New Telegram Crypto Scammer Technique

[posi]

As bitcoin halving is getting closer alot of crypto scammers usually target crypto exchange users and holders which the reason why I want to expose the 2 exchange support impersonator scam activities used by two crypto scammer on telegram which experienced when I had an issue with my exchange account. I believe they mainly target crypto exchange user which have problem with their account and I also believe these activities was connected to the previous Binance users telegram scam issue.



What happened:: Heard issue my exchange account reported it on the exchange telegram the next I see is a PM from a user which use the exact name of the exchange support on telegram.

Note : They will hide their telegram username and change the about to the username used by your exchange support on telegram
 
But the real telegram username ought to be like this





The scammer was straight forward but he just gave me a site which will automatically redirect my username, password etc to him. Below is the conversation screenshot.

Scammer 1 Additional Notes or telegram conversation: :




Scammer 2 Additional Notes or telegram conversation and screen shot: :

 Support ?
Hello
We sincerely apologize for the delay and any inconvenience caused

Posi
it alright

 Support ?
Dear user, we noticed your account transaction has been locked out from our database due to error on your account transaction hash script and may leads to loss of funds and damage of account ,Your account  will be redirected and back to your account shortly, which will require your account rectification process.
Don’t worry we fix your account and your funds are safe, we would rectify this issue, Okay?
393648, this is your UID, right??

Posi
393648 yes but i surprised such thing happened to my account cause i actually participated in your bounty campaign when the exchange is about to be launch

 
Support ?

We have to rectify your account directly from our database system now
Thanks and how long will it my account to function normal after the rectification?

 
Posi
Thanks and how long will it my account to function normal after the rectification?

Support ?
The process in our database is almost complete, everything is in order ... all you need to do is to fulfill the requirements

Posi
requirements?

Support ?
Yeah

Posi
what are the requirements?

Support ?
You have to make an active transaction ongoing on your account synced rectification address so as to authenticate the rectification process successfully on our database. Okay?
The rectification deposit you would be depositing into the rectifying synced wallet address would be automatically refunded back to your account immediately after the rectification process has been successfully completed by the technical manager
You have to make the rectification deposit in either ETH, TRX,  Or  BTC which do you find easy to proceed with now?

NOTE: The rectification deposit would be automatically added to your account by the BOT in charge of your account after the ongoing rectification process has been successfully completed
So which do you find easy to fulfill the required deposit processing so we can proceed with the re authentication process???
Are you here???



Support ?
You would have to proceed with the rectification deposit of 0.025BTC into the rectifying synced wallet address in order to complete the ongoing process on our account
It would be automatically refunded back to your account immediately after the ongoing rectification process has been successfully completed, for you not to lose your funds and account. Okay?

Posi
where would i get the rectify deposit add?

Support ?
Rectify Synced Wallet Address:
17pqSdwk5VNMiE1i5CWqYjXpz8bBskhEXv
Proceed with the rectification deposit asap in order to complete the ongoing process on your account, for you not to lose your funds and account. Okay???
Are you on it now??

Posi
I'm on it

Support ?
Provide the screenshot with the transaction ID after you might have completed the deposit in order to proceed with the ongoing rectification process immediately
Have you completed the deposit yet???

Posi
how much was the balance on my account?

Support ?
how much was the balance on my account?
We're not to dip into your personal details user, the official BOT in charge of your account is responsible for that
Let's get this issue resolved now
We're having limited time in getting this done
Proceed with the deposit now
Are you on it now?

Posi
pls give me ETH add cause my daily limit is already reach

Support ?
Do you want to make the deposit in ETH??

Posi
yes

Support ?
Rectifying Synced Wallet Address: 0x908052e30f95f4653926b39eae43b71d012994fc
Proceed with the deposit value of 0.025BTC in ETH now
Have you completed the deposit yet??
Are you here??

