Bitcoin Forum

How to save our money from a lot of scammer and pishing site'  ???


 ;D newbie here  ;D

Don't trust anyone; if it's too good to be true, it is not legit. Use trust ratings on the forum, as well as a trusted escrow where appropriate.

1. Instead of using online-wallets, your coins are best stored in offline paper wallets.
2. Withdraw your funds from any exchanges as soon as possible
3. If possible use the reference client, Bitcoin Core, and verify signature after downloading it
4. Keep your computer free from any viruses and backdoors with the most up-to-date security fixes and virus scanners - it might make sense to use a separate computer for your Bitcoin activities only
5. Don't trust others easily - if an offer sounds too good to be true it almost always is
6. Don't "invest" in cloudmining, loans, bitcoin "stocks", or similar offerings here, because the probability to loose your funds is just too high

ya.ya.yo!

Simple thing, save your money in wallet, make sure if youare using 2FA for more secure. Dont send/lend your money to stangers. Dont trust hyip or ponzi sites (better avoid them), and don't click any suspicious link if someone give to you.

Scammer or phishing site will be suspicious and it always gives the best offers to their victims, like double bitcoin instantly,or will pay with big interest. need attention to believe with someone or site give the best offer.

To this I will say (dont take it personally...) people should pay attention in school. For example: Scammer says send me bitcoin and tomorrow you will have a double the amount. Im sorry but a 5th grader would not take the deal.

Why would someone give you money? Would you do it? Banks offer low % for long period on savings account.

Wanna earn some money/bitcoin buy bitcoin NOW :)

you can control yourself to stay away from unreliable site give you a more offer well I think it's the best way and not easy to believe with people who you don't know about him.

Even if some websites attract you with high profiting methods, try to be away from it. Also if you plan to invest, then start with a small amount. So that if its a scam your loss won't be much.

If you see any service promising you huge returns on your investment.... avoid at all cost. {It is most probably a Ponzi} This includes MANY of these so-called cloud mining services. Some of these scams

are already reported and are listed here --> http://www.badbitcoin.org/ | Before you click send on any transfer, double check the destination address... There are some software going around, that

replace any Bitcoin addresses being copied, with their own address when you paste it. Good luck, it's a mine field out there...  ::)

you might be able to make use of the rankings, there is belief in the forum and also if you don't trust a few people on the internet, then I suggest every transaction you do have to use escrow, because it can minimize against scammers. If phishing scams, I think you know where the phishing website and which are not, if you don't already know. Then you can learn it

if a website is offering you profit. and the only task needed of you is to hand them funds... its a scam

if your using a website. do a WHOIS search.
if you cannot find out any real information to be able to slap them with a wet fish, dont expect to be able to get your funds back, dont expect to be able to sue them, dont expect any recourse after they have your funds

if your still dumb enough to deposit funds. dont give them more then the price of a family pizza meal.(something you dont care to have the next day)

Thank you guys'  ;D i wll keep it in my mind.. .

Don't entrust your money to anyone elses hand oter than yours.
Don't click unusual links given by anyone. If it is suspicious don't click it. Ignore it even if they say it is a link to a million dollar prize.

seriously. Those are just basics of being cautious. There is no need for you to ask such quetion. As an individual you should already know these because scammers are not only on the internet, tey can also be found around you.

Just avoid and stay away from them , thats the best way to prevent yourself to became their victim . You should be responsible for every actions that you will make and the most advisable is do not trust anyone on the internet because you dont who they are and what is their real identity .

Better to don't trust all here if you deal to someone always look for reputative escrow here in our forum Phishing sites you can saw the url link and check it better if the sites is using https also don't go in unknown sites..

You will be seeing some websites try to attract you by showing some double income or profit methods. Just avoid those and go for another jobs or investing with the less amount in initial level and know the tactics in business and drive.

If something sounds too good to be true, then it probably is a scam. Stay away. Better safe than sorry.

And most reputable websites will never ask you for your password in an email.

Never put big money in new and site without review and also be carefull mostly with blockchain.info phising site all over the google adsense. Always check green trust bar and blockchain.info in url before putting your wallet details.

Do not be too easy to trust something/someone, do some research first. The point is, don't be greedy! Be wise with your own money!

2fa is a must,  don't log on from emails sent to you.  As others have said don't trust anyone.  Everyone in the bitcoin world is a scammer regardless of what feedback they have. Not getting scammed is a full time job.

There are some rules, for example do not do deal unless you use escrow or with some risks you can deal with trusted member for small amount of money.

When it comes to scammer, always be aware that if that scammer says "I will double your btc in the next 24 hours" never trust that person. And when you buy/sell something, you need to get an escrow just to be safe. When it comes to phishing sites, check the URL if theres something weird, enhance the security of your computer, check the source of information from incoming mail and periodically check your accounts.

it is not easy to avoid scammers because some of them are professional, they get some good reputations after dealing for small amounts then they scam in big deals. so you should stop trusting people easily and before dealing with someone or with site , do your researches about it

In internet dont trust any one here cause every one is anonymous if you want to join on somethin  ask to senioors first to verify if that is a legit or not

The answer to prevent yourself from getting scam is to take safety measures. If you will be trading a big amount of Bitcoin use trusted escrow, And don't hesitate to ask question to other people about the escrow. And to prevent yourself from pishing sites just don't enter your information if you think the site is not trusted .

