Be careful about some messages to your DM

[Cryptomultiplier]

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.

I used get messages almost as similar as this with tempting offers too. However once I learned to ignore the message they either just resend it or stop in total.

This community is very large and it is true about scammers being here looking for victims too. Don't be fooled, as long as one attends to the duties that brought them here, which could either be to learn, earn or for sport, these individuals with bad intentions will look elsewhere.

I hope you didn't try to hold a conversation in the least or if you did, the best sign if he's a scammer will be when he uses the lure of what you stand to earn, after you do few tasks for him, and such task might entail you divulge personal information without much thought.

[Coyster]

I hope you didn't try to hold a conversation in the least or if you did, the best sign if he's a scammer will be when he uses the lure of what you stand to earn, after you do few tasks for him, and such task might entail you divulge personal information without much thought.

If you read some previous responses, you'd understand that the sender of that message isn't actually a scammer and i don't think he would have pulled a fast one on OP even if he held a conversation with the sender. It was just someone who was confused about what was happening in the forum with "merits" on April 1st. That being said, it is obviously good to be sceptical about unsolicited PM's and take many of them as a scam, until proven otherwise, especially when coming from a user that is not reputable or one you are not familiar with.

[moneystery]

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.

don't be too innocent on the internet. it's clear that it has the potential to be a scam, because the journalists at cryptopotato don't take information from forums, but from other sources, and usually they don't send messages like that, but starting from whether they can contact you or not and include their identity directly, and usually it's done from email.

and what's more the account doesn't seem very trustworthy. so just be careful of people like this who claim to be journalists from one of the reputable platforms, because it could be that they are just disguising themselves.

[YOSHIE]

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.

I saw the message sent to the OP, it seems he praised you too much for your crypto experience, yes, maybe that needs to be questioned and suspected if the message comes from a beginner, but you also need to be careful, Sometimes there are also a lot of fake beginners here, aka fake ones, indeed they were created to deceive under the guise of beginners.

In the past, when I was still at SR rank, I often received DMs from people I didn't know, they said the same thing, maybe, but I didn't forget that there was a mode in the profile section.


I'm sure if you use and make some changes to beginner DMs, you won't receive messages from beginners anymore, I'm sure this feature is useful for you and anyone who is annoyed by unknown messages.

[BIT-BENDER]

I'm sure if you use and make some changes to beginner DMs, you won't receive messages from beginners anymore, I'm sure this feature is useful for you and anyone who is annoyed by unknown messages.

I thought about this mate but I think the rank of the fellow is full member and I don't think they are in the bracket of new beginners for restrictions. Also I think this person may also be knowledgeable in terms of crypto-currency so as to perfect their cooked up scams. One law I always go by is never click a suspicious link, this is my first rule.

[Myleschetty]

Based on the message posted by the user accused, CryptoPotato is indeed a well-known crypto news platform but there's a chance that you're right about your accusation toward the user in the subject since he/she never comes out to clear the air.

I'm sure if you use and make some changes to beginner DMs, you won't receive messages from beginners anymore, I'm sure this feature is useful for you and anyone who is annoyed by unknown messages.

Yes, you're right but the accused user is a full member user and the only he won't receive a message from the user is probably by adding him to his ignore list.

[lalabotax]

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.

Several times I've gotten DMs from some members  on this forum that are like that, or there are slight differences. but the method is the same. Usually their rank is still quite low. So, sometimes this is something you don't need to think about. especially if you see they have red trust, never mind, there's no need to read any more. And if anyone sees the link, never try to click on the link. Because it is quite risky to see what the condition of the link is. I'm afraid there will be phishing links or other types of malware. So understand that being alert is quite necessary

[boyptc]

He messaged me and answered him since I've got time to chat a bit but just basic questions about crypto and different from what has been asked to OP. I don't see any scam on his message to me.

He asked about how to keep his bitcoins and if electrum was good, I said yes and adviced him to buy a HW. No links were given, etc.

And with that cryptopotato, I sometimes read articles there.

[Mpamaegbu]

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This is not spam,scam or a prank

Red flag number one. My brain is wired in such a way that when I hear people say they won't scam me/others, that's when I'm much suspicious there's a scam coming.

If the article will be popular,i will share part of my profit with you

Red flag number two. What profit was he talking about? Journalists are paid salaries or wages or commissions, they don't make profit. Possibly, the dude was taking about a profit making venture and not some writing gig as he was portraying earlier.

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.

A journalist with zero knowledge of syntactic structure and punctuation marks 😏. That dude is far from being one.

[Taskford]

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.

Maybe he's just getting some personal inputs from other experience people by trying to interview those people seems interesting to him so that he can create a good article towards what he mentioned. If he just want to have you to be part of his content then its fine as long as there's no link that you need to sign nor you have been asked for some amount.

