If you think you are smart just know that some are smarter

[lienfaye]

Scammers are getting smarter indeed.

This can really convince greedy people to follow what should be done to get the anticipated money not knowing its a trap.

Well be aware to this to not end up as a victim.

[Squezzi55]

If you think you are smart well think again

After UNI Airdrops many starts looking for people's Private keys and recovery seeds using search engines and data engines like 4shared and others but guess what?

Some smart scammers are out there willingly exposing their private keys and recovery seed so that greedy people can scan through them, here is what the scammers have in store

The scammers leave good valuable tokens on the wallet and set the wallet to automatically send out any deposited Ethereum, the greed people will want to deposit eth to quickly move out the tokens to exchanges but its a smart trap, once the eth landed on the wallet address it automatically send out to another Ethereum address...

How did I know this? I know someone who fell for this, luckily he only deposit 20$ worth of Ethereum..

What a smart way to scam, this trap is for those who are greedy and looking for ways to steal from people, this is a trap for scammers by a scammer lol, crypto space is full of surprises, I never thought something like this existed but thanks for the warning OP, I'm sure it will get to those who have the habit.

[Bitstar_coin]

The thing is, they really have to expect many wallet to fall into that trap for them to get a reasonable amount out of this old trick, because eth for transaction fee is not a serious amount, but except that greedy person is stupid enough to send a reasonable amount to a wallet that is not yours, even if you find private key, as long as the wallet was not created by you there is no need to send reasonable amount to such wallet.

[samcrypto]

This is an old move by the scammers, but since many are still hoping to get an easy money they are falling into this scam trap.
Scammers have so many ways to scam us so if you are going to be careless on handling your money, coins or tokens you'll get scam. The big airdrop of UNI wakes up the sleeping scammers, and I'm sure they are waiting for more airdrop so be careful. Better to focus on your own, on how you make money and don't trust anyone with your money, this can lessen the risk of losing money.

[Dragonfund]

If you think you are smart well think again

After UNI Airdrops many starts looking for people's Private keys and recovery seeds using search engines and data engines like 4shared and others but guess what?

Some smart scammers are out there willingly exposing their private keys and recovery seed so that greedy people can scan through them, here is what the scammers have in store

The scammers leave good valuable tokens on the wallet and set the wallet to automatically send out any deposited Ethereum, the greed people will want to deposit eth to quickly move out the tokens to exchanges but its a smart trap, once the eth landed on the wallet address it automatically send out to another Ethereum address...

How did I know this? I know someone who fell for this, luckily he only deposit 20$ worth of Ethereum..

Last month was really a good period for Uniswap lover's when they were showered with $1400 worth of UNI (400 UNI) but it gave birth to rise of scammers on different platforms, Facebook cryptocurrency related channels in particular were so spammed, scammers were looking for victims to prey on.
The thing is, most of this scammers are lazy developers, they know how and when victims make moves. They designed their tactics and if you aren't careful, anyone can fall for their scams. They are very smart, knowledgeable people but stupid to use it in bad ways.

Please note: There is nothing free in Internet, the earlier you realise this, the better to adjust your greed otherwise you may end up loosing all you have work for in this space.

[plvbob0070]

Scammers are getting smarter indeed.

This can really convince greedy people to follow what should be done to get the anticipated money not knowing its a trap.

Well be aware to this to not end up as a victim.

Needless to say, they can’t remain to use a similar approach, as people began to recognize the style of their deception. They think of alternative approaches where people won’t suspect anything. As for the victims, they probably did not anticipate the idea of losing their assets in such a way. We should be aware a scam exists in various forms and that scammers are not only smart but also resourceful. Hence, instead of being greedy, why not work in your own ways to earn?

[meanwords]

I think OP should also mention where is the hotspot for this kind of scams. As far as I know, this was pretty common back in 2017 and most of the time, they are spreading their private key in telegram server. I don't know about now though since I stopped using telegram and I never see this trick in discord.

