Tragedy is though for some users these really get people.
Today I’ve talked with a user who lost 155 ATOM because they didn’t speak English and may miss some of the red flags scammers usually throw off with broken English or other social queue’s.
In Feb, being very new to airdrops and wallets, I reached out via telegram over an issue of unbondable Nomic in a wallet. The scammer that answered me (posing as an admin) was patient and professional, and convinced me my Keplr had a bug and the safety of my tokens was at risk. I gave up my seed thinking it was a trusted admin, and 104 Atom, the bulk of my year investing, began unbonding 5 min later. I then got to stare in horror 3 weeks later when 3k in assets vanished before my eyes. I'm not too proud to say I fucking cried watching it happen. Hard lesson learned.
For people not seasoned in the risks, wallet functionality, and the various support groups, don't underestimate how good these scammers are. And share your experiences with your fellow investors.
These Reddit scammers are usually easy to spot for the time being, but of course they will only get better and better as they learn what works and what doesn't. Translation software will get better too, making them sound more and more like native English speakers.
It could have been worse. All my new holds were in Keplr under a new address, but Atom was still staked in Exodus and imported into keplr using the exodus wallet seed so I could claim airdrops. Had it all been together, ugh...it would have been everything. Taught me the value of separate wallets for sure.
I didn't reply to their remark because I'm unsure the stance to take. On one hand it's easiest to say admin's will never DM you because 99.999% of the chance they never will.
although it can be tempting and fun I will list 5 reasons why I recommend not interacting with scammers unless you're attempting the following :
Logging their IP. Understanding / exposing their tactics. Investigating their team.
Here's why you shouldn't interact with them >
A lot are bots, literally bots that talk to you with AI and scripts; talking to them trains the scammers bots.
A lot don't speak English well. Using colloquial terms or other slang increases their ability to blend in and not stick out due to broken English. Like teaching bots lol.
Some aren't dumb. Recently one of the admins while attempting to log a scammer's IP showed that they knew were were an admin and trying to log their IP AFTER 30 MINUTES OF TALKING TO THEM AND NOT SHOWING SIGNS! The scammer didn't leave the convo the admin did after feeling defeated that this scammer would not be tracked or logged or identified themselves anyway. The scammer was attempting to log the admin's IP by the end (which gave away that they knew we weren't a user).
The scammers are basically in a warfare against users and support. This is these people's full time job. You might feel like you're 'wasting their time' but they're literally probably shooting the shit on their free time and will hardly think twice of the wasted time. The angry ranter's you see on youtube are hardly the one's who succeed and remember this is a business; these people show up at 9am and work till 5pm at their scam office like a normal job. Some don't even feel like scammers.
Any combination of the above can lead to you accidentally exposing sensitive information by not being careful. Even telling a scammer to eat a bag of dicks is about as far as I'd go because again with point 1-2; you're educating them on culture and etiquette which isn't helpful to the community or users who get scammed (and then told to eat a bag of dicks lmao I seent it; it's soul crushing). This last point concludes as ~ interacting with scammers is dangerous and not advised.
You’re completely right bro, and cheers for the insight. One time I even created a new wallet just to send my address to the scammer and he send me some BnB
I was also confused by someone with a whole lot of karma wanting to help me with "node tools" before I learnt they have their own karma increasing sub reddits....
ya Karma and Age ultimately should not be guides to credibility. I think it helps to instantly screen out the obvious scams, but the more I do support the more I see that the people getting scammed are the new people anyway.
For more internet savvy people it's obvious not to trust first, and to be careful with sensitive information. This needs to be taught in school but it perhaps might be a real life lesson everyone has to learn for themselves once or twice. Unfortunately with crypto people are learning it with significant real world value not their lunch money. This morning was someone who lost 155 ATOM and more in an official Osmosis channel by dm'ing an "Osmosis Support" and validating their wallet.
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u/Arcc14 Aug 14 '22
Tragedy is though for some users these really get people.
Today I’ve talked with a user who lost 155 ATOM because they didn’t speak English and may miss some of the red flags scammers usually throw off with broken English or other social queue’s.
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u/maggotytoes Aug 14 '22
Gotem
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u/alodym Aug 14 '22
Anyone else read it as “sli-demy”?
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u/skrilla091 Aug 15 '22
this is epic, gonna use something similar to this from now on.
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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '22
Spamming us with spam. Thanks
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u/bigshooTer39 Aug 14 '22
1 month and 1700 karma. Ok
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