I have been scammed in pancackeswap telegram group

[danherbias07]

Telegram. No. That is the home of the scammers. Their reputation is being wrecked by those evil minds.
To your problem, it is your mistake. Whenever someone pm's you, checking the credibility of it should be the first thing on your mind. By clicking links like you said, yes perhaps you were redirected to the right support of Pancakeswap but it doesn't mean anyone who will pm or call you is from their office. It could be anyone who saw your query and you became a target. You can just jot this one in your experience lists and create a new account.

[gurunanakji777]

One must be always very careful when an unknown person gives the link to click. You must be double sure when clicking links from an unknown person it might be a hacker impersonating someone else. I might feel the hacker spoke to you as a Pancakesswap support executive and you have been trapped by him. Even don't try to connect those coins that are in your wallet as a free airdrop. Always double-check the website you are accessing or connecting your wallet. Many newbies scammed like this in the starting we all learn this by our bitter experiences.

[Beparanf]

Dear community. Has this also happened to anyone? I was trying to connect my trust wallet to  pancackeswap but it return error every time. Then I went to pancackeswap website and clicked a link to their telegram group and joined. I immediately received a phone call and I explained my problem. I was sent a link to troubleshoot the problem: www.app.walletimports.com and followed the procedure. I didn't know it was stealing my secret  key because I believed that pancackeswap is a reputable company. They stole my 0.055 BNB. Be careful with that telegram group.

"Admin will never DM first" this is a golden rule when you are using telegram. There's a lot of scammer waiting for user like you to trick you that they are and you to go on shady website to fixed your problem. Admin will never let you connect your wallet on a website didn't belong to the project itself in your case PancakeSwap. You will receive lots of scam PM everytime you post a question to your wallet.

Sorry for your loss. I hope you already learned your lesson from this.

[palle11]

Dear community. Has this also happened to anyone? I was trying to connect my trust wallet to  pancackeswap but it return error every time. Then I went to pancackeswap website and clicked a link to their telegram group and joined. I immediately received a phone call and I explained my problem. I was sent a link to troubleshoot the problem: www.app.walletimports.com and followed the procedure. I didn't know it was stealing my secret  key because I believed that pancackeswap is a reputable company. They stole my 0.055 BNB. Be careful with that telegram group.

Sorry bro you may have been scammed by just a member like you on the telegram group. This is unfortunate because you acted very fast without patience. Telegram groups have admin and they are responsible for such help. I believe pancakeSwap has admin working for them and responsible for challenges. They should have there names on the pin message and against their names on the telegram group. Sorry you may have been scammed by someone else that is not pancakeSwap. I hope you get it resolved , sorry.

[Raflesia]

It's a shame you were caught in this classic scam even on the accusation board there have been lots of reports of phishing sites in the name of Pancakeswap, but you might panic or be in a hurry so you get trapped and lose some money in BNB so be more careful next time because phishing sites always have many ways to convince their target to trust them more.
This has been your experience, I hope that in the future it will not happen again and for all beginners, you must still be careful.

[babygun]

Sorry for your loss but I am afraid that there is nothing you can do about it. Scammers will always try to impersonate a legit company/person to gain your trust. Telegram can be a good source for chatting and finding information but it is also a gold mine for scammers...

[yayayo]

Many scammers on Telegram it is so shameful,  they have advanced to the level of calling people's number now! Unbelievable, it is unfortunate you have to go through this terrible ordeal,  next time don't entertain any calls or pm from anyone except you contact an admin first,
Telegram is so insecure I don't know how the devs can get rid of these scammers.

Yes, Telegram has been the den of scammers, for a long time now. Next time, OP will know what must be done whenever this will come up again. It’s just unfortunate that he had to through such to learn this. I also think that the link provided was use for phishing, which is another lesson to not click links provided right away, especially if someone you do not know or did not have any contact before.

ya.ya.yo!

