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darthmaul
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October 16, 2019, 09:01:18 AM |
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You should never send money to random addresses received on email. They always turn out to be scam. People do these things because they know the folks can be easily fooled by luring them into some giveaways or bounties.
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tranthidung
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Farewell o_e_l_e_o
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October 16, 2019, 09:44:31 AM |
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It is valuable to always keep in mind that all kind of bounties, projects (hardforked ones, for instance), that ask for private keys, seeds from bounty application forms or from their websites, are surely scam projects.
Private keys and / or seeds are utmost important things of crypto wallets, and owners should never give those things away for any reason relates to claiming coins (from hardforked projects) or receiving free coins/ tokens from bounties.
The only reason to share private keys or seeds is preventive plans when they pass away, then their wives, children can get their cryptos.
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thefever333
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October 16, 2019, 06:26:09 PM |
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There are a lot of them and you won’t get away from this, scammers will appear every day, alas.
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Saint-loup
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October 16, 2019, 07:08:58 PM |
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Before providing your wallet address anywhere just make sure that you are giving it on the right platform. So it is always advisable that before joining any bounty or airdrop 1st try to learn the project and get some knowledge. Also, try to verify the email before clicking it.
Thank you for the necroposting I haven't seen this topic before. The "your private key or your recovery phrase" is priceless. I would send them a bip38 private key  |
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Harlot
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October 16, 2019, 08:01:33 PM |
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Aside from this scam where the user is being fooled on sending their wallet's private address there are also scam projects where they have this airdrop you can participate and you will only receive the coins after you pay something for "verification/confirmation", a lot of newbies here in the forum got fooled with this method and they actually have sent money just to have this "free" airdrop. Indeed a lot of people in the industry are victims to this kinds of money traps where they only believe the payout but not knowing first if it is true or not. They always look at what they will receive but not the risk behind it, and some of them don't even learn from their mistakes and be victimized by another project using the same old tricks.
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panganib999
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October 17, 2019, 10:10:56 AM |
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This actually usually happens in some airdrop and targeted newbies that isn't familiar on it. They even ask my private key if I would share my private key then they would have the full power to control my Wallet.
This is ridiculous yet funny, they're now being straight forward in their motives and really thinks that there's a lot of stupid people. So be careful from the attackers.
I really don't join airdrops especially it's worthless nowadays. Beginners or their so called newbies must take note of this kind of scamming techniques because scammers know who's vulnerable and who's not and they know that the newbies are the ones who's so gullible and naive of the whole crypto space system and are easy to fool with mind toying words. The scheme is very suspicious as soon as the email asked for the private keys of the user, they should know that they should just ignore it once suspicions arise. |
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Willitivity
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October 17, 2019, 04:25:40 PM |
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Aside from this scam where the user is being fooled on sending their wallet's private address there are also scam projects where they have this airdrop you can participate and you will only receive the coins after you pay something for "verification/confirmation", a lot of newbies here in the forum got fooled with this method and they actually have sent money just to have this "free" airdrop. Indeed a lot of people in the industry are victims to this kinds of money traps where they only believe the payout but not knowing first if it is true or not. They always look at what they will receive but not the risk behind it, and some of them don't even learn from their mistakes and be victimized by another project using the same old tricks.
Seems people have wisen up a little concerning the sending of their wallet's private address. But other form of scam such as the sending of payment for "verification" is still paramount, especially with these shady contests been done or telegram in the guise of one project or the other. People seem to fall alot for it. |
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Neisi
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October 17, 2019, 04:46:36 PM |
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Posts like this are really helpful for us newbies who don't know the standard hacking tactics. Although I would have definitely questioned someone asking for my private key, it is helpful to see these posts to have a refresher on what not to do. Many people fall victim to the simplest forms of scamming.
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Harlot
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October 17, 2019, 06:50:09 PM |
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Aside from this scam where the user is being fooled on sending their wallet's private address there are also scam projects where they have this airdrop you can participate and you will only receive the coins after you pay something for "verification/confirmation", a lot of newbies here in the forum got fooled with this method and they actually have sent money just to have this "free" airdrop. Indeed a lot of people in the industry are victims to this kinds of money traps where they only believe the payout but not knowing first if it is true or not. They always look at what they will receive but not the risk behind it, and some of them don't even learn from their mistakes and be victimized by another project using the same old tricks.
Seems people have wisen up a little concerning the sending of their wallet's private address. But other form of scam such as the sending of payment for "verification" is still paramount, especially with these shady contests been done or telegram in the guise of one project or the other. People seem to fall alot for it. They are mostly blindsided by the reward and they think that "little payment" is nothing compared to the payout they will receive. They never thought that if they are thousands of people being fooled by that then there are hundreds of thousands lost in the process. If the get rich in an easy way type of mindset doesn't go away then we cannot expect these kinds of scams to go away either because we are the ones feeding them with money and we are just telling them that its a lucrative business to do so. |
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judeafante
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October 17, 2019, 11:24:49 PM |
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I hope that those who got victimized by this method is not that many, if you are a real Cryptocurrency holders it's impossible for you to fall on this one, it's part of our education that private key should only be for us and you can never give this to anyone, you only can if you discard that wallet, why is this still being used are they still getting a lot of victims.
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