Quote from: Becassine on Today at 01:58:08 PM

Quote from: FrozenBit on Today at 01:51:44 PM

2, 3, 7 is what I've been through.

And I was also scammed by an impersonator of a relative, I remember when that person stole my friend's social media account and texted that he wanted to borrow USDT to pay fees, of course on a close level with me took absolutely no precautions and sent the money to the wallet address in the message, even though it was a long time ago but it helped me learn a big lesson not to be too quick to believe things on the internet, and now being exposed to certain terms like deepfake it makes me even more wary.

I hadn't thought of this last way of scamming Shocked

I would say this type of scam mostly happens on the Facebook social media platform. Before many people use to have their contact numbers as their passwords and their accounts usually get hacked easily. The hacker will now read all your messages and detect those you might be close with or those that you have done business with one time or the other. Then he will start asking the person for loan stating some pressing things he is going through. This loan is this in form of crypto since you can’t dictate the owner of a crypto asset like you will do in bank transactions. You end up sending funds to him.

The easiest way to beat this type of scam is to through to communicate the account owner through another means, effectively through calls. This way you will hear directly from the person.

Quote from: Becassine on Today at 01:38:21 PM

Am I forgetting any?

I can’t see the telegram exchange group own: this one happens locally where you are invited into a group and then you will see them buying and selling cryptocurrency coins and tokens with a much better price than almost all exchanges then due to naivety and greediness you end up buying or selling to them. The group will have fake people in it and a self claimed escrow. They will ask you to send to the escrow first and once you do that you will just be instantly removed from the group.