I have to admit I've fallen for it once. Good thing I immediately noticed that this wallet was programmed to automatically send excess balance to scammers.

[Princejebs]

How did I know this? I know someone who fell for this, luckily he only deposit 20$ worth of Ethereum..

Then that someone you know is greedy.

If only people will think not once, not twice but thrice, no deposit should be made.

LOL, it's greediness but perhaps he/she thought its might worth it, given a try to outsmart the owner who chose to give out his private key, the hunter became hunted

Some people chose to think illogically on some obvious situations, internet was built for communication with other wider application, don't expect free things on the net.

[Lhaine]

If you think you are smart well think again

After UNI Airdrops many starts looking for people's Private keys and recovery seeds using search engines and data engines like 4shared and others but guess what?

Some smart scammers are out there willingly exposing their private keys and recovery seed so that greedy people can scan through them, here is what the scammers have in store

The scammers leave good valuable tokens on the wallet and set the wallet to automatically send out any deposited Ethereum, the greed people will want to deposit eth to quickly move out the tokens to exchanges but its a smart trap, once the eth landed on the wallet address it automatically send out to another Ethereum address...

How did I know this? I know someone who fell for this, luckily he only deposit 20$ worth of Ethereum..

Thats not new news , I see that kind of wallet long time ago way back 2016 if I remember it righ they filled the probeye keys in Google  form,with MNE balance in it, once you send it will automatically transfered to other address once you send any amount of eth or tokens. That's only greed of person that thinking that they got a free money in the end they will become the victim because they transferred money in that wallet.

[Rowenta]

This is a trap for those who are greedy and it shows why people fall to crypto scam today, most times it's the investors or people fault and the ultimate reason is greed, they allow greed to take over how they think thus leading them to stupid decisions, If you come across people's Private key must you try to rob the owner?

[Boov]

This is an old move by the scammers, but since many are still hoping to get an easy money they are falling into this scam trap.
Scammers have so many ways to scam us so if you are going to be careless on handling your money, coins or tokens you'll get scam. The big airdrop of UNI wakes up the sleeping scammers, and I'm sure they are waiting for more airdrop so be careful. Better to focus on your own, on how you make money and don't trust anyone with your money, this can lessen the risk of losing money.

This thread just wanted to remind us to keep the privacy security of our account tight enough to spare us from hacking and even scam. There been out there waiting for a perfect timing to get those easy money come from investors easily falling from their trap. We can't blame them to be fall into their trap because scammers were really good to camouflage their identity as a real asset. So better to be careful and keen observant.

[Gotumoot]

Nicely done scammer being scammed I like that idea or wasting the time of scammers I have watch several videos not connected with crypto but it is still funny how the scammers fall victim or waste time on trying to get something and ended up losing money or totally wasted their time.
I tried to do it before and a scammer get tired of me and called me idiot for not falling into their trap and wasted their time on telegram.
A random person message me asking for help and I tried but when I found out that it was a scam I just played along and just continue acting innocent till they got tired of waiting to the amount that I said I had sent to their address.

[Spaffin]

Scammers are getting smarter indeed.

This can really convince greedy people to follow what should be done to get the anticipated money not knowing its a trap.

Well be aware to this to not end up as a victim.

Needless to say, they can’t remain to use a similar approach, as people began to recognize the style of their deception. They think of alternative approaches where people won’t suspect anything. As for the victims, they probably did not anticipate the idea of losing their assets in such a way. We should be aware a scam exists in various forms and that scammers are not only smart but also resourceful. Hence, instead of being greedy, why not work in your own ways to earn?

Recently, people very often began to hope for a "freebie" and therefore believe that they are the ones who will be lucky to get a big jackpot without any difficulties. And at the same time, scammers work very hard and improve their skills so that their income is as large as possible. Therefore, the winner is the one who works and thinks accordingly.

