The fruit of greed is never good,, - page 3.

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Quote from: Mr.corol on February 28, 2023, 12:59:42 PM

Although I think such discussion should not be in the form. However, I shared the story of one of my friends being cheated.

A friend of mine invested some of his savings in Bitcoin. But unfortunately today his personal wallet got hacked. Balance 00. I was telling my friend how that . My friend said he gets a message on Telegram and gets greedy and enters the link they provide and connects his wallet. After a while he came and saw that his balance was zero.

"Sin of Covetousness and Death in Sin" Like my friend, none of you connect wallets by entering any bad links. No one will be deceived like my friend.

It seems that your friend connected the wallet to the phishing site without realizing it, so his wallet has been hacked. Current fraudsters/hackers ask to connect the wallet by showing various offers through email, telegram, if someone connects the wallet according to their instructions, the hackers will definitely get access to the wallet. Lately I have also received messages from several phishing sites but I do not replay those messages or do any formula maintenance as per their instructions. All of you stay free from these hackers and keep your wallet safe.

Whether phising site, greed, or what, it is imprtant to be knowledgeable of what you are doing especially if it involves your money or an amount you just cannot let to slide in an instant. Greed? everyone wants to earn huge money like who does not want to? It is a normal response to a stimuli; better life. But problem arise due to negligence of one's action. There's no such thing as an easy way to earn profit, it should be embedded to us that in order to earn it, efforts should be exerted first and that does not include clicking suspiscous links. There are airdrops and faucets one could earn money from but not all are obviously paying so what more with money multipliers in general right?

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Quote from: michellee on March 02, 2023, 08:07:21 AM

...Many people have experienced this scam but the trick is still working and getting more and more new victims. It's time for us to realize this and continue to be careful of any offers that come to us.

People who fall into this trap are mostly newbies who don't have much knowledge and like to get rich quickly. This type of scam is not new, but we need more articles to warn the community because every day, there are always newbies entering the market, and they are easy to fall into the trap if not warned in advance.

Telegram is really a favourite place for scammers, we better limit communication with strangers on it, don't trust anyone in this market. Those who actively talk to us, they just want our money.

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Greed will make us experience many bad events and that has been experienced by your friend. Telegram has now turned into a place for scammers who are looking to target new people so they can carry out their tricks to get the assets of their victims. That's why we always have to be careful, especially if we get a link about an attractive offer that finally asks us to connect our wallet to the scammer. Many people have experienced this scam but the trick is still working and getting more and more new victims. It's time for us to realize this and continue to be careful of any offers that come to us.

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The fruit if greed is never good because it can result in dishonesty, strained relationships, a negative impact on society, and unfulfillment.

As a beginner, you should always try to learn the fundamentals. There will be numerous threads on the forum about which wallet to use and how to store your funds more securely, but rather than reading them, he got greedy and clicked on those links. Nothing can be done now; this will only serve as an example of how to be more cautious with your wallets and coins in the future.

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The telegram scams are common and your friend gave them access to wallet by clicking on these phishing links which is red sign for all.When you click on these links in hope of earning some good amounts or see some great offers you are actually giving them away what you also have.So your friend has learnt a lesson through it that never click on these links.

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Quote from: xSkylarx on March 02, 2023, 04:35:39 AM

That is not greed; it is just that he is a newbie and not knowledgeable on those things and is not aware that those are scams that got his wallet hacked. I don't know what message he got, but I think it was made to transfer the assets from his wallet. I don't know why he chose the wallet that has assets on it and allowed the transaction on it. It would be better in those situations that he has another wallet that has only a few cryptocurrencies, just to be safe. I hope that he learns something from it and doesn't ever click on those unwanted links just to be safe.

It's because he is too greedy, usually, those scam messages always give messages like get free BTC or double your BTC...If he is a man who doubts everything and does not believe that nothing in this world is free, he will choose to ignore it. But because of greed and ignorance, he fell into the trap of those scammers. We don't know how much loss he had to take, but it certainly taught him a valuable lesson, I believe he will never make the same mistake a second time. It's an investment, then everyone will have a few lessons to remember, this is not serious, we need those lessons to become more mature.

