Scams I noticed on TON blockchain, which I guess aren't new at all!

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First, I know none of these are new to the communitiy. My main problem is that in my country (Iran) most people use Telegram as just a day to day communication driver and not a place only for people who are into crypto or stuff and can be targeted by these scammers.

Like two years ago, I joined different websites and channels which were dedicated to TON (and at the time Hamster Kombat was hyped up if you remember). I joined a developer community (suggested by TON's website) on Telegram. It is a bunch of groups and channels and honestly channels include good information and documentation. But groups are different. In one group I asked about deployment of a smart contract of DEX and I got private message from someone who asked for like $100 worth of USDT on TON to give me the source codes of what I wanted.

How did I found it's a scam? The account wasn't tagged as a scammer account (Telegram does it way before TON becomes a thing) but I felt a lot of things are wrong. STON.fi and most of other DEX's are simply open source and available on Github or Gitlab. So it's not really a wise move to pay an absolute stranger $100 to get the codes. The second reason for me personally is that I know a lot of Iranian crypto guys who may charge me the same price, but I know them in person and they made reputations so they won't ruin their reputation with simply scamming me.

The second encounter was when I was walking. Not gonna lie, I wasn't in a normal mood (funny enough, my allergies were hitting and I was coughing all day, so I had consumed a whole bottle of Dextromethorphan so this medication is not gonna be medicating anymore in large doses) and I just were conscious enough to be aware of cars passing beside me. I saw a notification from my account on my phone. Someone sent me a link of a transaction promising like a thousand USDTs. But the thing had one suspicious property. It asked for pretty much everything I had in my wallet in exchange. Honestly, a lot of people will fall for this (like if I lose 10 dollars it's worth gaining a thousand!).

The third one is for the time I made a token on gas pump (just for fun) and someone asked for like $50 to shill my coin on different channels or X. Honestly this time I just wanted to know what's happening next. He messages me like two or three hours (not days, hours) and he askeed for $200 to do "Automatic Market Making" and make a "Trade Volume". It reminded me of those pseudoscience videos trying to sell you herbal tea but they wrap it in a lot of scientific terms to convince you. Second time this guy asked me for money, I have become sure he's a scammer. I reported his account to Telegram, but I'm sure they'll emerge again if I make yet another token on gas pump!

Honestly the first and third ones are very specific towards devs. But second one can be really targetting elderly people or people who're struggling with poverty. I do not know how many more ways these people try to leech money from people but I hope someday there will be a stop on this.