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I am really interested in this topic and am writing Bachelor thesis about types of frauds on the internet. I believe it is serious problem and it is important to share your stories so others would be aware of these issues.

Please share your experience, where you faced scams, what were your losses, do you know anyone else who faced same issues?

Examples of scams:
1.) Shady Exchanges
2.) Pyramids and Ponzi Schemes
3.) ICOs
4.) Mining software with malware
5.) Emails from scammers.

I will be really thankful for your stories!
 
P.S. Please specify scam websites, token names or projects in order to bring awareness.

I had invested in a token, and it promised some exchanges, and then it would give me 10 times the return, but then these tokens became worthless, and I lost my money.

If this is not a secret can you write the token name? Maybe you could write how you found this token?

I have been scamed before by an Airdrop bounty. Once I clicked the link I don't know how my Etherwallet was hacked immediately. Uptill now the guy collects my tokens steady. It was a very bitter experience for me last year, 2017 though I have opened new wallets for my bounty now.

I've been victimized by a Ponzi scheme disguised as the most trusted revenue sharing website.  >:( It made me think twice about the word most trusted next time I try to find another earning opportunity.

No, i do a full time research before i do anything in the community,that will save you from these greedy people because crypto community is  getting more scammy than ever before.

Icey47 could you share the name of sharing website?

Yes i have seen two clear cut ico scam recently, one was called Ethbooks and second one was Confido, both raised good money, but disappeared after the ico, taking away all the money.

In my personal experience think I'm not victimized by scammers because since I started joining the signature bounty campaign in this forum I read a lot of security measure management in order not to fall into the scammers or fraud ICOs.
But I've been in fraud ICOs but I no incident that my money was taken away but it's just that I joined a bad ICO that didn't make it into proper market circulation.

I dont know if it could be called a scam but i`ve participated on Multibot bounty campaign with a full thrust in the project otherwise wouldn`t promote them.
After the ICO ended the managers went quiet and they dont respond to any message here or on facebook. I`ve gotten my tokens in my wallet but they are worthless not being listed anywere.
I feel that i waisted a month for nothing and they could said something, even that the project will not go forward or something.

Yes, I ever been a victim scam in ICO. I am join in signature campaign but the end I never get the rewards from the ICO because the ICO is scam. I am so sad after read the news in the ICO thread  ::)

Actually that's what I did first when I was about to join a bounty campaigns. I have to make sure that a coin that I'm going to earn from bounty campaigns ia a good one and my time will not be wasted.
In order not to fall into scam and fraud or swindled then its a clever act just to make sure that everything will be fine after an ICO.

I have only been scammed in pyramids and ponzi schemes. The name of the scheme was the infamous Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox popularly called MMM. I was promised 30% returns on investment on local fiat money but the whole system crashed two months later. That was the last time I promised to get involved in any of these sill schemes.

Meanwhile, I just discovered that the same MMM scheme has crept into the crypto world and launched their own ICO with the same MMM name.

I think that I know the name of this 'most trusted' website you are referring to! M** and M***? lol They've even got a Bitcoin revenue sharing website which everyone thought was legit. I pity those who got scammed by this.

My MEW got hacked and they stole 0.9 ETH. I'm very security aware but I got caught because I replied on an email (slack support for IOTA). I can only blame myself because I will NEVER reply to emails requesting my banking details, so why did I reply to the slack email?  I did not focus, I'm really disappointed in myself BUT I paid the school fess and hope that it will never happen again.

I believe that because of the complex nature of cryptos, especially in the beginning, we are more exposed to scams. What I like is the communities that warn their members of scams (SCAM ALERTS)

I've been scam by people on slack who claimed to be from the team and you can make a lot of money by investing in their pre-ico

i was scam from a bulgaria account here in the forum

then i ask amex to help to dispute the transaction. and i won the dispute

I have not encountered such problems yet. It was particularly access to many of my friend's account. Those who accidentally share a private key,
who have a keylogger on their computer ...
Security is really important. We pay attention but we can make mistakes too :(

Yes i am a victim of scam last year, i don't know how he access my account when i try to withdraw my trading investment in hitbtc, while processing to withdraw, My withdrawals are not successfully cash out, the other day when i visit the site, all my earnings are gone like a bubble. That's the most devastating experience i've encountered last year. 

