Friends that are scammers

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Just like I planned yesterday, I drafted my time and everything worked well. I had time to grind on-line and I felt fulfilled...I didn't run away from Hive's notification as usual😂.

Also, I noticed one thing, I didn't get any tip on NoiseApp yesterday, I just hope nothing is wrong.

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I'll be sharing a scenario that's common to some of us on the virtual world.

For people that are open to many friends on-line (I mean, having a lot of virtual friends that turned to be close), we all have this set of people that are always looking for a particular bank's card, a particular Crypto wallet or exchanger, a particular bank account etc.

Oftentimes they make use of these accounts to get money from somewhere or buy Crypto. Nigerians here should be familiar with this.

I have a lot of friends on this and I do get this kind of request from them often.

Sometimes these people look for such accounts or cards just to get loan from a company and if they succeed, the owner of the account or card would be held responsible.

Sometimes also, these people look for these accounts to be used as middleman(somewhat third party) in receiving a fraudulent money. We should be very careful.

But the genuine ones make use of these accounts just to buy Crypto from a financial firm.

Let me share my recent experience

There's this friend of mine(virtual but very close), that came to my DM to ask if I have a verified coinbase account. I told him I have and asked him why he was asking and he said I should bring it let's use it to cashout some money. He said a good sum will be given to me.

I knew the kinda person he is, so I decided to play along with him.

Me: So you mean you want to buy Crypto with or what?

Him: No, I want to use it to receive money.

Me: wow! From a foreigner?

Him: yeah, exactly.

Me: Okay, that's cool. But don't you have a coinbase account?

Him: Nop, I don't have.

Me: It's easy to get one, just go to playstore, download and Register. KYC doesn't take time as well.

Him:....(he didn't replied again)

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I'm sure he has a coinbase account but doesn't want to use it because the reason he was asking for coinbase account is to be used in fraudulent acts.

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This is exactly what most of them use those accounts for. They go about seeking for people to sweet-talk and get their accounts or details to do fraud. I always ask them, why are they looking for accounts up and down when they can get the account by just a click?(if they claim that they don't have).

Sometimes last year, a virtual friend of mine gave out his details to someone, this guy used the details to collect loan from an app and the loan company began to disturb the owner of the details. It was a serious one that we had to report the scammer's identity to all sectors but nothing could be done. Luckily for the owner of the details, the money borrowed wasn't much, so he had to clear the debt just to avoid disturbance from the loan company.

Maybe this is not common in your country, but please be careful.

To my fellow Nigerians, you should know how to handle that already.

Thanks for reading

15th November 2022