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Economy => Scam Accusations => Topic started by: ScamViruS on November 11, 2020, 08:46:47 PM



Title: [SCAM Alert] Mike Novogratz 5000 BTC Fake Giveaway.
Post by: ScamViruS on November 11, 2020, 08:46:47 PM
What happened: Mike Novogratz 5000 BTC Fake Giveaway.
Website:
Code:
https://ia801508.us.archive.org/30/items/btc2_20201110/btc2.html

Source: 
Code:
https://mikenovagrtz.medium.com/mike-novogratz-news-238470d96f60

Scammer's BTC Address: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/178B5aQcLnVmer3Hq52HzE1eGPU35QK4jr $1,570 available.


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Title: Re: [SCAM Alert] Mike Novogratz 5000 BTC Fake Giveaway.
Post by: CryptoYar on November 12, 2020, 01:15:49 PM
I think a lot of people have been scammed with this website because the balance of $1,591.00 in the scammer's wallet indicates this.
I am surprised that even today there are many people who send their hard earned money to these scammers and hope that they will get a double amount back.



Title: Re: [SCAM Alert] Mike Novogratz 5000 BTC Fake Giveaway.
Post by: ScamViruS on November 12, 2020, 04:56:19 PM
I think a lot of people have been scammed with this website because the balance of $1,591.00 in the scammer's wallet indicates this.
I am surprised that even today there are many people who send their hard earned money to these scammers and hope that they will get a double amount back.

Yeah. It’s really surprising that people don’t want to miss out on such tempting opportunities, so they send their hard earned money to scammers in the hope of getting a double return.

But none of us here are 100% sure, people have sent these funds to the address of the scammers. Scammers may have sent funds to their own addresses to attract people. Scammers want to mislead people by using all sorts of tactics.


Title: Re: [SCAM Alert] Mike Novogratz 5000 BTC Fake Giveaway.
Post by: XZERO1 on November 12, 2020, 05:49:24 PM
These fake and scam airdrops/giveaways are clearly targeting those people that are less familiar with crypto, it really amazes me that even after that big hacking incident on twitter which led to masses of known twitter accounts to publish tweets about fake giveaways these people are still clueless about how these scam airdrops work and still send them funds, if only these people took a moment to think why a known person would have such a big giveaway that needs you to deposit first in order to participate in it there wouldn't be so many victims to such poor attempts of scamming.


Title: Re: [SCAM Alert] Mike Novogratz 5000 BTC Fake Giveaway.
Post by: TalkStar on November 12, 2020, 06:05:24 PM
But none of us here are 100% sure, people have sent these funds to the address of the scammers. Scammers may have sent funds to their own addresses to attract people. Scammers want to mislead people by using all sorts of tactics.
Using fake transaction links on frontend is a old trick which usually its too much common in crypto doubler projects. You will easily find transaction link section on most doubler templates and interesting thing is that some fools directly use the same info on their real website. For this giveaway this scammers are using a btc wallet address which is containing a good amount of fund.

Through this they are trying to make their visitors believe that people are getting free giveways and sending funds to their wallet. Actually entire fund is stolen by running another scam projects or stealing through existing one.  

You can't save anyone from being scammed if he follow the way of extreme greediness and run after dreams to be a millionaire overnight.