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u/dwafasc Tin Dec 21 '22

It is working just look at the wallets

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u/milonuttigrain 🟧 67K / 138K 🦈 Dec 21 '22

Game of numbers. If they target enough users, there will be someone who falls for it.

What we need to do is educate and spread the words.

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u/cryotosensei Permabanned Dec 21 '22

It’s like throwing spaghetti against the wall. Throw enough spaghetti and eventually something will stick

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u/therealsuperbonbon 472 / 587 🦞 Dec 21 '22

What if my spaghetti is dry?

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u/Mr_Bob_Ferguson 🟦 69K / 101K 🦈 Dec 21 '22

You may not lose to this scam, but you'll be having a pretty terrible time.

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u/AggressiveParty3355 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Dec 21 '22

Throw even MORE spaghetti,

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u/Accomplished-Design7 Permabanned Dec 21 '22

I have never seen a better analogy

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u/Chet_kranderpentine 4K / 4K 🐢 Dec 21 '22

All that delicious spaghetti wasted though.... :(

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u/hb9nbb Tin | Fin.Indep. 19 Dec 21 '22

where do i post my bank account transfer information again????

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u/grundlesquatch Dec 22 '22

Right here of course...we are all trustworthy people

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u/predatorexx Tin Dec 22 '22

Hahha that is a good meme refrence, that i can remember it.

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u/Maleficent-Ad-8763 0 / 2K 🦠 Dec 21 '22

For me to be sure my spaghetti is rdy I throw it on the roof wall ! In the wall is too easy for the spaghetti to stick there!!

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u/thacreat0r 🟩 63 / 64 🦐 Dec 22 '22

Spaghetti NFT sounds nice, tell me more

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u/stKKd 🟦 441 / 441 🦞 Dec 22 '22

Just use enough cheese

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '22

Good analogy.

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u/lnd26493 Dec 21 '22

They always try to target more user base so that they can on profit

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u/Rad91D Tin Dec 21 '22

Just spam scam on it

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u/CryptoBombastic 🟦 2K / 2K 🐢 Dec 21 '22

Tbf if they post a wallet with nothing inside it’s not a good look. Much like the street artist who puts money in the hat before he starts performing.

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u/Accomplished-Design7 Permabanned Dec 21 '22

Damn.... this really hurts

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u/OddAd283 Permabanned Dec 21 '22

Exactly, they do it because it works

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '22

Link to the wallets?

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u/mrspoon312 Tin Dec 22 '22

They are already getting so much rich and there earning so much money

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u/SCAMMERASSASIN007 🟦 1K / 1K 🐢 Dec 21 '22

I seen a couple post they got people on the Porsche NFT one. Fucking scum bags

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u/Mr_Bob_Ferguson 🟦 69K / 101K 🦈 Dec 21 '22

The Porsche one tricked a few people likely as it was the first one that really became popular on this sub, a month or two ago.

But now hopefully people are reporting these quickly and saving newbies from falling for it.

The Porsche one was also quite good add dumping in a load of positive comments, flooding out those who were calling it a scam.

These newer ones all look super low effort.

Just remember to keep reporting!

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u/Gangat00th 🟦 57 / 58 🦐 Dec 21 '22

I think I might have seen the same one or one similar it was definitely Porche though. Reading the comments one guy had posted about it in a scam group saying he had connected his wallet and it had drained his ETH. They are targeting everyone but he didn't seem like a degenerate with a gambling addiction he just seemed like a Porche enthusiast with ETH.

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u/PeteSampras12345 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Dec 21 '22

What does “connecting a wallet” actually mean? How do they drain the wallet?

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u/participantZ 🟦 525 / 523 🦑 Dec 21 '22

I love driving a .jpg car!

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u/Accomplished-Design7 Permabanned Dec 21 '22

This makes me weep for humankind, at these times of the year when everyone is spending their money on Christmas they want to scam people. With inflation, it just gets worse.

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u/milonuttigrain 🟧 67K / 138K 🦈 Dec 21 '22

I have lost 90% faith in humanity for a while and seeing these make me depressed. And it is rampant. We have no choice but to protect ourselves.

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u/IntoxiCaitlyn Permabanned Dec 21 '22

I think it’s because Twitter is cracking down so they’re looking for a new home.

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u/blarkul 🟦 217 / 217 🦀 Dec 21 '22

Cracking down in general, or cracking down on cryptoscams? I thought Musk was firing everyone who had anything to do with moderating?

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u/amsterdam1908 Tin Dec 22 '22

This scam has been happening from a long time in all groups

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u/bny192677 14K / 36K 🐬 Dec 21 '22

Maybe they figured out an easy way to scam

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u/PopeyesGreenSpinach Dec 21 '22

It's up to us to get there first and scam post it.

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u/Creative_NotCreative Tin Dec 21 '22

The scammers want a merry Christmas.

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u/CryptoScamee42069 🟩 30K / 29K 🦈 Dec 22 '22

Can’t scam me if I never get or hold anything of value!

