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10 scam schemes that scammers use to make $10,000 a month in 2025. Bitcoin transaction cancellation, fake exchangers, phishing links and much more you will learn in this topic.
Contents:
Introduction
Every day there are more and more scams in Telegram. In 2024, scammers stole more than 150 billion rubles from Russians, and this is only for registered cases. Now I will show 10 scam schemes that will work in 2025. Cancellation of bitcoin transactions, fake exchangers, phishing links and much more. The author does not support or promote fraud. The information is provided only to familiarize yourself with the methods of scammers. With you, the Scheme Taster, let's go!
Bitcoin refund
1 scheme. Bitcoin refund. In some crypto wallets, you can cancel bitcoin transactions, for example, in old versions of the AlexRoom wallet. Scammers earn from 10 thousand dollars a month on this. This is done simply, a minimum commission is set, because of this, the transaction will take a very long time and before the first confirmation of the network occurs, the transfer can be canceled. But the Exodus wallet shows that the money has already arrived at the first confirmation stage.
Fraudsters work under the guise of an exchanger that has only recently appeared on the market. And to earn a reputation, they send money first with a favorable percentage. They ask to download the Exodus wallet under the pretext that they are their official partners. But it can take a long time to find such a mammoth, and so they act smarter. They create a team and buy advertising in Tiger publics that they need workers. A person joins the team and is given a detailed manual from A to Z.
The conditions there are very favorable, the admins will mine all the traffic themselves, and the worker only needs to communicate with people and send and cancel transactions. To begin with, they give him a client with small volumes from 50 to 100 dollars, but this is only necessary so that he has confidence in this scheme. But the main mammoth turns out to be the worker and now I will explain why. In fact, they do not mine traffic, but write to him from other accounts.
And here is money x they increase the amount to a larger one and the following happens. They send the address of another wallet, not exolus, but electrum, and on it you can speed up the transaction by paying an additional commission. This can be done by either party, the sender and the one who receives the money. The worker will not have time to cancel the transfer and will be left without money, and the admin of darkness will block him.
Backdoors
2 scheme. Scam through backdoors. One of the most popular methods of creating programs with backdoors that allow you to access your data.
Backdoors are hidden entrances that allow you to bypass standard security measures. This can happen in several ways. After creating malware, scammers try to spread it as widely as possible. For example, they create a crypto exchanger script and leak its code to various forums so that any user can install it. They wait until the victim gains a reputation in the crypto exchanger, so that at one opportune moment, when a large amount takes off, they can access the script and change the wallet address to their own.
Auto-withdrawal from wallets
3 scheme. Scheme through auto-withdrawal from crypto wallets. Perhaps you have seen somewhere that users distribute their crypto wallet 12-word phrase.
They ask for help to withdraw money, or give it away for free. In fact, it will not be possible to withdraw them, there are USDT on the balance, usually this is a round sum, about 500 dollars. To withdraw them, you need to top up the thrones, they are needed to pay the commission. But when replenishing, they are automatically withdrawn and all the dreams of the victim are destroyed. Even if you have a sufficient Tron balance, you still will not be able to withdraw anything and will receive an error.
It works very simply. In the Tron network, you can easily replace the wallet owner and change the rights. All this happens without changing the public and private keys. Fraudsters download Tronlink, this is a crypto wallet for the Tron network. Then they create two wallets and import Tronlink into them. One of them is real, and the second is a scam. The real wallet will manage the scam wallet. Then they go to Tron.Org, this is the official Tron website, and connect their wallet to it.
They copy the address of the real wallet and replace the current address in both fields with the address of the real wallet. After these actions, the fraudster can safely execute the address of the scam wallet and no one will be able to withdraw his USDT. Then the fraudster will insert the automatic withdrawal of Tron and spread his sitrazu as soon as possible. And so the happy mammoth replenishes them in the hope that now he will break the jackpot. Although the replenishment is small, there can be a lot of such scammers per day.
Scam on a job offer
4 scheme. Fraud on a job offer. On forums, tasks, ads and gram-chats people are constantly looking for work on the Internet. Fraudsters post ads that workers are needed for easy and monotonous work. It is easy for them to get traffic, since the demand for such work is very high. And there are not so many offers, especially with such pleasant conditions. When a potential victim writes to them, they send a prepared legend about the work.