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Quote from: yhiaali3 on March 01, 2023, 03:58:20 AM

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Although the credibility of the story is in check, the message is clear still that greed is dangerous and can make you loose all your investment if you are not cautious. It is an attribute not to be accommodated unless it can be met with strong thinking to ensure that the drive that greed brings does not make you make a wrong decision. The greed that most people have is what makes them more prone to becoming victims to scammers who know how to always entice and lure these people.

Yes, the story seems somewhat strange, because Bitcoin wallets do not provide support for WEB3, but the only possibility that I see reasonable is that his friend used TrustWallet, this is a WEB3 wallet, which is a diversified wallet that can contain many coins in addition to bitcoin and can be linked through most sites .

If the wallet is linked to the suspicious site and they get a SEED then they can steal all the coins in the wallet including Bitcoin.

What about trust wallet? It's also a kind of web 3 wallet and it supports Bitcoin. Maybe this was the wallet that his friend use and his friend carelessly visit random links and connects the wallet when it was prompted. Other hacking scenarios would be if his friend enter his keys on a shady website.

So far only noobs will fall to these attempts as it was obvious already that it was a scam/hack if you have some experience in the field of cryptos. At first I wonder why the OP said his friend is greedy but I realize that maybe his friend click on a fake free crypto offers. Nothing is wrong with that, as we all love free stuffs but the main problem is that his friend only lacks of knowledge.

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That is not greed; it is just that he is a newbie and not knowledgeable on those things and is not aware that those are scams that got his wallet hacked. I don't know what message he got, but I think it was made to transfer the assets from his wallet. I don't know why he chose the wallet that has assets on it and allowed the transaction on it. It would be better in those situations that he has another wallet that has only a few cryptocurrencies, just to be safe. I hope that he learns something from it and doesn't ever click on those unwanted links just to be safe.

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Too much greed will certainly fall into a scheme like this. It was different from just being greedy for a certain opportunity but before they make a decision they also run into dip research. But in the case of your friend, he forgets to even do research as he jumps into it without a doubt believing this could make him rich instantly. Such a promising words could enticely make you think it was true and been our of your mind thinking if this is a scam. That is a winning trick that most scammers/hackers does and no way he could get it back.

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Quote from: Mr.corol on February 28, 2023, 12:59:42 PM

Although I think such discussion should not be in the form. However, I shared the story of one of my friends being cheated.

A friend of mine invested some of his savings in Bitcoin. But unfortunately today his personal wallet got hacked. Balance 00. I was telling my friend how that . My friend said he gets a message on Telegram and gets greedy and enters the link they provide and connects his wallet. After a while he came and saw that his balance was zero.

"Sin of Covetousness and Death in Sin" Like my friend, none of you connect wallets by entering any bad links. No one will be deceived like my friend.

It seems that your friend connected the wallet to the phishing site without realizing it, so his wallet has been hacked. Current fraudsters/hackers ask to connect the wallet by showing various offers through email, telegram, if someone connects the wallet according to their instructions, the hackers will definitely get access to the wallet. Lately I have also received messages from several phishing sites but I do not replay those messages or do any formula maintenance as per their instructions. All of you stay free from these hackers and keep your wallet safe.

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Quote from: yhiaali3 on March 01, 2023, 03:58:20 AM

If the wallet is linked to the suspicious site and they get a SEED then they can steal all the coins in the wallet including Bitcoin.

Honestly, I am pretty skeptical that something like that is even possible. Legitimate wallets would not just hand over your seed to some random third-party site using WalletConnect protocol - I mean, that is just common sense. And to the best of my knowledge, there has never been a single case where that has happened.

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Quote from: Rigon on March 01, 2023, 01:14:52 PM

First of all my condolences for your friend. In fact your friend may be new he did not understand the type of fraud scammer. Why people use that invested wallet in different places after investing. Actually those who are new should first gain experience here and then invest. Your friend may have entered here but invested without taking anything well. That's why it's not right for newbies to invest so early. First clear these issues and then invest.