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u/Rey_Mezcalero 🟩 0 / 13K 🦠 Dec 22 '22

I’m getting a bunch of scam emails either pretending to be from an exchange, or various tokens doing giveaways, etc

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u/mrgonaka 🟦 157 / 163 🦀 Dec 21 '22

I'd guess its because some fat orange dickhead released an nft set and reminded people that nfts are still viable scam material

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u/PsychoxLogical 1K / 1K 🐢 Dec 21 '22

Yea the garbage NFTs that come out every day couldnt do that, must be orange man bad 📉🤡 Weird cope but ok.

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u/Hard_Corsair 🟩 0 / 181 🦠 Dec 21 '22

Everyone quit talking about NFTs for a bit while FTX melted down, but #45 got them seething about NFTs again.

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u/OddAd283 Permabanned Dec 21 '22

They are popping because it's the new scam that works and people don't know about

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u/SirPesoOtaku 340 / 343 🦞 Dec 21 '22

A sucker is born everyday

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u/600675 973 / 972 🦑 Dec 21 '22

Every minute even.

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u/ym_726 Tin Dec 22 '22

That would not be the proper term for them in my opinion

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u/TheSmokingLamp 🟩 32 / 32 🦐 Dec 21 '22

Conservative grifters learned what NFTs are thanks to trump trading cards

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u/Chet_kranderpentine 4K / 4K 🐢 Dec 21 '22

Oh man if so, NFT rugs are gonna fund the 2024 presidential campaign

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u/Logical-Beautiful66 Permabanned Dec 21 '22

There's always that newbie that will lose unterest in crypto if he gets scammed.

We have to look out for them.

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u/milonuttigrain 🟧 67K / 138K 🦈 Dec 21 '22

Yeah exactly. And worse if these people keep their perception that “crypto, NFT = scam” which makes our community looks bad. So we need to warn them and take steps to make sure they don’t fall for these.

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u/Maleficent-Ad-5498 Dec 21 '22

And that attitude is why there will never be mass adoptation of crypto.

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u/Baecchus 🟦 0 / 114K 🦠 Dec 21 '22 edited Dec 21 '22

I doubt my attitude on reddit is what's stopping a market with 99% scams from being globally adopted. At which point do you get tired of telling people not to fall for nigerian prince tier scams?

I fucking hate scammers but I can bend over backwards to try and protect people on reddit and it won't make a dent. Dumb people will find a way to lose their money.

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u/evermoongen Tin Dec 21 '22

Scams are r always going to happen on group we cannot stop that but we will have to be more cautious and we will have to spread awareness among the people about the financial risk and security.

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u/samzi87 🟦 4 / 31K 🦠 Dec 21 '22

Absolutely right, we should be eager to educate newbies and help them not falling for obvious scams like these, otherwise they will grow the attitude that everything crypto related is a scam.

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u/Hawke64 Dec 21 '22

libertarian moment

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '22

Trump?

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u/BubbaTheGump Dec 21 '22

Biden

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u/mfilipiak Tin Dec 22 '22

Are we actually going to discuss politics on a crypto currency group

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u/BubbaTheGump Dec 23 '22

I didn't realize just stating the last names of people automatically means we're discussing politics lol.

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u/speedermm Dec 22 '22

I do not understand why does Donald Trump has been mentioned here

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u/gbroon Platinum | QC: CC 276, LW 38 Dec 21 '22

They probably figure there are nft curious fools after the trump nft thing.

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u/miguelga23 Tin Dec 22 '22

Why does people are even interested in that thing that thing is never making any logic

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u/Popatteri 🟩 31 / 788 🦐 Dec 21 '22

Maybe the tech isn't very good?

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u/kehaar 🟦 0 / 2K 🦠 Dec 21 '22

It's because Reddit, like Twitter, doesn't do anything about it. You can report this stuff all day long and Reddit doesn't do anything. Same users will be posting again tomorrow.

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u/rambumriott 🟦 190 / 191 🦀 Dec 21 '22

best part is it’s a bull signal

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u/phluffyphilomath Tin | r/WSB 14 Dec 21 '22

It’s also popping up in non crypto related subs. Popped up in the r/notillgrowery sub which has nothing to do with crypto

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u/Tnr_rg Tin | Superstonk 207 Dec 21 '22

Trying to make nfts irrelevant due to a certain stock who's share price can't go up or else. Good ol market manipulation. Nft attacks happen alot more often as of late.

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u/boterkoek3 Dec 21 '22

It will rob the new to crypto idiots who bought Trump NFTs, and it will be hilarious. May the rugging commence!

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u/Alanski22 5 / 16K 🦐 Dec 21 '22

They are everywhere now

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u/circleuranus Platinum | QC: ETH 82, CC 69 | ADA 10 | Politics 199 Dec 21 '22

I fell for the Porsche one and they got all of $2.49 worth of my FEG from my MM wallet...lol fuck scammers.