The main point not to believe people easily, the scammer is getting more and more creative to create a trap and phising sites, do not click the url that have been given if you get it from unreliable source

My tips s.
Don't play for invest bullshit it's called like HYIP or PONZI.
this will be steal your money.
If you things wanna be better your money, may you can do it at site cloud mining.  ;D

use google chrome my buddy, they're blocking so many link which is suspicious so I think you'll be quite safe, but if you're looking for safer method,try to use any kind of antivirus which have linkscanner

The best is what you can do is google it and see the reviews of it, the most websites these days have some feedback.
Otherwise you can of course always ask the forum members over here.

Yeah there are three tips from me. First, don't do trading with untrusted person or site. If you really need that, you can use escrow to prevent any scam actions. Next is, don't be tempted with high profit investment and very cheap goods. Basically most of them are scammers. And the last is use antivirus add on for your browser, I have avast online security which can detect phising site.

Most of the scam sites would offer a return of investment that is too good, like one of those that I saw that advertised themselves their ROI is three weeks of time which is nearly impossible even for the biggest cloud mining site.

Avoid the to good to be true offer because thats clearly scam.

And also we need to avoid nor take out our coriousity on unkown links because possible malware or phising is inside in it.so by that we can make sure our money will be safe from attacker who wants to stole our very hard earn money.

it is very easy to friends, has never visited any suspicious links. and certainly never interested in the programs of HYIP because it will surely make you lose bitcoin. And some old man here once said "never trust CLOUDMINING" . i hope this will help you to avoid scammer and fraudste. Thank you

For me it's better to study the background info of the person or a website that you're thinking that is a scammer or phishing site. Asking your friends for a advice or tips is also a great help to avoid that kinds of bad things. And one of the signs that they are scammers is, if the person pressuring you to make decision fast like giving him bitcoin for a payment or pressuring you to provide your info on a suspicious site avoid them and don't reply to those person because they are scammers

Very true, advice noted!

Just dont trust anyone, inspect the link that you are sighing in, Inspect the link if you find it malicious then leave it, dont risk your btc

this goes to everything in life...

Yes but if they want to de deal they have to undertake some risk and in this forum trusted escrows are fine to prevent scamming.

A good rule of thumb is to completely discard every single Bitcoin 'opportunity' offered to you. That means no cloud mining, no investment schemes, no securities, no lending, and the list goes on and on.

If there is something that comes up, first forget about it, just to be double sure then see if there's a thread on here. Nothing in Bitcoinland worth bothering with fails to show up. Check how moronic the posts are. If there are no threads then it's even more certain to be a scam.

Park your coins somewhere safe under your control. Don't gamble. Don't listen to anyone.

Right, one should have his own thinking in order to make right decisions in this market.
No one can actually give any good tips, you will get lots of answers, and you need to pick the best of them.

some ways to prevent our data or our money from scammers :
- dont share your emailto public
- never share your password to anyone
- check daily your account
- get full security on your email or wallet
- prevent your computer from malware with antivirus
- avoid suspicious link,dont click anything.

Scammers are not destined for greatness. They are destined for prison. I completely agree. What I was saying was more about people owning up to how their actions may have contributed to how they ended up in this situation. The writing was on the wall for a long time that cryptsy was in trouble. For those people, I think they should try to learn from the situation and start to pick up the pieces and start again.  >:(

Discarding single opportunities that are offered only to one person seems good solution but for me it has never happened to e.

If you don not want to be victimized by scammers be vigilant to notice if they are transparent enough. If a site or an individual  accepts investment without a clear source of where he is going to use the funds and where will they get the payout then it is probably a scam. Second is research on the net on the list of scam sites so you can be safe with investing,

should've merged those answers into one and you'll get the best answer as it comes from so many people which is experienced,decision without learning from experience is such as playing gambling

That's true don't invest on investment site with negative feedbacks or simply don't trust anyone because even the top trusted investment site like the popular cloud mining site named hashocean just to scam and run away with our bitcoin. So it's be better for us to don't trust anyone and just work hard on increasing our bitcoin rather than investing it on ponzi sites.

And I may add: Don't click any url,any suspicious link as there are  malwares or malicious script,do not download any files from untrusted sites or run any exe file whom you are not familiar. Do not sign up on url or sites and put same password as your email, or other investments account password.

Simply follow basic online security measures.

• Don't give out any passwords
• Make sure your password is secure and hard to brute force. 1234Abcd!!! is not a good password since I already posted it here.
• Make sure your PC doesn't have any viruses and spyware
• Only use your wallet on trusted computers. Internet cafes are a no-no.

• Don't click on any suspicious links. If possible, type the web address (e.g. type blockchain.info on your browser instead of clicking on a link that you received via email)

• Don't invest in shady investment sites no matter how positive the rating may be. Take HashOcean for example.
• Use common sense.

Last one is the biggest!

