Bitcoin Forum

Hello!

One forum member has been sending private messages to all my active clients and was offering "low-price" services. I have been ignoring them because my client also ignored them. I launched Spinly.io's signature campaign just a few days ago, and boom, they reached Spinly.io as well and offered "Low Price" service. They informed me again, and this time I reached the guy. He apologized.

Later, a guy reached me on Telegram saying a casino I am working for is a scam, and they suspect I own the casino. According to them, "There is no reason why I would work for them if I do not own the casino." Refused to tell me who they are. So, let's say that was a coward.

Two days ago, I woke up with a message from an impostor who pretended to be a Spinly contact person and sent me a promo code for Spinly. The code was for 50 free spins, $1 each. They asked me to activate the promo code. Also, they asked not to post it in public. Later, I found them that they are scammers. I reached the Spinly contact person immediately and informed them about it, and they were surprised as well. Someone reached them pretending to be as God of Thunder and asked to create a promo code for 50 free spins $1 each.

They reached me and pretended to be a Spinly contact person

https://talkimg.com/images/2025/07/09/UwhNAG.jpeg https://talkimg.com/images/2025/07/09/Uwhz8j.jpeg

Also, they reached Spinly and pretended to be God Of Thunder

https://talkimg.com/images/2025/07/09/UwhI5f.jpeg https://talkimg.com/images/2025/07/09/UwhEED.jpeg

I believe they tried this:

» They asked Spinly to create a code,
» They asked me to activate it.

» Later, they would disappear, and Spinly would think it was me who used the code for personal gain.

I want to declare here that I have two Telegram accounts. 1- https://t.me/GodofThunderpro, 2- https://t.me/GodOfThunder009
I will never ask for loans/money from anyone. Make sure to double-check the username. Also, always confirm by sending a private message on the forum.

Now I am curious if these are purely scam attempt or what? I am also curious if all these incidents are tied somehow.

You can't be surprised there are scammers and imposters on Telegram. It's very easy to change your username into something that looks like something else. It's almost as if it's designed to facilitate scamming.

As you know, I am still too young in this business. I never thought I was popular enough to be targeted by the scammers. Fortunately, I was able to detect the impostor right at the beginning when they addressed me as "Bro". The casino representative never addressed me as "Bro". Also, the scammer said they want to get the donator status, while I already know that they know a lot about the forum. So, they already know that they have to donate a large amount to get the status. They created a group chat to discuss it with me. I immediately opened the private message and saw there were no messages. So I knew they were scammers. Yet, I wasted their time a little bit.

The moment I realized that they can reach my client as well, I reached spinly and they said that the scammers reached them as well. I feel like this is a less scam attempt, but an attempt to create a misunderstanding between Spinly and me. But I don't think any manager would do it. I have a very good relationship with all the managers. I assume either it was a professional scammer or someone who doesn't want to see me in this business.

I wouldn't be surprised if the owner had that in mind and that regardless of all the constructive criticism, he still refuses to introduce some changes that would make it impossible for his app to be a paradise for scammers.

---

@God Of Thunder, considering the work you do, wouldn't it be logical to try to switch your communications to another app? I won't name any, but there are several that are far better and more private than Telegram.

Just to be clear, did he manage to get the free spins from the team and then those are the very promo codes he sent to you?

I think someone is trying to sabotage your relationship with the team for various reasons such as
1. So they can take up the job, I mean, someone was already sending PMs to your clients behind your back. I have seen past dramas similar to this too, where someone decides to send "better offers" to clients so they can take up the job
2. Maybe trying to revenge?

We can't rule out scamming too.

All I can say is you need to watch your back. Some people are just so wicked when they see a money making opportunity.

You are right Lucius I think the best thing @God Of Thunder should do is change to  another communication app that is more safe and private, we have recorded a lot of scam activities coming from telegram and just like LoyceV said that It's almost as if it's designed to facilitate scamming, and his correct because the level of scam activities happening there is just too much, when you get a message from telegram about anything related to money what comes to your mind is scam activity and for an app like that someone that is doing the kind of job that desire trust from people should switch to a better app.

@God Of Thunder from your explanation you pointed out they have been doing this, and and I believe they won't stop, even now that you have posted your only 2 telegram account link those scammers will still look for a way to make there own similar with yours and some of your clients and those that trust your judgement may fall victim one day, so like Lucius advised switch your communications to another app, this will safe you from a lot in the future.

This is exactly what the scammer was counting on. There was also envy involved. The offer of cheap services, everything, literally says that you have envious people who also go hand in hand with you. Check your social circle; I would not be surprised if this is the person who stands next to you and perhaps also claims the position of manager. There are always hidden envious people who will one day try to come forward, despite promises of decency.

Such an attack might be new to you but not to other managers who has been in the job for a long time. How you were able to verify before anything shows you understand your service and how much scam attacks are ahead. While managers are slightly interested bringing out reports as such, i think it is best they do, in order for everyone to get enlightened, maybe soon we will be having another manager who might go under similar attack, reporting attacks in the forum is generously a good way of protecting others.

