Social media advice to newbies

[Peanutswar]

It's just normal on the social media platform there's a different scammer, of course, their victims are the beginners or newbies and want to attempt to scam them to survive this kind of scams it's better to avoid entertaining people who you don't know instead there's no money involved on their help.

Next is to keep yourself aware of the different scams like phishing, smishing, keylog, and many more. Knowledge can prevent you from losing your money.

[famososMuertos]

The irony of this type of Topics and contributions is that although they seem repetitive and to some extent recurring in the same responses, there is always a user clicking on a link, responding to a private message or agreeing to easily give information to these villains.

So always mentioning something helps, even if it seems like there is nothing else to say. So adding audios in messaging services and even video calls are very fashionable to try to get information.

The ability of these people in their verbal and social framework is very high and perhaps the main mistake is to believe that you know them all and can handle them.

On the other hand, take care of your contact book, sometimes it is not you who lets go of personal information but your contacts, we always think of common social networks such as FB, Twitter, Instagram, Telegram, all of them are very dangerously linked to your list of Contact if you do not know how to do things well, but perhaps the most invasive of your privacy whatsapp, especially those who are getting into all kinds of groups, unlike Telegram and other social networks whatsapp makes your cell phone number public.

[gabbie2010]

these things are extremely rampant on Facebook. to my luck, I've got a number of messages on my messenger where the scammer talking me into investing in crypto or some pyramid scheme they are running. I never really pay attention to them since whenever I receive a message like that I immediately block the person and then delete the message. these people are relentless it doesn't matter how dumb they sound as long as they can find a gullible person for them to prey on.

It is also common in telegram where some unscrupulous individuals forms another group on telegram in the name of an reputable exchange e.g Binance tricking newbies by fraudulently acting as a buyer, seller and escrow on that group in a bid to ensure trust in all their transactions whereas it is fraud once they scam a newbie they immediately remove and block such an individual , a lot of newbies falls and got scam via that media, my advice to newbies is to take caution and avoid any form of cryptocurrencies transactions on telegram

[isaac_clarke22]

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Oh now you mentioned Binance and some scammers there claiming to be Binance, how about people should try to answer this quiz made by Binance themselves.

Phishing Quiz

Credits to Pmalek for this thread that was back in 2019 for bumping it for the awareness of many, not only newbies.
Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5144259.msg51092143#msg51092143

[Davidvictorson]

Random strangers will never contact you through message to help you with your crypto investments, this should be obvious to everyone of you, just reply them 'scammer' and hit the block button or adjust your social media app to block unknown strangers, there are many of these people on telegram, Twitter, Reddit etc

My first rule for social media is, Never trust anyone. Especially those who promise a huge ROI without any effort on my part. I can never overuse my block button.

[blackened515]

It's just normal on the social media platform there's a different scammer, of course, their victims are the beginners or newbies and want to attempt to scam them to survive this kind of scams it's better to avoid entertaining people who you don't know instead there's no money involved on their help.

Next is to keep yourself aware of the different scams like phishing, smishing, keylog, and many more. Knowledge can prevent you from losing your money.

Newbies and  bigginers only are not scammed,they also make people on senior member rank fall victim of this.Consistent reading and familiarization of how scam messages appear,some may want you to invest in a business or product before being paid.pls decease from,and disregard such messages,they are scammers ready to scam you and finish the little token you have.

[cheezcarls]

Random strangers will never contact you through message to help you with your crypto investments, this should be obvious to everyone of you, just reply them 'scammer' and hit the block button or adjust your social media app to block unknown strangers, there are many of these people on telegram, Twitter, Reddit etc

On Telegram, I usually filtered “strangers” to archived chats and I only unarchive them if they are for real. If they only say “hi”, “hello” or something like that without even revealing their Telegram handle in public, that is considered suspicious to me. Same thing with Facebook, Twitter, etc. We need to have a little bit of common sense before engaging with these strangers.

[Masplanc]

Random strangers will never contact you through message to help you with your crypto investments, this should be obvious to everyone of you, just reply them 'scammer' and hit the block button or adjust your social media app to block unknown strangers, there are many of these people on telegram, Twitter, Reddit etc

And the funniest thing about it people still become victim to fall for all this scammers .

