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I believe some members are already knowledgeable about such but also I still believe that some aren't. The forum is a big place and any big platform that discusses crypto-currency is always a target for scammers.

  The forum has done so much to frustrate those fraudsters and I think it should be commended although this scammers are dogged with their actions. They do send messages to your DM with all sort of crazy format.

I have gotten some recently and I would be posting although I have edited the link so it won't be clickable.


I haven't checked the authenticity of this message but it already spells scam. I won't even want to find out if I am wrong or right on that.

Be careful about such newbies, they come with all these enticing stories all to draw you in and then telling you how it's not a scam. In your best interest it best not to find out so don't even click the link. I would find better ways to protect my DM from such in the future.

Thank you @OP, so the name of this bastard is tajimas. :P

Have you report the PM to Admin? he might get banned for sending unsolicited messages.

He's actually Full member rank, so he can send PM to everyone except the users have block to receive PM from him, some low members rank might think he's legit since he's not a newbie.

Assuming you shared any link attached to this message, it would have been easier to know if there is something fishy about it or not. From what I have read in that message, I did not see scam, it can just be someone looking for who to help him him write content,  the only risk you stand being the time you will waste writing the article which you are not sure of being paid.

To me scam is when there is risk of you losing your money or anything you own like your account or compromising on your privacy. I can be wrong, but this does not come through to me like a scam unless the person might want to gain some level of understanding with you before unleashing the real intentions.

CryptoPotato (https://cryptopotato.com) is actually a reputable site for crypto news and for someone to actually get a job offer as a journalist there, is not something that will be offer to just anybody. So for him to actually get the job without knowledge proves that it is a scam. Although I simply advise you to just ignore him and place a restriction on him. He should advertise his job on the service board if he is serious and anybody interested will DM him

Reading through the quote looks genuine, but then almost all scams will look genuine or legit from the start, so it depends on individuals preferences, if they'll like to explore further or just ignore the link. In your own case you don't want to take chances to open the link and actually get to know if the sender has a genuine interest or if it's a scam, so you're staying on the safe side and I wouldn't blame you for taking such a decision, however the project might still not be a scam, since you didn't explore further and there's no proof of it being a scam. I'm skeptical too about clicking unfamiliar links online because of scams and hacks, so it's ok to be cautious.

I don't think it is a straight scam. Maybe you work for nothing, that's all, but at least it doesn't seem that you will send any money and lose it. But hey! for some people time is more valuable than money itself, and it is a scarce resource indeed, so be careful.

What surprised me is the following:


Is it true that, under the new rules, the merits can be removed? If that's the way it works now, this is the first news I read about it...

I denied myself from dealing to those who sends links specially newbies and even more when this is via PM , sometimes even legit account but sent me PM's i delete them mostly because a friend of mine becomes a victim of this kind when someone sent Him a PM saying if it is Him who is on that thread but when he clicked then it directed him to a clone site that asked him to relog in and boom he was hacked  ;D
from that day , i made sure that to never click a link not unless it comes from someone i really trusts.

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I also received the same PM, and it happened on the first of April when the forum celebrated April Fool's Day. The author of the letter was not in on the joke but only read the headline in META, so he decided that merits could be taken away for any violation.

Besides that, I checked his website, and there is no scam or phishing there. The guy wanted some kind of support, nothing more.

Still, the OP's warning is very relevant. Now, the time is coming when scammers have armed themselves with different types of scams to deceive forum users in one way or another. Don’t expect to receive a lucrative offer, but always ask why they are writing to you, and why would someone give money if they never pinch their pockets.

Once i received something related to this kind of message on my DM, what i do is to delete such and ignore the user, that is all, there is no need of giving attention on some sort of cooked stories for the Gods, if he have confidence in what he is saying then he should make it public, there is no need for hiding what is not hidden, such could be dangerous to us if we fail to take any action on such, we have to be careful on some sort of deals or talks some of these newbies account are bringing on us, such could be implicating if care i not taken, now i see more reasons to why some members blocked newbies from sending PMs.

To me having random messages in this forum is nothing strange and if you check users profile that are sending messages like this you will discover that they have done something wrong before  and if you go through their profile you can see a scar(red trust) that pass information to know who they are. The best thing to do when you get strange messages in your dm that are not okay with you is for you to just the user to your ignore list.