[terizla]

2 years ago i got scam like this but difference method.
Firts time i know airdrop and using myetherwallet. I was boring when i check my wallet, i must check manual in the website. So, i download aplication eth wallet not from official.
After the airdrop reward distribution, i send small fee from exchange to my wallet. Then my wallet automatic send the token from my wallet to hacker wallet.
This is my first time i get scam.

[ethereumhunter]

Sometimes the old trick can work for the new target because they don't know how to protect their wallet. So that method can be used to trick them. It is an important lesson for us because we never know what method the hacker or other people will use to trick us, and we need to be careful to save our private keys. If someone wants to steal other people, he will use many ways that he knows or he will learn the other ways from others to get the way to trick us.

[1l1l11ll1l]

The thing is, they really have to expect many wallet to fall into that trap for them to get a reasonable amount out of this old trick, because eth for transaction fee is not a serious amount, but except that greedy person is stupid enough to send a reasonable amount to a wallet that is not yours, even if you find private key, as long as the wallet was not created by you there is no need to send reasonable amount to such wallet.

Yo, iam just thinking how people still can get scammed by that obvious trap. ofcourse greed is always the reason, but cmon, that's old trick. Hope some people can create good blog post for this kind of thing so people don't get scammed again

[thesmallgod]

Bruh it's an old method nothing new at all.

The address has been set up with smart contract, they will leave some token with a huge value and share the private key so everyone who found it will try to send some ethereum for gas transfer the token. When the fund arrived will immediately send to another address, its really a old method and pretty simple to recognize just by watching the transaction of that address.

It's will really weird when the private key already expose and there has some receive transaction ethereum but the token not moved at all when the eth send to another same adress.

I am just seen this for the first time. This is a smart move to scam the scammer. probably it will help discourage those scammers looking for a while to get to peoples wallet. It might be very simple but I doubt if any scammer will be patient enough to watch the transaction detail of the address. All that will be up to is moving the coin in the wallet not knowing a trap has been set for him

[bttmember]

If you think you are smart well think again

After UNI Airdrops many starts looking for people's Private keys and recovery seeds using search engines and data engines like 4shared and others but guess what?

Some smart scammers are out there willingly exposing their private keys and recovery seed so that greedy people can scan through them, here is what the scammers have in store

The scammers leave good valuable tokens on the wallet and set the wallet to automatically send out any deposited Ethereum, the greed people will want to deposit eth to quickly move out the tokens to exchanges but its a smart trap, once the eth landed on the wallet address it automatically send out to another Ethereum address...

How did I know this? I know someone who fell for this, luckily he only deposit 20$ worth of Ethereum..

With new technology scammers are also getting advanced and there is no area that is free of scammers they are literally everywhere.
Personally i ignore most of the things online and just do what i have to do with my own money, coins or holdings everything else is a no for me just to avoid scams.

[Willitivity]

It's not the first time that I have seen or heard about incidents like this. These days, scammers are always looking for smart ways to scam people of their money. Just a few days again, I received an email about a uniswap airdrop (which I knew was fake). I checked the airdrop form included and it only requested for my email and my ETH address. They didn't ask for sensitive data like mnemonic phrases, private key or otherwise. So I was curious what they could do with it.

[Stavri]

If you think you are smart well think again

After UNI Airdrops many starts looking for people's Private keys and recovery seeds using search engines and data engines like 4shared and others but guess what?

Some smart scammers are out there willingly exposing their private keys and recovery seed so that greedy people can scan through them, here is what the scammers have in store

The scammers leave good valuable tokens on the wallet and set the wallet to automatically send out any deposited Ethereum, the greed people will want to deposit eth to quickly move out the tokens to exchanges but its a smart trap, once the eth landed on the wallet address it automatically send out to another Ethereum address...

How did I know this? I know someone who fell for this, luckily he only deposit 20$ worth of Ethereum..

it is a very well known fish trap in crypto. I heard many stories like this, sharing the private key in public and deleting it immediately. People think that it was a mistake but it was just a trap for them. fishes connects to the wallet and starts to send ethereum to take the belongings. but ofcourse it is not possible