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A Different Type of Scam

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Re: A Different Type of Scam

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This scam is rampant in Discord where in many top cryptoasset communities a bot will PM someone about winning a 'contest' or receiving a promotion for one of these scam exchanges, and it follows the same narrative from there of asking for transfer fees to claim "up to 1.2 BTC" etc.

Re: A Different Type of Scam

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post #11

This scam is rampant in Discord where in many top cryptoasset communities a bot will PM someone about winning a 'contest' or receiving a promotion for one of these scam exchanges, and it follows the same narrative from there of asking for transfer fees to claim "up to 1.2 BTC" etc.

That feels very different. In the OP the 'victims' are people trying to steal Bitcoins themselves.

Re: A Different Type of Scam

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You watched your kids tiktoks didn't you? This "hack" is one of the most watched on tiktok.

Kids on tiktok are watching stuff about people uploading fake credentials snapshots in order to scam unscrupulous users trying to steal crypto? Either I'm very out of touch or you misunderstood what the OP is about. It's not about bruteforcing URLs, the scam is built on top of that.
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