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[Macinto$h]

You all need to remember one very simple but always relevant rule - free cheese is only in a mousetrap. When someone offers you something for free - ask yourself a question - why he needs it. And if an obvious simple answer does not occur to you - you can be sure - with someone who is high in probability, someone wants to deceive you, but you do not know yet how.

[soooulliv77]

Thank you for the information. Usually I don't communicate with strangers at all and don't read their messages, but I will still be careful.

[2fresh]

Recently, i had met a guy on discord, he seemed like a chill guy, until i learned that he was a scammer, i didnt really care much since he didnt try to scam me, well until he tried to scam me

"668a369e87c01da5bfca9851e6ee86d760e17ee7912d77b7dffe8e0cdf63bcb5"

This is the msg he sent me one day, said it was an ethereum private key he "found" in his "old" hard disk

Me, being curious checked it out on myetherwallet

theres less than a cent worth of eth in it, so i  shrug it off, but then i copy the address and check it on etherscan, it has more than 120k$ worth of tokens on it, never heard of the token before, but the price is posted by etherscan so cant be fake. i try to transfer some eth into it to get fees to transfer the tokens to my wallet, when i realise there are a suspicious amount of comments on that address, i check out and it turns out its a scam, he has a bot on that account transferring all dust that gets sent to that address to  his main account (btw tokens are locked so you cant get em even if your fast enough)
i freak out and send myself another transaction to cancel the previous one... thankfully i used low fees so it hadnt been confirmed yet 

He  had also multiple times tried to get me into scamming  so  i already disliked him for that, and since i completely hate him now-

Crypto Lord#5440
thats his discord id
please dox him if you can

So when you transferred eth to the address, whose coins did you think you were going to steal?

[13ex07]

If you are offered for free or very inexpensive, something of value - most likely you want to be deceived. "Free cheese only in a mousetrap" Follow this rule and you will not be deceived.

[Lacoste]

Lazy guys always want to rest and make money by scamming.
Hope that none of us is seduced by him. Haha!

[Papcio77]

Beware, its been a long when that kind of modus come out anywhere. Wish no one got hack or fool by those evil person so lazy and just only trying to take advantage in other person. Each of as are want to earn but why there are people who choose to try evil things to get money.

Just keep safe guys

[gabbie2010]

This is another subtle ways those scammers and hackers used to steal from people's wallet, I thank you for bringing this to the notice of the members of this forum, fraudsters are on the prowl these days, we have to be extraordinary careful not fall for the pranks used by these scammers.

[bastian466]

it is a very clever scam by provoking the prey to see the contents of the wallet that surely all who see it want to take it when it is a trap

[deepblue01]

i don't think that the person who gave you the private key own that address.
he may get from others and he wants to challenge you, if you can steal that tokens.
well, i think you don't know what scam means

You are upset because you tried to steal someone else's coins and were outsmarted by him? You are just as much at fault as the person you are blaming. If you hadn't been a greedy thief you would have lost nothing. Your own fault.

yeah, i agree.

[mbah]

the need to be vigilant. many tricks that start to appear and certainly has a goal that is not good. Crypto is indeed a broad field and produce. but the risks and deceptions in crypto are everywhere. so this is a challenge that should at least be bypassed.

[Quidat]

You are upset because you tried to steal someone else's coins and were outsmarted by him? You are just as much at fault as the person you are blaming. If you hadn't been a greedy thief you would have lost nothing. Your own fault.

Its funny, but actually youre right. The OP are with no difference than the other guy who tried to scam him. Lesson learned, never ever try to lay a hand of something you dont own. In the first place, if the OP didnt touch anything, he will never face such risks. But there's also a good side of what he has done, atleast the OP discovered a new way of scam which has a very unexpected scamming procedure. Neverthless, this will also help the people in the community to be aware to such a new modus.

[dhemasm]

Hahaha seems more you are pranked than a scammed. I've also tried it but I'm different from you, I found some private keys posted on spreadsheet bounty then i try to send some eth for fee and finally, my eth is automatically sent to the primary address. But like in some previous post it's fair enough because you try steal tokens that are not yours hahaha. Cheers!

[Noobaru]

Glad to hear that you got out of it safely. Tthere is a saying that goes by "There is no free lunch.", so someone offering you their assets in the form of crypto falls right into that category. My suggestion to all should be to stay away and don't engage in chats on Telegram, Discord, Slack and alike. It's 99.9% chance if not 100% that they are scammers.

[prechi]

I've seen something like this before. I was lucky to quickly realize it's a scam and so I had to inform the people around me. So many tactics right there... the tech behind it is something else. Smart scam. I just hope no one fall big for it.

[matico]

How can you reasonably accept $170k as a gift from anonymous friend on discord? Most time people that get scammed actually deserves it. They try to reap from where they do not sow! Cryptocurrency is secure untill you begin to get yourself expose to danger! I hope you've learnt your lesson!

[HashFace]

I've known about this scam for a while, people used to run it with Omni tokens, IIRC.  I kind of like this scam... as pointed out above, it only hurts people trying to steal those tokens.

Since you got the private key, anyone could write a scrypt that constantly monitors that account and tries to steal his dust before he can, and even those token when they become unlocked. 

[xenomorphe1]

Thanks for your post! It should be in the scam section. Scammers are really good for creating new method for scamming. Don't fall in their traps. Something too good to be truth can't be trusted.

[BogdanGFTP]

Very interesting story. It shows that we should not believe in opportunities that are very good to be true. For not fair people it is a nice scheme to trick others.

[Bitknick]

Well that warned about this situation, thank you very much!

[krassy]

Absolutely no one can be trusted, it seems all around and want to steal your money in any way, how then to trust people and communicate?!