✔️ Information reviewed and updated in April 2024 by Pedro Martínez González
THE MOST COMMON SOCIAL MEDIA SCAMS (INSTAGRAM, FACEBOOK, TIKTOK, SNAPCHAT AND MORE)
Social networks are a playground for scammers who reinvent themselves every day to squeeze innocent people or people with good intentions. That is why you have to keep your eyes wide open and be informed so as not to fall. Below, we show what are the most used scams currently through Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat and more. Lately, scams have become popular through dating applications or to find a partner such as Tinder, Grindr, Bumble, OKCupid, Badoo, Plenty of Fish and happn.
- BOTS
Bots are programs that are automatically programmed to carry out specific and repetitive tasks over the internet, and scammers take advantage of this by posing as the customer service of companies such as exchanges so that gain access to people's wallets.
With messages like: “Hello, welcome to the Coinbase Safety Prevention Hotline” followed by the warning to the user that they were trying to log in from their account and therefore they press a number to be able to restore security, in this way the user enters the passwords and the money that therefore disappears.
- Homework apps or to earn money
It all starts with a WhatsApp or Telegram chain trying to convince people to earn money through an application that promises rewards for performing certain tasks.
These tasks range from watching news on social networks, to making purchases on Amazon or clicking on products for sale online. Also download other apps or watch videos online. Well, to download the app, we will have to enter our bank details and watch out, because do not comply with the Privacy and Data Policy correctly, as they do not usually have complete contact information such as real address and phone numbers.
Soon after, users begin to earn money, so the word begins to spread and the app gains more and more followers. There are some that encourage you to invest more to earn more and move up in category within it and others that earn you more money if you invite more people. After they no longer have anyone else to convince, the app starts to malfunction, they don't pay and finally it crashes, disappears and the profits are kept by the scammers who created it. classic one pyramid scheme or a ponzi scheme.
- romance scams
The person is contacted by someone with a striking profile picture, usually young and attractive people who randomly add numbers and who will immediately be interested in meeting them, spending time together, etc. This person will start sending photos, often using someone else's stolen photos to make them look real and begin to weave a more intimate relationship. These can happen more often on hookup or dating apps like: Tinder, Grindr, Bumble, OKCupid, Badoo, Plenty of Fish and happn.
When trust has already been established, she will state that she has financial problems, or that she or her mother has become ill, or that she has had an accident, etc etc. All so that money is sent repeatedly and then disappears.
They also often request the opening of a joint bank account that they will only use to steal money. It is also common for the fake person to mention being a successful investor and invite you to invest.
- cryptocurrency scams
They are usually through advertisements on Facebook, Instagram, Instagram or TikTok profiles, also by Telegram, although they act in the same way in any. There are telegram groups where there is someone motivating to invest in a certain account or in investment plans to multiply the money that will be nothing more than tricks to get the cryptocurrencies out of the wallets of innocent people.
They do it through groups that seem serious, with graphs of earnings and earnings only and even share a website to make everything seem more serious and legal. The channel or chat may be one of active cryptocurrencies in which you can participate and others in which only others actively speak but you cannot respond.
They also often have limited offers that you have to respond to quickly if you want to use them or not.
WATCH OUT! Never make cryptocurrency transactions, do not show or share your private keys or passwords, much less your recovery phrase. Also, do not install apps or software on your mobile or computer that are remote control because they can see all your movements and passwords.
- Trading Gurus – Investment Scams
Chats normally led by a young, rich man, who can show his luxuries through the group to "motivate" people to deposit money. From luxury cars, to watches of tens of thousands of dollars, from luxury trips to private jets, and wads of bills, everything that fits in the imagination of a rich person.
It is also very common to find profiles of supposedly successful people, leading a life of luxury due to their investments.
Here are two example images of SCAM Instagram accounts. As we can see, they mention being experts in investments, as they also show images of supposed winning operations of their investments, or of their luxurious life, of all the money they have thanks to their investments.
These scammers They will try to hook as many people assuring that they are engaged in trading (financial speculation to obtain profits) and will show supposed evidence of their success. These gurus, claiming to have years of experience in financial activities, ensure their success and the multiplication of people's income in record time.
Do you know any scam through social networks? We are interested in knowing it, share it with us!
hello, good afternoon,
There is a new scam in Argentina, they call themselves cheil Argentina recruiters and you have to invest at least $22000 or more, to watch videos on Instagram, tik tok, etc. Then you upload a screen print and they pay you for those videos. Seeing Cheil Argentina's Linkedin they themselves say that it is a scam.
The issue is that the people who get into there don't use linkedin and don't get advice. It's a pyramid scam. But it would be nice to make it public.
Hi Claudio, if they insist, don't be in a hurry, don't send money, scammers usually put a lot of pressure on you so you don't think. We are reviewing several reviews at the moment, but we will put yours as a priority to be able to rate this broker. Can you provide us with the website? Thank you.
