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RE: SCAM ALERT - Ether Phishing Attempts on Slack - PLEASE SHARE

in #ethereum7 years ago

Everyday, scammers find creative ways to get people's accounts be it email, social media, etc. Sucks that they use the concerned person tactic a lot and even more sad that people fall for the concern. I agree. Type the address on your own. Safer that way. Kudos for the heads up. Now that is real concern.

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Exactly. It is their job.

Exactly. It is their job.

I'm in a freelance FB group for my country and I read there once that one freelancer has this friend who works for a company that asks them to collect a quota of emails and personal information per day. I think the range was 100-500. So what those people in there do is place a fake job listing in platforms like Upwork and tell people to send their complete and modified CV. After they gather enough from the fake job listing, the job disappears suddenly :|