If you don't know who he is, you probably know him by this screenshot||

BTC was at $11 in 2013.

He has been involved in different pump and dump coins but the recent coin he tweeted was a complete rugpull. Here's the screenshot of his tweet.

It got rugpulled.

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https://preview.redd.it/xiaq5sguhht81.jpg?width=1208&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d10218caa38458334bb4159a009c6abc2bfa8f89

Please stay away from these YouTubers always do your research before investing into these shitcoins just because he shilled Bitcoin doesn't mean his all shills are legit.

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Report him to the Dubai police so he gets what he deserves, he has deleted his tweets.

https://twitter.com/DubaiPoliceHQ

https://twitter.com/Davincij15/status/1514054596376907781 Here he's shilling another scam which got rugpulled too, if you check out the replies people still don't believe he was involved in it they think his account got hacked.

So, I just received an email claiming to be from Metamask saying because of new regulations, all users have to comply by...whatever date. It looks legit, even the email address sounds right...however, a quick search shows that it is a common phishing scam.

I messaged Metamask Support and they confirmed it.

" Please note, there are an ever increasing number of phishers on other sites pretending to be MetaMask Support. MetaMask support team will never ask for your seed phrase or private key! We will never need to "connect to", "synchronize", or "update the firmware" of your Metamask wallet for any reason. "

link to other site that confirms. https://piunikaweb.com/2022/03/12/metamask-kyc-emails-are-scams-confirms-support/

While it may seem obvious to many here, scammers wouldn't be trying if they didn't think people would fall for it.

This is just a friendly heads up...have a good weekend

EDIT - for all those asking about whether or not i used an email when i signed up with Metamask...i did it drunk do i don't remember all i did

Satoshiswap raised $3.5 million usd in their presale then instantly rugged!

It was supposed to be 50/50 into the liquidity pool and only 200k was added.

The price is now down over 90% from the all time high after a major staking contract failure where millions were lost due to free token given out and the owned trying to cover it up by claiming nothing was lost! After months of delays they released another staking contract that also has a major bug that loses all of your rewarded tokens if you attempt to stake more tokens. The owner claimed it was only a visual glitch and not to worry, then a day later after getting everyone to lose their tokens admitted that tokens will be lost if you stake more then once and pretty much too bad. His response

"We've addressed the missing rewards matter as professionally as we can. We're not going to devote precious team resource refunding. I understand it's annoying. But anyone who comes in here calling us a scam will be muted"

They expect us to believe they are launching an original made from scratch smart contract for a leverage margin trading decentralized exchange when they struggled for 2 months to launch two failed staking contracts filled with devastating bugs and exploits.

It is ran by an off shore shell company and they also launched another project named DerpyToshi that has been abandoned and is dead. They are still trying to rip more people off with more and more empty promises.

The top investors are also the same ones from safemoon! That alone should tell you everything you need to know

Matt Wallace a Dogecoin pumper created a token called “Accept Crypto” and shilled it to his supporters. A token with high trading fees which were supposed to go towards the cost of paying people to work towards getting businesses to accept crypto. It gets a lot worse…

He partnered with another guy Myles G that was previously in prison for fraud and robbery at gunpoint… (what could go wrong? SMH)

He initially tried to call it Accept Doge but The Dogecoin Foundation pulled their trademark card and stopped him from doing it on the threat of legal action.

The Dogecoin Community has been angry at Matt for weeks/months about this and other things as he is also a prominent Dogecoin Pumper that pushes unfounded rumors in his Twitter and YouTube channel.

This isn’t the first time he’s done something like this, other tokens of his have also been rugpulled. Baby Lambo Inu

Once trading started it acted as a honeypot, people could buy but couldn’t sell. A few short periods allowed trading as liquidity was drained. A total of $600K+ in ETH was drained from the project.

Here is a recording of the Telegram call with his Patreon supporters right after they found out they couldn’t sell and later exit liquidity was drained

Allegedly it was supposed to be a fair launch but it went live for his patron supporters first and they were advocating in private channels to buy and dump on the greater market once it was live for everyone. [if this is true] instead they got hit with a honeypot.

Edit: Here a news article on it, it reiterates some of this but is limited in scope of background info.

I received the following in an email today masquerading as CoinBase, and thought I'd share with the community. Also some tips to help spot a scam that may or may not be obvious to everyone.

Account Review

On Thu, January 27, 2022, Unusual activity detected by our service in your account, we temporarily restrict your account, you cannot add or withdraw balance, to remove this limit, please verify your personal data by pressing the Login.

№1: "Login" is a link. Never ever click a link from an email suggesting your account is compromised. Log in from your usual route. Be it app, web, or through a wallet. Don't even click it.

Long pressing this link revealed its a redirect from an Italy based site. Definitely not legit.

№2: Syntax and grammar. Cursory glance at the sentence structure is a huge red flag. Not one portion of the text is indicative of a corporate communication. The date would not be abbreviated. There would not be a meandering fragmented four-comma sentence.

