Influence or not to influence! That is the question!
Introduction
Hello, my dear readers and loyal followers! As you can see from the cover image, today everyone can be an influencer and give predictions about everything. Literally, it has come to the point that grandmas from the market and wanderers from the park give their opinions about the fall or rise of the crypto market.
There are individuals who are willing to listen to any advice and invest everything they have in some project or cryptocurrency without thinking. The only thing that matters is the promise of huge overnight profits and easy earnings without any effort, and people dive headfirst into all kinds of investments without any prior knowledge or research.
A Glimpse into My Recent Metamask Mishap
It’s not without reason that it’s said never to invest more than you are willing to lose and to respect DYOR like the Holy Bible. These maxims are not invented for fun or amusement but are grounded in previous experience that was dearly paid for, often with hard-earned money disappearing in the blink of an eye!
Certainly, some of you readers have already experienced such an event, as I have, so those of you who have not lost money or crypto due to some scam, be educated by our experience and our story, and always be on guard.
I will share one recent experience I had with the Metamask digital wallet. I use several digital wallets, including Metamask for crypto transactions, but also for logging into various sites and participating in various Airdrops and Giveaways. Here I must mention a very important thing, if you use any digital wallet for logging in, Airdrop, or giveaway, NEVER use that wallet for crypto, only for the aforementioned things.
The Danger of Mixing Wallets
You must be wondering why. The answer is very simple! Because you are putting yourself in danger of someone emptying your wallet! You must be wondering how is that possible. Well, my dear readers, it is possible! That is exactly what happened to me! When I used my Metamask wallet only for storing crypto and for transactions, everything was fine, but when I used the same wallet to sign up for some Airdrop, my wallet was swept away in a few minutes, and I was left without my Ethereum. It wasn’t a large amount, it was about $35.00, but every scam hurts.
The Web of Deception
Where did I go wrong, and what should you learn from this? I broke my first rule and used a wallet that contained crypto, i.e., money, for signing up for suspicious things. In fact, I should have followed my own advice and used a completely empty wallet for signing up for anything like Airdrops, Giveaways, or any login to unknown sites, but due to haste and thoughtlessness, I made a mistake that I paid with money (crypto).
Proceeding with Caution
The internet is today full of all kinds of suspicious characters and suspicious projects that all promise quick money, but in reality, they lurk for you, your money, or your data. Yes, your data, because they are also money and are traded on the web.
Today, anyone with an internet connection and a computer or a slightly better mobile phone can be a forecaster, influencer, or someone trustworthy, because it is very difficult to distinguish who is on the other side when you start interacting with a stranger on the web.
A World of Deceptive Promises
Today, everyone offers forecasts, everyone knows everything, everyone has some secret information that no one else has, everyone knows secret systems that bring millions in a day, everyone knows how to make money online using secret procedures that only they have discovered, and EVERYONE, BUT EVERYONE, sells it to you very cheaply and below the price, just for you and only today, a few more minutes, and the opportunity will be missed. So buy quickly, invest, give the card number, give the PIN, open your digital wallet, QUICKLY, QUICKLY, because the opportunity is escaping!
Conclusion
Fraudsters and thieves use speed and your FOMO to deceive you and take away your hard-earned property, so when you enter something that requires you to invest money in any way, enter slowly and with a great deal of caution, research well about what it is, DYOR, and never, but never invest more than you are willing to lose.
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Greetings and until my next article!
Neo77
