This is as exactly as not been careful enough when we see things that are beyond what ordinary eye could ser or mind to believe, the scammer get their means always improved from the former, they rralise the important if information that when it is lacked then they can take that as a point to fast track their scam enterprise, one must stay at alert, no free coin fromba thin of an air when you don't work to earn it, its rather a scam deception.

The scammer has a program set up that automatically detects when the address receives ETH and withdraws the ETH to another address out of your control.

The thousands of dollars in tokens the scammer has in the wallet (which private keys they revealed) are just a bait to tempt anyone to send some USD in ETH to pay the gas, but since the scammer set up a program there is no chance anyone can do the transaction faster than the program.

Also, as mentioned, it seems the tokens are locked by Tether, according to the block explorer.

Some are so naive, believing that such an amount can be quickly received, and it is they who will receive it. Greed does not allow you to turn on the logic. And as @m2017 said, many hands itch to try. This is the most common passion. The scammers are betting on him.
How many people win big sums in the casino? However, the flow of those who try their luck does not decrease.

I do not [quite] understand what is happening here. It appears that there are actually two scammers involved: The scammer with the "free tokens", and Tether that blocks the USDT from being moved anywhere.

How Tether's blocking can defraud users is quite clear to me, but how exactly are you going to get robbed if you attempt to swipe the tokens?

Can someone believe this scam with large sums in the wallet?
I can believe it if it was a social attack from a friend with a wallet that had a 100 dollar or a little more but not thousands of dollars.
USDT and blocking tokens inside wallet is the big trojan horse in crypto community.

I fell on this scam before, not sure if it's the same account but I was really tempted as I'm thinking it was free money, so I send some ETH for the gas in order to withdraw the funds but the ETH that was supposed to be for gas was redirected to other address leaving the account still no ETH for gas.

In short, I was tricked, LOL.

There are already more than 10,500 transactions on this wallet. If you take a few cents or dollars from each user, then the fraudster will have a solid capital.
But here the user does not even have a chance, because the USDT tokens are blocked. The user won't lose a lot of money and won't make a lot of noise.

I've actually been a victim to this type of scam before, but that was a long time ago, like five or four years ago maybe,i was still pretty new to crypto at the time , when I saw the message on telegram, it was in a group chat, the girl claimed she has issues with her wallet and cannot transfer funds out, then pasted her private key and said if anybody can help her check, she would appreciate it, I actually knew it was a scam since there was no eth in the wallet to pay for gas to transfer the token, but still , I went ahead and tried, I sent the amount of ETH required to cover the transaction fee, and not up to two seconds my eth transaction got confirmed, it turned into another pending transaction waiting to be confirmed, which means the eth has been sent out.
I didn't bother much because the eth i sent was really very small, but then, alot of other persons fell for the trick too, by the time i stopped checking the wallet, she already got about 0.103 eth.

This scam used to be very popular during the ICO and airdrop boom. It's known as the Token Honey Pot scam. Well it looks like it's here to stay since people are still too stupid and greedy



Well, we still have people believing and sending random Chinese girls on Tinder thousands of dollars to invest for them or folks sending Bitcoin to a bitcoin doubler hoping they magically get back x2 Bitcoins in minutes, so it's not a surprise.