Scammers Are Still There, Be Careful
Have you ever experienced to be scam? As if you wasted all your time and money because you trusted too much? Years ago when pyramiding method of earnings became popular, and a lot of people failed to get back their money.
But aside from this, people who are greedy of money, still do a lot of techniques just to trick you and get your money. I don't know why there are people who love to spend money came from stealing and wrong doings.
Just last week when I encountered a scam, feels good but since I don't easily grab easy opportunity then I tried to figure it out before taking.
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Last week, Monday, I got a notification from Telegram in one of my group chat which I've joined, is says that I won 0.35 btc. I don't like to install Telegram as it's not that popularly used in the Philippines, yet based on what other writers said, if I want to earn other crypto for free, then I must join groups in Telegram. Before I discover read.cash, I once a member of Tipestry. I don't know if this site is familiar to you but, it is like noise.cash where you can share photos and put some captions. Before it's system is not that strict, I actually earn easily in my first week. Some are commenting how I earn immediately then I just said that I post photo and caption which I personally owned. As of now, I forgot the wallet that I used that time lol, I just left my earnings.
Back to my award, it says that I can claim my award using their suggested wallet. I told it to my younger brother and he told me that I just try, unless it ask money, but since it didn't ask money, I do the procedure. When I finished it, I check the wallet and yes it shows 0.35 btc. But when I suppose to transfer it in my bitcoin wallet, it says that I need to deposit. Although the amount is big, I just left it because I don't want to take some risk in this kind of thing. The next day some users are complaining that they still didn't get the money although they already deposit, until we are not allowed to message in the group chat.
It was Wednesday afternoon when I recieved a call from unknown number. I picked it up but the person in the other side is choppy, I just end the call thinking that maybe it's just a wrong dial. But after few minutes, it call again and when I pick it up, she first said "Good afternoon po, is this (my complete name)?", I was shocked that she know it even my middle initial. She added that she is a seller in the shopee app, and I am one of the lucky winner who get a sale. She try to speak again, so fast, but still choppy. So I told her that she just call again after 30 minutes. And here she is, after 30 minutes she really call back and explain me everything.
She said that their shop's name is timecollection.ph, she told me to visit it so I can see myself what are their products. I search it, and saw that it's a verified shop selling original watch; it means all their products are really expensive. She told me that if I bought an amount of 4,000 php ($76.36), I can only get it for as low as 900 php ($17.18). My mother wants to buy a new original watch, and for me this is a good opportunity to give her one. I told her that I will update her if I will grab it, but then she don't want to end the call and explain again. I just notice that in her background noise, there's the same voice of her saying same words, I'm even thinking "do I listening to a recorded audio?" Hmmn maybe not, because she answers my question.
Fast forward...
Since I feel something weird about her, what I did is;
Me : Okay, I will just order in your shop if I want to
Caller : Ma'am this offer is limited po. And you can't buy their using our sale, only here po
Me : It's okay, I actually message the shop, asking for your list of sales
Caller : Oh okay po *end the call
Btw, the shop replied that there's no ongoing sale in their items and they didn't call anyone; "that's a scam" the seller added.
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May 17, 2022
-Ling
i also face this same problem in my life.