How to protect yourself from fake giveaways.

[ScamViruS]

Fake giveaway is another easy way for scammers to scam. They have trapped many innocent people with such fake giveaway. After being scammed, many say they were victims of scams and many did not say they were victims of scams. I have seen many victims of such scams lose their money. Most of the newbies here fall into such scams. Because they don't know how to verify everything.

They think, since they are offering 10x 5x profit, why not join the giveaway with my fund and raise the fund! And this thought turns into his biggest mistake. Recently fake giveaway scammers are more active, they are releasing new ideas to show themselves loyal. But scammers get caught up in the experience. Newbie has to think, how is it possible to give 10-5x profit? One thing to keep in mind, a company does not ask to send funds before giving any kind of giveaway. They make giveaway names in the name of big companies. Which makes the newbie more attractive in that giveaway. The names of the companies they use more often Binance, Coinbase, Ethereum, XRP, Tesla etc

I want to write in detail about their promotion ways. And how to keep yourself out of this promotion.

Their four main ways of promoting.

• Telegram.
  
• Twitter.
• Youtube.
• Medium.

Telegram.
The highest amount of fake giveaway groups are created on the telegram. In the name of several big companies. You will see thousands of members in their group in a very short time. Their team members give fake screenshots and say they got giveaway 5btc 10btc. All of which is to scam people by fooling them. Many newbies send funds by looking at these fake screenshots. And their journey into the crypto world ends as soon as they start.



Twitter.
On twitter, scammers post giveaway photos by creating an account in the name of the company's ceo or company name. Because such links on Twitter, Twitter is considered spam.



Youtube.
Editing ama video of ceo of different companies and uploading the name of giveaway. Recently many crypto related YouTube channels have been reported to be hacked. All these channels hack purpose, use to perform such scams.



Medium.
There is now a huge amount of fake giveaway posts available in medium. They make it seem like they are actually giving a giveaway by posting it. They design posts like the same original website. As a result, newbies become confused.




How to protect yourself from such scams?

To keep yourself away from such scams, you must bookmark the websites which you need. Because official websites have all their social media links. If you are offered any kind of giveaway, you must check official website's social media or official announcement, for confirmation really they are offering any giveaway or not.  

You can set privacy setting so that no one can add you without your permission in any telegram group. I've got a post that will help you know how to do telegram privacy setting : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5072351

Newbies please keep in mind In the real world there is nowhere such a huge amount of profit for free,100% chance of being scammed where huge profit is shown.

Feel free to share more information if you think it is important.

[Pmalek]

If you have to send money to get money it is not a giveaway. Crypto isn't created from thin air, except worthless tokens. If the asset that is created had any value people would be ready to pay money to own it. These airdrops and giveaways are useless.

[ScamViruS]

If you have to send money to get money it is not a giveaway. Crypto isn't created from thin air, except worthless tokens. If the asset that is created had any value people would be ready to pay money to own it. These airdrops and giveaways are useless.

Yes you are right. But many people fall into these scams. We have seen before and still see many victims of giveaway scams. The last victim, he was lost $3k by participating in a fake giveaway. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5214770.msg53515867 posted by: Baofeng
So I want to warn those who are new to the crypto from such scams.

[cryptoaddictchie]

To be honest the root of all scam here came from giveaways. I can't deny that I almost fell for it but that was during I was still newbie and new to cryptocurrency.

Many ways to avoid these scams.

• Dont prolong discussion on Strangers on any social media platform such as telegram. A lot has been victimized by this inquiry. Just dont reply and block him if he insisting topic especially about funds
• If the giveaway has full of links associated, dont bother to check it. The post might compose professionally but trust me, this is just a disguise. Been there than that.
• Social media is very huge before participating check first if the one posted it is the real one, might fall for a scammer's trap

Thanks for reminding everyone OP.

[SourLemonX]

These's really useful informations, in addition to this, there seems to be another article about cheating via email. Since joining this forum, I have learned more and more about cryptocurrencies. It seems I need to be much more careful 

[Asuspawer09]

Thanks It is Useful 
I think it is better to don't talk to anyone that is randomly telling you to invest in something or pursuing you to go to a site or something the best thing to do is to don't talk to them or just block them.
Don't be greedy to earn a profit, We know that it is not easy to earn bitcoin. Also, I think it's fine to participate in giveaways since as long as you don't put money in this giveaways it should be fine. But talking about scammer just don't give your trust to someone so easily, learn information and gain more knowledge first before starting to invest or do something where you could potentially be a scam.

[plvbob0070]

It's easy to make fake tweets or edit everything as long you can edit. That makes it easier for them to scam people. They often use popular Social media to catch people's attention.

To protect yourself, you just need to know the difference between fake or not. Too good to be true. Don't fall for something that doesn't seem true or realistic. Before you believe in big amount giveaways, always check if it's legit or not. Visit their profiles and try gathering info to see if they can be trusted. It's about investigating first before believing. You'll see it on their profiles. If that account is new, then don't trust it. Check some comments on their profile to see what others are saying. If you're smart enough, you won't fall for scams. Doing own research is one of the important things if we want to avoid those kinds of scams.

[arbiter5]

How to protect yourself from fake giveaways: Don't join giveaways.

[ScamViruS]

Many ways to avoid these scams.

• Dont prolong discussion on Strangers on any social media platform such as telegram. A lot has been victimized by this inquiry. Just dont reply and block him if he insisting topic especially about funds
• If the giveaway has full of links associated, dont bother to check it. The post might compose professionally but trust me, this is just a disguise. Been there than that.
• Social media is very huge before participating check first if the one posted it is the real one, might fall for a scammer's trap

Thanks for reminding everyone OP.

