PSA: How to deal with Scammers!

All Amino's are frequently flooded with scammer s so I decided to make an announcement on this topic in order for s to know what to do when they encounter one and how to deal with them!

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New Scam Bots many communities all the time, and must be dealt with immediately

We will start with the basics, here's the topics we'll go over in this post!

1. What is a Scam Bot and what do they look like?

2. One of them messaged me! What should I do?

3. Additional Information

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What is a Scam Bot?

Scammer bots are spam s created by malicious people, they aim to steal your information through false information!

What do they look like?

They look like this!

Except that they won't be banned unless they have been dealt with, we'll go into that later 🙂

Here's an example of a scammer message

All of the Bots encountered so far have always been promoting gifts from Amino as a reward. This is an obvious scam as they are not official Team Amino .

Examples of names:

• AminoRewards####

• AminoGifts####

• Amino[Something]####

• TeamA####

• A###Team####

There may be further variations in the future.

Here is what a REAL Team Amino member looks like:

Real Team Amino will have a special badge under their name which will indicate that they are an official member of Team Amino.

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What should you do when one of them messaged you?

Don't worry! Stay calm and follow these simple steps!

1. Most importantly, DO NOT tap on the link in the message! If you happen to do so, please change your details & IMMEDIATELY!

2. Flag their / scam message

3. Leave the chat, do not attempt to speak with them.

Note:

They are more likely to message new s, so please flag them!

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Additional Information

• Any s caught sending scam link/codes to others which could corrupt a 's phone, & safety will be banned.

• Please understand that only Leaders have the ability to ban s. If neither me or Vehmetic are online, please message the curators, most notably Reflux as he have the most ways to me. If we are available, we will respond ASAP.

• Not all rs are scammers, please double-check before flagging as they might just be a normal , that is, unless you feel uncomfortable with it.

• Team Amino had tried to fix this problem by disabling your keyboards in the Amino browser when using suspicious sites, but it is not 100% effective. (Survey sites many Leaders use such as Google Forms also have blocked keyboards so we'll ask you to open it in another browser when we use Google Forms for community ).

• Please do not make alternate s with bot-like information and messages. You will be banned immediately.

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Thank you for reading, stay safe everyone!

~ Nyxi (^_−)☆