To me, this seems like a waste of time, for the person who sent the messages, but also for everyone who had to read them. It is obvious that the member who sent the messages was definitely confused by the April Fool's joke and it seems that there was nothing more to it than that.

Personal messages are part of the features of the forum, and there is nothing dangerous if you receive and read them, just don't click on the links that can be found in them and do what the sender asks of you without first checking what exactly it is about. If you suspect that the sender has bad intentions, you can report any such message to admin directly with the link from the message.

The scammer claim to have been recruited by the cryptopotatio as a cryptocurrency consultant and he has no true and comprehensive knowledge of cryptocurrencies. This is very laughable.

How do you get a crypto job without having knowledge about it. Who hires a dummy in an area of interest?

t's obvious it's a scam technique and he has to take it to the wrong person. It it was to be a newbie receiving this DM chances are that he would have fallen for it. Great to know about this that it doesn't matter the rank from whom a DM is coming from in the forum don't take it as genuine until proven true.

The user seems like a scammer to me because he sent that message on 1st April and that's April fools day. If anyone who received such message from that user and report him/her then he/she could easily say that it was just a joke to April fool of someone.

Anyone with common sense can understand that whatever that user said in that private message is totally wrong and can't be trusted at all. CryptoPotato is a reputed crypto news platform, and I'm pretty sure they will not even look at the articles of such users with so many grammatical errors.

Better manner of staying out of scamming victim is to be contented to your state of being, don't feel too hastening to reach the top for nothing good comes easy. So always have those fast claimed possibilities of quick enrichments to be suspicious and do stay away and be adamant to whatever way they may have told about your profile probably claiming that they've been on some last engagements with you and now have some work to do with you with the potnetials of making profits.

So basically, he was approaching people who are good posters to write articles or provide points for him about the subject he mentioned so that he could compose articles with those points and publish them and then share the profit he gets for doing that, and he said he is afraid to create a topic about this service of him because his Merits would be removed (according to theymos' April Fool's prank (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5491135.0)). So it's not essentially a scam where you would be asked for money or anything but he would only get some content out of you probably for free.

Even if he is telling the truth about being an employee of that reputable platform, he is most likely not going to pay the people he is approaching to get points or articles from, so yeah, it can be said that he is trying to scam people out of their time and material they might write for him if someone believes him and falls for his offer.

He doesn't necessarily have to be a scammer, because there is a high probability that he was just (like many others) confused by the April Fool's joke and if you read the post from @lovesmayfamilis, then it is logical to conclude that he really believed that he would lose his merits with each published post.

I don’t see anything here that indicates that this person was trying to pull a scam. There was no phishing link neither did he try to take the conversation to a different platform like telegram or ig. The date of the message was April 1 and it seems he didn’t understand the new merit system was an April fools joke by Theymos.  I don’t think he meant anything malicious or tried to scam you, regardless of his true intentions, he’s learned the hard way the risk of sending unsolicited messages to members you don’t usually interact with on the forum.

This is not a straight scam to me but that doesn't mean it won't end as one, but why not confirm first before maybe tagging this account owner as a scammer? I do get PMs like this but there is no malicious link sent to me unlike before.

It seems they want this person to work for them using their level or rank on the forum, but like I have said, it's possible that this will end up in a sorry case, I believe that they should instead be open about such things instead of sending PMs.

If one has a clean motive they will not try to hide it, looking for people to work for you isn't hard, but the reason why they should be interested must be legit enough.

Either ways, I don't like the idea, most PMs are scams, its better to avoid them at all cost, thanks for sharing.

I doubt it was a scam attempt. But it does draw attention to the @tajimas account. From his post history, he was very active in Indonesia local board until he woke up last year and stopped posting there. His merit history is also worth noting since it may have connections with $weetne$$. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3541025) I suspect the account has changed hands, and would be very cautious of entering into any kind of financial transaction with this account.

This is such a good reminder  to how we should be security active, some time ago I received a fraudulent message and when I read through it I discovered that the offer was too good to be truth, this raised interest to wanting to know more about the project.


Many still fall victims to this kind of scam and as a matter of fact it becomes a necessity for us to always stay up to date with events as they happens around them and staying safe from every attempt scam.