Posi After finding out that the above ETH wallet is connected to the below ETH this is what I said.
I'm not stupid buddy. I'm among the higer ranking member of a bitcoin forum and I will hunt you down
despite you holding more than enough crypto you still scam poor people online
https://ethplorer.io/address/0xc88f7666330b4b511358b7742dc2a3234710e7b1?from=search#pageSize=50
as i was speaking to you i'm also talking to the real Sash Imi
How could you be so heartless. Do you know how much the ETH in the address i posted will worth next year?

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[o_e_l_e_o]

Seriously, who is falling for scams like this?

The terrible, broken English, the obviously fake link, asking for you to share your 2FA code with them, asking you to make a deposit to "unlock" your account. I don't think a scam could be more obvious unless he also said "I'm a Nigerian Prince". This is even worse than the "Send 0.2 BTC to receive back 2 BTC" twitter scams.

I can only assume scams like this do work, given that people are still trying this. It makes me worry about how people function in society when they fall for nonsense like this.

Don't share your email, username, passwords, 2FA codes, mnemonic phrases, private keys, etc., with anyone, don't send other people your coins unless you know them and trust them, and don't follow random links. Do those three things, and you will avoid 99% of scams.

[nakamura12]

I think the person who will fall for this kind of scam are those who doesn't know english very well but we all know that those who know it well/enough won't fall for this scheme. Also the customer support doesn't ask if you're here or not and that's what makes this support suspicious. Support don't bother if the customer doesn't reply because they are so busy.

[JeromeTash]

Looks like it's the trending trick right now. It's related to the scam technique talked about last week : New scam technique on Telegram.

People who fall for this kind of scam are usually less informed, less alert and at times very desperate to get their accounts issues solved as soon as possible

[MATHReX]

Great work BTW!
The conversation was entertaining.  

Another detail that they are using a free hosting site which is a red flag already.
It's just a simple thumb of rule. If they ask for crypto, they are fake. Done!

[Bitcoin_Arena]

Posi After finding out that the above ETH wallet is connected to the below ETH this is what I said.
I'm not stupid buddy. I'm among the higer ranking member of a bitcoin forum and I will hunt you down
despite you holding more than enough crypto you still scam poor people online
https://ethplorer.io/address/0xc88f7666330b4b511358b7742dc2a3234710e7b1?from=search#pageSize=50
as i was speaking to you i'm also talking to the real Sash Imi
How could you be so heartless. Do you know how much the ETH in the address i posted will worth next year?

It's sad that some people could still be tricked into send BTC or ETH no matter the warnings we put across here.

BTW OP, the address the scammer gave you is most like an address to an exchange: https://ethplorer.io/address/0xc88f7666330b4b511358b7742dc2a3234710e7b1

The transactions are happening in and out very out and the address has over 307,273 transactions so far and yet it had it's first transaction on 2018-10-08(about a year ago)
No way a human can have such transactions within just one year unless its an address to a busy exchange's wallet.

The problem is that it's had to know which exchange this is. Probably the scammer owns an account in there.

[bL4nkcode]

This is not new anymore, this technique was used even way back (2017) when ICO was its peak of demand. Simply, don't post/chat to the telegram group about a specific issue you're facing, just PM one of the admin/mod in that chat room about your issue.

[Lafu]

There are the same Scammer Techniques as it is at Discord .
Specialy the lowest trying of scamming is that they write if you can help them with a problem and they get you in some kind of discuss.
After a few min of write they ask if you can send them coins and you get more back or that they dont cant send coins from an exchange and you should do it for them.
There is nothing that they dont doing for scam people or user on every platform like Telegram , Discord and and and its always the same .

[BitMaxz]

There are many of them on the telegram they usually targeting newbies and I have the same experienced but not on telegram. They are pretending as support or one of the team and they sometimes ask for sensitive information like password, private keys, seeds, etc... If you are just a newbie you can be another victim of this scheme.

I thought that you will end up sending ETH  

This ETH address 0xC88F7666330b4b511358b7742dC2a3234710e7B1 have 850ETH and he is holding PAXOS standard with the amount of 31,341.512 PAX which is worth of 31328.88 USD

How this scammer has this big amount of token? it seems all sources are from scamming.
The ETH address is actively receiving and sending a few amounts of token and ETH daily.