For example, you need mass registration of accounts, but to create them you need a dedicated server and an anti-detect browser. Here a person may wonder why they do not issue it themselves. And in this case, they answer that they used to buy a dedicated server for workers, but now there are more and more cases in which workers request this thing in the first hour and do not recoup the costs. Usually people do not have this in another way, and they are interested in where they can buy it. And then the fraudster gives a link to a site where he allegedly takes dedicated servers.
In fact, this is his fake site, after payment on which the buyer will receive absolutely nothing. If a person is cold, then they play on his emotions, under the pretext that the recruitment is about to close. The average check for one person can be from 5 to 50 dollars, depending on which country the fraudster works in.
Sports betting
scheme 5. Mass fraud on bets. Sports bets are placed by a lot of people who want to make money.
A fraudster collects a base of, for example, 100 people. He writes a legend to everyone that he has fixed matches, but he himself cannot bet on failures, since the bookmaker cuts his accounts for his winnings. He sends 5-10 of them a victory of the first team, and sends a forecast for the victory of the second team to the second half. He scrolls through this circle several times and eventually he has a base of plus or minus 5 or 10 people. Whether they bet or not, but they see that 5 matches in a row have gone right before their eyes.
But now the fraudster does not give free matches, but offers them to buy his forecasts for a round sum, usually at least 5-10 thousand rubles. These people are very charged and therefore about 7-8 out of 10 people will agree. But if the next match does not go, the fraudster will definitely give a replacement. After one defeat, not many people will drop out, since they have seen a lot of victories. But after two defeats, no one will trust the fraudster anymore.
Crypto streams
6 scheme. Crypto streams. Fraudsters buy YouTube channels or offer cooperation to unscrupulous bloggers. With the help of a neural network, a defect of a popular personality associated with cryptocurrency is faked. Usually this is Elon Musk or the founder of the company Vitalik Buterin. An ordinary YouTube viewer sees in the recommendations a stream that talks about a new crypto exchange that attracts users and therefore gives 7x2 if they register and link a wallet.
And the promotion will end very soon and you need to hurry. In addition, there is a check mark on the account and with it, trust increases several times. Mammoth immediately follows the link from the description and connects his crypto wallet and all the cryptocurrency is instantly withdrawn from it. With this scheme, scammers earn from 100 thousand dollars a month, depending on the number of their accounts on YouTube.
Scam on iCloud
7. Scam on iCloud. When logging into someone else's iCloud, the owner of the iPhone can block the phone and then extort money.
One of the methods is implemented on dating sites. A fraudster posing as a girl gets acquainted with a man. They start a pleasant conversation, and the fraudster sends a photo of the girl. He says that there are more explicit photos, but to look at them, you need to log into iCloud. The victim, in a fit of emotion, logs into the account, and immediately his phone is blocked. The scammer writes to him that he needs to pay money to unlock the phone. Usually this is from 5 to 20 thousand rubles, depending on the iPhone model.
The victim of the scam is frozen for a long time, but still sends money. After the first transfer, the fraudster, of course, does not unlock anything, he demands the same amount again and swears to unlock the phone. Usually no one falls for it the second time, but there are mega desperate and gullible guys who do it again. Of course, there are decent scammers who keep their promise, but there are very few of them. Very often, scammers buy stolen Telegram accounts or VKontakte and then write from them asking to log in to their iCloud.
And if you find yourself in such a situation, then try writing to Apple technical support, maybe they will help you if you have a purchase receipt.
Fake guarantor (escrow)
8 scheme. Scam through Telegram channels. There are hundreds of chats in Telegram where they buy and sell advertising in Telegram channels and there are a lot of scammers there. Scammers create dozens of Telegram channels and wind up subscribers, views, reactions and even comments on them.
When a sufficient number of posts have accumulated, scammers begin to sell advertising in their channels. Experienced admins ask for a link to Tokistat or Telemeter to see the planned arrival of subscribers, the source of traffic, etc. But beginners hardly understand this and look at the main indicator, from whom the admin took the advertising. But since the scammers have dozens of fake publics, they can advertise in these same channels. And so the newbie sees that the advertising has been bought and has no doubt about the authenticity of the public. And the advertising can cost 10, 50 or even 150 dollars.
And that's not all. When advertising is ordered from them, they fake subscribers to the victim's channel. Thinking that he has made a successful purchase, he buys advertising from several more publics from this network. He understands that he has been deceived only after a week, when subscribers begin to unsubscribe. He cannot go to the police, since the advertising was sold to him. And no one will figure out whether there were bots or real people on his account. But the advertising scam is too long and therefore smarter scammers create a fake channel exchange.