Your advices are good. I think if this thread reads any newbie, then at least they won't get into this kind of scam. We will constantly fight against scammers so they can come to the crypto world safely.

How to protect yourself from fake giveaways: Don't join giveaways.

Yeah. But not all newbie's know so much about crypto. They believe in what they see. And they also become victims of scammers. We can warn them not to become victims of such scams. So many reputed members of this forum are constantly fighting against scammers.

[nakamura12]

How to protect yourself from fake giveaways: Don't join giveaways.

Some people are very greedy especially newbies who didn't know much about cryptocurrency like they know that you can earn crypto by investing and other things and when they see a giveaway then newbies would surely to join but in reality newbies will become victims of such scams due to greediness.

[Prince Edu17]

I just want to add especially to those newbies that don't read the rules. Please don't join in any giveaways in Alternate cryptocurrencies or your account will be ban, Protect your account.

[akirasendo17]

How to know if the giveaways are legit
1. There is a fund assign for a project
2. well known and trusted person of the project.
3. The group of people in a giveaways is not been accuse of fraud or any form.
4. They have successful projects before and no issue encounter.
5. links of the projects don't bring you to a group , or something that add you to group telegram to be a member with no connection to the project.

I think this should looks like , for me
how about you guys,

[minairia3]

How to know if the giveaways are legit
1. There is a fund assign for a project

I think this should looks like , for me
how about you guys,

I think this point number 1 is not trusted. There are many projects who are saying that they already have secured funds and noted on their website but this isnt accurate as transparency should be shown such as wallet of the project to be sure this is real and not just a boost to investors. Ive noticed many projects like these saying that they got $10Million already but in reality its just like a trap for other's to invest too.

Airdrops and bounties are to be check carefully to avoid these scam ways. Either way only you can decide whether to fall on this scheme.

[Lucius]

How to protect yourself from fake giveaways: Don't join giveaways.

It's easy to say, but hard to put into practice when it comes to human nature that one can hardly refuse something for free. Because of that fact scams are so successful, and unfortunately, no one can prevent inexperienced internet users from being cheated. The key to all is education, but not the one they will get in this forum, but the one they need to get from their parents and in primary school before they become Internet users.

Using social networks is dangerous for those who are unaware of how dangerous this tool is, and I personally don't see what people are looking for in all this connection with others. I actually understand that this is a trend, you have to have Telegram, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, and all possible communication apps, but I can live only with Viber and a few e-mails.

I can agree that in some cases it is better to avoid giveaways and even social networks, sometimes the damage is much greater than the benefit.

[Jating]

Or always remember this old adage we have heard so many times in the forum.

"if it's too good to be true then it probably is", and roughly translated to crypto lingo,

"If it sounds like a scam, then it is a scam"

[Baby Dragon]

How to protect yourself from fake giveaways: Don't join giveaways.

Some people are very greedy especially newbies who didn't know much about cryptocurrency like they know that you can earn crypto by investing and other things and when they see a giveaway then newbies would surely to join but in reality newbies will become victims of such scams due to greediness.

Newbies never change their mindsets, it's the reason behind why most of them end up losing their funds. Aside from that they never learn from mistakes, they have to experience it multiple times before it slaps them the reality that they are losing their funds for nothing. They have open an opportunity wherein scammers can effortlessly get the benefits they wanted, novices need to realize that greediness won't do any good because it is just allowing you to make mistakes on your decisions. Don't let yourself believe anyone because the person you only have to trust is the person in the mirror, which means yourself. Why? because you can't easily determine a persons true intention or even their way of thinking when it comes to money.

[UserU]

While its important to follow official channels, the comments are usually where they lurk. I remembered one time some CEO (forgot who) posted some tweet about "Not giving away ETH" and afterward a verified bot commented with, "But this is an exception! (began the giveaway scam)"

[LbtalkL]

I have been seeing more scammers on telegram there is only one thing to verify these telegram groups or even twitter and facebook, go to their website as you say and make sure it is the correct URL and find their social media usually in the bottom. If you are not sure about the website go to coinmarketcap if the project is listed there you can find some info there even chats, etc.
I use adblocker (Ublock origin) too and anti-phishing protection like cryptonite by metacert.

[nelson4lov]

While its important to follow official channels, the comments are usually where they lurk. I remembered one time some CEO (forgot who) posted some tweet about "Not giving away ETH" and afterward a verified bot commented with, "But this is an exception! (began the giveaway scam)"

Fake giveaway from verified accounts fools unsuspecting users easily. I've seen some people adding"Not giving away Crypto"  to their Twitter account. However, this has little to no effect The only way for this to stop completely is for Twitter to ban these accounts used to scam other users. Also users too should be advised to always do due diligence with everything that has to do with money here in the crypto space.

[BITCOIN4X]

I rarely use Twitter and Telegram because I dont have an active group discussing bounty or ICO. Obviously if you are one of the bounty hunters then I am sure you will be very close to the giveaway and that is already very often found in these two media.

Scammers lurk those who are careless and often target bounty hunters because bounty hunters are considered good targets for prey. They need money and maybe they will be tempted by a few dollars offered by scammers.

I have never participated in a giveaway program, and so far if I get from the two media above namely Telegram and Twitter I will just ignore it and not be interested and I think it is the best effort so far. I think email is also a medium used by scammers to send this type of fraud, can you add it to the list?