I used get messages almost as similar as this with tempting offers too. However once I learned to ignore the message they either just resend it or stop in total.

This community is very large and it is true about scammers being here looking for victims too. Don't be fooled, as long as one attends to the duties that brought them here, which could either be to learn, earn or for sport, these individuals with bad intentions will look elsewhere.

I hope you didn't try to hold a conversation in the least or if you did, the best sign if he's a scammer will be when he uses the lure of what you stand to earn, after you do few tasks for him, and such task might entail you divulge personal information without much thought.

If you read some previous responses, you'd understand that the sender of that message isn't actually a scammer and i don't think he would have pulled a fast one on OP even if he held a conversation with the sender. It was just someone who was confused about what was happening in the forum with "merits" on April 1st. That being said, it is obviously good to be sceptical about unsolicited PM's and take many of them as a scam, until proven otherwise, especially when coming from a user that is not reputable or one you are not familiar with.

don't be too innocent on the internet. it's clear that it has the potential to be a scam, because the journalists at cryptopotato don't take information from forums, but from other sources, and usually they don't send messages like that, but starting from whether they can contact you or not and include their identity directly, and usually it's done from email.

and what's more the account doesn't seem very trustworthy. so just be careful of people like this who claim to be journalists from one of the reputable platforms, because it could be that they are just disguising themselves.

I saw the message sent to the OP, it seems he praised you too much for your crypto experience, yes, maybe that needs to be questioned and suspected if the message comes from a beginner, but you also need to be careful, Sometimes there are also a lot of fake beginners here, aka fake ones, indeed they were created to deceive under the guise of beginners.

In the past, when I was still at SR rank, I often received DMs from people I didn't know, they said the same thing, maybe, but I didn't forget that there was a mode in the profile section.
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I'm sure if you use and make some changes to beginner DMs, you won't receive messages from beginners anymore, I'm sure this feature is useful for you and anyone who is annoyed by unknown messages.

I thought about this mate but I think the rank of the fellow is full member and I don't think they are in the bracket of new beginners for restrictions. Also I think this person may also be knowledgeable in terms of crypto-currency so as to perfect their cooked up scams. One law I always go by is never click a suspicious link, this is my first rule.

Based on the message posted by the user accused, CryptoPotato is indeed a well-known crypto news platform but there's a chance that you're right about your accusation toward the user in the subject since he/she never comes out to clear the air.

Yes, you're right but the accused user is a full member user and the only he won't receive a message from the user is probably by adding him to his ignore list.

Several times I've gotten DMs from some members  on this forum that are like that, or there are slight differences. but the method is the same. Usually their rank is still quite low. So, sometimes this is something you don't need to think about. especially if you see they have red trust, never mind, there's no need to read any more. And if anyone sees the link, never try to click on the link. Because it is quite risky to see what the condition of the link is. I'm afraid there will be phishing links or other types of malware. So understand that being alert is quite necessary

He messaged me and answered him since I've got time to chat a bit but just basic questions about crypto and different from what has been asked to OP. I don't see any scam on his message to me.

He asked about how to keep his bitcoins and if electrum was good, I said yes and adviced him to buy a HW. No links were given, etc.

And with that cryptopotato, I sometimes read articles there.

Red flag number one. My brain is wired in such a way that when I hear people say they won't scam me/others, that's when I'm much suspicious there's a scam coming.

Red flag number two. What profit was he talking about? Journalists are paid salaries or wages or commissions, they don't make profit. Possibly, the dude was taking about a profit making venture and not some writing gig as he was portraying earlier.

A journalist with zero knowledge of syntactic structure and punctuation marks 😏. That dude is far from being one.

Maybe he's just getting some personal inputs from other experience people by trying to interview those people seems interesting to him so that he can create a good article towards what he mentioned. If he just want to have you to be part of his content then its fine as long as there's no link that you need to sign nor you have been asked for some amount.

Maybe try to ask some sample of the articles he created to verify his legitimacy. But if you are not totally interested then ignore and its good you rise this topic so people will be aware if he send a DM to another person in this forum. But I have doubts about sharing the profit when the article became famous since maybe he will not follow that agreement. Also still we need to be careful receiving such DM's since a lot of deceiving message we can read from a lot of people trying to pull their crazy illegal schemes.