Many people do not want to bother with developing their business and want to buy a ready-made Tigram channel. Therefore, they search YouTube for where to buy a promoted Telegram channel. There, YouTube bloggers review a scam service without checking its honesty and simply advertise. The exchange website presents real channels, but without indicating their real owners. The buyer makes a payment through the platform, usually using crypto, and is immediately blacklisted.
Fake garant
9 scheme. Scam scheme on garantbot. Thousands of transactions for various goods take place in Telegram every day, be it game accounts or Telegram channels. And in order not to be deceived, users prefer to work with a person who has a reputation. Fraudsters create a group in Telegram, where participants sell or buy something, for example, game accounts. They get traffic in different ways, for example, by inviting. With the help of scripts, scammers get a database of people from YouTube chats and add them to their chats.
There are other methods of attracting traffic, for example, doorway channels. Doorway are channels that bring software for a specific request, for example, buy a Pubg account. By the way, this is the highest quality traffic. Fraudsters are trying to gain people's trust and therefore make fake reviews and it works great. The most effective are video reviews, they are inexpensive and inspire a lot of trust. And so naive account sellers will turn to this guarantor and will end up being thrown.
Fraudsters also hire schoolchildren who will work for a percentage. In different chats, they look for traffic and offer a good price for an account. Usually, this scheme scams accounts, not money, because it is much easier to find an account seller. And if you manage to find a buyer, it is not always convenient to accept payment. But if there are no problems with payment, then they will additionally scam for a donation in the game.
Phishing in Telegram
10 scheme. In Telegram, you can buy and sell usernames using the Fragment platform.
All you need to sell is to connect your wallet to Tonkeeper and wait for a buyer. Fraudsters parse users from Fragment who previously bought nicknames for themselves, because they may have money on their wallet balance. They write to them in Telegram and offer to buy out their username at a juicy price. The person agrees and the scammer sends him a phishing link to an iTegram bot, disguised as a fragment. Due to his carelessness, Mammoth does not notice that the fragment is not real, and then he links his wallet and all the money instantly flies away from it.
And if you want part 2, then write about it in the comments. And with you was the Scheme Taster and see you in the next topic
Contents:
- Introduction
- Bitcoin Refund
- Backdoors
- Auto-withdrawal from wallets
- Job offer scam
- Sports betting
- Crypto Streams
- iCloud scam
- Fake guarantor (escrow)
- Phishing in Telegram
Introduction
Every day there are more and more scams in Telegram. In 2024, scammers stole more than 150 billion rubles from Russians, and this is only for registered cases. Now I will show 10 scam schemes that will work in 2025. Cancellation of bitcoin transactions, fake exchangers, phishing links and much more. The author does not support or promote fraud. The information is provided only to familiarize yourself with the methods of scammers. With you, the Scheme Taster, let's go!
Bitcoin refund
1 scheme. Bitcoin refund. In some crypto wallets, you can cancel bitcoin transactions, for example, in old versions of the AlexRoom wallet. Scammers earn from 10 thousand dollars a month on this. This is done simply, a minimum commission is set, because of this, the transaction will take a very long time and before the first confirmation of the network occurs, the transfer can be canceled. But the Exodus wallet shows that the money has already arrived at the first confirmation stage.
Fraudsters work under the guise of an exchanger that has only recently appeared on the market. And to earn a reputation, they send money first with a favorable percentage. They ask to download the Exodus wallet under the pretext that they are their official partners. But it can take a long time to find such a mammoth, and so they act smarter. They create a team and buy advertising in Tiger publics that they need workers. A person joins the team and is given a detailed manual from A to Z.
The conditions there are very favorable, the admins will mine all the traffic themselves, and the worker only needs to communicate with people and send and cancel transactions. To begin with, they give him a client with small volumes from 50 to 100 dollars, but this is only necessary so that he has confidence in this scheme. But the main mammoth turns out to be the worker and now I will explain why. In fact, they do not mine traffic, but write to him from other accounts.
And here is money x they increase the amount to a larger one and the following happens. They send the address of another wallet, not exolus, but electrum, and on it you can speed up the transaction by paying an additional commission. This can be done by either party, the sender and the one who receives the money. The worker will not have time to cancel the transfer and will be left without money, and the admin of darkness will block him.
Backdoors
2 scheme. Scam through backdoors. One of the most popular methods of creating programs with backdoors that allow you to access your data.
