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I said this many times before but I will say it again, Watch out for lurking Telegram scammers sending you personal messages and offers.

Recently I received report that someone is sending PM to random people containing fake BISQ exchange .EXE malicious file with free 100$ 'gift' for installation.

NEVER reply to telegram messages like this, don't download or install anything, and Block-Report them on Telegram.

In this case scammer telegram username was @AduruVo (Salina Littlea) but they can change it easy at anytime or create new account.

https://i.imgur.com/cGdslqf.png

https://i.imgur.com/h4004wg.png

Fake bisq website:


Real Bisq decentralized exchange should only be downloaded from confirmed official website or github link:
https://bisq.network/
https://github.com/bisq-network/bisq/releases

Only naive people will fall on this, yes they are.  Without having proper research they are a type of people that easy to be dazzled by money, it's greediness that turns out into a scam or prone to be scammed.  Why you will believe in a $100 giveaway on Bisq exchange, unless if there is an official announcement.

This is a very common fraud story on the Telegram social media, a house of a bunch of scammers that waiting who will be their next victim.  I advise just to avoid clicking if someone will send malicious links.  Talking to random people on Telegram is really strange especially if someone trying to have an offer.

Anyway, this is a great warning to everyone, thank you for this and we hope that there's no victim.  I've done reporting on that account, if that user will be got a spam reports of being a scam, it will automatically appear as a "scam" warning above on the profile.

The same old trick now applied to the crypto field as well, hmmmmm....

Have you ever received any messages from your contacts like click this for a surprise new year gift or amazon special offer deal can be availed with this links are just contains spyware which will be installed once we clicked that link or downloaded.

Even if someone didn't fell after receiving such messages but their system is at the rick of getting compromised because in my personal experience it happened even when I am always aware of such tricks.

Never say never. News on airdrops like the one on UNIs let many people think that you can make a few hundred dollars simply by registering in a website. Most of them will be newbies, but even veteran users are not safe from the danger of falling into one of these traps.

Thank you dkbit98 for the warning. I usually block all the unknown people who contacts me via Telegram, but this message in your thread will enhance my awareness from now on, and I hope it means the same for many others.

Newbies would ignore them and delete PMs from strangers and don't click to view or download any video, files sent by strangers.

Some blogs have guides to automatic mute or archive posts from non-contact (strangers) Telegram users. I tried to use that settings but can not find it in my telegram. Do you see it?
https://metimetech.com/how-to-prevent-strangers-from-writing-you-on-telegram/

I have a lot of people sending me a message in telegram asking me if I invest in crypto, it's like 100x now, the best way to keep away from these people is to ignore them and block them instantly, no conversation and explaining no scam will happen to you, meaning if you give them a chance to explain your interested, and as it goes along you will then fall from their old scheme tactics, most people who have little knowledge in investing and scam are the targets sometimes they try their luck on people who are years in crypto business or trading, and the most interesting here is they use woman, correct me if I'm wrong but all those people in telegram telling you to invest are woman right?

In fact it is too ambitious if they continue to register on airdrops that don't make sense like now UNI there are still some airdrops that are spread by scammers so that scammers can stalk us at any time and they are much smarter than us all forms of tricks they will do to make victims. fall into their traps so whatever the reward is if we are not careful then we will become victims, the most important thing is awareness or finding out in this forum I am sure everyone will tell you the truth.

Including this trick they also spread via random telegram and send to some people with a prize of $ 100 and then have to install obviously this is very dangerous I think in it there will be a virus embedded by a fraudster.

But here we know the wise men continue to tell us about this fake airdrop awareness.

The size of that file is less than 1 MB, which means that the program will exe/download another program.
I do not think that an application with that site will have Bisq GUI.
such scammers depend on the greed of users, as they will click on any link that gives them free money.
you many found bisq online scam site appears first when using google search.

Often I have been receiving such links. But I never click there and just use the report and delete chat. There are many scammers groups that are spamming via telegram since it's a safe haven for them due to anonymous chat. They will come such as greedy offers, so crypto users would fall into that. My personal thought is, nothing is free in the world, so when I see something like that then act very carefully. Rather than click such links, I try to verify from the original source if really there is something like that.

Thanks for sharing it with the community. Here is the lesson for newbies. They should learn and avoid these scam attempts.