It would be nice to know what the scam entails.
Send me your coins and I'll double them.
Except that's exactly what some popular staking/liquidity pools promise, just in slightly more time.
YouTube crypto giveaway scams
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bring the scammer before a judge. The same as when anyone scams you out of cash or gemstones or electronics. "I put a ruby in a box and shipped it to Nigeria because an email told me to. How do I get it back?" It's not a new problem.
I think 100% irreversible purely online/digital transactions are a bit of a new problem? If you wire transferred money to a scammer's bank account it won't be easy getting it back, but if you realize your mistake soon enough you at least have a chance. For example, it's possible to to get the receiving bank to hold the money pending an investigation. With a crypto transfer there's no higher authority to appeal to. (w…
Ofc there are ! There are 3 know authorities that sometimes intervenes that we must regulate and centralise more:
- Tether, which is reasonable enough to block transaction of known stolen USDT
- Exchanges who can reverse transactions if they havent left the exchange and are very monitored these days
- Miners, who can fork or reject an address if needed, something they dont all do because they're themselves not exactly loved by the country they suck energy out of
We need to switch away from decentralized currencies and move to a model of monitored USDT: that would allow the public to access every transaction of every actor, with the ability to block publicly criminals.
Weirdly crypto opponent focus a lot on decentralization but I don't think it matters as much as they think, while crime prevention is clearly more needed if people fall for "double your bitcoin" scams.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indeed. But this site is probably a pretty typical example of the scam: https://msnews.io/#rules I like their calculator. Very helpful.
I was surprised at how few spelling errors the scam had until I got to the transaction hashes and wallet addresses.
But the lack of articles like “the” are a flag to be that this is probably Russian or Ukrainian. They generally do not use “the” when writing English.
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#74I find it rather irritating that the author didn't bother to describe the mechanics behind the supposed scam. A quick sample of other posts also suffer from the same lack of information.
I am trying to find more information such as how they obtain the livestream views or how they hack the twitter accounts. Hundreds of articles have been written about this but no insight as to where the livestream views come from. Are the livestream from proxies or some sort of browser hijack.
Also, almost everyone by now is aware of the scam given all the news coverage it over the past few years, so I don't see the need to repeat myself again.
Google "crypto giveaway scam YouTube" no quotes for more info.
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#75A family member lost $3k to this. YouTube promoted a real looking interview with the founder of ETH, high production value, saying they will double your ETH etc. When most of of crypto users are poor and less educated they tend to be targeted…
Yeah like crypto or not, why would you be paid instantly for doing nothing ? $3k is a month or more of work for most people, did that person really believe the world lied to him and instead of working a month, he could "double" it immediately ?
They probably did. It's because they've heard of other people getting rich off of crypto. The classic get rich quick swindle. Ponzi schemes and all sorts of other marketing schemes are also similar.
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#76I've reported these on YouTube yet they're still being recommended to me hours later. Clearly they're incapable of moderating their own platform. What's it going to take for them to start taking this seriously?
Genuine question: Does anyone here have a good sense of how easy/hard it is to moderate a platform like YouTube? My sense is that the answer is VERY HARD, so I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt when things go wrong. But perhaps I’m being too generous. Is this something that could be prevented if YouTube just tried harder?
Here's an easy solution: only allow people who have proven their identities to have videos promoted by YouTube's algorithms, so they can be held legally liable if they publish videos that break the law
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indeed. But this site is probably a pretty typical example of the scam: https://msnews.io/#rules I like their calculator. Very helpful.
Holy shit. Try opening Dev tools (F12); it redirects you immediately to some random minecraft YouTube video. They do NOT want people digging into the site, haha.
crazy find
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#78So, when do enough scams on people choosing to participate go from being their problem, to society's problem? And when do we all start to have to pay for this at some point? Because I have a feeling we will, even though I have no idea why.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bring the scammer before a judge. The same as when anyone scams you out of cash or gemstones or electronics. "I put a ruby in a box and shipped it to Nigeria because an email told me to. How do I get it back?" It's not a new problem.
I think 100% irreversible purely online/digital transactions are a bit of a new problem? If you wire transferred money to a scammer's bank account it won't be easy getting it back, but if you realize your mistake soon enough you at least have a chance. For example, it's possible to to get the receiving bank to hold the money pending an investigation. With a crypto transfer there's no higher authority to appeal to. (w…
I think you mean it has cons and cons. We are discussing cons, after all.
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#80Lol a doubling scam. These scams have existed since MMOs began and you could trick people into giving you items/currency under false pretenses. Ironically a smart contract is probably the safest way for a customer to engage in a doubling scam.
>Ironically a smart contract is probably the safest way for a customer to engage in a doubling scam. Press F [0][1] to doubt. [0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/hacke... [1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/poly-network-hackers-potential...
Are you just trying to say the smart contracts can have bugs in general?
It's trivial to write a bug free money doubler smart contract. The logic needed is VERY simple.