Maybe try to ask some sample of the articles he created to verify his legitimacy. But if you are not totally interested then ignore and its good you rise this topic so people will be aware if he send a DM to another person in this forum. But I have doubts about sharing the profit when the article became famous since maybe he will not follow that agreement. Also still we need to be careful receiving such DM's since a lot of deceiving message we can read from a lot of people trying to pull their crazy illegal schemes.

[Alphakilo]

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.

I am learning many things from other users as a result of this topic. I get suspicious of any PM. That is my default defensive position so that I do not get scammed. I am even more scared of unsuspecting links because anyone who has used the internet and been a part of a community only  will know that people could lose their accounts, money amd other things through this method. While the user may not have a bad intention, never assume that until they can prove it beyond any reasonable doubt that is the lesson.

[KingsDen]

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.

It's not looking like a scam attempt but it is an unsolicited message. It is right to treat every stranger as a scammer until it is proven otherwise. If you find the message offensive kindly report to moderator and if a few more users report him, he would get a temporary ban which will build up to a permanent ban.

[Maslate]

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:

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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...

Now, that's obviously a scam. There's no way your merits will be removed, but if your posts are not that high quality and useful, you won't grow your merits earned.

For someone who is still new in the forum, one will definitely bite this message. To be honest, there's no wrong in the message but it only gets clearer that it's a scam seeing at the last part of the message. So if you are not knowledgeable about how everything goes in the forum, you will definitely fall into this kind of scam. Better not to click or post a reply then.

[hd49728]

Now, that's obviously a scam.

It's not scam. It's April Fool.

[April fools] Adjustments to Merit calculation

Edit: April fools!

There's no way your merits will be removed

theymos can demerit your posts.

[lovesmayfamilis]

Oh, my God . Everyone who saw the fraud in this letter seems to be afraid of their own shadow. People, turn off all your PMs and sleep peacefully. This way, you are protected from all sorts of scammers. Why don't you ban PMs?

In another case, just think that you are on a forum. There are different people here; someone communicates through PM, someone publicly displays PM, and this is condemned by the forum.

Nothing will happen to you if you are sober and see the link sent. As long as you don't click on it, you and your account are alive. But I would also like to warn you not to accuse every random person of fraud.
One day you may also have reasons to write to someone in a personal message.

[Franctoshi]

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.

I equally received the same message from this member on that April fool day too with the same line of story, went through the profile a bit and ignored the user, whatever be his intention, if at all this is true, he shouldn't have gone about messaging member rather create an official thread, this way he will see people willing to help him in that regard, So I don't fancy the fact that the member go about messaging some members in the forum, looks suspicious, though.

[reagansimms]

After reading the message, I found he used these words "This is not spam, scam or a prank" because he was too quick to convince you of this negative opinion, I assume this is a scam. His confession also made me wonder about his abilities "He was hired as a cryptocurrency consultant and journalist at a well-known cryptopotato", if he was not someone who had experience in cryptocurrency, there was no way he could have gotten this strategic job.

This type of message is suspicious and avoid clicking on the links attached by these scammers to keep yourself safe from their traps. His doubts about making the topic are very unfounded, if he really wants to find experienced cryptocurrency users, he should be open to all forum members, maybe he can consider other members too who have experience in the Cryptocurrency field.

[cryptoaddictchie]

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.

Ive got like tons of messages from newbie. Sure I read some even though theres a warning for me about user scam but its quite obvious on some of them to always ask for some help like send fund. To see messages like this could really make someone suspicious enough that the account is a potential scammer. I am not saying all but on how they construct you definitely got some hint about it.

[Cookdata]

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.

Anytime I see a Private message from anyone, the first thing I check is the person profile and if it's a person popular here, I don't bother to some findings but if I'm coming across you for the first time, I will check your reputation and check your trust feed back before I even view what you are sent to me. It's help you not to waste your precious time on scammers and trolls who have nothing to do with their time.

Another thing I do is just disabled Newbies from sending you message, most scammers are new accounts, no high rank will want to message you with scam intentions unless it's a bought/hack accounts and from the trust score card, you will see the tags because the accounts must have change hands or email change and password which usually raise suspicion about such accounts.

[Hamza2424]

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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...

Seems like I'm late but still what would be my first reaction is as follow,

nah nah haha it was just an April fool prank started by the themos itself and many users experience a reduction in merits I have seen many OG's merits going in minus after the implementation of the new system but after some time all things keep on the track as the system already working. The reduction in merits was also faced by some of my community members and they were worried about that haha on the same side, some users experienced an increase in their total merits.

The administration announced that the new merits system will work like this if the quality of posting of the member is good then he/she will start to get merits in his/her total merits but there will be no impact on that of his/her Smerits but after some time hardly one and half day everything gets normal.