Topic: Scammers won't mind kicking those who are already down - page 2. (Read 423 times)

It won't matter even if people would be educated on how to deal with suspicious emails. Especially elder people, they're really vulnerable to these kinds of stuff. It's not just the scammers attempting to phish these people from doing stuffs like this.

Some are even outgoing that would attempt to call you like "cold calling" even though they would claim that you're in their records making purchases. Refund scams does these kinds of method.

Whenever someone signs up for an exchange account or an airdrop account, see to it that you'll receive unsolicited emails even if you don't want to.

Yes, that's how it goes with these scammers. Every trend that comes and every market that changes the setting, there will be victims that will complain about how they've been scammed but before reporting that, they have never questioned the emails or messages that came from these scammers.

This must be a phishing mail sent to thousands of persons, they must have harvested your email address from a website you once registered that is now in control of the scammer. Aside exploiting the fact that FTX is moving some of its assets to launch this attack, the scam is weak. I believe it's just few persons that will fall for the click bait, especially persons that are new to the space. The sender email is really weird as you said and it's not really convincing, that alone is a good reason to draw suspicion. The scammer again messed up with the token ticker "USD-C", I think he wanted to write "USDC".

Each bull run of Bitcoin, cryptocurrency market is heated up and attract new investors who bring new cash flow. They are new victims of many new trending scam altcoins.

They are new and unexperienced to understand altcoins can be creates easily and they mostly die after each big bull run. After one or two bearish year, their developers abandon those projects, and wait for a new trend with a new bull run to launch new projects.

Then the cycle repeats, new bull run, new trends, new cash flows, new victims. The market will never be lack of victims.

There is this system where one get scammed by scammers and while the person that was scammed is grieving he gets a write up about how to recover his scammed fund, if he/she is unsuspecting he/she can fall victim to this,  further scams and still the scammers can come back again to attempt scamming the victim.

These days scammers are finding it hard to find victim thanks to the spread of the awareness of scam activities so they really aim to hold on tight to any victim they find.

This is one of the reason why I don’t feel pity for scammers that were caught and sentence to spend some time behind bars, sometimes they do things as if they are monsters like who the heck will even have the mind to be sending mails to people that were victims of a scam that ruined most of their lives and now that some have been able to put their lives together some random scum will starts to mail them to collect the little money that they have left.

In cases like this, even those that are aware of phishing attacks will still be tempted to click on the link and try if they can retrieve their money from FTX

One funny thing about scammers is that they don't get tired of reaping people off even though they understand what people have gone through with what has happened to them already and to be honest this trick of paying back the lost money to customers is the easiest way to scam most people who lost their money because most people will be excited to hear that there is a way of getting their lost money back not minding if the emails they received came from FTX. I think more awareness needs to be conducted especially to the people who's into cryptocurrency investment and a thorough investigation needs to be carried out to fish out the perpetrators of this criminal activities else the rate of scamming won't be reduced.

People need to understand the need not to give a listening ear to everyone who's sending all kinds of useful information trying to assist them when they have challenges with their funds or their investment, it is difficult to get a genuine stranger in the cryptocurrency world who wants  to help you without getting something in return or scamming you, people should verify informations they receive to be true and genuine before rushing out to give full details about themselves and their portfolio's, scammers are always ahead with information don't be surprised to see them re-strategize once they find out that a lot of people are not falling to this particular tricks.

Victims of the FTX exchange scam have learnt a lot in the crypto sector; they have realized how risky it is to rely on centralized exchanges, and I have confidence they will not fall victim to this type of spam again. Although some of them may believe that now is the moment to retrieve their assets back, they may fall victim to this phishing mail campaign and lose money again.

The lesson here is that I should always avoid phishing messages via email and phishing URLs because this is a classic example of phishing because you have never utilized FTX Exchange before and are receiving the letter.

Scammers target people when they are vulnerable so they try to attack those victims since they are prone to get scam again especially the name refund is used. Some other got desperate for their money to get refund that's why they caught up again by another scammers.

We need to remember that when scamming times already happen its good for us if we move forward and learn then forget about those bad experiences we encounter.

If some should fall into this mistake the second time then they may never be wise, it's something that we need to let people get the awareness of how scam is being launched to attack others, ways we can guide ourselves against such, examples of what has been happening from other people's experience, also i want to commend this platform for prompt update in exposing all forms of scam related new and developed strategies, especially here on beginners and help section for others to get informed, even the coins ceased by the government from scam related cases are not released back to the people, they made an auction for it.

