Stay alert for this new type of scammers in Telegram!

GoldenOrder
Sep 4, 2018 · 7 min read

Be very careful of this new type of scammers in Telegram. They use the names and pictures of beautiful girls. The way they operate is that they show themselves in the telegram chat of whatever coin you are into. They don’t directly private message you, but they say something to call your attention or somebody else’s attention to start a conversation and eventually take the conversation private.

Notice in this following example, the user “K@rlz” if having some questions and trying to get some help with his issue, yet we see this “Emily Johnson” character with the picture of a beautiful woman replying just for the sake of calling attention. This “Emily Johnson” wasn’t talking before and didn’t talk after that, all “she” wanted to make is call his (or someone else’s) attention:

I have noticed this “Emily Johnson” character many times before doing the same. So this was not the only time “she” did this. Now check these other examples:

Please remember this character “Elena Dubris” from the previous screenshot, I will get back to “her” later in this post with a private conversation I had with “her” and how “she” tried to scam me. Now, you may ask yourself, whats so suspicious about “Aliva V” and “Ms.Loraima”?. Well, these two as well as many others that I have noticed, they NEVER contribute to the discussions that are taking place. They don’t really participate or talk anything important in public. “Alina V” has been for more than a month in that chat and sometimes asks the same questions, same with the other characters that I haven’t shown in the screenshots, there are many.

The screenshots themselves might not explain much, but I have been checking them and have noticed them plenty of times already. They just show themselves, write a word, or put a face or whatever, and with their picture (usually the picture of a beautiful girl/woman) they try to lure anyone to write them, or sometimes they ask you a question in the public chat hoping to catch your attention and eventually take the conversation private.

Now in private, they change, they become talkers, they are friendly and open to discuss many subjects, with the purpose of gaining your trust for days. They probably do this with many of their “preys” at the same time. Then after a few days after some smart prelude, they will eventually show you their blockchain wallet with dozens of BTC (over $100k worth of BTC), with the current updated price of BTC to make it look convincing. That way you will TRULY gain their attention from now on.

Check the following case: Remember “Elena Dubris” from the previous screenshots?. Well, we started talking in private around August 13th, but it was after a couple of days that she started showing off that she supposedly has a lot of money invested in crypto:

She would continue talking in the following days and weeks of whatever topic to create a “friendly bond” so to speak. Then after 2 weeks, she shows herself surprised that now she owns millions of dollars worth in BTC:

She shows me that she managed to increase her wealth from 19 BTC (around $100k) to 400 BTC (around $2.7m). At this point its easy to think that she can be lying and getting screenshots of that wallet from internet or whatever, even though she has conditioned your mind during the last 2 weeks to believe that she is rich because her dad is a millonaire, and sends you pictures of her travels, her yacht, etc. So you could have your doubts whether she is lying or not. Regardless, I decided to “play along” to see where this would take me.

So she tells me she joined this ponzi a couple of weeks ago (when she showed me her 19 BTC / $100k wallet) and invested all her money in it, and now 2 weeks later she managed to withdraw 400 BTC and the next day she will withdraw the remaining 151 BTC from that ponzi and quit.

The following day, she tells me that her investment is ready to be withdrawn:

Then after a few minutes:

So she continues talking to me about whatever subject and then she tells me that she is going to check her blockchain wallet. She checks that the bitcoins have not arrived yet:

Note: Notice her current balance is now 406 BTC. Somehow she moved 4 BTC into her account from our last conversation the day before. But whatever, she was supposedly rich, so it wouldn’t be a strange thing to think she did.

Then after 10 minutes… VOILA! she has been credited the 151 BTC:

At this point, whether you believed her or not, at least you would be convinced that either she owns that wallet or someone she knows owns those hundreds of BTC. So, you are now more convinced that she might be telling you the truth and more open (conditioned) to what she has to say or propose.

In previous conversations she told me that she liked me, found me cute, funny and eventually would like us to meet in person. She would mention she is from the USA and ask me if I had visa to visit her eventually on December (by now she knew I wasn’t american), yet I could tell her english grammar had mistakes a normal american wouldn’t (Red flag #2). So she told me I didn’t have to invest anything in that ponzi, all I had to do was register with her code, so she supposedly would get a bonus, and that she would send the BTC investment and then after 1 or 2 weeks I would withdraw all the BTC and give her back the original BTC she invested and I would keep the gains. Too good to be true right?. It was… anyway I continued “playing along” to see what’s the catch.

After an hour or so she comes back and tells me we are ready to go:

Note: During this time I created a new email with a fake name and last name just in case.

The website was the biggest red flag of them all. It looks half-assed, asks you how much USD (instead of BTC) you are going to invest. Asks your real name and last name, email and phone number with code. The reason the website gives to ask you for those details is that they need to confirm its you to approve your application. LOL, imagine a ponzi scheme asking for info to “confirm” if they want your money or not haha that would be an epic fail of a ponzi. Then they tell you to wait 48 hours or less for an email to arrive, yeah because the owners of a ponzi scheme will really want you to wait 48 hours to throw your money in haha. Then after a while I received an email, in that email there was a link I had to click to confirm something (I couldn’t even understand what was I supposed to confirm due to the bad english in that email). Of course I DID NOT click that link. I decided to stop there. Obviously all the info I submitted was fake and I used a new email I had just created for this. At this point I realized the catch is in giving all your info for them to hack your email and from there take your accounts’ passwords from whatever exchanges or wallets you have connected to your email.

This might seem very elaborated, but they have dozens of those “girls” in Telegram (might be men behind those nicknames and using stolen pictures from the internet/Facebook/Instagram, etc). They probably reach hundreds of people daily this way and prepare and condition each one of them to believe they are real and make some of them fall into their scam. Help me spread the word to warn everyone of these elaborated scammers that will try to hack into your emails.

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