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

Pi-chi.eth (she/her) Artist /animeoutcasts
Purple Promoter| Hosting: /moxietools /kyoto /momiji  /anime-manga /farcasterunion

https://portrait.so/pichi

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

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.

that’s what i thot too…its vision was really good 🥲