Are scammers getting dumber? Or is it people they aim for are so naïve?

[traderethereum]

I think not just you who received a call from your bank support line because I got a message from someone I do not know.
She offers to invest in her program, giving me a profit of $100/day.
I reply that the message telling is good to be true, and I say that I am not interested in her offers. But she was still trying to convince me that she and her partner will play safe, so I blocked her number just to make sure that she does not disturb me again.
In the next moment, I conclude that a scam program will always try to search for a simple method that most people do not think is a scam and in the end, they can trick that customer into giving their money.

[bakasabo]

I dont think that scammer are dumb or people are naive. Scammers are actually very creative and try to come up with new ways to cheat. What really matters are their skills of social engineering and persuasion. Their best weapon is people laziness. People want to do everything quickly and easy. Just try to remember how many times anyone of you clicked first google given link to download something or take info there as a legit faq/hint/walkthrough/guide. Remember when we need something, we just search, download, run, accept everything.

[Eureka_07]

Almost every day I read a topic of someone been scammed out of money. Well, this is a course of life and scams will exist as long as exists human race. What makes me laugh though is methods scammers use lately. Nothing inventive, not even an attempt to make it look legit. "Successful trader will make you 50% in an hour". "BTC refund department". "BTC doubler". And dozens of others so obvious one has to be a newborn baby to fall for. I wouldn't be surprised if  soon there will be messages from "BTC Support Department" or anything along these lines. How can anyone sane fall for this?

I received a call from my "bank support line" a while ago. Now these people were real con artists, they had all my data, used correct chat scripts etc. It all sounded so legit I almost missed the moment they asked me for SMS confirmation code, at which point I realized it's a scam. Not being sympathetic to these guys but at least they were highly professional and inventive scammers, unlike those I mentioned above.

Well, they just look dumb to you because probably, you're more knowledgable now. Their targets are not those that has lots of experience and knowledge about crypto. Remember that most of their targets are those newbies that has less and, some that doesn't have enough background for it. That is why they look dumb.

[DigitalFox]

You also missed on of the stupidest ways where they tell you that you've won something big but in order to receive your prize you first have to make a deposit to cover the cost of them sending you that prize!

That's a variation of infamous "nigerian letters" which have been around for... well, as long as I remember LOL

[libert19]

There are always greedy newbies in this space, that's what these scammers fish for, greed blinds the man.

[AniviaBtc]

For sure scammers are dumb because they are just making crime which have a huge and worse consequences in their life.

Stealing or fooling people will not make them rich enough because investors are getting wiser and well-informed about scams day-by-day.

As they are targeting ignorant people, their victims will surely become aware about that and avoid them.

[BitcoinBarrel]

If you are scamming, period, then you are dumb. It doesn't matter how sophisticated your scam is or how smart you think you are. You are dumb because you are risking your livelihood on a business that can be taken from you. You can lose everything, and most of the time you WILL. And even if you get away with your scam, you have damaged your MIND, because instead of finding the true path, you are conditioning yourself to look for shortcuts.

If you were smart, you would invest in skills and income that is sustainable and legitimate so you can prosper. No one can take that from you.

[Fortify]

I think not just you who received a call from your bank support line because I got a message from someone I do not know.
She offers to invest in her program, giving me a profit of $100/day.
I reply that the message telling is good to be true, and I say that I am not interested in her offers. But she was still trying to convince me that she and her partner will play safe, so I blocked her number just to make sure that she does not disturb me again.
In the next moment, I conclude that a scam program will always try to search for a simple method that most people do not think is a scam and in the end, they can trick that customer into giving their money.

The majority of scammers will always target the "low hanging fruit" and simply understand that it is a numbers game. They don't expect to fool everyone, they might not expect to fool more than 1 out of every 1,000 people, but if the one that they do scam is substantial you could call it winning the scammer lottery. The worst and most dangerous are ones who have adapted towards this type of industrial scale and it works much like call center scam operations in many respects. There are so many varieties of scam it can be overwhelming and sometimes the scammers come armed with information gathered before they call you, which can add a level of credibility to their story. Frankly you should ignore anyone unless you have specifically reached out to a company (via phone) or logged into their website to communicate with them. It's important to remember that it is possible to spoof (fake) the sender via email and phone calls, so don't trust that to verify people either.

[suzanne5223]

All the technique used by scammer these days are not new and it just the recycling of old strategies but the BTC doubler, support department scam are easy to spot out because they are always after the newbies in crypto investment that the reason why their victim is always newborn baby.

[isaac_clarke22]

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Problem is that their target/s are the ones that have not read yet on what majority just said in here.
Most of it were seniors. They aren't knowledgeable that much in technologies these days.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Not being sympathetic to these guys but at least they were highly professional and inventive scammers, unlike those I mentioned above.

Scammers these days especially those targeting the noobs coming into the cryptocurency space due to the hype it has been receiving in the past months as a result of its astonished increase in value compared to other assets (stocks, commodities etc) put their success on lucky. They don't have to stress themselves been all convincing with their tricks, etc. They're just targeting those that aren't informed and would fall easily to their tricks.

I watch YouTube videos this day more often as I tend to engage myself more in the community than just investing by buying into project, I tend to know what's the latest trend so I have subscribed to various crypto update channels. What's funny is there's a particular kind of ad that pops up in-between all the videos I have watched on different occasions, that has to do with trending coins, Elon, Tesla and doublers.

You might think coin doublers are old tricks but don't be surprised when noobs still fall for this scams mainly because they're not informed and they're impatience to learn before earning instead hunger for quick money.

