Warning - 100,000 ETH Giveaway!!!!

[Silberman]

They are so clever that they even have an official twitter account to equate it with the real Vilalik. But thinking logically it's impossible for there to be an ethereuum giveaway of up to 100,000 because ethereum has been so successful there's no need to gather a community anymore. be careful with this kind of scams in the name of top tier coins.

For people like us which have been in the market for a long time such a scam no matter how well disguised will never deceive us, as we will immediately see through the intentions of the scammers, but for the people that think that in this market obtaining money is easy and it can be obtained easily this kind of scam can and will deceive them, as they will not think that there is something suspicious about it and they may think it makes a lot of sense for such a distribution of coins to happen, so it is important to raise awareness that scams like this one are around so those newbies can avoid them.

[aioc]

Guys down to the official tweet from Vitalik about the release of his Book Proof Of Stake there is a scam account that resembles same as Vitalik's official Twitter account. If you watch closely you can easily find the difference. The scammer have described about a 100,000 ETH as a celebration of merge. Please be careful and don't loss your ethereum.

These scam giveaways will never stop as long as there are people who fall for this scheme, it's been years since these scam giveaways started but we still see a lot of these reports, the community has done their part reporting these scam giveaways, but we have many people coming in and misled because in the early days of Cryptocurrency there are many legit airdrops and giveaways but we are past this, great projects should be supported by investing on these projects so they can continue to evolve and get a good standing in the market.

[gunhell16]

When I read on Twitter that the massive distribution is worth 100,000 ETH, that's a huge amount in dollars that if I total is over 133M$, what crazy person would give away that much money for free? Those kinds of words are those people who are hard to believe, honestly, we're just talking real here.

So if you read something like that, it's a sign that you should be careful. It means you are close to a scammer person in the cryptocurrency industry. I can't imagine how these scammers would be so brave. I hope our police will sweep and catch them and put them in jail for life.

[tvplus006]

Always follow the official verified twitter handel for every famous person which is you believe and followed there activities . and it will more better if you enable notification of your every favourite famous person to get any update instantly . and do not believe any receiving massage from any social media and unknown person without verify it yourself

Even if you follow such verified accounts of famous people, then you also cannot be protected from fraud. Suffice it to recall how 2 years ago the accounts of Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Barack Obama and other celebrities were hacked and an announcement was placed about doubling BTC. Even Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account has been hacked, so apparently there is no 100% account protection.

[Kelvinid]

It was a big scam, no doubt of it.
When I heard about that amount and said giveaway, it appears in my mind and ask how reliable is this. Everyone can create the same name in social media and copy the original picture of the person and there is only one reason - for scamming purposes. It is obviously eye-catching, innocent and greedy people will possibly take the bait and regret it after. In fact, it was a known scam trick and I hope people should even think before jumping.

[adzino]

Guys down to the official tweet from Vitalik about the release of his Book Proof Of Stake there is a scam account that resembles same as Vitalik's official Twitter account. If you watch closely you can easily find the difference. The scammer have described about a 100,000 ETH as a celebration of merge. Please be careful and don't loss your ethereum.

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This isn't something new. Only dumb people would fall for the scam. Only dumb people would think they will need to send money to receive a giveaway (so dumb that they don't know giveaway means receiving things for free). And of course, if they aren't smart enough to check the username of the twitter account, then they deserve to get scammed for being stupid and greedy!

[coinerer]

Scammers will always take advantage of moments to cheat, when they see the current trend, the process of merges in ETH, many people think that Airdrops is true and does not hesitate to immediately connect wallets to prohibited sites, we as investors must always be realistic.

Of course, otherwise the accumulated assets in the wallet will be lost. Scammers always try to prey on various tempting offers. Their trend of abduction has increased at a massive rate and the number of victims are also increasing day by day. So it is better to avoid such offers.

[MainIbem]

Anyone who is not careful might got trapped, thought I m yet to be convinced is the real account couple with the thousands of likes and share so I kept wondering if this could be the real or fake account. Same it's to Elon Musk they have been using fake account for giveaway.

[Hypnosis00]

I don't know but are there really people that will be believed in this shit?

Even newbies can use their common sense to sense that this kind of promotion is not a legit one. I don't find being a newbie is a reason to fall into this trap.

Newbies are not that dumb. They can understand the difference between shit and not even though they are new to the crypto world. Maybe people are just greedy and honestly, even experienced ones are risking on that giveaway even though they know that's not legit.

Just to hope that we all have common sense because it was an obvious scam. In the case there is someone who will try to speak about losing their money in this scam giveaway, I certainly don't give any sympathy as they are too greedy and blind enough not to see it.

In fact, it was an old and known scam trick, and surely this has been spread on all social media platforms. It was us who gonna blame, not the one who use to trick us.

[tvplus006]

Just to hope that we all have common sense because it was an obvious scam. In the case there is someone who will try to speak about losing their money in this scam giveaway, I certainly don't give any sympathy as they are too greedy and blind enough not to see it...

The object of such fraud are newcomers who do not have minimal knowledge about cryptocurrency, but have heard that there is an opportunity to get a huge profit here. Usually, after such a lesson, as a result of which they lose their money, they become more cautious.

