Topic: STOP! Before you become a prey of a scammer! - page 3. (Read 568 times)

It is better to ignore a stranger that is the best thing anyone can do, but what about the stranger contacting you representing a famous influencer? For example, let's take Elon Musk who is very active on his bought platform X.com. He is always trying to manipulate the crypto market with his tweets, knowing a tweet came out from his handle about a meme coin, a scammer would recreate the same product on both the Ethereum blockchain, BSC, and as of now Bitcoin blockchain.

For Ethereum and BSC, we know how to verify, but what about Bitcoin blockchain? Is there any way to cross-check a project? I am not aware of such a thing and that is the reason I have asked this question. In recent times the amount of spam created by Ordinals is beyond anyone's control and the way developers are reacting gives me a bad omen is coming soon.

people with greed for free money online are the common victims of these scammer aside from those that fall out of mistake due to a security breach. If you want to survive and stay out of loss to scammers in the crypto space you have to learn to exercise patience and do a research about the authenticity of any offer you receive or see online from strangers, if possible resist or ignore all DM's from strangers offering some financial deals that appears to good to be true, better to ignore than test the waters you might not be able to stomach the loss.

Just like on telegram I have been receiving frequent strange messages from strange groups unknown to me about some token splash with a provided link that I should visit and follow the registration process where I have to deposit certain amount of cash for some newly listed token and later earn back in higher profit 3x of what amount I deposit.

Now how does this make sense to someone like me that's sane and abreast all round about this schemes. An unpopular adage says, when a snake bites you next time you see a black rope you will run.

This is what I'm trying to prevent for myself, knowing that it's "weird" to see some famous people promoting stuff that probably is not aligned with what they are famous for or something, people should be careful with that.

Too good to be true things are not worth too much of an effort if you see so many problems or red flags with it. Better to know who you are talking to before you get attracted to the scam or something.

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.

Basically, everyone can avoid scams. But unfortunately, many people fall into scam schemes just because they have such high dreams and the desire to get money as quickly as possible. Nowadays, it's not just about AI projects that may be or will be hyped. But also various other types of hype projects that make big promises to their candidates. And the most victims are beginners...

Scams can be avoided as long as we understand what we are investing in and understand the situation which may seem more than normal. Scam schemes will usually be the same or similar, so we should be able to learn from other experiences. Do DYOR which will definitely be very helpful. and also carry out analysis and discussions with other people so that at least we can be more alert to various possible scams.

It would be better if you just ignore them specially if you have zero knowledge of what are they trying to present to you.
Pump and dump is not new in crypto its been going on for years, and there will always be a person be left behind, once they are done with he project, to jump to another one.
Agree with you that you should study where you're money is going, don't let showing their profit distract you since that is what is doing for you to just pour the money for them to collect and leave you empty handed.

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 .

I have received PM numerous times but I didn't take notice of them especially in Telegram where many scammers stay and finding their next victim. As you can read in the first post in your thread where ignoring strangers is a good prevention. This is te very same thing in health problems which I am sure you know it "prevention is the best medicine" or prevention is the best cure". Many people may get relevant information from social media but there's also scammers that spread misinformation and other ways that they can think of just to scam people or fool proof.

Some people usually attest that they get relevant information from social media but I think that we have more scam projects on these platforms. Except the information is from the verified handle of a reputable player in the crypto space, I don't take such news seriously. It is wrong to believe everything you see on social media without doing thorough research from other genuine sources. I don't give so much attention to social media because I rely on this forum for most of my information. If I don't understand anything, I will bring the discussion to the forum and I am sure to get the best explanation. Generally, if you can control greed, you will hardly be a victim of these get-rich-quick scam projects.

As a newbie, we easily become victim of such offers, we think we can get 1 btc at the price of $42k while the current price is around $44k. We became greedy and paid the amount and all we get is nothing but a block. Therefore never gave your money to someone, instead use it by yourself and trade in BTC using any exchange.
I don't think it would be of any use for the victim who has already given his or her funds to some scammer to handle as a financial advisor or consultant, because if that person already has our funds then why would he will give us back even if we give them our private key, and why would we trust that after giving the private key our funds will be returned. So, the neat and clean answer is we should not trust financial advisor at the first place, even if they are giving us huge profits, or hints, or even made us profit 2 or 3 times. They try to make you profit 2 or 4 times, so after sometime you come up with big amount and then they knock on you.
I have seen a thread made by some member here on BTT talking about shilling in LTC and said it will go up, there are many other groups on TG that we can find where admins are sharing shilling time and token, the risk is higher but many make profit too, you have to be quick if you want to make profit but in most cases you don't make profit.

I mostly receive many emails many PM's in Telegram. They all just try to catch me but I have much experience about them. If you will chat to anyone they will ask to open a link or will ask to send money and they say they will double your money with in one hour or two or may be in 10 minutes.
I remember one of my Friend was talking a scammer on WhatsApp. My friend is innocent and don't have much knowledge about crypto. The scammer was showing him watch only address and saying I have mined these BNB coins for you but it is asking for fee and if you will pay fee I will send it to you. He showed me the situation when I saw the screenshot of the wallet so I asked him to block this person and I requested him if you receive any kind of message from stranger who is talking about crypto so tell me first and then tak any action.

Means when they message to anyone and talk to him/her so they read the mind of the client. And attack according to their mind. So we should always be careful about this.

If someone approaches you with any of the apps that you're using and they're a total stranger to you, don't entertain them. Especially, when they already trying to introduce some money making machines. Because with that, that's already one of the signs that they're talking to the wrong person but sadly, they might come up with another victim.

