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There is new scam going around crypto discords and telegram channels and it has started to pop up everywhere. The scam is pretty much where they are giving away recovery wallet phases. If you're going to import or try to recover the wallet it will say "Your ETH balance is 0 cannot send." It will ask you to pay for gas fees. People will find the wallet and will pay in ETH for the gas prices. As soon as a person deposit the amounth of ETH needed for gas price, the bot will record any of the balance changes and it will then instantly send the ether out to the thief address.
You can find more info about this and how it's working below:
Latest Trust Wallet ScamAnd besides, these scamming trick was rampant in telegram groups.
You'll never have to trust someone from these two channels and not even from strangers. Honestly, these scammers will talk to you nicely and aim for you to give trust them. They help you and later on, they will scam you.
We don't just live ignorant about crypto, as we are investing in this, therefore, it was important to know how this actually works.
We don't let other people manage to do transactions on our behalf, it was advisable to do this using reputable exchanges, not strangers.