There is a way to get key without keylogger.
If you copy paste your private key and leave it like that and not copy anything else when you enter some mystical website they could get your private key from the clipboard.
 
Here is example:
https://hackernoon.com/you-need-to-discover-the-awesome-clipboard-web-api-12b248d05dd3

so far not and i believe if you get scammed its your own fault. it means you didnt do your research.

I have been cheated by bounty ICO, I joined the bounty campaign for 1 month. after the ICO ended I got the stake, after that I sell the coin and no one wants to buy the coin. I am very sorry to have joined their ICO bounty.

When I was a newbie on earning a bitcoin, I was scammed by a Bitcoin Doubler Site that promises they will double my bitcoin in 24 hours, I was convinced on investing my earnings that time, because I saw few people who got paid, so I tried, but then after 48 hours of waiting, the site has gone, and I didn't receive anything. Also I was scammed by a mining site where you can invest btc in exchange of hashes, I got paid at first but the site also gone. I learned my lesson now, and I promised to myself I won't make an investment to those kind of sites ever again.

The biggest scams currently are multi level marketing, they seem to be incredibly popular on social networks although not typically crypto 

Yes,,But Luckily only Victimized by Hearing :P . You always have to Think first then React

I can't encounter it yet cause i only signup those forms that didn't need a Private key.

Hard to qualify as a scam but it's certainly close enough to warrant warning others about it.

Sent a number of NXT to ShapeShift about 10 days before the IGNIS airdrop.  The exchange failed (still shows awaiting deposit), and due to ShapeShift being absolutely crap, they still haven't responded to my support request even to this day.

From other NXT users who have also experienced this same issue during this timeframe, I have found that ShapeShift are refusing to return the airdropped IGNIS saying they "don't support it".

So we're supposed to believe that ShapeShift are just going to ignore the potentially millions of $ worth of IGNIS?  I doubt they're going to leave these tokens unclaimed for the rest of time, don't you?  What a convenient problem this has turned out to be for them.  NXT deposits break before the airdrop, they keep the IGNIS and refund the worthless NXT back to users claiming they've done their bit.


So, advise?  Never, ever, ever use ShapeShit.  You'll be waiting for weeks for a response if anything goes wrong, and they're basically acting as thieves in this instance.

Few times when I was a newbie in Bitcoiontalk.org there are so many airdrop  coins and I keep joining and joing hoping to earn free coin only to think  some are not legit and just gathering data or only need someone to follow their twitter at FB account. some are asking to deposit some .001 eth in exchange for airdrop  but after several weeks or month of waiting  Idon't receive any coin. But now I only joining airdrop which i think have potential.

How about bounty campaign scams anyone has an experience?

don't talk too early mate. if you get scammed one day even if you did your favorite research, remember this message, ok?

of course you have to do your research but anyway there is a chance that you can be scammed. I didn't invest money for any scammers but couple of bounty campaigns scammed my effort unfortunately.

Scam ICO - Ox Fina.  Their website, twitter and facebook are still up.  It's a goldmine for someone like you because it shows what a scam ICO looks like.

I was ripped off by Cryptsy.  A good portion of my funds on that exchange are gone forever, including .5 BTC and 375 LTC, which would really come in useful right now.

I also had a my LogMeIn compromised and someone logged into a computer and downloaded the locked bitcoin wallet.  Funds were not at risk in that scenario.  This was years ago.

I had someone hack my account for Peercoin pool mining (I forget where) and had a few PPC redirected to their wallet.  This was a result of the Heartbleed exploit.


