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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.
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@taylorop has been DCing people for a long time. Usually with the same message.
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When we investigate their profile, it doesn’t look terrible. Lots of original casts, some replies, clearly not a bot.
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They claim to work at a VC. Ohh, fancy. And they even post about their event. This is where Taylor fucked up. Village Global Velocity is backed by Reid Hoffman. Yes, you know that name. This is easy to figure out by googling this event (which is real by the way, and used to make the account look legit. Spoiler alert: it’s not. It’s a scammer. But it leads us to some great data. Since Taylor claims to work for this VC, let’s check out the team page.
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Well look at that. Liz Factor really does work there. But how could this amazing person not know how to spell their own name and rather than have their real name match their Farcaster ID instead chooses to go by @TaylorOP???? P.S. you can change your Farcaster Display name to be anything. And the scammer chose to not even make the names match. How lazy can you be? At least impersonate someone properly.
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Thankfully, many many casters posted about this account. Many posted to /police Hopefully, no one got scammed. And the Warpcast team nerfed this scammer after enough accounts hit the “Report” button and escalated it to the team.
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But there are many more accounts like this. So how do you keep yourself safe? 1. Don’t answer these Direct Casts 2. See who they follow that is your mutual. DC those people and ask if they know the person well. If they say no, avoid them. 3. Post publicly in channels like /police 4. Farcasters have each other’s backs. If no one is willing to vouch for this person, avoid them. 5. If you get scammed, please please please talk about it.
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I usually learn about these scams after they happen. Casters are embarrassed to come forward because they feel ashamed. Do not feel ashamed. You were TARGETED because your wallets are connected here and the scammers knew exactly what assets you had and had a plan to approach you. This was socially engineered to make you engage. They picked you. It wasn’t random. Speak out. Call them out. Get their accounts nerfed so they can’t use the platform to manipulate anyone else. /police is a great resource.
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amosnena🎩💜
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Great cast Pichi!!! Thank you ☺️
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