How I got Scammed.

[GeorgeJohn]

wonder the nature of comfortability people have with social media transaction, telegram and Facebook social media is another house of scammers that always hurt for people they will scam every day, but by now think people should have understand that any social media p2p transaction is scam, if want to do transaction take it to known exchange and perform your transaction, while some people like all this social media p2p is because they seems that their rate maybe higher than binance, so with higher the rate attraction, the higher the scam

[Yamifoud]

Is your friend aware of your situation? Because I don't think that he really your friend, she/he can't be trusted anyway.

I have some contacts in the telegram group but never I've trusted them especially when it talks about money or there is someone who could offer trade and it asks you to do the payment first. Even if the offer deal is high we should have to think about the SAFE transactions, telegram isn't the right place when it talks like that. We'd rather use an exchange to make sure that we can receive what we bought.

Being a newbie is not an excuse that we really have to suffer from being scammed. That is why we should be cautious enough upon dealing with any online transactions as this P2P is quite known for its scam intention.

[noorman0]

Is that group this one?

Currently, they are using the username @binace9995(id: -1001751270456).
Scam tele groups usually change usernames periodically to remove traces. The thing that can be done to identify that it's the same group is to find out their group id using id finder bot.

[Bitcoinbride]

 It is always heartbreaking to read about people being scammed, On this forum, I have noticed an increased number in stories of how people here were scammed. I took time out to use the search engine here and have read an ample number of post especially the most recent ones to familiarise myself who scammers and their new antiques. I urge everyone who have not been victims to read and try to learn from the experience of people here so you can avoid becoming a victim yourself.

[Oluwa-btc]

I'm saying a big heartfelt sympathy for that loss mate! You have seen and felt how bad it is too scam someone, but double up on yourself know who you trust henceforth in the social medias world.
Bunch of scamming activities in the following Apps below, you should know who you trust, if you don't know them person form time don't you give him or her your fund's.

Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, Telegram, Instagram and lastly Coin telegraph be careful of them all.
Get yourself in order and don't get distracted and disturbed by the loss, march onwards and maintain a high level of privacy.

[Marykeller]

Since you're a Nigerian, I would advise you to trade with well trusted Nigerian citizens @Cryptopreneurbrainbox or @Igehhh. Both of them are respected members of the forum. You gat not worry when trading with any of them.
Am sorry, you fall into the wrong hands of a fake Binance p2p group on telegram. The legit Binance group on telegram are @binancenigeria,
@binanceexchange, @binance_announcements, and @BinanceNigeria_Announcements. You can join any of them to find out the happenings on Binance

[Mpamaegbu]

OP, to start with:

- If you get added to a telegram group without your consent, know a scam is about to go down.
- If a group tries to imitate an already established group, know a scam is about to go down. Did you observe the spelling of Binance in the picture as shared by the user above.
- If you are desperate to get into a P2P so you can do your crypto business, take time to monitor the supposed transactions of others in the group. This saved me a lot of times.

Let me briefly explain my experience, relating with the last point I put out there. I've been added on a couple of times to such supposedly P2P groups and my first reaction was to check up the transaction ID some of them put out. I discovered that all the transactions actually happened but most of them dated back as far as six months and some a few weeks in unrelated manners to the claimed transactions at hand. This is a strong point of the blockchain. Nothing is hidden. Every transaction can be viewed at any time.

[Masplanc]

It's a pity and painful to experience a bad occurance like this, am always scared to be on cryptocurrency platform on telegram,  their might be real ones but it is very difficult to differentiate the scam ones from the real one. Sorry about your lost ,this will be an experience that you won't fall into again.

[suzanne5223]

I was introduced to the Telegram group by a friend who suggested that if I am interested in purchasing cryptocurrencies through pear to pear, without involving exchanges

I will say that person is not your friend because no friend will introduce someone she cares about to a plain scam p2p exchange. How do you know this so call friend?

the group has Telegram bots, and more than one Admin. They've planned their guidelines, rules, and regulations.

All these are marketing strategies just to gain the trust of their victims.

So seeing all of this, I thought it was real.

You see something on a telegram and you believe it was real when the telegram is the major venue of crypto scammers.

Group Name: BINANCE NIGERIA P2P (Binance Trusted Escrow).

This doesn't determine the scammer's destination and for the record scammer, don't always use their real location. This is online and anyone can claim to be from Nigeria while she's from some where else.

[Oceat]

It's a pity and painful to experience a bad occurance like this, am always scared to be on cryptocurrency platform on telegram,  their might be real ones but it is very difficult to differentiate the scam ones from the real one. Sorry about your lost ,this will be an experience that you won't fall into again.

If I were you I would stay away from that platform if it doesn't give you peace and besides, there are other platforms that you can use just do some research. If someone got scammed on that platform you should not follow them since there's only one way you will find yourself and it's getting scammed and kicked at the same time. It's hard to trust strangers these days and I think Binance is way better to use than other platforms only if KYC is not your problem.

