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Everyone that joins ICOs, bounties or airdrops might recently be receiving some emails purported to be from a project administrators informing you of that your earlier contact of the support has been escalated and you need to be a certain sum of bitcoin or ethereum in order to abade the problem otherwise, you lose your investment or earnings.

It is a scam. Beware!!!

Of course, it is a scam. Who falls for that?

There are way harder to understand scams. This one is like "hello i want to scam you, can you give me your money".

When someone have little bit of common sense then they won't fall for these scams.No one will ask for little amount of money to give huge amount back to us this is very silly form of scam attempt but the sad fact is still lot of people falling for that.

Yes it is a scam ,you don't have to be warned about it because it doesn't sound right,how can you be asked to pay ETH or Btc to received your rewards for promoting there projects ? Either airdrops or bounties don't send any coins to anybody

All of those scammers is damaging the reputation of crypto with their tricks and they keep making a new scam method to get more victims. I hope someday there is a project that focus on tracking these scammers and put them in jail forever.

Scammers are smarter nowdays, they always have new and fresh methods to make people fall. No wonder they do something like what you have written here. That's why we need to be always aware and try not to trust anyone.

we must avoid something like that. And 1 more, when we submit our email to anything, make sure not use our primary wallet email. Like, we must split email which one that we use for projects and which one we use for primary wallet.

Of course. Anyone who demands money from bounty hunters in any form should be considered fraudsters. There are certain cases in which we may be asked to provide assistance, however this should be on a voluntary basis and not be related to our earnings.
The fraudsters will continue to show their activity in this regard and we need to be very careful.

Lol, if anyone fall for that, he shouldn't have Money at all.

It is natural selection. No-one should have Money if they are that stupid.

No. That was from another scammer. Somehow, the developer is trying to get the funds so they are selling the mail list gotten from the bounty, and its sold to the scammers. CMIIW. Classic.

Anyone can understand they are a scam. Everyone should block them in email and report them as spam! Every bitcointalk bounty and signature users receive such email almost every week. Because some lazy Bounty manager don't hide email and eth address from the spreadsheet and then scammer got people's email and they start to scam or spam with shitty airdrop and bounty email!

There are a lot of people. In the market they do not yet have the information and want to make money. That's why they fall into this kind of trap.

Those are regular happening here. I personally never prefer to share my email for this reason. However, I receive this kind of message very often butt never gave a fuck because I am well aware of this. Thank you anyway

This I believe is an old scamming method tbh, though personally I can't fall for such cheap scam. Anyone who falls for such need to go back and learn about the internet more. With the rate people talk and complain about certain scams is enough for others to learn from and be careful not to be a victim as well

They can only scam novices with this method. If you're still being scammed in this way, I think you should stay away from the crypto world or even from the realm of the internet.

This method is too obvious and it is not new at all. Be ready for even more hardly-thought scheme which you can't realize easily that you are aboit to be scammed.

There are so much methods of how to scam people and the most famous one is to get the data from investor by sending fraud e-mails or direct massages on telegram or other social media platform. Be careful guys.

I haven't received that kind of message yet on so many ICO and airdrops I've promoted in the past, can you name those altcoins, any ICO that will do that can be tagged as a scam, we just have to ignore this and contact the team of the ICO that sent this, of course, they will deny this, they only target newbies.

this is only another proof that all the information that you willingly gave to the ICOs you participated in has been already sold on the dark market possibly to multiple people and they have been abusing them ever since.
now you should think how much you betrayed your own privacy and safety by participating in these ICOs in first place! for most people it is just their email, bitcoin and ethereum address and thinks like that. for others who were more foolish it is their personal documents, drivers license, passport, social security number, and a ton of other things they willingly gave up because they lied and mentioned the word "KYC" :D

I think that such a Scam can draw attention to either a child or an adult who knows only the basics of the Internet.All the rest I think are not that naive).Recently, more and more often I hear in the media about new fraudulent schemes and that surprisingly a lot of people take part in them voluntarily.When will people stop being so naive?

I have got so much scammed mails since I have started free bounty programs and still my email filled with many airdrops, some containing hacking link, some trying to steal your information, but I hardly open any mails as I found many instances where the malicious mails gone into hacking and stole your private keys from your computer.

I'm aware of this scam as well because I've received this kind of messages in my mail inbox and I don't bother reading because and projects ,ICO or airdrops that got sent through emails are scams or even phishing scam too unless you registered on there whitelist for notification ,one needs to be very careful and always be on your guard cos these scam artist are not ready to backdow

It is a scam that you have to see it easily. I believe if you really understand the scam situation when you got one. The scammers (i am calling them labour thiefs) will always be in this cryptocurrency market and they would try to steal from someone every day again and again. Specially the newbies getting scam from them but as far as i can see that there are many people could get scam more than ones. So newbies should make researches and study about it and they should avoid scam at least after the first time.

