Be careful about some messages to your DM

[BIT-BENDER]

I believe some members are already knowledgeable about such but also I still believe that some aren't. The forum is a big place and any big platform that discusses crypto-currency is always a target for scammers.

  The forum has done so much to frustrate those fraudsters and I think it should be commended although this scammers are dogged with their actions. They do send messages to your DM with all sort of crazy format.

I have gotten some recently and I would be posting although I have edited the link so it won't be clickable.

Greetings mate
Judging by your merits and answers on the forum,you are an experienced user of cryptocurrencies
The fact is that a few months ago i was hired as a cryptocurrency consultant and journalist at a well-known cryptopotato
At the moment i am writing articles on the topic "Development of cryptocurrency in the current world order"
I can only get true and comprehensive knowledge from the members of this forum
This is not spam,scam or a prank
I collect statistics for some articles
If the article will be popular,i will share part of my profit with you
To be honest,i'm afraid to create a topic,because now,under the new rules,the merits of the account can be removed
I'd be glad to talk to you

-Regards

I haven't checked the authenticity of this message but it already spells scam. I won't even want to find out if I am wrong or right on that.

Be careful about such newbies, they come with all these enticing stories all to draw you in and then telling you how it's not a scam. In your best interest it best not to find out so don't even click the link. I would find better ways to protect my DM from such in the future.

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[Solosanz]

Thank you @OP, so the name of this bastard is tajimas.

Have you report the PM to Admin? he might get banned for sending unsolicited messages.

He's actually Full member rank, so he can send PM to everyone except the users have block to receive PM from him, some low members rank might think he's legit since he's not a newbie.

[Odohu]

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I have gotten some recently and I would be posting although I have edited the link so it won't be clickable.

Greetings mate
Judging by your merits and answers on the forum,you are an experienced user of cryptocurrencies
The fact is that a few months ago i was hired as a cryptocurrency consultant and journalist at a well-known cryptopotato
At the moment i am writing articles on the topic "Development of cryptocurrency in the current world order"
I can only get true and comprehensive knowledge from the members of this forum
This is not spam,scam or a prank
I collect statistics for some articles
If the article will be popular,i will share part of my profit with you
To be honest,i'm afraid to create a topic,because now,under the new rules,the merits of the account can be removed
I'd be glad to talk to you

-Regards

I haven't checked the authenticity of this message but it already spells scam. I won't even want to find out if I am wrong or right on that.

Be careful about such newbies, they come with all these enticing stories all to draw you in and then telling you how it's not a scam. In your best interest it best not to find out so don't even click the link. I would find better ways to protect my DM from such in the future.

Assuming you shared any link attached to this message, it would have been easier to know if there is something fishy about it or not. From what I have read in that message, I did not see scam, it can just be someone looking for who to help him him write content,  the only risk you stand being the time you will waste writing the article which you are not sure of being paid.

To me scam is when there is risk of you losing your money or anything you own like your account or compromising on your privacy. I can be wrong, but this does not come through to me like a scam unless the person might want to gain some level of understanding with you before unleashing the real intentions.

[Zaguru12]

CryptoPotato is actually a reputable site for crypto news and for someone to actually get a job offer as a journalist there, is not something that will be offer to just anybody. So for him to actually get the job without knowledge proves that it is a scam. Although I simply advise you to just ignore him and place a restriction on him. He should advertise his job on the service board if he is serious and anybody interested will DM him

[Kelward]

Reading through the quote looks genuine, but then almost all scams will look genuine or legit from the start, so it depends on individuals preferences, if they'll like to explore further or just ignore the link. In your own case you don't want to take chances to open the link and actually get to know if the sender has a genuine interest or if it's a scam, so you're staying on the safe side and I wouldn't blame you for taking such a decision, however the project might still not be a scam, since you didn't explore further and there's no proof of it being a scam. I'm skeptical too about clicking unfamiliar links online because of scams and hacks, so it's ok to be cautious.

[Porfirii]

I don't think it is a straight scam. Maybe you work for nothing, that's all, but at least it doesn't seem that you will send any money and lose it. But hey! for some people time is more valuable than money itself, and it is a scarce resource indeed, so be careful.

What surprised me is the following:

-snip-
To be honest,i'm afraid to create a topic,because now,under the new rules,the merits of the account can be removed
-snip-

Is it true that, under the new rules, the merits can be removed? If that's the way it works now, this is the first news I read about it...

[peter0425]

I denied myself from dealing to those who sends links specially newbies and even more when this is via PM , sometimes even legit account but sent me PM's i delete them mostly because a friend of mine becomes a victim of this kind when someone sent Him a PM saying if it is Him who is on that thread but when he clicked then it directed him to a clone site that asked him to relog in and boom he was hacked 
from that day , i made sure that to never click a link not unless it comes from someone i really trusts.

[lovesmayfamilis]

I don't think it is a straight scam. Maybe you work for nothing, that's all, but at least it doesn't seem that you will send any money and lose it. But hey! for some people time is more valuable than money itself, and it is a scarce resource indeed, so be careful.