Scammers don't target popular people, rather they target the fans and followers of popular people.
You not being old in the business is another reason to target you.
I have been trying to understand the essence of that scam.
Do they just want to have 50 free spins of $1 each for themselves and try their luck or they want to initiate the conversation and create such a code with malware and make you send it to people in the forum?
If I were you, I would have delayed a bit to see where they will land. Seeing this post might not allow them continue their activity and we clueless of their intent.

If there is a hub for scammers then telegram should be the headquarters. Since telegram has no verification scammers finds it as safe haven for their phishing link schemes, crypto scams,
fake investment groups. I am not surprised because imposters walk around telegram freely without fear of unmasking their real identity. 

someone is trying to scam and fuck you over at the same time is what i think.

it's even worse than that, scammers leave the username field empty and just put the legit @username of the account they are impersonating in the bio.
if you do not paying close attention, it's easy to think you are talking to the real person if that the only thing you check.

that's a stretch imo, but telegram is definitely one of the apps you need to stay sharp on, else you will get scammed.

I think leaving telegram can be really difficult for campaign managers, it is like the most common way to reach out to client/potential clients and workers. I think majority of the CM here managers uses it, and this means they are very much aware of the risks that comes with it.

Even reputable users having telegram username known faces danger of this from scammers and now being a CM, scammers interest would be more just find ways of limiting/avoiding this. Telegram is still the den for scammers.

It’s the other way around. You are targeted because you are noob in the business and there's a chance for getting tricked.

There's not a single client I got who ever asked me about alternative contact, not even discord. It’s telegram all the time.

Because it's those who are new to the business, or those who are too young, who are always targeted because they assume there's still a gap, especially in terms of trust. Luckily, you're very observant about this.

But it's actually quite ridiculous that when discussing professional work matters, scammers use casual language for it.
While they might assume that speaking casually makes it seem natural, calling someone "bro" as a formal address is definitely a bit funny, lol.

Scammers are really imaginative sometimes
Sometimes on Telegram I pretend to be really interested to see how far they get
You don't know it but they have a secret word (which I can't say) to identify each other :)

so that one scammer doesn't scam another scammer

they really make me smile a lot

LOL. This is not true. OP has been on the forum since 2017 and has worked with casinos since 2019. He probably has more experience than you do. Its just that his ego is so big that he always fucks up after a certain point and has to start back at zero. I do not have enough "proof" to issue tags or even open a thread about it, but I know that I am not wrong.

That says something about people, doesn't it?

There are always alternatives, so even though I wrote that I wouldn't mention them, I'll say that Signal is one such app that you should definitely try. After the owner of Telegram was arrested in France and after some time was released, many people are wondering if today various governments have a backdoor into this app - which is another reason to stop using it - at least for those who value their privacy.

I'm not disrupting what you are saying it can be true. But LM is just referring to the fact that OP recently became a CM  and I think they recieved more of such scam at Telegram.

In my opinion, you should highlight your official and public telegram so that everyone knows it.
either you keep it secret, like icopress does, or if you make it public you have to spread it as much as possible so that everyone knows about it
This is the only way to avoid problems!

I don't know if it was a good idea to reveal your Telegram usernames because now you will have to direct every client you get to this thread when you start working with them so that they can know about it and make sure they check the username whenever someone approaches them with your name on the account. When you keep your username(s) private, scammers or impersonators will have a harder time impersonating you since they won't know how to match their username with yours, which in this case seems clear that he knew your username already because he only changed "009" and made it "900". These small details are what they focus on.

And, if Telegram is your main source of contact with your clients, maybe you should purchase Telegram Premium, it will give you more options for privacy, and that might at least keep them away from you.

You know that scammers owns telegram, and you would use an indirect means to find out the user name of the person in the forum that chat your clients, secondly you need to keep your telegram username hidden so that scammers will not claim that they're you and deceive your clients, you need to protect your image before scammers in forum ruin your business with your clients

Let me say it openly, many people who is in this forum are scammers, because what op explained here, it's people who is part of the forum that's messaging  different clients in order to defraud them.

As I mentioned in the OP, I've just realized there's a connection between this scammer and the one who's been contacting almost all the managers on this forum, likely also involved in other scams that have occurred here.

Here are the screenshots when they reached me.

https://talkimg.com/images/2025/07/13/UwlJlW.jpeg https://talkimg.com/images/2025/07/13/UwlkgT.jpeg https://talkimg.com/images/2025/07/13/UwlfF1.jpeg  https://talkimg.com/images/2025/07/13/Uwl1Db.jpeg

I didn't think much about it, and then the scam attempt happened. I wasn't sure if all these were connected.
Meanwhile, the guy changed his username and display name twice, and I have been searching for his username here and there to check if I can find any information. They have now changed their username to @Dave_TCGWorId, and their display name is "David Evans 🇬🇧 I Will Never DM First", and they are pretending to be @Dave_TCGWorld, who is the owner of https://tcg.world/

I assume they are going to scam the moderators of their Telegram group in the same way they tried to scam me and Spinly.

