Scammer alert @XiaDefi on Twitter [solved]

[frisco2]

This is about account @xiadefi on X / Twitter. She scammed me for $50.  Here is a record of our exchange,

I sent her 0.03 ETH as we agreed for a retweet, but instead of performing the task, she demanded another $200.
She also threatened me that if I don't pay, she will use her account with many followers to discredit my account.
Note that my account on Twitter is @entelecheia_inc

[yahoo62278]

Sorry you got scammed and lost $50, but you shouldn't let others threaten you like you did. You also should confirm someone is the real deal before giving them any sort of project details to avoid being bullied. If you have a project that needs promoted on the forum or on social media, I handle some marketing. Feel free to send me a pm.

You might also move this thread to the right section. Scam accusations is where this belongs.

[Husires]

A picture of a girl, talking about scam altcoins, replies look like she is a bot and tried to blackmail you before sending the money. These are ideal characteristics for scammers. Why did you trust her?

Post ETH address and other addresses, scammers are lazy and will send this coins to CEXs
I will report some of their tweets as fraud, but I am confident that these accounts have armies of alternative accounts. Report them, and the account may be banned.

[frisco2]

Ok, someone on Twitter stepped in and talked to the girl. She apologized and offered to do 2RT for the price of 1 that I paid her. So I told her that once the order follows through I will clear her name.
Also, maybe it's a guy, but I just assumed its a girl based on the photo.

EDIT: she has posted. I no longer have any complaint with her.

[SamReomo]

This is about account @xiadefi on X / Twitter. She scammed me for $50.  Here is a record of our exchange,

I sent her 0.03 ETH as we agreed for a retweet, but instead of performing the task, she demanded another $200.
She also threatened me that if I don't pay, she will use her account with many followers to discredit my account.
Note that my account on Twitter is @entelecheia_inc

After reading all of the conversations of you people I can surely say that you are an easy target for such scammers. She threated you that she will distrust you and you sent her crypto without knowing that is she legit or not. By the way, why would someone send $50 to an account with 52k followers only? I think you will have to understand that many people on twitter have more than 52k followers and they might charge you less then $50 for a retweet.

Just forget about that because now you can't do anything at all other than accepting that you have made a mistake by sending money to her. I must tell you that you have created the thread in a wrong board and I recommend you to move it to scam accusation board.

[frisco2]

Moved topic to "Scam Accusations," thanks.

>  By the way, why would someone send $50 to an account with 52k followers only? I think you will have to understand that many people on twitter have more than 52k followers and they might charge you less then $50 for a retweet.

I am only starting looking for marketing, don't really know when I'm being taken for a ride.  Thanks for the tip.

If you have a project that needs promoted on the forum or on social media, I handle some marketing. Feel free to send me a pm.

Sending.

A picture of a girl, talking about scam altcoins, replies look like she is a bot and tried to blackmail you before sending the money. These are ideal characteristics for scammers. Why did you trust her?

I have been out of the crypto game for 10 years, basically, when Mt. Gox crashed. I figured that's what all organic cryptocurrency advertising accounts look like these days. Re "blackmail," the first time around, I thought it was some kind of case of broken telephone, and I wanted to be the bigger man.

[virasog]

Ok, someone on Twitter stepped in and talked to the girl. She apologized and offered to do 2RT for the price of 1 that I paid her. So I told her that once the order follows through I will clear her name.
Also, maybe it's a guy, but I just assumed its a girl based on the photo.

EDIT: she has posted. I no longer have any complaint with her.

Well, usually i see the issues for this forum are resolved when brought to the notice of everyone on the Scam Accusations thread, but this is just one of the issues resolved which didn't have the direct link to the bitcoin talk forum. (as i assume she [@xiadefi on X] does not have a bitcointalk account).

After reading all of the conversations of you people I can surely say that you are an easy target for such scammers. She threated you that she will distrust you and you sent her crypto without knowing that is she legit or not. By the way, why would someone send $50 to an account with 52k followers only? I think you will have to understand that many people on twitter have more than 52k followers and they might charge you less then $50 for a retweet.

I don't know which project OP wanted to promote (or if it was even a project), but yes, if he could start a bounty for that project, he can get better effective marketing (with many tweets / retweets) as compared to get only two retweets for 50$.

[UserU]

I am only starting looking for marketing, don't really know when I'm being taken for a ride.  Thanks for the tip.

Happens to us. Even if things went south, $50 would be the small price for a lesson and you will be more wary. I was scammed in a different situation, and that involved 5 digits (USD) in virtual items.

I can vouch for yahoo, he's dealt with lots of marketing stuffs around here.

Also, maybe it's a guy, but I just assumed its a girl based on the photo.

Not hard to buy a bunch of "fake" followers just for the verification tag. And relying on these kind of reposters/ influencers that merely repost won't net you reliable clienteles.

[rat03gopoh]

Also, maybe it's a guy, but I just assumed its a girl based on the photo.

Well, it's very easy for someone to trick you. You should know that twitter is now full of trash accounts with blue badges. Don't expect an organic audience from those platform influencers anymore.

[Despairo]

Hey @OP you must give me $1 right now, if not I will give you a negative feedback!

Are you get pressured after I threat you with this?

If she open a new thread to accuse you, you just need to create your own thread and post all the evidences, if you're can easily get manipulated by someone, I don't think your project would be success since there's always a person will try to destroy you before you reach the peak.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

You caused it, how will you engage in making a transaction with someone who claimed to be a female, uses fake account profile and also try to make demands from you despite you have no means to track his past record or have anything to do with his reputation, yet you engage making transaction with him.

Am just happy for you that you never spend past $50 before realizing the mistake you did at first, a reputable organization or user will not be making a forceful demand on you together with threats, I will advise you desist from chatting the user and block him.