What surprised me is the following:

-snip-
To be honest,i'm afraid to create a topic,because now,under the new rules,the merits of the account can be removed
-snip-

Is it true that, under the new rules, the merits can be removed? If that's the way it works now, this is the first news I read about it...

I also received the same PM, and it happened on the first of April when the forum celebrated April Fool's Day. The author of the letter was not in on the joke but only read the headline in META, so he decided that merits could be taken away for any violation.

Besides that, I checked his website, and there is no scam or phishing there. The guy wanted some kind of support, nothing more.

Still, the OP's warning is very relevant. Now, the time is coming when scammers have armed themselves with different types of scams to deceive forum users in one way or another. Don’t expect to receive a lucrative offer, but always ask why they are writing to you, and why would someone give money if they never pinch their pockets.

[Doan9269]

I believe some members are already knowledgeable about such but also I still believe that some aren't. The forum is a big place and any big platform that discusses crypto-currency is always a target for scammers.

  The forum has done so much to frustrate those fraudsters and I think it should be commended although this scammers are dogged with their actions. They do send messages to your DM with all sort of crazy format.

I have gotten some recently and I would be posting although I have edited the link so it won't be clickable.

Greetings mate
Judging by your merits and answers on the forum,you are an experienced user of cryptocurrencies
The fact is that a few months ago i was hired as a cryptocurrency consultant and journalist at a well-known cryptopotato
At the moment i am writing articles on the topic "Development of cryptocurrency in the current world order"
I can only get true and comprehensive knowledge from the members of this forum
This is not spam,scam or a prank
I collect statistics for some articles
If the article will be popular,i will share part of my profit with you
To be honest,i'm afraid to create a topic,because now,under the new rules,the merits of the account can be removed
I'd be glad to talk to you

-Regards

I haven't checked the authenticity of this message but it already spells scam. I won't even want to find out if I am wrong or right on that.

Be careful about such newbies, they come with all these enticing stories all to draw you in and then telling you how it's not a scam. In your best interest it best not to find out so don't even click the link. I would find better ways to protect my DM from such in the future.

Once i received something related to this kind of message on my DM, what i do is to delete such and ignore the user, that is all, there is no need of giving attention on some sort of cooked stories for the Gods, if he have confidence in what he is saying then he should make it public, there is no need for hiding what is not hidden, such could be dangerous to us if we fail to take any action on such, we have to be careful on some sort of deals or talks some of these newbies account are bringing on us, such could be implicating if care i not taken, now i see more reasons to why some members blocked newbies from sending PMs.

[Y3shot]

To me having random messages in this forum is nothing strange and if you check users profile that are sending messages like this you will discover that they have done something wrong before  and if you go through their profile you can see a scar(red trust) that pass information to know who they are. The best thing to do when you get strange messages in your dm that are not okay with you is for you to just the user to your ignore list.

[Lucius]

To me, this seems like a waste of time, for the person who sent the messages, but also for everyone who had to read them. It is obvious that the member who sent the messages was definitely confused by the April Fool's joke and it seems that there was nothing more to it than that.

Personal messages are part of the features of the forum, and there is nothing dangerous if you receive and read them, just don't click on the links that can be found in them and do what the sender asks of you without first checking what exactly it is about. If you suspect that the sender has bad intentions, you can report any such message to admin directly with the link from the message.

[Familian]

I believe some members are already knowledgeable about such but also I still believe that some aren't. The forum is a big place and any big platform that discusses crypto-currency is always a target for scammers.

  The forum has done so much to frustrate those fraudsters and I think it should be commended although this scammers are dogged with their actions. They do send messages to your DM with all sort of crazy format.

I have gotten some recently and I would be posting although I have edited the link so it won't be clickable.

Greetings mate
Judging by your merits and answers on the forum,you are an experienced user of cryptocurrencies
The fact is that a few months ago i was hired as a cryptocurrency consultant and journalist at a well-known cryptopotato
At the moment i am writing articles on the topic "Development of cryptocurrency in the current world order"
I can only get true and comprehensive knowledge from the members of this forum
This is not spam,scam or a prank
I collect statistics for some articles
If the article will be popular,i will share part of my profit with you
To be honest,i'm afraid to create a topic,because now,under the new rules,the merits of the account can be removed
I'd be glad to talk to you

-Regards

I haven't checked the authenticity of this message but it already spells scam. I won't even want to find out if I am wrong or right on that.

Be careful about such newbies, they come with all these enticing stories all to draw you in and then telling you how it's not a scam. In your best interest it best not to find out so don't even click the link. I would find better ways to protect my DM from such in the future.

The scammer claim to have been recruited by the cryptopotatio as a cryptocurrency consultant and he has no true and comprehensive knowledge of cryptocurrencies. This is very laughable.

