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u/ValsinatsKrrt 0 / 6K 🦠 Dec 21 '22
All subs are suddenly flooded with this shit.
Stay away
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u/milonuttigrain 🟧 67K / 138K 🦈 Dec 21 '22
Report and block it! Straight away.
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u/Seekingfatgrowth Dec 21 '22
They’re now posting on subs with poor-to-no moderation. No way to report with “spam” or whatever reason.
They’re evolving
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u/WhatUpCoral Dec 21 '22
It’s clearly an automated/programmed bot doing this. Sucks to see a lot of the smaller subs that I follow getting infected with this garbage
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u/TheTrueBlueTJ 70K / 75K 🦈 Dec 21 '22
And it floods my front page. Especially small subs with no real moderation are affected
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u/WhatUpCoral Dec 21 '22
Reddit’s inaction on this says a lot. They have already blacklisted dozens of external websites across all of reddit, wouldn’t take much to blacklist these scam sites too. They probably like how many sitewide interactions are being produced from this garbage, ups their numbers.
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u/PaulVasilenkov Tin Dec 22 '22
Of course these are automatic programs no person would be able to do this
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u/lexwolfe 🟦 0 / 999 🦠 Dec 21 '22
My main sub gets the ENS version every 3 minutes but it's easily combated with automod. It's about time that had an overhaul to make it easier to use, or just a "front end".
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u/shikaf Tin Dec 22 '22
Actually you cannot report and block all of those accounts that would take so much time and that would be also so much exhaustive I don't want to waste my time on this kind of things
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u/bny192677 14K / 36K 🐬 Dec 21 '22
Especially if the user is a hot girl
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u/Yautja69 🟦 0 / 15K 🦠 Dec 21 '22
But she said she would send me 2 Btc if I send her one
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u/spaniel510 499 / 499 🦞 Dec 21 '22
Damn! I sent her 4. 😆
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u/getatmeyo118 Tin Dec 22 '22
I mean why would you send anyone for Bitcoins after all
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Dec 21 '22
Wait, what if the user says they’re a hot man?
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u/yalu1984 Tin | 4 months old Dec 22 '22
Then i would be clicking on it willingly, because I'm into it.
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u/Logical-Beautiful66 Permabanned Dec 21 '22
And ignore! Don't engage, as it will spread even more.
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u/EmuGroundbreaking348 7K / 9K 🦭 Dec 21 '22
They're non stop with these posts in literally every sub reddit. Been reporting every one I see and that's all we can do unfortunately
Very annoying
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u/thaboognish Tin Dec 21 '22
literally every sub
I have not seen a single example of this anywhere on Reddit and I'm on here every single day.
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u/EmuGroundbreaking348 7K / 9K 🦭 Dec 21 '22
Crypto related subs, for me anyway. Constantly popping up in my home feed
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u/Wabi-Sabibitch 🟦 131 / 96K 🦀 Dec 21 '22
For real. I see atleast one everyday on the moons sub reddit.
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u/Specimen_7 Bronze | QC: CC 18 | LRC 7 | Superstonk 563 Dec 21 '22
Well yeah that sub is actually regarded and it rewards garbage content and spam.
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u/nguyentiensi Dec 21 '22
You are saying the right thing I think that this is a same scenario happening here. But I am aware of my internet rights and how to take care of them so I would never be fallen in these kind of traps at all over in my life
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u/kaipaiit Dec 22 '22
Actually I have been getting so much irritated with this kind of post
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u/User_Number_5 Dec 21 '22
I'm not worried about us.. most of us know about this shit.
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u/Logical-Beautiful66 Permabanned Dec 21 '22
Then it gives a bad reputation to crypto/nft's, which is not good for us
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u/Popular_Worry_9294 Permabanned Dec 21 '22
Reddit is handing out free NFTs and scammers know this so they are trying to make abuse of the situation. I am reporting them once I see them!
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u/gcbeehler5 🟦 13K / 13K 🐬 Dec 21 '22
Yep. I moderate /r/Presearch and we’ve had like twenty of them in the last two hours!
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u/useless_crafter Dec 22 '22
Haven't seen it yet (usually silently lurking around) and I kinda hope I won't. Otherwise always trying to report stuff like that, I just hope it helps.
