Account Manager Victoria Tsikalova shared a case when scammers pretending to be clients intended to lure her out of cryptocurrency.
Account Manager Victoria Tsikalova shared a case when scammers pretending to be clients intended to lure her out of cryptocurrency.
As the specialist said on her LinkedIn account, this incident happened to her recently.
«A wonderful contact finds me on Telegram, asking for help with link building. He answers all questions about links brilliantly, has a premium account on Telegram, behaves as professionally as possible. He offers to pay in advance so that it is still transparent and he is definitely interested in purchasing links. And here the funny things begin,» she wrote.
According to Victoria, the scheme was that you supposedly receive a «payment» from the client, and he drops a real hash, by which you can find the same payment on the crypto wallet.
«What’s most interesting is that the amount is much larger than the initial amount stated. And then everything goes as the book says. «Oh, I accidentally transferred too much, please return the difference, you can deduct the order amount from this payment. This is all my finance department, they are new, they made a mistake during the transfer,» the Account Manager recounted the arguments that the scammers tried to use.
As Victoria Tsikalova says, the scammers' calculation was that someone would actually refund the client’s money without going into too many details.
«The truth is that you received the amount not in USDT coins, which are equal to dollars, but in USDT — fake tokens that are worth nothing. The scheme is simple to the point of genius, the scammer sends you a worthless token, and you return him real money. It is calculated on inattention and on the fact that you want to be honest. To be honest, in a rush you don’t pay much attention to such seemingly trifles, but as it turned out, it is worth it,» she provided more details about the crypto scam.
The Account Manager summarized that for her, this was another reminder that «the devil is in the details,» and every detail matters, requiring maximum attention and concentration on what you are doing.
In the comments to the expert’s post, other representatives of the professional community also shared similar cases and provided their advice on how to avoid such a scam.
Previously, we examined how scammers extort cryptocurrency from owners by analyzing the most common schemes.
