How not to be scammed in NFTs

4. Communication is key: It’s really hard to reach NFT buyers. Almost laughably hard: Someone can spend hundreds or thousands of dollars in ETH to get a collectible from your brand, and you can have no way of communicating with them save airdropping to their wallet address. In part this is by design, the verifiable anonymity that blockchain technol... See more

WEB3 SECURITY 101 Learn about:

1. Basic Terms & Concepts

2. Choosing Your Wallets

3. The DO's

4. The DON'Ts

5. Protecting Your Seed Phrase

6. Avoiding NFT Scams

7. Phishing Attacks

8. Scams on Discord 

-Scammers flood Discord DMs with bogus offers

Furthermore, tokens can be “airdropped” to specific addresses, with no consent required by the recipient. Often used as a way to distribute free NFTs for giveaways and other promotional campaigns, there is nothing stopping someone from airdropping NFTs with abusive content—doxing, revenge porn, child sexual abuse imagery, threats, etc.—into someone... See more

This is not meant to excuse the actual scams as fun experiments. Au contraire, the actual scams are doubly-destructive, because they harm their own users and they cast a shadow over the well-intentioned projects. Fuck the scammers.

Scammers are sophisticated. Sometimes a basic defense isbest.

Scammers use many different methods, including technology, impersonation and couriers, attempting to cheat you out of your savings. While scammers may be increasingly high tech, following these six simple guidelines can help keep your accounts safe no matter how you are targeted.

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