First advice I give to my friends joining cryptocurrency is don't click on any link contained in a mail asking you to verify one thing or the other it's all phishers trying to have access to your mobile devices.

Thank you for the experience you shared, of course this will be very useful for all of us in this forum. In order not to experience fraud in a new way. I have also experienced almost the same thing, namely getting emails and private messages on the telegram. This is very troubling, and cases that need to be taken seriously. For that we must be more careful at all times, and always actively communicate or discuss. Once again I say thank you very much..

I think most are aware here regarding this modus.

TIPS: Dont ever click anything on your email specially those who saying that you have been rewarded of coins or tokens and just verified the link to claim the prize. Those are petty scam that if you click say goodbye to your tokens on your wallet cause it is 100% phishing site.

I can not believe that you first encountered a similar method of scam. I would call it classic. Keep in mind that any person who comes to contact you by offering incredible investment services is most likely a scammer.

everytime I receive an email from some project I always ask directly to telegram group if email si real or fake, this is a good method to eliminate scams.

Every ICO has their own telegram channel, before doing anything, you must first confirm it in their telegram channel, if you are an investor you must be educated to know what is right and wrong and your communication should always open to the developer of the coin you are following.

those emails are totally scam.. you would have call yourself st*** if you fall from it.. scammers are smart now, they will use everything they just to scam people

Yes this are scams and i got this kind of emails, mostly last year, but i never open that links and i delete the emails, but scammers are bad for crypto and they will try all to scam.

That's why in the bounty spreadsheet, bounty manager need to hide the email column so our email won't be leaked.
Email is one of the most used method for phishing activities by scammers and hackers.
If you have to pay some ETH or BTC to get your reward, then it is clearly scam.

This scam method has been around for a long time and I decided to block and report all of my DMs first and say that he is the admin of some project.
Money is never easy to find and the opportunity does not come to us easily. Be careful and wise, don't be greedy.

Any bounty or ICO that need your fund for deposit activation or any sort of logistic is a pure scam, I once flagged a project called Ethereum ChashPro, and this prevented an exchange from listing it,, because they would done more harm, although some greedy persons who are bent on testing new waters will never yield such an advise.

One of the reasons for origination of such scam oriented spam is the bounty managers openly displaying users email address on the bounty spreadsheet. Email are a bit matter of privacy and as bounty is an important task, people tends to provide their primary email of use rather than the one used for secondary uses.

Email are just tip of the iceberg. Sensitive private data of users are being revealed and traded due to fradulent ICOs and KYC, there are thousands of passport, credit card numbers and social securities number available for trade.
Users should now be much more aware of whom they are providing their private info. Risking once privacy for a few dollars is not worth it.

Well I don't need anyone to tell me that it's obviously a scam and the admin of the project can never ask me for fund to solve any problem, it's very unprofessional and not done anyone, I just still wonder while people still fall for this kind of those in the space, we really need to enlighten newbies so that they don't end up losing their funds to scammers all of the time, let's make sure we try to expose all of these scammers that want to bring down our community.

No kidding, it's not new, scammers have been using that tactic for years now & alarm bells should be going off in your head once they ask you for money.
It's practically the same as those scams where websites promise you a free amount of BTC supposedly with 'no strings attached' and then when you want to withdraw, they charge you a small amount.

You'd have to be a real fool to fall for one of those scams...

Only fool will fall in that kind of stupid scanning strategy,you are pointing to the investors and bounty hunters has nothing to do with that because for sure we as bounty hunters will never give even a smaller amount of ethereum or bitcoin just to get the token or coins as payment for the job when we know that most of the ICO are value less so there is no assurance of gaining

of course it is a scam and when you reply to that email they will surely ask you to send eth or btc, which needs to be remembered if the admin will never ask or ask for it

LOL. I am sure I will be the list person they will scam with something like this, this scamming method is really an old fashioned one that has even existed in our traditional online banking system whereby people tell you similar story in order to get your credit cards details. Crypto scammers are really trying everything possible nowadays to get access to someone’s account and we really need to be smart too.

Just this morning, I woke up and found so many alerts on my mail from goggle informing me that my Gmail account password was to be change which required my authentication and at the same time, received email from my exchange wallet that my account password needs approval for reset I dint make.

This has been a very popular way of scamming people and I think people should have gotten use to this time of scamming for them to fall for it. A proper project will even know that this time is too critical for them to send such type of message to people who are truly their users.

