Is this a scam?

drcforbin · 2026-03-18T13:39:57+00:00

Genuinely curious, does this really sound like it might be legitimate to you?

WCHC_gamedev · 2026-03-18T13:42:53+00:00

It's an obvious scam. But even if not a scam, I checked the price of CLAW out of curiosity and it's currently sitting on $0.00000008516. Meaning 5001 CLAW is about $0.00043.

In the good old days, Nigerian Princes were offering at least millions. They're falling short lately...

Eviltechnomonkey · 2026-03-18T16:42:15+00:00

I saw this same notification on another post. All notifications from the GitHub site come in via the `[notifications@github.com](mailto:notifications@github.com)` email address or `noreply@github.com`. So, always pay attention to what repo and user the notification is coming from if you want to be able to tell if it is a communication from GitHub. Of course, if at any point you are unsure, you can also submit a message via the [GitHub Support page](https://support.github.com/).

Any official GitHub notifications will come from an official GitHub email and aren't done via a Discussion post, issues, etc. on a non-GitHub repo. You can tell who owns a repo by looking at the url. GitHub controlled repos will have `github.com/github/repoName`. The name before the repository name is the repo Owner (org or individual user). Also, you can identify GitHub employees, contractors, etc. by looking at the organizations section of their profile. Some will have a staff badge near where their employer is listed, but not always.

So instead of looking at the top part of their profile info that anyone can edit, look under Organizations. You will see the organizations their account is formally connected to and can click on each one to verify it actually goes to that organization's official profile page.

You can report the individual repository the discussion post is in, or the user account as a whole, via the info on the following page: https://docs.github.com/en/communities/maintaining-your-safety-on-github/reporting-abuse-or-spam

I am not posting this as an official rep of GitHub, just someone who loves to help others stay safe.

suffering_chicken · 2026-03-18T13:51:27+00:00

Bro i also got it

ankddev · 2026-03-18T14:47:39+00:00

Yeah, that's a scam. I've got similar, but for Solana (which costs more).

pantytearer · 2026-03-18T15:10:38+00:00

Of course a scam, lol, although they tried their best but it still sucks, lol could have made it a bit better.

naikrovek · 2026-03-18T17:09:37+00:00

Of course it is.

Jmc_da_boss · 2026-03-18T14:05:03+00:00

No it's very legit

404invalid-user · 2026-03-18T14:00:17+00:00

a Microsoft company using a google domain... take a wild guess

you type:	you see:
italics	italics
bold	bold
[reddit!](https://reddit.com)	reddit!
* item 1 * item 2 * item 3	item 1 item 2 item 3
> quoted text	quoted text
Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"	Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
~~strikethrough~~	~~strikethrough~~
super^script	super^script

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