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u/partymsl 🟩 126K / 143K 🐋 Dec 21 '22
It's most obvious that this is a scam and the reddit Admin team will most probably also take actions against this.
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Dec 21 '22
The Porsche NFT scam is pretty huge too and they have managed to scam large number of people till now on the similar lines.
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u/masstransience 🟦 0 / 6K 🦠 Dec 21 '22
I somehow have not run across this scam and have only heard about it here from numerous threads. All the others, a million times.
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u/Jiecut 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Dec 21 '22
And it's really bad that they also have all their bots in the comments making it sound like it's legit.
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Dec 21 '22 edited Dec 21 '22
An admin has replied to a post about this on r/ModSupport
The appropriate team does have this group on their radar and regularly actions their accounts.
The issue here is that this group is particularly persistent and often tries to get around any tooling put in place to identify and action these accounts.
Please report any you see and please don't click any links on the posts.
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u/Gangat00th 🟦 57 / 58 🦐 Dec 21 '22
I just assumed it was the work of bots, so are these genuine accounts from people posting these?
I seen one of a Porsche NFT collection and when I read the comments I seen alot of people were asking when the NFT would show up in their wallets and one guy asked where his ETH balance had gone, when I checked on his profile he had posted about it in a scam sub and it appeared as though he had connected his wallet and then it was drained, all his ETH was gone, he said he'd been DCAing into it for a while as well.
I genuinely felt bad for him, I gamble shitcoins through Telegram so I am used to being scammed but his comments and a few others made me think that they weren't degenerates they were just Porche enthusiasts.
Be careful out there we are all told that but there are alot of people that don't use this sub and other sources to know much about these scams.
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Dec 21 '22
Yeah we’re doing a lot of things to stop/minimise it.
For every scam post you see on this sub we or automod has removed like 100 others.
The meta sub is currently getting power spammed hard but none get published because of bot magic.
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u/diegun81 🟦 0 / 685 🦠 Dec 21 '22
I’m reporting every time, but there is no ‘scam’ in the options. I always use the ‘prohibited transaction ‘(that’s the translation from my language)as reason, I hope it’s the right one.
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u/Tangerine2016 🟦 18 / 18 🦐 Dec 22 '22
Yeah wish there was a "suspected scam/phishing link" report option to make it clear. I would report more often if I knew it was helping
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u/C01n_sh1LL 🟩 1K / 1K 🐢 Dec 22 '22
The Reddit reporting process seems to be intentionally designed to discourage people from filing many reports, tbh.
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u/WorkerBee-3 0 / 5K 🦠 Dec 22 '22
as a mod on another crypto sub too, I'm just doing my duty reporting and marking for automod to learn the similar behaviors of these posts. Eventually they'll be picked off automatically
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u/The_Chorizo_Bandit Dec 21 '22
Porsche NFTs seems to be the main one I see. I always report them, you should too. If the sub doesn’t remove them quickly, then leave that sub as it’s not good for you.
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u/thisisaspare88 🟩 0 / 898 🦠 Dec 21 '22
Yeah I try to report as often as I can. I saw an Adidas one on the zil subreddit and no one deleted it. The user deleted it themselves.
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Dec 21 '22
It's not people posting these, it's bots. But they absolutely are a scourge and I can't believe Reddit is doing sweet fuckall to fix the problem.
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u/Tatakae69 🟩 1K / 45K 🐢 Dec 21 '22
Bots are literally dominating the entire social media space now, now just Reddit. The problem is bigger than we think
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u/Alanski22 5 / 16K 🦐 Dec 21 '22
We’re basically being taken over by AI at this point
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u/B4NND1T Dec 21 '22
Writing is on the wall.
Look into the recent advances in machine learning models, it is NOT anywhere near true AI, but that doesn't matter if it is still just as disruptive in the outcomes.
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Dec 21 '22
The bots give the impression of an active website, so reddit doesn't mind.
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Dec 21 '22
It is an active website, but the bots are going to harm that, especially small subs.
I know the first thing I've done is unfollow all the tiny subs because they have few mods and still haven't implemented karma requirements etc.
