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Quote from: Wakate on May 05, 2024, 05:39:56 PM

I think you are very correct. Many of these scammers mostly act like a newbie seeking for help. Sometimes when I see them writing in a telegram group like they don't understand crypto, you might be deluded and want to help them when it is very clear that they are scammers acting like they don't know how to swap their coins from a particular chain to the chain they want it. People that do not understand or know about this method of scamming might be tempted to fall for the scam. One just have to be very conscious and make sure that we read books and check for new pattern many of these scammers are using to scam people that might not be as obvious as we may think.

Scammers discover new methods every day. Who knew that scammers will pretend to be a crypto noob who does not understand much about crypto? They even spread malware to victims' devices by asking them to download a specific wallet software and links are given by the scammers. Asking for help to withdraw the crypto funds is a very old method. But they have polished it further and make it different this time. Previously they were sending message to a random person saying I am in a vacation or I do not have the fees to withdraw the funds. Please go to this website and login there with my email and password, you will be able to withdraw the funds after depositing the transaction fees. LOL. I guess you heard about it before.

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Quote from: SquirrelJulietGarden on December 20, 2023, 10:10:32 AM

Ignore strangers is a good prevention.

If you receive DMs from strangers which relate to money and "Too good to be true" offers, be more careful and don't send your money first to those strangers, you will lose your money.

Don't click on any link sent by strangers.
Don't download anything, any file sent to you by strangers.

Be careful and be wise when you are on the Internet and in cryptocurrency space.

You can customize your account settings and disable Automatic download file, images like on Telegram.

Some of their messages come with a veiled threat, giving you a short time frame and sometimes might come in the form of helping you by sending you some phishing mails, you have to be extremely careful and thorough.
Abstainance is key, Just ignore messages or mails you didn’t initiate

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Quote from: Learn Bitcoin on May 04, 2024, 05:12:50 AM

Quote from: Rengga Jati on May 03, 2024, 04:37:44 PM

Beginners or people who are really greedy and want instant results are usually one of the easiest targets for scammers. especially if the scam project is under the guise of hype coins and is spread or promoted by certain influencers, oh never mind, this will be very easy to reach even more people.

Meanwhile, we cannot prevent scams. That's why we ourselves have to anticipate it so that it's not too easy to get caught in a scam. Yes, vigilance and not easily trusting people in the crypto world is very necessary and very important.

Scammers not only convince people to invest in certain projects, but they also trick people into falling for their scams. For example, if they can understand that you are not going to fall for their investment scam, they may try to trick you. There are some phishing scams which they try to apply for different users. For example, they will send you a message and they will act like they are crypto newbie and they will ask you if you can help them to withdraw their funds. A couple of months ago, a scammer asked me If I could help him withdraw his funds from his trust wallet. He ask me to download the trust wallet and import his seed phrases and withdraw the funds to his wallet. Of course he had some bad intention. Nobody is going to give their seed phrases if there is no benefit for them. I had to deny him.

I think you are very correct. Many of these scammers mostly act like a newbie seeking for help. Sometimes when I see them writing in a telegram group like they don't understand crypto, you might be deluded and want to help them when it is very clear that they are scammers acting like they don't know how to swap their coins from a particular chain to the chain they want it. People that do not understand or know about this method of scamming might be tempted to fall for the scam. One just have to be very conscious and make sure that we read books and check for new pattern many of these scammers are using to scam people that might not be as obvious as we may think.

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Quote from: Rengga Jati on May 03, 2024, 04:37:44 PM

Beginners or people who are really greedy and want instant results are usually one of the easiest targets for scammers. especially if the scam project is under the guise of hype coins and is spread or promoted by certain influencers, oh never mind, this will be very easy to reach even more people.

Meanwhile, we cannot prevent scams. That's why we ourselves have to anticipate it so that it's not too easy to get caught in a scam. Yes, vigilance and not easily trusting people in the crypto world is very necessary and very important.

Scammers not only convince people to invest in certain projects, but they also trick people into falling for their scams. For example, if they can understand that you are not going to fall for their investment scam, they may try to trick you. There are some phishing scams which they try to apply for different users. For example, they will send you a message and they will act like they are crypto newbie and they will ask you if you can help them to withdraw their funds. A couple of months ago, a scammer asked me If I could help him withdraw his funds from his trust wallet. He ask me to download the trust wallet and import his seed phrases and withdraw the funds to his wallet. Of course he had some bad intention. Nobody is going to give their seed phrases if there is no benefit for them. I had to deny him.

