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The rate at which people are being scammed is quite intriguing but it's not surprising because it is what we try to escape daily. I have received a lot of messages and calls from scammers trying to get rid of my money and personal accounts. Many users are scammed on Facebook alone, due to the high rate of what I should term "scam unawareness".
I received a message from a friend on Facebook saying she wanted to give me data, I wasn't surprised because why would someone just message you for the first time to give you data, I decided to play along and she asked for my phone number which I had to halt for the moment and think twice, that's when I sent her my brother's phone number.
While waiting, for like 5 minutes later I received a message from Facebook, actually a password reset OTP which means I was about to change my password on Facebook, I was so shocked because I left Facebook so I went back in and I got a message from this data gifter, she said I should send the code so she can confirm the data transfer. I was shocked because that's not the number I gave her but it was the number connected to my Facebook account and I locked it from public view, how did she get it?
That's how I rushed to block her on Facebook before she could see my hidden password. Many links are shared on Facebook either to your message or as video, once you tap on the link it pops up a login page and requires your user and password, once you put it in you will lose your account.
There are lots of scams in Web 3 and without proper knowledge and security awareness, you might lose your tokens to scammers. During this telegram airdrop, many scam tokens require you to deposit tons of other tokens to be eligible and then ghost off without any info. Some sweep off assets from your connected wallets. I'll be sharing a few tips on how I overcome some of these scams daily.
These are a few tips I would love to share to increase awareness to other people.
Avoid clicking external links from strangers and sometimes friends because if your friend's account is scammed with the level of trust you have you will easily click on the link and get scammed easily, so always confirm from friends first.
Always research some of the airdrops you do, check out their social media handle, check their posts and comments, and also check if they're followed by any ton projects this will make it easier to different scam projects.
Don't share your personal information with strangers or friends you're not close with, because it will make it so easy for them to scam you.
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Every day there are new ways or forms of scam, is impressive lake and as you yourself have shared one sometimes do not explain how they have gotten the information to enter certain places, about 7 months ago began by entering my social networks, even managed to access my paypal account, but I was not sufficiently distrustful and thought that there would not pass.
But they got to my Hive account and removed all my tokens and seven HBD, I managed to recover my account a little more than 12 hours later, it was horrible there activate the security in two steps in many of my accounts, we believe it was some kind of package that my son downloaded on the laptop, the truth one no longer knows who to trust, I for example give me a very bad feeling HIVE users who do not have a single personal photo in their publications or do not have a presentation, just as there are decent and good people here are also and come those who want to steal from others.
That was a very bitter experience, I don't know why people wait for others to suffer so they can reap from them. It's always a terrible experience and it requires carefulness with everything we are doing because they come out with different ways to hack every single day.
It is good you were able to recover your account and you kept going forward. I would have been discouraged at some point.
I was wondering how the person also got your other number. I’m glad you were vigilant. Was the person pressuring you to send the code? Because that’s what they do.
Yes, she/he actually pressured me. Me that said I know their ways was actually scared when he was able to get that number😅.
I just rushed to block the account.
Haha
Just how did she get your number. Thank goodness you were vigilant to detect it fast
It's still a mystery to me, maybe there are secret ways to check hidden contacts on Facebook.
Yh, I guess so too