[palle11]

Nothing inventive, not even an attempt to make it look legit. "Successful trader will make you 50% in an hour". "BTC refund department". "BTC doubler". And dozens of others so obvious one has to be a newborn baby to fall for. I wouldn't be surprised if  soon there will be messages from "BTC Support Department" or anything along these lines. How can anyone sane fall for this?

Nothing inventive you say ? No they are but you may have become use to such lines and wouldn't waste time to take to your heals when such lines are given to you.

If you are in the space with the high taste for getting rich quick, you will fall for such. If you fall once then there is possibility that you may not again except the person is extremely greedy.  Most culprit here is the newbie who are totally new to scam because they believe totally what they see on the space but they never knew it is the more you look, the less you see.

Personally, I don't consider doubling money from somebody that I didn't work for or make contributions to his or her life. I consider if it were possible for him or her, then they would double their money by themselves but you see someone falling for another person's trap of scam even when it is clear .

One big reason people get scammed is greed. When you want to double money with someone, you just know it is not possible.

[Igebotz]

I received a call from my "bank support line" a while ago. Now these people were real con artists, they had all my data, used correct chat scripts etc. It all sounded so legit I almost missed the moment they asked me for SMS confirmation code, at which point I realized it's a scam. Not being sympathetic to these guys but at least they were highly professional and inventive scammers, unlike those I mentioned above.

This type of scam is more common in my region  I don't know how these people are able to get our information data from the bank, they know so much that if you are not a security-conscious person you will fall for their tricks and before you realise your account balance is wiped out in a sec, .
It takes a lot of courage to to avoid been scammed

[Stalker22]

I received a call from my "bank support line" a while ago. Now these people were real con artists, they had all my data, used correct chat scripts etc. It all sounded so legit I almost missed the moment they asked me for SMS confirmation code, at which point I realized it's a scam. Not being sympathetic to these guys but at least they were highly professional and inventive scammers, unlike those I mentioned above.

This type of scam is more common in my region  I don't know how these people are able to get our information data from the bank, they know so much that if you are not a security-conscious person you will fall for their tricks and before you realise your account balance is wiped out in a sec, .
It takes a lot of courage to to avoid been scammed

It has happened in the past that some banks have shared creditworthiness data with third parties. Therefore, it is possible that scammers are able to access data from the bank in this way. For example, when I was having trouble paying off my bank loan, I started receiving offers from other banks to reschedule my debts despite the fact that I never asked them to do so. There was no doubt that the banks shared information among themselves. Also, some bank employees who lack adequate training may accidentally divulge your bank information to third parties.

[sapnu]

Scams in real life and scams in crypto are two different things. Maybe scams outside crypto are more deemed to be dumber compared to what we have in crypto. Newbies can easily be tricked specially by those who are smart enough to make ways on how they can zip the deal with someone they are stealing from. Scammers in crypto are improving unlike in real life situations, their schemes are too repetitive that only a very small percentage gets scammed by their ways. Just be aware and wise still even though we all know how scammers play their games, precautions are better than regrets.

[suzanne5223]

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Problem is that their target/s are the ones that have not read yet on what majority just said in here.
Most of it were seniors. They aren't knowledgeable that much in technologies these days.

Yes, the scammer victims aren't knowledgeable much about the cryptocurrency technology but that doesn't mean only the seniors are the people that fall into this category cause I was once a victim of crypto scammer and I was in my 20s which automatically lack of knowledge is what make people victim of scammer not age.

[Rengga Jati]

Actually, the scammers commonly use the classic ways to scam, but sometimes it is likely modified like a new method (but actually they are the same).
And actually, the victims are the same, newbies and also greedy people.
Newbies don't know about exactly going on when being scammed and they think that this is a normal method in cryptocurrency to earn money from that way. Not all newbies follow this forum and also read news about scammers. And sometimes, most of them don't know about scams.

And for the greedy people, they may be newbies and also old members in crypto that really eager to have and earn high profits instantly. So, they are always interested in certain investments or programs with high profits.

This is classic, but many people are still scammed.

[isaac_clarke22]

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I am sorry to hear that.
Somehow now that you remind me. I was almost scammed in a giveaway, to be specific I was almost baited in a phishing site of my custodial wallet, in Facebook. The only cue that I know it was a scam was due to the domain name.
These scammers are just seemingly popping up in every social media platforms. I am kind of dreaming of scambaiting like those I watched in Youtube as to raise awareness, but I think it is kind of risky just yet.

[Ryker1]

Scams in real life and scams in crypto are two different things. Maybe scams outside crypto are more deemed to be dumber compared to what we have in crypto. Newbies can easily be tricked specially by those who are smart enough to make ways on how they can zip the deal with someone they are stealing from. Scammers in crypto are improving unlike in real life situations, their schemes are too repetitive that only a very small percentage gets scammed by their ways. Just be aware and wise still even though we all know how scammers play their games, precautions are better than regrets.

Well, perhaps this will be the fact and as we can see, most of their victims are those greed people. Just notice this, scammers are now getting evolved too, they are getting smarter day by day and they always have strategies and tricks on how to scam people that new in the crypto space. Naive and greed will always a favorite target of these scammers people should know this from the start. However, even though we already warned them but the case of those who have been scammed was increased. That is a sad fact.

[suzanne5223]

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I am sorry to hear that.
Somehow now that you remind me. I was almost scammed in a giveaway, to be specific I was almost baited in a phishing site of my custodial wallet, in Facebook. The only cue that I know it was a scam was due to the domain name.
These scammers are just seemingly popping up in every social media platforms. I am kind of dreaming of scambaiting like those I watched in Youtube as to raise awareness, but I think it is kind of risky just yet.

Social media is the venue where alot of scammer operated and make search for the victim, this is the reason why this forum don't support the habit of a service provider or a buyer making service discussion off the forum and every investment make by stranger should be ignore.