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Be careful of the crypto-related facebook pages that we follow because some scammers are imitating them.

Here is how they do it to make it look legit:

• Create a fake facebook page
• Gather all followers of the legit page
• They will share the profile photo of followers in the fake page and say that they won something (see image below)

https://i.postimg.cc/63WQkNw0/fake-exmr.png

The link provided is a fake website (do not visit)

https://i.postimg.cc/QtvdHK16/fake-exmr-2.png

The "Get 2500 EXMR" will lead you to a fake MEW and the objective is for you to submit your PK (do not visit website and/or enter private key)

https://i.postimg.cc/Bbwc8gNr/fake-MEW.png

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They can copy any popular facebook page that's why we need to double or even triple check the legitimacy of these airdrops/giveaways. Please help in reporting the phishing sites mentioned above to https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_general/

For those interested, you can also report the fake facebook page

(This is a translation of my post in our local board (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223869))

Thing is that this is not something new to either crypto or social media. Such scams have been happening in real life too where some tout tells you that they know a way to make millions of dollars, essentially blunting the victim's logical modality and then telling that for doing so they need to purchase a course that costs 100$. Now the victim thinks that whats a hundred dollars compared to millions of dollars? He is wrong because his is not thinking logically which the scammer wanted.

Point is that such scams will remain and scammers will be always be there. Our "Scam Accusations" and  "Service Discussion" and even the Beginners board is full of such scam attempts. But what is needed from people is a reduction in this greed that turns them to fools.

^ True that.

Greed and ignorance are the mains reason why there will always be victims to these kind of scams. It is sometimes disappointing and tiring to keep on repeating these warnings but that's the only thing we can do aside from reporting those phishing sites and scammers unfortunately.

Facebook is still a small place for scammers, have you done reach on many projects on twitter? there are hundreds of fake giveaways, startup projects roaming freely and waiting to trap innocent victims on twitter, its like a den of thieves

lol yeah  i see those but have you also check telegram  ? man telegram is also the den for scammers   . about facebook  . i dont think  facebook is smaller than twitter but almost any individual now have facebook accounts compare to twitter that mostly adults only have  . this is why scammers feast of it  . but it is pretty obvious to tell if the giveaway is a scam or not because you will be redirected on other page which request you to login you account or  you are being simply called as a winner even if you dont do anything   .

Yes, there are plenty of fake giveaways already on twitter, telegram, discord, and youtube. You can also see most of them being reported here in boards like scam accusation and beginners (as pointed out by TheUltraElite) I posted this because of that method used by scammers (I'm referring to step 3 in OP). I haven't seen it done in any other platforms yet and I don't think it can be done.

Those links that are in the form of bit.ly are very dangerous. Someone who is aware of internet safety will not click a link like that. Although, this sort of scam is kind of old we have always newbies coming in this community and still not aware of this tactic.
Let's all wish that these new people in the crypto circle will never allow their greediness to bite these scams.

Greediness will always take over new people coming into crypto space unless they have lost money on the internet before, new investors are so greedy that fall for stupid tricks this days, we just need to keep warning them by making this type of Posts from OP on here gradually, hope they read

To be clear, link shorteners such as bitly or tinyurl aren't dangerous. They are only meant to shorten long links. It just so happens that many scammers online also uses them to temporarily hide their phishing links.

Some will, some won't. We can't really control what they do but if we can save some of them from falling victim by reporting all these scams, then we've succeeded somehow.

I think awareness and a mind to research with logical thinking can bust these scammers well ahead of time. For a start one can always assume that nobody gives out money for free. There is ALWAYS a catch in it whether you recognized it yet or not, there is always a catch. You cannot make money from thin air, it is not possible and the economy would collapse if that would happen.

Just like one should not trust a passerby with their change similarly one should not trust anyone on the internet with their money. Mostly newbies fall for these scams and in a way scammers make a good living from it.

Be careful with big giveaways on YouTube also.

You will see big channels with good subscriber base live streaming giveaways on YouTube. The heading are generally ETH giveaways or Wallet upgrades.

They will have live chat feeds which you will not able to use.

They will ask you click on website links in their description that will take you to a scam website that will either ask you to enter your wallet Private key or you will be asked to deposit ETH to participate in their give aways.

Be very cautious when you see such feeds on YouTube.

That is why we need to search from the other website to find the truth. If the giveaways or airdrops give to the participants, there should be many websites that will share the information because the projects need many people to join and invest in the projects. If the news is only available on Facebook, then it will look suspicious, and we don't have to join with the giveaways. That will be the same if we want to join the project, which requires personal documents to join. We can leave the project to secure our personal documents.

When i do saw these things giveaways or bonuses either on Facebook or Youtube and any other social media sites they are already on auto-ignore.
For experienced eyes detecting this thing is easy yet even a glimpse you would able to spot out that this one is scam.Scammers becomes sophisticated
as years passed and they do still continue to scam people in new ways.Most newbies do fall to this one thats why sufficient knowledge even on basic info
would already be enough to save up yourself into these kind of schemes.

This is an old trick, I believe will to this trap just newbies who haven't known before.

I myself will never trust to this stuff, especially when there is news who come to me through an email or everything and tell me that I won a giveaway with a high money I'll never believe it. Because I haven't done anything, and it should be thinking by everyone especially newbies.

Just believe that you get airdrop when you are trully joined it and be sure that the airdrop is legit and and not suspicious. And sometimes I just thinking that the giveaway or an airdrop will never give a huge money for their participant, they just spend a litlle money for a few participant.

Actually its happening not just on facebook but in other social media platforms as well. Even before, this kind of tactics from scammers do exist, they just have different way to lure other people especially the newbies.

I encountered these kind of fake giveaways in telegram, if you're easy to believe and convince by the scammers you might end up being their victim. Im not saying to avoid those free giveaways but verify first if its legit or not.

Actually, you don't have to search anywhere else. You can simply ask the official project team directly if they are running a giveaway through their official channels (customer support). If you don't remember joining any giveaways and you suddenly receive notifications that you won something, the best option is to ignore them. They are most likely scams. You can also report them here to inform the community.

There is nothing dangerous about joining airdrops other than spammers trying to jailbreak your email you used to join the airdrops that's why its better to use a separate email for claiming airdrops and bounties but stay away from twitter and Facebook airdrops, they are mostly fakes

Facebook is not that famous for airdrop scamming. I saw on twitter, almost every day I see scam airdrops come and many people still do that shit. There was airdrop form when I last opened to have a test, I saw this same phishing Myetherwallet things. I feel bad that still lots of people keep falling in these traps.

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Most of the airdrop comes from twitter and many of them are scam and phishing. So doing that is not a good idea because they use a fake myetherwallet website with some extra letter add on in the domain! By filling those airdrop form, newbie people will be caught by scammers and loss the earnings. If you want to continue airdrops, pease research first!