Hackers are doing everything possible now to have access to many crypto users’ account and if they can’t have access to it, they will get the user to commit fund willingly. They are seriously taking advantage of this anonymity of cryptocurrency and they are the ones that might encourage people to given in to regulated coins that can still be monitored if we don’t take care.

Honestly I am one of the idiot victim of that scam. I received an email,the same email address and avatar. Asking my KYC and other personal info. So I trust to give it all including my private keys because they also said that they need it to verify if they already distribute the coin bonus then the next morning I found out that my token is already gone. So beware of that transactions.

Not at all projects that make fundraising are scams because their are still projects that do fundraising and they benefited the investors and the promoters of the project.Like this project this will soon make a good investment and make people will be benefited by this project you can join and make investments here Dencoin tokens.

Even the dullest person on earth should understand that this Idea of paying a certain amount is not only a scam but a fraud. That's why you need real sense to participate in Cryptocurrency.

You can't teach an old dog how to bark. Old school social engineering methods are not useful in 2019 and these scammers should retire as soon as possible. Fake telegram names same as real admin of telegram group is another way to trick the new customers and scamming them.

This is one of the reasons I will never reply to any mail I got because I've been aware of this scam moves since years back so I'm been more careful

First, you have to check if the message is legit at all, they have a telegram channel you can ask them if these are all coming from the administrator if they don't have one, then you can post it here the name of the site and the issues and people here can bring you answer if all these are right.

You receive those emails most of the time because the information is leaked from participating in bounty and airdrop. This activity has been going on for a long time, but now due to the strong growth of the market, it happens more

Definitely scam, if you get mails asking for confirmation without you registering on those sites. I will advise bounty managers to hide sensitive information on spreadsheet, like email, to avoid scams and hacks.

Yes its an old trick that still works till date ,the most dangerous ones now is backlogger malware and phishings ,you have to thread carefully in crypto space or you will lose all you've worked for

Yeah, always check 10 times before you believe in any email... Always check spelling of the names/ links/ email names...

I dont even mind such info as there is always a group for every project I join, and if I see any email or msg I do confirm from admin before I can click on such email or link sent buly those useless thing that want to reap from what they did not work for .

This is why it is good to always use a certain email for bounty and another for real deal as they can hack your info to access your account and always use different password for such email with offline store of data .

if you know enough about the scammers strategy you should not fall for this kind of act.. everyone knows that this kind of strategy is scam

Thank for the caution, we should never snet our money to anyone that we don't know, and this type of email spamming it's very popular way to get hacked also

I guess it is an old ploy used by scammers and also phishing attempts are also seen in fake emails where they ask you to click the link and fill a form, we should always ignore such emails and messages otherwise we can end up loosing our holdings.

Their devices are so many, it is only a daft person or someone so new to crypto or the internet as a whole that will fall for such or who is under a spell sort of. Paying for what someone is not aware of or never started in the first place. People really need to be careful however. Personally I hit the block button as soon as I receive such messages from whoever. I hate scammers.

You should always be aware of scammers, especially in your e-mails and telegram chats. I am getting more than 10 e-mails per day, where I am asked to deposit ETH to get some mysterious bounty rewards. Be smart guys.

This is not only done in the crypto industry but also in other modus, such as lottery, text or call of emergency, and even up front. All of which are mind setting the victim in a state of urgency, in which the victim will be in a state of panic and will be forced to the pleas of the scammer. In these situations you just need to be calm and assess the situation so that you can avoid or get out of it.

I definitely agree with this, as the cases of fraud against participants in bounty companies have recently become more frequent. The administration of any project does not need to ask for a deposit from you since you are not an investor but simply advertise the project and all so that if you receive a letter of this kind, then simply do not respond to it.

Of course it's a scam, many newbies will fall for this kind of scam. Too bad that these days scammers are rising we should be careful now.

i have received such an email too, and i almost give them my ethereum to receive my bounty coins, but before i send it i do calculate my stakes for the second and third times. the number of coins which i received are appropiate with the number of stakes that i earned. so i decide to put that email away, and make confirmation statement to bounty group. scammers will do or offer everything that seems profitable for us, just make research and valid confirmation.

Any suspicious email messages we received that has to do with sites or phising sites may lead to scam. This strategy by the scammers is already known and they just upgrade what they are doing to scam people. We received email messages because we often use our email address for joining airdrops, bounty campaigns and other campaigns that has to do with our emails. So we should not visit the sites given from scammers or else our account could be hacked.

Every investment that requiring ETH or BTC to be sent to the address other than the official one, are an obvious scam.
Another thing to do is we can confirm that the email is really from the team or not.
The email phishing method is quite effective targeting peoples with minimal communication to the project team.

I am not opening any messages on email, Telegram and Twitter. I open only link from the trusted sources. Be aware, every link that you open could be infected by a virus and could steal your keys.

