As the Senno community grows, there is inevitably a corresponding increase in the threat from scammers. It’s an undesirable, yet inescapable part of building a community around an ICO: not everyone will have the best intentions and the more people there are in the community, the more bad apples there are likely to be.

To make sure that your information and SENNO tokens are kept safe from scamming attempts, let’s look at how bad actors can be identified and what actions you can take to protect yourself from them.

Telegram scammers

When should you feel justified in suspecting you are being targeted for a scam? There are no hard rules, so it’s hard to say for sure. But scammers on Telegram will likely stick out by behaving in one or more of the following ways that you should be aware of.

A scammer may:

Contact you by direct chat (DM).

Use info of real admins of the group or other team members like pictures and names.

Try to fool you by using the usernames of real admins with a few added symbols.

Ask you to give them money to secure a place in the whitelist or maybe make a private sale deposit.

Give you a wallet address and ask for a direct payment.

Try to get you to reveal personal information like your name, phone number or email address.

Use some other method to make themselves seem like real admins.

How to respond: