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Few weeks ago, the crypto community received a major hit of scam perpetrated by evil people through the Hacking and hijacking access to major world notable individuals' tweeter accounts. These accounts were used to announce crypto giveaways requesting people to send a sum to receive multiple folds of whatever they send. It all ended up to be scams.

Currently, a similar post of ETH giveaway is going round on the Facebook page of crypto.com and it is obvious that it is another scam being perpetrated by the scammers.

I just want to implore guys to note that nobody who conduct a legit giveaway will first request you to send them fund first.

yes you are right, don't send anything just to duplicate the ETH or BTC that you send, recently I also found some scammers doing advertisements on youtube.
actually very sad because scammers escaped YouTube security.

https://i.ibb.co/GW13Qtm/Airdrop-Scam.jpg

Remember, bounties and airdrops is free. don't have to pay a fee.

No one thing that should have in peoples mind from time to time that theres no someone would give out double your money instantly neither you are on traditional markets or even into this place.
Most of the time where people do lost up their common sense and do dive out without even having second thoughts that it might be a scam, they are just after on making quick bucks without any hard work.
In result? they do end up on getting scammed and cry in the end.

This isnt something new and these methods or schemes had already been known in the past but there are still people who do keep up feeding these scammers due to their dumbness and greediness.

Or no one not even people who have so much wealth and influence specially in crypto industry like CZ and Vitalik will simply giveaways money to us, that's for sure. Facebook, Youtube and other similar platforms that have been used by the criminals should really police their own back yard before people started to fall for this old trick but never gets fails to deliver and scam unsuspecting newbies.

Seriously eth halving? Its feel like selfdrop rather than a giveaway but this way it will be no eth coming on your wallet.

Its obvioua that eth now will be the center of attraction after more than 10% increase was happened on eth last night.  Its inevitable to see many tricks like this now that eth has started to rise possibly due to their announcement of last phasing of their testnet before their mainnet.

It's really obvious, you send fund and you get nothing in return that's even more of a clickbait to be honest. The real reason why such obvious scams are running around again because they see an increase of the crypto assets not just Ethereum.

If it's a giveaway it only should be given away and not asking you have to send an amount and they'll double it. As always it's not always the fault of the scammers but on ourselves as well if at all times we won't be vigilant.

That is why it is called free because you don't have to pay or send something to receive it. Never fall for this kind of obvious scheme, who would send you double of the amount you have sent. I am not sure if there are people who fell to this kind of scheme when twitter accounts of known personalities and pages were hacked last time. It is common sense that it's a scam. Always be cautious and think twice before joining any promotions or giveaways.

Scammers these days are really weird, that kind of giveaway can't be logic at all, it's a free giveaway, why do we have to send funds first? People today must have understood and are smart and not hit by such a trap and it is unfortunate that some YouTube content creators that contain are not discussing crypto but are hacked for the crypto live giveaway which is actually a scam. maybe some big media should discuss it like this so that ordinary people are not consumed by scammers like this.

I don't know who and when this started but I sure see a lot of threads like this in the scam section, they are using popular personalities in the Crypto community, making it hard to resist if you are a newbie, and this is still ongoing sad to say many are still getting victimized, we have many warning about this, and it's up to newbies if they still don't heed this advice.

I'm sure no one will take part in such prizes even though they are using a large market Twitter account, the giveaways should be free, but they ask to send some etherium, hopefully no one will be trapped by this kind of thing.

Sadly this is becoming a common way to scam people... Even the scammers are getting fake accounts that are verified by social networks to make this kind of scams, and it's sad because tons of people are falling to this kind of scams as their fists cryptocoins interaction, and that's a really bad start.

That's an immediate red flag knowing that you have to spend some money to participate. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's not always going to be a scam. Some are offering things like that through the ticketing system, and that payment is for that ticket to participate in the giveaway. I don't know what people are thinking with such live videos about it, and it's obviously using a person's name related to that topic and scam anyone gullible enough to send crypto. I think people who are going to get scammed with this method are lazy people who have lots of money to throw away, and maybe, just maybe, there's a legitimate one that could double your money.

In accordance with the image that was obviously scam and I've seen that several times in the different telegram
channels. So, if you see those kind of promotion stay away from it to avoid scam in the end.
And I agreed to your statement bounties and airdrops are free to anyone.

It's not coming from the telegram but it's from youtube. the scammers are always using the live AMA to scam others and mostly these trick has alreayd used on youtube. You can even easily to search them on youtube too.

Let this be bold and large enough that everyone will realize how true and important this is.

It puzzles me until now how stupid some people could be, how greedy they could become to the point of losing whatever little rational capacity they have over a stupid double-your-money scam posted by no less than Elon Musk!

Some of us seem unbelievably desperate to bite such stupid bait.