[vv181]

~But I am wondering that I got the telegram link from the official pancackeswap website which led me to a scammer!

You should have not been too naive. Just because some things have the word "official" doesn't mean you should trust all of their bullshittery. Even if you got the first link from the legit PCS site, it's not meant for a support service, even themselves has stated that they didn't offer any single support system. The Telegram group they offer is just mainly run by the community.

You can see full detail about it on here: Customer Support

I wanted to report the incidence to cyber crime  authorities but when I wanted to provide the chat we had as an evidence I found that they have deleted it!"

I think that even if you have proof, it is still uncertain whether they will proceed with it or not and so does the chance of they can trace back the scammers. Well, I believe that there is nothing you can do but to learn more about cryptocurrencies spaces better, by that, you have the knowledge and the experience about what to do when you encounter problems. I suggest you should read this security thread collection: Beginners & Help Encyclopedia: Security

[manok jepang]

your experience is a lesson for others, indeed many unknown people send links in the name of pancake swabs, but don't rush to click on the message because the link is phishing to move the contents of your wallet that is connected to their wallet, I can't comment much about the case you are experiencing because it is clear that the scammer is in the name of pancakeswab, you should create another wallet to transfer the remaining assets you have before being drained, obviously pancakeswab will not send you a link before you join one of their projects,

[llecrf]

Dear community. Has this also happened to anyone? I was trying to connect my trust wallet to  pancackeswap but it return error every time. Then I went to pancackeswap website and clicked a link to their telegram group and joined. I immediately received a phone call and I explained my problem. I was sent a link to troubleshoot the problem: www.app.walletimports.com and followed the procedure. I didn't know it was stealing my secret  key because I believed that pancackeswap is a reputable company. They stole my 0.055 BNB. Be careful with that telegram group.

I don't think you need to post that link here but you can send Tx from wallet stealing your BNB I never trust anyone DM me I think you should be careful and you can learn from this experience, Next make sure you look at the links and detailed information before connecting the wallet to the website.

[Vaskiy]

It is our responsibility to cross check before we make any payment. Atleast you've got scammed of small amount which is around $30 in present value of BNB. There are people who've got scammed of big money. From the description it looks like you've got into a phising site and has used scammer group's telegram support. You need to be careful, because no support will request to send amounts in BNB or in any other form to solve issues.

In most cases they initially take control of the wallet and further request for deposit of funds to retrieve the wallet from their control.

[evichi]

In order to avoid telegram group members being scammed, administrators of most reputable telegram groups in most cases will inform the group members that they will not DM you first, that is, they will not contact you first. So, the fact that you were contacted first means that there was indeed an ulterior motive behind the contact. Currently, there are numerous scam telegram groups bearing the same name as original telegram groups.

I had a recent observation as regards Santa coin telegram. I observed there were two telegram groups bearing ‘Santa Coin Official'. One of the groups, numbering about 9318, as at the time of making this comment, was doing a promo. The promo requires that if you send Santa Coin to a particular wallet address, they will send back 3 times the value back to your wallet. There were testimonies of those have already benefited from the promo on the telegram group. Messages in this group were locked. The other telegram group, which is the original group, numbering about 14175, had nothing of such being discussed, except the usual encouragement to buy Santa Coin. The messaging is open, so I, decided to ask if there are any on-going promo whereby, you get three times Santa Coin when you send to an address, the group reacted immediately that there was no such thing, that it must be a scam. This implies that people are out there, fully prepared to scam people that are not careful enough to ensure they are in the right telegram group.

[kaya11]

I find telegram a very creepy place, there are so many DMs in my account and I just ignored them all of the time. Unless it is the one that I have DM first. They mostly use sexy female pictures and greet you first like they are asking to date or something similar. The funny thing is my telegram has so many deleted accounts named, it's understandable that all of those arr just dummy accounts and used to scam people, I bet those behind those accounts are muscular and bearded person I guess.

