In the first conversation, I witnessed someone being scammed out of half of their life’s savings. He sought support from the moderators in one of the public channels, but they were unable to help as the damage had already ben done. There was nothing I could do to help either, as I wasn’t aware of the website that defrauded him — until it was too late.

The newbie investor DM’d me to see if there was anything he could do to get his money back. There isn’t unfortunately. We exchanged messages for about half an hour. While some find it funny, or they believe victims are stupid, I feel sorry for them. The smartest people in the world can easily fall for a scam or a prank. Rather than make fun of them, we should provide moral support.

To deepen the feeling of guilt I had even further, the site that stole his money was classified by MetaCert. Had this community installed our Slack security app, this guy might not have lost his money. The risk would have been significantly reduced.

As you can see from the conversation to the right, OmiseGo saved the day for at least one investor — they protect their community with MetaCert.

How we can make MetaCert more accessible for Token launches and ICOs

We got our pricing wrong for Token and ICO Communities. Twice. So after a lot of feedback from our Crypto friends, I’d like to announce new pricing — massively reduced. Now pricing shouldn’t even come into the conversation. It’s a case of whether you see value in adding security to your Slack.

Without MetaCert, Slack is the most insecure platform for Crypto communities as it’s not designed for communities. With MetaCert however, Slack is the most secure form of communication for communities.

It takes less than 7 seconds to add MetaCert to Slack. And you can configure which Public Channels to monitor. No community will pay until we go live with Slackbot and DM monitoring in the coming weeks.

OmiseGo and other communities have created #check-url and #report-url channels. This encourages community members to check links before opening them — this is massively valuable — especially between now and the time we launch the new monitoring for Slackbot messages and DMs.

We highly recommend adding these channels to the default channels for new members while inviting everyone else immediately. By having the channels in view all of the time, communities such as OmiseGo reduce the risk of phishing scams even more.

I’d like to thank members of the MyEtherWallet community for helping us with the classification of new phishing domains everyday. And I’d like to thank the great people inside this Slack Community too. We’re very lucky to have such great people make our product better.

Go to MetaCert and check it out now.

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