The guy probably deleted the conversation but forgot to delete it for me.
Today, at 3.49 AM, while I was sleeping, Mr @Dave_TCGWorId reached me again, but it was a direct video call this time  :D

https://talkimg.com/images/2025/07/13/Uwl5uI.png

I assume they wanted to hire me for his project  :D :D

If someone knows how to report scammers on Telegram, please share this.

We can't control Telegram scams anyway. The better practice is to contact your client through forum PM when it's related to the funds. Ask your clients to deal through forum PM; this practice would help to avoid impersonation and scams as well. When I had been managing the campaign, though I talked through Telegram, when it was related to funds, then I asked them to send me a PM on the forum. I teach them not to deal with Telegram accounts when they're related to the funds. So managers should practice it, and tech companies as well.

It's pretty much sure someone is targeting you to destroy your reputation. So you need to be very careful; instead of finding a scammer, you have to follow your own standards. Because impersonators could almost use your similar username. But when dealing through the forum, impersonators can't manage to clone usernames. Even mail could be spoofed, so be careful.

Unfortunately, not all people are aware of the dangers of dealing outside the forum. It's that easy to impersonate someone else, and if you're naive or unsuspicious enough, you'll easily fall victim. My main concern is how easy someone can affect your reputation, by making you appear as a scammer, and if the scam actually goes through, imagine having to go through the trouble of explaining yourself that you're not an elephant and have nothing to do with it. How can you prove that it wasn't your Telegram account? Unless you clearly disclose your accounts on the forum or only deal through PMs.

You shouldn't be surprised that such person wants to tarnished your good images and reputation over here for their personal gain, we should be that sensible enough to easily detects whether these people are Insider or people that are close to us.. my suspicion comes from where he said "he is holding no funds for the campaign management" that he needs FS. Now, my question is how did the person gat to know that you had no fund in your possession from the spinly.io team?

I think you should have a rethink of someone whom you disclose your management information with, such person should be questioned thoroughly. I could be wrong, but base on the scammers message on the screenshot is what I used to judge from my ends.
Nowadays people are too smart enough to outsmart people they got information from, I sincerely love the way you came to air out here.

The Cryptovator you are right I think dealing with client in the forum will be much better and safe however what I noticed is that this campaign managers sometimes are the once that look for this companies and then tell them about this forum and how campaigning or advertising there company on this forum can help grow there company and since the managers are the once that went looking for them they talked on telegram or any other social media platforms and telling the company to create an account on the forum and then telling them to discuss with you on PM in the forum may look stressful to them they just decide to deal with them outside the forum.
But I believe the managers should always tell them to open an account using there company name and then go through the forum for some time and see what is going on there if they are interested to run a campaign after ward you can tell them you will love you guys to discuss on the forum for security reasons you can even go forward to share your bad experience or that of others.
I believe they will listen and you guys can start discussing in the forum anytime in other to avoid all this telegram and other social media scammers trying to spoil your reputation.

You can report scammers and impersonators through this Telegram channel: @notoscam (https://t.me/notoscam).

Also, if any scammer contacts you on Telegram, you can tap on "Report as Spam" at the top of the chat, or send an email to: abuse@telegram.org, including the scammer's username and any evidence you have to support your report.

What happened to you OP could happen to anyone. It's good that you warned and alerted the community about this matter so that they are not misled.

Any user who wants to contact you should be the one to initiate the conversation through one of the two official Telegram accounts you shared in the OP.

Everyone should know that you never DM first and this is the fundamental rule. Anyone trying to contact others while pretending to be you should be blocked immediately, as you do not start conversations . by following this rule, Impersonators will fail in deceiving others

didn't know this existed, thanks for sharing it.
but is this an official telegram report channel or is it something else? it says support under the "report impersonation" name, but i'm not sure.

edit: yeah, it's an official report channel. i'm just stupid sometimes.

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2025/07/15/UAnqbf.png

Thanks for your help albon!
But we are a little late here. The scammer has already changed his username again, and I am still tracking his profile every time he changes it. I believe this is his full-time job, and he will continue to change his username, pretend to be another project owner, and try to scam their employees again. If his current username doesn't match with anyone, we cannot report it. But this scammer should be stopped somehow. I tried to warn the previous project, but their bot automatically banned me from their TG group. LOL.

Right now you should focus on making sure that all of your clients can contact you on a safer channel, probably the forum or through SimpleX chat. For casual things TG should be fine. But as soon as money is involved make them sign message or teach them to contact via forum or simpleX client. Regarding reporting the user, it probably won't work that much. Previously I had reported a couple of scammer but none were flagged as scam. They will just come back with another account.

I'll be frank with you, GOT, those ss/chats felt real personal. It's like he knows you well, maybe even has a personal vendetta against you. That's probably why he's targeting you and your business specifically, trying to damage it. I have a feeling that you have crossed paths with this scammer on this forum before, maybe engaged in some threads....