Newbie Should be Careful When Received New Follower From Famous Bitcoiner

[Chikito]

Today I received the notification new follower from Jameson Lopp and Jimmy Song.



Actually I am not sure why they follow me continuously. Then I checked both profile I get different usernames but same theme profile as real.

https://twitter.com/loppchat

https://twitter.com/jimmysongz



It makes me worry if happens with newbie and don't know the real. Always Triple checking the username when received new followers and don't take action when received a scam message like sending bitcoin, etc.

Real Jameson lopp is https://twitter.com/lopp
and Jimmy Song https://twitter.com/jimmysong

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[pakhitheboss]

On social media, it is better to ignore any request from someone you do know personally. I never ever engages in casual chat also cause scammers can scam you while you thought they were providing you with a valuable information on chat.

Accepting new followers wont hurt you if you always follow the above method.

[hd49728]

Some things can be used to differentiate between real influencers and scammers:

- Badge
- Account ages: scammer accounts' ages are lower than real accounts.
- Number of followers: real accounts of big influencers have hundred thousands of followers. Scam accounts have a few hundreds and never reach hundred thousands of followers.

I would like to look at total followers and badge first. The last one are account ages. Newbies can not know the time influencers created accounts.

[mk4]

Pretty common in crypto twitter. All you can do is to give both accounts a quick report to hopefully prevent damage to some people.

Report > They're pretending to be me or someone else > Someone else

[XCANA]

Categorically, I don't accept strangers on my handle because of potential scammers all around. Some lessons I have learned in the past was not to accept account below 4months of registration on social media when they pretend to be someone in the famous class. This  has kept me safe all along in the past, and if there is mistake in accepting any of them ensure to unfollow them immediately.

[joniboini]

I no longer play around with social media, but one thing for sure if you don't want to go all the hassle might as well make your profile private and don't accept any followers/message. Obviously, if you need your account for marketing/social purpose then it might not be the best idea.

[Asuspawer09]

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I mean its already sketchy when some famous people followed you, the number of followers is just so low and also it doesn't have the twitter blue check.

It happened to me a lot on twitter when i joine a giveaway in twitter, after joining the giveaway someone followed me and pm me, its a trustwallet giveaway that i joined and then suddenly a trustwallet account, but not actual legit trustwallet followed me and message me to claim my prize. At first i thought that it was just the second account of the trustwallet but it become clear to be after i click the link because its asking for my private key.

Anyway, scammers are everywhen in social media so just don't trust this kind of account i mean its obvious just looking on their followers and profile.

[Chikito]

Thanks for all posts and suggestions.

It's not over, I still received a new follower

https://twitter.com/0Shrem

Then curious to searching that name, got find other.

https://twitter.com/_CharlieShrem
https://twitter.com/CharlieShrrem



In that picture, we will be known where a real and the fake.


Are have following the famous Bitcoiner? if does, maybe you will get the new follower by the fake account, because all of them I had followed.

So be careful, this thread for warning people, not for newbie only. The account resembling famous people, I don't know what purpose but mostly for the negative things.

[Darker45]

It makes me worry if happens with newbie and don't know the real. Always Triple checking the username when received new followers and don't take action when received a scam message like sending bitcoin, etc.

You may not actually go through all the hassles of triple checking every single follower of yours, especially those who send you messages. Treat every social media platform with a grain of salt, and just shun every single message coming from anybody you didn't contact first and you do not know personally.

Even if it is the confirmed official twitter accounts of Jameson Lopp or Jimmy Song or Lebron James or Donald Trump or whoever that is which is sending you a DM asking for as low as 1 Satoshi, treat it with a solid red flag and dismiss it as scam altogether.

[Taskford]

Today I received the notification new follower from Jameson Lopp and Jimmy Song.


Actually I am not sure why they follow me continuously. Then I checked both profile I get different usernames but same theme profile as real.

https://twitter.com/loppchat

https://twitter.com/jimmysongz

It makes me worry if happens with newbie and don't know the real. Always Triple checking the username when received new followers and don't take action when received a scam message like sending bitcoin, etc.

Real Jameson lopp is https://twitter.com/lopp
and Jimmy Song https://twitter.com/jimmysong

There's nothing to worry if they just follow you but if they directly send you a pm and offering something to good to be true then that's a big problem since they might compromised newbies who think that they are talking with the real big guy.

But for that thing I think its better to ignore them or block them on your social media accounts so that you cannot hear or see what they post in future and to avoid stress.

