Crypto is still not so popular as in beginning of 2018 but there are many newbies coming in every day and also some existing experience users might find some tips useful.
There are many scammers that are looking for easy target online on the chat. I am mostly using discord, twitter and telegram and i get at least on message per day of some scammer.
1. Some of them are just message you with new name and some copy paste message you already seen before. This is easy scammer detect.
In this case it is important to check if user already joined some of existing group and report him to admins of a group to ban him (works for telegram and discord), for twitter you can easily report this user to Twitter support and he will eventually get blocked/suspended account.
2. A bit advanced scammers will try imitate admins of some best coins/token groups. They will copy name and avatar of admin. On first look it is same account and people trust the message and do some crazy stuff, like sending ETH/BTC to get some additional bonus tokens/coins, enable RDP access to their desktop in case users is asking for some help...
First thing to remember:
in case you get a direct message from admin:
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serious project admin will never send you direct message first.
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find an admin on the group list (not in the chat history but on members list) and try to send him a message - if there is new chat opened and not the same as your first admin message you found a scammer.
In telegram you normally have a star belong admins of a group
In discord groups have different style of groups names but Admins, mods are always on top
Discord has also an option to check user ID. You need to enable developer option in settings to get this. User can easily copy Name and avatar of another user but cannot duplicate user id. If you compare user id you will get info if this user is the one that he is claiming to be. Just click copy ID as on image bellow and compare both ID's.
