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What are your bad experiences in bitcoin? Not just scammed by other users it could also include HYIP, Cloud mining scams, investment scams, etc. I know it's a bad thing that happened, I think it's better to share them here so you could vent out on what you are feeling.

Feel free to post anything.

I've been scammed by a few alt coins but never been to excited to throw btc at hyps and very obvious cloud mining scams. My overall profits out way the losses so I have nothing to vent. I do however warn not to invest in anything more than you can afford to lose.

Honestly, so far, none. Doing all I can and having full attention in order not to be scammed. I can only say I've escaped from a scam by inches (exchange closed down with customers funds right after I withdrew). Close call :)

That must make you feel lucky to get your BTC withdrawn before the site scams. Very lucky like you and not been scammed yet  :-*

I have forgotten...i will say...20 times or so.

I think almost everyone has been hacked/scammed sometimes in Bitcoin. For me, I lost a few bitcoins back in 2013 :(

20 times!! You should really learn from your mistakes before 20 times. I hope you have not lost to much, lol.

I'm still quite new to the bitcoin community and I had just rather bad investments and bad gambling decisions too. I'm doing my best to profit in some ways that could help recover from what I lost.

2 Times.

I can't really remember what was happened in the first time probably it was not a big deal, but the second time was in an online game. I was selling my stuff to somebody and trusted his word, used no escrow ofc gotten scammed. Reported to the mods, gotten him banned.

i had been scammed so many times, when i was still newbie in bitcoin, i was mislead into Ponzi, the first ponzi i joined paid two times and the third times it ran away, and then i tried HYIP i split my coin into 3 HYIP, all of them are scams. I don't earn anything from HYIP, joined fresh cloud mining got scammed before ROI, so now i always encourage newbie or anyone else to avoid all of this things, bitcoin is a world with a lot of scammer you need to be extra careful

I think you know the risk before you invest in hyip. Because it is their warning on their website. There is no such profit on cloudmining and ponzi. The only legit on cryptoworld is trading and investing on crowdfunding. Gambling is too risky so i won't suggest it but it is more safe than hyip

Just once, by downloading a virused bot for a dice game. The creator made the first two versions legit, and the third one stole your money as soon as you got over 0.001 in your account. I do not know what happened to that guy, but he stole my money and I reported that.

For me: twice... I once invested in what later turned out to be a ponzi cloudmining company. They made a lot of effort to make everything look legit... Fake whois, phone number, address, photoshopped images of hardware.
They payed out for a while, and afterwards disappeared with the remainder of my funds.

I've also had a guy defaulting on a loan i gave him long ago (somewhere in 2015). He gave his account as collateral but he took 2 loans at the same time and didn't give collateral to the second guy, so his collateral was red-tagged by the other victim and became useless to me.... I'm going to count that one as a scam aswell.

None; thanks to paying close attention. Going great so far! I have been able to avoid a great many ponzi schemes on which i have stumbled upon in the past three or so months, but never tried (and never will try, now) to invest anything.

I have lost few bitcoin when bitfinex got hacked but i have never invested in any cloud mining, bitcoin hyip so haven't lost much. Few months ago i got tricked by one investment site which claim to run several bitcoin faucet for profit and share profit, they ran away after few month.

I don't count cloud mining services, they cheated me few times but I lost time needed for registration and claiming their free hash, I deposited one dollar once and nothing more. I read what is happening here, and I'm more into gambling, there I didn't have problem's. I lost many times, and sometimes I felt like everything was set up, but that is paranoia from loosing. I don't thing casinos are rigged.
Before doing anything people should pay attention, check here what kind of service you choose to deposit your money.

How many times? I can not count already LOL  

When I was just starting from bitcoin, I joined so many faucets sites. Some are paying, and some are not. I Also joined several HYIP's program and mostly I lost and did not recover. Joined some cloud mining too. See? So many experience already  ;D

Until one day, I discovered https://bitcointalk.org, I mean this site and read topics here. I learned trading here and I am very grateful of this site as it gives me real opportunity to earn online. I am also earning from signature campaign.which is also a great way to earn while expressing your ideas.

Just like you i have already many experience regarding on scams on this online world or in this crypto world. Ive experienced already being scammed on HYIPS,PONZI sites, Altcoin and ICO scams and somehow lose up money on trading since i was still a newbie  on that time and dont have enough knowledge into things thats why.
Same as yours,i do find this forum and already know about those past mistakes that ive done and i learned too much on this site,.

I have lost few mBTC with one Nigeria based altcoin exchange (really could not recall its name). Till date I regret for what action must be cex.io cloud mining investments. I bought hash power for more than 0.2 BTC but recovered less than 0.1 BTC, it is not scam yet. But I have not reached ROI with them and my hash power is simply sleeping there.

scammed in bitcoins? never. and I'm definitely not looking forward to it. lol

I`ve never been scammed while trading btc with other users here or on localbitcoins.com.

I`ve never used any cloud mining,hyip websites and i don`t understand why people continue

to use them and give them btc.

I have been scammed quite a number of times and I have regarded all as a form of lesson. Firstly was as by HYIP as I was a novice. I saw this nice site with all the promises and the likes and I was like " i could really make a cool money" but alas the dream was cut short my money went down the drain. The other one was when I wanted to exchange Bitcoin to FIAT, I was actually still a novice then too. I was scammed and because Bitcoin is irreversible, I lost my money...

I've never been scammed within the Bitcoin realm. Maybe I was just lucky. Maybe I'm not an attractive target for scammers, because I'm not rich. Maybe it's because I'm a rather paranoid individual... :D I don't really know. But I witnessed other people being scammed and took extra precautions for myself. After all the characteristics of scams in the cryptosphere are no different than in real life (for example making up fantastic stories, promising big returns), so if you pay attention and don't fall for your own greed, you can quite easily spot a lot of potential scams. That said, you can never be sure what the future brings - maybe I will fall for a BTC scam some day.

Although I'm not a victim myself I feel a lot of compassion with those who suffered from a scam. Scammers are one of the most gutless and malicious kind of criminals, who also do great damage to the perception of Bitcoin. They deserve to burn in hell.

ya.ya.yo!

Hmm., it's a sad story or experience. It all does happen because we haven't learned the science or it could be said that any of the things we do and get bad results then it is a learning more means than formal learning (school). So every experience will make a very big Foundation and will eventually create a huge advantage for those who are willing to be patient

I have invested in several cloudmining services, the company shutdown before I got my ROI.  I never invested in HYIP's and ponzi sites since I'm well aware about this stuff.  I thought cloudmining is different because way back that time, cloudmining is very popular, then it turns out to be a big ponzi scheme.

just once, butterfly labs.

only being scammed once must mean im not trying hard enough. after all, no risk, no gain.

I had been scammed at some hyip this year, i had tryed with 0,001btc, and in the past with bitcoin no money lost for the scammers, but before bitcoin i had lost money at paid to click websites, were i did buy gold, and when i were starting to get my investement back they run away, the biggest value i spent were 104 dollars at one single ptc.

I can say that I have been scammed by hyips 10 times or less. after being scammed for how many times then I got tired of putting some of my coin to some of fake investments especially those doublers because I realized that i will be losing more and more of my hard earned satoshis so I stopped and avoid being fooled by these scammers.

I got scammed one time in a high investment at risk, now I try to do my due diligence before investing or try something new on the internet. The feeling is never cool when you invest your hard earned money or bitcoin and lost them all, people can't lose faith.

Also when I joined the bitcoin community this past summer I wanted to invest in bitcoin mining, but before I wanted to make the move, the site shut down ;).

We could really not avoid these kind of circumtances at first time because of lack of knowledge thats why we fall easily into these schemes because when we are a newbie we  are mostly like to earn money on a fast way without any hard works involve thats why we put up directly our money on this HYIPS and hoping and believing that it will give us good money on the long run but most of them ran away on earlier times and its really frustrating  especially the money you invest on is a hard earned money same as you mentioned.

I was scammed by a guy who promised to give us satoshi's as a investment, this guy would pay us certain investment he paid us two to three times. Then I put a huge investment and then he just disappeared with everyone money. All investment schemes are a scam, do not fall for any, however convincing they look

I was about to invest in a cloudmining when I read about cloudmining being not profitable investmet, and some more threads on several cloudmining sites that turns out to be a scam.  From that I did not continue my plan to invest.  So as of now I have not been scammed by  any scam sites,  Thanks to the information i found here.

I think I have been scammed for quite lot  :'( As I can remember that when I first know about bitcoin, I was obsessed with those "promising and potential" investing sites and I risked to put all bitcoin into them with the hope of getting back more profit. But I was so innocence and risk-taking so after a couple of times, my bitcoin balance dropped to zero. After those painful experiences, I've promised to myself that I will never spend any of my coins for these things  ;D

Haven't got into any scams, because from the beginning was not much greedy to earn much in a very less time. Only way by which lost lots is through gambling.

Been scammed a few times.  First in 2011 with some mining pool suddenly shut down and ran away with ~7 BTC, again in 2015 with bitcoincloudservices.com lately by some ponzi scheme site … My bad not to see it's a scamming site before sending some mBTC.

I am one of those lucky fellows how have not been scammed yet, although I once invested into some kind of highly profitable investment (just a few dollars).
And for some reason I actually got the promised amount back.
That was at my beginnings with bitcoin. After that I never tried to invest anywhere else. Don't want to push my luck.

I have been scammed by altcoins ICO. I believe it is my fault that I got scammed. I did not researched enough on the coins I am buying. So now I am wiser and avoid investing on ICO. And if ever I will invest again, i'll make sure I know everything about the product I am investing.

have only lost money to exchanges that run away. although i have been keeping small amounts but still that does count as scam!

but it surely is so funny to see how many have lost their money to obvious scams like HYIPs and scammy cloudmining services. sometimes it is too obvious these are scams that you are shocked when you find out there were some people who trusted them!

