Beware of scammers

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Remme Protocol

4 min readFeb 7, 2018

Dear members, it’s been a pleasure for us to receive such attention from the crypto community in recent weeks. But with increased focus comes increased scrutiny from the less scrupulous elements that are endemic to the crypto space. It is an unfortunate reality that not everyone who interacts with the cryptocurrency community shares the same values as we do. As a consequence, there is a need to remain constantly vigilant to the sort of scams and tricks that fraudsters are prone to perpetuating.

Our team and community admins do not sell places in our whitelist, do not organize or submit invitations to any pools and do not run private pre-sales. You will be able to buy REM tokens ONLY through our website when the token sale begins.

We created this article to show you illustrated examples of how these individuals generally act when they try to scam you.

1. Scam in Telegram

The only official news channel: https://t.me/remme_daily

The only official chatbot for pre-registration (which doesn’t accept applications anymore): @RRegistrationBot

How scammers typically act:

Initiate direct chat with you;
Use the photos and names of real group admins and team members;
Use the usernames of the real group admins with some additional symbols;
Ask you to pay for a place in the whitelist;
Ask you to send a deposit for the private sale;
Send you a wallet address for direct payment;
Ask for your personal information (name, email etc);
Try to convince you in any possible ways that they are the real admins (they may start a conversation with the warning about scammers).

What to do:

Do not send your funds;
Do not share your personal info. Your email address will be used for sending phishing emails to you;
Click on the “Report spam” button;
Notify the community in the REMME official group about the scammer;
Find any official admin in the official group and notify him/her about a scammer. The real group admins have ‘admin’ tag near the name.

SCAM screenshots

2. Phishing emails

As it stands, we use ONLY these official email addresses for communications with you:

registration@remme.io — This is used for notifications and alerts connected with your personal account (eg. adding an Ethereum wallet address, notifying you of a request to change the wallet, confirmation links)
team@remme.io — This is used for sending newsletters about token sale details and progress.

Scammers can use email addresses very similar to ours, but with small differences. For example, ‘l’ instead of ‘i’, or ‘0’ instead of ‘o'

We’ve also made a decision to publish the text of our emails and information about the sender after each mass newsletter campaign in our official Telegram channel. That way you will be able to compare your received email with one that will be published in the channel.

How scammers typically act:

Send you emails asking you to transfer them funds directly to a wallet address;
Ask for your personal information (name, email etc)
Invite you to join private pools;
Send you malicious files that can infect your device with viruses;
send you emails with untruthful information about the token sale process and terms. For example, they may say that the date was changed, or that everyone who can send funds to the direct address right now will receive an additional bonus.

What to do:

Do not believe any unofficial information. If you have any doubts, please ask our group admins in Telegram;
Do not send your funds;
Do not share your personal info;
Do not open any files;
Resend such emails to team@remme.io

SCAM screenshots