Scams and Misinformation about Cardano

hi this is charles hoskinson broadcasting live from warm sunny colorado always warm always sunny sometimes colorado today is august 23rd 2021 and i just wanted to make a quick public information fyi video about the launches and the consequences these launches have on fraud so anytime you see major events coming and large-scale price appreciation and a lot of volatility you always will see an enormous up increase in scams okay so we've already made videos about the giveaway scams and those are really scaling up there's about 10 times as many of them right now than there were just a month ago because of the value appreciation of ada and those will continue for the foreseeable month or two second there's going to be a lot of scams around people's lack of understanding about how upgrades work so we've seen several fake copies of daedalus and several fake cardano applications on the google play store where people said oh you need to download this new version of the software and restore your wallet in order to get your ada those are all scams all scams we'll never ask you anyone i o global or mergo cardano foundation or the ambassadors or anyone in the ecosystem for your keywords i will never ask you for your private keys and will never ever ever ask you to install some monitoring software on your computer to be able to help you okay if you have any concerns you see something that you're not sure if it's real or not just go to cardano.org and then go down to the contact us page and just basically contact click on the form fill out the information and it'll get routed accordingly there also is the help desk with daedalus and you can submit a ticket there and our people will will be able to address that and do order okay but be vigilant there's a lot of scams right now we see a huge increase in the amount of scams because of the value appreciation and because alonso is coming and lots of new things are coming the summit's coming there are no giveaways they don't exist there is no new version of daedalus that you have to download and and restore your wallet into or or these types of things only only daedalus wallet dot io is a valid for our our wallet and cardano.org is your routing site so go to car.org and that gets you where you need to go it's a one-stop shop it has everything that you need all the links that you need all the people that you need and it has all the social links and these types of things and if the i o global website iohk.io you can go there and there's plenty of things about the project there but don't believe everything you read especially if it's too good to be true if someone is claiming you're going to get great returns if someone's claiming you need to give them your private keys or send them ada for whatever reason they're probably a scam 99.

999999999 percent of the time it's a scam okay if you don't know what to do feel free to ask a question just don't do something ask a question first there's the cardano stack exchange for technical questions you can go to the contact form on cardano.org and there's also the help desk with daedalus that we have and i believe ermergo has something similar for your roy so ask a question before you do anything and wait there's no urgency there's no rush you're never gonna lose your ada because of an upgrade you're never gonna have to do something to to save or keep your ada it's fine the whole reason we built the hard four combinator and these other things was to make sure that upgrades were seamless and there was no transition that's difficult or hard okay and we're not giving away ada we'll never give away ada make sure every single person in your social network knows that and also understand that things are going to happen very quickly with these launches and so there's going to be lots of people broadcasting things some people in the youtube community for example got had there was a giveaway scam with on the caption it said charles said ada is going up to 150 i never said that i never would say that i've never once made a price prediction in my entire time i've been in the cryptocurrency space nearly 10 years never once made a price prediction about cardano or any other cryptocurrency for that matter yet somebody just took a fake video and wrote an article about it the article went up in coingape then youtube podcasters took that fake news and actually went broadcast it and talked about it and some people say oh charles is crazy oh yeah it is going but i never said it so even the people are supposed to be filtering these things from the media agencies to the youtubers are not doing so properly so now it's very very essential very vital that each and every one of you use excess vigilance slow things down if it's to be good to be true it probably isn't true never give anyone access to your private keys under any circumstances even if you think it's me asking you by the way there's tons of impersonation scams instagram and facebook are the two most common people impersonate me they create fake facebook pro files we report dozens of them every single day and they ask people for their private keys or whatever and they try to extort money from them one way or the other or mislead them into getting money from them so i'm never going to reach out to you if you think it's me talking to you one thing you can always ask for is for me to sign something with my pgp key i'm not craig wright i'm more than happy to do that i know how to do that okay so i'm happy to sign there's a public pgp key i've had it since 2013 with my identity connected to it the charleston charles.hoskinson gmail.com email and if you think you're dealing with the real deal i'm more than happy to to sign a message for you so send me a message and say sign this with your pgp key i'll send it back and you should be able to verify that no scammer can do that only i have those keys okay so basic things like this very important that you stay vigilant very important that you understand that scams are running very hot right now people are trying to get ada no matter how much i mention it no matter how much i talk about it unfortunately millions to tens of millions of dollars between now and the end of september will likely be stolen because people weren't using common sense this is unfortunately where our industry is at that's where our regulations are at it's where the social media giants are at they just simply don't care they've never cared so in the absence of them caring we as a community have to care about each other and everybody has to pick up a shovel on this one no matter who you are where you're at tell all your friends and family all the people that are in this ecosystem be vigilant be cautious slow things down no one's ever going to ask you for your money no one's ever going to do a giveaway before you download and install any software verify that it's coming from the legitimate websites if you don't know which one it is the only one you need to remember is cardano.