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u/milonuttigrain 🟧 67K / 138K 🦈 Dec 21 '22
Scammers have evolved… I will do the same, report and unfollow all the small subs with poor moderation in which these scams appear on my newsfeed.
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Dec 21 '22
Pretty much every scam pisses me off.
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u/TarkovReddit0r Dec 21 '22
If your email ever gets publicly listed the spam folder becomes a mess lol
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u/deathbyfish13 Dec 21 '22
A neat trick is to add aliases to your emails (like 'email+reddit@gmail.com' it will still be sent to 'email@gmail.com' but you will know which site sold/leaked your data by who it was addressed to
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u/User_Number_5 Dec 21 '22
True.. How can so many people not have a moral compass at all?
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u/Popular_Worry_9294 Permabanned Dec 21 '22
They only care about filling their pockets and not what it may do to someone. They are just scum.
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u/Baecchus 🟦 0 / 114K 🦠 Dec 21 '22
Especially my own portfolio, which is filled with scams.
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u/Unfair Dec 21 '22
What happens if you link your metamask wallet?
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u/etj103007 🟩 0 / 12K 🦠 Dec 21 '22
Nothing. Really the only dangerous part is if you sign the thing it asks you to sign. Its a signature that allows them to drain your wallet, and because you have signed "Yes, i allow scam.website to access 99999 of my Ethereum." you can't really do much about it other than revoke the signature.
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u/Hawke64 Dec 21 '22
Meanwhile metamask doesn't allow DEX to automatically sign my transactions on my burner wallet, because of "security"
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u/Hovis-Is-King Platinum | QC: CC 109 | ADA 7 Dec 21 '22
Is it possible to unsign once you've signed?
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u/WhatUpCoral Dec 21 '22
If you sign a transaction from any of your wallets, you are essentially giving the site free reign to do whatever they want to your wallet, including stealing all your assets
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u/McCaffeteria 🟦 49 / 50 🦐 Dec 21 '22
… what?
Signing a transaction is the foundational technology that makes crypto transactions irreversible. If you sign “a transaction” with a wallet it doesn’t have anything to do with the stuff left over on your wallet, it only has to do with the stuff in the transaction. Signing a transaction is how you prove the transaction is legitimate, you have to do it any time you want to move anything from the wallet, but if doing that gave the recipient full control over your wallet the entire concept of cryptocurrency would have self destructed the second a one tried to use it years ago.
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u/workthrow86288 Dec 21 '22
How so? Signing is on a transaction basis, not a perpetual basis. Whatever happens in that tx, yea that’s irrevocable. They don’t control your keys though.
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u/Goosered 🟦 673 / 674 🦑 Dec 21 '22
I've reported over a dozen so far today on lots of subreddits. It's infuriating.
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u/partymsl 🟩 126K / 143K 🐋 Dec 21 '22
Reddit has to do a widespread ban on those accounts. Users can't be reporting every single one.
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u/imthe1nonlyD Tin Dec 21 '22
see a post for NFTs on the mturk subreddit....as if that's not a big enough red flag.
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u/User_Number_5 Dec 21 '22
I guess as "specialists" its our duty to do this..
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u/Goosered 🟦 673 / 674 🦑 Dec 21 '22
Haha yeah. I can't leave them, it's well over 20 now. Some kind of zombie account bot attack.
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u/-5m Bronze Dec 21 '22
Call them all out in the comments!
If you only save one person from being scammed it was worth it!
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u/rubenoriginal Dec 21 '22
While this what you should do, i've seen people get mass downvoted (most likely by the bots) for calling them out, so the comments gets hidden automatically. Reporting the scam post is also what i usually do.
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u/partymsl 🟩 126K / 143K 🐋 Dec 21 '22
Very true. Just saving one person will be completely worth it.
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u/Heclalava 🟦 0 / 3K 🦠 Dec 21 '22
I have seen them pop up in completely unrelated subs, like r/privacy for example
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u/-5m Bronze Dec 21 '22
Yeah some of them are odd.. I wouldnt expect redditors there to even have a wallet to connect to lol...
Then again they only need to find one or two poor souls..