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Quote from: Learn Bitcoin on May 03, 2024, 10:15:59 AM

I want to believe that people are already aware of a lot about those old crypto scams. But the scammers now coming with new tricks everyday to fool people. They come up with projects like could mining and similar things. You should always do your own research.

It cannot be denied that social media is a platform that is very vulnerable to the development and number of scams that have occurred so far. Because, they can easily reach lay people or beginners in crypto more quickly and easily. There are many methods used by scammers, both modern ones and types of scams that have been going on for a very long time. And there are still people who are trapped by this scam. Unfortunately it never seems to stop.

Beginners or people who are really greedy and want instant results are usually one of the easiest targets for scammers. especially if the scam project is under the guise of hype coins and is spread or promoted by certain influencers, oh never mind, this will be very easy to reach even more people.

Meanwhile, we cannot prevent scams. That's why we ourselves have to anticipate it so that it's not too easy to get caught in a scam. Yes, vigilance and not easily trusting people in the crypto world is very necessary and very important.

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Quote from: Obim34 on December 20, 2023, 10:40:54 AM

This is the time we're scammers are beginning to show case their intellect in trying to scam people by all means, yes they are smart but we need to be smarter than them. I am happy for OP creating this awareness as many might have not heard of this tactics which they now deploy to scam people.

The worst of them can be that of airdrop, still in shock as many people still desire to do airdrop, some even engage in airdrop with their wallet which they used in holding their investment and some still give access to this scammers very bad. We should be ready at all times to know when conversing with a scammer and avoid giving any valid information that will cost us our money.

Caution should always been our heart beat when operating on some unknown link mostly when is coming from social media platform because most of the scammers it's there root and source of operations.
One just need be careful because there nature if operations has no season, though we can say that they operate most when the see rises bin the crypto space but there pattern has changed they work with all season they are working out different modelity just to capture their victims but one must also be tactical enough to identify them before time by always awaking the caution spirit of avoiding airdrop on social media such as telegram, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc except the project or airdrop is from a trusted person or source.

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Quote from: Learn Bitcoin on May 03, 2024, 10:15:59 AM

Spending time on social media is a waste of time unless you have an important task to do there. You should set your privacy settings so that strangers cannot send you a private message. But even if they send, you should not respond to them. If you get offers that sound like it's too good to be true, don't fall for that. You should know that it's all scam.

I want to believe that people are already aware of a lot about those old crypto scams. But the scammers now coming with new tricks everyday to fool people. They come up with projects like could mining and similar things. You should always do your own research.

Here I agreed about this even this is not only waste of time its also creating feud in life as well which I recently check too many youngsters are having troubling life just because of this social media even we are also having many positive aspects as well but still life is not easy due to this because few scammers are creating lucrative ideas and things which are having eye side of the many new generation peoples, and then they are trying to achieve them.
In most chances things like these are not having any solid base or project but due to these scammers it's circulating and then having some negative aspects which are giving headache to families and communities, but sadly we are fail to stop them due to beyond boundaries.

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Quote from: Bushdark on April 27, 2024, 12:22:26 PM

There is a lot going on in the crypto space now and one has to be very careful about it because if we don't take a good approach being the sie guy, we might lose our funds to scammers. Scammers are working very hard to make money from cryptocurrency investors that know nothing about their skill. We can make money in the market and we should also know we can lose the same money if we are not very conscious of the tricks mostly used by scammers. We have to read news and get information about how scammers could lure us to get our funds.

Once anyone decides to invest in cryptocurrencies, one of the first things they should take seriously is security education. It is worrisome to see newbies who have no clue about what they are investing their money into jump freely into the arms of scammers who offer to help them achieve financial freedom through crypto. How would this newbies know how to protect themselves and their investments from scammers when they know very little about safety and security in the crypto world. Investing in cryptocurrency is good, but why the rush to make profits immediately? A lot has been going on and scammers won't stop anytime, this is why we have to be vigilant and most importantly see all strangers as suspects until you are able to prove beyond doubts that a particular stranger is not.

