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Friends, I was very surprised that one of the largest telegram channels about Airdrop advertises a scam.
The total number of subscribers is more than 450k.

https://i.ibb.co/hVP9Wz8/Screenshot-5.jpg (https://ibb.co/qptjsQ1)

Each post gets about 24,000 views.

https://i.ibb.co/vHmGBbk/Screenshot-14.jpg (https://ibb.co/JK24dNH)


After the publications, I wrote it to PM. In response, he said that it was not a scam.
https://i.ibb.co/hFGCWZZ/Screenshot-6.jpg (https://ibb.co/jkCHMWW)
https://i.ibb.co/BTh2SGV/Screenshot-7.jpg (https://ibb.co/0Y0ydKj)

On the same day, he wrote to me that he had been hacked. It is very strange at first to assert that the project is not fraudulent and then say that it was hacked.

I tried to send a complaint but apparently this is not enough.

Link to the web.archive https://web.archive.org/web/20210318152025/https://ethgift.me/

Original link https://ethgift.me/

As we can see, you need to send at least 0.5 ETH and you will be returned 1 ETH. This is a scam and you will lose all ETH sending.

https://i.ibb.co/bmPcSKm/Screenshot-8.jpg (https://ibb.co/3d7gDCd)


The wallet address changes every day.

Past address https://etherscan.io/address/0x04aa6f3ec898431e045ecda8ce89a6908e0e2904#comments

New address https://etherscan.io/address/0x37375f005b1f1cfd916bcd600a4035c4abd679da#comments

At the time of writing this post, the victim fell for this exchange. It is necessary to send complaints to this channel.
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xceab99ac1df790051194f568bd2f4f66bfc7706813031c08fd97b362fc511b3f

Scam channel https://t.me/airdrop6channel
The author of the channel is listed in the descriptions @colinxL

https://i.ibb.co/jTQ8z9D/Screenshot-15.jpg (https://ibb.co/L8c0rD1)

https://i.ibb.co/hFhRSsb/Screenshot-16.jpg (https://ibb.co/wh3NfyV)

Really weird. The man who are owning a telegram group with more than 400k followers should have a little common sense. I can not imagine how those guy believe it’s legit despite this is an old school scams.

I have a confusion if those telegram owners are handling fake giveaway site :)

It seems that the channel in question, has a history of promoting scams: [SCAM] Shitcoin Airdrop Wallet Has A Virus (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5213547.0)

A perfect ^[obvious] excuse for dodging the blame ^[SMH].

I can't access both of those links. Is it just on my side or others have the same experience?

Here's his/her "forum account (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2118673)".

• Based on colin xu's "trust summary (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=2118673)" page, it looks like he/she was part of another scam as well.
• Quote from: colin xu on April 01, 2019, 06:26:09 AM
  please contact me：@colinxl
  

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I'll be tagging that account as well.

For the right amount, they have no issue with selling their souls ^{[unfortunately]}.

I just want to suggest that everyone is also ask to report the scam channel so that not many people will fall victim to it. I have submitted a report and now it is your turn.
https://i.ibb.co/YTG68GJ/IMG-20210321-200850.jpg

I also posted something to the account after reading and knowing all the discussion and evidence on the OP.

THEY SCAMMED ME FOR 300$. THEY ARE SAYING THEIR ACCOUNT GOT HACKED.

They are still promoting fake websites to scam their subscribers. We are now in a situation where if they themselves promote this fake website and scam people then there is no way to catch them, because if they say their account has been hacked after conducting this activity then there is nothing left to do.

So by warning everyone by posting about their activities here, many new crypto users will stay away from falling into the trap of this scam.

Announcement:
We regret to clarify that our previous Airdrop6 channel and the Telegram account of @colinxL have been stolen by hackers.

We have to recreate a new group and channel. Please don't trust that channel anymore.

Thank you for your support. We will try our best to find the best airdrop, let us enjoy the process together!

Anyway, please beware of damn scammers!

Just did with a link to this thread...
^{- Hopefully, it'll be sufficient in taking down such groups.}

Sorry for your loss :(
^{- If there's anything that you could add as proof, it'd be greatly appreciated [might come in handy when one of the Telegram employees visits this thread].}

Unfortunately, this thread isn't enough unless that group is taken down.
^{- Most users, do little to nothing when it comes to background checks and other stuff.}

When did the incident happen and what did you do to protect your group members?

Please check our official website and Twitter, we have announced after being stolen by hackers！
https://airdrop6.com/
https://en.airdrop6.com/

The channel was marked as "Scam" I am very happy about this, in fact, how difficult it is to catch fraud, any social network responds for a very long time ((https://prnt.sc/126n7en

And yet you never bothered to warn members here as well via scam accusation because I believe this is probably one of the biggest crypto communities that use your website and social media channels to follow airdrops

Nice Job.

Right now they are using a different channel for their activity very surprising that they able to generate a lot of new members with their new channels, after their old channel was tagged they immediately create a new one so they can continue, this one should also be reported.

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

Until there are no scam projects on the new channel and other suspicious actions, nothing can be done. And as I understand it, the channel owner himself wrote that he was hacked, he notified all his subscribers on the website. I don’t know if we can believe it or not, but we will never know.


Thank you :)

You have to do better than this, it's an old trick you are good at manipulating people if you are honest about what you are saying to them compensate people who loss money from your airdrops, they trusted you but you let them down, I also have a feeling that you have fake members and you are trying to do manipulation to grow the number of members on your channel.

You think you are very smart, but in fact you are wronging us.
If we are a scam, then we will die immediately!