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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.

cold direct casts from people you don't know are usually scams. 

Refer to @pichi's post and consider giving her a follow too, it's a good way to understand how things work here

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cold direct casts from people you don't know are usually scams. 

Refer to @pichi's post and consider giving her a follow too, it's a good way to understand how things work here

https://warpcast.com/pichi/0xfe1af460

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It was calling on her post as the means with which to callout these accounts :P

Yeah, just ignore and report them and eventually they will get nerfed. If it's someone legit, you will know. They will have a presence in Farcaster, be followed by larger accounts, and you can then message anyone who follows then to trying getting some reference. The many ways people are scammed here are insane! They will do anything to get to your wallet.

Hahaha unfortunately it's really common. A friend was talking on telegram with the support of a known app and turns out the guy managed to impersonate them and drain the guy.

I recall getting scammed EARLY in my crypto interest, someone with a legit looking name messaged telling me to do something on a link, I followed and they emptied my wallet. Learned the hard way, fortunately it wasn't really that much. I ended up messaging them back just being like "well played"