BEWARE of cryto scammers lurking here

https://www.reddit.com/r/chat/comments/z0bseg/beware_of_cryto_scammers_lurking_here/

created by Zestyclose_Ad_6400 on 20/11/2022 at 18:44 UTC*

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How to spot a potential scammer :

- 30+ aged female speaks broken English. Mostly chinese male scammers pretending to be women.

- Always looking for mature men older than them ( people who might have money to lose )

- Mostly claim to be either somewhere in california or canada and runs her own business like an international trading company.

- Is interesed in investments but not in stock investments because they are too risky according to them..starts hinting at crypto.

-Will start saying that she wants to help you and will guide you how to do that.

- is extremely caring from the start.

- will quickly ask to talk on whatsapp or telegram ( favorite means of communiction for all crypto scammers) but will never do a video call. The whatsapp number is not a real phone number that you can call.

- They dont have any social media accounts and any pics they send you are fake pics from chinese/Asian dating sites. Yandex.com[1] image search is great at finding images of Chinese scammers on Chinese/Russian dating sites. The more savy ones might try to pass on someone elses Insta account as their own.

1: https://Yandex.com

One of the numbers used by scammer is 5303163102 but they surely use a lot of them.

Most of these operations are run by mafia in China/southeast asia and these women/men are just frontend mules.

Dont end up losing your lives savings like I did. Remember that these people are professional manipulators and they wont even hesitate to sell their mama for a buck. If you think even slightly that the person you are chatting might be a scammer then immediately block them, do not wait and see.

Google 'Pig butchering' scam.

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Comment by x2nn at 21/11/2022 at 00:06 UTC

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I already caught and exposed one chines scammer here.

Comment by Loud-Mixture-4799 at 21/11/2022 at 02:37 UTC

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Good to know, thanks for the info 🤙

Comment by Altruistic-Bass-4998 at 21/11/2022 at 13:34 UTC

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Ones that hit me up usually claim Los Angeles, Miami or Jacksonville. Been playing with one for a couple months that claims "she" is in Paducah Ky......i find amusement in playing along with them, and wasting their time

Comment by Top_Spread_6173 at 21/11/2022 at 08:35 UTC

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Happened twice recently and things always ended up on bitcoin investment🤷‍♂️

Comment by Thump241 at 22/11/2022 at 21:45 UTC

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Also to be aware of: they are in it for the long haul. They will invest weeks or months to gain your trust, long as they see the potential profit gain. As OP suggests: soon as you get the feel you are getting scammed, just block, report, and move on.

Comment by pmgoldenretrievers at 22/11/2022 at 22:00 UTC

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Be aware of recovery scammers. Anyone who claims they can recover your crypto is a scammer. They're all over /r/scams and DM people who lost money. It's so bad we have an automod about it. The only people who can recover crypto is the FBI, and they're not going to be reaching out to you on Reddit.

Comment by [deleted] at 23/11/2022 at 00:52 UTC

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Comment by GnarlyNarwhalNoms at 23/11/2022 at 02:26 UTC

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I'm sorry this happened to you, OP. Good on you for going public and warning others. It's not easy to acknowledge being scammed.

Just a reminder for everyone: the whole point of crypto is that it doesn't run through intermediaries like banks.

If you get defrauded and lose money through a bank or credit transaction, *sometimes* they can get your money back. Not often, but sometimes. And occasionally at the least, if there's a pattern of transactions, this can help law enforcement find them eventually. Again, while it's very rare, it can happen.

But somebody scams you out of crypto? It's gone, man. Game over. Good luck taking your fraud complaint to Satoshi Nakamoto.

Comment by pmjm at 23/11/2022 at 07:58 UTC

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Dont end up losing your lives savings like I did.

Holy hell, seriously? I'm so sorry.

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Comment by [deleted] at 12/12/2022 at 18:26 UTC

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Damn that sucks. But anyway I teach lessons on crypto so if anyone is interested DM me. My name's Melissa btw. 😊