Bad experience may be a big term for me so I will put it into mild only. Remember the famous scry**.cc? That is only the ponzi scheme that able to put me on regrets. The amount concerned is not that high but back then, a small amount is really mean to me due to the fact that Im still a newbie when scry** is really famous in the world of cloudmining.

But there is a benefit after that loss since with that experience I learned how to deal with any kinds of investments online. Lesson learned indeed with great effect.

I've been scammed once, and that was due to immaturity. Now that I'm more mature, I'm more cautious with my money and make sure I read aswell as plan every sale/purchase that are from individual users.

I luckily haven't been scammed yet, however there is still a lot of potential to get scammed with some of the investments that I'm currently using. So far they've been doing fine and it doesn't look like I'll be losing anything anytime soon, but you never know for sure.

Closest I ever got to being scammed was a really long unconfirmed transaction.

Never counted, when i was new to bitcoin and that time i was just accumulating bitcoins through faucets, and that time i used to think that earning bitcoin might be quite easy so i used to believe those hyips so easily, and i got scammed by them quite a lot of times in different ways, sometimes as cloud mining, sometimes as doubling and sometimes as faucet as well.

I got scammed once out of 10BTC. This was back when bitcoin was worth ~$12-$14 or so. I staked a poker player who I only knew from here on the forums for 10 btc and he disappeared with my coins. I had staked him successfully multiple times previously for smaller amounts: 1BTC, 2BTC, 3BTC and earning 10% each time which he paid promptly each time. He seemed like a nice guy, was friendly, polite, etc. After earning my trust, I staked him for 10BTC. And that was when he disappeared never to be heard from again.  >:(

I learned my lesson the hard way. Nowadays when it comes to gambling I stick to my Number One Rule(s):

When it comes to gambling, never lend or borrow and never stake anyone or ask for a stake.

I sold some bitcoin and accepted paypal not realising how bad paypal was compromised with phished account, it is rife.  Paypal simply does not care either they just pass all the liability to the seller, which is why i have never used them since and never will again.

it is really funny to read you post ,what are the potential you seen on you getting scammed :D what sort of investment have you done ,the possibility of losing from me is when the exchange i am using get hacked and i hope i wont lose that

I've only been 'scammed' once in the bitcoin community. It's when I was a newbie and my Blockchain.info wallet got 'hacked'. I had 2FA set up (which I never got an email) and was using the same bitcoin address I had used for a gambling website. My assumption is it was an inside job or that their algorithms for creating addresses was found out again.

That is why you don't use web wallets. I lost 0.05BTC which at the time cost me $20CAD. Today that would be $50. It annoys me still, but at least I found out early on that they were a terrible wallet. I'd hate to lose what I have now.

I have lost my capital many times due to my carelessness in investing coins. Wasted too much money on altcoins. But I don't know whether I can call them as scams. Other than that, I have lost a few mBTCs in a ponzi scheme.

Alhamdulillah I have never been scamed because I always ask to my friend when I want to do a bitcoin related job. Even he explained me about HYIP etc in the first time he introduced bitcoin to me. Besides, I read some threads here about scam, so I carefully take bitcoin earning way.

Last year, I also got scammed during Black Friday, as did many others.. We were all hyped up with all the Black Friday deals and did not notice

that the site was spoofed. So we lost some money...  ::) .... I also bought some jewellery online, that were faked. You had to destroy the

item to test the gold. People will go through great lengths to scam people out of their hard earned money.  >:(

you should learn about this and deal again and accept paypal.. because they are still reverse or charge back the money he said to you from paypal..
Unlike bitcoin that has no feature to charge back.. or refund option..

Before i scam many online in facebook fake info and invest some money that i thought that can gives me good profit but those all are scam. so those experience gives me strong to do not trust again..

I had been very careful of not to be scammed but not until recently where a site came out with the "provide help, get help" shit and I was like since its new let me put because the one I know of hasn't scammed yet but after I had "PH" then wait for 15 days only to asked to "GH" then its not coming that's when I know I have been scammed. Never will I do that again.

I have never been scammed, fortunately. Maybe it is not only luck but also me not trying to get involved somewhere and to earn money (I think this is how people get scammed usually. They believe they are the smartest and don't see the trap). Where are people usually scammed, by the way? Is it mining pools?

I am using bitcoin for a long time, but still i am not scammed for a single time. Maybe the reason is that I am very causious while investing my bitcoin or tading or even dealing with anyone. I really do study before investing in any site for gmabing or in buying selling goods.

I've been scam so many times in hyip but I think its part of being an investor and taking risk its just like gambling you just have to know when to quit and lastly invest what you can afford to lose Happy earning guys :)

I've been scammed many times before. First is by investing in HYIP sites. Then in Cloud Mining, Hashocean to be exact. I know there are lot of people scammed by the Hashocean right? Next is by investing in scam coin in trading. Although there are many times I've been scammed. Still I can get it back by working hard and making sure that I will not do that foolish thing again. And right now it doesn't happen anymore  ;D

Fortunately I have never been scammed with bitcoin but in the past I lost some money to HYIP a grand total of 20 bucks, not much but I learned my lesson.

If to talk about various HYIP's, ponzi's ans similar shit I was scamed up to 10 times. But it was small loss, because I knowed about risks and didn't invested much. Mostly times I didn't got ROI, so I started to avoid such shady investements sites. And I'm happy that I never invested in to cloud mining.
Also, I was scamed by faucets so many times that I even count it. But it was question worth only some cents.

I was scammed frequent times.
Specially when it comes to selling goods like TBC

Yet, I was never scammed by cloud mining and investment because I never do that.
Too many HYIP are in that industry.

Also, my worst experience is my first time I did trading in crypto currency.
I was so dumb that time.
I didn't manifested what does buy orders and sell orders mean.

Now, I put more doubt in eveything.
Should consult others befire initiating a decision.

Well back in my day my parents taught me this cool thing called common sense. I'm very lucky because I've applied it to real life and you know what? I've never been scammed.

Would you also like to never get scammed? Try these simple tips:

• Does it sound to good to be true? Walk away.
• Do you have to trust the other person? Then it's not for me.
• Is there a ton of risk for you but no risk to someone else? That's a red flag
• Common sense. We already went over this.
• Guard your freaking money like it's a baby on your teat and you're a damn tiger. You want to hold my baby? You damn well better make it worth my while. I'm ready to leave right not. Don't screw around or I'll fight or flight on you!
• I see a newbie selling "X" for $50 when it would usually cost me $100. RUN! Whatever you do, don't buy it. It's carded or they won't give you anything. If somehow miraculously you don't get scammed now you'll be arrested later for using a stolen card. Just don't do it!

That's about it. Anything I should add? Don't be stupid, naive? Everyone else wants your money so don't be dumb with it.

In investing , im a newbie that time first i tried to invest small amount and it doubled and I got paid. Because Im newbie i got excited and invest a bigger amount bigger in what I invest on the first trial. Then I got paid also. But in the third when I almost give all my btc and that investment site is having lots of investor BOom. That time they just bring back few of what I invest telling they system got failure something issues. So yhen what I expect to double lessen more. So lesson learned dont give all in one investment site. As much as possible portion it.

I never been scammed because I simply do not trade or buy things from people that are not having a good feedback or not even have one these days its just so important to be on the look out.

In bitcoin world? I think just once. By cloud mining... damn I hated that. Worst experience and that too at the start of my bitcoin usage, but I learnt my lesson.

No doubt scammers are here in bitcoin world, but it is not difficult to handle them, only use your mind well and do the right work in investment. Actually, many chances of scammers are here in investment instead of trading and gambling. That's why i am not giving my amount to an other hand, because i am doing my own investment. 

I got taken for some money from all these Cloud mining services, when they were still very new. I believed all the hype around the returns that I would get, and bought a lot of hashing power. I never reached ROI in any of the Cloud mining I have signed up for.

It is all funded by Ponzi type schemes, and you are just lucky when you get away from that with a bit of money.

Oh, and then I also bought some Chickens in that Chicken farm Ponzi game. It turns out, all my eggs were rotten from the start. ^grrrrr^

I have not been scammed yet, but I was made to believe by some faucet sites that they are going to give some bitcoins by just a few clicks. Good thing I did not subscribe and pay a small amount or I aould have been added to the list of those scammed. There is also a guide here on who are the bogus and untrusted sites giving different offers.

You are right, scammers are everywhere and they are waiting for the right time to scam people.  They may pretend to be honest and will get your trust and once they have it, they will scam you.  There are several red tag member here with lots of positive feedback from regular members but then was tagged by DT with scamming. How could this be possible?

I have been scammed two times, I got sad and frustrated but later on I just accept and moved on. I know, no one should blame but only myself; it's my mistakes. In first investment is a doubler site which 36 dollars was gone and followed by 1 dollar on the other site.

so far i have only been scammed once by cryptsy when they decided to take my bitcoins and run away with it. the somewhat good news is that i only had less than 0.2BTC there before they stopped allowing withdrawals and it was stuck forever.

I could have been scammed lots of time but just because I had been into ptc sites as well before I got into bitcoin I became extra careful when it came to investing in btc hyip, cloud mining etc but still I was scammed but that's only once when I made an investment of some of my btc in a shitty doubler or btc multiplier. So I would say it's only once when I was scammed.

Lost just over 0.4 BTC at terabox, double check everything ever since! ???

