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Lately, I heard about a new format in scams from a friend.

I think it is some sort of scam that works on people's greed to get more without doing much.

As always with anything online, if it sounds too good to be true, it definitely is too good to be true:)

So according to my friend, the scam goes like this...

  1. Someone will send you a link to join this group chat and in the group chat, there will be people telling you how you can make use of Online Game Sites to make money!
  2. They will then tell you that you can do so easily because there is a "teacher" who will teach you how to do so because the teacher found a weakness in the programming or a bug in the website. All you need to do is to follow the teacher and it is 100% will make money... they encourage you to start with a small amount first....
  3. The teacher has fixed timings where they will come into the chat room to teach you how to play the games... and then people will start trying and share that they have made small amounts of money.
  4. At this point, the hard sell comes in and they will sell you the idea of investing larger amounts since you already saw how easy it is to make money. They even have TESTIMONIALS of successful cases of people who made tonnes of money and are enjoying life right now...
  5. If you do invest, you will find the website crashes and you will be unable to take out your "winnings".
In any case, I think it is just prudent to remember that if it sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true.


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