[DdmrDdmr]

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Their play though, may often lead to an automated human social network reaction, leading to the followed to follow back the follower. That will help to build-up the scammer’s base of contacts and, at some point, start a 1-to-1 (or 1-to-many) scam campaign.

Blocking them is the good move as you state, but many people will unfortunately just get excited and follow back (social media stunts such as likes, followers and merits, tend to cause a splash of dopamine), thus exposing themselves to their own gullibility being stimulate and tested by the scammers.

[Insanerman]

Fake accounts of famous personalities are always rambling on different social media. Facebook and Twitter is the most common social media that has huge number of fake accounts of these influential personalities. This trick is aged, stop being a victim of this kind of possible scam.
Always double check or triple check those accounts that are following or sending message to you. It's not a waste of time, so do it. And ultimately, do not send any money to them, if they are asking or offering some kind of investments like your money will be doubled within days.

[hugeblack]

I thought it was a message or a request from the people themselves and not scam accounts trying to use them to scam you.
It is one of the old scams, and I don't think many have come to believe such a primitive type of scam.

In general, you should beware of all those who offer you assistance or services because it is difficult to track these scammers and thus they will get away with their act.

[LTU_btc]

I think you don't have to be experienced Bitcoin user to spot that profile is fake. Most of us probably using social networks for a long time already and it's not that difficult to notice fake profile. First of all, usualy profiles of celebrities have blue badge next to their name - it shows that account official and verified by staff. Also, profiles of these people usually don't have 200-300 followers. It's thousands or sometimes even millions.
And finally, it looks so strange and suspicious when some famous personality start find random person on internet. After this I would ask myself - how did he found me and for what reason he would follow me.

[erikoy]

This is very common to scammer using popular individuals for you take their bait. Scammers are really had this initiative because many are influence by famous person they idolized and will follow what the scammers wanted to by giving false promise. Usually their bait is fake giveaways and lottery which will let you win and then followed by claiming your prize. Then they will ask for the details of your financial accounts that if your not careful enough it will lead you to disclose important details of that account which then scammers can access.

[rhomelmabini]

Well, I don't mind if they do but if they share those annoying tweets like retweeting a certain giveaway so that they could gain more followers or something like that, I really tend to unfollow them. Just keep in mind real crypto Twitter personalities don't follow some common people and if by chance you've been followed always keep in mind that they might be fakes or always be vigilant that if they give some links don't just click them right away.

It's not bad that there are instances like that but if the purpose of the person is to just share some crypto education or news on the crypto space that is something to for keeps as a follower.

[Chikito]

Thanks for all response.


When I look at past how fake Adam Back https://twitter.com/Syl1000 retweet this scam giveaway https://twitter.com/Syl1000/status/1199329521872322560 if the newbie doesn't know this is a scam, they will follow to sending eth.


In my opinion, scammer followed you to know your habit and activity then they will think to create a trap which you like.

So be careful, don't let spying you, the best way is reporting into twitter and blocking the fake.

[boyptc]

Thank you for that.

Scammers are everywhere even on Facebook or probably on Instagram but I don't use this social media. They look for unprepared newbies and are only wanting to earn some ETH or BTC.

Being vulnerable, they are easy to be fooled by those scammers pretending to be a popular guy if the victim doesn't know how to check profiles.

[skarais]

In my opinion, scammer followed you to know your habit and activity then they will think to create a trap which you like.

So be careful, don't let spying you, the best way is reporting into twitter and blocking the fake.

Of course, but I dont think you need to worry about that because I am sure you will never easily trust anyone trying to ask you to post something in a social media conversation regarding bitcoin and other cryptocurrency asset. I agree that new users are those who should raise awareness about these kinds of thing as they may be affected by the traps set by fraudsters. I haven't used Twitter for a long time, there are a lot of new followers, but I never found it suspicious because I didn't respond to anything.

Anyway, thank you for sharing and it's a warning to everyone to be more careful about anything on social media. Scammers can do anything on social media without us knowing it and one of them is using fake account and trapping unlucky people.

[Assface16678]

This is not new there are a lot of people pretending a professional into the cryptocurrency just for different reasons.

1. Watch the move of their followers
2. Encourage them to invest in their business/or to them.
3. Scam.

If these people don't bother you at all I think it's better to ignore them if you feel annoying you can avoid them or remove them.

These people things that they can scam other people who are just newbie in crypto and great fully you are aware of things like these scams.