That's why we need to always give a warning so newbie persons will not just believe in that scheme . If you found any post like this in any social media channel care to post or reply in that channel to warning everyone before they will try to send any amount to scammers.

Its common scheme but there is always a victim and before newbie know that's its scam   they already send the money to scammers.

This have been discussed many times on this forum, people are just too stupid enough not to believe warnings sometimes, it's like they don't know the value of money, you have 1000$ and someone is willing to double it for you? Is that person printing money? It's same thing as crypto, we all know it's free and very valuable, I hope people learn and stop feeding scammers

This type of scam giveaways are very popular on YouTube and I read on news that someone have sued YouTube for crypto scam giveaways, I think it's time for all social media platforms to start securing their users, giveaways are on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and few others

Almost everything is scam if they ask for a money to give you more money, just sense why they need out little money to give it double the amount if they really wanted to give it to the community they will give it in proper way like charity and donation, they won't simply throw their money on the internet.

Its so obvious, man... If someone in the internet want your money to send to you much more its 99% scam

Again and again, this kind of giveaways is always a pure scam and never entertains cryptocurrencies giveaways that work like this which you will send funds before you gain the giveaway coin/s. This thing already talks here and I guess like multiple times but even it has been talked here some people out there still fall on this kind of giveaways. If ever we have seen this kind of giveaways probably it's better to report it immediately so, the social media platform where you see it will instantly take it down. We should be careful about the things that we have seen on the internet because not all of them are legit and most of them will fool to get your funds.

People are too greedy to say the truth, they aren't always satisfied with what they have that's why they fall for this cheap but tricky scam giveaways, they want to believe its real, the fact that you are been asked to make deposit first makes it an obvious scam

there are a lot of this also last 2017-2018.. they are using giveaways to scam people.some newbies in the crypto world fall from it as its convincing.. x2 of the how much you send isnt convicing? ;D

If they are giving away then why would they even need your funds to do it?
Just use your common sense and it would all be clear that it is just a scam,
They wouldn't need a certain amount if they are really giving out money at the first place.

Not just giveaways, any project that ask for deposit first are scam, whether it's Airdrop or bounties or giveaways, anything, once you've been asked to make deposit it's definitely a scam attempt and I don't expect anyone to think this is real

Even if that is as little as some pennies Im not gonna give my money to them since they are obvious scam. If it aint free it aint freebies and most of the thing in twitter are just blatant scam anyway. I always wonder how people are endlessly getting scammed, it's like a never ending cycle.

And it's now a fact and we keep it posting here any site that comes up with similar offer,now those that got scammed has nothing to blame but themselves if they got scam whereas there are a lot of information about it here, I hope I will not see anyone posting here that they got scammed again.

If any promotions or even giveaways that need to deposit first before you can get your reward it's better to ignore it. its an obvious scam, If you encounter it first then don't join or participate in that promotion or giveaways, It's better to avoid it and if you can warn others thats better so that no one will become a victim of this cheap modus. the crypto industry has plagued with heartless scammers and fraudulent actors thats why don't let your guard down anytime.

Except for those just coming in to the crypto space, I want to believe it is crystal clear to almost every existing ones that giveaways or airdrops requesting processing fund from you are 99.99% scam. Don't fall for it, scammers are just full out there to rake in even as little as $0.1 from individual, if you now multiply this with let's say 10,000 individual, definitely something will enter their wallet.  Likewise, let's also be careful of self drops.  Those are the avenues by which many people become victims of these scammers.  Thread with cautions!!!

well sometimes a lot of these scammers try to steal detailed information on people's data by telling them to do the KYC but not paying the airdrop participants or not giving a value that is not appropriate so that your identity is valued very cheaply and can be sold again on the black market.

yeah , and they already open many kind of scheme like this like a website that you need to refer a friend and you will earn they promise the amount you will receive but in exchange you will also need to send them first the amount they asked that normal thing now.

Other promising a high revenue from your money and other is use Fake wallet website and application so they can steal your coins in your wallet .

I am very sad myself to see every YouTube video I go to check on regarding Crypto to be littered with these trashy scams and the problem is YouTube is not doing anything about it and says it is not responsible for what advertisers advertise on their site. I mean that is ridiculous. I think they are being Sued now also by personalities whose names have been misused and abused by these really nasty scammers. The only giveaway involved here is you giving away your hard earned money to these scammers lol.

How can people trust this? How did this sounds right in people's ear anyway? Only a greedy soul will want to give a try because you should know it's not going to get you anything, I'm getting fed up about YouTube, this isn't the first time scammers are using their website to scam their users, they should do something about it already

I think people who believe in this besides being greedy there are possibility of people who become victims are people who have tried Hyip and managed to multiply money there, but they follow Hyip just following the trend and not learn anything from there. for YouTube it's really a serious problem besides google ads, the case of a creator channel hacked temporarily to display live video scams are also a problem, I hope that handling of this will be resolved soon.