I am learning many things from other users as a result of this topic. I get suspicious of any PM. That is my default defensive position so that I do not get scammed. I am even more scared of unsuspecting links because anyone who has used the internet and been a part of a community only  will know that people could lose their accounts, money amd other things through this method. While the user may not have a bad intention, never assume that until they can prove it beyond any reasonable doubt that is the lesson.

It's not looking like a scam attempt but it is an unsolicited message. It is right to treat every stranger as a scammer until it is proven otherwise. If you find the message offensive kindly report to moderator and if a few more users report him, he would get a temporary ban which will build up to a permanent ban.

Now, that's obviously a scam. There's no way your merits will be removed, but if your posts are not that high quality and useful, you won't grow your merits earned.

For someone who is still new in the forum, one will definitely bite this message. To be honest, there's no wrong in the message but it only gets clearer that it's a scam seeing at the last part of the message. So if you are not knowledgeable about how everything goes in the forum, you will definitely fall into this kind of scam. Better not to click or post a reply then.

It's not scam. It's April Fool.

[April fools] Adjustments to Merit calculation (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5491135.msg63884686#msg63884686)

theymos can demerit your posts.

Oh, my God ::). Everyone who saw the fraud in this letter seems to be afraid of their own shadow. People, turn off all your PMs and sleep peacefully. This way, you are protected from all sorts of scammers. Why don't you ban PMs?

In another case, just think that you are on a forum. There are different people here; someone communicates through PM, someone publicly displays PM, and this is condemned by the forum.

Nothing will happen to you if you are sober and see the link sent. As long as you don't click on it, you and your account are alive. But I would also like to warn you not to accuse every random person of fraud.
One day you may also have reasons to write to someone in a personal message.

I equally received the same message from this member on that April fool day too with the same line of story, went through the profile a bit and ignored the user, whatever be his intention, if at all this is true, he shouldn't have gone about messaging member rather create an official thread, this way he will see people willing to help him in that regard, So I don't fancy the fact that the member go about messaging some members in the forum, looks suspicious, though.

After reading the message, I found he used these words "This is not spam, scam or a prank" because he was too quick to convince you of this negative opinion, I assume this is a scam. His confession also made me wonder about his abilities "He was hired as a cryptocurrency consultant and journalist at a well-known cryptopotato", if he was not someone who had experience in cryptocurrency, there was no way he could have gotten this strategic job.

This type of message is suspicious and avoid clicking on the links attached by these scammers to keep yourself safe from their traps. His doubts about making the topic are very unfounded, if he really wants to find experienced cryptocurrency users, he should be open to all forum members, maybe he can consider other members too who have experience in the Cryptocurrency field.

Ive got like tons of messages from newbie. Sure I read some even though theres a warning for me about user scam but its quite obvious on some of them to always ask for some help like send fund. To see messages like this could really make someone suspicious enough that the account is a potential scammer. I am not saying all but on how they construct you definitely got some hint about it.

Anytime I see a Private message from anyone, the first thing I check is the person profile and if it's a person popular here, I don't bother to some findings but if I'm coming across you for the first time, I will check your reputation and check your trust feed back before I even view what you are sent to me. It's help you not to waste your precious time on scammers and trolls who have nothing to do with their time.

Another thing I do is just disabled Newbies from sending you message, most scammers are new accounts, no high rank will want to message you with scam intentions unless it's a bought/hack accounts and from the trust score card, you will see the tags because the accounts must have change hands or email change and password which usually raise suspicion about such accounts.

Seems like I'm late but still what would be my first reaction is as follow,

nah nah haha it was just an April fool prank started by the themos itself and many users experience a reduction in merits I have seen many OG's merits going in minus after the implementation of the new system but after some time all things keep on the track as the system already working. The reduction in merits was also faced by some of my community members and they were worried about that haha on the same side, some users experienced an increase in their total merits.

The administration announced that the new merits system will work like this if the quality of posting of the member is good then he/she will start to get merits in his/her total merits but there will be no impact on that of his/her Smerits but after some time hardly one and half day everything gets normal.

