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1 Aug 2025 (Bloomberg), Huione Group, a Cambodian Cybercrime+Cryptocrime case

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How a Billion-Dollar Cambodian Cybercrime Empire Was Built

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Crypto scams modus operandi via Whatsapp: People, Photo & Websites

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Crypto scams modus operandi via Whatsapp: People, Photo & Websites

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I tracked down my WhatsApp crypto scammers

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List of BTC addresses associated with extortion scams

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List of BTC addresses associated with extortion scams

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Sep 2024: Elon Musk Crypto Giveaway BTC/ETH/DOGE/SOL scam

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Sep 2024: Elon Musk Crypto Giveaway BTC/ETH/DOGE/SOL scam

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Elon Musk Crypto Giveaway Scam (Sep 2024)

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Scammer / Identity Theft @Artthur_bitsgap

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Scammer / Identity Theft @Artthur_bitsgap

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May 2024: Michael Saylor Giveaway BTC/ETH scam

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May 2024: Michael Saylor Giveaway BTC/ETH scam

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2. Legit website: https://bitsgap.com

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Edu documentary: Romance Scams, Crypto Fraud & Cyber forensics

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Edu documentary: Romance Scams, Crypto Fraud & Cyber forensics

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Investigating the con that combines romance scams and crypto fraud (Marketplace)

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Edu video: Types of Crypto Scams in 2024

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Edu video: Types of Crypto Scams in 2024

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2. Scammy Website (Cache): https://archive.fo/tOmVn

3. Scammer’s Telegram username: morpheuslabs_team

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Scammy website 1: https://gpt-ai.website/GPT-CHAT-AI
Archive W1: https://archive.fo/wWnL1

Scammy website 2: https://chat-gpt-pc.info
Archive W2: https://archive.fo/I062m

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Cache Website: https://archive.fo/Hb15M

Scammer email: usdtyuku@gmail.com

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I grew my cryptocurrency portfolio by 8 times. Then I blew it on a scam

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Top 6 Worst Crypto Scams To Avoid in 2022, According to Coin Bureau

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Top 6 Worst Crypto Scams To Avoid in 2022, According to Coin Bureau

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1. Giveaway Scams
2. Rug Pull
3. Phishing Scams
4. Impersonation
5. Ponzi Scheme
6. Pump & Dump

Source: https://azcoinnews.com/top-6-worst-crypto-scams-to-avoid-in-2022-according-to-coin-bureau.html

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You could be falling for a crypto scam, and you wouldn't even know it. They have become brazen and elaborate and have stolen billions from unsuspecting victims.

In the latest video, Coin Bureau, a famous Youtube Channel focused on crypto, has summed up the top 6 worst scams to avoid in 2022.

Giveaway Scams

One of the most common scams out there is the giveaway. These are so prolific that they permeate nearly every corner of the internet. These scams appear central to the conversation around bot spam on Twitter.

It's a scam where free crypto is being given away. The main MO here is that if you send a small amount of crypto to a certain person online. They will send you to double, triple, or 10x your investment.

The scam is not new to crypto. The main MO was that someone wanted to send you a lot of money but needed you to first send them a wire to confirm the bank account.

You'll usually be told to go to some link that will show you a website or landing page detailing the giveaway steps. There'll be fake transactions that you can see going through as they try to convince you that people are indeed getting paid.

Most of these scams usually have a timer to make you think you must act quickly. This means people tend to make decisions without considering them. These scams are pervasive on Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, etc.

In the case of Youtube scams, they're usually simple live streams, where you'll have a famous person or group of people who'll be participating in a talk.

How these channels can get so many subscribers or the verified status? That's because they are hacked channels. Hackers commandeer these channels delete their content, and run the live streams in their place. The scams sometimes actually buy ad space on social media platforms.

The best way to eliminate these and all other scams is for people to stop falling for them. The reason that they're so prolific is that they are profitable. It's incredibly important to understand no one on the internet is going to give you something for free

Rug Pull

Rug pull is the next scam that can be as damaging as giveaway scams. Rug pull is when someone else pulls the rug from under your back. They rob your funds disappear, and leave you holding thebag.

Rug pulls are quite prevalent in the NFT and DeFi spaces. In the case of NFTs, the creators will usually get someone to create pretty bog-standard images, issue them in a mint, promise some exciting road map or pay some influencer to shill them.

Once the mint is completed and the people have their NFTs, the project creators delete all websites, socials, and digital communications. They pull the rug and leave you on your behind.

These rug pulls don't have to happen all at once. Sometimes you have what is called a slow rug. In this case, the project developer slowly extricates themselves from the project over several weeks or months. Their goal is for the buyers to eventually lose interest and abandon their hopes of moons.

The slow rug is more common than the quicker one and can be harder to zone in on. You can't be 100% certain that the intent was to defraud.

You'll need to be more discerning in the types of NFTs you buy or the mints you participate in. There are around 5% that could be highly valuable in the future, and if you want to try and find those, you have to be particularly discerning in your criteria.

You also have the rug pools that are going on in the DeFi space. These are a bit different from an ICO or NFT. Instead of sending protocol money, you have to supply liquidity to the protocol. This liquidity is usually used in a decentralized exchange, and you can get pretty attractive returns from supplying. During this time, the creators will hype the project so that there's a lot of demand and liquidity in the pool. This is done using the same paid shill methods for the rug pull NFTs. As more investors buy the hyped cryptocurrency, they progressively exchange it for cryptos like stablecoins and ether.