I now have 2-factor authentication when possible.  Most of my coins are not on exchanges.  No remote access on my mining/staking machines either.  All wallets locked and backed up.

when the first time I used bitcoin I get scammed by us man. 500$ bitcoin at that time mean 5000$. so hurt

There are many different types of moshennichestva , various ICO scam . So you need to be very vigilant nowadays

Ive been a victim of bitcoin scams before like ponzi schem also those hyip. That was when Im new in bitcoin that I joined quick and invested in. So this time Im being careful before joining any.

yes , got scammed on Discord on name of marketing of coin

I was a victim of ponzi scheme 10years ago thats why i can clearly say bitconnect is a ponzi scheme,so i dont recommend new ones to join Bitconnect.

I have been a victim once, quite recently - I did a lot of work for a bounty campaign, but when time for payment came we all had to submit our ERC20 addresses again. I submitted my address, but unfortunately someone else claimed to be me and entered their address as well, and they got sent the tokens. There wasn't really anything I could do about it, other than tell the company my ETH address over and over again, which I did several times both before and after distribution.

A very frustrating experience, and I'm still trying to work through it with the company concerned just in case there's a chance of a positive resolution - so I'm not really prepared to name names at the moment. But this is an example of the sort of scam where you are not scammed yourself, but still become the victim.

I have been scammed by ICO projects for twice now. They were very active at first and very engaging but then they refused to pay after their project has been successful and then just vanished into thin air. I think that sometimes, people get scammed because they didn't do their own research about the campaign or the project because even a successful project can lead to a scam in the end.

I think everyone of us who is a bitcoiner or crypto lover has atleast once stucked in scam. Somehow every user go through this level which includes scam emails also.

No,  because i know when ill be joining or not cause i am careful for it might be a fraud. 

When I've started buying in the crypto world I knew just one coin, BTC.
Later after reading a lot and watching hours on youtube, I found out that there is potential in other "alt" coins too.
I am a holder and not a day trader. I avoid following others opinion and I am not attracted by names or promises of quick money.
I am lucky because I don't have a lot to invest, I am struggling to make my living, but I have hope and nothing to lose..

No, I do research or ask my legend friends when there's new airdrops and icos before joining. However, I was scammed before, but not here.

No and i dont have plan to be a victime of these scams,you just need to research well to prevent people from scamming you.

Well yes, I have been a victim of many revshares and HYIPs before. One of them was crypto related project called Lunacoin. The project was very promising, with many products built like wallets, sister sites, gambling platform, revshare etc. But the project owner fled away in just 1 month with around $2 million. Most of the funds were in Bitcoin, so I guess that $2 million is worth a lot lot more now, as this scam happened in April.

Then there was this Bananafund project, which claimed to be the next kickstarter platform. It also gathered a lot of funds, like around 600+ BTC, owner showed some progress in the site, but he actually used the money to do crypto trading and never returned the users their money. His name is John o'Neil.

There were many more projects like this and I lost in most of them, because at that time I was foolish enough to believe in the clever words of the site owners. Now, I am totally out of that sector and only invest in crypto projects. In that also, I choose ones which offer value even to free users like Steemit, Lunyr etc.

Yes, SIGT and ECT, both complete scams.

I'm a little Careful with that.I discussed and then React. Hopefully not been a victim Yet  ;)

Yeah. I was once and learned from it, I was just merely helping someone and was clueless of what will happen next. Been good to other help but he infected me some kind of phising program tried to hack me, fortunately i was able to detect it. I lend him small amount but still tried to hack and scam me. Learned from it, never trust anyone and don't let other people take advantage of your kindness. lol

2nd one. HYIP programs, always scammed by this ponzi scheme, lost 0.1 btc in hexabot and 0.5 btc to chain.group  ;D never learned but now I won't be joining any HYIP program anymore all ending to be scam.

