How to Avoid Scams during DCC Token Sale

5 min readMay 25, 2018

DCC Token sale is upon us and we want you to participate safely.

We have put together this article to talk about the various types of scams you may encounter and how to avoid them.

In here, we’ll do our best to help you prevent any issue but, please, remember it is up to you to make sure you don’t get scammed — be cautious and always check and double check information.

If you are unsure if you are talking to someone from our team, always email us at this email address: contact@dcc.finance

DCC will never ask for payments, ETH, BTC or your personal details via telegram or social platforms.

Impersonation Scams

Telegram is full of scammers who are going to try and steal your cryptocurrency. A popular scam is to try and get you to send funds before an ICO opens to a wallet address. These people create email addresses that resemble official DCC email addresses or set up Telegram profiles that look extremely similar to our moderators/admins, the main DCC account, or DCC team members.

These scammers will message you directly asking if you are interested in participating in either the private sale or public token sale at a discount. They’ll likely keep increasing the discount until you send funds to their wallet address.

During Token Sales fake scam accounts will also often pose as admins and post wallet addresses in the main chat saying the token sale wallet address has changed. They may even message you privately with a non-official contribution address.

Here is an example of a scammer. As you can see they’ve copied Scott Brown’s account but they’ve missed out the “r” in “Brown” in the username.

How to avoid impersonation scams

DCC will NEVER give you a wallet address on Telegram/social media and ask you to send funds to it. Never do it.

Only participate in the DCC Token Sale whilst logged in at: www.dcc.finance

Never send funds to any wallet address you see posted on Telegram or social media.

The ONLY admins on telegram are:

DCC Official ( https://t.me/DccOfficial):

@Bert0106 (Tiva F)
@chins_john (chins john)
@JayPortis (Jay Portis)
@LizzieB92 (Avi)
@EmilyKe (Emily Keller GLN)
@JohnHexa (Rajitha A)
@jessspeng (Jessie Peng)

DCC Official2 ( https://t.me/dcc_official2):

@Tina118
@petergao (Peter Gao）
@dan114 (Admin Cindy)
@Unlocku (Kevin Cai)
@HunterYu (Yu huang)

Please check the @ symbol and every single character — any deviation from this is not an official DCC account.

If you are unsure, email: contact@dcc.finance

Giveaway scams

These are most frequent on social media — especially Telegram and Twitter. The scammer creates an account with a name that’s almost identical to that of a team member or brand account such as DCC. For example: You may find an account in Twitter named DCC with same logo and everything but the handle will be fake. Always check the handle before trusting any posts.

DCC’s official Twitter handle: @DccOfficial2018

The scammer will then claim to be doing a giveaway and try to trick people into sending Ethereum or their private key. Simple, but it’s worked in the past. Do not let it happen to you!

How to avoid giveaway scams

The only official DCC social accounts are listed on ww.dcc.finance

No other account is an official DCC account.

DCC is not doing any giveaways at the moment so do not engage with the scammers.

Do not reply to unsolicited requests to send cryptocurrency. Never send anyone your private wallet key.

Don’t trust social influencers, brands, or crypto figureheads who are offering free crypto from their own accounts as they themselves could have been compromised.

Legitimate giveaways or airdrops will not ask you to send any funds to anyone or ask for private keys. DCC will NEVER ask you to do this.

Phishing scams

In a phishing scam, scammers may post links in the DCC Telegram group or on social media that takes you to a website that looks identical to the official DCC website.

You may then be prompted to log in using your credentials which will be compromised from that point onwards. You may even be prompted to give up the private key to your wallet.

The information you provide will then be used to take control of your funds.

Scammers may also attempt to send you emails that look like they come from DCC. They may say your account has been breached and ask you to log in to a fake website or to reset your password.

How to avoid phishing scams

Bookmark http://www.dcc.finance and only access DCC websites through these bookmarks.

If you receive a support email from DCC saying you should change your password contact us before doing anything else: contact@dcc.finance

Please stay vigilant during this time and if you ever have any queries please contact an admin on Telegram (see list above) or email us.

How to buy DCC tokens

For a more detailed instruction, read this article.

IMPORTANT: There will only be one public sale address on ETH and it’s yet to be announced.

To participate in the public sale, visit our official website: http://www.dcc.finance/kyc/index.html#/authen

Finish the KYC registration prior to the start of public sale on May 28.

Again, there will only be one public sale address on ETH and it’s yet to be announced.

Join over 40k of us in Telegram to be among the first to know!

Official DCC Telegram: https://t.me/DccOfficial

And follow us in social media:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DccOfficial2018/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DccOfficial2018/

The only official email addresses of DCC trading desk:

OfficialTrading1@dcc.finance
OfficialTrading2@dcc.finance
OfficialTrading3@dcc.finance
OfficialTrading4@dcc.finance