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I try not be bothered by things but this has been a really rough week for me. Dozens of scam accounts have been right click saving my art and selling fake coins/nfts. They've already made $100k+ off these scams. Then, people who are scammed come to me for help/complaints/harassment, when I have nothing to do with it.

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I'm sorry you're dealing with that Chris. It's an inevitability in many ways. The problem is that people aren't associating the only thing blockchains are good at (verifying provenance) with the value of a given product. It's a testament to how young and ignorant the market is. Over time this will improve, for now...

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...all you can do is explicitly dissassociate yourself from those projects and promote the projects you are actually involved with as canon. Eventually those shit projects will be valueless and the mobs will point their anger at the real perpetrators. It's annoying to have to repeat yourself, but for now loudly do so

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This isn't a "imitation is flattery" thing. This is a coordinated scam attack against me from people knowing full well what they're doing

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I don't know if you misunderstood me or something. I'm not saying it was imitation or flattery. I'm aware it's all scams. My point was the people buying are ignorant and that the scams are almost impossible to stop since everything is onchain and pseudonymous. It's like so much of crime. You can't police it away...

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I mostly agree with you there, but there are ways to report these fake accounts, and it's the help I'm trying to ask for here. The more aware people are the better it will get. Thank you for the tip to verify my ens, I just did so. Trying to work this out

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Sure. If there are accounts you can link to that you'd like us to report here, twitter, opensea etc, I'd be happy to. For whatever it's worth.

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There are a lot of fake accounts right now. Some of the biggest offenders currently are @drguys here, https://twitter.com/NyanCat_Base_ , then there's several telegram groups. I've already sent reports to several of them. Problem is they pop right back up with new accounts almost immediately so it's a loop of work

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Just reported both. But yeah that's my fear is that they just endlessly procreate. That's why—and I really didn't mean to come off as undermining your situation—I think another important prong of the strategy is elevating the canonical account, website, project, opensea, farcaster account, etc A north start iyw

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Again, and respectfully, I am already doing all of that. I've been doing that for years. It's been a lot of work. I am trying to learn Farcaster to uplift things here, but again I'm learning and trying to figure it all out here.What I'm saying is these specific scams are targeting victims in ways I can't in front of

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I understand you. I was only saying that I don't think you can ever get in front of them. I wish you well and I'll leave it at that so we don't go in circles.

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Of course, I appreciate it and am listening to your tips. In the meantime, I am trying to clarify things publicly since I am getting DMs about these various scams on an hourly basis.

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