10-04-2021, 05:46 PM
We have to do whatever we can to protect the community from scammers
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Scammers pose a serious risk for the community, the market and adoption.</p> <p>We shall do whatever we can to protect the community from scammers, not only ourselves.</p> <p>When we find out about a new scam strategy those bastards come up with to trick us, we have the obligation to tell the community about it.</p> <p>I think a popular tactic is private messaging people on reddit and coming up with a ways of getting access to our assets, either buy making us transfer funds to them or handing over the wallet keys. I don't engage in private discussions so I'm safe from that.</p> <p>Other popular is the dusting strategy by airdropping useless tokens to random wallets expecting the receivers to take action so they can chase people I don't know how. I've in my wallet some tokens I never acquired. I didn't touch them. You should do the same if you have tokens you didn't buy or you are not sure they came from a reliable source.</p> <p>Please contribute with your own story or opinion.</p> <p>EDIT 1: Fake support accounts. A disease. Please be careful from whom you take support advice for issues on exchanges and wallets. Never accept a PM on that subject. Never provide your passwords nor keys</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/jmlinpt"> /u/jmlinpt </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/q1198s/we_have_to_do_whatever_we_can_to_protect_the/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/q1198s/we_have_to_do_whatever_we_can_to_protect_the/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Scammers pose a serious risk for the community, the market and adoption.</p> <p>We shall do whatever we can to protect the community from scammers, not only ourselves.</p> <p>When we find out about a new scam strategy those bastards come up with to trick us, we have the obligation to tell the community about it.</p> <p>I think a popular tactic is private messaging people on reddit and coming up with a ways of getting access to our assets, either buy making us transfer funds to them or handing over the wallet keys. I don't engage in private discussions so I'm safe from that.</p> <p>Other popular is the dusting strategy by airdropping useless tokens to random wallets expecting the receivers to take action so they can chase people I don't know how. I've in my wallet some tokens I never acquired. I didn't touch them. You should do the same if you have tokens you didn't buy or you are not sure they came from a reliable source.</p> <p>Please contribute with your own story or opinion.</p> <p>EDIT 1: Fake support accounts. A disease. Please be careful from whom you take support advice for issues on exchanges and wallets. Never accept a PM on that subject. Never provide your passwords nor keys</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/jmlinpt"> /u/jmlinpt </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/q1198s/we_have_to_do_whatever_we_can_to_protect_the/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/q1198s/we_have_to_do_whatever_we_can_to_protect_the/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R