This is not about scam or not but it's always good to ignore such message, if the sender also read comments during the April fool prank then the sender would have gotten more information, If I'm not mistaken the first comment actually stated it was an April prank. I'm not judging the sender but what do we except from this especially in the crypto space, we see alot of scammer with different format and motive, hearing different and similar stories like  what the op shared as a scamming method. Secondly the fact most forum users received same news sound strange, the rate crypto scam increase daily it's best never trust anyone mostly when it comes to financial deal. People end up regretting making financial deal with an unknown person.

Scammers are always targeting crypto users, and their main target are newbies, because they believe they are new to crypto, and they can brain wash them, since most of them have little or no knowledge about cryptocurrency, they do fall for them. Some people watch videos on YouTube and other social medias, and they see that people are making money from cryptocurrency, and they will also join without having any orientation or basic knowledge about what cryptocurrency, that’s why most of them are easily scammed by scammers.

I received the message also from the user, I was just kind of busy when I received the message, and I didn’t disturb myself to reply him, since I hardly visit the message section, so it escaped my mind to reply the user when I was free. If I received the message  when I was free, I will have insulted the person, but I just ignored him. We all have to be careful with the messages we receive in our Dm, some of them are just scammers.

Exactly, it’s still best just to ignore the message and won’t dare to reply most especially if the sender is not actually known in the forum, otherwise you’ll eventually fall on his trap without you knowing. I have also this feeling that the sender is not really a scammer, but more likely his message might only be misinterpreted. But for our own safety, just stick to what’s best for our DM account, ignore the message and ignore the sender.

There's no trust in strangers, and even if they are not newbie members here, the account of high ranks may have been hacked, and the hacker was able to access it, or the owner sold it to someone.

I have not explicitly received DMs from scammers before on the forum. Still, I have seen a lot of scam links being shared to deceive members, especially those interested in bounties and airdrops and  Beginners. It's our duty that when we see one of these bad people, we must report their messages or posts. I found that the flood of DMs on Telegram, Discord, and X is incredible. So it's crucial to be cautious and pay attention before opening any link from someone or downloading any applications and programs based on his recommendations or the platforms he deals with because these may all be his elaborate traps. Scammers know where cryptocurrency enthusiasts are; therefore, they monitor them closely to trap them and drain their wallets.

I guess I’m seeing this late but all the same, thanks mate and news and stories like this are what we look forward to seeing people share because they’re not just beneficial to the community but also to the private individuals as well.
People have to be very careful of unsolicited messages from unknown users and mostly newbies because they’re the people who easily thinks the forum is dumb and try to scam users and this should also be a wake up call that, these scammers are always doing their best without relenting to scam anyone who falls victim.

This message might be overlook at some point but to be honest, this should always be a good reminder for us not to entertain messages or strangers that are just trying to get our attention, most probably for some hidden reason. And we all know about that, they are doing that to scam us. Good thing if you are well knowledgeable about it, but for someone who thinks everyone in the forum is legit and a reliable person, you are wrong with that, there’s still a lot of scammers hiding in every corner just waiting for their new target.

 As long as it's not to promote a crypto project, I would have given it a shot, that's after I must have done an extensive research on him. When we get PM's like these the first thing that comes to mind is scam alert but some of them are actually harmless but we won't know this because some of us may have been burned by seemingly harmless messages the Op sent.
I'm curious though; I wonder if the sender has gotten enough information from the "knowledgeable crypto users" he pm'ed, and again how he managed to get a job at CryptoPotato if he doesn't know much about cryptocurrencies because judging by the message, this looks like an SOS from someone who may have gotten the job with a half truth portfolio or he actually knows what he's doing but just needs easy tips on how to make a great article.
 Either way, he may not be a scammer and I'm willing to go with what @lovesmayfamilis says but at the same time, with all the questionable words in the body of the message, I'm tempted to believe he's not the most honest of the bunch. Maybe this is why Op is finding it hard to do anything with the message.

Today, Tahimas decided to create posts and topics on the forum after a long period of inactivity. You can involve him on this topic. Moreover, Tahimas received a neutral review from one participant and could ask for the tag to be removed by telling the reason for the PM since the community is very discussed and scared of his PM ;D. But in my opinion, interrogating him about his connections with any project should not bother anyone or even ask questions.
I responded to Tajimas in a PM but did not agree to his continuation of further contacts. There was no fraud, just like there was no need for his tag.