When the project is live for a few hours or days, liquidity pools can run into tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars. This is when the developers then strike and extract all the liquidity from the pool, leaving investors holding the bag for these tokens. The devs can do this because they're not locked in the liquidity in the pool. They still control the smart contracts and hence what can be done with the funds in the pool.

To avoid a rug pull, you must ensure that you're not locking your funds up in some random protocol. You'll also want to ensure that the smart contract authors don't still have control over it. This would allow them to extract the liquidity and run off with your funds.

Phishing Scams

The phishing schemes have evolved to target users directly through their cryptocurrency wallets. One of the most damaging of these is when they're able to successfully fish your private keys. This could happen because the scammers have exfiltrated the keys from your device, but it's more likely when you have voluntarily given over your private keys.

There are 2 types of phishing scams. One of the most common ways is for the hacker to fool you into handing over your seed words. These are usually used to recover your wallets, and they are never requested unless you're resetting your wallet. There are several ways in which this can be done. Perhaps, one of the most common is when you'll visit a website of some sort where it'll ask you to insert your seed phrase to access it. This is a scam as you should never need to insert your seed phrase to send funds from a wallet.

Another method of fishing your funds involves the attacker giving you their seed word in this instance. You're usually duped into going to a fraudulent website when trying to download a new wallet. When you go through the process on this fraudulent site, the attacker will give you a seed that you think is yours, but is theirs.

You'll then use this seed to set up a new wallet under the scammer's control, unbeknownst to you. The moment you have sent funds to the wallet, the scammer makes off with them. These fake wallet phishing schemes are able to also buy ad space on Google so that their links are presented before those of the real wallets.

To avoid phishing scams, you have to be careful about which dApps you're giving authorization to. You need to make sure that before you sign any transaction. You are on the official website of the dApp and not a malicious one. It's also wise to make sure that you've not approved some dodgy smart contracts in the past. You can easily check this, thanks to tools like this one on Etherscan.

Impersonation

This is when a scammer will try to get you to part with your crypto by impersonating someone else. There are thousands of impersonators out there trying to rip off some famous person's followers.

These scams can be quite successful because they try to take advantage of someone else's reputation, a reputation that inspires trust in others. These impersonators are everywhere and on nearly every social platform. These scammers are a real problem because some people do fall for them.

Anyone in the crypto or investment space who has a decent-sized following will have impersonators trying to fleece their followers.

Ponzi Scheme

You create a system where you sustain payouts from an investment scheme by bringing more money in from a stream of new investors. Ponzi's have been around in the traditional financial system for over a century and have sometimes led to some of the biggest tradify losses.

These Ponzi schemes have taken on new life in the crypto space, and thousands have come and gone over the years. These can grow so quickly in this space because of the opaque nature of the markets.

People tend to believe that there is a cloud mining package lending scheme or trading bot making the money daily and tends to pay out pretty believable returns. This is part of the design. The more believable the stream of daily returns, the more likely people are to invest, as all good Ponzis do. These people are initially paid, which further creates, the perception that it has to be true.

These Ponzi schemes also rely on current members, referring them to their friends and family for additional rewards. These are called multi-level marketing or MLM schemes. However, with the advent of DeFi, the line between a Ponzi scheme and legitimate lending protocol sometimes becomes blurred.

To avoid falling for a Ponzischeme, It helps to take these guaranteed return investment opportunities with healthy skepticism. You need to ask yourself how these potential returns compare to the market average. If they're above that, then it should attract suspicion.

You should also make 100% certain that you know exactly how this project or protocol is generating those returns. Sometimes, the more complicated it sounds, the more likely there's something fishy going on. Some of the biggest Ponzi schemes had investment theses that were incredibly hard to understand or pin down. In these cases, the most likely explanation is that it's a Ponzi.

Pump & Dump

When insiders or other market participants will attempt to pump a token and increase its price until a point at which this starts gaining attention. This will create the perception that it's a token of interest on the market, and others will jump in. Once that occurs, those who bought before will dump that token. It's a form of market manipulation sometimes used in the penny stock space.

This pump is usually set to happen on a particular day at a particular time. These participants will also try to coordinate off of Telegram and show the token on other social media platforms. It's worth pointing out that it's not always unsuspecting users that get burned by these pump and dump scams. Sometimes, those late to the pump will be dumped on the participants themselves. It's completely illegal, and you should avoid all of these types of groups.

How do you spot some pump and dump action in the wild? There are several rules.

Firstly, these pumps tend to happen in low altcoins. These are usually easier to move, given that smaller buying pressure is more likely to push them up.

Secondly, you'll want to observe exchange listings. if it's on shady sexes or is on dexes, then it's more than likely easy to pump. Moreover, those taking part are less worried about getting busted because they may not have been required to complete KYC.

Thirdly, if you notice that there's some sort of pump in the price taking place in a relatively unknown token and you can't find an exact reason why this could be happening, then.

There is another strong giveaway, something could be a pump and dump, and that's previous volumes and trading activity. If the token has been in the doldrums for months, but the volume has slowly begun to pick up over the past few days, this could be a clear sign of earlier accumulation.