I've been scam by people on slack who claimed to be from the team and you can make a lot of money by investing in their pre-ico

Ofcourse, I have been a victim of scam and it was really suck, I've been careful right now since it happened to me. All my coins that I've earned was loss and I think it was because of the airdropped that I have joined or maybe it was hacked. I am very sure that I didn't give my private key so I was really upset that all earned was all gone. I should have not stack here so I decided to moved on and start again but it was hard to start again that's why I started 2 months after what happened. There's a lot there like phising site and I think you know that already.

I've been a victim of fraud I got tricked on an ico I've done all but ico it does not pay me at all.

Yep.... accidentally sent 0.5 Ether to a fake Indahash ico. :(

I actually downloaded a wallet supplied in the OP of the announcement thread and in it was a malicious code looking to steal Bitcoin wallet. Luckily I install all new clients in a virtual machine. I found out after a scam accusation was submitted and their thread was taken down.

I am victim of scam so now i must be careful in what im going to click a link, Because some link are phising so that need to be careful if you are not be careful maybe some of your coins are holding are going to gone.

I dont really know if this can be categorized as a scam,  letting you join an ICO campaign and when its time for payment,  they just disappear or say that their ICO failed to raise the targeted amount.  If this is,  then Im a victim too.

Yes i am and here in crypto a lot of scams are by phising site,i think also they use bitcoin in pyramiding like redex but it's legit you only need to invite before you earn so it's not good if you ask me another thing this is tool also to easy scam other because this is digital money.Always thinj before you do investment here like in hardware to do mining because it so expensive so what if they scam you.

Yes. I have been a victim of scam of bounty and airdrops. In bounty I thought the project will be okay but until now the campaign manager didn't show up anymore. In airdrops some of them ask for a private key.

 Yes I have once been a victim of scam, But unlike others I didn't invest any money. I only invested time ang effort where I should be earning money instead. I joined the ICO where I though I can earn money and put my trust to them, But That mistake gives me a learning exp on how to pich the proper ICO to render my service.

Technically yes. A coin was pumped and dumped. I was a noob. Lost lots of cash. Ruined me, though I much better now. But can't replaced what was lost, and what could have been.

That is straight out scummy. You should see if maybe you guys can get together and sue them.

Technically, it isn't a scammed but rather you've loss your money because of your lack of experience and patience. Being scammed are being fooled or deceive by someone.
Personally, I was scammed by some bounty campaigns here as they didn't paid the participants after the campaign ended but I just thought to myself that their karma will soon be serve.

Yea I'm still waiting for that Nigerian government official to wire transfer me $30 million...  :D

Ambis and ATS

There are scams for every letter.

bitconnect for B

C, we are looking for a C scam...

i am aware in pyramid scams and email scams so i have never been a victim of those and the mining and shady exchanges, i do not know both of them.

the only scam i experience is ICO, in almost a month in this forum, i only experience one and that is atlant. its almost 3 months since the ICO done but they can not calculate the stakes and give the bounties

The reason why I call it a scam is because it was an indirect way of taking somebody's money. Even though I can't see them, don't know who they are, they were performing actions to take away people's money. I was certainly a noob and learned big time. It wasn't a lack of patience though, if I'd panicked I would have taken all my money out sooner.

I was scammed in 2014. At that time, I bought $20 worth of BTC and transferred it to an exchange called Mintpal. Recently, I would like to check if my money is still there. And I found that Mintpal is gone and it is a scam.

I became a victim of hyips, pyramiding and doublers but I think that's the scariest kind of scams. It's not just your money but everything is in jeopardy and it will need a lot of effort to start again.

In this forum there is a bounty called C project by EHRHC. At the first look the project is a scam but I put in mind that probably let's try some work in this probably it might give a reward. I tried joining twitter campaign in C but no pay :D. Luckily for him he had a best Christmas for his life but should have a great karma ahead :D

Yes MLM networking some two years back. It promised huge amount of interest 30 to 40 % of capital for 2 months of keeping your money with them. I was too naive and couldn't realize it was a ponzi scheme. It was not based on any value, so I should have be smart to identify it was scam. First few investors were paid but the later entrance got scammed.

