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Guys PLEASE PLEASE be careful who you help on the internet, I was skeptical to begin with and it turns out I was right. Thanks to @npub1pefp...tv2p for finding these photos, as soon as this account Tina’s Fight against cancer was caught, they instantly deleted it and stopped replying. But they had managed to take almost 1M sats from hard working and trusting plebs here! This is NOT ok. This is the most sick and twisted scam ever, not only because they are exposing a real little girl who probably was dealing with cancer, but also deceiving and stealing from plebs. There are many more accounts like this, like this other one that is very similar! I talked to this account a few days ago and was suspicious how they were replying, they didn’t seem like a grieving mother like they should be. BE CAREFUL!
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I confronted that account as I have knowledge on that type of cancer and called out the plan and "unknown" expenses was dubious. Bitcoin taught us one thing to ALWAYS do... Validate! Doesn't matter if it's a piece of news (don't forward until you have validated it), or someone asking for monetary help. It sucks but draining your account doesn't help the ones who actually do need help and can validate that easily! 3 confirmations from different sources. Simple. Takes work, but that's how you hold people accountable.
I immediately thought this account was a scam, but then I started second guessing myself and considered a donation. I did not end up doing that, thankfully. Really sucks because obviously I think a lot of bitcoiners would be willing to help in this situation. But we can’t trust much these days, can we. Thanks for the post to confirm my suspicion.
These scammers were able to make 2M sats in donations from Nostr and thousands more on a donation link.
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Guys PLEASE PLEASE be careful who you help on the internet, I was skeptical to begin with and it turns out I was right. Thanks to @npub1pefp...tv2p for finding these photos, as soon as this account Tina’s Fight against cancer was caught, they instantly deleted it and stopped replying. But they had managed to take almost 1M sats from hard working and trusting plebs here! This is NOT ok. This is the most sick and twisted scam ever, not only because they are exposing a real little girl who probably was dealing with cancer, but also deceiving and stealing from plebs. There are many more accounts like this, like this other one that is very similar! I talked to this account a few days ago and was suspicious how they were replying, they didn’t seem like a grieving mother like they should be. BE CAREFUL!
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I received two zaps from the spam account, never interacted with it. Reminds me of early FB days when this kind of thing happened a lot. There was also a version asking for money to get surgery for a dog. #scam #verify #grownostr
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Guys PLEASE PLEASE be careful who you help on the internet, I was skeptical to begin with and it turns out I was right. Thanks to @npub1pefp...tv2p for finding these photos, as soon as this account Tina’s Fight against cancer was caught, they instantly deleted it and stopped replying. But they had managed to take almost 1M sats from hard working and trusting plebs here! This is NOT ok. This is the most sick and twisted scam ever, not only because they are exposing a real little girl who probably was dealing with cancer, but also deceiving and stealing from plebs. There are many more accounts like this, like this other one that is very similar! I talked to this account a few days ago and was suspicious how they were replying, they didn’t seem like a grieving mother like they should be. BE CAREFUL!
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We will have a lot of this scam in this β€œtransition period β€œ moving from a parasitical environment to a mutualistic environment. Calling out the scam is the beginning . An ingenious creator will soon design a (system) that will make this scam a β€œproof of authenticity β€œ to coin a phrase from our BITCOIN community.
I didn't wanna be that guy but... The child is european and the name on the link was clearly Indian. Not that it's impossible but seems like a dead giveaway. It bothers me that some people are weaponizing others' kindness. Just another reason I feel it's best to help people or community you know
the funny thing is that they actually zapped me multiple times to try to get my attention. I post about babies and motherhood, guess I'm an easy target? Hahaha jokes on them. this old hag has been on the internet long enough to see a scam like this from a mile away.
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Testing for this note… we made six attempts to⚑zap this note, at karo-l@ln.bitdevs.tw, over a period of about 1 hour. All six attempts were successful. Please check on your end to be sure you received. Average zap time was 6810ms (6.8 seconds). We consider this zap time slow... generally, zaps should complete in under two seconds. (Other Nostr users might think your zaps are broken, might not zap you again.) If you wanted to fix this... you could try a free rizful account --
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 ... if u set it up, pls reply here so we can do this ⚑zap test again.
Lots of naive people on nostr i guess
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Guys PLEASE PLEASE be careful who you help on the internet, I was skeptical to begin with and it turns out I was right. Thanks to @npub1pefp...tv2p for finding these photos, as soon as this account Tina’s Fight against cancer was caught, they instantly deleted it and stopped replying. But they had managed to take almost 1M sats from hard working and trusting plebs here! This is NOT ok. This is the most sick and twisted scam ever, not only because they are exposing a real little girl who probably was dealing with cancer, but also deceiving and stealing from plebs. There are many more accounts like this, like this other one that is very similar! I talked to this account a few days ago and was suspicious how they were replying, they didn’t seem like a grieving mother like they should be. BE CAREFUL!
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