Greed is the true nature of human beings, so sometimes it is hard to avoid for some non-experienced users who are just starting their journey in the crypto space. In fact I think that scammers these days are targeting pigs, I mean big investors being their main target for launching attacks instead of retail traders.

Ignoring even the slightest attempt at scam and blocking it is a smart move instead of spending some time listening and following its evil intentions.

Sometimes whenever a chat comes up I just feel like getting to know the user immediately because it might be someone who meant well or probably someone who wants to get something from you, could be a vital information or could be a scammer as the case maybe.
To me I'd let the chat flow and I might even play to the tune of the unknown user, but giving out information from my end won't be possible until the intention of the user has been stated and one needs to be careful. I feel anxious sometimes when an unknown message pops up from someone I don't know even here in this forum.

I am aware of these issues. There are some unknown Telegram members who send me PM messages from time to time and claim themselves as CEOs or managers of various companies. And at first he tries to know about my personal things like what is my name?, what do I do?, what country do I live in and all that. And after knowing these things he offers me various jobs and at first he doesn't mention any money but later after talking for some time he says to transfer some amount to his account and when asked what I will pay for in his account. Then his reply came saying that in exchange of that money he will give me an account through which I can work in his company. I have never fallen for these spammers. I always thought they were a complete scam.

Nice way to play along and get to bust the bubble of the intended scammer. I do such sometimes too when I have the time in my hands but if I don't have time I just tell an unknown chatter off.

I'm taking aback when a new and unknown chat greets my phone, it immediately gets my 6th sense activated to watch out for scam related discussions and like you rightly said, it usually ends up the expected way; leading to scam but I don't fall for such.


This is surely a way that the unknown persons are avoided. When you reduce the rate of sign ups and joining online groups then we have already done half of the stress not to get involved with such people because in actual fact we are the architect of it, very limited number of people can get our contacts if we remain on our lane but by joining unsolicited services, telegram groups that are not required then we are opening arrays of unwanted chats.

If you are going to get into someone's inbox and the first thing you do is not talk about yourself by introducing yourself but ask questions about the other person...total red flag and with me I ignore for a few minutes to hours then later on if you persist with more questions you are definitely meeting the ban hammer and report this privacy intrusion to telegram...No two ways about it!

And why do these fraudsters think using a beautiful  lady as the profile picture gets the conversation going And why do they always think the person they are try to chat with is always male???

Yea, we have seen the method of exit scam so many times and you are correct about it. They may decide to be patient with you and even to the extent of becoming your online friend. They may decide to sacrifice one or two resources to enable them balance well for their exit scam.
A stranger is a stranger no matter how close they may try to be.


I feel so much exposed while on telegram and that's why I deactivated my account and I no longer get forum mentions notification.

Valid solution but not with me though, I love to mess with scammers, I give them hopes of thinking they have gotten me then all of a sudden I stop responding just to watch how frustrated they'll become. I don't get easily excited about an investment opportunity so whenever I get this kind of message I play along. If you're just a regular users on the internet that have join one or more crypto groups then be rest assured whenever you get this kinds of message, they're scammers trying to steal from you and got your details from those groups you joined.


Depends on the line of business you're into, not everybody knows how to start a conversation. I have done businesses with people that if I considered how they reached out to me initially, I would probably won't have done the business with them but in your case, this is obviously a scam attempt, the user mightn't come from the country that he/she is claiming. But if you're a business man likes myself, never judge a book by its cover although if you're not into any business that'll require you to be contacted by unknown numbers then consider evey message you get a scam attempt and approach with precautions.

LOL.  Assuming I even used a chat app like OP did, if I'd gotten a message like that not only would I have immediately blocked the user, but it wouldn't have crossed my mind to create a thread on bitcointalk about it.  Not sure if this is a merit-grab attempt or what, but if people have common sense (and it's questionable whether that's true) they'd realize an unsolicited message with the tone and content shown in the example here is either some idiot with too much time on their hands at best OR an obvious attempt at sucker-baiting for a scam at worst.

I know nobody would admit this on a public discussion forum, but have any of you actually fallen prey to messages like this one?  And by that I mean getting scammed because of receiving one.  My guess?  Probably not.

on telegram, i'm quite active there and join a lot of crypto communities and the like but when a new person i don't know sends a chat to me, i will ignore the person because i know that I don't have business with them.   

Apart from that, i also never ask for help from somebody on Telegram when I have trouble on an exchange or gambling site because usually there will be lots of people who admit as an admin who starts chatting with me and offers help.