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Proposal to Combat Scams with Fake Bot Profiles #622

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abcb1122 opened this issue Jan 2, 2025 · 1 comment
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Proposal to Combat Scams with Fake Bot Profiles #622

abcb1122 opened this issue Jan 2, 2025 · 1 comment

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@abcb1122
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abcb1122 commented Jan 2, 2025

My idea is that each user has a token known only to them, not necessarily something numerical. The user could define a word or sequence of numbers to be sent by the bot when one of their offers is activated, something like /settoken mi4mi, so when they receive the message from the bot, it would look like this:

  • Someone wants to buy X sats for $Y
  • invoicelnbcxxxxx
  • Token: mi4mi

Greetings!

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Catrya commented Jan 2, 2025

Hi, @abcb1122 thanks for the suggestion!. Just today this PR #619 was merged with another way to avoid this kind of scams.

Anyway, I think that if everyone sets a token the scammer could manage to get it from some unsuspecting users, with more work but he could, for example: just yesterday someone told me that a scammer wrote to him pretending to be an admin and asked for his dispute token, and the user gave it to him, when it should be the user who asks for it.

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