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.

And the scammers won’t quit. 

Here’s another scammer sliding into your DCs with a legit (at first glance) profile. Report and block this scum.  Do not engage. Do not answer their DCs. 


First clue this is sus, display name and Farcaster name are different. For someone using their actual name this is weird.

And the scammers won’t quit. 

Here’s another scammer sliding into your DCs with a legit (at first glance) profile. Report and block this scum.  Do not engage. Do not answer their DCs. 


First clue this is sus, display name and Farcaster name are different. For someone using their actual name this is weird. 
https://warpcast.com/saraibronferd

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

https://portrait.so/pichi

oooh
I have 55 applications to approve for correspondence with them.
How can I get these profiles to the team for the ban?

police

Builder Community Growth / Researcher /onchain /build

I’d post to /police so we can gather evidence. Then we can make a big thread with all the casts and tag in the team.