If your keeping your bitcoin in any exchange you must enable your 2fa,  or if not full out your Bitcoins in different exchange you invested it for you to avoid a victim of scammer. :)

Just a tip, If you want to trust a Ponzi or other HYIP sites, just remember to try their deposit address. For example you type your real address, then a deposit address pops up. Remember that depo address youve seen and try to use another random address. Then if they match with one another, meaning its 101% Scam. And another tip, never ever send BTC on ponzi/HYIP sites without reviewing it. Try to ask others if this website is secure, safe, and be sure that it is not a ScamSite.

There are a lot of scammer in bitcoin, dont click Any link that you dont trust, dont easily believe the person say that can double your money and at last dont give any password to anyone, and always make sure the address that you type is correct, its better to bookmark the page after you sure that you go into the correct address

In addition, always do your research; make sure what people are saying about the site and if their review seems good you can go ahead and use it. If you're still a bit suspicious use a little money to check out the site.

Don't trust any one aend you link don't sign up don't share to others your personal information etc.dont be fool to believe investment that give you huge profit if you think its impossible to give it to you, many scammer want people who are greedy to have income immediately.

There are different things to learn. First is about avoiding scammers and the second is avoiding phishing sites. To avoid scammers you should check it on google research it if the site belongs to bad sites, it it is on the list you need to avoid it even if is already long in the business it will just scam you after they earned your trust. Next is the phishing site, to avoid phishing sites do not click any links and if you click them dont enter your email and btc address. But if you have a hard time sorting out if it is a phishing site or not you must make a new email address and new wallet. In every investment site you join you must have a different one email address and wallet. That way even though they are phishing your wallet or account they will get anything.

Don't trust anyone (avoid shortener link service) maybe it contains malware where they will steal your sensitive stuff.
Make sure you know any original site , because they have many designs with different domain name (this can help you to identify any phising sites)

That is true do not make trust to any one here in online transactions and also avoid investing you money in some site like mining site that will result to scam later on. Just keep it in your mind that your bitcoin is safe in your wallet and it will continue to grow if you will keep it for a long time.

yeah one sign that the site is a scam site or ponzi/hyip is very obvious that they are guaranteed to double your bitcoin with a certain time and they did not give a clear explanation against them in their businesses? very sure they will be a scam when they've got a lot of bitcoin they can take a run

Don't click any suspicious link and use escrow to prevent phishings and scams.

Yeah many people who use shortern link so others people can not easily recognize the fake sites and to close their domain addresses that are not similar to the domain that they are replicas. to display you might be tricked but for the domain will be obvious. but you have to be careful with a mailer that goes into your email and you have to check the domain. do not believe in the mailer that went into spam dude

I don't know if it would actually help, but whenever I see shortened link from an untrusted source, I use TOR browser and have all my antimalwares and antiviruses on high alert. That way, I feel safe. Or at least I think I am.

Cloud mining sites are usually scam. Avoid them. During transactions, always escrow especially when it is a large tx. Other tips are actually already said by other users.

But , that software don't make you 100% safe , even ruined your device performance.When that software runs on sametime
It's up to you to secure your device with any anti-malware and anti-virus , but "prevent better than cure"

Explore their site first.. most of the sites are giving hourly back with a low cost.. and it could end up to a scam. why would you invest on a site that will return your money for 2 to 6 months with a low %... so just beware of that kind of stuffs.. there are so many ways to have bitcoin on your own.

This seems a good rule of thumb when we are a newcomer to every environment including  business environments.

I think if you apply the 'there is no such thing as a free lunch' rule, along with diligence about the things you are investing in, you should be alright. Avoiding outright scams is only half the battle in this space; there are always unknown unknowns like Gox and Cryptsy that pop up. The safest thing you can honestly do is simply keep your coins in your wallet, and hodl.

I think you do not need to invest in hype site because they do not live more than a month if they collect their goal amount they will run brings all your coin, scammer you can prevent that by not giving your trust to the person you want to transact.

Since I know bitcoin, a simple way to avoid it is to never visit the HYIP sites, cloud mining or other investment. For as long as I know the site as it is a cheat and a thief. Thank you

True, the hype everywhere would surely negatively affect those of us who use it. All website investments that now I trust that all the sites using the system the hype/ponzi. The system will continue to run if there is a victim, and if there are no casualties then the system will stop and is detrimental to everyone

Why about you say the software don't ,make you 100% safe and the ending of your post is prevent better than cure. please read again about your post OP make a prevent with using anti-malware and virus at the same time they can cure at any time.

Yes, dont click any suspicious link you are not familiar with. Some scammers are advertising those links on chatroom,troll boxes and once you inputted your username and password, it will go their list and they will use to access your account.Do not put same user name or password when signing up, as they can used it. Do not download any programs whom you didn't know. Use virus scanner on it before running.

For my quote "prevent better than cure" , as i said earlier don't click any suspicious link (and shorten link service) for avoid you for getting virus and malware on your device. And for that software (i don't use any antivirus or anti-malware , just for info)  , if you getting infected with virus , it's hard to cure it even you have up-to-date antivirus/malware (it's happen on some viruses).