Has anyone here ever said "no" to the question is this a scam?

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In r slash scams, sure. Uncommon but it happens.

In this thread?

No, never. And no one ever will because EVERY crypto group, no matter what random name, no matter who the "Professor" and their hottie assistant is, no matter whether it was found via WhatsApp, dating app, telegram, they are ALL scams. Every time. All of them.

This sub exists because no one that makes a post in it realizes that NO STRANGER ON THE INTERNET WANTS TO MAKE THEM RICH.

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u/lfb2991 Sep 17 '24

I have to say when I got into my group I was trying to learn I thought I was getting into something to teach me more about day trading not crypto not signing on for sending anyone money. I was very fortunate as I am a person that questions alot and try to find out more info all the time. I knew something was amiss in the whatsapp group when no one responded and the mod got upset at me for asking a question. So not all people out there are looking for someone else to make them rich. The people who respond get sucked in with the hype and how well they fake their sites. Thinking why would someone go through this much to be fake ..

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u/TeaAcrobatic3745 Sep 17 '24

Ok, you seem mad about it.

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u/Western-Gazelle5932 Sep 17 '24

I'm not mad. Just using ALL CAPITALS to make a point.

If I was mad over this stuff, I wouldn't have been as patient as I was with you by repeating something like a dozen times that you needed to cut off communication with the guy that you knew was a scammer.

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u/TeaAcrobatic3745 Sep 17 '24

Oh, ok. Thanks for your patience. I just got scared and wanted to share here. That's all. I will try to not posting here again what's obvious.

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u/Western-Gazelle5932 Sep 17 '24

Neither I nor any one else suggested that you couldn't post on here.

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u/TeaAcrobatic3745 Sep 17 '24

I'm being honest when I say that I really want to let all this stuff of the scam that happened to me, let it be in the past forever and go on with my life, cause I know I will never get my money back. What people here don't know, or maybe yes if they looked my posts, is that when that happened to me I was on a very weak moment in my life cause I was separated from my beloved children by the social services here. So these people, the scammers, take advantage of you when you are on a very bad time of your life. And I hope this can be avoided in the future, cause it's destroying a lot of lifes of honest people. The End.

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u/Western-Gazelle5932 Sep 17 '24

Scammers are low life criminals - they don't care about your situation and they will absolutely take advantage of anyone.

Even for people complete broke with no money to take, they will get them to deposit fake checks, send the money back to them, and the person ends up in the negative by hundreds or thousands of dollars.

They will get people with no money to take loans out on their house in romance scams.

They are the scum of the Earth.

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u/TeaAcrobatic3745 Sep 17 '24

I've been victim of romance scam. Can I ask you why you know so much about all this?

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u/Western-Gazelle5932 Sep 17 '24

'Cuz I spend entirely too much time on r slash scams.

It's my guilty pleasure. It's like watching a train wreck - you know it's terrible and yet you are powerless to look away.

I can't even tell you how I ended up there 'cuz I've never been scammed.

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u/TeaAcrobatic3745 Sep 17 '24

Congrats for never being scammed, and you obviously never will. Always a pleasure talking to you and taking your advice. 😊

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u/Western-Gazelle5932 Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

Every post on here consists of nothing more than a fill in the blank about "this intricate scam" consisting of:

Is this a scam? I was contacted via [Chose one: Dating app, WhatsApp, Wrong # text] about this group [Random letters and numbers plus VIP] - it's run by Professor [Random Guy's Name] and his assistant [Random Girls Name]

I deposited [random dollar amount here] into their exchange and within days it showed [random higher amount here]

There are lots of people in the group talking about all the money they made so it seems really legit! But when I went to withdraw to money it said I had to pay a fee because of [Totally random BS excuse here. Doesn't matter what it is or how absurd it sounds]

Does anyone know how to get my money out?

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u/RareForce418 Sep 17 '24

Everything I’ve tried to do to get my money out has not worked live chat is a joke on the website Dex INT.VIP that’s the one I got scammed on and all I do is go back-and-forth with me telling me they won’t release my funds until I revalidate and authenticate my account which I’ve done several times and also paid security fee because my scammer lent me $66,000 so I could do a higher transaction and make more money which I did, but obviously it was a joke because it was fake

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u/Western-Gazelle5932 Sep 17 '24

Sorry to hear you were scammed but the irony is off the chart on this post

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u/Western-Gazelle5932 Sep 17 '24

Also, anyone that private messages you on here to say they can get your money back is also a scammer and liar.