That PM looks a lot like someone who needs a partner in crime, I also don't think that he is a scammer, I don't have a problem replying to PMs until I figure out that it's going in a scamming direction.

It's not necessary to reply to PMs but you might never tell where a conversation is going, not all PMs are scam attempts but it's safer to ignore like you said, still a scam will be so easier to detect on this forum because whatever a stranger wants you to do must be on this forum not asking you to leave this forum and do something else.

True be told, if anyone wants to tell you something they should go straight to the point and they will never send you a link to visit or try to make you leave this forum into another private messaging app for texting.

Don't answer to any unknown user. Newbies are always the targets, they're easier to reach because they have zero or slim knowledge of Scamming projects, so these scammers focused their energy towards these set of people and implement solid chances of luring them to accumulating profits. We all have different sources that fetch us the estimated income, scamming will not end, we just have to find solution to access promising projects in the space.

I don't think it is a scam attempt unless this person asked you to provide money. It is more like a person is trying to promote a project with your help and if it's successful then this person will share some of the profit but for me, treating strangers as a scammer is what people should do until you know what that person really is. I also received DMs from newbies but I didn't entertain a single one of them for a reason that it may be a scam.

Scammers can use different techniques to get to their victims.  Some will make their victims feel comfortable, then they strike when the victims least expected it. You may be right about the sender not being a scammer but for our safety, every stranger is a suspect till we are 100% sure they mean no harm. It is better to avoid unsolicited help, recommendations and offers from strangers if you're not sure of what they are offering whether they are requesting for money or not. Remember that scammers are improving a lot, a simple answer to a question can cost you your hard earned Bitcoins. In this times where  no one is to be trusted, we need to be security conscious always to be on the safer side.

Maybe the particular message you received was not from a scammer, but it does not reduce the importance of the message which is that we need to be careful with the kind of message that we give attention to in our DM's. To newbies especially, some kind of conversations through Private messages is not always advised in the forum because you may just be chatting with a scammer who has the intention to steal from you but wants to first gain your trust. There are many good people in the forum, there are also bad people too.

Unless you are an idiot who send them the seed phrase or send funds. If you only entertain them then you won't become a victim even though they use different techniques. I have done it myself where I entertain a stranger saying something that let's me earn profit and I didn't send anything or even click links that this person sent me. If I feel that he is planning to scam me then I would just ask the opposite which is to borrow his own money to try it myself on what this person wants me to do because in that way, I won't become his victim and won't also lose money.

This happens because they are lazy to learn and want to be simple where the level of ability about transacting in crypto is still not understood but it is true, and it is like handing over the key to our money vault willingly.

Yes. Sometimes there are also those who are provoked to give an initial phrase if something is considered capable of completing a solution, especially if he wants to do a swab process on a different network when getting an airdrop or on an altcoin bounties campaign.

No doubt it's a scam as he or she seems to lack knowledge and the recruiters are not fools to recruit someone without knowledge and this definitely looks scam and fishy. Glad that you shared this because there are various kind of trap which these scammers use and looks like this is one of them.

I cannot rule this out as a scam but I would say a possibile scam.

You said No doubt it's a scam and yet the next thing is you cannot rule this out as a scam. I don't think this is a scam but it is true that it is possible that this could be a scam. Which one is it?. As other have explained, this is not a scam attempt but it also doesn't mean that it can be a scam and it also makes us think that when dealing with DMs is that we should be very careful even though it is not a scam attempt that's why other forum members said that we should treat stranger as a scammer.

There are some pm that are not bad but it would not make sense when someone keeps sending unsolicited messages to random people. It's could lead to a ban and I just hope everyone would be safe and make sure they avoid such kind of people. There are scammers everywhere and some of them are never afraid to send pm to random people just to look for victims that would fall to their trap. The moderators are really doing their jobs and they would not hesitate to restrict anyone that could be a problem or threat to others in this community.

Are you fucking serious???
I have sent several messages to the most respected and active members of this forum,eight to be exact
I didn't offer anyone anything at all,but i realize that no one wants to share information for free
I have not and will not be recruited into any project
I didn't ask anyone for seed phrases and have no intention of doing so
You're all out of your minds here!!!!
In one post you called me a scammer
People,what's wrong with you ALL?
I didn't ask anyone to click on any links or download any files
Why are you all so angry and accusing people of something they didn't do?
You all called me a bastard
ARE YOU PEOPLE SANE OR NOT?