This is very true
I still receive several form of airdrop forms and scam like links

The key is this, once you get any airdrop link; go to the prospective telegram channel and find out from the project representative

Always dyor don’t be in a hurry

There are so many tactics these scammers use from time to time, and I sometimes suspect these hackers to be among some of these projects we are participating in because I wonder how a scammer can easily spot me out to have wanted to hack into my crypto mail, to the extent of trying to hack my local exchange account.

We really need to be very care in this crypto space and make sure all our coins are always in a wallet and probably get a hard ware, for my keys, I have decided not to keep them online, what I did was to print all my keys out in a paper, keep one copy of it in my bank safe and another copy of it in my personal safe, let’s see the hacker that will go to my back or come to my house to break my safe.

Only a noob who will believe that trap. I think that method will not work for bounty players.
The important thing iswe don't need to believe 100 percent of all the offers or information. Always be careful and double check all information.

What I the content, I usually do when I get that type of mail is to ignore the link, after paying attention to the content, I go directly to the team of the project to confirm the authenticity of the mail and whatever I am doing, I also go directly to their website without having to follow any link or sending anything to an address that is not well recognized.

I remember a project that I participated sometimes ago and requested some certain Eth to unlock my bonus which I usually don’t see any sense in that, despite the fact that I got the announcement through their direct site while trying to perform the transaction, I had to ensure hoe genuine the information was by making more vigorous enquiries.

Its good that you created this post at least this will stand as a warning to newbies in crypto space who are too eager to make quick money ,there are other scams as well like telegram ,scammers will use same name and pic of the project's CEO just to decide us

You may wonder how much people are sending their ETH and getting scammed from such guys. It is true that there are a bunch of scammers out there that are trying to cheat people not only with E-mail but with personal massages on forum and telegram as well. Be aware guys!

In every sector their will be scammers even in real lif, so we just have to life by that reality and be aware on that signs that you are being scammed. For instance I was almost scammed in by someone who claims to be for some exchange when I asked help from their telegram group because the ETH that I deposited has not been confirmed. So they scammers said that they will fix it as long as I send them more ETH, and they are asking more than 2 times of my deposit. I quickly knew it is as scam as the problem can be fixed internally by real customer service and devs of the exchange.

This is obviously a very cheap scam. Although greedy people can fall for this type of scam because they always want mouthwatering offers. In crypto, one have to be very very Careful.

Of course people commit fraud with words that are easy to believe, and don't look fraudulent. Then you don't send them money if you don't know or not in your investment.


 ;D ;D ;D Maybe the person who wants to scams says honestly? "Hello, I want to scam you, can you send me money". ;D
If there is such a thing, don't be afraid to send money to them. Because they will return your money at an unspecified time. ???

Scammers are around us and you have to do your best not to allow them to earn on you. I usually know all methods of scammers and avoid them and help my mates to avoid hackers as well

Well, if anyone makes us to send some coins in certain time limit, then we must consider it as a scammer.
Pressure and fear created from such will causing the victim to have short thinking, and not noticing they being scammed.

Scammers extract emails from spreadsheets when let lose, then spam mails to victimize the gullible.  A friend's wallet was hacked when she used wrong MEW URL provided by scanners via this means to sign message using her private key. Guys, let's be very careful and security conscious in crypto, bad guys are everywhere.

yes, for e-mail, I often get it and it happens because our e-mails have been scattered, possibly spread due to following the bounty on this forum and it turns out that the e-mail, spreadsheet is not encrypted and people can take the e-mail as an ingredient to try to scam

It is written scam all over it. People asking for money for giving you a bigger amount of money? Well, that looks so genuine, doesn’t it?  People have many ways to scam other poor innocent people in this cruel crypto world, and this is just one of those methods. But if anyone falls for this, then it’s their own fault. It has scam written right on the face.

Absolutely agree with you that it is their fault because they have the ability to check the project and investigate it before putting money into it, but so many people just put money out of believe and out of random pick with hope it will turn out big. Many people are no longer baby in this industry again, and by now, they should already understand that scammers will go any length to steal from them, and that is also why they also need to go to any length to make sure that they do not steal from them.

People also need to always keep themselves informed too before making investment, that is why I love this forum, there will always be one or two sharp people to detect scam projects easily and then warn is fellow mates before they also fall into such scam project.

These scammers are not only damaging the crypto world but also robbing poor people of their investment and making them dishearted about the crypto world. Many of these scammers will scam people by even clever methods and end up damaging the reputation of the crypto world. I don’t even understand how these people sleep after scamming someone and how do they spend this wrongly earned money on themselves and their families. I hope in the future they get what they deserve.