How do you get a crypto job without having knowledge about it. Who hires a dummy in an area of interest?

t's obvious it's a scam technique and he has to take it to the wrong person. It it was to be a newbie receiving this DM chances are that he would have fallen for it. Great to know about this that it doesn't matter the rank from whom a DM is coming from in the forum don't take it as genuine until proven true.

[SamReomo]

The user seems like a scammer to me because he sent that message on 1st April and that's April fools day. If anyone who received such message from that user and report him/her then he/she could easily say that it was just a joke to April fool of someone.

Anyone with common sense can understand that whatever that user said in that private message is totally wrong and can't be trusted at all. CryptoPotato is a reputed crypto news platform, and I'm pretty sure they will not even look at the articles of such users with so many grammatical errors.

[AVE5]

Better manner of staying out of scamming victim is to be contented to your state of being, don't feel too hastening to reach the top for nothing good comes easy. So always have those fast claimed possibilities of quick enrichments to be suspicious and do stay away and be adamant to whatever way they may have told about your profile probably claiming that they've been on some last engagements with you and now have some work to do with you with the potnetials of making profits.

[Alone055]

So basically, he was approaching people who are good posters to write articles or provide points for him about the subject he mentioned so that he could compose articles with those points and publish them and then share the profit he gets for doing that, and he said he is afraid to create a topic about this service of him because his Merits would be removed (according to theymos' April Fool's prank). So it's not essentially a scam where you would be asked for money or anything but he would only get some content out of you probably for free.

Even if he is telling the truth about being an employee of that reputable platform, he is most likely not going to pay the people he is approaching to get points or articles from, so yeah, it can be said that he is trying to scam people out of their time and material they might write for him if someone believes him and falls for his offer.

[Lucius]

The user seems like a scammer to me because he sent that message on 1st April and that's April fools day.
~snip~

He doesn't necessarily have to be a scammer, because there is a high probability that he was just (like many others) confused by the April Fool's joke and if you read the post from @lovesmayfamilis, then it is logical to conclude that he really believed that he would lose his merits with each published post.

[Pokapoka124]

I don’t see anything here that indicates that this person was trying to pull a scam. There was no phishing link neither did he try to take the conversation to a different platform like telegram or ig. The date of the message was April 1 and it seems he didn’t understand the new merit system was an April fools joke by Theymos.  I don’t think he meant anything malicious or tried to scam you, regardless of his true intentions, he’s learned the hard way the risk of sending unsolicited messages to members you don’t usually interact with on the forum.

[KiaKia]

I believe some members are already knowledgeable about such but also I still believe that some aren't. The forum is a big place and any big platform that discusses crypto-currency is always a target for scammers.

  The forum has done so much to frustrate those fraudsters and I think it should be commended although this scammers are dogged with their actions. They do send messages to your DM with all sort of crazy format.

I have gotten some recently and I would be posting although I have edited the link so it won't be clickable.

Greetings mate
Judging by your merits and answers on the forum,you are an experienced user of cryptocurrencies
The fact is that a few months ago i was hired as a cryptocurrency consultant and journalist at a well-known cryptopotato
At the moment i am writing articles on the topic "Development of cryptocurrency in the current world order"
I can only get true and comprehensive knowledge from the members of this forum
This is not spam,scam or a prank
I collect statistics for some articles
If the article will be popular,i will share part of my profit with you
To be honest,i'm afraid to create a topic,because now,under the new rules,the merits of the account can be removed
I'd be glad to talk to you

-Regards

I haven't checked the authenticity of this message but it already spells scam. I won't even want to find out if I am wrong or right on that.

Be careful about such newbies, they come with all these enticing stories all to draw you in and then telling you how it's not a scam. In your best interest it best not to find out so don't even click the link. I would find better ways to protect my DM from such in the future.

This is not a straight scam to me but that doesn't mean it won't end as one, but why not confirm first before maybe tagging this account owner as a scammer? I do get PMs like this but there is no malicious link sent to me unlike before.

It seems they want this person to work for them using their level or rank on the forum, but like I have said, it's possible that this will end up in a sorry case, I believe that they should instead be open about such things instead of sending PMs.

If one has a clean motive they will not try to hide it, looking for people to work for you isn't hard, but the reason why they should be interested must be legit enough.

Either ways, I don't like the idea, most PMs are scams, its better to avoid them at all cost, thanks for sharing.

[SatoPrincess]

I doubt it was a scam attempt. But it does draw attention to the @tajimas account. From his post history, he was very active in Indonesia local board until he woke up last year and stopped posting there. His merit history is also worth noting since it may have connections with $weetne$$. I suspect the account has changed hands, and would be very cautious of entering into any kind of financial transaction with this account.

[Ojima-ojo]

This is such a good reminder  to how we should be security active, some time ago I received a fraudulent message and when I read through it I discovered that the offer was too good to be truth, this raised interest to wanting to know more about the project.


Many still fall victims to this kind of scam and as a matter of fact it becomes a necessity for us to always stay up to date with events as they happens around them and staying safe from every attempt scam.