First Draft Club

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.

If you or someone you know has been scammed on Farcaster, I’d like to chat with you. I personally know many victims of the scams, but my data is mostly from last summer. I made an an anonymous form here for anyone who doesn’t want to speak or post publicly. 

Thank you in advanced!

If you or someone you know has been scammed on Farcaster, I’d like to chat with you. I personally know many victims of the scams, but my data is mostly from last summer. I made an an anonymous form here for anyone who doesn’t want to speak or post publicly. 

Thank you in advanced!

https://form.typeform.com/to/b3xfdJDV

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It’s really terrible. Trying to figure out if they are up to the same old games or have some new tricks up their sleeves.

Really surprised people are still falling for this. Has been a staple of crypto twitter forever. Sorry to see it’s followed us all here.

Not for this survey. 


I think we could write a whole postmortem on how that went down but I don’t think it was truly a rug or a scam but a token that was a victim of its own success. It attracted too many extractors too quickly.

does $farther count? 😅 or was that a rug pull?

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I’m so sorry! They are very sophisticated and intense!

Hackers/scammers are everywhere, my wallet was hacked a few months ago and I lost control of everything apart from the monetary losses

police

Yesterday, I was scammed (to a certain extent). I got a phone call from Austria claiming to be from @coinbase. I was at the office and very tired, so I didn’t think twice at first.

They told me there was suspicious activity on my account and asked me the following questions:

- When was the last time I accessed my account?
- From where?
- Have I ever used a VPN to access my account?
- Which device do I use to access my account?
- Can I still log in and access my account (to confirm that no one changed my password)?
- How much do I have in both @coinbase and @coinbasewallet?

The last question made me suspicious. That’s when I started wondering if Coinbase would even call me at all.

After all this, the guy (very polite, native English speaker) told me that my account was safe and that someone would call me back in a few minutes for the next steps.

Then I searched online and found out this is a common scam. I felt very stupid. I locked my account. 👇

I was almost scammed last week. But I think it doesn’t count to your survey.

I was almost scammed last week. But I think it doesn’t count to your survey. 

https://warpcast.com/camilags/0x3943b774

Someone tried to scam me. What you describe seems to be their process