scammers with their everyday strategies

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Quote from: Hypnosis00 on February 25, 2022, 03:45:40 PM

Scammers will never stop coz they know that they can still find people to scam and their strategies are still working. But they will fail if we are too careful and able to control our greediness.

Well, congratz OP for being a detective of your own. You have found it suspicious and never click it. That scammer is very unlucky with you but I know there are more innocent/newcomers who have been a victim of this unless they have their instinct to check the link first before clicking.

New hype create new people to come in the ecosystem and if there's a profit can possibly accumulate there are people who take advantage to deceive people and stole what they want from them and to avoid any tactics which scammers have we should always think about if there's a offer which is to good to be true then mark it as not true since scammers always use the huge profit technique and earn while doing nothing keyword for their illegal actions.

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Scammers will never stop coz they know that they can still find people to scam and their strategies are still working. But they will fail if we are too careful and able to control our greediness.

Well, congratz OP for being a detective of your own. You have found it suspicious and never click it. That scammer is very unlucky with you but I know there are more innocent/newcomers who have been a victim of this unless they have their instinct to check the link first before clicking.

Smartvirus

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If you ask me if scamming and scammees would ever stop, I'll say a "Big No" to that. Even with increased awareness on security and also apprehension of these scammers, they will only continue to evolve and become the more better. So long as there is the possibility of a victim in the crowd, a scammer is patient enough and determined to search out that single victim and doesn't mind developing more schemes to replace a known one.

The more reason why, we have to take security with ought most priority.
It's a fine thing you've done @Edith1994 but not without risk because, scammees target different tunes which might be just out of your lead. It could be your funds and at some other point, just phishing for details. So, if you aren't sure of how long you could stretch it or know when your actually falling into the scam, don't stretch it but if you don't, there won't be any scheme to expose!

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Quote from: Edith1994 on February 20, 2022, 12:52:32 PM

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Those people are also coming from those spam comments that seems like s/he or they are legitimate traders by making some random accounts that will vouch for them which is either a sold account or a fake ones. It happens all the time, OP. Although this one is where people are going to approach those scammers instead of scammers pursuing their victims.
In Youtube, there are also plenty of those especially when I check for recent comments.

kawetsriyanto

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This is one of the ways scammers work, not only in the crypto world but in various other scams in the real world.
Luckily at that time, you were suspicious from the start.
But next time, you better be more careful, especially when for example he gives you a link or any code so that you click or enter the code.
Afraid, they cooperate with hackers and hack your device.
Here, caution and intelligence are needed to avoid various scammers.
And there are many other ways that are done by them, which seem very natural and convincing.

Rockstarguy

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It's fine you didn't fall so cheaply fall so cheaply for those words of deceits coming from him, my happiness is that right from the beginning of the conservation you are already aware he is a scammer, and you never had a double thought of giving a try to his words. The only thing you went too far to do is having a video conversation with a scanner. The most important thing in all that may a lot is that he succeed in his plans.

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Once a man, twice a child!

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Quote from: Coyster on February 20, 2022, 02:12:34 PM

OP your story sounds pretty ambiguous to say the least,

Exactly, do scammers really make video calls and expose their real identities or this is just another story that was not well fabricated.

Exactly my thought too. Scammers would always do all they can to avoid having video calls. I don't know what to make out of OP's story. Another thing I observed is the "switching on of something on Metamask" I use metamask and I don't know of anywhere that could be switched on there that can give another person access to a remote device. However, I know scammers use something called TeamViewer or so to gain access to a remote device, normally a PC. But that's' an app on its own and it's not directly linked to a wallet. Perhaps, OP didn't explain that part well.

Issa56

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Thanks for sharing here, I believe it will really benefit lot's of people because am also suprise how the person was able to track you activity, scammers are really doing research they are always looking for new techniques which they will use to scam people, they are always looking for strategies which people don't really know about, so if you follow the steps which he asked you to follow he will definitely have access to your wallet address and all your funds will be gone that's really bad.
I will definitely advice everyone to be careful of all those platform that will ask you to invest and they will grow your money or help you trade with your money and also all those people that will ask you to invest money and they will double it for you, cryptocurrency those not work like that and also be careful of the link which we click online.

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Quote from: Coyster on February 20, 2022, 02:12:34 PM

OP your story sounds pretty ambiguous to say the least,

Exactly, do scammers really make video calls and expose their real identities or this is just another story that was not well fabricated. Maybe the face you saw on the call was another person's face, but I doubt that a scammer will use their face for a task like this and risk exposure to the authorities.

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Quote from: Edith1994 on February 20, 2022, 12:52:32 PM

I was going through my Facebook when a message pop up on my messenger then when I go through the message, it's was all about a platform where I can grow my ETH , and invest as well , so I followed up pretending as if I was interested on the so call platform, so I can detect the pattern of which he want to use in scamming.

Anything that involves money offered from an unknown person is somewhat alarming. Even it was from the legit site, it can't be possible to have that kind, OP. I think we should need to be more vigilant about what pop-ups on our phone, PC/laptop. We should have to read it carefully and think even twice before giving a reply or ignoring it.
We can't get scammed if we don't. Even we don't have to pretend that we know their plan, that was clear enough what is their intention.

I highly agree with you. If there is an unknown person who contacted with you stating that they are an investing firm and required you to invest a minimum amount of money, then it is highly likely that such is a scam. No matter how pleasing the rates they may offer, you could never really trust anyone on the internet until you have verified all their documents supporting their project/investments.