Backdoors are hidden entrances that allow you to bypass standard security measures. This can happen in several ways. After creating malware, scammers try to spread it as widely as possible. For example, they create a crypto exchanger script and leak its code to various forums so that any user can install it. They wait until the victim gains a reputation in the crypto exchanger, so that at one opportune moment, when a large amount takes off, they can access the script and change the wallet address to their own.
Auto-withdrawal from wallets
3 scheme. Scheme through auto-withdrawal from crypto wallets. Perhaps you have seen somewhere that users distribute their crypto wallet 12-word phrase.
They ask for help to withdraw money, or give it away for free. In fact, it will not be possible to withdraw them, there are USDT on the balance, usually this is a round sum, about 500 dollars. To withdraw them, you need to top up the thrones, they are needed to pay the commission. But when replenishing, they are automatically withdrawn and all the dreams of the victim are destroyed. Even if you have a sufficient Tron balance, you still will not be able to withdraw anything and will receive an error.
It works very simply. In the Tron network, you can easily replace the wallet owner and change the rights. All this happens without changing the public and private keys. Fraudsters download Tronlink, this is a crypto wallet for the Tron network. Then they create two wallets and import Tronlink into them. One of them is real, and the second is a scam. The real wallet will manage the scam wallet. Then they go to Tron.Org, this is the official Tron website, and connect their wallet to it.
They copy the address of the real wallet and replace the current address in both fields with the address of the real wallet. After these actions, the fraudster can safely execute the address of the scam wallet and no one will be able to withdraw his USDT. Then the fraudster will insert the automatic withdrawal of Tron and spread his sitrazu as soon as possible. And so the happy mammoth replenishes them in the hope that now he will break the jackpot. Although the replenishment is small, there can be a lot of such scammers per day.
Scam on a job offer
4 scheme. Fraud on a job offer. On forums, tasks, ads and gram-chats people are constantly looking for work on the Internet. Fraudsters post ads that workers are needed for easy and monotonous work. It is easy for them to get traffic, since the demand for such work is very high. And there are not so many offers, especially with such pleasant conditions. When a potential victim writes to them, they send a prepared legend about the work.
For example, you need mass registration of accounts, but to create them you need a dedicated server and an anti-detect browser. Here a person may wonder why they do not issue it themselves. And in this case, they answer that they used to buy a dedicated server for workers, but now there are more and more cases in which workers request this thing in the first hour and do not recoup the costs. Usually people do not have this in another way, and they are interested in where they can buy it. And then the fraudster gives a link to a site where he allegedly takes dedicated servers.
In fact, this is his fake site, after payment on which the buyer will receive absolutely nothing. If a person is cold, then they play on his emotions, under the pretext that the recruitment is about to close. The average check for one person can be from 5 to 50 dollars, depending on which country the fraudster works in.
Sports betting
scheme 5. Mass fraud on bets. Sports bets are placed by a lot of people who want to make money.
A fraudster collects a base of, for example, 100 people. He writes a legend to everyone that he has fixed matches, but he himself cannot bet on failures, since the bookmaker cuts his accounts for his winnings. He sends 5-10 of them a victory of the first team, and sends a forecast for the victory of the second team to the second half. He scrolls through this circle several times and eventually he has a base of plus or minus 5 or 10 people. Whether they bet or not, but they see that 5 matches in a row have gone right before their eyes.
But now the fraudster does not give free matches, but offers them to buy his forecasts for a round sum, usually at least 5-10 thousand rubles. These people are very charged and therefore about 7-8 out of 10 people will agree. But if the next match does not go, the fraudster will definitely give a replacement. After one defeat, not many people will drop out, since they have seen a lot of victories. But after two defeats, no one will trust the fraudster anymore.
Crypto streams
6 scheme. Crypto streams. Fraudsters buy YouTube channels or offer cooperation to unscrupulous bloggers. With the help of a neural network, a defect of a popular personality associated with cryptocurrency is faked. Usually this is Elon Musk or the founder of the company Vitalik Buterin. An ordinary YouTube viewer sees in the recommendations a stream that talks about a new crypto exchange that attracts users and therefore gives 7x2 if they register and link a wallet.
And the promotion will end very soon and you need to hurry. In addition, there is a check mark on the account and with it, trust increases several times. Mammoth immediately follows the link from the description and connects his crypto wallet and all the cryptocurrency is instantly withdrawn from it. With this scheme, scammers earn from 100 thousand dollars a month, depending on the number of their accounts on YouTube.
