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Asking for a tips how can you avoid scammer in this forum?

Of course we can avoud it by using trusted escrow, that is the main reason why this forum build an escrow to make all transaction smooth transacted in both parties.
If you do not want to used the srrvices of third party do not deal with low rank users because most of the scammer are at that lower rank account. But much recommended is to used escrow as always.

I'm not looking to an account trust feedbacks but I can easily guest that having a negative trust is not reliable person to believe especially in trading and campaign managing.

I never scammed anyone.

Main advice is, trust no one. Everything else will follow

tips to avoid scammers. do not just trust the stranger, this is the number 1 rule in this forum. I'm trying to give you a tip.

My three main rules are:
1 - Always use trusted escrow (when you are making some trade)
2 - Trust nobody (consider every single person as possible scammer)
3 - If something sounds too good to be true, it's most probably scam (nobody will give you free money, BTC ...)

Be careful when clicking on website address, the website might have virus or malware which will infect your computer and steal information such as private keys.  Always use escrow when trading.

I've never had a scammed experience and hope never to have one in the future. I would like to think that I'm saavy enough and not stupid to get scammed.

ive experienced many scams and i keep ruining across them everyday but i still keep persistence until i find the right gig that works it will pay off i know so. It is important to know the early red flag symptoms of a scammer.

Find out founders who has trusted and is linked to linkedin porfolio before investing any project.

been  scammed many times. from fake sites to fake invesments..but im still here. trying to cope up and learn from those mistakes.

Their a lot of ways how to get scammed because as bitcoin is being innovated. their are this short term scams and longterms scams just like investing. Some could earn in short time but most investments are in the long term.

Yup, to have high moral standards u can't scam anyone then.
Trust noone is good advice, except it can get u a little paranoid in life.

Don't take risks with people you meet on forums if you wouldn't do it with people you've known for years. Most people are simply not reliable. If something interests you to want to part with money, escrow services are available to ensure the person delivers before releasing the money.

Always use escrow

Don’t trust for newbie help


check trust to see if member change email or password

Haven't been scammed yet but am a little scared of trading on the forums for that reason. I'll only deal with highly trusted members but a lot of the people in the marketplace are newbies with no track record

True that, I would neither trade via forum. Also not even to help people buy coins via PayPal. Better to use exchange or live transaction if possible.

My advice on this topic is to be really careful what kind of wallets you install on your computer.

Do not install new wallets of airdrop coins or new unknown wallets in general.
If possible use an online wallet or a hardware wallet.

And obviously trust no one, crypto is the wild west of the internetz.

There's plenty of good advice here, but my best piece of advice is if it's too good to be true - it probably is.

Other than that, as other's have mentioned - use escrow, only deal with established/trusted members, etc.

I got scammed out of 20 Btc once early in my crypto years because I was too eager too jump the gun. Granted, they were only worth $4 a piece at that point, but it still stings to this day.

Are you talking about ICO's, token sales or just scammed in crypto world in general?

I get so many spam emails in my email account everyday. Many of them come from the slack accounts that I am part of. Yesterday I got one from Enigma token sale, where it offered me free tokens and when i click the link, it took me to myetnerwaliet.com. This fake website looked exactly like myetherwallet.
So far, i have not been scammed.
You should be very cautious when entering your private key and never enter your private key after clicking a link somewhere.

The first time i got scammed on the internet was when i tried to buy some coins of a knowed MOBA that i guess that a lot people are playing it.
But it was a very weird scam, i trusted in that guy, and he asked me to send him $10 and he was going to send me some coins to my account, but he dissapeared, and never contacted me again.
It happened like six years ago, but i still remember it like if it was yesterday, because it was my first lesson about scam.

I have seen many people get scammed by especially by google ads. Use ad-blocker with chrome like uBlock Origin. Scan your computer with two anti-virus or internet security suites . Use cold storage if possible. Stay away from exchanges (read about Mt Gox and BTC-e bust).

You can get started with how-to on coindesk dot com

Well it's actually easy to avoid scammers inside this forum. You just have to be more keen or to be more mindful about the details of the project and of the account user. Also, you might want to try asking information about the user or project in this forum.

I was a gamer the last few months before i learned about Bitcoin. During my gaming times whenever i buy in-game items i always let the other party to go first before i send or give the money that is the reason why until now i haven't scammed yet in my games. That is the reason why i am trying to rank up here and i want to gain reputation in the future so that my transaction will become easier and fast.

@WannaCry are you the BTC scammer who created that WannaCry "send me your BTC or your HD is encrypted" scam?

Never experienced that but as that it's best to ask the legendary members especially those with high trust rating. It's not necessarily that all of them are trusted but I believe most of them must be.

Losing 13 ETH from a phishing page. I thought there was an airdrop for district0x that time and I checked on the page, too bad the url is a .net not a .io. So lesson leanred, always check in coinmarketcap or here in bitcoin talk for the official links.

what kind of scam did you experience here at the forum? because i didnt experience yet to got scam, and im careful to make some transaction on some low rank to avoid scam, as of now i dont any experience about scam, and to avoid to got scam dont make any deal to some low rank account.

You can avoid scams by using exchanges instead of buying from users on a forum. The fees are minimum and overall it is much safer. Then move the funds to local wallet.

no i have no experience in scam. i just listen from my friends and colics. i think doing scamming is really very bad thought. so i'm not interested to doing this. now a days most of the people trying to doing scamming in their daily life. because they want to become rich in short period of time. so they making more scamming. but it is not good. my friend once did scam in trading in that process he earned more profit in that time he suggested me but i don't want to do this.

