Scammers are the smart ones, be careful.

[Abbatty]

The rate of scam that has been happening in telegram seems to be increasing day by day and i was surprised with this strange strategy adopted by scammers so i decided to share it to prevent more people from falling victim. I recently stumbled across a post on a telegram group where a user claiming to be having difficulty withdrawing his funds of $270 USDT from his wallet to Binance and seeking for other people’s help to withdraw the funds. See image below



He posted his wallet seed phrase and private key and also a screenshot of the balance of the wallet just to lure poeple because he knows alot of people will try to steal his funds from him.

I was suspecting it to be all fake but then i thought he mistakenly shared his seed phrase and private key due to ignorance but to my surprise he actually came up with this idea to steal from people who try to steal from him. I was scared that he’d lose all his money and was expecting him to complain on the chat that his money was stolen but an hour passed no one complained so i decided to import the wallet and saw that his wallet was still intact that was when it rang a bell and when i checked the transaction history i saw lot’s of TRX being received  from people trying to steal from him or rather people trying to help him send out his funds and later the received TRX are being send out by the scammer to a different address and all sent out TRX were all sent to the same address. The TRX was supposed to be used as gas fee to send out the USDT.

See transaction history below





This is a very dubious and smart strategy, we ought to be careful online especially on telegram, alot of people are going extra miles, thinking of anything possible just to scam others. I will say not everything you see online is true, be careful even when you feel you just want to help someone.

[Odohu]

The rate of scam that has been happening in telegram seems to be increasing day by day and i was surprised with this strange strategy adopted by scammers so i decided to share it to prevent more people from falling victim. I recently stumbled across a post on a telegram group where a user claiming to be having difficulty withdrawing his funds of $270 USDT from his wallet to Binance and seeking for other people’s help to withdraw the funds.

This is an old tricks and I thought people have grown past this level. The operate this scam by draining the TRX of whoever attempt to transfer the USDT as fees. This is similar to the recent iron airdrop that they scam each of the people that attempt to swap the token about $12 in Matic. This thread explains details about this fake airdrop.

I will continue to advice people to apply wisdom all the time. Anyone that have a way of earning USDT should be able to know how to send it, and it takes only someone greedy to fall for this scan.

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

I recently stumbled across a post on a telegram group where a user claiming to be having difficulty withdrawing his funds of $270 USDT from his wallet to Binance and seeking for other people’s help to withdraw the funds.

This scam type is very old one and you are new member in the forum, this market so welcome to your discovery on this scam type.

They used same scam type in the past, like I can not withdraw my bitcoin from an exchange because of many reasons, and I need your help to withdraw it. If you can hep me to withdraw it successfully, I will give you 50% or any good bonus.

Scammers are the smart ones?

No, they are not. They are pretty stupid.

On the other hand, scammers are often pretty stupid

[Porfirii]

The (not so) new part is that blockchain, crypto, gas... are involved in the scam, but the fact that the scammer tries to take advantage of the bad intentions of the scammed ones is very old. It is very reasonable because, on one hand, the scammer can feel less guilty because he scammed people with bad intentions, and on the other, the victims will think it twice before disclosing the details of what happened. Although being reasonable doesn't make it ethical, and even less, legal.

Thank you OP for sharing. Maybe some readers will think twice before falling into a trap like that.

[LogitechMouse]

Not a new technique, but there are still investors who are still falling to this way of scamming other people.
I guess sometimes, being ignorant is good because I used to ignore everything that I feel is a scam. I mean if I'm the one who saw this personally on Telegram, I will just ignore it or delete it.

Like what other said, I would share my thanks to the OP for sharing this. For sure, there will be 1 or 2 people out there who will see this and learn from it. Scammers are becoming more and more smarter as years pass by. They are adopting to what's happening hence, they are doing everything just to be successful in what they're doing. As for the investors, we should be smarter than them. How? Learning more. Gaining more knowledge overtime would help us not get scammed. Learning how to secure our funds would help us. Learning what are the ways these scammers are using to scam people will be a helpful one because we will know how to avoid them.

Sometimes, trusting your gut feeling works, and that works to me all the time. It might not work for some, but being knowledgeable is always better.

[serjent05]

The rate of scam that has been happening in telegram seems to be increasing day by day and i was surprised with this strange strategy adopted by scammers so i decided to share it to prevent more people from falling victim. I recently stumbled across a post on a telegram group where a user claiming to be having difficulty withdrawing his funds of $270 USDT from his wallet to Binance and seeking for other people’s help to withdraw the funds.