I ask, I get apps like coin Master or tropical megaways (already installed) every so often, but I want to find out if they are reliable when they say they pay for doing a task...
Let's see if I investigate a little of those already mentioned, I have not used it, but I don't know whether to use it
Hello Jesús, both are scams, each time they ask you for more money and it never ends and they never return it to you, they end up scamming you.
Greetings.
Hello, I want to denounce the company livingtradefx .com, it has scammed many people, they have a number I read from Dubai, supposedly they are dedicated to the stock market.
Hi Lorena, thanks for writing about LivingTradeFX. Currently this broker is considered a SCAM. He is part of an organized criminal organization that uses different brokers to defraud all his clients: Alfa Assets Group, Apollo Management (invest-apollo .co), Asa-GP, Aurora First, Black core, Btoken Bank, Crypton Broker, Emporio Trading , Eurobond Plus, Hispamarkets, LivingTradeFX, Maximus Trade, M Broker, Mira Capital Markets, MMT Investing Group, MyTradeMM, One X Global (one-xglobal.uk), Poloinvest, QSmart Limited, SmartEnevita, Summapips, Urustrade and Vanki Trading.
If you are a client, do not make more contributions, their only objective is to steal from you, they manipulate operations manually, they keep the money from when it reaches their accounts, it does not enter the market, everything is prepared for you to lose or make you lose your money to have the excuse to keep it.
If you decide to withdraw and they request a ransom in the form of commissions, taxes, fees, legalizations, etc. Never pay it! That's the warning, from that moment you have to know that you are a client of a scam broker and no matter how much you pay you will never see your money.
To help other users or customers, provide as much information as possible, explain how everything happened, where you saw the advertising, who called you, numbers from which you were dialed, emails and everything that comes to mind.
If you want to recover your money go to our chat or check this link: CLAIM YOUR MONEY
Greetings.
Hello
I have seen an ad to earn money with an app called Maria angelica's income club, from what I have seen of the method it seems to be a copy treader strategy, I have searched for information about this app but I can't find anything, it is reliable app?
All the best
Hi Paco, I don't know if you can help us with the website or the exact name of the app to be able to verify that information, everything seems to be a scam the way you expose it, but I would like to carry out an exhaustive review.
Greetings.
Hello
Thank you for responding to my publication, the app is called the income club there are some videos on YouTube and when you access their blog they do not put any of their information or email or tax data, in the YouTube videos they appear when you search for the income club income from Maria angelica, I also suspect that it is a scam, the first red light comes on when you see that they assure you high profitability in the short term and the second red light comes on when you see that the YouTube videos are from just a few days ago and the third red light comes on when you enter your blog and do not see email or tax data
If you can do a thorough review of this app it would be great to prevent anyone from investing and getting scammed
Thanks for your time
All the best
Hi Paco, we will look at it carefully to draw more detailed conclusions and give an alert in case it is a scam, everything indicates that it is.
Greetings.
congratulations for your post
I have paid €1750 for a course that is not worth €500, a young guy with many followers, who no longer lives in Spain.
I am from Venezuela, I invested a lot of money in this "training" and it turns out that the strategy is laughable, its "method" is rubbish
Hi Marcos, can you give us more details about this fraudulent course to alert other people.
Greetings.
Hello, I want to denounce the company livingtradefx.com, it has scammed many people, they have a number I read from Dubai, supposedly they are dedicated to the nolsa of values.
Hi Lorena, thanks for writing about LivingTradeFX. Currently this broker is considered a SCAM. He is part of an organized criminal organization that uses different brokers to defraud all his clients: Alfa Assets Group, Apollo Management (invest-apollo .co), Asa-GP, Aurora First, Black core, Btoken Bank, Crypton Broker, Emporio Trading , Eurobond Plus, Hispamarkets, LivingTradeFX, Maximus Trade, M Broker, Mira Capital Markets, MMT Investing Group, MyTradeMM, One X Global (one-xglobal.uk), Poloinvest, QSmart Limited, SmartEnevita, Summapips, Urustrade and Vanki Trading.
If you are a client, do not make more contributions, their only objective is to steal from you, they manipulate operations manually, they keep the money from when it reaches their accounts, it does not enter the market, everything is prepared for you to lose or make you lose your money to have the excuse to keep it.
If you decide to withdraw and they request a ransom in the form of commissions, taxes, fees, legalizations, etc. Never pay it! That's the warning, from that moment you have to know that you are a client of a scam broker and no matter how much you pay you will never see your money.
To help other users or customers, provide as much information as possible, explain how everything happened, where you saw the advertising, who called you, numbers from which you were dialed, emails and everything that comes to mind.
If you want to recover your money go to our chat or check this link: CLAIM YOUR MONEY
Greetings.