Topic: Seeing is no longer believing - page 3. (Read 401 times)

Someone who is into project stuff like that should pay attention to how scammers operate because they will definitely be coming for them as they are major targets.
 
Just a few weeks ago, manager Royse posted about how some scammers are impersonating some of his clients, not even through video calls but just via normal chat, and it fucking looks very real.
 
If that victim guy was able to keep them on the video call for a long period of time, at least 5 minutes and above, he could have been able to detect some errors and notice that it was all fake.
 
Another thing about all these fake video call tools is that the scammer needs to be the one to call before most of the apps will be able to do what they set them to display. If you call them back, they don't pick up because the tools are not programmed to work that way.

Getting into a video call conversation with someone who you can't call but who can only call you is enough of a of a red flag for someone to notice that something is wrong.

So sad that a hardworking dude would lose such a massive amount to scammers.

We keep talking about carrying out research before doing any transaction related matters on the internet, do you think research is enough?.
I guess you've not heard of the uniswap scam that happened sometime last year. It left me in shock as I could vividly see the level scam has gotten to. Just carrying out research could still land anyone in that Uniswap scam. The X(Twitter) account of uniswap CEO was hacked, fake convention was organized to promote the project, fake uniswap website, and you think carrying out research is enough  .

As long as money still exist, scammers would definitely find ways to hack into the minds of people. I do not discourage research, but it's high time we start to accept the fact that whatever transaction we perform with anyone we can't maintain a physical contact with is clearly a 50/50 success. Having the 50/50 success at the back of our mind reduce the massive disappointment when things go wrong. And also, no one can force you to make transaction, except their tactics was convincing enough.

Let's just say, Carrying research and having a 50/50 success chance at the back of your mind would help.

Links below shows convention and moment the account was hacked.

https://twitter.com/yourfriendSOMMI/status/1664909907731292160?t=6AnrH7UQUvYjb_oBkn84ig&s=19

https://twitter.com/Uniswap/status/1682130018225225728?t=6KoOfCZnh-SzLiDBBuEp1A&s=19

This isn't my first time of hearing about this deepfake tools used to scam people but at some point this people are so naive to fall victim of this scams at least no matter how real a project seems for a good amount like $18k which the victim lost, he should at least involve more than one person to help out on the project at one of two would have suspected and faults would have been found oj thr process but because he or she was convinced of the selfish profit he fall for the scam.

One thing is certain scammers are not dumb they are part of the smartest people in the world but chose to use it in a negative way. So as you said we all have to be on guide, updating each other on what ever is happening around the space not to fall victim of any scam because it hurts to loss ones hard earn money.

Imagine being on a video call and everyone interacting with you are fake?


At first I don't believe this until later on, a guy from my local Crypto WhatsApp group lost close to 18k in dollars to scammers, this is a guy who have been a victim of some past scams and jave learned from it all, thinking he has passed been scammed until now.

He is into startup projects just like I am, using Seedify, Decubate, Ape terminal and others, he is an investor of a newly launched project who have raised some money and they are planning their second fundraising, the team came for him, and to confuse him they use video.

Imagine talking to the CEO of a favorite crypto project that you liked, including two extra team members on video call, and they managed to confuse you that they are picking few numbers of people to invest into the second seed round at a cheaper rate per token?  They got him good, he was too excited and all sense of curiosity was shut down.

Before he knew what was happening he lost everything and accused the team on telegram group only to find out that none offer existed and all seed rounds are already completed.

The scammers went online and download the pictures of the company, including every staff members, everything they can get and used Artificial intelligence to create fake videos and with fake voices they will use in the video call, I went on doing my own research amd ended up with Deep fake technologies.

Read more about deep fake technologies 👇


https://www.idenfy.com/blog/deepfake-technology/amp/

Be on the look out guys, anytime you found any CEOs or notable people online telling you to do something or sending some transactions, please do not rush, take a minute, relax and do some research first or just look away.

If you are curious, find the projects telegram group and ask questions, and post screenshots on the group, I am positive that people will stop you from getting scammed, they will be exposed to you that you are about to get scammed, sadly we have gotten to this stage only to end up having more confusing tools for scammers, all we can do is warn each other of the threats that lurk