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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.



That feels very different. In the OP the 'victims' are people trying to steal Bitcoins themselves.




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