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.

Be careful of random offers from strangers in your direct messages.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

This sucks, because I like to direct cast people and compliment their work, and I hope I’m not coming across as baiting them or flattering them into a scam.

Setting: Only people you follow can dm you!

I've been getting these more and more recently. I didn't realise we could report the users, I will start doing this more often moving forward.

But Doctors Without Borders are so convincing ;)