How to scam $102,860 USD worth of Ethereum in 24 hrs with Slack

Ben Longstaff
coinremix
Published in
5 min readSep 12, 2017

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Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO) is going to the moon

Slack was designed for teams in an organization to collaborate. The concept of a team has a fundamental assumption of trust built into it.

As a result Slack has a bunch of scam vectors.

A lot of cryptocurrency projects are using Slack as a medium of communication. Ethereum introduced the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) concept with its crowd sale. Raising funds before the project was finished in exchange for tokens.

Yielding 96,560%, the Ethereum crowd sale worked out ok for those still holding.

Now if you’re not deep into crypto you might think Ethereum was a fluke. To give you context for why there is epic FOMO happening right now take a look at these returns.

Going to the moon anyone?

Returns like this have never been available before, let alone to regular people. This has lead to a willingness to believe in the unbelievable. Combine:

  • No regulation
  • No recourse
  • A direct channel to targets

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Ben Longstaff
coinremix

Playing at the intersection of privacy and personalisation. Fascinated by the state of trust in a world with leaky data.