The pump operators will have to buy these tokens before they pump them, and these accumulation waves are what you need to be looking out for. So if you see a coin moving and meets all of these characteristics, don't FOMO in unless you want to get wrecked.
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Top 6 Worst Crypto Scams To Avoid in 2022, According to Coin Bureau - AZCoin News

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You could be falling for a crypto scam, and you wouldn't even know it. They have become brazen and elaborate and have stolen billions from unsuspecting victims. In the latest video, Coin Bureau, a famous Youtube Channel focused on crypto, has summed up the top 6 worst scams to avoid in 2022.

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Scammy website: https://drip.foundation

Metamask: https://drip.foundation/meta.php

Walletconnect: https://drip.foundation/wc.php

Binance Chain Wallet https://drip.foundation/binance.php

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o Website: https://share.tokensets.vip/154529

o Cache Website: https://archive.ph/z2bM2

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Telegram scammer in the Bitsgap group. Scammer name 'Wayne Lowe’

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Telegram scammer in the Bitsgap group. Scammer name 'Wayne Lowe’

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Jan 2022: Another Michael Saylor Giveaway scam

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Jan 2022: Another Michael Saylor Giveaway scam

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Huge list of crypto/fx/investment scam websites from GASO

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Huge list of crypto/fx/investment scam websites from GASO

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The unregulated scene of crypto is also rife with scams and rugpulls. Having been in crypto since 2017, I've seen my fair share of scams, which is why my antenna was on high alert when my friend introduced me to Neko Inu - the currently trending (and incredibly cute) crypto game that promises you can play and earn USDT.

I recently entered the Play-to-Earn space in crypto, which I believe is going to be the next big thing. So when one of my best friends introduced me to Neko Inu as a crypto game where you can play and earn USDT, I was naturally curious and wanted to find out more.

Unfortunately, after digging around, I'm not convinced. While the game certainly looks cute and sounds promising, there's a major red flag in the way the game earnings have been designed i.e. you earn more as you recruit new players into the game. The game developers could have created a perfectly non-Ponzi game, but instead chose to design the referral scheme as a ponzi. Why, and could Neko Inu thus be a scam?

Investing in cryptocurrency has now become mainstream, with even institutions now coming onboard. However, you should know that the scene is also rife with ponzi schemes and scams designed to trick naive investors, especially those who are greedy for gains and/or new to cryptocurrencies. In 2019, crypto ponzi schemes and fraud lured at least $4.3 billion from investors; in 2017 - 2018 scammers made off with $3 billion.

In particular, these appeal to inexperienced investors who have heard stories of folks getting rich from Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, and think that they can get rich quickly too. Fraudsters then go on to use that naïveté against you, which is why p onzi schemes are infamous for how they successfully attract investors who are eager to cash in on a hot market, and can easily be led astray by promises of large returns. OneCoin, BitConnect and PlusToken are perhaps the most prolific ponzi schemes that have since collapsed, and investors would do well to remember them.

Based on what I found about Neko Inu, I'm wondering if it might just be another big ponzi in disguise? Could its developers or founding team pull an exit strategy and run away with all the money? Who knows?
What is the game about?
If you've never heard of Neko Inu, good for you!

"Neko-Inu is a gaming platform for everyone to have fun while earning USDT. Neko-Inu allows users to create and care for digital pets in the virtual world.There are set objective for the users, but they are expected to feed and care for their pets when they grow hungry or ill."

The above is taken from their PDF document which has been circulating on WhatsApp and Telegram.

If you thought that sounded like Neopets, you're not the only one.
How do you play the game to earn money?
"Complete up to 5 missions every 12 hours to increase your Pets value. The more actions you complete, the higher the value of your Pet. Value of Pet can only increase up to 5% every 12 hours."

The game itself is pretty simple and doesn't require much brainwork or strategy. All you need to do is to log in every 12 hours and press the 5 action buttons shown below (walk your pet, feed your pet, etc) to increase the value of your pet by 5%.

Note that the 5% will be split 3% to you, 1% to Neko Inu and 1% into the jackpot.

The more expensive your pet, the more daily value you'll be earning for each action. That's because 5% on a USDT 1500 pet will yield you USDT 75 daily, in contrast to just USDT 2.5 on a USDT 50 pet.

Sounds pretty enticing so far, doesn't it?

This is why some folks have put in more than USDT 3,000 to start playing the game.

Red flag #1: where does the 5% USDT come from?

But the question you need to ask yourself is this, how does Neko Inu come up with the value to conjure up that 5% USDT growth every 12 hours?

Where will they get the money to pay out to players?

The answer that I suspect? From new players, that's where.

You can earn via 2 ways:

1. Play to increase the value of your pet, which you can then sell your pet to new players (who just joined the game) in the marketplace

2. Earn a daily trading commission from your downlines

What if I don't want to refer my friends?

If you're thinking of taking part in this ponzi-like game but not drag your friends into a potential mess, wait a minute, because there's more.

To unlock more pet slots, you will need to recruit more downlines in your community i.e. to unlock the next 2 pet slots, you will need to recruit 5 direct people to join under your referral link. To unlock the 4th and 5th dog slot, you will need to have at least 100 downlines (both direct and indirect).

I saw a MDRT financial advisor online who's encouraging people to join (and with an initial investment of SGD 5k too!) and he has 7 dogs...so you can just imagine how many people he has recruited under him till date. He's been posting photos like these to incentivize people to join under him:
More pets = each time you log in, you can be more productive and execute the 5 actions for multiple pets = grow the 5% daily value on multiple pets to scale.
Neko Inu has "disallowed" multiple accounts from the same IP address, so you can't just create multiple accounts of your own to get around that loophole.

