in an online wallet usually eth. The new comers are always their target because they are new and most of them are get hype whenever they receive a token giving the promise to earn big in it then the said will going to believe in it in which it will disclose the the information to be provided by the scammers fake site. This is usually the way scammer work so keeping always aware the members here in the forum especially the newbie is a good way to prevent them from getting scam.

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