This is an old tricks and I thought people have grown past this level. The operate this scam by draining the TRX of whoever attempt to transfer the USDT as fees. This is similar to the recent iron airdrop that they scam each of the people that attempt to swap the token about $12 in Matic. This thread explains details about this fake airdrop.

I will continue to advice people to apply wisdom all the time. Anyone that have a way of earning USDT should be able to know how to send it, and it takes only someone greedy to fall for this scan.

Yeah, I have read the same case like this in the forum several months ago so this kind of strategy to scam people isn't new at all.  But, it is still a good thing to remind people to be warry about the old and new tactics of scammers so that we can be reminded about the scamming tactics of these wicked people and at the same time inform newcomers.

I believe only people who have ill-intention of stealing those funds will fall victim to that scam so I think that serves them right to get scammed trying to steal other people's property though I say that this kind of activity is still wrong.

Scammers are the smart ones?

No, they are not. They are pretty stupid.

They are not stupid but wicked,  stupid are someone who lack intelligence or common sense while wicked use their wit to do evil things.

 

[Abbatty]

I recently stumbled across a post on a telegram group where a user claiming to be having difficulty withdrawing his funds of $270 USDT from his wallet to Binance and seeking for other people’s help to withdraw the funds.

This scam type is very old one and you are new member in the forum, this market so welcome to your discovery on this scam type.

They used same scam type in the past, like I can not withdraw my bitcoin from an exchange because of many reasons, and I need your help to withdraw it. If you can hep me to withdraw it successfully, I will give you 50% or any good bonus.

Scammers are the smart ones?

No, they are not. They are pretty stupid.

It could be an old trick, but a lot of users are still falling for it, and I so much believe there are Others in this forum who don’t even know about the trick. I particularly don’t know about the trick till of recent, so it not right for you to just right the post off like you did. You could have just enlighten me more about the trick than saying I’m a new member in the forum, you were also new here years ago too.

Being new or old in the forum doesn’t have anything to do with your knowledge about bitcoin. There are people with versatile knowledge about bitcoin and are not in this forum so chill and speak reasonably.

[Skfox]

Thanks op for this reminder because I believe there may be ones whom may have not heard nor seen this kind of method in term of scamming. Don't let greed push you into what you don't know, just be careful in learning and using the right platform.

[armanda90]

Actually its old scammer trick by sharing their seed phrase and telling us about difficult withdrawing their assets, many people looking how interested with how much fund in scammer wallet by sending fees for withdrawing all assets in that wallet. I saw this post in my community group on Facebook social media, but most of our community understood well with scammer trick after sending fees automatically send to scammer wallet without few second.
The scammer have set up with bot of automatic sending fund after some one deposit fees in that wallet, be careful with old trick and don't make you blame after seeing with how much fund in the scammer wallet.
For the most experienced trader or investor in cryptocurrency understood with this trick and not interested for depositing fees because scammer said difficult withdrawing their assets.

[crwth]

They are making their own ways to work, it's just that they are really witty at it but at first glance, you would immediately could tell that that is not a Binance account and the image is not from a wallet but a different exchange. It's easily distinguishable IMO. I understand that those who are not keen much to details can be victimized by him.

I have never known this type of method though.

[Doan9269]

Scammers are not the smart ones, they are instead the wicked ones, because they wanted to engaged themselves into what will make others cry and pay for, but we should be the smarter ones in this by not falling for any of their tricks used against us, we should also not be the one to get them attracted to use by giving them access to use in attacking us, that is why privacy and security is very important in cryptocurrency for us to know, follow and practice.

[Rikafip]

This is an old tricks and I thought people have grown past this level.

You know the saying, "there's a sucker born every minute". Its no surprise that these tactic work for years since there is a constant influx of new people in crypto that never even saw something like that before so no wonder that they keep falling for it.

The only "good" thing about being scammed this way is that lesson you pay is usually very small compared to some other scamming tactics.

[Kristiyana]

The rate of scam that has been happening in telegram seems to be increasing day by day and i was surprised with this strange strategy adopted by scammers so i decided to share it to prevent more people from falling victim. I recently stumbled across a post on a telegram group where a user claiming to be having difficulty withdrawing his funds of $270 USDT from his wallet to Binance and seeking for other people’s help to withdraw the funds. See image below



He posted his wallet seed phrase and private key and also a screenshot of the balance of the wallet just to lure poeple because he knows alot of people will try to steal his funds from him.