So therein lies the incentive to bring your friends into the ecosystem, where you're rewarded by earning their money, and your uplines (players who came before you) also get a cut + can sell their pets to these new players.
unding your account is almost instant, but withdrawals take 2 days
If the earning scheme above didn't already ring your warning bells, here's another red flag:

Deposit USDT: 10 - 15 minutes

Withdraw USDT: 48 hours (with a 5% fee)

Open account: almost instant

To close account: 90 days after account creation

48 hours is more than enough time to do a rugpull and run away with all the players' monies in the game, if you asked me.

And isn't it fishy that if you want to withdraw your base capital, there is a 3 month lock-in period?

Red flag #5: no one knows who's behind the game

"Neko & Inu Corporation is a global joint venture between a Hong Kong consortium and casino in Cambodia with the support of an international digital platform, Lemon Game."

In the crypto world, when one is able to land big names in real-world partnerships, you can bet that name will get shouted out in every press release and marketing announcement.

But the odd thing about Neko Inu is that it merely describes the joint venture founders, but never names them. And while the team page appears legitimate enough, try to Google them and see if any results come out for either their LinkedIn page, or their company website, etc.

I wasn't able to match any of these so-called founding team members to real-life people.

My search results came up empty.

(If you managed to find anything on them, let me know.)
Red flag #6: there's no official whitepaper or Github
Most legitimate crypto projects will have an official whitepaper and an open Github where you can go in to check the smart contracts for yourself as you do you due diligence.

Unfortunately, none exists for Neko Inu.

There's a roadmap, but no whitepaper. No mention of the technology they're using to develop and run the game, nor how the tokenomics work out, etc.

Aside from me, some folks have also expressed their concerns over these, and here's what the Neko Inu admin team replied on Telegram. I'll leave it to you to judge whether you find it plausible. Notes in red parenthesis are that of my own:

"We are backed by a group of investor (who? why don't dare to disclose?). So usually other token what they do is they come up with a white paper, ask people to buy the token. And the project goes failed. But Neko approach the other way around, we create a platform and create a community which gain confident in us. (but why use a ponzi referral scheme to recruit new members into your community, instead of other methods?) And we proceed to create an ecosystem and NFT and token later. Which will be coming soon if you attended our Rebirth talk. So it's a game platform to create a community, token and NFT And followed by multiple games. Like steam, we host multiple games for players. And all games are play to earn."

I don't know about you, but after spending some time digging into this game I decided I didn't want to be involved, and told my friend of my findings as well.

This was my advice to her:

you can definitely earn now, but the rugpull can happen anytime

I've calculated how it works if a player wants to earn maximum profits: buy a more expensive pet, earn 5% daily, and after several weeks you'll be in profit. Keep playing every day thereafter to make profits.

So if the rugpull doesn't happen for another 2 months, you can make some pure profit and actually make money from the game.

But if a rugpull happens before you hit your breakeven point then you may end up with losses

So do your own due diligence and decide for yourself if you want to play

I don't blame my friend for introducing this to me, because if the game and its earnings turns out to be true, then it'll be awesome. And for what it's worth, if Neko Inu really turns out to be legitimate with no rugpull, and the game + their NFTs make a hell lot of money for their community later on, then I'll probably regret that I passed on this one (or...I could always try to mint the NFT during the public sale and flip it thereafter for a quick trade).

But the thing is, I'm not convinced they're legitimate, at least for now.

So since there are better games in the Play-to-Earn crypto space instead, such as Axie Infinity that's changing people's lives at the same time (which I've verified this on the ground in Manila as well),

I'll pass on Neko Inu.

Stay safe in the crypto world.

P.S. Ever since I posted about my skepticism regarding this game on Instagram, many players have since come forward claiming that they've done their due diligence too as they tried to convince me it isn't a scam or a ponzi scheme. As always, I remain open-minded to the possibility that I might be wrong - who knows, this might be completely legitimate and sustainable - but as of now, my opinion remains that this is likely a scam and may collapse anytime. So if you're one of those playing it, and recruiting your friends or loved ones into the game so you can earn more profits...I hope you're sleeping well at night with this way of earning money (because I can't, if it were me).

P.P.S. I'm not saying Neko Inu is a ponzi. I'm saying it resembles one, and asking if it is? Am open to being proven wrong. If you have evidence to prove otherwise, you can leave them in the comments below.

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The unregulated scene of crypto is also rife with scams and rugpulls. Having been in crypto since 2017, I've seen my fair share of scams, which is why my antenna was on high alert when my friend introduced me to Neko Inu - the currently trending (and incredibly cute) crypto game that promises you can play and earn USDT.