Ive been scammed few times in Internet, but never in this place :) And always it was my fault  :(

Do not matter reputation, do not trust anyone in any forum. I was scammed in another forum by a reputable member. Never trust anyone online, use always escrow. And even with escrow never use highly reversible payments like paypal, I was scammed in localbitcoins in that way too  :'(

You should apply some common sense..... If it is too good to be true, it probably is. {People DO NOT just give money away

for free, they always want something in return} Most people come here to make some quick profits and the scammers are

feeding off of that. They know greed will cloud the mind, so they will rush you to make quick decisions. { In doing this, you

make mistakes } If you get any offer {the too good to be true ones} ...you should sit back and relax and think it over. Then

ask other people and see what they think. {beware, people use multiple accounts and answer their own questions.}  ;)

I don't have much experience of being scammed. In my early days in crypto, sometimes I invested in HYIP's, despite that I knew how it works exactly and big risk of loosing money. Mostly times I lost my investments (only $2-$3) and since then I don't want to feed scammers anymore.
I'm not naive newbie and for me it's easy realize which websites/projects are scams without deep investigations
Your 2nd advice oppose to 1st. If you consider every single person is possible scammer, how you can use escrowand trust your money top erson, who escrowing funds? I can't agree with your 2nd suggestion, I think you exaggarated a bit. Yes, we have to be really careful when thing is related to money, but considering that every person want to scam you, is a bit too much.

its very simple, do not trust anybody to avoid you to got scam, because not at all people (member) here are trust worthy so be careful on who people youve choose to trust for the your transactions, or maybe hire a trusted escrow to be a middle man on your deals just to be safe to avoid scam, or do not deal with someone who are in a newbie rank.

The best way to avoid being scammed is to use an escrow service.

I never got scammed on this forum, but once I joined Token airdrop and I put my email address my account was hacked, password didn't work anymore and recovery via email as well. I had no access for 48h until I contacted Admin when he was online to could assist me.
Lesson was learn... never put your details in free distribution/air drop like email address, always have strong password and never use same password to multiple accounts.

False people who try to rob us are very much. We practically meet them at their own pace. We only need to do transactions or exchanges with trusted people. I think that 'new' relationships sometimes only hinder us from getting rich.

Always use escrow.
Always assume there are motives.

Always avoid those who look real nice in a suits (example of course) to get you to buy into things with killer payouts. If it looks to good to be true, it just may be.

However, there are some crazy new inventions here. Learn the "standard" and go from there.

To avoid scams 100% you need to know the past and experience of the account you are in touch with by digging information and opinions about the user.

just dont trust people who arent already readily trusted by the community. turst has to build proper in a trustless community

To avoid scammers you just need to be more keen about the details of the website. When it comes to users or projects you can ask the bitcoin community for information about it. That way it will be much safer for you.

Yes me too never involved with matrix anymore that was a bad idea but i learn from it.
Better to invest now in wallet that have good stakes and were the coins increase from time to time

don't entertain those investment site and advertising some of them are scam.

Dont trust anyone keep your in safe zone and you will never scammed

in order to avoid scammers just trust nobody and if there is something very good to you most probably gonna be a scam  8)

trade and buy coins only from well established cryptocurrency exchange platforms.
In addition have a wallet for your coins and never trust the exchange platforms with your money to be kept there

In BTT, never make a deal with the Newbie account
especially who's thread topic is locked , all replies says "bump" from newbies or keep saying "Still available ..."

I just simply dont entertain people that I think wanted to scam. Also, I dont purchase things here to a persons just to get rid of scammers.

That's a poor attitude. If you aren't going to give anyone a chance in the first place then they will never be given the chance to show their trust. Just don't deal with people who won't use an escrow. Always use a trusted escrow and you'll be fine.

I am new here as well. But what applies in real life can be applied here - "if its too good to be true it is a scam".

Those that ask you to transfer any amount of money/coins in exchange for airdrops etc, try to ignore these tokens, chances are high those are scam.
Unless you really trust the team and their investors.

You just need to check and re-check the account, link, and website (it maybe contain phising malware program)

Im new at bitcoin world, but i never get scammed
Because before this time i was ever get into Investment world like (HYIP)

So its easy for me to detect scammer

When I started in crypto currency, my first experienced was I scammed in the HYIP website. I invested around 30$.

It's very easy just never trust anyone, think that everyone is may be a possible scammer and always use escrow to make all kinds of transactions.If you follow my advice then you would never get scammed.

When I started trying to make money online, two guys had a website with which they sold a blogging software. A kind of a stuff with which one builds a website. They advertised and asked folks to try it for a dollar. I paid and started building my website. After 7 days, I was asked to pay for the full service which I did. A couple of days of use after payment, they shut me out.

- Don't trust anyone, unless they're a highly reputable member.
- Don't send anything first, instead use escrow.
- Don't get triggered by bonus/reward. Keep a cool head every time you need to access your money.
- If it's too good to be true, it's probably a scam. Example: Bitcoin doubler, HYIP, etc.
- Always look at their trust feedback.
- Beware of hijacked accounts. Hacked accounts are on the rise lately. Check their trust page to see if their password and email are recently changed.

Do not deal using paypal.  their policy actually says it is illegal to do currency exchange using paypal and they will not cover if you are scammed and raise a dispute.

My advice are;

Ensure that you have good password for all your email accounts.
Get a strong password for your coin wallets.
Do not give anyone your personal Key.
Beware of links you click. dont click every link you know nothing about.
Browse safely.

Any list of good escrow services ?
You can't trust the seller but can we trust the escrow "person/site".

Is it about for investment?
Don't expect too much so it minimize your loses, do your own research before you join. Ask your friend for advice, that's all.
Hope it helps  ;D

I was scamed here on Bitcointalk. I translated a project and the owner stopped replying to me. Also, I bought Ethereum Dark and eBTC, which everyone claims they are scam. Now I just wait, from what I know, even scams get to survive long enough to become the heroes.