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Spending time on social media is a waste of time unless you have an important task to do there. You should set your privacy settings so that strangers cannot send you a private message. But even if they send, you should not respond to them. If you get offers that sound like it's too good to be true, don't fall for that. You should know that it's all scam.

I want to believe that people are already aware of a lot about those old crypto scams. But the scammers now coming with new tricks everyday to fool people. They come up with projects like could mining and similar things. You should always do your own research.

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Quote from: Rockstarguy on December 21, 2023, 03:48:18 AM

The best thing to do not to fall as prey into the hand of scammers is to just avoid every stranger and not aiming to earn profit by all means. People who mostly fall into the hands of scammers are those that are very desperate to make money. Trading and investment is personal and no one can assist in making it better, you can only make it better for yourself by trying to know things by yourself. That is why it is important to make research to understand things to make it impossible for strangers to come up with their scam trick .

Thank you so much with this kind of your advice. A word is enough for the wise. you have said it all. If everyone could follow this your advice, he or she will never fall victim of being scammed by scammers. Because you will have your own knowledge, you will know how it being operated, you will also know the ways, manners and tricks which scammers follow to scam innocent people. so you can not be able to be duped easily.

Quote from: Crypt0Gore on December 21, 2023, 04:46:19 AM

Newbies and beginners greatest enemy in crypto space is strangers, this is not a field where you get PM from friend of a friend who want to hire you because you have a skill that they need or something else, total strangers online are creepy as hell, don't even try giving them any attention.

From my past experiences with strangers online, they always have a plan to get the best out of use, either by scamming you or using you, some will pretend to be different but their true color will eventually be shown to you, they are literally looking for stupid people to take advantage of, since 2017 I have never seen stranger that DMed me with just pure mind and no evil plan in mind.

It's better to ignore any stranger, chance your app security settings, they won't be able to get to you unless you are the one that PM them first, strangers don't always have the best interest in mind.

Desperation is all root of failures. we should not be so desperate to earn money by all means. Life is a gradual process. And since everything has time, with time you would get to where you want to go to. our destiny are not the same. the difference between here and there is T which is time. so, especially when you meet any stranger, don't be eager to share your private account code with him irrespective of what you are told by him. To avoid regret at the end. Although you are free to choose but when choosing, choose wisely because of the possible consequence.

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There is a lot going on in the crypto space now and one has to be very careful about it because if we don't take a good approach being the sie guy, we might lose our funds to scammers. Scammers are working very hard to make money from cryptocurrency investors that know nothing about their skill. We can make money in the market and we should also know we can lose the same money if we are not very conscious of the tricks mostly used by scammers. We have to read news and get information about how scammers could lure us to get our funds.

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Op, this your topic is really nice because they have been using that means to get into people's account and the funny part is that people still fall for them because of greed and ignorant, I wish this post can go as far as possible maybe even outside this forum so that people can see all these means in which one can get frauded.

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Quote from: pakhitheboss on December 20, 2023, 10:01:49 AM

The time has come when understanding crypto in detail and DYOR more than earlier has become a necessity. If you don't understand anything happening in the market then stay away and do not become greedy to ride the wave. Things are not so good as they were earlier post 2021.

This is the smartest idea I've heard lately. You are right; now there are a lot of telegram groups and various YouTube videos that regularly publish their profits, as well as supposedly closed groups that will help those who make an initial or monthly contribution.
I once fell into such a scam, although it was long ago. I did not see any difference between the information that was published openly and that which was in the closed group. But it affected my wallet.
Now I perceive any hint of bonuses and lessons on how to make good money with extreme skepticism. However, if scammers are still active, people are also falling into their traps. And talking about your investigation when a person does not understand anything does not sound entirely reliable.
Therefore, yes, it is better not to go where we are empty of knowledge now.

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Quote from: pakhitheboss on December 20, 2023, 10:01:49 AM

Another one would be a pump and dump group showing you how much they make a profit everyday through paid signals
In the end it would be a project copying others or a new one trying to cash on the trend.

