For the past two weeks I've gotten over 3 scam and phishing link scams mostly through replies to my posts, as a random tag on Leofinance microblog interface, or on a post asking me to claim a random aidrop.
I checked and saw that they've made similar attempts on a lot of other accounts and it's quite funny. Now is literally the wrong time to scam anyone because he market is currently not euphoric and the present narrative in crypto does not support any aidrop.
No one is currently greedy
These folks probably don't realize that I know this is a bait, or they're probably think this is my first rodeo. Or they're probably thinking I'm someone who wants to earn where they didn't work. Apparently everyone wants this, but then.... They've made a huge mistake.
A lot of scammers actually don't put in work when it comes to scamming and that's why they probably fail.
If I was a scammer for example, I'll analyse a potential scam target, check their comments, hop on conversations they're part of and maybe use an alt account to engage them with a bait, before actually using the other account to attempt to scam them.
This is why romance scam is always the most successful, why? It preys on the emotion, it takes time to build that right trust, connection and takes quite a lot of work. You can't scam people unless you get them to lower their guard, offer something irresistible, appeal to them emotionally or sway their sense of greed and this cannot happen unless you actually work on them.
Randomly asking people to claim an aidrop with a link that asks them to input their keys is a huge red flag, is straight up insulting.
You're betting that they're senselessly greedy or they don't just have common sense, it's even crazy that you're sending the link to them randomly without even knowing who they are, and most importantly sending it to people who are over 7 years on the chain.
We had a poplar scammer that scammed a lot of people on Hive recently, and how did they do it? By building trust and friendship for two years. That's how to be a true scammer.
Overall we've had this in the past, I think it's just some miscreants trying to scam you off your hard earned coins, and you should never input your key into a link. However, this is what you can do; tag the account, spread awareness, down vote them to -15, so their account is basically non existent and then put them in complete mute.
They didn't put in the effort to scam you, just wanting to get rich without doing anything.
Another thing you can do is reply and ask them to send some BTC so you can buy VPN to claim the link, or maybe ask them to buy and send Hive so you can. However humorous way you intend to call their bluff is completely fine.
Project yourself and your wallet, this isn't time to make irrational calls and decisions, surely no AirDrop are currently launching in this present terrible market conditions.