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Quote from: KiaKia on January 22, 2023, 01:26:05 PM

I managed to safe a friend ( not very close ) from a scammer today.

This friend lost some money to a crypto scam in 2021 and he still feels bad about it because the money is over 10k dollars but someone claimed they can help him to recover the fund, he got so happy and rushed down to my place this afternoon but unfortunately, I broke the news that this person is a scammer..

That you friend has a lot to learn and maybe you should introduce him to the forum so he can ask questions when he encounters similar situation just incase you aren't available to help him out. He should have known by now not to trust anybody he meets online especially those that message first. I believe his first scam was one that has to do with investment in whatever the scammers advertise to him and promise a good return on investment.

He must have been carried away when the new scammer promised to help him recover the old funds and most have given him enough reason to believe him. OP hope you won't mind giving more details as this might be helpful to someone else here. What's the previous scam that this user is still trying to recover from. Always give name as it's create more awareness to novice reading threads here to avoid similar scams.

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Quote from: KiaKia on January 22, 2023, 01:26:05 PM

This friend lost some money to a crypto scam in 2021 and he still feels bad about it because the money is over 10k dollars but someone claimed they can help him to recover the fund, he got so happy and rushed down to my place this afternoon but unfortunately, I broke the news that this person is a scammer..

1. The person DM him first.
2. Mysteriously he knew he lost some crypto in 2021.
3. He wants 10% of the missing or lost funds deposited first to his wallet.

I knew this is a old tactics but with the way this my friend felt after hearing about the possible refund I felt bad telling him that it's all a scam, I am still confused how this person knew he lost some funds in 2021 though, since this person is not ready to tell more about himself there is no way to find out.

The point it all went wrong is when we started allowing students that graduate from institutions to come in to society without having equal opportunity to get jobs like there fathers did. That doesn't in anyway justify crime and scamming hood minded citizens who are facing the same struggle as the rest of humanity. Also, there are other opportunities to entrepreneurship than they were from years ago and a population to match that if one can just look or sort out for insights.

For crypto scams, most times you stand a better cjnace to just be at peace with what you've lost. If one can give himself time to learn how the crypto space works as, being more of a one way street, a single pathway in which, one's its sent, there isn't any cjnace of a reversal without the recipient authorising the transaction, then people could escape this recovery tactics.

I'll say, it's just the scammer trying a different trick on the same victim knowing that, he would jump at it. Especially with the amount that was lost.

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Unfortunately, there have been many instances where personal information from databases has been leaked. In some cases, the data is even sold by company employees themselves on the black markets. For example, the Ledger customer database was leaked last year, and many people received suspicious offers and extortion attempts at their contact email addresses. It is possible that something similar has happened to your friend.

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This is a common way of scamming people. That scammer has the data of people who got scammed before and now he is using that data to scam more of them.
Maybe the guy is related to your friend's previous scam, or maybe he collected data from that organization.

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The story is somewhat vague, so we cannot really guess as to how the scammer was privy to such information; well we do not know how your friend lost his funds initially (in 2021), yes, you said he was scammed, but there are various ways one can be scammed, maybe the initial scam involved your friend revealing his private data, of which the scammers still have a list of some of their victims and their personal data.

Having said that, we also don't know how the discussion between this scammer and your friend went, the scammer might be very smart and indirectly get those info from your friend without it seeming like they asked. Well all of that isn't really important, do well to educate your friend that any funds lost in crypto, is lost for good; and if they want to continue in the crypto network, they should garner knowledge on how to secure their funds.

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First I would ask on what platform were the scammers chatting your friend from? A high percentage of this scams are either from telegram, YouTube or twitter. And the more your friend is on many groups and can even be on a scammer group that claims to provide him trades or help him invest.

It’s not necessarily the scammers that made way with you friends initial money it’s probably another Scammer who already understands everything and his/her specialty is picking up the victim.

I would advice you to tell you friend to be careful on social media and cut out from suspicious groups and also arrange his privacy and security settings so no one can add your friend into any group.

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Yeah, very possible that it is them that has did the trick before and saved his records to attempt for another scam.

Good thing that you're there and you've helped your friend and saved him from another potential scam. Another possibility is that he probably know that person and just trying to trick him.

If you don't want to ask him if there are other people who knows what has happened to him before then it's on that guy to trace back if he told it to someone he knew personally.

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Quote from: KiaKia on January 22, 2023, 01:26:05 PM

but unfortunately, I broke the news that this person is a scammer..

You did the right thing.

Quote from: KiaKia on January 22, 2023, 01:26:05 PM

What do you guys think? I am getting this vibe that maybe the first hack was done by the same person or the same organization?

That's possible.
It's also possible that the scammers sell the list of their victims to other scammers. That's one of the reasons people should avoid KYC.

KiaKia

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I managed to safe a friend ( not very close ) from a scammer today.

This friend lost some money to a crypto scam in 2021 and he still feels bad about it because the money is over 10k dollars but someone claimed they can help him to recover the fund, he got so happy and rushed down to my place this afternoon but unfortunately, I broke the news that this person is a scammer..

1. The person DM him first.
2. Mysteriously he knew he lost some crypto in 2021.
3. He wants 10% of the missing or lost funds deposited first to his wallet.

I knew this is a old tactics but with the way this my friend felt after hearing about the possible refund I felt bad telling him that it's all a scam, I am still confused how this person knew he lost some funds in 2021 though, since this person is not ready to tell more about himself there is no way to find out.

What do you guys think? I am getting this vibe that maybe the first hack was done by the same person or the same organization?

I don't want to start asking questions about his friends and stuff, he is way older than me and we aren't very close, I called him a friend because he live nearby and he is into Bitcoin mining. I guess he has a lot to learn and understand.

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