Scam on iCloud
7. Scam on iCloud. When logging into someone else's iCloud, the owner of the iPhone can block the phone and then extort money.
One of the methods is implemented on dating sites. A fraudster posing as a girl gets acquainted with a man. They start a pleasant conversation, and the fraudster sends a photo of the girl. He says that there are more explicit photos, but to look at them, you need to log into iCloud. The victim, in a fit of emotion, logs into the account, and immediately his phone is blocked. The scammer writes to him that he needs to pay money to unlock the phone. Usually this is from 5 to 20 thousand rubles, depending on the iPhone model.
The victim of the scam is frozen for a long time, but still sends money. After the first transfer, the fraudster, of course, does not unlock anything, he demands the same amount again and swears to unlock the phone. Usually no one falls for it the second time, but there are mega desperate and gullible guys who do it again. Of course, there are decent scammers who keep their promise, but there are very few of them. Very often, scammers buy stolen Telegram accounts or VKontakte and then write from them asking to log in to their iCloud.
And if you find yourself in such a situation, then try writing to Apple technical support, maybe they will help you if you have a purchase receipt.
Fake guarantor (escrow)
8 scheme. Scam through Telegram channels. There are hundreds of chats in Telegram where they buy and sell advertising in Telegram channels and there are a lot of scammers there. Scammers create dozens of Telegram channels and wind up subscribers, views, reactions and even comments on them.
When a sufficient number of posts have accumulated, scammers begin to sell advertising in their channels. Experienced admins ask for a link to Tokistat or Telemeter to see the planned arrival of subscribers, the source of traffic, etc. But beginners hardly understand this and look at the main indicator, from whom the admin took the advertising. But since the scammers have dozens of fake publics, they can advertise in these same channels. And so the newbie sees that the advertising has been bought and has no doubt about the authenticity of the public. And the advertising can cost 10, 50 or even 150 dollars.
And that's not all. When advertising is ordered from them, they fake subscribers to the victim's channel. Thinking that he has made a successful purchase, he buys advertising from several more publics from this network. He understands that he has been deceived only after a week, when subscribers begin to unsubscribe. He cannot go to the police, since the advertising was sold to him. And no one will figure out whether there were bots or real people on his account. But the advertising scam is too long and therefore smarter scammers create a fake channel exchange.
Many people do not want to bother with developing their business and want to buy a ready-made Tigram channel. Therefore, they search YouTube for where to buy a promoted Telegram channel. There, YouTube bloggers review a scam service without checking its honesty and simply advertise. The exchange website presents real channels, but without indicating their real owners. The buyer makes a payment through the platform, usually using crypto, and is immediately blacklisted.
Fake garant
9 scheme. Scam scheme on garantbot. Thousands of transactions for various goods take place in Telegram every day, be it game accounts or Telegram channels. And in order not to be deceived, users prefer to work with a person who has a reputation. Fraudsters create a group in Telegram, where participants sell or buy something, for example, game accounts. They get traffic in different ways, for example, by inviting. With the help of scripts, scammers get a database of people from YouTube chats and add them to their chats.
There are other methods of attracting traffic, for example, doorway channels. Doorway are channels that bring software for a specific request, for example, buy a Pubg account. By the way, this is the highest quality traffic. Fraudsters are trying to gain people's trust and therefore make fake reviews and it works great. The most effective are video reviews, they are inexpensive and inspire a lot of trust. And so naive account sellers will turn to this guarantor and will end up being thrown.
Fraudsters also hire schoolchildren who will work for a percentage. In different chats, they look for traffic and offer a good price for an account. Usually, this scheme scams accounts, not money, because it is much easier to find an account seller. And if you manage to find a buyer, it is not always convenient to accept payment. But if there are no problems with payment, then they will additionally scam for a donation in the game.
Phishing in Telegram
10 scheme. In Telegram, you can buy and sell usernames using the Fragment platform.
All you need to sell is to connect your wallet to Tonkeeper and wait for a buyer. Fraudsters parse users from Fragment who previously bought nicknames for themselves, because they may have money on their wallet balance. They write to them in Telegram and offer to buy out their username at a juicy price. The person agrees and the scammer sends him a phishing link to an iTegram bot, disguised as a fragment. Due to his carelessness, Mammoth does not notice that the fragment is not real, and then he links his wallet and all the money instantly flies away from it.
And if you want part 2, then write about it in the comments. And with you was the Scheme Taster and see you in the next topic
