ETC team warns against potential hard fork scam

[theinvestdude]

Since anyone can fork any coin at their own pleasure we just need to be vigilant before joining and claiming hardfork coins. The ETCV scam was really the classic example of this fake hardfork and will not be the last.

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[hello_good_sir]

Yeah, unfortunately people still fall for these.

Just make sure that you use your common sense. If anyone asks for your private key, 99% of the time they're not doing it out of good faith. Private keys aren't needed in order to send/receive transactions and anyone that is trying to mislead you into believing otherwise is definitely not a legitimate character.

This does not just apply for ETC either, it's for all altcoins.

[Bonwin]

This is not the first time I will be seeing scam ETC fork. It happened in 2019. In fact, they had a bounty campaign for it, hut their plan was foiled by experts who detected their scheme earlier. However, before that, some had fallen victim.

[gabbie2010]

Just to make sure that we avoided this kind of scam, we must make sure that the announcement is from the project developer themselves.  Any fork that is not from the developer simply tells us that it is not that project and there is a huge possibility that it is there to hack our addresses since we need to access our old address with ETC on it to claim the token of that forked.  And lots of holders fell into that.

ETC team and developers did well by mentioning this stern warning promptly its up to hodlers to comply to the warning else they would lose their  hard earned investment to scammers and hackers, some hodlers due to greediness would defies this warning believing  the hard fork is real thus exposing their key addresses to the hackers.

[X-ray]

Just to make sure that we avoided this kind of scam, we must make sure that the announcement is from the project developer themselves.  Any fork that is not from the developer simply tells us that it is not that project and there is a huge possibility that it is there to hack our addresses since we need to access our old address with ETC on it to claim the token of that forked.  And lots of holders fell into that.

Even handing out private key is already spells an obvious scam in my mind. If there's hard fork I don't really care but just waiting for it to land to my address just like usually and I don't need to recklessly give away my private key like that, but not all of crypto enthusiast are tech savvy so I guess this announcement might be the best course of prevention from people falling into this scam.

[TanakabZX]

Only those who are too in haste to make money by any means necessary will fall for these tricks, if you can relax and do your own digging you will easily detect if any fork is real or fake, falling victim to these scam is nothing but stupidity

[aryana42]

Only those who are too in haste to make money by any means necessary will fall for these tricks, if you can relax and do your own digging you will easily detect if any fork is real or fake, falling victim to these scam is nothing but stupidity

Right, I think everyone has been a victim of scam, so for now people have started to be smart in seeing things and will not be in a hurry again to take an opportunity or make further steps, because it will be very painful if we continue fall victim to scam.

[Furryball]

There are so many fake ETH forks around since 2017 and I've fall victim to few ones, though i never invested money but time, i even promoted such scam projects, but so far i learned, now i believe in doing research on any new projects i come across, i advice newbies to always do the same

[lousie9]

How scammers on the internet are obviously very many ways one of which is with the info you provide at this time so if we want to participate in some important events especially Hardfork then we should make sure whether the developer of one of these tokens will indeed do the hard work now, well if indeed they have given an appeal not to follow it, we better just ignore it and if there are some who have entered into the scam quickly get out of there before it's too late.

[Taskford]

Only those who are too in haste to make money by any means necessary will fall for these tricks, if you can relax and do your own digging you will easily detect if any fork is real or fake, falling victim to these scam is nothing but stupidity

Right, I think everyone has been a victim of scam, so for now people have started to be smart in seeing things and will not be in a hurry again to take an opportunity or make further steps, because it will be very painful if we continue fall victim to scam.

That's why it's better to think many times not before believing on that fork things since it has been abused by now since they know ETH is so famous and good thing ETC team give this a warning to give a heads up for those people who seeks for fork coins.

Better if we go to ETH directly or spend sometime especially now with BTC.

[cutesgirl]

I got official announcement with bigger market will support for ETC hard fork progress and have new coin from hard fork with ETC, they have announcement with listing date when hard fork of ETC begin and give their announcement in social media account and giving update news in email account, I will participated on this hard fork because looks potential to be with higher price.

[salad daging]

I got official announcement with bigger market will support for ETC hard fork progress and have new coin from hard fork with ETC, they have announcement with listing date when hard fork of ETC begin and give their announcement in social media account and giving update news in email account, I will participated on this hard fork because looks potential to be with higher price.

May I know the name of the exchange you mentioned? I have not received the same email from several large exchanges. If the procedure is still normal then I would also be interested, what happened before is an unnatural way in which holders are directed to store ETC in certain wallets like Agharta, and then trap them with phishing which takes the user's private key.

[leea-1334]

This is not the first time I will be seeing scam ETC fork. It happened in 2019. In fact, they had a bounty campaign for it, hut their plan was foiled by experts who detected their scheme earlier. However, before that, some had fallen victim.

I thought by now people would be smart to know about fork coins. I have never even claimed any of the non BTC fork coins because not only is it dangerous,,, it is probably just not worth anything at all.

And even if you want to claim coins, why rush? Why not wait for more stable and legit versions to appear before claiming them, right?