As you can see, the thread name is a reminder to everyone especially newbies and to those who really didn't know about these traps/tactics using telegram and other social media that they can use to make it happen by sending random people (especially newbies or inexperience people or less knowledge about this kind of trap) a message to trap the person that they have sent the message. Most of the tactics start from telegram private messages, it may also start from other platforms that are commonly used by most people like Facebook and other social media platforms. Although, there are some tactics they have used but the tactics they have used are too obvious to believe that it's true but still we need to be vigilant from possible scammers. Below are the list of traps/tactics that a scammer will do to their victims whether if it's you or any person that will become victims from these tactics.
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https://medium.com/@TheGoldenOrder/stay-alert-for-this-new-type-of-scammers-in-telegram-6b970e240e8dThis kind of tactic is to make you believe that someone needs your help but the truth is, that the person who needs help have intention on taking your bitcoin.
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Telegram Scams thread created by:
dasunlankaThis tactic is where the scammer is pretending to be someone else like an ICO founder, exchange site owner, fake admins, fake moderators and other person that they can impersonate.
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[Warning]: Another Electrum Phishing site on the loose and
⚠⚠️⚠~Beware on active phishing Electrum websites~⚠⚠️⚠This tactic is where the scammer created a website the same as the original website or almost the same as the original website where your account information such as your username, email address, password, wallet address and also your private key will be seen or the scammer will be able to know your account credentials and will be able to steal your btc or eth if you have some stored in your wallet. This tactic is called Phishing Link or Phishing Site.
There are more tactics/traps that the scammers will do just to steal your money or your crypto. Here are the thread links about these scam tactis.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5169598.0https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5166941.0https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5169199.0https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5168995.0https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5165049.0When someone you sent you a pm and you really didn't even know the person who sent you a private message (PM) on your telegram the same as the image below and the best thing to do is to block the telegram user or delete the message then leave it (don't entertain the telegram user at all). I really don't even know who they are and both of them sent me a message asking me a question. I did answer the question that this person is asking and I answered "NO" instead of answering yes. I answered NO is because I am thinking and also have questions in my mind like "what if that this person is a scammer and this person sent me a private message in telegram just to scam me and get my bitcoin?" so, that is why I didn't answer yes instead I answered NO. Later on, this person didn't send more messages again and few days later the account is now deleted as shown in the image below.
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FEWk0Jnn.jpg&t=665&c=B78smAXk2CtzkA)
I also received a private message a few weeks ago (July 20, 2019) from someone I don't even know at all but what I did is I never reply to this pm sender. It's on you to decide whether to do nothing, delete the message or you can block this user by going to the message then tap/press the telegram users picture or profile then press the three dots on the upper right side of the screen then select "Block User" and done. See the message that this person sent. I cover the telegram user's name as I don't have proof to prove that this sender is a scammer so I had it covered up. See image below:
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It is better to have information about these tactics scamming btc from people, so we will know what it is then we can avoid it and stay safe. With the help of other threads on spotting scam sites and more then this thread will also let us know the tactics that they will use to scam people and I know there are more ways that they can use to scam like Clipboard Hijacking and Ponzi/Pyramid scheme.
Take Note: The purpose of this thread I started is to remind us all not to fall in these kind of traps/tactics and my goal in this thread is to help. It depends on you on how you think of this thread. If you know some scam tactics, please do not hesitate to share it here, so that everyone (that includes me) will know about it. Let's make this thread into one thread that has a list of thread links about scam tactics that the scammer can use to scam. Thank You, I hope that this thread could help us.