[Serafim4]

Its awful, i fully understand your pain bro
a year ago i was scammed for 650$
but your not so bad like me
i tried to buy working cryptocurrency exchange project, but after the programmer started to configure it in my way, we realized that just used api from third person project

[Ketesnuko]

You used a p2p strategy without fully understanding what P2P is all about, you can't deal with someone online without a trusted third party between the two of you, this is so wrong, binance exchange for example have warned people not to deal with anyone off the platform, when it comes to money do not trust anyone.

[Rockstarguy]

OP, to start with:

- If you get added to a telegram group without your consent, know a scam is about to go down.
- If a group tries to imitate an already established group, know a scam is about to go down. Did you observe the spelling of Binance in the picture as shared by the user above.
- If you are desperate to get into a P2P so you can do your crypto business, take time to monitor the supposed transactions of others in the group. This saved me a lot of times.

Also if a member or admin of the group drops a pm just have in mind their is an agenda the person is coming after, most telegram group are plenty of scammers, if one is so conscious knowing that telegram groups their many scammers it will be difficult to fall into their hands.
If their is no evidence for you to see how real is a telegram group is, it is better not to run any trade or investment.

[uchegod-21]

Telegram scam is a an easy way to scam newbies and I was scammed too but I have learnt my lessons. My lessons is that I have to change my friends circle to people that are into crypto and so it does not give me difficulty or trust issues to trade btc or any other coins. I have also learnt how to use exchanges and I am learning how to make a completely anonymous transactions. At some stage in life you will fall for cheap scams but when you grow in knowledge you will escape some scams.

[Oluwa-btc]

Telegram scam is a an easy way to scam newbies and I was scammed too but I have learnt my lessons. My lessons is that I have to change my friends circle to people that are into crypto and so it does not give me difficulty or trust issues to trade btc or any other coins. I have also learnt how to use exchanges and I am learning how to make a completely anonymous transactions. At some stage in life you will fall for cheap scams but when you grow in knowledge you will escape some scams.

A link will be shared saying this is about football gambling and will lead you too something else, once you see such thing it's advice you leave immediately, another thing that harm's us or makes us get scammed is greed wanting too much without doing appropriate research about what you're delving into.
Thanks for sharing also as others should not Learn from success stories and also bad stories,like you said it's okay to change your circle and not Fvck with too many people, not everyone is a friend.
When it comes to social media, y'all should be very careful, currently I have observed how it's very highly at Coinbase,too many people are lossing funds and it's painful, very very painful.

[Cookdata]

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For beginner who doesn't know that he is into a lion's den wouldn't think of the group as a scam, the fake chats and transactions will be their focus and they wouldn't find any flag since it is too good to be true in their face (a pro can easily know that it's a scam group) and before you could say jack, they will fall such for such scams, before they realized, they will be removed from the group and wouldn't be able to capture the group ID. What they do sometimes is that they even go to the length of banning your accounts, when you search for the group, it wouldn't be visible.

A tip for beginners, avoid: Avoid Telegram dealings, I do that too not because I know too much about crypto, I do take caution with Telegram.

[albon]

A tip for beginners, avoid: Avoid Telegram dealings, I do that too not because I know too much about crypto, I do take caution with Telegram.

The problem is not only in Telegram, there are scams on Discord, Facebook groups, etc. The advice is not to deal with people you do not know, even if you find proofs of previous successful dealings they had with other members, most of these proofs are fake messages and pictures, so you should do your p2p dealings on a trusted exchange platform and choose the one who has successful dealings above 90%.

[Cryptoababe]

Binance created p2p platform on thier exchange not on Telegram group.
Moreover, if a friend of yours introduced anything to you via WhatsApp or any online platform, your friend's account might have been hacked by scammers.
So the best way to avoid being scam is to follow the right procedure and never get greedy of cheaper or seeing higher price to sell in any third party platform.

[Bamjos]

I had similar experience (I luckily escaped the scam though) and I mentioned it in this thread I created some weeks ago. Isn't it discouraging for beginners who are so enthusiastic about cryptocurrency that their first experience with it is scam. These scamming groups are many on social media, though my experience has been with telegram mostly. My advice would be that people should just avoid social media, it should not be a ground for cryptocurrency exchange in the first place because their are many exchanges now where people can securely make their transactions (especially the centralised exchanges like Binance and Kucoin). And Binance P2P shouldn't be happening on the telegram (as the name of the group implies), Binance P2P is only secure on Binance because there's an intermediary to monitor the transaction procedure, any breach in terms of the transaction could easily be savaged my the exchange administrator.

[JoyMarsha]

How did you get to know that friend of yours that introduce you to the telegram group? Is it on telegram? Cos am very sure he or she is among them. He knows fully well how the group operate.
When it comes to investing in crypto through any social media platform don't be moved by what the mod is saying. Many project owners paid chillers to chill (promote) their project to win investors' hearts. Once they achieved their aim by scamming enough investors, they will delete the group. That's the kind of world we find ourselves in crypto