Fortunately I haven't yet and hopefully never get it. I keep looking and research about anything before I decide to put my money in, keep clear my mind and not tempted by easy money or faster double it. However, this forum and some kinds of this discussion help us to watchful and learn from others experiences.

several of times maybe because i don't remember the exact number how many times i have been scammed and the cause is i was investing at cloud mining sites several times and most of my funds was lost because those cloud mining is fake but today i have learn that rather than investing at ponzi or HYIP sites is more better if i save my bitcoin for my ownself

      Early days I involved with bitcoin I carried away by the easy and big profit and I invested (ha, ha) in Ponzi and HYIP schemes. The result is known to all. Fortunately the money I lost was little to reconsider second time. The good thing is that I got my lesson. The bad is that everyday many people new to cryptocurrencies fall into the trap of scammers

Being in the bitcoin (trading) world and not be scammed I consider this man very lucky, personally I have been scammed many times but this was when I joined the bitcoin in the early stages where I trusted people and send the goods or bitcoins first.

Since i started using bitcoin ive been scammed most of the time specially in HYIP's online and other people who is buying stuffs from me and vice versa.Ive been scammed around 5-10 times already and luckily its just small amounts

I haven't been scammed in bitcoins... I think if you gamble with hyip and investment schemes then you really have to expect to get scammed at some point as you are participating in blatant scams.

You do realise those schemes are scams right?

I have followed the faucet bitminer.io and I like collecting bitcoin when the money I would have taken that there were no payments that are made. whether is scam?

I have never scammed about bitcoin. Thanks God. But not so long time ago I had a suggestion about work from some guy, as he said his site needs girls to up site's games, but he didn't said me about the payment at all ( I asked three times minimum) and that guy just disappeared when I said I have boyfriend.

wow, that was impressive, even more than 10 times I've deceived or scammed by someone, of course because of the transaction with someone who is not in the know and also investments into scam

Never.
But only because I started using Bitcoin when I was older. If I was a teenager I probably would not be so cautious.
Just remember- don't trust anyone on the internet. :)

I have really forgotten that how many times I have been scammed by others. When I started earning money online I started with hyip. Till the time I got the hang of it, i lost several dollars.

But when I started earning Bitcoin I was totally alert. I lost few bucks in trading and p2p loans. But I did not give anyone a chance to scam me.

Even if the trader is having a positive feedback, there is no guarantee that he will not try to con you. For example, in SR 2.0, there were some vendor accounts which had very good feedback, and still cheating their clients. I don't know what happened. Perhaps some scammer hacked these vendor accounts, and then used them to rob others.

feedback?
is worth nothing...I have never scammed and I have so much red trust...
I'm the living proff that you can not trust feedback.
This proves as well that it is not good to trust red trusters who red trust for wrong reasons...(lol)

For now, i never experienced to be scammed by someone. As i search through the internet, there are many people that was being scammed. Almost four million people every year was scammed.

But is their any way to avoid it? Have you ever been the victim of an internet scam? What scams have you fallen for? How did solved it?
Mind me to share you ideas guys  :)

Yeah right what you say do not believe anyone on the Internet, even users who have a positive trust though sometimes misused to deceive for their own advantage, be careful, because a lot of greedy people on the internet

no system is ever perfect and there will always be faults, hacks, scams,... everywhere, and all the additional information like trust rating on this forum are designed to give us some guidelines not the sure thing. when you see someone with green trust vs someone with red trust it is obvious which one is a better choice and in the end we should always use escrow to reduce the risks of trading.

When I first joined this forum, I was lucky to checked various threads of this forum and realised not to trust anyone with my bitcoin.I followed the the advice and never send my bitcoin to anyone so I have saved myself from getting scammed

I do not have much to share but I have been scammed a lot of times by HYIPS because when I was new I did not had much idea about gambling and there were not much sites to invest online so I used to invest all my money in Hyips and quickly withdraw once in profit. But I am overall in loss with that thing, so I suggest everyone to stay away from HYIPS.

Well, many times I was deceived in the business world especially in the world of bitcoin. Well, HYIP and Minning is a major factor in this regard. too many promises and they promised bonus for an investment, even I've invested all bitcoin I have on one of the sites Minning, which has been forgotten. however, I just assumed that it was a very rewarding experience  :)

I've only been scammed once when trying to buy Bitcoin with a Ukash voucher, but luckily it was only for 10 euros.
I kinda anticipated it since the website didn't look too trustworthy from the start. 

I cant count the times ive been scammed by people whom i trust and investment sites but that didnt stop me to use bitcoin and believe that there's a good thing that will happen. i learned to be more cautious and dont trust easily, thats part of life.

Well I don't mean any disrespect for you but actually it seems you were waiting for getting scammed. It is a golden rule in ponzi sites that whenever you get little profits from the site never invest there again.
I have been scammed by a dice site, I don't remember name correctly but some ninja site sort of name ...

Just 2 times, the declouds and opair ICO scams. But that was my own fault to be honest I ignored the red flags myself and just kept a little hope.
But I learned my lesson.

As I remember I got scammed twice, both were PTC sites. I was invested on PTC sites and the sites were shutdown before I got ROI. Though it wasn't a lot of bitcoin I invested there, but it give a lesson not to easy put my bitcoin on those kind of sites.

I have three ex-wives. That should tell you I've been scammed a lot. A few times in Bitcoin too but I have plenty of money so I'm not real worried about it.

I guess I'm thankful for this forum that helps me to avoid those kinds of things that make the bitcoin world go bad. There are a lot of bad people using bitcoin to have transactions and then run away with your money. Nothing can lead you to profit by joining HYIP and Ponzi.

not even one time, i stay away from ico scam with altcoin, and i don't play ponzi or dice game or betting game, also cloud are dangerous and part of the altcoin scam, everythign that is too risk involved is a scam for me

Lol, I got scammed here in the forum one time when I had LBC account trade. He looted my 0.04 btc went offline and he didn't replied at all.

Just a question, how can you be scammed by faucets? Do you mean that you brought referrals to the faucet and then the owner of the faucet refused to pay you?

I have not tried investing in a cloud mining firm or invest in something that says you could profit. From what I've learned here in Bitcointalk, it's always a scam, especially when it has big returns (obviously when it's too good to be true, it is). Are there even Bitcoin investments that you could really earn profit from?

That's really sad, what have you been doing then? Investing your coins to HYIP or ponzi schemes? Hope you could get back what you've lost.

If you are smart you can think it that there is no investing that can gives you real money or profit for a long time unless if you are investing in the banks but the interest is very small every year.. i never trust those investment site because i heard many times for those investment site that we can also seen in this forum investors based games. that you can found almost all are scam..

Actually it is unfair to say scam to the sites that is yet proven to be a scam site, but of course as client or investors we should do our own research to be able to spot this somehow fishy offers.  One of our way of detecting scam is when their offer is good to be true and u got it lol, anyway there are some investment that you can earn profit, one of which is thru investing in casino bankroll but there is also of risk on having a negative profit on that.  But I read that Beking.Io is having their ICO, so in my opinion, that would be a good investment since they have been in the industry for years, besides one of the  thread here show, in his venture in Casino investment, that BetKing is capable of giving profit to its investors.

No it is not sad...it has been my own risk to test ponzi shemes...
Fortunately I have not only lost...
But often it is as well programmes like faucets or PTC.
All works ok...and suddently the site collapses for some reason...generally scam.

I have been scammed by many users many times because I had been so gentle to all of them and whenever they asked for some loans as a help, I gave them and they never returned them back. I could have easily given away more than 2 bitcoins in just loans, and even few were my friends.

Glad to hear that from a newbie because most of the newbies either scam or get scammed in mostly exchanges threads or lending threads. I would also give credit to the people for advertising this " no escrow no deal " slogan so much that newbies get inspired and hence avoid being scammed. Just I regret when escrow like master-p scammed.

Luckily I have been scammed only once by one ponzi cloud mining firm.I was new to bitcoin then and saw someone was referring to this cloud mining making false claims.I got excited and sent 0.01 btc to them only to find later that all my btc disappear and also the website without any trace

Well I've been scammed before when I was just starting on bitcoin. Due to lack of knowledge on things such as 1-10days investment sites. But now that I know about those kind of things, then I'm very rarely to be scam since experience teach me how to avoid those things.

I've been scammed about 9 times total of over  $500

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I remember when I invested in zencloud mining, I've been a victim in that sites. So after that happened to me I'll take it a lesson from my experience and got a phobia in cloud mining up to now.

Im on the same way too. I have been scammed five times before, I was a newbie at that time. But after that I have learned some things by research and asking questions how to avoid scams. So at this day I am no longer prone to scam sites but I have been gambling recently so I still lost my bitcoins to gambling sites.

In my early days here in bitcoin world, I was scammed many time as all of the HYIP I joined scammed me resulting to overall loses of quite a big amount for me. I don't remember exactly how much I lose but one thing I have proven is that never trust on investment with HYIP.

When I was a newbie, I have invested in some HYIP sites, and doubler sites because I wanted to make some quick money. I also got scammed buying small amounts of bitcoins, exchanging bitcoins into prepaid load, and P2P buying/selling altcoins. I'd say I have been scammed at least 15 times ever since. Nowadays, I don't do transactions unless I personally know the person I'm transacting with or my friends said that the said person wasn't a scammed and they have had transactions with him before.

It is quite simple in hindsight but its hard when we are either new or are desperate like for example you need a quick loan and a newbie says you send him account details and he sends you loan, so sometimes we might get tempted and hence the scammer takes the account. But hey guys if such things happened to you, you can claim back account.

I have been scammed twice in one year by two different site I now I should of learnt my lesson but I did not but have learned a thing now never deal with bitcoin with  paypal as that is how I got scammed so now if I did use paypal never send as friends and family ! 

How did you lose money with Paypal and BTC? Did you use any unknown service to make the transaction for you?

