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by 0des 1695 days ago
This scam is rampant in Discord where in many top cryptoasset communities a bot will PM someone about winning a 'contest' or receiving a promotion for one of these scam exchanges, and it follows the same narrative from there of asking for transfer fees to claim "up to 1.2 BTC" etc.
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That feels very different. In the OP the 'victims' are people trying to steal Bitcoins themselves.