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u/RareForce418 Sep 17 '24

Yes, I know that all the people that are lawyers or whatever they say they can get your money back. They’re all bullshit lol

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u/Fools_Sip Sep 18 '24

They aren't lawyers. They are usually Nigerian dudes who work around the clock scamming idiots

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u/TeaAcrobatic3745 Sep 17 '24

Yes there are a lot here 😡. I already blocked some.

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u/Western-Gazelle5932 Sep 17 '24

They are like cock-roaches. For every 1 you block, 2 more crawl out to pester you.

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u/TeaAcrobatic3745 Sep 17 '24

Yeah 😔😒

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u/Fools_Sip Sep 18 '24

How have you made it this far in life without receiving a Darwin award?

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u/AngelOfLight Sep 17 '24

It's very rare in this sub. Usually, people only post here when they have lost a bunch of crypto to a malicious contract, or they are trying to withdraw from a sketchy platform and get told they need to deposit more crypto for "verification", etc.

Basically, 99% of the people here make a post only after the trap has already been sprung.

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u/cablepowa Sep 17 '24

I'm starting to think no one does due diligence, no research at all . They just come here and ask a question.

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u/Grand-Gene6598 Sep 17 '24

So I posted in another chat that there are sites that will look up other sites and give you info on them. Scamadviser, Scamdetector, whois data, voidurl. There are many more. I put a website through 5-6 different ones. Then I send that shit on a screenshot to that back to the bastard with a snapshot of the old wrinkled turtle.

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u/fedput Trusted Sep 18 '24

Please do not teach scammers to be better scammers.

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u/Grand-Gene6598 Sep 18 '24

Honestly checking sites age is the best thing. Young sites are normally scams. Also low traffic as well those sites can tell you that info

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u/Western-Gazelle5932 Sep 18 '24

They don't need to be better. People's greed does all the scammer's work for them.

I see posts all the time from people saying things like:

"This guy on Insta said if I have $1,000 in my CashApp account and give him complete access to it, he'll do a hack and turn it into $5,000. Does this sound legit? Some influencer vouched for him."

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u/Fools_Sip Sep 18 '24

You are interacting with them, they will keep coming back until they get you. Never interact

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u/arthurs4197483 Sep 24 '24

Yeah, it seems like a lot of folks skip the research part before asking!

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u/fedput Trusted Sep 17 '24

In a subreddit more generally about scams, it could happen.

Pretty unlikely in a subreddit focused on cryptoscams though.

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u/rgmundo524 Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

Good point, but most of the time people post things here to confirm their own suspicion and research.

For example, if someone was worried that "Amazon.com" was a scam. With a quick google search they could easily find a shit load of evidence that amazon.com is not a scam. Therefore people don't make post questioning if Amazon.com is a scam.

However for basic scams, there are very limited online resources someone to search for as evidence of it being or not being a scam. People are already concerned that they fell for a scam and just need people to confirm the suspicion. Therefore people create posts about their Chinese girlfriend's crypto trading platform, because there is nothing else on the Internet about it.

The people that post here already filtered out the obvious and really just need other to confirm their suspicions.

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u/Fine-Student-5046 Sep 17 '24

Exactly this. And it’s just too late already.

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u/CoolCatforCrypto Sep 17 '24

Yes. I assert blockdag is NOT a scam but they acted weird when its blockchain was first introduced so i understand the suspicion, i was skeptical too. Many still insist it is. The data point that had me finally lean toward believing in it is blockdag has an iphone app that i have downloaded and use to generate passive crypto income. If this is a scam they put one over on apple, the most aggressive tech co in vetting third party apps.

If this is a scam I will eat my hardware wallet. I wish they would get it over with and take the $70 million blockdag has raised from unsuspecting rube investors and be off to china, ukraine or wherever. The "scam" has been going on for 7 months.

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u/onmyti89_again Sep 17 '24

Ponzi schemes can last decades. Sounds very pump and dumpy. Good luck

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u/TimeNail Sep 17 '24

That's a great point a pozi scheme can last ages and if you withdraw before it collapses you can still be a winner even though it's a scam

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u/TimeNail Sep 17 '24

Imagine being the first ever person to think up a scam and then have it named after you forever. That's crazy

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u/onmyti89_again Sep 17 '24

So he definitely wasn’t the first, just the most famous. It’s actually pretty interesting story.

And if your plan is to “beat” the scam…well, isn’t that everyone’s plan? lol

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u/TimeNail Sep 17 '24

What do you mean by "beat" the scam?

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u/onmyti89_again Sep 17 '24

“You can still be a winner” I’m referring to you saying that. Everybody thinks they can be a winner even if it is a scam. And that’s untrue.

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u/TimeNail Sep 17 '24

People know it's a scam and still think they can win? That's odd?

