Beware of This Sophisticated Fraud Related to Stake.com

[Russlenat]

This is one thing I hate I about telegram. They should have done such security for each ads that wanted to use their services cause it might be a scam and just like what OP posted. It could risked some of the gamblers or users who got stake account.

Unfortunately, this has been around for a long time -even back when ICOs were popular in crypto, there were already a lot of scam Telegram groups. I think it’s a trade-off for the privacy we get since Telegram is designed to offer that, so they can’t filter all user activity. What we can do is educate ourselves on the types of scams found in these groups and make sure we learn how to spot red flags, like offers that seem too good to be true.

[_act_]

Stake does not have control over those ads. Eddie has mentioned many times on the Saturday stream for users not to click any of those ads as they are not safe. I'm sure if they could stop them from being in their posts they would. This is a telegram issue, not a Stake issue.

What you mean is that it is like those Google ad links which anyone that is making use of Google search engine can see on the top of the search engine. If that is how telegram works, that is very bad. Many people can be deceived because they will think that the airdrops are Stake airdrops. But it is not a surprise at all because Telegram is a place for scammers to do their work just like Google.

[DubemIfedigbo001]

It will promise you a 1000% bonus with no wager,  fake stake token airdrop  or some other nonsense and will tell you to deposit through some Telegram bot which again will look and sound authentic. But make no mistake, you will never see your money again.[/b][/color]

Thanks for the warning, but as gamblers, we should know that anything too good to be true is 100% a scam. That’s why I don’t trust Telegram groups much - there are a lot of scammers there. Of course, Telegram is still a useful tool; we just need to be cautious to protect ourselves. Usually, those who fall victim to scammers are the uninformed and greedy. If you see offers like a 1000% bonus with no wagering requirements, that should be a huge red flag, and they need to convince themselves to just ignore it.

Honestly, greed is the most implicating thing that gets people easily scammed. The scammers banks on them and exploit people, especially lazy minded ones who tends to believe in something for nothing.

Something for doing nothing never works and even if it should work, it ends up working against the person involved. There is no level of verification of offers that are out of place. Such tempting offers should be validated even from stake customer care representative on their official site.

Very pitiable that people are yet to come to the terms that telegram is a fertile ground for both good and bad projects alike and every advert there should be taken with a pinch of salt, unless properly verified.

[bitbollo]

this is an internal telegram advertising as pointed out. You can see similar promotion in ALL the groups you will use.
It is obvious that it is not Stake the responsible they have no fault which ads are shown on his channel.
I don't think this is so "sophisticated". the promotion itself is literally impossible and anyone of their support would just confirm immediately...

[lovesmayfamilis]

Unfortunately, advertising has recently appeared in completely harmless channels, where we should not expect it at all. I have seen advertising for both casinos and fraudulent bots in channels on baby food and education, that is, on completely different topics. What is worrying is that young people who are not yet familiar with such scams can very easily fall into the hands of scammers. For some reason, I am sure that Telegram does not regulate advertising only because it is interested in users using the paid version of the messenger. As we know, there is no advertising there.

[ethereumhunter]

Thank you for the warning. We must be careful when we join a group on Telegram because many scammers are waiting for their target and scamming them without realizing. Even scammers can use the word "almost the same as the real one" so we must search for more to find the truth. I am worried about many new people who joined Telegram but they don't know where they started and are dragged to that scam offers which makes them get into a scam. When you see offers about something you are not sure, it is better you leave that but you can research further to know more so you can avoid the scam.

[passwordnow]

I didnt know that Telegram has ads like that? I never saw it even if I wasn’t Telegram premium before. Is that common nowadays?

Yes, they do. They're very common and that's why Telegram is raking money on these ads that they're popping on everyone's TG. So if people won't get premium, they'd see the ads popping at the bottom of the channel and this always.

It’s easy to spot if you know that there are some unusual activities that casinos do. I haven’t heard casinos do airdrops so that’s already a red flag.

Be careful and be vigilant in these types of things.

That's why many beginners are being targeted by these scammers. They're making a false airdrop invite or giveaways to gullible visitors that are seeing their ads. It's always important to check and verify all the details to the official links and not just with ads.

[Charles-Tim]

Honestly, greed is the most implicating thing that gets people easily scammed. The scammers banks on them and exploit people, especially lazy minded ones who tends to believe in something for nothing.

Not only lazy people can be scammed, also people that are not lazy can be scammed. To scam someone is not about the person being greedy also but greediness can make the scam more faster. What that makes people fall for scam is because of lack of knowledge. If they have knowledge about how scam are, they can easily avoid to be a scam victim. Knowledge is power.

Yes, they do. They're very common and that's why Telegram is raking money on these ads that they're popping on everyone's TG. So if people won't get premium, they'd see the ads popping at the bottom of the channel and this always.

I thought people that got the channel or group set the ads. I did not know it is Telegram that sets it to make money from people. Generally it is good to avoid ads not ads belonging to Telegram which they may even not know if the person that has the ad is a scammer or not should totally be avoided. I saw many signal ads there which has premium signals

[Coin_trader]

Those pesky ads need to be addressed immediately telegram. Not only Stake is affected by this scam scheme but literally every crypto project that has an ongoing airdrop or bonuses program.

IIRC even Dogs airdrop is affected by this scam ads since the official announcements channel of Dogs has some random scam ads related to earning more airdrop rewards despite the event was already over.

Scammer is taking advantage of telegram ads while telegram itself is allowing this scam ads just to force user to avail premium membership.

[acroman08]

Telegram should have a feature or a subscription of some kind where it lets the owner of the channel not get any ads or at least they can set what ads can be shown on their channel, doing this could prevent a lot of people from falling victim to sneaky scam ads like this one. but then again, Telegram is probably making a lot of money from these sponsored ads so I doubt they'll have this kind of feature for channel owners.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

Experienced players, mostly those that are using stake.com can not fall for this pretty scam. I call it pretty because it's kind of complicated in the sense that the ads is showing on the original telegram group of stake casino and there's no way the group admin can delete it or stop it from being there. Which means that anyone that has not used staked casino before or someone that is just new can actually believe it's real because it displayed there right on the original group.

[passwordnow]

Yes, they do. They're very common and that's why Telegram is raking money on these ads that they're popping on everyone's TG. So if people won't get premium, they'd see the ads popping at the bottom of the channel and this always.

I thought people that got the channel or group set the ads. I did not know it is Telegram that sets it to make money from people. Generally it is good to avoid ads not ads belonging to Telegram which they may even not know if the person that has the ad is a scammer or not should totally be avoided. I saw many signal ads there which has premium signals

It's basically the same as google ads that whoever makes the content don't set the ads that comes in to them and have control over the banners that shows to their content. So, it's the same as what telegram does to all of the channels. I agree, just avoid them in general. Whether they're shown by telegram, by a random stranger or even friends that you know using telegram.

[AHOYBRAUSE]

Experienced players, mostly those that are using stake.com can not fall for this pretty scam. I call it pretty because it's kind of complicated in the sense that the ads is showing on the original telegram group of stake casino and there's no way the group admin can delete it or stop it from being there. Which means that anyone that has not used staked casino before or someone that is just new can actually believe it's real because it displayed there right on the original group.

True. A person with even the smallest working brain should see through these scam attempts. Sure it's kind of crazy to see this under official messages from stake but that's telegram for you. Everybody can buy these adds unfortunately.
Eddie also acknowledged this on stream and said because f these things they are considering looking for some new options to send out weekly/monthly/drops and other messages. Maybe via discord or whatever, who knows.

Telegram really doesn't to themselves a favor allowing this bs to happen.