№3: No financial service will request you login via an email. Unless you solicited a verification link as part of a 2FA, this will not be the method.

It's genuinely easy to make an email look legitimate. And I've seen these same emails posing as Amazon, major banks, major credit companies, and all things crypto.

Don't fall for scams, keep your passwords secure. Stay safe fellow hodlers!

They target socially isolated people who can't discuss decisions easily off someone else. Going as far as scanning obituaries but also just common places people like that congregate

I'm not sure about this one as it mustn't happen on Reddit much, as people who frequent online forums are usually social butterflies.

They try to talk up the victims ego, pursading you you're apart of a special group. Can be asking for advice from the victim about a post topic the victim just contributed on a dedicated thread, which would never really work for critical thinkers like us on r/cc. Must be those losers on other subreddits.

They try to convince you that others are already doing it so you can trust them. Bot accounts can easily mimic real users, and paid temp actors can fill in alot of roles

So quick note all these facts I researched and other people on here agree it's correct already in the comments. So no need to ask for links.

They try to compell you into scratch my back, I scratch yours kinda deal. Passing favours, or even giving a little deal/reward up front to get the victim coming back You can just see how crazy far they go. I'm going out of why my way for you writing this to keep you secure, with this information I'm providing. Just remember that.

Anyway they are overly nice to you , which is expected.

Well that's it you beautiful and magnificent people, hope you enjoyed the post. Just remember them scammers are always near by.

Back in the early-90s, I got roped into a real-life pyramid scheme. Not a scam coin or a multi-level marketing firm, but a genuine pyramid scheme where people at the bottom would be tricked into sending money to the top, with the promise that this would make everyone stinking rich.

This was back in the times when the internet was at an infant stage and all such scams were still conducted with old fashioned documents. And when cleaning out some old stuff, I discovered that for some reason, I have actually kept the official papers from this pyramid organization for some 30 years.

So I thought it would be interesting to dust off the old scam and explain just how it worked in detail, and then see how that compares to bitcoin, which is often also accused of being a pyramid scheme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mus6chh_tq0

See my recent post for part 1. I was hoping I had just gotten liquidated.

I didn't get REKT. I got HAKD.

I will leave it to you, r/ cc, to decide whether in reality I was hacked or scammed. Let it be a warning for everybody. I thought I was pretty smort, and never ever gave out my keys to anybody. But I went ahead and kept all my on-chain assets in my super cool metamask hot wallet, right on my macbook and/or iphone. The only possibility I can imagine is that whilst browsing about crypto stuff/general web usage, I clicked on a link somewhere that gave somebody access to all the fucking funds on my wallet! I'm not sure if it happened on my laptop or on my mobile, but I somehow gave away access to my wallet. They tried to moved my amWMATIC staright over to their wallet but it failed, possibly because that would have put me under the health limit. So they wihdrew the MATIC and sent it over to another address, and sent it to another address, which I think is the one they're using. It's 0x409Db2144EB946789A258a6bA1D5bFe73e11A187.

Before you rake me over the coals about the commons scams, I've never given out my seed phrase. I've never send anybody any funds on a promise they'll send it back. This scammer got into my computer somehow through a blue href!!

This is really humilating me for me to admit, but I there is one scam attempt that I suspect might have ended up working. I got a DM on Discord from account called Polygon. Normally I don't click these because they're from random accounts offering to help me. But this time, I had just tried to join the Polygon server and the DM came as I was trying to verify I'm a human and such. So the DM had a link I was supposed to click to gain access to the Polygon Discord. The link sent me to a web page. This part was not unusual. The web page asked for my Password. This was unusual, but I entered it anyways. I thought as long as I didn't give my 12-word secret phrase, I should be ok.

Let me be clear here, it asked me for the sign-in password to Metamask that you choose for yourself, like the password for an email account. Not the 12-word secret pass phrase. It asked me for that next, which was when I immediately noped out and closed the window.

Since then, It's only been general internet browsing, reddit, major websites like CoinGecko and such, as well as crypto apps that I've been using for weeks/months without any major problems. Then today I go to claim my rewards on Aave and I have no gas. I look at the block explorer, and big OOF, I have been jacked. I tried to explain it off my saying maybe my leveraged Matic in Aave dropped too much and I got liquidated. But no, They definitely stole it from me. I looked at the .1 ETH I had on layer 1 (send a small amount first, right?). Jacked also.

I'm only half-sure what do do from here. I know I need a new, secure, wallet ASAP. I just made a new wallet using a new secret phrase on my computer. Yes, the same computer and the same MetaMask, but with a new secret phrase. I'm hoping the hacker has gotten bored of my account so I can quietly move some gas there and recover the rest of my crypto. I know I need to get a hardware wallet, but I'm not sure how to make sure that's secure while I frequently connect it to the internet to farm my farms and stuff.

It sucks, I thought I was smart enough to not get fucked over. But it happened anyways. The best I can do now is hope that I can write off the loss on my taxes over the next 3 years...