After having a bad experience and losing the hands of these pump-and-dump groups, I swear to myself not to trust them anymore and not to trust someone who talks amount of money saying huge huge ROI after a few days of investing. This is the usual trick of scammers and we can see a lot of them in social media, particularly in telegram groups. We must be careful of someone (strangers) who shoots a message claiming he is an expert and tried to help for free because, in the end, this person will ask for something in return.

We have to learn from the people who have experience with this, we don't need to experience it before realizing that we are wrong.

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Quote from: Maslate on December 22, 2023, 04:59:55 PM

Research is the key. If you want to succeed on crypto and gain decent profits, then establish knowledge and develop certain skills that are highly needed to make you successful. Do not rely on the people you found online that guarantee your success in crypto. Remember, strangers are more likely scammers, they will continue to deceive you until you end up convinced and agree on them. When you do that, you are not losing the opportunity to make you real rich, but you are giving them the big chances to make them rich because of you.

Invest in crypto with caution. But invest in your knowledge first above everything.

The dilemma of most users is that they easily jump on hyped up things for the idea of generating high profits.
So they are forgetting the basic thing of research and at least educate themselves what the project is all about.
Sometimes, they don't even read the project's mission or target objectives anymore, but they only check the charts in a hurry to gain profitss.
You can't understand market performance if you are blind with what's going on behind the project's developments.

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Quote from: pakhitheboss on December 20, 2023, 10:01:49 AM

Another one would be a pump and dump group showing you how much they make a profit everyday through paid signals

Results constantly shown will always be enough to tempt people with weak minds because even though they try to ignore it and avoid that first but do not run and exit it themselves from such groups with emergency, when these scammers who are admins of these groups continue posting these results, and then get some fake members to act like they have had their results and make comments, the opinions and mindset of the unbelieving will begin to change slowly until they are convinced enough to make themselves vulnerable to these scammers.

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Do not wait before this happens to you and see yourself as a prey to scammers. But do your own diligence to research and study until you find out and understand the main concept in crypto. Crypto is not made to make us instantly rich and wealthy. There are steps and processes to make it happen but everything takes time.

Now, if these scammers have tried to convince you that success becomes easier and faster if you follow them, then definitely that's a big scam. There's no shortcuts to success but you have to learned and take the process step by step, otherwise you will end up using up all your funds and regret why you let yourself fooled by them.

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Know what you are doing and know who you are dealing and trusting. If you easily trust and rely on other people, you will only get scammed in the end. Scamming is very rampant with regards to crypto and these people will do everything to make us fall into their traps. But we can totally avoid it if we have adequate knowledge in crypto.

Paid channels or apps are not made for us to reach our crypto goals, but it's there to make them take advantage on us by buying on their app or channel. With the use of AI, it even make their jobs easier to take an edge over us. But if we stick to our own knowledge and established insights about crypto based from our own research, we will never easily fall on their traps.

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Research is the key. If you want to succeed on crypto and gain decent profits, then establish knowledge and develop certain skills that are highly needed to make you successful. Do not rely on the people you found online that guarantee your success in crypto. Remember, strangers are more likely scammers, they will continue to deceive you until you end up convinced and agree on them. When you do that, you are not losing the opportunity to make you real rich, but you are giving them the big chances to make them rich because of you.

Invest in crypto with caution. But invest in your knowledge first above everything.

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With pump and dump groups, people never learn. These are the groups that's been made by those leaders that are pumping the altcoins that they are following or probably have been made. With people following blindly, they're only helping these leaders or organizers make themselves rich.

Quote from: Miles2006 on December 22, 2023, 02:48:46 PM

The first thing I learnt about bitcoin security should be our first priority, bitcoin is a modern technology and anything associated with the internet scammers will always find new method to scam, unknown contact trying to offer juicy offer sounds suspicious at the first place, if those offers were true no one would have contacted anyone. And times like this have seen a lot of influencers who claim to know about crypto organizing sites that discuss about bitcoin and crypto, I still don't listen to such. The best thing is to ignore such offers, people still falling victim to those scammers, if topics like this are been treated often about scammers and juicy offer then why do people fall victim, maybe they fall to understand, although most people get excited with offers like this and unknowingly they give out their private information.

It starts from us that we shouldn't be too entertaining to unknown people. And with the obvious about security, it should also be known to us that we shouldn't be someone who's careless that keeps on clicking unknown links and filling up websites that are randomly found.

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