[decodx]

WTF? That's nothing short of extortion! And in most civilized countries around the world, that kind of thing is criminal offense and totally against the law.

I think just doing the work later (even if it costs less money) won't really make up for it.  Trying to force someone to pay extra through threats is seriously not cool no matter what.

[BabyBandit]

Good you did what you've done! I can just imagine how many people this account have been scamming that have never came up to day light.
Just see the way he/she typing I never seen a more hungry person then that for money.  
Who TF demands $200 more just after receiving $50 and when get rejected and OP says lets stick to our deal instant blocking? Dirty behavior.
I hope she/he's account never stop be recognized as a poor scammer and nothing else.

Good for you OP that the situation is solved, but even better that she/he got exposed, as I said. That she/he fixed things here means nothing since she/he didn't do it because  she/he is so honest, it's obvious it was for other reasons, but in the future OP you should stand up for yourself and tell people like this to FO next time.

[frisco2]

You should know that twitter is now full of trash accounts with blue badges. Don't expect an organic audience from those platform influencers anymore.

Any tips on a reasonable way to gain a Twitter audience in less than a year?

I don't know which project OP wanted to promote (or if it was even a project), but yes, if he could start a bounty for that project, he can get better effective marketing (with many tweets / retweets) as compared to get only two retweets for 50$.

Do you mean a bounty to find security flaws in the app? I wanted to do it, but I'm not sure how to go about it.  Do I need to announce the $ amount directly on the website, or do I just say "bounty" and the $ amount is decided behind closed-doors, when someone actually finds a security flaw? The project I'm promoting is Crosspass discussed on BitcoinTalk here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5465890.0

[PX-Z]

You caused it, how will you engage in making a transaction with someone who claimed to be a female, uses fake account profile and also try to make demands from you despite you have no means to track his past record or have anything to do with his reputation, yet you engage making transaction with him.

The account is legit, and her tweets have tractions and have thousands of views, although retweets/reposts made by her doesn't have many views, i'm not sure also the likes or retweets/repost of its followers are organic, well, mostly it is. It's just that the account owner has BS behaviour and should be avoided for future promotions.

[Nwada001]

Any tips on a reasonable way to gain a Twitter audience in less than a year?

Most of those X accounts (twitter) are filled with bots and some inactive members. I don't know if Elon succeeded in ending the bot era, but earlier there were some active bot apps and sites where you just need to pay a few dollars and they will give you any number of followers you need.
 
Currently, there are also some influencers that offer social media account boasting offers. They ask their followers to follow the account or run some free giveaways for those who ever follow a particular account. There are a lot more ways to get fake followers nowadays, but you can easily identify an account with fake followers by checking their tweet history. Judging by the number of engagements their posts attract, you can differentiate real followers from bot accounts.

[ajiz138]

You caused it, how will you engage in making a transaction with someone who claimed to be a female, uses fake account profile and also try to make demands from you despite you have no means to track his past record or have anything to do with his reputation, yet you engage making transaction with him.

The account is legit, and her tweets have tractions and have thousands of views, although retweets/reposts made by her doesn't have many views, i'm not sure also the likes or retweets/repost of its followers are organic, well, mostly it is. It's just that the account owner has BS behaviour and should be avoided for future promotions.

Her account looks like a girl because she always posts herself, although I'm not sure she's a girl because in social media anything can be manipulated.
Yes, the attractiveness of the views is quite high, thousands to tens of thousands, I also doubt whether it is organic or not, which is clear that we cannot identify it.
Right, avoid unclear forms of promotion, because with a ticked account it does not rule out the possibility that it is a fraudster because the blue tick is now quite easy to get.

[albon]

Any tips on a reasonable way to gain a Twitter audience in less than a year?

After Xia Defi made two retweets of your tweets, did you achieve your desired promotional goal? It would have been better for you, instead of paying $50 to an unknown account owner on X, who may have acquired their followers through an SMM website, it would have been better for you to focus on the quality of your account's content, use hashtags, and engage with influential individuals whose content relates to yours.

This way, you can build a real audience rather than one that is uninterested in your content, most of whom are likely to be bots and fake accounts. Also, this time, you returned safely and weren't scammed. I hope that next time you will not trust anyone, no matter who is on X, and not pay him your money first because most of the users of X currently can pay a monthly subscription, put a blue checkmark, and buy followers, likes, etc. for just a few dollars, so it's not worth putting your money at risk for.

[examplens]

I have been out of the crypto game for 10 years, basically, when Mt. Gox crashed. I figured that's what all organic cryptocurrency advertising accounts look like these days. Re "blackmail," the first time around, I thought it was some kind of case of broken telephone, and I wanted to be the bigger man.

Crypto has nothing to do with your case of blackmail, it was just chosen as a means of payment. Regardless of this case, I guess you should always have the money "in your hands" first, and only then negotiate any deal. Closed account, broken phone... all sound like bad excuses.
And did you think that this is a good account for the promotion of one of your services unless you sell sex toys?

Any tips on a reasonable way to gain a Twitter audience in less than a year?

There aren't many tips and tricks here, and no one can tell you the secret formula in one sentence. Be active on Twitter, make interesting posts and develop your account. You can also post pictures of a beautiful girl, it will certainly help, but such followers will probably not be interested in your services.

Ok, someone on Twitter stepped in and talked to the girl. She apologized and offered to do 2RT for the price of 1 that I paid her. So I told her that once the order follows through I will clear her name.
Also, maybe it's a guy, but I just assumed its a girl based on the photo.

EDIT: she has posted. I no longer have any complaint with her.

Then change the name of this thread or add something like [solved].
It should remain as a reference for other users, as it should be how not to arrange promotions on Twitter.