I know there are members on this forum able to make the transaction between Paypal-BTC without issues. You should check them here before use any other kind of service offering the same results. They know exactly the trick to make it works fine without later headaches.

It is unfair to generalize and call a whole type of investment a scam except in cases like HYIP where it has been proven over and over again that those sites are nothing but a scam, in that case is not unfair.

Mine include HYIP, Cloud mining scams and ICO scams. I have been scammed twice with HYIP then I stopped and moved into HashOcean which was not that hurt because my repayment was almost completed and the ICO scam was Declouds. I have learnt now that there is no free food in life.

Be nice to everyone. That is good. But don't be stupid.

No one will advice you to refrain from giving out loans to others. But at the same time, you must ask for some collateral in return. Giving out a loan without collateral is the stupidest thing that a Bitcoiner can do.

#Real talk here and there are really people like that which they tend to be nice into others but without knowing that those people are getting advantage from you thats why you act like stupid on that situation.As sithara said you should always demand for strong collateral because even those friend of yours would not be sure of repaying back those loan they made. Such a waste of money and seems like you are running a charity :) 2 btc is already a lot.

This is not nice at all, I get how you feelin. Sithara told you nicely, be good and nice to everyone but don`t be stupid. Before giving something make sure they will able to return it in some way. This is a lot of money to just be given away, for me that is a little fortune, 2 btc in no return loans.
Well I hope you will be able to earn that money on some other way. Good luck my friend.

Fortunately I never lost any money in scams but yes I have paid some amount frequently to learn some lessons (I ended up in learning lessons by throwing money). When I started trading, I used to follow the some piece advice from the shoutbox and thus met with loss 99% or more. Definitely it was not scam but still I lost money in such cases and I learned a lot from such incidents.

I lost few bitcoin in cloud mining ponzis before like in coince better to say them as hyip with the face of cloud mining with big promises. Other than them i haven't tried any other hyip/cloud mining because i have learnt a very good and useful lesson not to invest in any big promising program giving high return daily.

first time i got scammed in Cloud Mining but after that i have never went for any offers from any one which is too good to reject but having bad experience from previous i got saved. But after that one genuine offer look a like gave me offer to download the exe file and install and do daily work but as soon as i downloaded the exe file my computer got hacked and my wallet got hacked and my account become zero.

If I were to tell, I would say that it happened more than 1000 times, being honest, when I arrived in this forum I believed that the HYIP sites that were posted here in the forum were legitmos. I mean, who would have thought that bitcointalk would have scammers? In my head it was like: impossible, nobody in this forum would steal something like 0.001 btc. But I was wrong. All site that was posted here, not pay. All site was just shitty ponzi sites. Sites created by thieves.

But I learned to lesson. Never invest money on ponzi sites, hyip, double.

Always do research on every site you see, every new coin you see, you should do research. Scammers do not rest and do not measure means to achieve their goals.

I have never been scammed, if you ask me bitcoin is the safest way of monetary transaction, if you check how much people get scammed in other fiat currencies comparing to that with bitcoin it is safest way. Also with ‘no backsies’ ideology people are even more careful.

When it comes to bitcoin i got scammed 2 times, one was when i started learning about bitcoin and i wanted to buy it so i went searching for a good price when i came across this site that offered me to buy bitcoin for half of its price and i got scammed for 200 $  :'( , and one when i first started earning i put 35$ in a cloud mining site i believe it was Hash Ocean and then the site closed.

I have been scammed for quite a lot of times when I was still a newbie in bitcoin because of my enthusiasm about it and wanted to double my bitcoin as fast as possible, I ended up joining a lot of HYIP in short amount of time and then they all disappeared in an instance, then I tried to join lending sites like btcjam but it ended up the same cause almost all of the borrowers I funded defaulted their loans. But at least now I have the experience to see what is a scam and what is not.

You should learn right now since i think we are already experience to be scam here online so right now increase your instinct and always check every thing and ask if it is legit or not here in forum experience is the best to learn that there is no cheaper than the present price of bitcoin and there is offering 100% free money just to invest in cloud mining site or ponzi.. better to stay away and look for other way to find a good source of bitcoin..

Me too, I was thinking bitcoin mining like some magic when I was new into this and hence any site that claims that they are mining bitcoins and sharing profit, I used to fall for it. Most of the sites are scam, which I realized a bit late but anyways I have earned too a few times, loss is like negligible.

ONCE   ;D

Though I can't really say it's been scammed. lol.
There was one time, over a year back, where I got to talking with a guy I've seen around on some site we've both been playing at. He was probably winning a good amount as he just suddenly gave me about $90 worth of bitcoin at the time. Then he got to talking that he was the owner of some cloud mining/hyip site and I should invest with him so I could make some money.
I was like, 'What the heck, sure, it's his money anyway.' So I went and invested $30.  ;D ;D
Not even a week after, no one's heard from him again. and I never saw a trace of those 30 bucks again..
(Quite a sad story,huh.  ;D ;D)  Haha.
Anyway, that was the only time I invested in those kinds of things.(that I can remember)

I was scammed for about 4 times.

The feeling of being scammed is so sad. Yet, being acused of being a scammer is the saddest experience that I have felt.

We should never trust aniy poeple we don't know.
We should not talk to any strangers.
Strangers can break you down, hack or scam you, and get an information that can be used against you.

Sorry for your loss dude, but I think when it comes to loans with bitcoin we must follow the rule the is in the lending forum if there is no collateral then no loan is given since you are exposing yourself to be scammed.

There's no safe in lending here since the collateral is just an account and it has no monetary value outside bitcoin and even if you sell that accounts it is not advisable here. I don't know if there are still a good collateral aside from what is used to here, or else you will not have to do this kind of business.

Most of the time, it's the person who you trust the most and is closest to you who will do bad things to you. A stranger don't care about you, unless you're rich. They'll not hack you if you didn't catch their attention.

Not talking to strangers is a bad thing, in my opinion. Because you shut down everyone that you don't know. What if they're the way to make you a better person? What if they can help you with whatever your struggling with right now? It's really hard not to talk to people that you don't know most especially if you have to buy/sell things. You have to be open to new people. New people means new opportunities.

just once, investment is a doubler site which 200 RMB was gone

I am sorry to hear that dude. But before decide to invest your bitcoin in that hyip site you should have checked the reputation of that site.
Don't too quickly sent your money and invest on it site if you don't wanna the bad tragedy happens.
But based from that you can take a learn and experience to become more aware .

Once, in cloud mining. It's a problem that many users go through at the beginning. It was not something related to the site closing and running away with the funds or something... The mining difficulty went up a lot and the value of the hashpower I was holding fell. So, I'm not sure if this can be considered scam, it's more like a bad investment.

Well, So far, I haven't been scammed  ;D (and I hope I will never be), but I can tell you that greed and enthusiasm can drive people to trust scammers and throw their money off to them.
Slummy Bastard! ;D Do you call that a scam? :P (who scammed who? you or him). And where did those $60 go?! :P (Although, I still don't understand why would he run with $30 bucks only?! I mean he could have made you invest more by giving you some profits at first, then take your bigger investment and run off. Really seems like you scammed him :P ;D)

It most likely was a scam, but it would be easier if you just say what "cloud mining" site you were using. It's very easy for fraudulent cloud mining sites to change (lower) their payouts according to the higher difficulty. It's also very easy to up their maintenance fees insanely till the level where you barely profit from "found blocks". The block halving is another welcome aspect of them as they only have to pay out 50% of what they used to pay out.

I think less 10 only was scammed me before when I start in the world of Bitcoin I don't know before the investment site / hyip/ ponzi turning into scam . but as of now I didn't invest in the ponzi because its 100% scam. I also scam an altcoin I bought a coin before and then I cannot sell it after because the owner run. As of now I did not experience scam because before to buy a coin I will checked it if the coin is a legit not scam.

So far none, thank goodness.  I don't keep everything in one wallet and make sure to have 2 factor auth for every exchange account.  There are more security measures I could take but I am lazy about it. 

Well, so far, thank god, i had never been scammed, i dont really trust my Bitcoins to other guys, I am really hesitant to invest my money. But, i want to invest it in guys that I know who is trustworthy, maybe with years of many investors. There are so many people or users here and I dont really trust most of them. It is not that I cant trust people at all, its just that I am really being careful.

The site was hashnest. It is one of the only services with a hashmarket, but there is also too much manipulation. This was before the halving, late last year, but the mining difficulty was rising like crazy. First and last cloud mining experience.

Since many months ago, when i started with Bitcoin world, i deposited some Bitcoin amount with a site which call itself as "cloud mining" program, then after some weeks the site close its doors and scammed people.
Luckily i deposited just small amount of Btc there.
But the i got the lesson and then i don't invest any amount in this ponzi schemes which pop up online daily.

Mostly before we can easily scam by someone here and other forums but now it is hard to scam since many people are preventing ponzi scam here in our forum unlike before that they are also have signature campaign here with those ponzi and cloud mining sites..
I experience of scam both ponzi investment nad cloud mining before.. since my earnings is from faucet all of my savings from faucet earnings invested in 2 different scam site.  i learn in this forum and i do not let trust those sites again..

I've been through a lot of scams, cause I have long been in the online world. Not only of bitcoin but also when buying website, template, GA, items game etc. for investments for individuals during this time I have never been scammed because I am quite selective in choosing people.

Me too, since we are dealing online it is like gambling that sometimes  you have to take risks. We trust too much on people we met online that is why I learned my lessons already.Just always be aware of the red flags especially on HYIP's almost all are scam.They don't last always when the funds coming in dries up.

