Twitter Scams
Crypto Twitter is the place to be for Crypto news, influencer shills and generally keeping your ear to the ground, but it's also rife with frauds and scammers trying to rob you of your hard earned ETH
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Crypto Twitter is the place to be for Crypto news, influencer shills and generally keeping your ear to the ground, but it's also rife with frauds and scammers trying to rob you of your hard earned ETH
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Twitter is great for following your favourite crypto influencers, imagine when one of them sends you a direct message out of the blue asking "Hello how are your trades going" OMG so exciting! WRONG! It's incredibly unlikely a legitimate crypto influencer will just message you without any prior contact or certainly not to just to ask you how your trading is going. This is most likely just some unscrupulous scammer trying to get you to send them money. They'll try any way possible to get you to send ETH or BNB or any currency to a random wallet, telling you it's a trading program or they're investing it for you. Probably showing you screenshots of the HUGE GAINS and INCREDIBLE RETURNS others are making using their service. Or some other scammy nonsense. Don't you dare send them a dime fisters! 👊🏿 Easy check, the twitter handle, not the display name, the handle with the @ they cannot replicate these, there will be a slight, almost unnoticeable difference between their handle and the real influencer's handle they are mimicking. Also, follower count, twitter verification etc are good flags, but the handle CANNOT be copied. And even if it IS a real account, pretty sus right! use caution! Let's play spot the difference... REAL 👇🏿 FAKE 👇🏿
"Check it out! Your eligible to claim this airdrop from XYZ token, and all you have to do is click this handy link!" NO! You are about to get fisted. 👊🏿 Airdrops do not work like that. There is a 99.99% chance this is a scam. These posts often start appearing alongside rumours of real airdrops. Airdrops require time and effort interacting with the native network or chain to earn, they are not simply given out at random via twitter links. Scammers use this tactic as most users, even some fairly experienced crypto users are not aware of what it takes to earn an airdrop. They've just heard about people being Airdropped $1000's in tokens. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is! Don't get fisted by these lazy attempts to drain your wallet! Ignore them, or better yet report and block them. One of the best ways to avoid getting suckered into these is to stay informed about airdrops, what they are and what it takes to earn them, if you are interested check this guy out: OlimpioCrypto
Often you'll find yourself getting tagged in twitter posts about the best project since sliced bread. You and half a dozen other twitter accounts will be lucky enough to be tweeted to directly about the next 1000x project! How convenient! No! 👊🏿 This is just a lazy way of shilling shit tokens, bots or users with nothing better to do tag multiple users in replies or tweets, with a standard shill template for XYZ token, it's probably a rug or a pump and dump. Do your own research, use this toolkit, ape responsibly. You know the drill! Ignore, block and/or report these punk assed shiller bots.