[Lafu]

The same is on twitter !
There are sometimes posts that there is an big givaway of ETH coins .
You just have to send at the address they posted min of 0.2 -0.5 ETH and you get 1 back.
And to make it realy good some fake accounts posting how great the giveaway is and all kind of shit so that you thinking about that all.

[Willitivity]

The level of scans these days is just getting high. As crypto is going wider, scams of different form are popping up every now and then. Scams on telegram from people posing as group members is one of the petty scans I have seen. If you're chatting on telegram group chats, don't respond to PMs offering one help or the other.

[JeromeTash]

This ETH address 0xC88F7666330b4b511358b7742dC2a3234710e7B1 have 850ETH and he is holding PAXOS standard with the amount of 31,341.512 PAX which is worth of 31328.88 USD

How this scammer has this big amount of token? it seems all sources are from scamming.
The ETH address is actively receiving and sending a few amounts of token and ETH daily.

I think it's an exchange wallet address. Look at the activity of the transactions in the address. No way those low life scammers can get such amounts.

[magneto]

Good guide.

Just to add though, this can not only happen on telegram where this type of scam may be new, but also on a variety of platforms. For instance, on yobit, there is a ton of scammers who PM you posing as support if you complain about an issue on their chatbox.

Don't reveal any unnecessary information to an unnecessary audience when you have a ticket open. That's the general rule of thumb.

[NeuroticFish]

The same is on twitter !

Yup, I've had the same experience some months ago, I made a ticked on Yobit and since it was not answered for days I tried to wake them up in twitter. (I wanted to sell some coins available only there).
A (fake) yobit support became very active, but were asking for far too many details. I told him to just look to my ticket, but no, he wanted account details. (I cannot show now all that because I see them deleted.)

Always be super careful with the details provided and, where possible, just use support tickets and redirect the "helping hands" to use those. Only the support is qualified to see account internals and they don't need too many details either.

And btw, this is not new and it's not related to halving. Of course, the more valuable crypto becomes, the more scammers it'll attract.

[Alluro]

There are different types of scam is the telegram. Then you have to understand one thing, the random telegram message will be not giving good things for you. Then read carefully about the message. It looks like a scam, delete it.

[Taskford]

Lol! Encounter this also and mostly this kind of scammers are on big groups, they are just waiting for users who have an issue and they strike asking for your details or rather ask for money for solving issues and newbies should notice so that they will be aware in this schemes. If there are idiots who pm them much advisable if they will go to the legit telegram channel to verify the real admins name.

[superving]

Many scammers are doing that thing,but its so easy to know if the person is a fake one. Every scammers will ask for money and thats the number 1 and support will never pm you first.

[LbtalkL]

They don't hide their username they didn't create username instead they put someone's username into their bio. I think this is a duplicate thread there is already a thread about this matter. If you are interested you can read some replies there it was created just this October 11 read it here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5192101.0

[Mahanton]

Many scammers are doing that thing,but its so easy to know if the person is a fake one. Every scammers will ask for money and thats the number 1 and support will never pm you first.

Highlighted red.- This is one of the best indicators that you should keep an eye on because as said no support will ever in the world would tend to pm you first when it comes to
issues and with that alone you can already spot out the scamming attempt of those fellas out there.If they do ask out for money then thats a solid sign of a scammer.
Lots of techniques had been created to deceive out newbies and getting up their hard earned cash easily.Just be sensible and using up your common sense will be the greatest weapon against them.

[Wysi]

Lol! Encounter this also and mostly this kind of scammers are on big groups, they are just waiting for users who have an issue and they strike asking for your details or rather ask for money for solving issues and newbies should notice so that they will be aware in this schemes. If there are idiots who pm them much advisable if they will go to the legit telegram channel to verify the real admins name.

True I have co managed some bounties in the past and I have received similar complaints from the bounty hunters and group members wherein they even pretend like they are the group administration and sometimes they adopt the name of founder of the project as you can change your name numerous times in telegram without any restrictions.  As you have mentioned they target vulnerable who are going through some or the other issue.