I've been scammed twice, buying items which were then never sent. Not for a lot of money but it has made me extra careful about using money online

Most of us when we are newbie has experience being scammed online, it's normal maybe especially when we are attracted with investment that gives us a good return, they are mostly the scammers in this world of crypto. But with your experience being scam buying online, I guess it's easy to avoid that, just only buy in a reputable store.

when I was a newbie my first 3 months was a struggle for me, I was scammed almost 90 $ by just finding my way of earning. Im using bitcoin for 1year and i earned a large profit from it. My 90$ was retured i  just 1 day by just playing gambling games. Im happy That I dont give up easily on bitcoin. Even i was scammed too many times i gained it back fastly when i know How can I earn bitcoins

Too many times.

I have been scammed so many times in the crypto world that i have lost track counting. I usually just forget about the small scams and move on, while the big scams that run away with thousands of user bitcoins are the ones that would hit me the most personally because i would have likely also been invested in that site.

When i started using bitcoin i first joined HYIP it started smoothly paying me double..
I was really happy since it was my 1st, just invested and doubled my btc... I have no idea bout those HYIP's..
I just know that i'm making money real easy... In just less than a month it stopped paying... :P I was really frustrated..
Almost all  i earned gone.. But still i joined other Hyip's and doublers i was addicted to it until i met someone who is to
altcoin trading and helped me.. Now i'm happy with altcoin trading though there are many shyt coins out there and scammed
me sometimes.. lol... i love risk though...

I've been scammed many times but still positive here... If you win you will be happy...
If you lose, you will be wise.... happy earnings everyone...

I am scammed by about 10 times . The first time I was scammed by a person who did not release money after get Bitcoin and secondly I am scammed by many cloudmining sites including hashocean .

All HYIPs are ponzis, i hope you realise that. Doublers are also all ponzis. Nothing without proof of what their business model is and especially with such a high promised return rate is sustainable and should not be trusted.

But yes, this is a problem with bitcoin being irreversible. It is the preferred method of payment now for the HYIP industry, just after Payza and Perfectmoney. Every time you get scammed, you become better at not getting scammed. Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

I was scammed by tow cloud mining that time I was new to the cloud mining. I lost approx 50-60 Dollars.
After that I never invested in any cloud mining Ponzi schemes.

Well you are lucky that it is just approximately 50 to 60 dollars. Some of the bitcoin users here lost almost a thousand or.maybe a hundred thousand. Why some people here are so not trustworthy.

So far so good here, I always consider and do many research before invest on some sites in case I could loss and try not too hurry decide it. I've read many posts in this forum about those scam and others way to tricks you, so I won't believe on easy money to earn by investing money which could double it, seems such as scam for me  ;D

It was a scam, since he invested in that cloud mining and cloudmining company ran.  The $90 is out of context on that scam action.  It was clear that it was given to him.  So by principle it is his money already.  And the money he decided to invest ($30) has gone like a wind.  Without any trace .

Hmmm every day

Well scammers are being creative everyday.  they improve everything, they even present a much professional website than the legit one, they really want to make you believe that they are real, they even have a support person at the other end. so it is no surprise people are being scammed again and again.  One and best example is the altcoin section, you can see history of different scam coins in there.

Just purchased cigarettes from an online site, the customs caught them and they wont reply to my e-mails..
I´m not sure if they scammed me or....
(btw the site is dutyfree.io, it has a review discussion on  this forum and everyone was positive)

   Until now I havent been scammed, simply cause i didnt invest my money anywhere except in sportsbetting. Im very careful with my bitcoins, I worked hard to collect them and i`m afraid to invest in something risky. This is not first thread about scams, after seeing so many stories how people have been scammed I plan to be extra careful. I still didnt learn how to protect myself on internet.

Cigarets online is something new I hear. Maybe cause of it was your first time you made a mistake and that why the final wasn't like you expected.
I have been scammed only once. A guy from a bank asked me to fill the form about the services of the bank, but in fact it was the form for a loan.

I havent been scammed online usiing bitcoins,but in real life  i already scammed by my friend two times,and im still searching for that friend ,to be arrested by police. She get almost all my savings. It happens when i joined a pyramid scam.

Lucky for you that you could able to double your money with HYIPS because i do know about them that most sites closed without reaching your roi and ran off after 1-2 days since they start. This is really a normal thing for most newbies out there which they really knew or see that earning money was easy because of those doublers exist but those hopes will be broken when you experienced scams.

I've been scammed many times when i'm new in bitcoin. I got scammed from those hyips and cloud-mining sites i invested. But now i don't invest there anymore amd just concentrate here on signafure campaigns amd sometimes i do trading.

Sadly, I was scammed many times online, mostly through different HYIP and RevShare programs.
At least, I' lucky that I never lost my bTC funds until now.
For me, Bitcoin is my ticket for the better future so I keep my bTC in the safe place.
I don't trade, don't gamble and don't exchange my precious Bitcoin :)

Well it is a legit site, but the problem is : their support doesn´t feel like answering me anymore.
When you submit a ticket on the site, it says something like ´We will answer within 24hrs´
When I sent my ticket before ordering they answered within 12hrs, after ordering they´ll ignore you. :(

I am newbies so I'm has not been much transact using bitcoin and I hope never to be scammed

i got only scammed twice one is on a bitcoin doubler site and two is on a Cloud mining site but i didnt put alot on the doubler site and the cloud mining site didnt last long before i could get atleast some profit.

I hope you learned your lessons regarding investing. Investing is not bad but you really need to choose wisely where you will put your money. I have never put money on hyip or cloud mining because their offer is too good to be true, and that is one of the rule I follow, never invest on something that is too good.

Why did you invest on those websites in the first place? Were you a total newbie? The so-called "legit" cloud mining sites are just mining sites that haven't ran away from the investors yet. Even when they have been running for years already, they can run away whenever they wanted. The concept of ponzi, cloud mining, and doubler sites just fascinates me. It's like they have this magical way to multiply your money in such short period of time. But behind all those illusions is the fact that they're just using the previous investors' money.

What?? Well I think that after a few times being scammed you must have gained some experiences. And don't you tired of being scammed all day like that? Don't you want to earn something?

(lol)

See my red trusts...if people see scams and ponzi shemes in my systems it is normal that people do not see when sites are ponzi shemes.

My first Post here due to possibly being scammed:-

With Bitcoin futurewalletbtc,  I used for one week as a newbie first obtaining bitcoins ,I've noticed the site unobtainable for 5 hrs. now;I'm presently hoping for the best but with not much hope.
I've now joined Bitcoin Wallet Blockchain on reccomendations.

Anyone new to the Bitcoin Market Please be aware.  I think??    Futurewalletbtc are SCAMMERS

Has anyone been using this company?

Only once. I have been scammed when I was selling some of my bitcoin, he said to me that "Bitcoin first before the payment" and then I agreed because a friend of mine told me that, that buyer was a legit one, that's why I sent my bitcoin first, and then after I sent it to his bitcoin wallet, he blocked me already in facebook where we were having conversation about this transaction. That was a very big lesson to me, that's why I never sent bitcoin first, but payment first before I send my bitcoin.

Bobbie and his manipulation group stole about 900 dollars from me back in 2014, I stopped bitcoin and altcoin investments since then

On altcoins,only twice but it's a wake up call to do diligence research on a coin that you are going to invest it's learning experience and it  will make you a better investors,after that I have prepared a list or guide on what to look for a crypto currency to invest.

I am scammed only once in bitcoins.
It was a few days ago, i came across a HYIP program which promised it will pay daily some percentage of my money, on second day it stopped paying and the third day the website was down.

I am very lucky that I didn't get scammed ever.I always made research before I start trading or invest in altcoin.So that's why I don't get scammed till now.Again, a exchange site was get hacked after I withdraw my all btc.So, I will tell I am so lucky.

I had some coins on both Mintpal and Cryptsy when they got "hacked" and disappeared with the money.

Exchange risk is the biggest risk in bitcoin.

I have been scammed 2 times in bitcoin world, once it was a HYIP programme and the second time it was a cloud mining website.

wow thats a good on your side, I have been scammed many times. I am not guided when I was a newbie , I lost many bucks on Hyips and cloudmining sites. But now I regained my loses I am happy that I earn morethan i lose
 

From the beginning i was much aware of the scammers and did not trust on any person but after sometime I started to trust on members of this forum and one of the person told me that he will sell me some coins (altcoins) which were much cheaper from him I started the deal and thought that I will sell them on exchange for high price we started the deal on gmail and after sending my money he did not replied me.

I have been scammed by different fake investment not including the fake cloud mining services although i tried topmine and cldmine but i didn't put any amount of satoshi on the said website anyway as i can remember i have been scammed by so many hyips/ponzi scheme like around 10+ times abd that was the time when i am just starting to adapt on this community.

scammed two times, very small amounts.

Actually I have preferred to be very cautious with my coins because I prefer to store then rather than spend them, but the only occasion when I decided to risk some coins (only 0.05) I was scammed by the Donaldcoin administrator who suddenly decided to close his sheet site few days after my investment.

well  im the newbie member and never get scammed but after this discussion
i should get careful about the scamming n all that. ;D

 

Twice or thrice times maybe.
Once working with a forum who paid me half payment upfront and the rest was to be paid after the work done but the user escaped and stolen around 50 bucks from me.
I have nothing to do I just left negative feedback to his profile.
And at the very first time I gave a person a loan and gave me his Bitcointalk.org account in collateral which was member account at that time and the account worth was 0.03 I gave him 0.04 and he never paid me that amount back.

Im using bitcoin for 6months my worst thing in bitcoin is to invest in hyip because i just really want to earn fast not knowing that hyip is very risk. I have no experience in cloud mining so im trying to know more about mining so i cant start investing.

I also invested in HYIP and was scammed.
All I would like to tell you is that most of the cloud mining websites are there for ripping you off and you can't earn anything from them.

