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PSA: Identifying scammers and hackers on socials
4 months ago
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There's many type of scams on Twitter/X, Bluesky, etc: (And whatever happens,NEVER click on any links, NOT EVEN IMAGES!)
1. (Twitter) The one that starts by saying "Hi, How are you?" or similar, only to answer the following when you reply with anything: "I've got something good for you" to be followed by "Do you have paypal or cashapp?"
When this happens there's a "troll around" method. You say cashapp, they'll ask the handle, type "$scamthis" (With the dolar sign at the beginning, as it's the handle). You'll see they'll send you and image "confirming" they sent ya the money, but asks for 10$ in their account to activate the scam. You just gotta play dumb until one of their replies has a "Quote reply". When that happens then that means that you "broke the script" and the real scammer is on the PC. That's when you can mess with em better
2. (Twitter) The one that says that they accidentally reported you. If you do reply honestly and tell what they want then they'll lock your account out and ask for money, wich they'll never unblock your account no matter what
3. Discord: Similar to the 2nd one. They'll say they got your account and ask for rescue money. They never locked you out to begin with, they say that so you enter in panic and do what they demand, wich's send money, change your Twitter e-mail and password to theirs. Once you do that, say goodbye to your account
4. The X/Bluesky art scammers. This one's very easy to "activate". Simply say "I'm looking to commission people to draw -name here-", since writting "Commission" will make scammers' searches to make yours pop out as "the recent one" and in a matter of minutes people will reply or even DM saying "I see you're looking for someone to draw -name-!. I am really good at it!"
When that happens you can check their profiles and notice how their commission sheets (If they have one) doesn't have samples, only prices. Their art samples in their feed or profile's links' "Portfolios" or that they'll send to you are stolen art, most of the times unrelated unless you "insist kindly" to see art of what you're looking for. That'll make em go find pics, AI or not, of such characters (I asked for "Inflated Husk (Hazbin Hotel)" and i noticed that one of the many scammers that sent me samples after insisting (Some will send unrelated stuff of what ya want) had a pic from someone i follow on FA). They sometimes don't bother deleting the copyright. Other times, in my case once, they sent me a pic with the copyright on DC, only to remove it and reupload it with the copyrighted area (along part of the pic) blurred out. When asking for their username from where the original piece was they'll say "Oh, it's an old username, haha"
....B***H....
For point number 4 , if you have a Linktree or "A link that contains multiple links to social media,specially Discord username/server", they'll come to your server and join so that "You guys are common users", so no need to send a friend request (Unless your privacy states that you need a friend request, etc). When that happens they'll start discussing prices, even throwing a "Partnership/friend price" (Wich's a total lie, lol). They'll spam on until you point out they're scammers or make all their tries futile, exposing their rears up!
Hopefully these help you guys out!
There's many type of scams on Twitter/X, Bluesky, etc: (And whatever happens,NEVER click on any links, NOT EVEN IMAGES!)
1. (Twitter) The one that starts by saying "Hi, How are you?" or similar, only to answer the following when you reply with anything: "I've got something good for you" to be followed by "Do you have paypal or cashapp?"
When this happens there's a "troll around" method. You say cashapp, they'll ask the handle, type "$scamthis" (With the dolar sign at the beginning, as it's the handle). You'll see they'll send you and image "confirming" they sent ya the money, but asks for 10$ in their account to activate the scam. You just gotta play dumb until one of their replies has a "Quote reply". When that happens then that means that you "broke the script" and the real scammer is on the PC. That's when you can mess with em better
2. (Twitter) The one that says that they accidentally reported you. If you do reply honestly and tell what they want then they'll lock your account out and ask for money, wich they'll never unblock your account no matter what
3. Discord: Similar to the 2nd one. They'll say they got your account and ask for rescue money. They never locked you out to begin with, they say that so you enter in panic and do what they demand, wich's send money, change your Twitter e-mail and password to theirs. Once you do that, say goodbye to your account
4. The X/Bluesky art scammers. This one's very easy to "activate". Simply say "I'm looking to commission people to draw -name here-", since writting "Commission" will make scammers' searches to make yours pop out as "the recent one" and in a matter of minutes people will reply or even DM saying "I see you're looking for someone to draw -name-!. I am really good at it!"
When that happens you can check their profiles and notice how their commission sheets (If they have one) doesn't have samples, only prices. Their art samples in their feed or profile's links' "Portfolios" or that they'll send to you are stolen art, most of the times unrelated unless you "insist kindly" to see art of what you're looking for. That'll make em go find pics, AI or not, of such characters (I asked for "Inflated Husk (Hazbin Hotel)" and i noticed that one of the many scammers that sent me samples after insisting (Some will send unrelated stuff of what ya want) had a pic from someone i follow on FA). They sometimes don't bother deleting the copyright. Other times, in my case once, they sent me a pic with the copyright on DC, only to remove it and reupload it with the copyrighted area (along part of the pic) blurred out. When asking for their username from where the original piece was they'll say "Oh, it's an old username, haha"
....B***H....
For point number 4 , if you have a Linktree or "A link that contains multiple links to social media,specially Discord username/server", they'll come to your server and join so that "You guys are common users", so no need to send a friend request (Unless your privacy states that you need a friend request, etc). When that happens they'll start discussing prices, even throwing a "Partnership/friend price" (Wich's a total lie, lol). They'll spam on until you point out they're scammers or make all their tries futile, exposing their rears up!
Hopefully these help you guys out!
Tebby1988
~tebby1988
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