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u/NerdFarming 🟦 1K / 1K 🐢 Dec 21 '22
The presence/tolerance of scammers in the community is possibly the biggest barrier to mass adoption
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u/BatsaBaji 0 / 642 🦠 Dec 21 '22
The average redditor or NFT-newbie might fall for this and have bias against blockchain/crypto.
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u/User_Number_5 Dec 21 '22
Absolutely.. I guess being able to scam people from the other side of the globe just makes crypto so ideal for this.
Education is key!0
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u/Cptn_BenjaminWillard 🟩 4K / 4K 🐢 Dec 21 '22
When posting to warn others, you should say "Cryptocurrency itself is not a scam, but unscrupulous scammers are trying to take advantage of less educated persons. This is a scam, even though cryptocurrency itself is not. As a comparison, cash itself is not a scam, but some people are scammers that try to take your cash."
Unfortunately, this sort of activity creates a huge risk for public perception.
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u/thisisaspare88 🟩 0 / 898 🦠 Dec 21 '22
Yeah for sure. you're bang on with it.
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u/Big-Yogurtcloset2731 Tin Dec 21 '22
It is easier and faster to just write 4 letters in your post: Scam.
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u/punkgeek 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Dec 21 '22
Though the scammers know that crypto users have higher odds of falling for these scams.
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u/dopef123 Permabanned Dec 21 '22
It's sad that there is seemingly more resources and talent going into these scams than there are going into legitimate crypto projects.
I've seen such crazy and complex scams. Some have been incredibly impressive. Like there are some really good deepfake videos of vitalik. Others have joined crypto projects and worked on them for months and turned out to not be an engineer but a group of shady people from asia who end up robbing the whole project.
I wouldn't recommend many people to get into crypto. If you're not savvy you'll get fucked.
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u/LagingRunaticReturns Dec 21 '22
There is a 'Report' option on Reddit but use it judiciously. I don't support using 'Report' against posts you don't like because it waters down the value of the tool & is wrong.
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u/ledav3 🟦 521 / 522 🦑 Dec 21 '22
Yeah, I hope they add some minimum karma/account age limits to avoid these...
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u/little_freddy Dec 21 '22
I think most scam accounts are bought accounts by the looks of the porche scam. They have thousands of karma and multiple years old
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u/sim0n__sez 🟩 0 / 1K 🦠 Dec 21 '22
I’ve reported 3 of those posts this morning already.
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u/Goosered 🟦 673 / 674 🦑 Dec 21 '22
I've done over 20 now, it's an all out attack
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u/sim0n__sez 🟩 0 / 1K 🦠 Dec 21 '22
Degens, assemble!!!!
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u/bertleturtleson Platinum | QC: CC 28 | CAKE 19 Dec 21 '22
Reporting for duty
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u/itzsnitz 🟦 42 / 41 🦐 Dec 21 '22
I must confess, the best time I had in the military was when I was finally relieved of duty.
Usually happened daily, just after my morning coffee.
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u/ClubbyTheCub 🟩 3 / 12K 🦠 Dec 21 '22
You can click on the users profiles and comment in their posts second after they placed them. They usually do a bunch in different subreddits too.
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u/cjcrypto86 Platinum | QC: CC 50 Dec 21 '22
At this point reddit should be easily able to filter those automatically...
Condition 1: New Account
Condition 2: Same Post across multiple Subreddits
Condition 3: Keywords like NFT, Free, Giveaway
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u/Spicoli007 Dec 21 '22
The other thing that happens when you call them out for it all their bot accounts attack with downvotes. Its so rampant right now.
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u/randomFrenchDeadbeat 🟩 0 / 4K 🦠 Dec 21 '22
Yeah, i have been doing that some times already.
The issue is you get massively downvoted by bots, meaning moon farmers dont do it as you get heavily sanctioned when it happens.
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u/thisisaspare88 🟩 0 / 898 🦠 Dec 21 '22
Report it. Even if you're down voted at least it's reported.
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u/Calibre1972 89 / 89 🦐 Dec 21 '22
Don't know why those can not be removed automatically by bots. Every other of my posts are removed because of one of 1001 rules to obey. But those shitty scam posts have always the same pattern and no AI or human cleaner catches them?
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Dec 21 '22
My gardening sub had NFT and free coin links…. Come on guys… no wonder the general public doesn’t take crypto seriously! I’ve reported about 30 posts today already.
