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The Anatomy of a Farcaster Scam (and how to avoid them)

1. An account you’ve most likely never interacted with will send you a DC. 
2. The DC will compliment you or your work and ask for some type of collaboration, consulting job, testing, etc. 
3. If you reply, they may throw out a large number for compensation and ask to have a call to discuss terms. 
4. Usually, right before the agreed meeting time, something will go horribly wrong. The Google Meet or Zoom link they sent won’t work. 
5. You will panic. 
6. They will pressure you that if you can’t meet in the next few minutes, they will need to move to the next candidate on the list. 
7. But magically they will have a solution: they have another video conferencing tool that you can download right now and they know it works. 
8. You click the link without a second thought. 
9. You’ve been scammed and now they drain your wallet with malicious software. 

Let’s show a real life example.

Never answer DCs (direct casts/messages) from a profile that looks like this!!!!

Your profile page (and your last 15 casts) are your Farcaster resume. 

This person adds zero value to the network. They do not have an “opportunity” for you. They do not have money. They are a scammer. Report. Block. Do not engage. 

Your wallets connected to Farcaster are public. There are Dune dashboards that give scammers an easy list of targets. If you are here, you are a target. 

Unsure if someone is legit? Post about it publicly! Ask in your group chats. 

Stay safe and stay vigilant!

Pi-chi.eth Artist /animeoutcasts
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Great job!!! They are targeting many Farcasters.

degensub

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Asking to follow in exchange for following back is enough reason to ignore an account

Shared it for you as not everyone knows scammers are already here.

Sometimes I see people post things better than this. And if I'm not sure if they are real or scam, I look at the people who follow them or like their casts - if they really added value to the network, they would have at least some valueable interactions.

please look my own and tell me your opinion 🤜🏽💥🤛🏽

Thank you! This should be a no brainer but some of them are so smart and articulate in the scams so we have to be so carefuk

I love how you keep educating us all on how to stay SAFU.