I’ve had a few scammers contact me via instagram and although I didn’t fall for them I’m sure other people have. So I decided to share my experience with these scammers so y’all can identify them. Some are more obvious than others, but with bots and AI it’s getting wild. Two of the scammers that contacted me started saying they were finding friends through instagram. A few days later, booth asked me if I knew what bitcoin mining was. I told them I knew the basics. They booth had their response ready to send and tried to get me to invest. For those who don’t know how bitcoin mining works. Bitcoin mining is the process of adding new Bitcoin transactions to the blockchain, a public ledger of all Bitcoin transactions that have ever occurred. Miners use powerful computers to solve complex mathematical problems in order to verify and add new transactions to the blockchain. In return for their efforts, miners are rewarded with newly created Bitcoin and transaction fees.
The scammers had long explanations on how if I putted 200$ I would get 2000$ in only 3 days. This is obviously not possible. Scammers keep saying it’s 100% safe, you’ll ear a lot of money and that it’s limited. If someone tries to sell you something using those three arguments WATCH OUT! I finally told them I knew they were scammers. They obviously didn’t admit it. One of them blocked me, the other kept insisting. This scammer also gave me the website where “she” wanted me to deposit the money. Never trust a website that doesn’t have a privacy policy.
As you can see in the video, on the right upside corner it keeps telling you how much money other users have won. Don’t trust that. I don’t know why, but this scammer kept insisting and finally admitted “she” was a scammer. Normally they won’t admit it, because it’s obviously foolish of them.
The third scammer I got this year was really good. He claimed to be a sugar daddy who wanted to give me 5000$/week for texting with him. I haven’t seen that much scams, but I swear, this is the best I’ve ever seen. At first it was a bit of talking. How does this work? Stating “rules”, et cetera. He wanted to pay the 5k the first day by PayPal. He even said something like: “Hope you don’t block me or avoid me after your first payment, cause’ I’ve been hurt before…” and asked for a picture of me (normal one). After talking all that bullshit he asked for my paypal account. At the time I was 17, you have to be at least 18 to have a paypal account. Besides, you cannot move more than 2500€/year if your account is not verified. I told him, to see his response, and he said it wouldn’t be a problem. At this point I had created a fake PayPal account and send him. Then I received this from him:
And this email:
Notice on the first picture the email (receipts@messaging.squareup.com) and on the second picture the bottom. It says you have to pay 100$ on bitcoin to receive the 7000$. There are a lot of things wrong with this. The images he send me clearly says he’s giving me 5000$, the email says 7000$. PayPal doesn’t use bitcoin, and the email receipts@messaging.squareup.com is clearly not PayPal. To make sure my Paypal account wasn’t the problem, I had 1$ send by a friend to my account (Didn’t have problems and the email and format where different). So I asked him directly if he was trying to scam me to see his response. He told me I had to send 100$ bitcoins and send me this video:
I don’t know about you, but I had never seen such an elaborated scam. So after this he asked me if I needed help buying bitcoins. I told him I could buy on my own and he gave me a PayPal bitcoin address where I was supposed to send the money (bc1q9dfvrpvuc30uvq4h5rma6svwhc4g60hyny2g9y).
I hope this helps. Scams are getting harder to identify, so be careful where you put your money. There are going to be a lot of crypto scams, because it’s new technology and people don’t understand it yet. A few tips. Don’t invest if you don’t understand it. Not your keys not your coins. I want to finish by saying that this does not mean that bitcoin bad is. Just like the internet, when used properly, it produces positive outcome, but when used improperly, it produces negative ones. The same goes for bitcoin, it depends on how you use it.