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Topic: Telegram scam (Read 383 times)

newbie
Activity: 29
Merit: 0
October 12, 2018, 03:50:28 PM
#17
Thanks for the tip!
There are so many chancers on Telegram who wants to make a quick  buck. People pretending to be famous YouTubers looking for funds to promote videos with fake approaches.

jr. member
Activity: 378
Merit: 1
October 22, 2018, 09:57:31 AM
#16
Himself recently faced with fraud, friends, beware.
The article is really well written, I advise you to listen
member
Activity: 151
Merit: 10
Stalker.network - POS Smart Contract ETH Token
October 12, 2018, 01:50:40 AM
#16
Thanks for this tips ,it'll help alot.
This same scam have been going on for long and many people are falling victims
hero member
Activity: 770
Merit: 504
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October 11, 2018, 07:06:50 PM
#15
I hope that everyone will check carefully in the future, especially the username. To be clear, the nickname does not equal the username.

There's more to that, you can change your username.
So even checking if username is correct won't give you 100% peace of mind.
Of course if someone has access to someone's telegram account they can do what they wish but because it's possible to change your username makes it all easier, you only need 1 min access to someone's account to impersonate him.
newbie
Activity: 6
Merit: 0
October 11, 2018, 05:49:01 PM
#14
depend what are different that mean scam for social media are you have
member
Activity: 89
Merit: 10
October 11, 2018, 03:00:11 PM
#13
Like everything that you're presented in exchange for money. Slow down and ask yourself if it's too good to be true. BIIIIIIIITCONNNNNNNECT!!!!

A lot of people seem blinded by quick money and FOMO their money into the hands of people who are manipulating your psychology.
jr. member
Activity: 83
Merit: 3
October 11, 2018, 12:09:38 PM
#12
Even in Discord community scammers will try to imitate the admin account and then contact you to have a transaction with him. Some scammers will try to convince you that they hacked a bitcoin gambling site and let you win and share the profit.
legendary
Activity: 2702
Merit: 4002
October 11, 2018, 01:57:17 AM
#11
It seems that those scammers are making good profits, so they continue to try to scam more.
When I was a beginner, I trusted many people, so I scammed many times, and these scammers followed this principle.

So I hope that they are not only ignored but reported and tried to warn beginners.
Unfortunately, we have become more confident in Google's results and recommendations of social networking sites than using our minds.
newbie
Activity: 5
Merit: 0
October 10, 2018, 10:22:12 PM
#10
I think the number please with the highest scammer now is telegram, in telegram someone will clone the CEO profile and started sending you private mmessage claim that they are the ceo. I guess the best way noe is to stay away from telegram invest and use website when ever you want to invest

I'm seeing this in pretty much every crypto telegram group I'm in.  Then there are copycat groups for real projects and exchanges that are completely fake, offering paid tech support services, listing, etc.  

We've also had people see the conversations about specific exchanges in our group, and all of the sudden we've got scam emails with listing offers coming into our email inbox!  
jr. member
Activity: 57
Merit: 1
October 10, 2018, 04:21:54 AM
#9
I think the number please with the highest scammer now is telegram, in telegram someone will clone the CEO profile and started sending you private mmessage claim that they are the ceo. I guess the best way noe is to stay away from telegram invest and use website when ever you want to invest
member
Activity: 168
Merit: 47
False Moon
October 07, 2018, 10:05:53 AM
#8
And also read the name of people you think is part of a project you are on or you are doing any business with no two persons bears the same user name but some criminals has found a way around that by change some insignificant things to the names like for example you know one henrycryptocoin and he is legit you can be messaged by someone bearing henricyptocoin and so many other addition so it is quite necessary to read the names well.

Sure, my friend used to invest in a project called Sint, so he joined their telegram group. One of their administrators is called @PawelA, so my friend found "@PawelA" and chatted with him. "@PawelA" called My friend sent him 10 ETH,but this "@PawelA" is impersonating, he used the same avatar as the real one.

https://t.me/sint_global


REAL!


