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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.

This is not art but I'm fairly certain that most of you have DMs similar to those detailed in this excellent cast of @pichi's. Read about the anatomy of a FC scam 👇 and stay safe!

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Awesome thread from Pichi, as always. The only DC I received along these lines was a year ago and I refused politely to get involved. I wonder how come I didn't get any ever since.

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I delete them without bothering. No dream job will come through DM, that's for sure.

I mean, it can happen. There will be a longer conversation though and for sure they won't send dodgy links to dodgy video conference tools

If you would want to offer somebody a dream job, will you send him/her a dm without following or being followed? I'm sure you won't because you are aware about how dm's from unknown persons are considered by most people.