I was suspecting it to be all fake but then i thought he mistakenly shared his seed phrase and private key due to ignorance but to my surprise he actually came up with this idea to steal from people who try to steal from him. I was scared that he’d lose all his money and was expecting him to complain on the chat that his money was stolen but an hour passed no one complained so i decided to import the wallet and saw that his wallet was still intact that was when it rang a bell and when i checked the transaction history i saw lot’s of TRX being received  from people trying to steal from him or rather people trying to help him send out his funds and later the received TRX are being send out by the scammer to a different address and all sent out TRX were all sent to the same address. The TRX was supposed to be used as gas fee to send out the USDT.

See transaction history below





This is a very dubious and smart strategy, we ought to be careful online especially on telegram, alot of people are going extra miles, thinking of anything possible just to scam others. I will say not everything you see online is true, be careful even when you feel you just want to help someone.

First and foremost I want to say a very big thanks for your information, that's so thoughtful of you, because not everyone who has encounter such thing like this. However I think this information is very helpful more especially to those people who joined telegram recently so with the help of this information I think they will be very careful this time, though this strategy might look very old to some people, but it might look very new to those people who have not come encounter such tricks before. that is why we need to be extremely careful with telegram both internet as well because scammers are gradually dominating everywhere in the  internet.

[AVE5]

Actually its old scammer trick by sharing their seed phrase and telling us about difficult withdrawing their assets, many people looking how interested with how much fund in scammer wallet by sending fees for withdrawing all assets in that wallet. I saw this post in my community group on Facebook social media, but most of our community understood well with scammer trick after sending fees automatically send to scammer wallet without few second.
The scammer have set up with bot of automatic sending fund after some one deposit fees in that wallet, be careful with old trick and don't make you blame after seeing with how much fund in the scammer wallet.
For the most experienced trader or investor in cryptocurrency understood with this trick and not interested for depositing fees because scammer said difficult withdrawing their assets.

As you said, old trick but to many it seems seems new as long as it's a strange strategy. However, the main point should be that we shouldn't underestimate what scammers are capable of doing and we should always have any related connections with wallets suspicious also as the internet links when we don't trust the source.
Greed has also made most of the scammers victims to be vulnerable to that scammer while others were out of compassionate to help.
I feel sorry for all. Let's keep vigilant fellas.

[Alpha Marine]

I don't feel sorry for them actually. This is a very old trick and I'm surprised people still fall for it. They fall for it because of their greed. They saw an opportunity to steal someone else's money without knowing that they were the prey and not the predators. If they had no intentions of taking someone else's money they wouldn't have fallen for it.

No, they are not. They are pretty stupid.

I agree but it's funny how they always get people. That means the people are even more stupid? I see a lot of lame scams and I wonder how people fall for it. I just can't explain it.

[God bless u]

The rate of scam that has been happening in telegram seems to be increasing day by day and i was surprised with this strange strategy adopted by scammers so i decided to share it to prevent more people from falling victim. I recently stumbled across a post on a telegram group where a user claiming to be having difficulty withdrawing his funds of $270 USDT from his wallet to Binance and seeking for other people’s help to withdraw the funds. See image below



He posted his wallet seed phrase and private key and also a screenshot of the balance of the wallet just to lure poeple because he knows alot of people will try to steal his funds from him.

I was suspecting it to be all fake but then i thought he mistakenly shared his seed phrase and private key due to ignorance but to my surprise he actually came up with this idea to steal from people who try to steal from him. I was scared that he’d lose all his money and was expecting him to complain on the chat that his money was stolen but an hour passed no one complained so i decided to import the wallet and saw that his wallet was still intact that was when it rang a bell and when i checked the transaction history i saw lot’s of TRX being received  from people trying to steal from him or rather people trying to help him send out his funds and later the received TRX are being send out by the scammer to a different address and all sent out TRX were all sent to the same address. The TRX was supposed to be used as gas fee to send out the USDT.

See transaction history below





This is a very dubious and smart strategy, we ought to be careful online especially on telegram, alot of people are going extra miles, thinking of anything possible just to scam others. I will say not everything you see online is true, be careful even when you feel you just want to help someone.