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Yet another Tesla/Elon BTC-ETH Giveaway Scam

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Yet another Tesla/Elon BTC-ETH Giveaway Scam

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Scam website: https://teslabtc.us

Archive: https://archive.fo/UL16a

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'Microstrategy | Michael Saylor' ETH-BTC Giveaway Youtube Scam (15 Nov 2021)

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'Microstrategy | Michael Saylor' ETH-BTC Giveaway Youtube Scam (15 Nov 2021)

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Source: https://youtu.be/cNEU4zPeG2o

Archive: https://archive.fo/cGzSe

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Novel Telegram Group Clone with Wallet Stealing Website Combo Scam (11 Nov 2021)

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Novel Telegram Group Clone with Wallet Stealing Website Combo Scam (11 Nov 2021)

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Novel Scammer's Modus Operandi:
Step 1. Clone the official Telegram group.
Step 2. Populate it with fake users until the no. of users is close to the no. of users in the legit Telegram group.
Step 3. Add users from the legit group to the fake group.
Step 4. Ensure that admins in the fake group has the same Username as the admins in the real group.

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Squid Game Cryptocurrency Scammers Make Off With $3.3 Million

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Squid Game Cryptocurrency Scammers Make Off With $3.3 Million

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Walletsynchronise.org: Yet Another Crypto Wallet Stealing Website

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Walletsynchronise.org: Yet Another Crypto Wallet Stealing Website

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Archive 1 (main page): https://archive.fo/tMolf

Archive 2 (Trust wallet): https://archive.fo/ma2b2

Archive 3 (Metamask): https://archive.fo/NTGCM

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Scammer BTC address: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qp5a7fs2k78m48cg9hezjpglmm6p75mjzt77u34

Archive 1 (main weebly page): https://archive.fo/YAaTK

Archive 2 (page 2): https://archive.fo/PV9JQ

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DappsConnect.co: Yet Another Crypto Wallet Stealing Website

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DappsConnect.co: Yet Another Crypto Wallet Stealing Website

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Archive 1 (main page): https://archive.fo/aUdPN

Archive 2 (wallets): https://archive.ph/pOc3R

Archive 3 (phrase / private key): https://archive.ph/2gcFT

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Kong City Token Scam: Developers 'Rug Pull' the Coin, Leaving Investors With Millions in Losses

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Kong City Token Scam: Developers 'Rug Pull' the Coin, Leaving Investors With Millions in Losses

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Article: https://www.ibtimes.sg/kong-city-token-scam-developers-rug-pull-coin-leaving-investors-millions-losses-59866

Archive: https://archive.fo/0VTEd

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ConnectWallets.site: Yet Another Crypto Wallet Stealing Website

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ConnectWallets.site: Yet Another Crypto Wallet Stealing Website

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Archive 1 (main page): https://archive.fo/N3gJ1

Archive 2 (Wallet stealing page): https://archive.fo/eJf94

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ConnectValidate.com: Yet Another Crypto Wallet Stealing Website

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ConnectValidate.com: Yet Another Crypto Wallet Stealing Website

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Scam website: http://muskx.org

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Scam website: Bronfinance.com

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Databasetrusts.online: Yet Another Crypto Wallet Scam

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Databasetrusts.online: Yet Another Crypto Wallet Scam

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Crypto Scams: "How To Protect Yourself Against Cryptocurrency Fraud"

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Crypto Scams: "How To Protect Yourself Against Cryptocurrency Fraud"

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Crypto Scams: How To Protect Yourself Against Cryptocurrency Fraud | Money Mind | Investing

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Scam website: https://safemoon.is/

Cache: https://archive.fo/JRqdX

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Scam website: http://gspassivo.com

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Fake website: https://wallet-connected.org

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Yet another Elon Musk Crypto Scam

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Telegram scammer using malicious .exe Malware (wrapped in a .rar file)

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Telegram scammer using malicious .exe Malware (wrapped in a .rar file)

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Filename 1: photo_2020-12-06_06-42-20.rar

Filename 2: Microsoft Office Word 2003.exe

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Video on "Types of Crypto Scam" (by Coin Bureau)

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Video on "Types of Crypto Scam" (by Coin Bureau)

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1:52​ Ponzi Scheme
3:50​ Ponzi "Fronts"
8:00​ Giveaway Scam
10:36​ Phishing Scam
13:53​ Wallet Phishing
17:59​ ICO Exit Scams

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Scam app (DO NOT USE): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trm.bondlyapp

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Summary of this scam:
1. Inform a prospective victim ("PV") that the scammer has BTC to withdraw from a site
2. Scammer's website: https://coinovus.com/ ("ScamSite")
3. Ask PV to create an account with the ScamSite
4. Transfer the 'BTC' number eg. 1.32 BTC to the PV's account in the ScamSite
5. Ask PV to transfer over majority of the 1.32 BTC to the scammer's account
6. ScamSite requires 0.01 BTC for 'verification' first
7. Whoever that transfer the 0.01 BTC for 'verification' would have fallen for this scam and will be 0.01 BTC poorer.

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At best, this is a ponzi scheme
At worse, this is a scam.
Be careful.

Primary website:
https://www.zageinvest.com

Secondary website: https://www.zageinvest.io

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Imposter & Scammer lurking in Unstoppable domains Telegram group.

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Imposter & Scammer lurking in Unstoppable domains Telegram group.