You don't have to get mad over those little things; all you need to do is ignore who ever is calling you a name that you don't like, then avoid sending others PMs so that they don't also bring up issues like this or report your message to the moderator. 
 
If you need any information about a particular thing, I will advise you to create a thread, come out in the open, and drop your proposal. Those who want to help you will, and those who don't want to share ideas with you will ignore the thread. From there, you can seek permission from whomever you want to send a PM in order to be on the safer side.

I was waiting for your response, I believe the allegation would have been cleared sooner. Unfortunately that took several days to happen. I think the OP and other members jumped to conclusions based on their experience with scammers, although there was no indication of a scam in the pm. Two wrongs don’t make a right. You may be guilty of sending unsolicited messages, but imo OP shouldn’t have published a message that was supposed to be private.

Slow down, I think this person meant no harm to OP, until proven otherwise, just because someone send you PM doesn't mean they are scammers, some people are looking for people to hire or share their experience with is all, they are bored, they want someone to talk to.

With PMs on this forum I have made new friends right from the start when I was a newbie, some are scammers as they sent me links and I believe those links are not safe but I just ignored them, few came to make friends and one claimed that he contacted me because of the topic about my past life.

He asked how I was holding up and since then we still talk till date, if someone meant you harm you will know by what they ask of you, it is easier to say that if people need information they should share it on the forum by creating a topic about it, but some information that people seeks are meant to be private.

Let's respect that, only take a step after you find out that the person planning to scam you or don't bother to even reply any PMs, my point is not all those that sent PM to you are evil or scammers.

To be fair this bloke messaged me out of the blue and we've been having a great chat about BTC... He hasn't tried to scam me or direct me off-site... He wants to chat about crypto... Give him a break...

so true. Let's think more positively and wisely, not everyone who sends messages via PM has bad intentions. If you don't want that kind of PM or don't want to be PMed by people you don't know, it's better to just leave it alone and don't need to reply.

If it is really proven that you have committed fraud, then you can report the account to the administrator by attaching proof of the fraud. That's actually better than immediately judging someone that he wants to deceive even though we don't know the truth.

I have received many messages from some users in this forum, but some are real advice on how to build a good relationship with people and some are scammers looking for members to scam in the forum. I know that they use different strategies message to deceive members, because they will write the message in a way you will think the message is coming from the founder of Bitcoin until you verify very well before you can understand that the person is a scammer. There are some too, that use hospital to collect money from some users in the forum by telling lies that he is in the hospital for treatment but no money to pay the hospital bill and the hospital workers refuse to allow he to leave the hospital.

Thanks OP, you've put up quite a helpful post for us, as it's intimidating for newbies. Newbie members who are not very experienced about scams so may face any time but those who read your post will never fall into the trap of scams. That's why this post of yours is useful for everyone, and I myself have been alerted.

The part that looks and sound confusing to me is where is said that the merits of the account can be removed, thats a big fat lie, there is no such rules unless one have many Smerits that they are storing and not sharing.

This message do look suspicious to me, if he is looking forward to get replies about development of cryptocurrencu in this time of the world then he will get better answer by creating a topic about it, he is even sounding like someone who want to confuse their victim.

I am not saying he is a scammer, I am saying to back up his points he lied about the forums rules which feels like he has a end plan, which could be a bad one.

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There must be no discussion between you and any stranger from this forum that requires you leaving this forum to discuss with them on telegram like apps, this is the real danger, thanks for sharing OP.

This thread is already on the 4th page before your post, and a lot has been said on the matter yet you have said nothing new and only repeating points that has been cleared before. Tahimas didn’t lie about the forum rules. Obviously you didn’t read any of the replies on the thread. If you did, you would see when lovesmayfamilis explained that Tahimas made the comment about merits believing the April fools joke by Theymos was real.

I regret.

It looks like people are only responding to fill their signature quota. I asked the moderators to close the topic since the OP, unfortunately, apparently does not know how to do this.

Should we also complain to the moderators that the answers are already of little value?

While the topic is still open, let me find out why? Especially the word "must not"
Are you prohibiting this? ;D