[yohananaomi]

I think this is one of the most used methods by scammers. It is actually a very simple fraud method, but not everyone knows that it is a simple fraud method. Scammers are deceiving novices with this trap. That's why they still use this tactic. Thank you to the OP for reminding us again of this simple cheating method. I hope novice users will also learn from this sharing.

it's an easy and very easy way to get a lot of people interested in things like this, all things that are accompanied by gifts, will automatically make people interested and sometimes immediately believe, even if you think about where there is a time like this. those who want to be helpers without a purpose want to commit fraud to enrich themselves.
a very simple method but many people are lulled by things like this, but it is very sympathetic for anyone who wants to continue to provide fraudulent information like this, so that not many are deceived.
Reminding each other is certainly very necessary where indeed the situation is difficult with bounties that do not produce good grades, fraudulent things like this will continue to make many tempted.

[Humility4sure]

I hope people don't fall for this scheme. From looking at the Twitter page and account, it may be difficult to differentiate from the original account of vitalik considering the fact that the scammers have a large followership and have been getting incessant retweets, likes and comments. The major thing that could put them out is the qty of eth to be distributed which is over a billion dollar worth.

[gabbie2010]

I hope people don't fall for this scheme. From looking at the Twitter page and account, it may be difficult to differentiate from the original account of vitalik considering the fact that the scammers have a large followership and have been getting incessant retweets, likes and comments. The major thing that could put them out is the qty of eth to be distributed which is over a billion dollar worth.

People who fall into this scam will just be newbies, they usually don't notice or check many times before joining, and they will join immediately, because for newbies they usually like to earn free money. These scams are not new, it happens constantly on twitter, if you regularly use this social network you will find it popular up there.

Many newbies always fall for this trap because of their greediness and having the impression of getting rich with crypto, they are easily gullible by this type of Twitter messages thinking it is real infact some of them wouldn't be convinced that it's fake because it is well packaged look real and genuine until they fell victim of the scam, I also expect the twitter message be taken down by twitter admin, meanwhile the clever newbies make more enquires to know the validity of the message because sending their coins to the fraudsters to avoid being scam and falling victim of the fraud.

[Yamifoud]

This is a common thing, where scammers take advantage of the big and long-awaited moment to take advantage of the excitement of others and try to drain their wallets with the lure of giving big prizes. They try to imitate as much as possible to how to reply so that others do not suspect.
However, for people who are quite thorough with this will quickly realize that it is something deceptive, especially if the person is looking for information about the information in depth. Well, no wonder scammers try to imitate famous people out there to deceive others.

Perhaps, it was a very common and known trick but unfortunately, many people are still believing this one. Not that I see people are learning about scams even though it was already published online and spreading awareness. What I think is that they are still deceived by these scammers and all of those warnings are just absolutely gone once hearing things like this (huge giveaways).

100,000 ETH - you will be wondering why it happens and could ask yourself "if this is true? And then think about a possible scam.

[yazher]

when I see this kind of distribution, I always understand that it will be a scam.Officials never conduct such giveaways, moreover, on Twitter and just like that.They are designed for absolutely fools who came to the cryptocurrency 15 minutes ago.But there should be such a topic on the forum, maybe someone else is not familiar with this type of fraud.

Yeah! because other guys especially newbies don't have any idea how this scam works, especially with their new tactics nowadays were they gonna focus on some popular celebrities to post their fake giveaways, and their tools to scam people are also updated. Newbies really need to often read some preventions on scammers, especially those who are newly posted before engaging in any investment to protect themselves from these frauds.

[danherbias07]

Thanks. I have never bumped into this yet in Twitter but I appreciate the warning.
Damn, why do people keep on doing this kind of scam attempt? It's not like they will find a lot of victims from the too-good-to-be-true strategy.
I mean, it's not really working anymore so they should start thinking about new evil ways. Social media should also keep their security higher by banning this people in an instant.

[BobK71]

First of all, thanks for alerting us. Such incidents happen often. Scammers are always using new methods to trick us. Such giveaways are mostly fake. So I have omitted to apply to them. If one wants to apply in these, one should research well and then make a decision.

Scammers have no end of new strategies. They try to scam one after another. For example, someone is doing a new project, someone is scamming by promise to give a giveaway, and someone is opening various platforms of staking type and taking everything from there. But now it is more urgent for everyone to be aware. Scammers will be forced to stop doing them themselves when they fail to recognize victim. So it is necessary to increase awareness.

[Wong Gendheng]

A good warning to remind all ETH users, fraudsters will try to resemble original and look convincing so that it is easy to cheat, apart from Twitter, now fraud with the Merge Eth process mode is also rife in the telegram bot, beware.

[Kavelj22]

This are run by any professional scammer . Sometimes something like this happens against Elon Musk and another  famous person Twitter account . But most of the news picture is edited. And some things are handled by some professional scammers and hackers . So we must be wary of them and if we feel anything doubt we must check with orginal account.

Yes, this kind of incident has been happening for a long time. We always have to take care of one thing that the page from which we see the news is verified first.  But now hackers and fraudsters are all over the place so the more we can stay away from them the better.

Always follow the official verified twitter handel for every famous person which is you believe and followed there activities . and it will more better if you enable notification of your every favourite famous person to get any update instantly . and do not believe any receiving massage from any social media and unknown person without verify it yourself

If we have the opportunity to identify victims of these scams attempts, we will surely find novice people who really think that money can be obtained that easily, or greedy who are not good at doing any useful activity and all they are looking for is easy money.

Fortunately, in the field of crypto we have a Bitcointalk forum, where we can ask about everything that we may encounter and be sure of its credibility, since the forum includes the finest members with experience and expertise. Unfortunately, not everyone knows about it.

[dlightag]

Thanks for sharing this information and is only a greedy person can fall victim quick without making any of this Blue tag observation, respect to Vitalik twitter handle, it is a expert scammer with the relevant information that was going on as Ethereum merge.