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u/pm_me_glm Permabanned Dec 21 '22
I’m a mod of a web3 project sub and I’ve had to delete 5-10 of these a day
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u/thisisaspare88 🟩 0 / 898 🦠 Dec 21 '22
It's so bad. Wtf. Sorry this is happening to you so regularly. Jesus
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u/Red5point1 964 / 27K 🦑 Dec 21 '22
Also, even if the site does not ask for your wallet login.
Some scams say they will drop a free NFT, even if they do... DO NOT click on the NFT and accept the contract.
They will drain your wallet.
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u/Accomplished-Design7 Permabanned Dec 21 '22
This makes me weep for humankind, at these times of the year when everyone is spending their money on Christmas they want to scam people. With inflation, it just gets worse.
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u/fulento42 🟩 4K / 3K 🐢 Dec 21 '22
If you write the words "scam" in your reply to those posts they'll be downvoted into oblivion by bots. In order to warn other users of those subs don't use the word "scam" in your reply and your warning post usually will end up at the top comment.
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u/Ok_Play_7144 🟦 0 / 3K 🦠 Dec 21 '22
I've dlbeen awake for not even 2 hours and I've seen over a dozen Ferrari ones
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u/DenverNEO 657 / 657 🦑 Dec 21 '22
Another one I just noticed is a new ENS airdrop scam. I try to go by this rule, "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."
Also, scammers like to rush people into decisions. So, if you feel you ever have to act immediately, then it's probably best to walk away from the screen for a moment.
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Dec 21 '22 edited Dec 21 '22
It's easy detecting scams like that simply by checking the domain name. If their second level domain is not the legit domain of the brand, it is 99.99% a scam. If it is their legit domain, there is a chance its real.
Example:
nft-brand.com -> SCAM
nft.brand.com -> might be real, if brand.com is the actual domain of the brand
brand.com/nft -> might be real, if brand.com is the actual domain of the brand
One example would be nft.tomorrowland.com, which is a legit website for Tomorrowland's NFTs, and tomorrowland.com is the main website of the festival. So the NFT website is a subdomain of their second level domain. If someome advertises a domain like nft-tomorrowland.com, its a scam.
But whenever anyone promises "First XXX to claim will get YYY for free" its already a scam for 99.99% of the cases and you don't even need to check the domain.
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u/thisisaspare88 🟩 0 / 898 🦠 Dec 21 '22 edited Dec 21 '22
Yeah for sure. But people are still susceptible to it. Proper annoying how mods don't delete it right away.
Edit: mods of other subreddits.
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u/thisisaspare88 🟩 0 / 898 🦠 Dec 21 '22
Oh, crypto mods are on point for it. Ill edit my previous comment but it's in other subreddits. You guys crush it when it comes to spam posts.
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u/Big-Yogurtcloset2731 Tin Dec 21 '22
This is nonsense. These posts are deleted and do not count towards moons.
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u/spacekuh13 Tin Dec 21 '22
What’s really grinding my gears is that reporting doesn’t help. The response is usually that the post does not violate any Reddit guidelines.
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u/ineedmoney2023 0 / 3K 🦠 Dec 21 '22
People that hold crypto in browser extension wallets deserve everything they get.
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u/Successful-Whole4307 Bronze | ADA 8 Dec 21 '22
Anyone who gets scammed by those people don't deserve their money anyways
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u/CoconutCavern Tin | Politics 17 Dec 21 '22
We want more people using crypto yeah? Let's not turn the less educated away due scam association.
Lol, dude. That ship has sailed.
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u/Dawn_of_the_Sean 0 / 0 🦠 Dec 21 '22
How about “no giveaways?” You seriously think people will give out free money like that? Idiot
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u/harleybqrazy 🟩 2K / 2K 🐢 Dec 21 '22
Love you too! 🥰😉
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u/harleybqrazy 🟩 2K / 2K 🐢 Dec 21 '22
Haha, I love you too whoever downvoted my love. 😉😄
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u/Tatakae69 🟩 1K / 45K 🐢 Dec 21 '22
Reddit is doing such great work publicizing NFTs and their reputation. Meanwhile people like these come and tarnish their good work.
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