I have avoided being a victim so far even though I do invest plenty of altcoins. I just had a close encounter when etherdelta was hacked but that's pretty much it. I like to read this kind of posts  to remind me to be more careful.

I was victim of bitcad ICO. It was a very interesting project and i was really impressed about it. And i decided to invest a bit. But whenever token sale completed bitcad team start to respond less and after a while they dissapeared.  ;DIt was about 1 year ago. I dont complain so much. It was an experience for me. I started to search about team more before joining icos after bitcad.

I got scammed in my first experience to try make money from internet. I join on some ponzy scheme website, I invest some money and never get profit or money back like their claim

Hard to admit, but yes, I have been a victim of scam. I once joined a signature campaign for a bounty campaign named C. It was so enticing as they were giving bitcoins as reward but after the campaign, no payout was given.

Yea , same story . I participated this bounty too and now I can see this was a wrong decision .

The Slack scam messaging was probably the biggest one last year and caught many people out. They were on almost all coin slack channels and sent "official" emails and PMs to every member. The first one i received almost fooled me too but i had a habit on hovering over any email links and checking where it led before clicking. Now i dont click on any email link no matter where it comes from.

Yes i am and here in crypto a lot of scams are by phising site,i think also they use bitcoin in pyramiding like redex but it's legit you only need to invite before you earn so it's not good if you ask me another thing this is tool also to easy scam other because this is digital money. Always think before you do investment here like in hardware to do mining because it so expensive so what if they scam you.

And what did you do? How can an average member of this forum defend himself? Wrighting to the moderators so they'll ban that scam project forever? What's the options?

some scams have happened to me and finally I lost a lot of money, from now on I will never again trust some links sent to my email by promising us to invest with big profits.

I have been scammed, but it was just 20$ pulled out of my pocket.
I sent as small amount as I could on Bitzure. But Lot's of guys left big money there.

I've been scammed, first by the popular MMM society which was a ponzi scheme and then by a cryptocurrency lending platform called coinreum, I lost 0.07 btc to them. I wish I had kept my btc in my wallet.

You know, in our country the National Bank is the greatest scammer:) i mean they offer deposits with 10% per year (in our currency), while the inflation is over 20% per year.

same here, when it comes to online transactions i'm being more careful than before to avoid those scammers. like investing money and expect the return with interest after a few days, which we all know that it is impossible to return.

I was onced scammed by the ponzi networking schemes i my county ive lost all my money,but in crypto i am doing good!

Scammers has a lot of face everywhere so you just have to be very vigilant for your every investments though you have to take the risk because there's always a change that someone could scam you. It happened to one of my friend before because he's lack of knowledge about of Pyramids/Ponzi Schemes, all he wanna do is to invest in a free money, little did he know that it was just a Ponzi website. I remember it before how he struggles for taking that money back because it is just he's only money.

Scammers could do every effort just to take everyone's money in an easy way.

firstly you can defend yourself with looking around that coin so you can understand it's a scam in 50%. also looking through the team and their previous projects.
secondly report allthe fake bounties and scammers to moderators: it's the biggest crypto forum and by banning that thieves we'll destroy more then a half of their audience and protect others from loosing moneys

I didn't invest but I worked for bounties if it counts.
My mistake was that I didn't pay attention to the team's contacts. ETHBOOKS scammers just collected the money and disappeared. I'm happy I didn't make any investitions then.

I have lost 631etc in the cyber hijack last year today its worth nearly 30k. Its all wise safe to have a nano s. Not buying one is the mistake I have made.     

As of now, I haven't been a victim of a scam. And in your list, I disagree that you put ICOs there. You should've put that "some ICOs". Because not all ICOs are a scam.

