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in crypto •  2 years ago 

MetaMask Alerts Users About New Crypto Scam Called Address Poisoning

This involves generating almost-identical wallet addresses and "poisoning" customer histories with zero-value transactions in the hope that, at some point, the inattentive user will copy paste the fake address instead of the real one and thus send funds to the scammers.

Oxford PhD Student Jailed For Defrauding Investors Of $2.6 Million In Crypto

According to reports, Wiersma used a false name to set up the website iotaseed.io, which supposedly generated private keys (seeds) to trade IOTA. In reality, the keys were predetermined and could be accessed by Wiersma.

FTX Warns Its Customers About Scammers Offering Return Of Their Lost Funds

We are aware of active third-party scams and frauds seeking to take advantage of FTX customers. Please note that neither the FTX debater nor any of their agent will ask you for money, fee, payments or any passwords for your accounts in connection with the return or prospective return of customer assets.

‘Pig Butchering’ Crypto Scam: Europol Seizes $1 Million, Arrests 15 In Massive Call Center Fraud

Social engineering a greedy animal to financial slaughter.

Hacker Lexicon: What Is a Pig Butchering Scam?

And these are just the ones that got caught!

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  ·  2 years ago  ·  

another standard technique, used by gov scum everywhere - point the finger, shout loudly... and do the same thing in secret.


spot every psychoscum busting a blood vessel - or busting yours.

  ·  2 years ago  ·  

Good to see lots of different scams.

Dingo crypto token flagged as scam over 99% transaction fee backdoor
https://cointelegraph.com/news/dingo-crypto-token-flagged-as-scam-over-99-transaction-fee-backdoor

I've seen this trick before - try to do a txn and it claims the fee is too low - increase the fee to the requested level and it still claims you need an even higher number - iterate until the fee is larger than the txn - job done.

  ·  2 years ago  ·  

Elwood Technologies’ products and services are not available to users based in your location.

It has further come to our attention that an app impersonating Elwood Technologies’ brand has been circulating in China and Taiwan, allowing users to deposit and ‘purchase’ cryptocurrencies before locking their account and stealing the deposited funds.

lol. try it.
https://elwood.io/

Speaking of Scammers...

European Central Bank Preparing for Bail Ins & Banking Collapse
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Feb 4, 2023
Greg Reese
European Central Bank contractor confirms bail ins are coming

  ·  2 years ago  ·  

fk! and they blame crypto!!
but that IS the psychotechnique - point the finger of blame while doing worse.
NLP
I taught my kid that trick - she tells me it works - even more depressing, the kids then found it hard to accept the truth after they'd been triggered in believing the fake accusation!! humans, meh.

  ·  2 years ago  ·  

Also, this is a setup - the Fed now accepts zero reserve banking!! one huge ponzi.
not sure of the ECB - I think they still have reserve requirements.
In banksterspeak, the Fed calls it "ample reserve" environment.
so, ample = zero.

Amazing how the general public is still sleeping through all of this blatant bs.

  ·  2 years ago  ·  

the tranceverse!

I remember learning about NLP back at a sales conference in the 90's and used it for many years in a positive way... never thought about it getting misused until the last few years... 🖖

  ·  2 years ago  ·  

oh, I thought it was designed for propaganda - and then any good use was up to the user. ;-) like a hypnosis-lite.

I still think counter-propaganda needs a small group of people who know what they're doing to generate the material - both stories and images and memes and mantras. It would look like open therapy! lol.

There is a subject known as neuromarketing, which is quite eye-opening as to how manipulated most consumer choices are - deep down.