Because you have not yet tried the only cloudmining site without miner...paying now for over 1 year...
All is for free and you can only earn...
(most of cloudlining sites are without miner...but do not pay)

ok...too good to be true...but it is true...(lol)

Lack of resarch is main problem with bitcoin/altcoin scams. After some years spent here I can notice the patters of scummy behavior when I see one.
I am talking about easy to spot could mining scams or creation of "new amazing ICO" - when in reality ICO has no future at all.
In the past I was blinded by some companies which I though will never scam people - because they were like top dogs at that time - I learned that no matter how big bitcoin project is - it can go rogue.

I'm relatively short in this area, and that has never encountered a fraud.

I have had a few attempts to scam me on here, using fake ognasty links and fake bitcointalk sites.

Till now I was able to resist every offer that sounded too good to be true.
I never invest and I never lend. That narrows the possibilities down a lot of being scammed.
So I can say that I have never been scammed by using bitcoins.
Once I bought me a car and payed cash, but that's another story...

I never been scammed and I really love the fact that I never have been because it really would make me up sad.
Always keep your bitcoin in a safe offline wallet people.

Only once. I was so pissed with myself after, because it was so obvious to me. A guy on Steam added me and wanted to buy my inventory for 1.5 btc. It was 3 AM so naturally in my sleepy state, I was extremely compliant.

He asked me to send one thing of value before he sent me the Bitcoin, so I said I would after he signed a message. He replied with a response somewhere along the lines of "Stop wasting my time", which scared me, as this was an offer too good to pass down. So I sent him the item, worth nearly 0.15 BTC. Bad idea. Almost instantly, he unfriended and blocked me, then made his account private.

i am not a big time player in the bitcoin echo system and i am not that greedy to earn more coins in a short time and so i have not being scammed or the best phrase would be i have not let others to scam me. :)

Twice, LTCgear and Paycoin. Education costs money. Never again will I trust people in crypto, I trust only myself and ESCROW.

Same here! ^^ I'm no big time gal in any sense. I've never taken a chance with my hard-earned money and invested it on some "sure thing"/"double-triple" anything.
In fact, whenever I hear those words, I run the other way, fast.

Whenever I do a trade, or buy something, or pay for a service, I always double/triple/10x check everything.
I don't really get people who ignore all "warning signs" and go ahead with shady/unrealistic things. It's not as if those things haven't happened hundreds, if not thousands of times on here before.

But well, as they say, there's always a first time.

I'm sorry man, I didn't know someone is willing to scam in Steam. You should've made a feedback that he is s scammer. I think it's very hard to be scammed now in Steam because of the security features right?

That is not education my friends ,i call it ignorance :D if someone scammed you it is solely your foolish decision to trust somebody online with your money :) i do not believe virtual friends and investments and so i wont get scammed that easily

I would be interesting to know how many people have been scammed by winspiral...
relative to the red trusts he should have scammed many people...
Or not?
(lol)
So far i see none scammed by him here...

People will scam anything, even in steam. In any game, scammers will scam anything that somewhat has value even when it has little value.

Scammers usually have the attitude to 'not waste their time' and they act as if they're in a hurry. Just so you wouldn't have that much time to think of the situation and you'll send your item first. I don't do deals when I'm sleepy because my mind is not in its best capabilities and I know that I might do something that I would regret once my mind is back to normal.

:'(

well you're lucky dude, you must be really grateful that you have never been scammed by some fake investments. for some people including me, we have been scammed by few fake investments and we have been very disappointed and frustrated by the outcome but still these experience made us better and wiser when it comes to that case.

It is good for you that now you have places from where you can see or you have already seen the things that what can be scams but when i was new in bitcoin that time i was not involved in any forum like this where i could get such knowledge so i could not know anything like this which as a result made get scammed quite a lot of times.

I guess that you are young and never tried anything else in online world, only bitcoin.
If you tried different Revshare buss. opportunities, HYIP, trading, casinos etc. I'm sure you will have different experience.
You are right, Bitcoin is the best so you don't need anything else, really.

I was once when i invested my bitcoins in gambling....  Dude....  Coin suddenly flipped that day... .  :-\

Well in Bitcoin i never got scammed because i do not go first everytime i have a deal. If the other side does not approve then deal is cancel. I don't take risk because in the past i always get scammed by people in Online Games when i was buying something on it. But in Bitcoin as i said i am very careful trading with someone.

i never get scam because i never invest my bitcoin in fake project or fake exchange i just bought bitcoin secure exchange and i think that yobit and localbitcoin these exchange is very much popular and secure and no one get a scam with these exchange.

Never, but that may be due to the fact that I'm almost never trading with unknown people. I'm usually very suspicious of people who offer me money or want money from me. I never keep my coins in an exchange, I have backups of my wallets and I'm never emotional when it comes to business.
Be careful when dealing with people, money corrupt. ;)

Many lenders are not accepting bitcoin accounts as collateral anymore since the value of those accounts has been dropping and they do not like the idea of selling accounts to other users since they could use those accounts to scam people so now most collaterals are other altcoins and stuff like that.

I can not count and i can not remember that how many times i been scammed. When the time i entered in bitcoin since 2014 that many scammer in bitcoin. So i dont know how many there are many scammer so be careful dont trust anyone.

I have been scammed for 3 times on gambling site bitcoin doge and clam
well yeah, never give my coin again to another user for loan or investment

I am very unlucky in this case as I have been scammed a lots of time but I have learnt every time a new lesson so I dont really mind it

I've lost bitcoin to some individual people, about once or twice,who took advantage of my trust but never from the official sites. I see it as a positive thing that made me see the true nature of some people. No matter how nice someone might seem on face-value, you can never trust them with your money :)

I can proudfully say none. Because I am careful with where I put my bitcoins and don't share a computer at home or at work.
That is to do with bitcoin but in the real world anyone can be a victim quite as easily as taking a phone call from a scammer.

Ive been scam many times from hyip investment to peer to peer transaction. But the funniest thing happen on me when someone scam me with 70k satoshi lol.  ;D I can forget it coz it's really funny with just small amount of money people got crazy.

Honestly, so far, none,thanks to paying close attention. Doing all I can and having full attention in order not to be scammed.

at least you've seen a positive thing from what happened to you in the past, it had made you more aware and careful of dealing with other people online and you are right no matter how some people appears to you or he seems to be a nice person you should not put a full trust because he can actually do something that you never expected and will made you be very disappointed .

Yeah you are right dude. Maybe i will just try to invest my bitcoins in real investment or maybe in my wallet and just wait bitcoin will be more pricey than its price now. I read some reviews about cloud mining sites and many of them got scammed also.

Unfortunately I have been scammed by some members here who were offering a service like vpn or netflix, which in the last long. Just a few dollars so nothing worse.

Cloud mining most of them are scam, it seems some has no physical mining farms but just like an HYIP, fronting as a crypto mining company. I too has invested in this kind of modus,and did not recover my investment but its OK its not that big amount.I learned my lesson.

its my good luck that i never scammed by anyone. but many times people suggest me joining to the hyp site. i never joine those site. so why,i have never scammed by anyone :)

zeroo times :D

Life is such a thing that we have to always cheat at some point, but to really be a crook until this was not.

And if you do not take into account the activities of the Internet, and only the real life? It can not be that at least once in his life made a little trick with respect to someone.

Scammers should be publicly ass raped with Negan's baseball bat.

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This done, I also do not like cheating against yourself. As the saying goes, if you deceive yourself, you do not respect. I respect myself. Lol

If you work with the help of Lucy as running its owner, the deceit and scams can be a long time to finish.

2 times

Do you think it's okay to do so? Although people are always trying to hide their defects, and then you show the contrary.

Yet I didn't got scam

Hey you should stop lying, it won't help you in life  :)

It's good to say that I haven't been scammed. You should check if you're trading with a trustful person or the investment site is legitimate. It's quite easy if you just don't give out coins easily and thinking if there are testimonials that the website is safe. Do a web research first before investing and probably learn about the site first.

You should try my U2 system...perhaps you will get scam...(lol)(lol)

i wasn't ever scammed because i am very careful

I have joined the Internet since 2005 and started to know Bitcoin in 2013 and I have not been scammed yet. I know that on the internet, there are many frauds and people should always aware of what other people tell you to do. I am a wise and careful man so I rarely trust someone even in the real life. This leads to the result that I have never lost my money online including Bitcoin

So far, I have not been cheated, but the effect of a lot of time, the loss of a lot of money, which is not cheated, is my reason for negligence..

Regarding such action is not good I think people can not be recognized, if someone did something by mistake. For example deceived someone. But I do not think that anyone would want to make the discovery.

That's right for you to say. There are just a lot of people that think that HYIP, Ponzi, scam works. I'm just worried that if you trust something, it may turn on you.

You are right...but supposed ponzi work perfectly...My supposed ponzi sheme works because it is only supposed...
I'm the living proof that one should be carefull about warners...

As the saying goes for help are not punished. So do not worry about what someone did something. Important in this case is the level of damage or if it was at all.

For me no damage...but for my members certainly and certainly for all the people who claim on faucet for 100 satoshi and not for 1000 satoshi by winspiral...
But this is only temporarely because my system which is not a ponzi is market regulated.But the damage is less members and this means less fun...less fun is worser than 100 or 1000 satoshi.

I've  been victim by online scam several times especially hyips and some ponzi-type investments. Until now many online users, most of neophytes, seem to be patronizing hyips.

The network is very common to run into scammers. It seems that they are more than in real life. Although everything is relative. There's just no one does not have permission borders.

Cheaters need to identify and bring to light the year. The fact is if everyone takes responsibility for, the Internet will become cleaner.

I have been scammed atleast 3 times here..even after using escrow.
Reason:Chargback

And how did it affect the attitude of users to you. Or no one was hurt by your actions.