The best that you can do is to block them and they will keep coming back with a new account or numbers. It will never stop once your contacts are already into their database and much worse if they're going to sell that DB to the other scammers. Most likely, it's being sold already and many have taken our contacts so if you are fine with continuous blocking of them, just do it and never give them your time by replying anything to them.

Just don't do give them the opportunity to talk to you and most newbies should do this. Because if you've been aware of their schemes, you're unlikely going to fall for it but this concern is for those newbies so, I hope that all of you that are reading will take care of yourselves and will take note of the tips everyone is giving here.

I don't think Airdrops will get more newbies this season because I believe almost all of us hear know that 70-80% of Airdrops are mostly scam, they are using it as an avenue to get popular and used the newbies as their promotion channel and still scam them by compromising the wallets they submit to see if they can move their coins.

Most good projects that have future don't normally use airdrops as a means of advert again because people will not take them serious; therefore, all newbies should avoid airdrops.


Greed is what lead some newbies to fall for all these hyped trades, some of our newbies are looking for shortcuts to make money as a result of that, they tends to skip the learning and go for signals been hyped by scammers just to collect their money which mostly end up in a regret.
If we remove been greedy, and we decided to learn and gain all the basic knowledge required, we will always be in the right part and gain the little profit we will gain with time.

The frequency of scams has indeed increased in 2023 more than ever, possibly due to the advancements in the crypto industry and the growing number of investors and traders in this field. Scammers are constantly on the lookout, targeting cryptocurrency holders, especially beginners, who may be easily deceived due to their lack of sufficient experience and unfamiliarity with common scam schemes. Regarding what OP mentioned, social media platforms are now crowded with phishing sites related to airdrops and posts containing enticing offers from fraudulent platforms that promise newcomers substantial amounts immediately upon registration and activating promo codes. Pump and dump groups are also well-known traps, and many beginners may believe what is posted there and invest based on it. Therefore, any investor, airdrop hunter, or trader should conduct thorough research before taking any action and avoid making hasty decisions in connecting their wallets, depositing funds into any unknown exchanges, or investing based on recommendations from anonymous people. Trust should not be placed blindly, as artificial intelligence can be unbelievably dangerous.

It is always an obvious thing that too-good-to-be-true offers are scams.  Scammers always enticed their victims with huge return.  Even if the intention of the owner of the company that offers such huge return is not to scam people, it will always turn into a scam if the system collapse.  Double to triple our investment offers are bound to collapse because there will always a point in time that the system cannot pay their investors.

Aside from that unknown people often approach their target sending unsolicited direct messages.  They will greet us at first and then initiate conversation.  When they feel that we are already comfortable with them, they will then open up with an investment, or send links that have malware on them.  So better be careful with unknown people who initiate contact on social medias.

Also ignore emails from unknown sources and better to check the email address of the sender if some message from the financing institution asks us to log in or check our accounts, this might be a clone site to phish for our passwords in order to gain access to our account.

I see many people falling prey to these techniques especially during the time when market is good and those who are left behind without investing into crypto before the ongoing rally as these people are desperate to make more money and end up losing it all.

I never entertain any DMs or anything I see in social media and now with the emergence of AI any scammers can pretend like influencers or billionaires or owners to benefit their unholy purpose of scamming people. We need to be more cautious than ever and should just ignore any new messages which slid into your DMs and everything you see in social media and start doing our own research.

I often receive messages on social media with attractive offers, especially on Telegram. Instead of clicking links or focusing on their messages, I simply block them and report spam. You have to control your greed if you want to protect yourself from scammers. Scammers develop themselves from time to time and find the latest way to deceive us. They might hack or directly scam us. Also, a lot of phishing emails are coming; I just mark them as spam and report them. So everyone should control greed.

Hmm, Prevention can be a solution but only self-prevention on the community end such cases should be actively reported to keep our fellow members safe, In the Bull rally under the emotion of greed many people adopted many strategies they were not familiar with in those strategies people actively hunt the quests like Op mentioned.

Greed is good till a certain level but in the crypto market you need to realize scams are omnipresent, just like Lucy   they can F* your entire holdings in just a few clicks. So use the ABC strategy to protect Always be conscious and always Be Careful.  I'm just familiar with these 2 any other ABC's available quote me out.

Anything that has to do with put this and get this is one thing that I always advise people to avoid by every means possible. If it's as simple as those scammers claim it to be, would they even care to share the update with others? What happens to them is that they take a loan and exploit the new features that they have discovered in order to increase their own wealth, or they don't like increasing their own holdings and making the portfolio greener.
 
I barely even reply to messages from unknown users this period, and I hardly click on ad links in regard to crypto news or investment because I know nothing good can come out of it. Sometimes just trying to see what they have to offer is what usually makes most people fall victim to some scammer because they will flood them with fake proof that will appear too real for their victims to reject and say no.

Not only on Social media, but I guess I have seen similar offers in this forum, and it was this morning If I am not wrong. Someone was offering arbitrage trading from Africa. He said he could buy cheap Bitcoin from Africa and sell it on the other side of the world with more demand, and he was asking potential buyers to DM him. Whenever I see someone ask to DM them for a deal and they are newbie, I feel like this is a Scam.

We are heading into a most speculated halving event. A couple of ETF approvals ahead. So, we expect Bitcoin to boom next year. Meanwhile, more scammers will invent new ways to scam people. It's the right time to ask everyone to be careful.


Porfirii, I don't know about him. But, believe me, I saw a casino ad this morning on Facebook, and I was laughing. Because It was Shakib Al Hasan's deep fake video where the voice was robotic. He was saying that Bangladesh gives a license to a casino to operate and he is the brand ambassador. I knew it's fake and I skipped it.