Topic: Telegram Scams - page 2. (Read 671 times)

I wonder what people think when they send money in the hope of getting an amount in 2-5-10 times more just like this.
Sometimes a person must be deceived in order to learn a lesson and no caveats will help here.

Among these Telegram scams is the new “Hey admin!! I want to talk to you about listing your tokens on our exchange.” This is to lure noobs into contact them about some sh&tcoins they are holding in hope to get It listed; then the con game/hack begins. Don’t be gullible people.

Blockchain technology ICO projects are strongly connected with Telegram messenger. every new crypto ICO projects have an official telegram group and channel.not for all ICO project but most of ICO project's user adoption and hype rate can be measured by referring activity on the telegram channel and groups. (most of Telegram channel have boosted members and paid members for increase their crowd) in my experience each and every day I am receiving a lot of new telegram messages from strangers.and 90% of them are coming from scammers. I think this may help you to identify those common scammers. Normally I am not perfect at English writing. but I think everyone can understand the idea,

01 Fake Admins/Moderators

When you joining to ongoing ICO's telegram group, some people will send you DM regarding that ICO project with attractive offers(different details). Most of them are with admin tag or moderator tag on their telegram name. It will be the same username but if you take a look at closely you can see it is not username it is bio.

Take a look at this example Real admin vs fake admin(Ex- from USECHAIN ICO project )


                           
                        Real Admin                                                                                                  Fake Admin


So they will offer attractive offers and discount for you

01 Offer  pre-ICO discount or any discount
02 Free contribution opportunity (for Lottery selection ICO or pre whitelisted ICO  )
03 re-directing to fishing website  ''Website is compromised now please use this address for contribution ''


So a Lot of scammers are out there. So How to be safe with them.? make sure to contribute only from official ICO website, Don't trust any 3rd party, don't attract with more discount and offers other than states on the official website

02 Fake ETH giveaways from popular exchanges


Someone will add you to some groups called "Binance ETH giveaway ", "Huobi ETH giveaway ", Kukoin ETH giveaway''.There is an instruction to participate   To identify your address,please send 1-50 ETH to the payment address and most of the members reply ''I got my ETH Thank you'' but remember that it is not a real exchange and No real giveaways like this.

Please see these examples

                               
              Fake Telegram group                                                                                                       Fishing Website
  


                                                               Fake etherscan Transactions

Don't Trust any giveaway groups, always chack ETH address from original etherscan  


03 Fake Mobile Wallets and Apps

Some people will introduce new mobile wallets/decentralize exchanges mobile apps and Mining wallets for store your Funds. Please don't use those wallets they will track your private keys and can be steel your funds.

See this fake Etherdelta App on Android store

   
                             Fake Etherdelta App                                                                                                   Fake Etherdelta App

Don't use any app with less download count, review count and ratings, Use only official download link for download the app, Always Use Metamask for log in to your wallet/ Decentralize exchange  


04 Online Ponzi Schemes and Trading groups  

Can be introduced some Ponzi Scheme and Try to get some investment from you. All the Ponzi Schemes are SCAM so don't invest for them.


05 Pump group's signal  

can be added to pump groups and they will give 1-2 signals on one exchange. If you see closely there will be a small pump at that time but the price will be dump very badly after the pump. very small percentage of people will get profits but most of them will be lost their  BTC. but Pump group admin always get his profit. So don't Follow Pump group signal

 Picture permission from USECHAIN XYZ