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Modus operandi involved getting crypto users wallet seed phrases:

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Imposter & Scammer Telegram Username: @Financial8Freedom1

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Imposter & Scammer Telegram Username: @Financial8Freedom1

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Name of scammer used on Telegram: Alan Lew.
Scammer BTC address: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1EPXqoTYp4QUKnfRn4KSu9w26fqfyj5a8U
Scammer BCH address: https://www.blockchain.com/bch/address/1EPXqoTYp4QUKnfRn4KSu9w26fqfyj5a8U

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Beware of scam and impostor website

https://tokenize-exchange-claimbtc.000webhostapp.com/

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Imposter & Scammer Telegram username: @drryeap

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Imposter & Scammer Telegram username: @drryeap

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Real Telegram username: @dryeap (single r)

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Scam "Elon Musk — Official ETH and BTC Giveaway"

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Scam "Elon Musk — Official ETH and BTC Giveaway"

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Scam website (fake 'Medium.com' lookalike): https://tsladrop.me

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Fake: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-WrKKUEwwT__JD_0NQX_tQ/videos

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Imposter / Scammer Telegram username: @bransonIee

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Imposter / Scammer Telegram username: @bransonIee

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Scammer's alternative username: @zeechaudhry2019

Real Branson's Telegram username: @bransonlee

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Plus Token (PLUS) Scam – Anatomy of a Ponzi

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Plus Token (PLUS) Scam – Anatomy of a Ponzi

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https://boxmining.com/plus-token-ponzi

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"Plus Token" was a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme disguised as a high-yield investment program. Platform administrators closed down the operation in June of 2019, withdrawing over $3 Billion dollars in Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, EOS and others) and leaving the message "sorry we have run". This has lead to an international man-hunt for the platform administrators and creators of Plus Token.

PlusToken had a major following in Korea and China - especially among investors not familiar with cryptocurrencies. Plus token is a High Yield investment program which offered massive rewards on "investment" to unsuspecting victims in China and Korea. The scheme offered 9% to 18% monthly returns on investment - with larger investments getting more rewards. This type of is similar to other High Yield investment programs like " Bitconnect " which collapsed in January of 2018.

How did the Plus Token Ponzi it Work?

Plus Token is a classic ponzi scheme. It would make large promises of high returns to new investors, asking them for investments of large sums of cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, EOS and Litecoin. Investors were divided into 4 "tiers", according to how much they invested and how many other referrals they can make.

How did it become so popular?

Plus Token relied heavily in conferences and meetups to promote the token. The following video is taken at a Plus token gathering

Payments stopped 30th of June 2019

Early signs of trouble in started surfacing in June of 2019 as users started reporting delays in fund withdraws. Some took to complain on Chinese social media site "Weibo" citing that they were unable to receive funds despite writing for 35 hours after submitting withdraw requests (Source Blocktempo).

Initially Plus token blamed on "higher miner fees" for the withdraw delays. They claimed the sent transactions with 1 sat /byte, leading to long delays on the Bitcoin Blockchain. Plus token supporters avidly as their followers to "believe" in the system and disregard the "false information".

Ring Leaders tried to convince the community that Plus Token will come back.

"Sorry We have run" - but not fast enough

As funds began moving, one of the transactions carried the know "Sorry, we have run" as a comment to the transaction. This really needs no explanation - organisers of the scam have initiated their exit strategy and fled the country.

Arrests and extradition back to China

Law enforcement were able to arrest 6 of the suspects involved with PLUS token in Vanatu on the 29th of June 2019. They were detained and extradited back to China to face trial. Seems like they didn't do enough research when fleeing the country.

JUST IN

as per sir @loomdart 's request, this thread is abt the on-going sells off made by PLUS Token, the biggest Chinese PONZI which scammed ~70K $BTC + ~ 800K $ETH

I mentioned it briefly in my last Coindesk oped but worth additional attention as it may cause further sells pic.twitter.com/uIjgrzwHET
- Dovey 以德服人 Wan 🗝 🦖 (@DoveyWan) August 14, 2019

Tip of the Iceberg

PlusToken can be seen as the tip of the Iceberg as there are many other very similar crypto ponzi schemes and scams. These include Cloud Token, S Block and other cloud "mining" tokens. At the end of the day, tokens that 'guarentees' high returns without a clear and audit-able business plan should generate red flags.

Laundering into exchanges

Luckily research is being down to track wallets known to be associated with Plus Token ( 8btc.com, @doveywan, @PeckShield). Work done by @PeckShield has shown funds moving from large wallets (~5000+ Bitcoin) to smaller wallets, and eventually into exchanges.

Known amounts Scammed - List sum of BTC from identified and tracked addresses. Reports have been circulating that up to ~1% of the entire Bitcoin supply is involved in the scam. Currently more wallets are being added to this list.

70000 BTC ($700,840,000 USD)

789511 ETH ($142,111,980 USD)

26299109 EOS ($92,046,881 USD)

Known Bitcoin Wallet addresses ( Source 1):

1MFgcyJ7ZNSknbTBRaih6zWDE6V1A64tRY (1865 BTC)

3ETAVt2scYBFkBFksuNDk1i5tDLQ2c4zWR (4922 BTC)

3EYsru4LUcN258sENYPu5Py3S5WnqxEcnE (3657 BTC)

3HKs1g7u5a1uU4pC5HaNooYMbL1Lao4mv4 (3928 BTC)

3ESakThMrdVVrbhhcpf9spicyjCg1Uk8Jm (3289 BTC)

33LNws16Wfs12usWBNfa1MSX3YKY6Hdayf (3270 BTC)

3HwY536CxznDxMjiRCFkpx5ykwJbJMZY4w (1725 BTC)

35bCzX3RQEWdquqCPQkmdJdu2K4ut1roUZ (3676.86 BTC)

31owhyALzzPEqUFwRbU5yQR4wNhYEjCiE5 (749.66 BTC)

3PBN3MCpDcZKr7WdyY1ULq1NeGwLNjpkj7 (12000 BTC)

14bwh6gmvol5ntwbvxqjkjdtzv4y5ebtvm (95228 BTC)

33FKcwFhFBKWHh46Ksmxs3QBu8HV7h8QdF (37922 BTC)

EOS Addresses

Ethereum Addresses

0xF4a2eFf88a408ff4c4550148151c33c93442619e

Plus Token Sell-offs Responsible for Bitcoin Price Drop?