No matter how much smart are the scammers but if we are smart enough to keep control on our greed then no one in this world can scams us. We are servants of ourselves and we are not brave enough to realise our mistake and to make ourselves accountable .

We just need to make sure that we don't follow the path that our greed lead us to that's the only thing we have to do then scammers will get disappointed from us.

[Cantsay]

I recently stumbled across a post on a telegram group where a user claiming to be having difficulty withdrawing his funds of $270 USDT from his wallet to Binance and seeking for other people’s help to withdraw the funds.

This scam type is very old one and you are new member in the forum, this market so welcome to your discovery on this scam type.

They used same scam type in the past, like I can not withdraw my bitcoin from an exchange because of many reasons, and I need your help to withdraw it. If you can hep me to withdraw it successfully, I will give you 50% or any good bonus.

Scammers are the smart ones?

No, they are not. They are pretty stupid.

It could be an old trick, but a lot of users are still falling for it, and I so much believe there are Others in this forum who don’t even know about the trick. I particularly don’t know about the trick till of recent, so it not right for you to just right the post off like you did. You could have just enlighten me more about the trick than saying I’m a new member in the forum, you were also new here years ago too.

Being new or old in the forum doesn’t have anything to do with your knowledge about bitcoin. There are people with versatile knowledge about bitcoin and are not in this forum so chill and speak reasonably.

The only set of people I see falling for this type of old trick are the greedy type - a decent human should know that there is no free money online and the fact that someone exposes something that is meant to be kept hidden should already give them hint that there is a catch somewhere.

The first time I encountered this was in a Facebook group - just like yours, the user claimed to be a newbie and that he got the usdt(in trons network) as a gift and he doesn’t know what to do with it - he shared the mnemonics for all to see and then I noticed that all money that gets sent into the wallet(to be used as gas fee)  are immediately swept off to a different wallet.

[knowngunman]

The rate of scam that has been happening in telegram seems to be increasing day by day and i was surprised with this strange strategy adopted by scammers so i decided to share it to prevent more people from falling victim. I recently stumbled across a post on a telegram group where a user claiming to be having difficulty withdrawing his funds of $270 USDT from his wallet to Binance and seeking for other people’s help to withdraw the funds.

Not only in telegram but the rate at which scam is advancing in general is alarming and this makes it more necessary for us to be current and updated in order to be a step ahead of these scammers. Your experience in Telegram is outdated format that scammers use to outsmart probably fellow scammers in the past but few people might still be falling for this trick. I encountered it in Telegram too and have many similar messages in my Twitter inbox, it's not only happening in telegram but also in other social media platforms.

It's like a robbery scene where armed robbers are being robbed by another armed robber because the larger percentage of people importing the wallet intended to steal the funds from the wallet not knowing that the wallet has a bot configured to move out the TRX you deposit before even attempting to make any further action. The crypto industry is very wide to accommodate both genuine people and others with double standards, it is good not to attempt to interact with coins you don't work for.

I will continue to advice people to apply wisdom all the time. Anyone that have a way of earning USDT should be able to know how to send it, and it takes only someone greedy to fall for this scan.

I agree with you that for someone to earn USDT should be able to withdraw it but I beg to differ on the last part of your statement. While I also believe that plenty of people willing to steal that funds for one reason or the other, I do believe there are still honest and innocent people out there whom might be willing to help sincerely and end up being a victim. We can not conclude that they are greedy too simply because they offer to help a scammer ignorantly.

I will also advise to keep distance from any funds you don't work for to protect yourself from things like that and if you choose to help, teach the person how to do it by themselves and never agree to do it from your end.

[Potato Chips]

But still I'm glad to see this doesn't have so much transactions like the last one I saw posted on bitcointalk or did the address had a peaked year or something?

If memory serves right, that scammer has accumulated at least six digits in dollars from victims. Crazy how there was a new transaction every couple of seconds. I was trying to find the thread as it may something that some folks may find interesting but I couldn't. If someone remembers, please post lol.

[Stepstowealth]

Scammers are the smart ones?

No, they are not. They are pretty stupid.

They are not stupid but wicked,  stupid are someone who lack intelligence or common sense while wicked use their wit to do evil things.

If you call a scammer stupid then you have underestimated them because you would not be expecting much from someone who you have called stupid because of their actions, but some of this scammers these days are very intelligent that they can even still fool someone who knows about their existence. Better not to assume their stupidity and pay attention to details because some scams can be really sophisticated.