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Other => Beginners & Help => Topic started by: Kaycee0202 on September 20, 2018, 06:21:16 AM



Title: Scam alert.... Pls be warned
Post by: Kaycee0202 on September 20, 2018, 06:21:16 AM
  With the every increase influx of scammers on the internet and so many sector it has become a call of duty to be safe a spread useful safety knowledge
   It was the other day some anonymous person added my cousin up on a popular social platform(i feel it right I withhold the name) well my cousin and this unidentified man of the underworld became for interactive and even started to share knowledge. Then this guy gave my cousin a link to a certain wallet and told my cousin that his country are not allowed to peddle in crypto and that my cousin should help him out with converting his bitcoin to fiat my unsuspecting cousin was cajoled into opening the above link which is cryptoelips.com and filled all the field during registration and imputed his bitcoin and ethereum wallet then he was sent a particular amount when he got this and saw the bitcoin he felt convinced that this is for real then he tried to withdraw the bitcoin as he tap the withdraw icon the site immediately robbed him of his 0.01btc claiming that it was fee to disactivate the protection bot. And still the transaction was not confirmed he kept trying and everytime he does this he loses 0.01btc
   So I feel I owe the community this information there are many other site like cryptoelips.com pls be warned it not proper to give away some useful material especially you private key no matter what.  To be safe is better than to be sorry


Title: Re: Scam alert.... Pls be warned
Post by: FortFC on September 20, 2018, 07:28:44 AM
hi,
but have you cousin checked all the rates or any documents before creating the profile on this web site or he just blindy followed the person he hardly knew?


Title: Re: Scam alert.... Pls be warned
Post by: Kaycee0202 on September 20, 2018, 07:35:27 AM
hi,
but have you cousin checked all the rates or any documents before creating the profile on this web site or he just blindy followed the person he hardly knew?
That's why I am warning


Title: Re: Scam alert.... Pls be warned
Post by: Potato Chips on September 20, 2018, 08:30:19 AM
Oh yeah! This type of scam again. I've been seeing similar cases from time to time and my jaw still drops everytime, cause I really don't get why people would follow an unknown stranger over the internet, particularly if its something that involves money  ??? If you aren't living in a cave, you should know how bad people can be  ::)

And as always, if you plan to stay involved with cryptocurrency, please do study about it. If you know how it works, you wouldn't be a victim of something like this.

Please please, make google a habit!!! @everyone


Title: Re: Scam alert.... Pls be warned
Post by: Gloryobinna on September 20, 2018, 04:25:13 PM
Your cousin fell for this cos of greed...  Greed can only make someone fall for such..  Sorry to say. The other person had options of operating such, Vpn and the rest.  Sorry about your cousin.