Since as early as August 2019, Chinese cryptocurrency trading groups have already been circulating that due to the sheer amount involved, the scammers trying to dispose of the ill-gotten Bitcoin are pushing prices downward. And this price dump halted on 15th August 2019, coincidentally when Binance was suspended for trading because of system upgrade.

In late November 2019, this issue was again brought to the forefront when Twitter user Ergo reported having traced 187,000 BTC of the approximately 200,000 BTC attributed to PlusToken's investors. As to these funds, Ergo found they were "shuffled" (albeit badly, if at all) and gradually sent to various cryptocurrency exchanges, primarily Huobi, for sale on the market.

I've been seeing a lot of Twitter FUD opining on miner capitulation in the last few days.

This got me thinking... could the selling by the PlusToken scammers have had an abnormal effect on this market cycle? pic.twitter.com/VZGjyQAxaF
- ∴ Ergo ∴ (@ErgoBTC) November 21, 2019

Ergo's findings on the PlusToken funds

Ergo predicts that if all the "mixed" funds were sold from August to November 2019, it would average out to be around 1,300 BTC sold per day. This could lead people to think it would have an effect on Bitcoin prices, which has fallen from USD $9,981.41 on 1st August 2019 to USD $7,182.89 on 4th December 2019.

Going forward, for the remaining 58,000 BTC or so Plus Token funds, based on Ergo's estimates of the amounts sold daily, the sell-off would continue for another 1.5 to 2 months. So could this mean the Bitcoin markets will continue to dump for the next month or 2? Would this mean the market could recover by early 2020? We can only keep observing to find out.

Plus Token Sources and References

Chinese Sources and News Coverage
Special thanks to https://3kemao.com/archives/124864?from=singlemessage&isappinstalled=0 https://www.ccvalue.cn/article/3952.html?from=singlemessage https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/EJLo-Rjjzz283FOCbzuLuA https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/HQxl5gKd0105tUIsQ0TQPg https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/rPtQAo0sf4P_LDM-8K0Z1g Matthew Graham for providing the videos and research!
Crypto Wallet Addresses

Chainnode Research: https://www.8btc.com/article/440193
BlockTempo: https://www.blocktempo.com/unable-to-withdarw-plustoken-is-crashing-down/
Plus Token Wallet Addresses: http://gscaijing.com/archives/21291
CoinTelegraph https://cointelegraph.com/news/3b-ponzi-scheme-is-now-allegedly-dumping-bitcoin-by-the-hundreds

Arrests / Man-hunt

SCMP: https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/3016604/six-chinese-nationals-wanted-beijing-internet-scam-arrested

Plus Token sell-offs and Bitcoin price correlation?

8BTC: https://news.8btc.com/bitcoin-dip-allegedly-a-result-of-incessant-bitcoin-selloffs-from-3-billion-ponzi-scheme

Findings from Twitter user Ergo: https://twitter.com/ErgoBTC/status/1197496064854634496?s=20

Updated on 4th December 2019 to include new section- Plus Token Sell-offs Responsible for Bitcoin Price Drop?

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Plus Token (PLUS) Scam - Anatomy of a Ponzi

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"Plus Token" was a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme disguised as a high-yield investment program. Platform administrators closed down the operation in June of 2019, withdrawing over $3 Billion dollars in Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, EOS and others) and leaving the message "sorry we have run".

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Official Invacio Telegram group:  https://t.me/invacioofficial

Etherscan (reported this wallet address as a phishing scam):   https://etherscan.io/address/0xDA88996F7D5548a088d97e6F67EF953f1a07D4b9

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Real website: https://morpheuslabs.io

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Cryptocurrency: Oneone

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1. Real botname: @shieldy
2. Scammer username: @sheildy

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Anyone heard of karabars? sounds scammy.

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1. Real username: @dryeap
2. Imposter/Scammer username: @Rexyeap

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1. Real username: @Yza_azY
2. Imposter/Scammer username: null

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They approach you through telegram PM and discord bot telling you about bitcoin giveaway winning

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Claimed to be from OKEx
Scammer Telegram username: @kathyhilton

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rexagonline.com: A ponzi like crypto website

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rexagonline.com: A ponzi like crypto website

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Details of the reported "Backdoor scam (Bit-Arab)"

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Details of the reported "Backdoor scam (Bit-Arab)"

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Scammer's Telegram username: @Larry_Bitarab

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@MaxCryptoProfile

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URL shortner used: https://cutt.ly/AyQVam

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Scammer: Imposter of Yogesh from Farm2Kitchen

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Scammer: Imposter of Yogesh from Farm2Kitchen

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Scammer Telegram username: @lisabakker
Scammer email address: YogeshF2k@consultant.com

Real Telegram username: @yogeshko

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QUICKX SCAMMERS even CEO dont REACT !!!! Admin  of Telegram Chat Suray Sharma is SCAMMER George Cao fake Support is SCAMMER !!!

