Scammers are the smart ones, be careful.

[Bushdark]

This is not a new method my dear. Anyone who chooses to fall for this type of scam is greedy and is a scammer as well. And if a scammer gets scammed then it fine by me. This is because it's only a scammer who would want to help an unknown person to withdraw their funds from there wallet. Wen it is very simple for anyone to withdraw funds, only a YouTube video tutorial can guide the person. Yet people feel they can scam such person. This is why being greedy is not good, anyone who falls victim should bear the consequences.

There are many different crypto scam we need to be aware about because scammers are now taking new strategies.
If ought to ask questions before we make some certain decisions if we are still new in the crypto space.
Scammer are using new ways and means to keep getting money from their victims.
 We need to be wise and take every opportunity to ensure that we don't fall for their scamming attempts to steal from us and take away our hard earned funds.

[Fiasem20]

Thanks Op for bringing back the discussion again even if it has been discussed, because it will enlighten the newbies to be watchful and careful when dealing with their coins and also serve as a reminder to old members on the forum.Scammers are always coming up with new updates,that even old bitcoiners are also falling for it.The only way we can avoid being vulnerable to scam is to stop participating in activities that sounds or look too good to be scam.The activities that looks too good to be scam are more likely to be scam.So let's be guided and wise in the crypto space.

[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.

Actually you did absolutely well by sharing this information, I think this will serve as a big note of warning to those people you're still new in this crypto space, and also in telegram, a lot of things is really happening in the internet this time. the knowledge of scammers keep increasing day by day, that is how they are also coming up with different strategies so we need to be extremely careful this time so that we won't fall a victim to them.

[erep]

Actually you did absolutely well by sharing this information, I think this will serve as a big note of warning to those people you're still new in this crypto space, and also in telegram, a lot of things is really happening in the internet this time. the knowledge of scammers keep increasing day by day, that is how they are also coming up with different strategies so we need to be extremely careful this time so that we won't fall a victim to them.

Scammers will always create new strategies to deceive other people, such as this fraud case may be a new strategy because I have not gotten any reports of this case in our community, so I thank the OP for sharing this important information even though the victim did not lose much money but the scammer collected funds from many other victims.

But this scam is very unique, the scammer pretends to be stupid on the pretext of asking for help to withdraw funds, but some victims also have a bad plan to take all the balance in the wallet, but they have fallen into a trap to take the Trx balance that has been transferred.

[Ndabagi01]

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.

I am seeing a lot of comments that this type of scam method used by the scammer is not new, I haven’t come across this before but base on how vast one has been on this space, you will feel some negative energy the first time you see this and try to help the victim. You have to always think smart and always be one step ahead of the possible scammers. Thank you for sharing this OP, I am now aware of  prior to now and I think more people won’t have know this too especially newbies.

But this scam is very unique, the scammer pretends to be stupid on the pretext of asking for help to withdraw funds, but some victims also have a bad plan to take all the balance in the wallet, but they have fallen into a trap to take the Trx balance that has been transferred.

With this method, the scammer is already one step ahead of the other scammer that wants to take advantage of the scammer that claims to be naive and needs help. I just can’t imagine how funny it will be for a scammer to scam another scammer, but when it does happen, the scammed scammer will be +1 smarterbtge next time he comes across someone that needs help.

[johnsaributua]

The world of anonymity has its drama, modes like this have often occurred and many have been trapped because of greed or perhaps a higher sense of empathy but exploited by the fraudster. Some even seem frustrated because they run out of gas fees and are willing to share 50% of the available balance, it doesn't make sense . It turns out that the wallet has a script to trick it as if it is safe.

Lack of reading interest / people new to crypto think this can't happen and intend to help. Hopefully it will be a valuable lesson in the future for that person and everyone. It is better to be grateful for your own crypto, and if it has been identified as such, it is better not to respond. Because it's a waste of time. If you really need help, there are better ways to help others not with our crypto assets, of course he spent his own gas fee.

[Publictalk792]

Scammers will always create new strategies to deceive other people, such as this fraud case may be a new strategy because I have not gotten any reports of this case in our community, so I thank the OP for sharing this important information even though the victim did not lose much money but the scammer collected funds from many other victims.

But this scam is very unique, the scammer pretends to be stupid on the pretext of asking for help to withdraw funds, but some victims also have a bad plan to take all the balance in the wallet, but they have fallen into a trap to take the Trx balance that has been transferred.

