🍌 How scammers 'warm up'

⚫️ Just like a week ago, we encountered a scammer and pretended to be a naive user to better understand the methods of scammers and warn you about them. Recently, Elon Musk posted a meme: 'If a beautiful girl writes to you about crypto, block her.' And something similar happened here.

⚫️ One of us suddenly received a message from an account with an attractive girl as the avatar (possibly AI-generated). The first message read in English: 'I saw your profile, you look very chill, I wanted to say hi and ask how you are.' Of course, this already seemed very suspicious. But it wasn’t clear what exactly they wanted to do. To figure it out, we decided to keep the conversation going.

⚫️ At first, the 'girl' wrote about neutral topics: who works where, where she lives. Here, the recent innovation in Telegram was vividly displayed, where when a message comes from a stranger, the messenger shows where the account is from and how long ago they updated their name and avatar. The 'girl' wrote that she was from Luxembourg. However, Telegram reported that the account was registered on an Argentine SIM card, and these two countries aren't even on the same continent.

⚫️ When asked 'where did you come across my profile?' the girl replied 'in the Tonkeeper chat,' and it became clear that she would soon offer something crypto-related. Shortly after, she sent a referral link to an obscure website where you can 'very profitably deposit cryptocurrencies for interest.' It's funny that Toncoin was not listed among the currencies on the site, but Notcoin was found. We asked 'can we invest in Toncoin?', and she replied 'contact support, they will help.' Now that's a service! Maybe honest crypto projects will also start supporting TON with just one support request?

⚫️ The site itself looks extremely suspicious. When selecting a specific cryptocurrency on it, it does not offer to deposit it via a smart contract but simply shows an address and writes something like 'Transfer here from $100, everything will be credited to your account.' Tempting offer! Of course, we didn't check it. Although the 'girl' continued to write to us in the spirit of 'I'll help you understand, look how much I withdrew yesterday! Why don't you want to? How are you? Where have you been?'

💡 What conclusions can be drawn?
Firstly, it is clearly visible why Telegram added the display of information about strangers.
Secondly, it differs from other schemes in this way. Usually, they immediately talk about cryptocurrencies: 'You have an airdrop available,' 'We offer safe earnings.' But here, at first, they pretended that the story was not about crypto at all. Through friendly conversations, they 'warmed up' to generate interest, and then the link dropped on fertile ground.
So Elon Musk's meme can be supplemented: if a 'beautiful girl' writes first NOT about crypto, there is already reason for worse suspicions.
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