What is NFT?

The full name of NFT is "Non-Fungible Token", which is an artwork with a digital signature (whether physical or digital), and the digital signature represents the creator's ownership.

They can be viewed purely as a digital asset or, like cryptocurrencies, as money.

But unlike cryptocurrencies, each NFT is unique, not equivalent, irreplaceable or replicable, which is why they are now popular with art lovers, gamers, and those involved in real estate.

What is an NFT game?

When it comes to NFT games, we cannot fail to mention the most popular NFT game in 2021, "Axie Infinity". This is a card-based game that earns cryptocurrency "AXS" by claiming pets, breeding breeds, and fighting other players. , and cryptocurrencies can really be exchanged for cash. This means you can " Play to earn "!

However, such an emerging way of making money not only attracts people in the currency circle and gamers, but also attracts fraudulent groups, trying to fake NFT games to make a fortune

"Fake" NFT games to make quick money?

THA e-sports platform

Recently, we found that "THA e-sports platform" (thaesport[.]com) claims that it can make profits through "NFT game stable investment"

When introducing the THA e-sports platform, he said that he was the team with the best chance of winning through big data analysis in the event and made profits in the game virtual currency and quiz activities, and would recommend the calculation results to platform members

In the end, if the public wants to join, they must first register as members, and after " stored value ", apply like " Line Customer Service " before they can join the " Precision Event Analysis Group "

TX Smart Investment

There is also a company called TX Intelligent Investment , which launched an "AI artificial intelligence investment plan" (amy2000[.]com) , although it does not directly show that it is made by NFT games as in the previous case, but here is also called investors. For "player", and use the term "nft" directly in the company's contact mailbox, implying that he is related to NFT games

How to spot fake "NFT game" scams

Below we will take the above platform as an example to find some standard doubts for your reference. In the future, if you see the following characteristics of the NFT game platform, as long as one of them is a scam!

Doubt 1. Common rhetoric of gaming fraud

• There is a technical team: Although it is an NFT game, it is actually a "betting on an e-sports event". It is very similar to all lottery scams. It claims to have a technical team that can help members bet against each other.
• Stored-value gift package: In order to bind members, gambling fraud often requires people to deposit a sum of money on the platform first, and will attract you with the methods of "giving an extra gift" or "free trial" and "first order compensation" Join, and it may give you a small win at the beginning, making you think you can really make money
• Join the Line group: Whether it is a stock scam or a lottery investment scam, almost all members are managed by the Line group, because Line provides very little personal information, and you don't know who the person you are chatting with is. It's not the one in the photo, is his name his real name? In addition to the "experts" they pretended to be predicting the results of the competition, the group also placed a lot of stakes, desperately thanking the experts for their advice, and pretending that they really made money.
• Low risk, high profit: The first two cases have repeatedly emphasized that they can make users stably profit, and even emphasized their low risk, but for various investment methods we are familiar with, low risk and low reward, high risk and high reward are not the same. Is it reasonable?
• Profitable Witness: In the end, in order to prove that you can really make money, whether it is work or investment fraud, you like to put fake evidence that users are making money, so that people think that the rich people are really making money, but it is not true, and they are not. Does anyone know?

Doubt 2. Centralized virtual currency

Whether it is virtual currency or NFT, it should be built on the concept of decentralization. What it advocates is that there is no middleman, and all your assets (NFT, virtual currency) are directly stored in your virtual currency wallet.

On the other hand, the THA e-sports platform focuses on keeping your assets in the "THA account". In this way, isn't it centralized again?

Doubt 3. Where is NFT? ?

NFTs (non-identical tokens) are different from cryptocurrencies (homogeneous tokens). Each NFT has a unique identification code, which is not equivalent, cannot be tampered with, is indivisible, and cannot be directly exchanged .

However, on the THA e-sports platform, it is said that the virtual currency ratio of the platform is constant at 1:1 NTD, and the only thing that can make every value constant is cryptocurrency and stable currency.

From the beginning to the end, there are only the words NFT occasionally, but I can't find where the NFT is, and even the characteristics of its non-fungible tokens are not displayed on this platform.

Doubt four, the company information is not correct

The website said that the THA platform has accumulated more than 15 years of reputation, but I searched through the global WHOIS , a tool that can find website information through the domain and IP location, and found that this website has just been established in 2021, not even two time of year

In addition, the company address provided by TX Smart Investment, the editor can't find this place on Google Maps at all.

It claims that its office is located on the 22nd floor of No. 389, Section 1 of Neihu Road, but in fact it looks like it has only 6 floors at most. Where is the 22nd floor? ? ?

It would be unreasonable to say that this is an old picture, after all, the company claims to have been established for at least four years

Doubt 5. The website is listed as suspicious

The THA e-sports platform has its own Facebook fan group, but the website link provided in the fan group, that is, their official website thaesport[.]com , will be listed as a warning by Facebook, saying that this website violates Facebook 's Community Code