Yes you are right I totally agree that scammers are always try with new ways to scam people. OP's case is good example of new strategy that we hadn't seen before. Thanks to him/her who shared this information we can now be aware of it. Scammer pretends to be clueless and asks for help which is sneaky trick. Some people tried to take advantage of the situation but they got caught and lost their money too. This is reminder to always be careful and skeptical when someone we don't know asks for help or offers us a deal that sounds too good to be true. Mostly which I have seen they target the new person or you can say newbie got a catch in their trap. So we should always be careful.

[Belarge]

Scammers will always create new strategies to deceive other people, such as this fraud case may be a new strategy because I have not gotten any reports of this case in our community, so I thank the OP for sharing this important information even though the victim did not lose much money but the scammer collected funds from many other victims.

But this scam is very unique, the scammer pretends to be stupid on the pretext of asking for help to withdraw funds, but some victims also have a bad plan to take all the balance in the wallet, but they have fallen into a trap to take the Trx balance that has been transferred.

Everyone becomes careful more particular for investors that have been scammed. Talking about the smart ones, scammers are present and will always come up with strategies that will provide aides for themselves. While the investors are concerned about their projects but they don't think proper straight due to profits. Scammers are not giving up this fight because most of them are toxic and they see scamming as easy route to generate enormous profits for themselves.

[Yamifoud]

Indeed, they will target people who are not smart and innocent. Therefore, we need to be smart as well like them and act cautiously to give no hint that we are weak and innocent. The moment we show them our greediness, and innocence and are able to communicate with them, that will give them an idea of how they attacked us.

So we have to be careful whom we talk with on social media, most of them are scammers, especially when they talk about money and investments. We have to keep our minds open and think that there is no easy money in the world nor think about quick rich investment, a word from scammers.

[Barikui1]

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.

Bro, their is nothing like old tricks when you actually don't know about it, because most crypto enthusiastic in this space are flawed, they actually don't know how to be safe from this scammers, it's mostly we that has the privilege of knowing about this kind of scamming strategy base on the fact that we have heard or gotten knowledge of this scamming strategy in this forum, most people are just hearing it for the very first time as you even mentioned it, so my brother, what you actually don't know, is always more difficult to combat.

My only advice  to crypto enthusiastic is that they should know that scammers are getting surphisticated everyday , so the best way to fight it is to also get surphisticated with knowledge so as to know how to navigate your way safely in the crypto space without get caught of guard.

[Alone055]

So we have to be careful whom we talk with on social media, most of them are scammers, especially when they talk about money and investments. We have to keep our minds open and think that there is no easy money in the world nor think about quick rich investment, a word from scammers.

What do you think is the reason behind them getting so much success with what they do? You will often hear people getting scammed, either through phishing links or any other way, which proves that scammers are never out of business and they always find prey when they go hunting.

The reason is that newbies, at least most of them, are internet illiterates and they barely know and understand much about it, but they have heard from somewhere that they can earn money from the internet, and they got it somehow, either by watching some tutorial or getting help from someone around them who set their wallet up and everything and taught them the basic things such as how they can send and receive cryptocurrencies, how they can connect their wallets with websites, etc.

Now, scammers know this thing very well, and they are always on the lookout for such users because they know they are the most vulnerable creatures available on the internet and that they won't even need to try hard in order to trap them, all they need to do is give them some offer that will make them think that they are going to get rich very soon, and then take their money and run away.

A high success rate in scams is due to a lack of knowledge among new users joining the industry or the internet in general.

[kentrolla]

This is not something new as this I encountered this year's ago and I am wondering how people are still being fooled with such tactics because I remember sharing such incident during 2018 and this scam method is still prevalent in 2024 which means people never learn that no one pays you anything for free and we need to understand that there is no freebies here you need to earn it and if something is coming easy it means there is some sort of scam associated with it.

[Derek jnr2001]

Thank you so much for the information, actually I'm still new here and also in this crypto space, I don't have full knowledge about all this things that has been happening in the internet more especially in this telegram platform, moreover this strategies is still very new to me but just mere looking is very obvious that the person is a scammer. is very hard for someone to fall a victim to this type of scam, is only those people who are very greedy that can fall victim to this type of scam. However I want to say a very big thanks to op once more, this information is really helpful mostly for those who have not come encounter such tricks before just like me but now that you made it well known to people more especially newbies like us so that whenever time we come encounter such tricks we can know how to face them.

