Be careful with Telegram Group Fake Admins

[sturec22]

If you are investing in ICOs or just even attending airdrops, please be careful with telegram direct messages.
When you join a telegram group, a fake account with the same name and picture of the group admin might send you a message, this can only be a friendly welcoming message.
These fake admins can ask give you some ETH addresses to send your money, to buy the ICO tokens or only to donate airdrops, or even your MEW private key...

*2 days ago, I joined bitfinex telegram to ask some questions. I directly got a dm from an admin looking scam account, it was only a welcoming message. Reported immediately

[santawarrior]

We should be careful to those who send private message that introduce his/her self as admin, use only those telegram given in the bounty thread to avoid to become a victim of any scamming activty

[Sentinel]

what a bad news. I am sorry to hear that. we must be more careful. I hope there will be no more similar incidents that will harm investors..

[Joankii]

No wonder now there are many scams to gain unilateral profits. so still be careful, I've experienced a lot of the same thing but I ignore it because they are fake accounts

[Garuda]

I agree with you. we must be more careful in following projects in ICO and Airdrop. because lately there are so many news that there is a Cram project. and that was very surprising for me and the investors.

[sturec22]

No wonder now there are many scams to gain unilateral profits. so still be careful, I've experienced a lot of the same thing but I ignore it because they are fake accounts

yep, I also ignore them, but in some groups I have read people who sent those fake admins some ETHs..

[CryptoZenWorld]

If you are investing in ICOs or just even attending airdrops, please be careful with telegram direct messages.
When you join a telegram group, a fake account with the same name and picture of the group admin might send you a message, this can only start with a friendly welcoming message.
These fake admins can ask give you some ETH addresses to send your money...

*2 days ago, I joined bitfinex telegram to ask some questions. I directly got a dm from an admin looking scam account, it was only a welcoming message. Reported immediately

Yes, i am agree with you. Everyone should be careful enough when they will invest or join any bounty or make any deal. Also All group should pin the admin telegram address.

[Yahud]

I am also often invited to enter the spam group  . until now I don't know how to block it so it doesn't happen again, does anyone know how  ? I am very disturbed when someone can add me to be a member of the group even though I don't know him. we must careful

[Silverstone]

If you are investing in ICOs or just even attending airdrops, please be careful with telegram direct messages.
When you join a telegram group, a fake account with the same name and picture of the group admin might send you a message, this can only start with a friendly welcoming message.
These fake admins can ask give you some ETH addresses to send your money...

*2 days ago, I joined bitfinex telegram to ask some questions. I directly got a dm from an admin looking scam account, it was only a welcoming message. Reported immediately

This is a very nice thread. It will help a beginner like me. Thank you!

[bityndye]

If you are investing in ICOs or just even attending airdrops, please be careful with telegram direct messages.
When you join a telegram group, a fake account with the same name and picture of the group admin might send you a message, this can only be a friendly welcoming message.
These fake admins can ask give you some ETH addresses to send your money, to buy the ICO tokens or only to donate airdrops, or even your MEW private key...

*2 days ago, I joined bitfinex telegram to ask some questions. I directly got a dm from an admin looking scam account, it was only a welcoming message. Reported immediately

Usually, when someone would direct message me related to ICO then I would just disregard since more often than not, it would just be a scammer who wanted to get hold of my coins. There are several warnings by the admin that they do not send direct message and will not ask for ETH. If you wanted to join an ICO then directly go their site an register there.

[Iconic]

I agree bro. because my friend experienced this when entering Airdrop and there was an admin who asked for an account at ETH. As a result my friend was fooled. I hope my friends in this forum will not experience the same event.

[gotbounty]

Thank you for notifying information about telegram groups and fake accounts. it really helps me because I'm also a newbie. but to find out if that fake telegaram account is set up how

[Judybrown]

Whenever someone pm's you out of the blue, find out what groups you have in common and find out if the person has the admi star before you reply to their messages.  Most people change their usernames to look exactly like the admi's and even use their profile pics, so be careful.

[billy.ryoko]

It not only in the TG group, after I have started trading in the crypto and joined the Bitcointalk, I have received many e-mails every day, those scammers want to my private key and want to hack my trading account, everyone should install the firewall and the antivirus, keep your private key in the safety place.

Below picture for your reference, please let me know if the link is dead:


Received the mail about airdrop distribute, when I visited the page, it want my private key, shit!



Another one, I got the mail EOS airdrop is live, it same to my private key!



So, anyone please stay away from the page which wants to your private key, it absolutely is the scam or phishing page.

[altcoingamer]

It not only in the TG group, after I have started trading in the crypto and joined the Bitcointalk, I have received many e-mails every day, those scammers want to my private key and want to hack my trading account, everyone should install the firewall and the antivirus, keep your private key in the safety place.

Below picture for your reference, please let me know if the link is dead:

Received the mail about airdrop distribute, when I visited the page, it want my private key, shit!



Another one, I got the mail EOS airdrop is live, it same to my private key!



So, anyone please stay away from the page which wants to your private key, it absolutely is the scam or phishing page.

Great followup response to above suggestion, both are great information for new people, +Karma for both.