[blockman]

Dear community. Has this also happened to anyone? I was trying to connect my trust wallet to  pancackeswap but it return error every time. Then I went to pancackeswap website and clicked a link to their telegram group and joined. I immediately received a phone call and I explained my problem. I was sent a link to troubleshoot the problem: www.app.walletimports.com and followed the procedure. I didn't know it was stealing my secret  key because I believed that pancackeswap is a reputable company. They stole my 0.055 BNB. Be careful with that telegram group.

It's gone forever, don't believe with such customer supports that would ask you to import your wallet and connect to any given website. It should be only you that would be connecting to the official pancakeswap and any other website that you're trying to connect.
These scammers would do everything to fool people that are just trying to get some help that they have encountered with a problem. But instead, they took advantage, thanks for sharing and I hope the others won't be a victim of this scam.

[dataispower]

Im so sorry to hear that. You should check the telegram account that shared the link before clicking on it. Whether the admin/official account of the group or not. Many fake accounts on telegram trying to scam in various ways. We have to be careful to avoid scammers

Dont be sorry to op because to be scammed can happen to anybody, right now you don't know when your own time will come to  be scam from people also, i forbid all this social media advertisement of cryptocurrency investment, some of them is being prepared by original scammers that have strong device to operate, going into social media like Facebook, telegram for bitcoin investment is forbidden because i know that there in this platform don't have work than to look for whom they will scam

[yazher]

This is what they're doing they set all the traps to steal our funds, to avoid such kinds of scams, we need to keep in touch with our senses and think about the probability whenever we get some offer, we think it as if it scam. so whenever they start to ask something, it's automatically a red light and it's the time for us to back out. But the best thing to avoid such tragedy is to ignore it every time we received such offers, whether it is from emails or in our personal inbox.

[lienfaye]

Dear community. Has this also happened to anyone? I was trying to connect my trust wallet to  pancackeswap but it return error every time. Then I went to pancackeswap website and clicked a link to their telegram group and joined. I immediately received a phone call and I explained my problem. I was sent a link to troubleshoot the problem: www.app.walletimports.com and followed the procedure. I didn't know it was stealing my secret  key because I believed that pancackeswap is a reputable company. They stole my 0.055 BNB. Be careful with that telegram group.

I think its not the official website of pancakeswap because the one who called you is a scammer.

Thats why we need to be extra careful on clicking links, it might be a phishing site to steal your info. Did you input your keys? If so then it might be the reason why you lost your BNB.

Anyway its a lesson learned for you and newbies should be aware on this kind of tactics.

[StarKay]

Dear community. Has this also happened to anyone? I was trying to connect my trust wallet to  pancackeswap but it return error every time. Then I went to pancackeswap website and clicked a link to their telegram group and joined. I immediately received a phone call and I explained my problem. I was sent a link to troubleshoot the problem: www.app.walletimports.com and followed the procedure. I didn't know it was stealing my secret  key because I believed that pancackeswap is a reputable company. They stole my 0.055 BNB. Be careful with that telegram group.

Sorry about that, it's sad they stole your BNB but you should be happy you don't have more than that because they don't have mercy. You should forget about that wallet because and never use it again for any transaction.
You said "Be careful with that telegram group" based on your experience but I'll tell you to be careful with all Crypto based telegram groups because those guys are lurking around every group looking for vulnerable people to feed on.

[Refrumatrix]

Deactivate PMs on your telegram account settings you will be free from a this scam nonsense happening almost everyday on telegram, the rules is don't allow any direct messages even if anyone says they are team member of the project or group, DMs are scam 100%

[akar87]

It looks like you have linked your wallet to a fake pancackeswap site, because if you link it to a real pancackeswap site I think your funds will be fine there, lately because of the popular DEFI trend many newbies fall victim to scams because many of them not careful and unable to distinguish real sites and fake sites when connecting the wallet to the DEFI exchange.