Why asking for help publicly can sometimes make you a target.

[Nothingtodo]

Such a situation can be seen in the Telegram channel or group of the central exchange where if you send a message for help, you will see hundreds of scammers waiting for your message. If you send a message to an admin there, you will see thousands of scammers copying the name of that admin and replying to your message. If for some reason a newbie falls into the trap of those scammers, then the Bitcoin or crypto currency of this new trader or investor may disappear in an instant. So refrain from sending messages to anyone asking for help or sending messages to any group to help. There, the most scammers wait to catch the newbies.

[Bitcoin_people]

The first wallet draining attack I got in the cryptocurrency space is through asking for help on a telegram group.
.this guys will message you privately telling you that their are representatives of the project and willing to help you.

Telegram is just full of scammer, and I hardly reply messages I receive on telegram, because I do tag anyone that message me there as a scammer. I don’t believe anyone that message me on telegram which claim to be representative of a project, most of them are scammer, and they are looking for possible ways for you to fall for their tricks. Most of them will claim to be projects representative, and they will request for your seed phrase so that they will be able to help you. If anyone request for your seed phrase, then you should know that the person isn’t a project representative, but a scammer, only scammers will request for seed phrase.

Your approach of treating unsolicited messages on telegram as scam attempts is very appropriate for your security, and besides the privacy feature on telegram where a person phone number can be kept private this make it hard to track them on telegram and the reason most of the scammers are found of using telegram to message people in attempt to get them scammed.

It is often seen that most fraudsters send messages to people through Telegram and show them various lures there. They send some links through which, if entered, it is often seen that the fraudsters can take away the access to the person's mobile. That is why one should never be inspired by the messages sent by fraudsters and should not take their advice at face value, it is most important to be extremely careful in this regard. Telegram has many features in which the number cannot be tracked and their usernames are changed in different ways at different times due to which they are no longer available. That is why fraudsters use Telegram most of the time and send messages to ordinary people from there. That is why everyone should avoid unnecessary messages on Telegram by not paying attention to them but rather rejecting them.

[Ishicryptic]

however not everybody who is sending a message is automatically a scammer, so it is better to study by the actions and never to share any information.imparting the basics of wallets security is so much important before investing money can save someone from losing their own funds.

You're right but whether they're scammers or not, never share any personal information or anything wallet related especially if they private chat you without you asking for their help. If you publish a thread seeking for help, anyone with useful information to assist you will genuinely post under your thread. There's no need for them to chat you secretly unless they have other motives. I will advise newbies to treat every unsolicited pm as a scam in order to be on the safe side.

Always give less information or refrain from giving critical information to other people specially if you dont know who are you talking to, if you just meet them , be careful on dealing with this people , because sooner or later theybwill try to trick you, on giving or asking sensitive info.

It is a red flag when you need direction and ask a question on a board in the forum and someone chooses to reply you privately, since you didn't send them a private message they don't have to reply you privately even if the person doesn't want to scam you. If your question is in the open then you should accept every answers in the open, even if you reveal some personal information that is sensitive a concerned forum member will correct you publicly, if your comment needs to be deleted I'm sure that you'd be told publicly. Aside from forums like this you also have to be careful about receiving DM on social media, scammers targets newbies those platforms especially telegram, I still get a lot of scam messages with phishing links, I just ignore them.

[Bitcoin Maxi]

Such a situation can be seen in the Telegram channel or group of the central exchange where if you send a message for help, you will see hundreds of scammers waiting for your message. If you send a message to an admin there, you will see thousands of scammers copying the name of that admin and replying to your message. If for some reason a newbie falls into the trap of those scammers, then the Bitcoin or crypto currency of this new trader or investor may disappear in an instant. So refrain from sending messages to anyone asking for help or sending messages to any group to help. There, the most scammers wait to catch the newbies.

I have seen it multiple times and that is why most exchange workers like their team used to tell their community they will never be the first to send a dm to anybody concerning issues they needed help about. I mostly see this on telegram exchange groups and scammers are always there to run to your dm if you have any problem or whatever you needed clarity about.
I have also seen several people on my dm when I join a crypto project group and sometimes they come up with the idea of trying to help me to understand the project and how I can buy the token of the project.