I almost always block people for messaging me in Discord about giveaway and other things of the like where money's involved and report them. Discord's pretty slow to ban people in my experience, but if you provide sufficient evidence they'll get the job done. Not the easiest thing to do with Discord, unfortunately, but I'm always in support of minimizing the number of scammers. Note that it's harder for Discord to ban people once messages are deleted.
https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000291932-How-to-Properly-Report-Issues-to-Trust-Safety
Topic: Scammers detecting and blocking (Read 309 times)
Never responding to the telegram spams will save us from lot of scammers because scammers using telegram for target most of the attempt and many are also falling for the offers.So keep yourself awake when you receive something like you will get 100 eth if you deposit 1 eth and etc coming from a scammer.
No matter what forum, chat or social media you use you only need to remember one thing. NOBODY WILL GIVE YOU FREE MONEY!
Anyone who contacts you for whatever reason or story is trying to scam you. Be smart, use common sense and think about your actions. And again, nobody will give you free money so wake up.
Anyone who contacts you for whatever reason or story is trying to scam you. Be smart, use common sense and think about your actions. And again, nobody will give you free money so wake up.
there are lot of scammers in discord they find new ways to scam and sending links , even devs and team say to beware newbies and many others will who dont know will fall for those scams , so be-aware not only on discord in telegram also dont fall for those scams
Great post. Thanks for sharing that with us!! Learned a lot.
Great tips, thanks! I'm sure they'll save some people from getting scammed. I hope you'll update this thread every now and then, since the scammers get more sophisticated by the day...
I was not aware of checking up discord id is possible. That is really helpful. Lots of fake discord accounts lately that are imitating some groups admin and MODS. Thank you.
Crypto is still not so popular as in beginning of 2018 but there are many newbies coming in every day and also some existing experience users might find some tips useful.
There are many scammers that are looking for easy target online on the chat. I am mostly using discord, twitter and telegram and i get at least on message per day of some scammer.
1. Some of them are just message you with new name and some copy paste message you already seen before. This is easy scammer detect.
In this case it is important to check if user already joined some of existing group and report him to admins of a group to ban him (works for telegram and discord), for twitter you can easily report this user to Twitter support and he will eventually get blocked/suspended account.
2. A bit advanced scammers will try imitate admins of some best coins/token groups. They will copy name and avatar of admin. On first look it is same account and people trust the message and do some crazy stuff, like sending ETH/BTC to get some additional bonus tokens/coins, enable RDP access to their desktop in case users is asking for some help...
First thing to remember:
in case you get a direct message from admin:
- serious project admin will never send you direct message first.
- find an admin on the group list (not in the chat history but on members list) and try to send him a message - if there is new chat opened and not the same as your first admin message you found a scammer.
In telegram you normally have a star belong admins of a group
In discord groups have different style of groups names but Admins, mods are always on top
Discord has also an option to check user ID. You need to enable developer option in settings to get this. User can easily copy Name and avatar of another user but cannot duplicate user id. If you compare user id you will get info if this user is the one that he is claiming to be. Just click copy ID as on image bellow and compare both ID's.
There are many scammers that are looking for easy target online on the chat. I am mostly using discord, twitter and telegram and i get at least on message per day of some scammer.
1. Some of them are just message you with new name and some copy paste message you already seen before. This is easy scammer detect.
In this case it is important to check if user already joined some of existing group and report him to admins of a group to ban him (works for telegram and discord), for twitter you can easily report this user to Twitter support and he will eventually get blocked/suspended account.
2. A bit advanced scammers will try imitate admins of some best coins/token groups. They will copy name and avatar of admin. On first look it is same account and people trust the message and do some crazy stuff, like sending ETH/BTC to get some additional bonus tokens/coins, enable RDP access to their desktop in case users is asking for some help...
First thing to remember:
in case you get a direct message from admin:
- serious project admin will never send you direct message first.
- find an admin on the group list (not in the chat history but on members list) and try to send him a message - if there is new chat opened and not the same as your first admin message you found a scammer.
In telegram you normally have a star belong admins of a group
In discord groups have different style of groups names but Admins, mods are always on top
Discord has also an option to check user ID. You need to enable developer option in settings to get this. User can easily copy Name and avatar of another user but cannot duplicate user id. If you compare user id you will get info if this user is the one that he is claiming to be. Just click copy ID as on image bellow and compare both ID's.
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