Scamming is something that is increasing daily, people should just be very careful strangers on social media

[BlackViruse]

It's just normal on the social media platform there's a different scammer, of course, their victims are the beginners or newbies and want to attempt to scam them to survive this kind of scams it's better to avoid entertaining people who you don't know instead there's no money involved on their help.

Next is to keep yourself aware of the different scams like phishing, smishing, keylog, and many more. Knowledge can prevent you from losing your money.

We should be aware of scammers,because they are liers, once any trait of them is discovered,please don't waste time to block them.You can know them through so many ways,they may ask you to invest in their product,please snub or block then.

[ashleyknight]

Great advice for sure! I have seen several traders losing their money and most importantly, their confidence because of such scammers. They need to be stopped.

[AhmadM]

Oh now you mentioned Binance and some scammers there claiming to be Binance, how about people should try to answer this quiz made by Binance themselves.
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Speaking of phishing quiz if I remember correctly dkbit98 also have compiled several quizzes^[1] from various sources a few years back, to be honest this is really good media to educate newbies or even experts on how phishing on the internet works

[1] [LEARN] Phishing Quizzes - Beginners & Experts

[GeorgeJohn]

Random strangers will never contact you through message to help you with your crypto investments, this should be obvious to everyone of you, just reply them 'scammer' and hit the block button or adjust your social media app to block unknown strangers, there are many of these people on telegram, Twitter, Reddit etc

I think some person's have turn internet to scamming generating revenue, the gravity of scammers in social media is very high especially telegram and Reddit, they are using Reddit to scam people everyday, while telegram is for advert of investment and other business, this period we have to be secured because adventuring into investment platforms now is very risk due to fake advert in telegram social media and Reddit social media, people should be careful before investing, even now, scammers pm some people to invest with them, the only way we can overcome them is to block them or remain silent.

[boyptc]

Great advice for sure! I have seen several traders losing their money and most importantly, their confidence because of such scammers. They need to be stopped.

They are hard to stop and that's why we should be aware of their existence and be vigilant. Only you alone can protect yourself from those scammers.

Being educated and raising awareness of their tactics and scam schemes, you'll be able to avoid it and if there are some potential victims asking for our help and they're asking if what they've found is a scam or not, we can help them by telling the qualities of a scam.

[isaac_clarke22]

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Oh thanks for the quote and reply.
I guess I kind of missed the thread since I didn't tread a lot here in B&H back in those years.
Nice compilation!
I found the Binance Quiz listed there as well.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

It's simply greed that makes people fall to scam.

While greed is the major contributor to this successful scams, other factors have their role to play and this scammers are quite dedicated enough to keep trying untill they find someone that's lacking the knowledge general available on the internet like those just mentioned above.

The scammers have different techniques they use which is kind of hard to keep up with their tricks, to you as an informed individuals, the tricks aren't that hard to breakdown but as a newbie it'll be very difficult especially when they're not informed. The impersonation is very clean that if you don't look into this account more, you might just think you're speaking with the real users and end up trusting them.

The only way we can avoid falling for their tricks is to constantly look for new tricks this scammers are using and stay informed, also you have to put your greed to check and treat every contact you get on this social media platforms as scammers until proven otherwise.

[Smartvirus]

I wonder how some people just believe that they are so fortunate to be favoured by a random stranger on social media by offering them a golden opportunity you know, like an unbelievable offer and they are the once fit for it. Like seriously,  wtf! Has life really become that easy? Becuase,  right where I am, its your sweat for everything you know. You still get to enter the mine with your implements and hit the rocks to get them precious stones.
You ought to be willing to put in work for the right reward. Don't be too greedy and rushing over any golden opportunity or too good to believe offers on social medias. That can doom you, be ready to go the extra mile of researching before picking any package on the web. Scammers are no joke this days, they are everywhere and ready to scam you of the least penny.

[Shamm]

Scamming methods never really change over decades. Spam emails with "unique dick enlargement investment opportunities, account "confirmation" emails, SMS with links in them, now it's all types of social media. While our ISPs are now very efficient at filtering out email spam social media and messengers don't have this option (well, unless you block messages from unknown contacts). Daily I receive 20-30 of these in Telegram, Discord and few other platforms I use. Why bother replying to these, just block and remove with couple of clicks and move on.

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