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Scammer's Telegram ID: @fortnite7788

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Blacklisted by etherscamdb: https://etherscamdb.info/domain/bakktplatform.io

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1. Fake: t.me/polymathnetworkchat
2. Fake: https://t.me/polymathnewsupdate

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Scammer: Fake CryptoProfile Admin Max Ng PM'ing Fellow Co-Founder for ETH/BTC

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Scammer: Fake CryptoProfile Admin Max Ng PM'ing Fellow Co-Founder for ETH/BTC

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Kindly see link for more information.
https://tinyurl.com/ydc7p9vw

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Scammer: Fake CryptoProfile Admin Jeff PM'ing Potential Investor

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Scammer: Fake CryptoProfile Admin Jeff PM'ing Potential Investor

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Kindly see the link for more information.
https://tinyurl.com/fake-jeff-cp
Lesson: Check carefully. The scammer had the real admin Telegram ID in his BIO

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BTC Lucky Draw scam from http://icapitals.co

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BTC Lucky Draw scam from http://icapitals.co

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There is recently a phishing scammer in a scam Telegram group.
Scammer Telegram ID: @Estucripto
Real JP Telegram ID: @EstuCrypto

The objective of the scammer was to destroy the name of ICOBench.

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Telegram "Hall of Shame!": An excellent repository of "Crypto Scammers/Scam activities in Telegram"

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Telegram "Hall of Shame!": An excellent repository of "Crypto Scammers/Scam activities in Telegram"

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https://t.me/hallofshame

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ICO Scammer Elaina Yoon (fake admin) on Spiking.io Telegram Group

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ICO Scammer Elaina Yoon (fake admin) on Spiking.io Telegram Group

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Verification with Spiking.io Founder and CEO has helped Investigation Officers to conclude the following:

1. Pavel Simka seems to be a victim of a scammer lurking in (or used to lurk in) Spiking.io Telegram Group.

2. Scammer seems to be posing as a admin of Spiking.io

3. Victim may have been scammed 2.5ETH by fake admin (scammer).

4. At least one other victim may have been scammed by the same (or different) scammer targeting Spiking.io ICO project.
5. Scammer is formerly known as "Spiking Axel".

Tip of the day: Always check who you are sending your BTC and ETH to before making sending it over (resulting in no recourse).

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Source: https://etherscamdb.info/scams

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Scammer 0x9E3A962A61a3DC32B79E4183BA5b3FbC6C5342f6, via a Referrer lurking in Spiking.io Telegram Chat claiming to be authorized KYC Personnel.

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Scammer 0x9E3A962A61a3DC32B79E4183BA5b3FbC6C5342f6, via a Referrer lurking in Spiking.io Telegram Chat claiming to be authorized KYC Personnel.

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1. Scammer Telegram user name: Spiking | Clarence.
2. Verified with Spiking.io Team on December 25, 2018.
3. Real Spiking | Clarence Telegram ID: @Spiking_Clarence
4. Scammer Telegram ID: @Spking_Clarence
5. Picture: Green - Referrer, White - Scammer. Referrer email has been redacted for confidentiality reasons. Issues are highlighted by author with the red flag icon.

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zollo.io scammer using Zilliqa's brandname

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zollo.io scammer using Zilliqa's brandname

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Source: Screensnapshot: https://archive.st/archive/2019/4/forum.zilliqa.com/rlxv/April112019206am-yoo2d7zdd1tjxk1lzzfhesdqog5nbymj.jpg

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Scammer 3LzEuJZ7N1rP23A8Qf3dbieUKNJP6WB7ve, via a Referrer lurking in Spiking.io Telegram Chat claiming to be admin.

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Scammer 3LzEuJZ7N1rP23A8Qf3dbieUKNJP6WB7ve, via a Referrer lurking in Spiking.io Telegram Chat claiming to be admin.

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1. Scammer Telegram user name: Jun Yi
2. Verified with Spiking.io Team on December 23, 2018
3. Scammer has since exited the conversation with our referrer. As such, there is no news regarding the scammer's Telegram ID.
4. Real Jun Yi (Spiking.io Admin) Telegram ID: @Wuffle
5. Picture: Green - Referrer, White - Scammer.

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Scammer 0x1ba26295DAfAF7c0544C120e69e530069F6c0e2F, via a Referrer lurking in Spiking.io Telegram Chat claiming to be admin.

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Scammer 0x1ba26295DAfAF7c0544C120e69e530069F6c0e2F, via a Referrer lurking in Spiking.io Telegram Chat claiming to be admin.

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1. Scammer Telegram user name: Spiking | Axel
2. Verified with Spiking.io Team on December 23, 2018.
3. Scammer has since exited the conversation with our referrer. As such, there is no news regarding the scammer's Telegram ID.
4. Real Spiking | Axel (Spiking.io Admin) Telegram ID: @Spiking_Axel

5. Picture: Green - Referrer, White - Scammer

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[Courtesy of a Friend]

Helen Partz is the top journalist of Cointelegraph. However there is a scammer that is impersonating her. This was verified by Cointelegraph staff.

Verification: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-2jSlfhI8T2dJ5JlSC8ADSr08fmg0mUR?usp=sharing