[michellee]

Sometimes, an old trick still works to deceive people, no matters if they are beginners or veteran. They will not thinks that way is a trick that can makes them lose their money. When we panic, we can not thinks clear about that and just follow what other people suggest.

We don't thinks that suggestion will deceive us because we see that way is make sense but there is something that we are not checks with details. That makes us gets deceive by an old trick without we realizes about that. Maybe we don't knows how they can tricks us but that is happens to us.

It is why we must be careful and make sure that will not deceive us. We can search for other information to find out that will not makes us lose money. What we see in internet will not always right so we must make sure before we decides.

[Lidger]

Fraudsters will not succeed unless they are extremely clever and constantly change their strategy. At such times they use methods to deceive so that naturally their things seem true but if we are not extra careful we can easily fall into their trap of deception. Cheaters are very smart and they will discuss with you first about the topic they are going to cheat with and by discussing it with you they will make a place in your mind and you will trust them easily. When the fraudster sees that you trust him, he will start his real activities and all your saved money can be lost in a moment due to your little mistake. So it is very important that we are careful not to give our hard earned money to fraudsters.

[SOKO-DEKE]

Whether it's an old trick or not people would still fall for it and thanks for sharing because I believe there are persons here who are getting to know about this kind of scam for the first time.

Not everyone in the cryptocurrency space is aware of all the tricks that scammers do use. There are many people who are new to the cryptocurrency industry and are unaware of these old tricks. By discussing these scams now, we can help these newcomers understand the risks involved. Scammers are very smart and can come up with any trick after studying someone. Sometimes, scammers use old tricks to scam people, so it is important to stay informed about these old tricks. This way, newcomers can be aware of them.We cannot learn everything at once, but by discussing about these scams, we can gradually become more knowledgeable and protect ourselves from falling victim to them.

[GIF-JOBS]

We should stay away from all these people as much as possible. Today there is no shortage of scammers, they steal information from us by showing the greed of different money. Our full devices can be hacked. We need to be more aware. Do not be suspicious of such people, remember that no one will give you money just like that. So avoid any kind of financial posts on X platform or any other social media platform, where it is said that you will be paid. The farther away you are from them, the safer you will be.

[Zoomic]

Whether it's an old trick or not people would still fall for it and thanks for sharing because I believe there are persons here who are getting to know about this kind of scam for the first time.

We cannot learn everything at once, but by discussing about these scams, we can gradually become more knowledgeable and protect ourselves from falling victim to them.

Even when we think we know it all, scammers are not relenting. They are busy inventing new ways of scamming people of their coins. Just like OP rightly said, scammers are smart. They know quite a lot of tricks they can easily use to attack their victims, we wouldn't know about all these scam tricks if we do not discuss them like this. Sometimes, we do not need to wait till these scam discussions are brought to us, it is high time we pick interest in reading, watching and listening to news related to scam so we can know how to protect ourselves and those around us better.

Most people who fall victim to most scams are usually led by greed to their own doom. Indeed there is really a lot to earn from investing online, but do a thorough research first to ascertain the authenticity of whatever you are doing.

[GbitG]

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Whether the trick of scamming is old or new, it is important to be aware of it because it is not a simple problem that, once explained and all people will understand how to avoid scammers. Day by day Cryptocurrency is becoming prominent and new people are giving commitment, and if they don't know about scammers's trap and cleverness then they can easily become part of scammer's scams. So it is very important to discuss all scam proposals whether they are old or new. Don't point out that the OP discussed the old topic, rather apply that he suggested people to avoid dirty work like scams.

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.

No one is stupid, everyone knows whether to lose or profit. So the problem is not that he is stupid, the problem is that the poor guy doesn't know how to scam and how to avoid it. That is, no one has even informed these people that as much as the crypto industry is secure, it is also unsecure, which means that there are also scammers who return by making people victims of fraud.

[tabas]

Many are still going to fall with kind of scheme, the speculators think that they are on a jackpot with this if they saw some balance on it. But little did they know, the scammer is just waiting for them to send some gas fees on it. I think that they're using smart contract with it and upon receiving little amount for the fees, it's automatically going to be sent to the address of the scammer. Well, if you're greedy and gullible, you'd fall for this scam. Sadly, many are and they won't stop and will never learn a lesson because they think that they have only lost small amount.