I have three ex-wives, a current one and five children. The wives were the best scammers I ever knew. I've lost three houses, three sets of expensive jewelry, three expensive cars and more in my life. My child support payments have been more per month than most people earn working a full time job. At one point I was paying $2,300 a month in child support alone and one of the bitches got a judge to give her alimony. All you fuckers can stop telling your sob stories. I win.

I don't know I'm pretty old now. So its been quite a few times. I guess I'm gullible or something. Some people may say I'm greedy but then all they have to do is look in the mirror and see another greedy person. Everyone is similar. Greed is universal truth.

So far none, thank goodness.  I don't keep everything in one wallet and make sure to have 2 factor auth for every exchange account.  My settings are separate so I don't forget I've saved several copies.I'm always careful. I hate being cheated.

5 times on investment sites... But off course even if i got scam by those websites I still  investing in newly opened investment sites but only 1 time cauz it can be a scam after 24 hours

And after how many times will you stop investing in ponzi?

That's sad, hope that you could get it back, but I think you can't. HYIP are really a pain in the bottom because it gets you really hooked, you think you could earn with it, they will let you see that they can make interest on your money then run away with it in the long run. What scumbags.

That's good but I think your talking about hacking? Being hacked is a very different subject. Well, I guess there are just some that really doesn't care about people, they just get what people are earning and take them as theirs. It's so sad

Recently I was scammed, and I was too stupid to make the transaction even though there is no assurance. I didn't research his profile and too dumb to realize. I learned my lesson. Be careful transacting with unknown people.

That's really sad; there are just people who don't have the respect and dignity. Well, I guess he needs it more than you do. Karma will get him.

The thing about getting scammed is you\we tend to give others the benefit of the doubt and in the end we lose to scammer or hacker

Yeah, that's what i thought also, trusting too much could end up badly. They are just some scared person behind the keyboard, hoping that could benefit from nothing. No dignity.

I have never been scammed. I don't trust anyone so its easy to see these scammers coming. I can smell a scam a mile away.

I had 5 times scammed when investing cloudmining, ICO launching, trading sites.
That is enough for me to wake up when investing.

hacked two times , and this scammer still scamming ppl here

now i dont use escrow anymore ,i just tell them to buy my domain and my site on sedo or flippa and its true almost all ppl has been hacked or scammed even scammer hacked scammer

It should probably have a lot of confidence or the courage to admit it. Well done. Respect. The main thing is not to fall, everyone in life can happen to be forced to cheat.

I was hacked. A couple of years ago I lost 1 month of LTC mining because I was stupid and used a easy password on the pool site. The same password that someone get off me by phising here with "free coin! just sign up".. It was my fault but I have learned.

As one famous person said that everything that does not kill us makes us stronger. Thus, all that is happening, it's just experience.

Nah, that's just something losers say to make themselves feel better.

Life is a hard thing, and has hurt a lot. Sometimes it is a punch that hard, but it does not mean that you need to whine and justify their actions. I agree that the losers justify themselves. If you did that then it would be and not otherwise. Here's how to.

Actually fraud and deception all preferred in most cases to remain silent and not to dwell on what you are doing on the case itself. This issue is very delicate.

I think that the time to deceive or cheat against those who do it all the time, it does not matter, but in general can be attributed even to merit such incident.

6-10 times I remembered I was scammed mostly from websites pretending from UK with some company registration documents whatsover or something, the one that says 120% in 200 hours, principal investments return in 24 hours etc..some cloudmining websites that after 1 month it disappeared, and some bitcoin doubler oh my god same all shit script.the most popular scam doubler site I know is dobtc.win lol always reset and all money was gone..

I've never been scammed before and I hope to never get there in my life because a friend once fell victim and the emotional expression alone told me how bad an experience it is. I guess being careful and taking precautions before transacting business with unknown people should be paramount.

It's a way to get yourself better, and it doesn't hurt if you believe right? It's better all right. It's okay to believe in something, be positive and the outcome would be positive too. (Another loser saying this again?)

That's really sad that you've been scammed 6-10 times. It must be really a work of art that they managed to scam you many times. Their documentation must be convincing. Cloud mining is sometimes promising, but it's not from what I've read. They would just get your money away.

I was scammed twice, though it was a long time ago, when I still used faucets.
First time it was a faucet. Second time it was when I deposited some coins in a cloud-mining site. Afterwards I learned to search and be more cautious.

over 10 i lost money from scamer site

0! research is the key :)

I've been scammed at least as many times as I have paid income taxes.

8)

Scammed a few times during the times of Liberty Reserve but not anymore.

I was scammed by donaldcoin last year, and recently I got involved in a ponzi scheme (EarningCloud), but fortunately in both cases that losses were not very large but equally painful and disappointing.

I have been scammed thrice and then I searched for a currency that cannot be reversed like paypal and then I found BITCOINS :)

I have been scammed enough times to know not to trust anyone asking for your money.

And do you trust people who do the opposite...people who only give you money?

The problem is here:
People prefer be much scammed than be  little rewarded...
Believe me I know it...I see it...I live it...(lol)
Do a test:
Offer something...you are taken for a scammer.

Well to be honest I can't really count how many time's I have been scammed but hey we should also know that being scammed is part of our life specially in the cyber world we could get scammed in so many way's,maybe not by HYIP or PONZI schemes that we invested in or by the alt coin's that we bought for trading that become trash or by other earner's,I know that we are all aware that it's normal to be scammed if you are an investor

I must fully agree with you, because if we take as the very essence of the fraud, it is not necessary to talk about what has been done on the Internet, because a lot of other people doing the action in real life. Even the smallest detail.

We are always pleased when the contraption with other people, and unhappy when cheat us. I'm not talking about fraud.

It seems to me that I was always cheating the government of my country. All officials are crooks and only then do nothing but steal and cheat. But really my little tricks are more harm than they?

You can talk all you like, the main thing is not to the detriment of others and ourselves. In the first place itself. The fact is that if you're not, then you ...

In recent years, many complaints on paypal. I personally have not experienced this kind of problems. But I know that there is a contrast to the world. If he decided to fraud is expected backfire against him.

What a reply ;D. Ha, do you think that what you pay is not being used correctly? That's a sad way to think about it, and I hope your government is not THAT corrupt.

Once via paypal, the buyer dispute his payment and I lost my bitcoins to him as paypal reverse the payment back to his account

So I avoid using paypal now

Scammed on freelancer.com for $50 as I asked him to make a Script which supports blockchain Wallet API keys and he asked me to pay all money in advance, seeing his one good feedback I sent all at once and he sent me the script in a password protected RAR file. And the password he provided was false and when I was able to get the password using online brute force I found that there is nothing which worth $50. Only copied content from another Website was there. After that Incidence, I learnt how much Important the escrow service is and from there.

I was scammed once. Someone stole my steam account with 1.6 on it.

I got scamed once when I bought ETH,  when I realise it's a scam and sell I lost 0.1 btc on it

Only one when i was a kid, but even then i allowed him to to scam me, i knew everything about him, real name address, i knew that i would earn more money in that time than trying to get my product from him.

like two times made a bad decision on investment but got scammed for like 10 bucks so no big deal

Not really part of the scam, but after my mother purchased her 3x overpriced pearls, she actually did not believe me until she was told it was a scam by the bank when withdrawing money to pay.

I was scammed by someone who sold bitcoins, after sending him the money through mobile money transfer, His phone went off and I never heard from him again. That's 7 years ago.

I have been scammed ones by a person claiming that he/she can double my 0.5 btc to 1 btc. Now I'm saving up to hire an hacker to hack his/her account and steal the money back.

Anywhere between 3 to 8 times...

Fortunately, just once. Never believe those good to be true profits.

i got scam twice, the first time when im selling my onlinegame account
and the second time when trying hyip when i was a newbie

In real life, of course less than cheating people on the Internet. It is from the fact that the network is no punishment and no one can not get his due. But in real life, lack of skilled craftsmen in this regard. I like several times been in such situations, but I think that it is not too serious and no harm to no avail. A network I still "green" to that something.

Two times in "crypto world". First time by dogevault, next time by criptsy. Since that I never keep my money anywhere but my cold wallet.

Online wallets trust is very difficult. After problems with bitfinex I do not believe anyone. While I understand that there is even the administration was in collusion.

Young and inexperienced users always deceived if they saw that he was not attentive. In general, the network need to be careful in general, and even projects a network in which to make money. You can win, but nothing to get. At the same time well invested money.

Zero times. So still have my luck with me. ;D

You are lucky. But if you still happen, it is necessary to look at the philosophical. Otherwise, problems can be added more. I still think that the film always attracts negative.

Well, at the expense of profit, even on this forum have skazochnikikotorye sing very beautifully. The truth is no one is forcing them to listen. But they know work well. Because people always come across with my naivety and gullibility.

I only got scammed once with a forex trading company called Prime4x. Made a little profit but the company went bad. Though I succeeded in getting part of my money out...

I am Still New so i haven't been scam. Ia m very cautious of what i do and where i invest in.

once and that was a period when faucets were every where and I saw a bitcoin doubling ad which I followed and sent a small amount of btc & never got my bitcoins doubled :(. Cheap scam worked on me

i was scammed by hyip by the second hyip site i know. i was starting on bitcoin and i thought this mining site was legit and i cound make profit so i deposited some of my hardly earned bitcoin that time.

A few times. but hey its the price you pay so nothing worse will happen next time.

0 ..i am not an idiot.  ::)

Amazingly, just one time. It's almost a rite of passage ;)

I have never been scammed since I don't believe in HYIP. However, I lost my money in gambling  and trading, that is how I lost my money. Don't believe in HYIP because what they intend is to make profit from investors. If thou must invest, better to invest in stock market/ long term investment in forex. This will take so much of time, but garuntee no scam and will give you huge profit if you had chose the best company to invest with.

