Social media offers a very suitable environment for scams and false false advertisements to spread rapidly among users. Users who are deceived by these false posts and empty promises usually do not get what they expect and promised, and sometimes they can be defrauded from their money and identity documents.
Although the number of these fake advertisements, which we frequently encounter on social media platforms such as Twitter, has decreased recently, this does not mean that the danger has passed. Fraudsters continue to trap users by using the names of famous companies in their games. The new favorite method of scammers, who previously promised fake government support assistance to people with advertisements such as so-called official government resources, seems to be a domestic crypto exchange imitation.
Fraudsters victimize users with fake domestic crypto exchange ads
Fraudsters using the names of domestic exchanges continue to trap users by claiming that they are gifting ‘money’. Similar incidents have occurred many times in the past months, and people who fell for these empty promises have expressed their complaints on platforms such as sikayetvar.com.
For example, a Twitter user who fell into this trap a month ago reported the situation via sikayetvar.com; He noted that after clicking on a fake advertisement belonging to Paribu, one of the most well-known domestic exchanges, he entered the fake Paribu page that opened and entered his user information, and that a person claiming to be from the Paribu support unit called him and asked whether the crypto money had been exchanged and whether this process had developed within his knowledge.
A code was sent to his phone after he said that he was not aware of it; When this code, which is actually the ‘verification for transfer’ code, was told to the caller, all his money was converted into EHT and sent to another digital address in about a minute.
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He stated that the possibility of error may be lower thanks to the design of a system where two different logins cannot be made at the same time with a single session, or an extra security system that considers all crypto assets to be sold and returned to a single unit and then transferred to another account as a ‘suspicious transaction’. Paribu, on the other hand, said that this complaint was returned upon request, and replied that they could call the Support unit in matters that require assistance, or that they could provide 24/7 access from the Support title on their website.
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However, it seems that these measures were not enough to deter scammers. The scammers still continue to deceive users on social media with the same fake advertisements as in the case we talked about. Moreover, this fraud event is not just a case of Paribu; The names of many other domestic exchanges are used in similar dirty tricks, and in some cases, fraudsters can deliver these fake advertisements directly to their victims via e-mail.
As such, trust in digital assets and stock markets, which is already a ‘questioned’ environment, is also questioned. At this point, the biggest task falls to us, the users, in order not to fall into the game of fraudsters. When such fake advertisements are encountered, a little research on the source of the advertisement may reveal that it is a fraud, and it is of great importance to report these false advertisements and the accounts that publish them, in order to avoid similar incidents in the future.
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