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RE: Case 11: Aliexpress and some voting-bots, making rewards without an effort!
hey @sherlockholmes - last night i was scammed bu optimisticguy who promised $5 in upvotes for $2 sent to him - saying he is backed by 250 loyal steemians and my money is guareenteed. As it turned out the only way my money was guareenteed was too be lost. He has sent these messages to hundreds of people and probably taken hundreds of dollars out of our community through fraud in the last day. My money was given back to me by a kind steemian and i am only telling you cause i want @optimisticguy stopped from withdrawing his criminally gained money.
I've put @optimisticguy on my list of leads. Maybe he is running more scams like that.
In the meantime, I suggest to anyone NOT to interact with any such offers, a lot of scammers are making similar rounds on steemit.chat and the various discord servers as well as promoting with 0.001 transactions.
thanks sherlock- @lovelygirl sent me the same offer 24 hours later -scammers
And as a little "twist" to this, @optimisticguy is now accusing @lovelygirl of "stealing" his program/system...
all i know is - i paid optimisticguy $4 and never got any upvotes- he is a scammer and if lovelygirl ripped him off , it wouldn't surprise me .. They are in it together
Unfortunately, the decentralized platform is setup so that it CANNOT stop withdrawals or anything affecting the wallet.
As far as I know, even @steemit cannot freeze or access anyone's account.
Be thankful for this, because if someone could....ABUSE MUCH WORSE THAN THIS COULD HAPPEN!
Sorry for your bad experience.
Peace!
fair enough - i hope not too many people are losing money
That scam is one of the oldest in mmo games. Often the scammers have a crowd of alt accounts or buddies vouching in public chat for the veracity of the scam. Sometimes they actually send the double and triple money back in small amounts, hoping that a greedy cash rich player will then go all in and transfer them a large amount of currency.
thanks corpsvalues - i am now following you and wish you well -- looking forward to friendship