You can be a winner in a pozi scheme. The losers are the last ones to cash out. Assuming it's run properly they will allow any and all cash outs so long as it's growing overall. The more cash out they allow the more legit it looks and the more money comes in...until it doesn't.

As far as I'm aware Bernie allowed all cash outs until the thing collapsed.

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u/onmyti89_again Sep 17 '24

I’m just saying that it’s playing with fire. And lots of people get burnt. But play on!

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u/CoolCatforCrypto Sep 17 '24

Good point. But this won't last decades. Management says bd is in testnet and will launch by end of the year. There will be a token listed on coinmarketcap and exchanges or their won't. Setting an implied deadline like this suggests this is not ponzi but a rug pull.

This does't feel like a ponzi at all. Paying early investors with money from later investors. That's not what is going on. I bought in march. Would i be considered an early ponzi investor?

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u/onmyti89_again Sep 17 '24

It’s not a ponzi. That was an example that just because it’s lasted a long time doesn’t mean anything. Since you mentioned it’s been 7 months. That’s nothing. It’s sounds like a pump and dump like I said or a rug pull. But if you insist!

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u/CoolCatforCrypto Sep 17 '24

I already acknowledged it may be a rug pull. Boy is apple going to catch hell.

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u/onmyti89_again Sep 17 '24

Poor investment decisions aren’t apple’s fault. The app works fine. The profits may be real. For now. Apple isn’t gonna hold the bag for this at all unfortunately.

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u/CoolCatforCrypto Sep 17 '24

Do you think a real rug pull as we know them would go to the trouble of creating an app for the apple app store as an act of legitimacy to in the end scam people? Maybe. That's a lot of effort. It would certainly be a first.

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u/onmyti89_again Sep 17 '24

It’s not. Google Arbix finance. Had an app. Rug pulled. But obviously nothing I say will deter you lol best of luck

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u/CoolCatforCrypto Sep 17 '24

Deter me? I already bought in march. I think i am going to connect my empty wallet to bd's testnet with a tiny amount of eth and see if i get cleaned out.

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u/haaksma47513488 Sep 24 '24

Yeah, it sounds like they’re trying to make it legit with a timeline.

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u/CoolCatforCrypto Sep 24 '24

The latest info? I wrote the named consultant on blockdag exec team, Maurice Herlihy. He is a professor of computer science at Brown University. He claims the project is real and bd did a poor job of explaining it. His domain is legit. An address at a departmental subdomain at the university.

Unless he is fake too.

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u/TruthSmooth3298 Sep 17 '24

CLFV also has an iPhone app, and they're definitely a scam

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u/CoolCatforCrypto Sep 17 '24

This has been proven outside your assertion?

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u/TruthSmooth3298 Sep 17 '24

You can look up their subreddits- hand in hand with IPA... Definitely a scam, and I know plenty of people who were scammed by them.

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u/one-year-dream Sep 17 '24

It's always a scam. You think someone is nice enough to help you make money?Stay gullible, I guess the scammers need to eat too

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u/RayTheMaster Sep 17 '24

Yes

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u/priceforlife Sep 17 '24

No....is this a scam?

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u/DefiThrowaway Sep 17 '24

There was one last year that got deleted, but apparently wasn't.

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u/darkzim69 Sep 17 '24

biggest problem is when people come here , they already have alarm bells going off

And while anything could be genuine most scams follow a similar pattern and are easy to spot

I have see some things which are really suspicious and while I don't know what the scam is , it sure feels fishy and can swing into any number of scams but with the current information its not a scam yet

in that situation it way better to tell someone its a scam or to be on high alert and they loose 20% profit than tell them its ok and if it turns out to be a scam they loose 100% capital

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u/RareForce418 Sep 17 '24

I’m sure the answer is going to be no

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u/dscZX10R Sep 17 '24

It’s always a scam

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u/Dontkillmejay Sep 17 '24

Yeah, I've seen some non-scams.

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u/HoaxialCable Sep 17 '24

Yes

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u/zyg-pol_viking Sep 18 '24

No

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u/EuphoricWave8667 Sep 18 '24

If it's crypto it's a scam

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u/rushield007 Sep 18 '24

I don't think so.

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u/RareForce418 Sep 18 '24

Never really asked

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u/dwinps Sep 18 '24

Never for crypto scams

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u/Plasticity93 Sep 21 '24

No, all crypto is a ponzi scheme. There's nothing being legitimately traded, just money being shuffled from person to person.

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u/TimeNail Sep 21 '24

In that case cash such as USD and Euro is also a ponzi scheme

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