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858 sats \ 6 replies \ @mega_dreamer 4 Sep \ on: I got scammed out of 1.4BTC lightning
So sorry for your loss. I hope there was a life long learning from this incident.
I faced similar scam attempts when I contacted the LNBits telegram group for some technical issues. Someone pretended to be Ben Arc and called me directly on telegram. Within seconds he started to ask me questions about seed/mnemonic, certs. I immediately realized it was not Ben Arc as I had heard his voice on the youtube videos. - I got lucky, not everyone does. This was a very recent incident around two months ago.
After that incident - I've completely stopped using telegram. Since that day, I came to a realization that Telegram is the worst channel to run the support of any bitcoin related business or services.
We need to create an awareness campaign to inform the bitcoin community to stop using Telegram altogether for any support related issues. This movement must be initiated from the founders of Bitcoin business/apps/services. I'm not good at running such campaigns or movement. My social IQ is 40.
I'm hoping someone with enough charisma and grit comes along and start the awareness campaign to STOP USING TELEGRAM FOR SUPPORT
I also hope Jesse Shrader moves the support of Amboss/Magma to some other channel.
Nothing good ever happens at Telegram.
This! As a newbie myself i trusted Telegram a lot until, on Reddit, I found posts with screenshots of scammers and how they pretend to be mentors, developers, educators and scam you. I still have my account but left a lot of channels I was joined into just glad that i never responded to those personal messages. It's a scammer's cesspool now
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dumb people that fall for the TG scams are the problem not the TG itself. If you have a little more brain cells you will never fall for these pathetic scams.
But yeah it's easier to blame the software than human stupidity.
Read more: The Basic Laws of Human stupidity
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Dumb and Naive are not the same.
It's easier to scam someone with high IQ as the social engineering techniques and outcomes are more predictable.
Dumb people are more difficult to scam as their behavior is less predictable.
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I will be an advocate for removing support off of TG. I know not every business can easily do that especially with the decentralized and global nature of the services like Amboss.
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Go for it! Godspeed. Happy to contribute and help in any way I can.
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Tox is good.
Unfortunately my social IQ is also minimal.
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