I got scammed twice, 1. in hyip/cloud mining 2. In ico coin

So there is nothing wrong yet. Perhaps at this point you need to be happy and not be offended.

And I always thought forex scams. I was told that only strong players can earn there, and all the others just put their money, while rarely get their crumbs.

And I do not want to believe and fall for the scam, but it is always a great feeling of wanting to earn good money causes all kinds of advertisements and stories about the big income users. Nevertheless, I still like it bypassed them by.

I do not want and will not bind to such projects. I'm not sure that I can make good money on HYIP. Despite all the assurances about the quality and integrity, it is not the first time I hear about scams.

So I did not get anything using Forex. Or I did not understand the whole kitchen or there are real people prohvostyI bred for money. I am very cautious about all projects are now on earnings, especially with attachments.

its amazing but only zero times)

Well most of things are like that in life. The grater a risk is, the bigger a reward is. And most of earning of money are made buy that small percentage of people that are already rich so... rest of us can only hope to come to there level one day and start earning big money like they do. Till that day come I think i would be satisfied with as much as i can get :D .

I haven't yet, sort of. I mainly do Photoshop work for bitcoin, and sometimes I will get no response after sending them the watermarked image. So I wasted my time, but at least they didn't get any free 'shops.

I've scammed once and I don't want to occur it again.
I'll be more sensitive and don't trust easily in different kind of people or strangers.

i've scammed two times..total loss- 0.1054 btc

zero times because i know what i do  ;D

If a person is sure of himself, it is usually everything goes well and without any problems. That's only if someone wants to deceive someone, you do it very well, something that is very difficult to suspect.

tons of time, like more than 20

in bitcoin world i almost get scam by a fake shape_shift

In the world of bitcoin beginners it is very hard because everyone is trying to deceive or to advise what that nonsense, because of that loses the least that got very hard. But as they say, we all learn from our mistakes.

It can be very difficult to manage if you have enough information about what to do and how. Therefore, every time comes up against the fraudster.

Nowadays you can not be too trusting, though, and believe in people and their good qualities, too, need. After all, we are very callous when acquiring a barrier between themselves and others. Not all people are bad.

3 times. I only start trading this year. Now i'm slowly learning the mechanism of exchanges. total lost of 0.1btc

You have to be careful and to replenish their knowledge base, otherwise such incidents will be repeated continuously. This is very bad.

A couple of times with scam coins (dev run).
Total losing ~1BTC .

luckily never , maybe this means I was not brave enough in taking risks though :D

I've never been scammed, i got all my coins on my Trezor and paperwallet.  I use my local Bitcoin dealer which i dont need to move coins ore $$ on there platform.

i don't remember how many times i've been scammed especially in the beginning time when i know bitcoin. i think i've been scammed in the investment program like hyip, double, cloud mining, because i remember when i am new person in bitcoin, i am not thinking too much about earning bitcoin and i am doing many ways so i can earn more bitcoin but in the end, i only getting loss of my bitcoin. after that bad experience, i realize that there is no short way to earn bitcoin and i am glad that i can learn from my mistakes.

Gaining knowledge here in Bitcointalk can help you a lot in understanding what Bitcoin is for, how it was created, the advantages of using it, etc. I was just scammed because of my lack of knowledge in the traders profile. I should've checked his account before making a trade, and I didn't think that's going to happen. Oh well, we all learn from our mistakes.

I have lost some of my bitcoin in 2016

I have lost some money with the hashocean scam in 2016. I thought they were legit as they were paying for more than one year. When they made 1 year paying online I thought this company must be legit but it wasn't so I lost all my investment.

I lost some money  between August 2014 and September 2015 in one scam_coin :(

Honestly, I'm yet to be scammed out of bitcoin. I generally don't get myself in a position where I could easily be scammed out of my bitcoin, although I probably just jinxed it  :-\

Words of the wise: If a lawyer from overseas emails you saying he's got 100K for you if you only send him 100$ woth of Itunes girft cards then you should probably ignore him  ;)

Edit: The way I posted that makes it sound like I've been scammed by an email like that; I know enough to avoid those things.

Could you have sold any time in between them dates at profit?

I don't think that this question is just about scams of bitcoin. I think he is meaning on scams in general, in life. Yes if you got email like that, i think only small percent of people would fall for it. But there are a lot of other ways people get scammed. There were some bank scams that was pretty complicated and organised, that most of people thought that they speak with bank representative. People will always find new way to scam other people...

How many times have you been scammed by winspiral?
If you say more than zero you are a liar...(lol)

Be careful:
People here trust red points knowing nothing about...this mislead you.

Since the network is present everywhere deception, and therefore need to be careful and cautious.

Fraud has always been someone else's way of earnings. Therefore, no one will ever be sure of their safety. There are people who want it again, and someone doing this all my life.

In the summer of 2016 with the help of Bitfinex many users have lost a lot of money. Bitcoin wallets were opened, and no one returned it lost users. This is a real scam.

Actually I'm lucky enough to have never been scammed out of any money, BTC or $. Also the way I posted that makes it sound like I've been scammed by an email like that; I know enough to avoid those things.

No its misunderstanding, i didn't think you have been scammed over Email, i think you make that clear. I wanted to say that there are people who would not know that is scam and they would fall for it. I hear from friend about one attempt to scam his grandfather, over a letter. It was something like, he didn't pay for electricity or something, so that he need to pay on some bank account. But letter was fake and my friend found out about it, but if friend didn't find out i think his grandfather would pay it. Because it was small amount. For me its stupid, but i know that man, and i would not say that he is stupid. Mistakes happen.

Perhaps I have not quite mastered the network to be able to bad actions. Although I have always tormented conscience, even some thoughts. So I do not admit fraud on its part.

I've been scammed in a couple early phase Bitcoin development games... It was small and I ended up learning a few secrets during that time so it was well worth it.

I've seen many people get scammed on exchanges like Mt. Gox so be sure to enable routine security so that you can eventually avoid scams altogether.

in bitcoin world i never get scammed and i hope i will never get it. Before i do something with my money/btc i always ask to other experience user about it, if they told me dont do that with good reason i wll follow it

Biggest scam in my life is MMM & Hashocean.  >:(

I was once scammed.
This was at MintPal when the exchange was closed and the new entrepreneur disappeared with the money.

On the internet a few times like 5 and in my normal life 1 time from people who supposed to be friend.... so watch out...

i have been scammed 2 times, it was suck because i got scammed from my old friend and the other scam i got it from invested my money in ponzi sites

I scammed like hundred times and thats why you dont trust any people these days  :'(

So you are a scammer, you admitted that you scammed hundreds of times. It's funny what happens when you don't know how you are going to say it, bad grammar could lead to different meanings. It's hard to trust anyone, especially some stranger in the internet right?

I have been attempted to scam many times here ,on fiverr but they have failed because I always asked them to use trusted escrow for deal & seller disappear and for fiverr I sent message to their support about seller's behavior and they canceled my buy order.
There is no safe place for buyers,you have to take care yourself and deal wisely.

You yourself a scammer  faggot

5 times scammed. lesson understood.

No one. Perhaps I haven't a great income but I don't take part in controversial project and HYIPs, I don't invest my own savings to such sites.

If someone scammed you for more than a couple of times then i would really doubt your capability as a sane person as no cat would jump into a hot water twice . :D I have never given the ability to other to scam me and so it is a big no.

I haven't been scammed yet but 1 time I almost got scammed. I just blocked that user

Yes, you are right. Wrong spelling can sometime bring you in trouble, for no reason actually. And it is sad that there is more and more people who would scam you. I'm not sure if that is because of less jobs, or because people don't want to work hard for something in there life, or maybe both. For some its easier just to scam people...

Everytime you get scammed, you learn something more.

Scammed 3 times and im not going to let that happen AGAIN!

I have been scammed by hyips 2 times

There is always the risk of being deceived and do not even suspect that you cheated. It only remains to be careful and trust less.

I've been scammed 3 times worth more than $300 on exchanges.. :'(

Never. Don't be stupid and you won't get scammed.

You do not have to be an idiot. Just a simple, even a novice because of lack of information, may be subject to fraud.

Ive been scammed online notably once,although i was close to the time suspicious, yet i fell victim.

Ones. With cryptsy   >:(

I don't remember at all mostly I invest in ponzi sites that's why most of the time. My fault also

And how not to be deceived and how to trust to someone you do not know to be sure that you. The work not only with Bitcoin, but in general the network requires very little attention. Otherwise there can be problems constantly.

This is a funny post. First, he says that he scammed hundred times, so he's somewhat a bad ass for admitting that he is a scammer. Second, he says, it's hard to trust any people. Why would you trust someone who hacks or scams you? No one would really trust you and if you think that someone will, not anymore because you said you are a scammer. It's hard to see if you're wrong in what you are saying or not. lol

That's a hard thing to do, not to be an idiot. We are just normal people who makes mistakes, that's not something you should pressure on. You should try to help people instead of criticizing them of what they have done in the past. Don't make mistakes because it's going to hunt you but it's a way to learn.

Don´t know. But it was a lot. Bitmark, Node, Simcoin,...

None yet -knock on wood-. I'm also not a huge risk taker and have trust issues in general so that probably contributes.

I like that *knock on the wood* thing. I don't know if all over the world that knows that kind of "ANTI UNLUCKY" thing. Don't worry about much in taking risks because you should take risks but be smart about your decisions always.

3 times lost my money in HYIP, but I'm not upset. In dubious projects, I invest only the amount that I'm not afraid to lose. But 1 time I have not bad multiplied the means with the help HYIP :)