Scammers have no mercy for victims who have lost their money or in the crypto space. They are hardened criminals. Their mind is not always at rest to create means to scam individuals who are less ignorant to stay updated on the latest happening in the crypto space. The scammers keep developing strategies of any sort to make sure people fall for them.

To scammers, every little announcement or latest happening in the crypto space serves as an opportunity given to them to dope people of their funds. They created their own type of scammer email because of the announcement the FXT exchange made concerning returning people's funds. You can imagine the number of people they sent this email to, notifying them of the FXT withdrawal being available.

---

Only those who are less smart or exposed to the crypto space would fall for this though

You are absolutely right, these are not compassionate people who choose their targets and they don't care if their victim is someone who has only $100 or someone who has $1 million. However, those who send such e-mails are nothing more than ordinary vultures who hope to pick up the remains of what is left behind by the Kwon-Bankman scam pandemic, and you should not be surprised at all that you receive such e-mails, because I also often receive e-mails from various CEXs, although I only registered on one once upon a time.

The best advice that everyone should apply is to never click on links in e-mails until they are sure that they come from a legitimate source - and we can easily find this out by checking the sender's address and comparing it with the e-mail address that is always on to a legitimate website.

That scam email is not from FTX 2.0 team so you must ask why your email was pwned?

If you receive scam email like this one, your email address would be in a data breach.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/ is a site to check if your email address is in a data breach from which those scammers get a list of many email addresses then they try to send scam emails to find victims.

and this is why everyone should be cautious of scams online, no one will protect you from all the scammers that linger on the internet, so you need to be ready for anything especially if it involves money, personal information, etc.

makes me wonder where they got all those email addresses, pretty sure someone sold it to them.

Scammers taking advantage of other scammers debacle. This is not new on this space as anything that they can take advantage of, they will.

It's always best to be curious with the emails that you receive and if you can't remember if you signed up for it and then receiving is suspicious, much better not to attend to that email and put it in the trash can.

While, these attempts can get some newbies thinking that they are for real because when I was still new, I've got this type of attempt and almost fell for it.

I always feel bad when I see these scammers taking people's hard earned money from them without any mercy and from my observations, these scammers aren't bothered about what happens next to their victims as long as they achieve  their  goal and mission which is to steal and take away money from  their victims.

Thank you for bringing this to our notice and just as you said, if this email also gets  tot the inbox of an FTX old customer, there are possibilities of such a person to fall for the scam in quest to recover their investment especially  if the investment amount was much.
I hope this also gets more awareness as this development might cause more harm if publicity isn't taken serious. And I hope you also permit me as I've already copied this post to my local board please.
Thanks.

This is why I always remind other people about email headers, some people get scam just by simply reading the emails saw it like [email protected] and they will click  the email, then from there everything starts to get weird asking to change the password, since its been compromised without knowing that its a fake email, I have work in a company where an email received a fake Sales invoice asking for payment, they will actually going to fall from that tricked but when i have check the email header, its a different email address pretending to be a real one, although there are lots of tricks, being use by this hacker being curious and checking it to make sure will save the day from a person or company, in a big way.

The fear should be that these people have OP's mail on their database. We must consider how we accept cookies or submit our personal mails on any website. There are many risk factors attached to the way random people's mails fly around the web. It gets leaked or sold most often. Thereby, increasing scam rate, just like the example OP shared.

This is not new at all, as this has been one of the scammers most recently used strategies, and victims who have lost enough easily fall victim to this kind of scam because they are always looking to grab whatever is necessary to regain their already supposed lost funds.
 
Do these scammers have a conscience? No they don't, they don't care about how much you have lost, if you are in a sick bed because of the one that has recently happened, if you are to borrow to survive, or whatever bad situation you are in, they don't care. What they care about is how to convince you to invest and give out any fund that you can get your hands on and offer you a recovering proposer, which won't even happen. They try every possible way that they can, come up with ideas that the real companies have never even had in mind just to convince their victims and take their hard earned money from them.
 
If everyone can be guided and disregard every email that comes from an unknown sender, then we can all be safe, and secondly, any company that has just recently mismanaged customers funds and is still requesting any form of payment in order for the customer to get back their funds is not real and has never had the intention of paying back.

No, they don't care at all, and what is even worse, on the contrary, they exploit to their advantage the fact that the victim has been defrauded and that has the hope of being able to recover their money and for this reason they are more inclined to cling to any opportunity that, in their eyes, can make them recover falling for another scam.