FAKE!

10 ETH was easily cheated by scamer,I should not blame my friend for stupid because he lacks experience.
But this is really stupid because it is really easy to check.
I hope that everyone will check carefully in the future, especially the username. To be clear, the nickname does not equal the username.
full member
Activity: 630
Merit: 104
October 07, 2018, 09:36:13 AM
#7
Telegram is full of scammers. Random people sent several messages to buy tokens even if the token is ended. They pretended to be admins, offers a unique chance to buy tokens.
jr. member
Activity: 140
Merit: 1
October 07, 2018, 03:16:39 AM
#6
one of the most popular Telegram scums now is people who introduce as famous youtubers and propose ICOs to make review about their project.
it is pretty stupid scum, but many ICO managers send money to such cheaters..

How can you get caught up with such a trick when you have the Internet and is not a problem to check who the person who writes you is?
I also thought until that time that project managers were paying everyone with their tokens.
legendary
Activity: 2296
Merit: 2721
October 07, 2018, 02:58:55 AM
#5
I dont think that is something Telegram specific. Scamers use any medium with which they may lure victims. Just take a look at Twitter, tweets are full of scam attempts, even Facebook and Bitcointalk are being abused.
hero member
Activity: 2842
Merit: 772
October 06, 2018, 11:15:48 PM
#4
Oh well, I'm not surprised but thanks for the warning though. I have a Telegram account and I can confirmed that there are a lot of them sending PM's and trying to lure unsuspecting victims.

All I do is just ignored them or report to moderator. So it cut both ways, it has advantages like instant communications but some disadvantages like scammers offering too good to be true, unfortunately people still fall for it and that's the sad part.
member
Activity: 116
Merit: 10
October 06, 2018, 10:56:41 PM
#3
This can be said for Discord, pump groups example. But still honest developers and people use more Telegram and Discord.
jr. member
Activity: 154
Merit: 2
October 06, 2018, 08:13:11 PM
#2
one of the most popular Telegram scums now is people who introduce as famous youtubers and propose ICOs to make review about their project.
it is pretty stupid scum, but many ICO managers send money to such cheaters..
jr. member
Activity: 154
Merit: 2
October 06, 2018, 02:32:55 PM
#1
Amongst all social medium telegram is mostly used in terms of cryptocurrency related programs.  Most bounty and ico project all have telegram acct which they make mandatory for customers and hunters to join in other to get information and announcement. Most of them have channels where the give news and update as well

Although telegram social media platform has been helpful for the cryptocurrency community. It has also been a honey well for scammers and fraudsters.

So many unsuspecting  individual has be robbed of their coins, token or even money when they come in contact with this telegram thieves

How do day work

There are various way in which this men of the underworld  perpetrate their fraudulent activities most opens their groups and add individual into it with fake and bot exciting member who just praise the project and make good comment just to entice the unsuspecting individual. once they fall they might part way with their money, coins or token fraudulently.

Some use a personal acct to send messges claiming to want to buy or sell a coin or token which are not real or existing

So you see telegram has been used for good and also for evil. It's quite certain that cryptocurrency activities can not just stop been done on telegram so the only way we can help ourself is to be safe and security conscious

Telegram has made it that once you are sent a message or added to any group which you did not authorize there is an icon with report spam on top it's best to push the button once you suspect any thing.  

And also read the name of people you think is part of a project you are on or you are doing any business with no two persons bears the same user name but some criminals has found a way around that by change some insignificant things to the names like for example you know one henrycryptocoin and he is legit you can be messaged by someone bearing henricyptocoin and so many other addition so it is quite necessary to read the names well.

Never accept and click any link sent to you with out knowing what it is about some link contains some virus in which when clicked can have assess to you private information on your phone.

PS.  It's necessary to be safe on telegram and any other social media platform for that matter
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