OP, good thing you were able to avoid this kind of scam on Facebook. Normally, lots of newbies tend to be persuaded by scammers who offer significantly high rates in hopes of attracting them.

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Quote from: passwordnow on February 21, 2022, 03:17:09 AM

You did it right that you know the trick and you never fell for it. But there are some questions on my mind, how did that scammer know you're in crypto? You messaged him first or you're posting crypto stuff on your Facebook profile?

Such information can easily be obtained from user profiles. Unless everything is hidden and locked from the general public, you can see what interests someone has, what groups he follows, what he likes, etc. You can also get a lot of information by looking at group members or the comments of people who post in crypto-related groups. It's safe to assume that if I am a member of several popular crypto groups on Facebook and I write in those groups, I am also interested in cryptocurrencies.

Edith1994

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Quote from: Pmalek on February 20, 2022, 02:57:23 PM

Did you at any time visit the website of the alleged platform that the scammer told you about or did you update your MetaMask when talking to him?

I didn't do anything he ask of me I don't even have metamask wallet, I just pretended as if I was doing exactly what he asked me to.

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Quote from: Edith1994 on February 20, 2022, 12:52:32 PM

he told me that I wasn't doing exactly what he asked of me , I was so shocked, I asked how he knew I wasn't doing exactly what he asked of me , so he replied with a pigin English saying in quote, "you just they waste my time here since abi" and abusive words, then he blocked me. I was so edger to know how he knew I wasn't doing exact what he asked of me, so I contacted a friend and explained everything that happened, he replied saying I'm a lucky person, if I did the exact things that scammer told me all my coins in my wallet would have been vanished.

He can tell it base on the time he wait for your recovery seedphrase to appear on his phishing website. These hacker is assuming that you are fooling him around because a real newbie without knowledge on scam that showing interest on this scheme will probably fill up already on the link he provides for investment. There's a lot of this scammer on facebook especially on comment section they usually reply there phishing link on any comment that related to crypto.

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Do you know that person personally? I think that's another poser that has been using a dummy account to scam people. They're almost everywhere, in most facebook pages commenting and as well as messaging random people.
You did it right that you know the trick and you never fell for it. But there are some questions on my mind, how did that scammer know you're in crypto? You messaged him first or you're posting crypto stuff on your Facebook profile?

Pmalek

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Quote from: bittraffic on February 20, 2022, 08:06:46 PM

Can anybody update us here on which particular network this scammer wants OP to switch ON?

I don't think it's that important. The network itself is not bad, it's not evil, and they all have their purposes. Mainnet is used by default, but the scammer might have requested that OP switches to a test environment, such as Ropsten or Rinkeby. Even if no network change was required, it's easy and cheap to create a worthless fake token on the mainnet and scam people with it.

acroman08

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how exactly did the scammer know that you weren't doing what you were supposed to do? did you download a screen share app of some kind or you were stalling for too long that the scammer took notice of it?

Quote from: bittraffic on February 20, 2022, 08:06:46 PM

Can anybody update us here on which particular network this scammer wants OP to switch ON?

I am curious about this too. OP should clarify what particular network was asked by the scammer to be switched on.

tranthidung

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Farewell o_e_l_e_o

Scammers repeat their scam methods to find new victims. You are safe if you are aware of some facts

Admins never DM you first
Admins never ask for money
Admins never ask for private key or mnemonic seed
Any offer from strangers which is too good to be true is scam

It is not too difficult to know and most of people get scammed because they are either too naively or too greedy.

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Can anybody update us here on which particular network this scammer wants OP to switch ON?

There are several already to switch on and if this network is used by other scammers by sending an alt/token to lure some of us, users will be victims. Some people are excited to log in when they get some airdrop and it's an easy target for these scammers. It will be a good idea to learn these networks.

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Quote from: Pmalek on February 20, 2022, 02:57:23 PM

I also came across a new type of scam attempt. Got a message from someone saying "hi Robert, what's the weather like in Sydney"? Obviously I am not Robert and I don't live in Sydney. The goal is probably to get me talking and possibly interested in some investments. If I replied with "I am not Robert, you are talking with the wrong person", she would say (and yes, it's a profile picture of some Asian hottie) "sorry, my bad. I am an investment broker trying to get hold of my friend. I have a great offer for him where he can triple his money in just 10 days". I go, "Oh really, tell me more"! And that's how it starts.

I saw a funny FB comment the other day somewhere where a guy wrote: "If some hot girl contacts you with investment advice over the Internet, block him!"

It is not the first time I hear of this story. It does seem to be a new kind of scam that is very popular at the moment. They use a 'hot girl' profile picture and they chat with you as a method of attraction. It used to be a Stock Market investment scam and now they are looking for Cryptocurrency victims as well. And they do seem to find victims, just look 'asian girl exchange scam' up and you will find a lot of results.

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Regards,
PrivacyG

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It's common everywhere in social media and I know myself and I'm oriented about crypto investment so I usually ignored them or I didn't reply to them.
In Facebook, Twitter, and the house of scammers in Telegram it is very common that they send you and PM first. Good thing OP that you are already aware of a possible scam and you avoided it quickly.

As I always said, we should always have extra vigilant in every strange people over the internet, especially those random people who pop up our inbox sending a message to us and offering something about financial matters, all of them aren't trusted.

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