We can’t stop new users to enter bitcoin or crypto since there are many posts now or stories how some peoples able to get fast profit before on it and inspires to be like them without knowing how the price moves now and despite this many scammers still waiting for a time they will get to scam new users in any means. That’s why we should keep on reminding our friends or people we know that they should know how to deal with bitcoin how they should keep their wallets safe as well how the market moves. Though smart investors and those who know what they are dealing with knows when things are too good to be true it’s probably a scam.

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Quote from: Mr.corol on February 28, 2023, 12:59:42 PM

Although I think such discussion should not be in the form. However, I shared the story of one of my friends being cheated.

A friend of mine invested some of his savings in Bitcoin. But unfortunately today his personal wallet got hacked. Balance 00. I was telling my friend how that . My friend said he gets a message on Telegram and gets greedy and enters the link they provide and connects his wallet. After a while he came and saw that his balance was zero.

"Sin of Covetousness and Death in Sin" Like my friend, none of you connect wallets by entering any bad links. No one will be deceived like my friend.

First of all my condolences for your friend. In fact your friend may be new he did not understand the type of fraud scammer. Why people use that invested wallet in different places after investing. Actually those who are new should first gain experience here and then invest. Your friend may have entered here but invested without taking anything well. That's why it's not right for newbies to invest so early. First clear these issues and then invest.

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This is why education is important about how to secure a wallet first before making an investment. When it has been hacked like this incident, there will be nothing else to do but have to let it go. Being greedy will only create new problems, not carefully looking at messages especially from strangers who give bullshit hopes. There are many instances of wallet hacking like this and the methods used are also different.

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One should be very careful with phishing links nowadays, and I'm sorry your friend lost money due to some telegram scammers. Like others, I don't quite understand how that happened, but in any case, it seems hypothetically possible to me. Greed is something to fight, I agree, as it doesn't make people better. But it's also important to remember that your friend is a victim, and victim blaming is a wrong social practice. Yes, he should be more careful, but no, it's not his fault that he lost the money. It's the fault of the scammers.

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Whenever I see anybody trying to invest in bitcoin, I always encourage the person to go and learn about wallet security, if you can't learn how to protect your wallet, then you don't have to invest because you might endup losing everything to scammers. Maybe your friend was trying to claim a airdrop that was why he connected his wallet, if you are planning to claim any airdrops or things like that, make sure you create a new wallet address, avoid using your main wallet. Also don't trust anybody you meet on social media, always avoid connecting your wallet to websites anyhow, their is no free money in crypto.

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The lack of common sense is what's not good. They probably got a "double your amount" message in Telegram, but I rather see it as a lack of common sense than blindness from greed. When someone in the street comes and tells you that you'd get $10 if you gave $5, you did, and they simply disappeared, would you be greedy or dumb?

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First mistake was that he become greedy and for getting more money he click on the website and another big mistake was that he share his private information with others which he even did not know that who are he?

I will suggest that never believe blindly on any person and do not share your personal information and data with others. I also suggest that people who wants to become wealthier quickly are wrong because due to this greed they destroy their all income instead of getting some amount back.

Clicking on link without knowing about it is really bad thing and I think you should never click on any type of link without having Knowledge, so before doing any wrong thing first realize that is a person is scammer or not.

Always work accurately and if you have little amount of cash then accept it and do not try to get more than this because with such thoughts you will loss your own money too.

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In this case, it's the reason while we encourage everyone to be careful of exposing it's wallet secret code, assuming the wallet was hacked the seed phrase would have been changed and it won't have access to the wallet, your friend just filled all the necessary information that's attack to the wallet including the password, that's the reason why he could be able to see any figure or amount of Bitcoin that remains in the account. Let us try to be careful and mindful on the way we expose our wallets password to the public, especially in the internet

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That is how greed being a sin has been explained by religion since a long time. Indeed, controlling your greed and being honest about your earning prevents even a less-experienced tech-poor person from the scam.

While it is certainly advocated to learn how these scams work in order to be vigilant and learn to avoid them, at the same time being able to control the sins of humans does have a good outcome too, even though you might not be a religious person. I think they are useful for anybody out there and not controlling them has long term effects that you will discover gradually.

These scams target the greedy people, simply speaking. Although it is wrong to assume that a trader hoping for bigger returns is greedy, there is a fine line between greed and and ambitious target.

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