I try to avoid ICOs as usually (if not scam) they do not deliver what they promised.
As well, in majority cases, you can buy tokens much cheaper when trading start, compared to ICO price.

However, recently, I was scammed by donating ETH 0.1 for development of EDEX crypto-exchange.
Admins disappeared with inv. money and I had to write-off this amount from our backing fund, as loss.  :(

I haven't been a victim of a scam yet , but I'm feeling it everywhere  :-\ this is a crypto world , so we are responsible for a safity of our funds .

The only scam I have participated in was pump-signal. I decided that I can make easy money and instant double in few sec ;D
When I bought announced coin on bittrex(I made it so fast as i can) I saw the schedule - price is ok. But I didnt know that bittrex's schedule lags and the real price is in order book - but I had no time to check it. So I bought high, donated to pnd admin, and gone from that kind of activity ;D
I think it is a real scam, but very common in our days

Luckily, I'm not in any scam.

So far I never victimized in form of scam sites. Because since I begun to this industry I most often checked the background of the ico project in the bounty campaign campaign. 

thanks for share i think everybody can alert now from this, although i am not victim , litecoincash is also a scam everyone alert from it always.

I was scammed by an ICO,electroneum to be specific,i joined its pre-ico sale and the tokens were hold for months it was stucked in their wallet because there are some bugs i think,the price of the coin was decreasing everday and they cant do anything about it,5months have passed i didnt get any return of investment.

Yes been scammed several times lke on hyip sites.. But in altcoins or crypto so far been scammed once on chronium ico and not that huge amount glad i didnt invest too much... Now im not interested on any hyip investments im focus on trading, airdro and bounty  now more gain than loosing..

Mine was with a HYIP scheme which I thought was a guaranteed way of making money online. It as so enticing that all I had to wait is 5 days which was one of the longest day I ever witnessed because I didn't even know it was scam until after five days then I realized the investment was ripe for withdrawal, I withdraw got a mail to that effect but with the amount of times I refreshed my wallet, I realized that nothing was coming that was when it dawned on me that I have been scammed.

I also have experience about Scam you mean .. but I am just a victim of a bounty scam. Not a victim of a coin investment scam .. then I followed the bounty of a project that has been said a big success but the project owner was blurred and no clarity about what I do and not in pay .. it is very disappointing but I am sincere ..

Yes I've been a victim of scams. In playing Leaue of legends, there was a time that I need to log in my account on a certain website to be able to avail free champion skins but after a while I cant open my account anymore.

I stupidly didnt read any reviews for PET the paynext coin. I was reading about ICOs on the coinschedule site and read about this one.

Sent some eth, not a lot but still. Right away it was transferred to another address, then another and it continued being moved around until I got bored
following it.

The balance in the wallet actually shows that the depo was made. When you try to buy the coin it makes you wait until the next level of availability because the last level "sold out". So this morning Im on there when the next level opens (again I know at this point I will never see this money again but I wanted to see how elaborate the scam was). Level opens, they offer 200,000 coins, and after 30 seconds or so there are magically no coins available. I sent a withdraw request but it is of course "pending".

There is a thread about this scam on the forums and there are a few other stories like mine out there. Apparently the website claims to be Swiss, but its somewhere around Veitnam and most of the activity for the site is there. There is also very little traffic to the site, certainly not enough to sell out the coin levels so fast.

Once you sign in the whole dashboard looked legit, live and learn, I took a shower to wash all the scum away!!!
Bad on the a-hole scammers for the site, bad on me for not doing the proper research.

Not really a scam but more of an account hacking.
Will make you register to one website promising a payment afterwards then boom!! He will try the password that you have used to any accounts you are link to or any websites including you email account.
Beware of that specially here in bitcointalk where they could also used it for scams or loans.

1 time ICO 1 time shady exchange, sadly but thats true

Fortunately I have never been a victim of scam but it doesn't mean that it will always be the case. I follow some golden rules which you should also consider before investing into any ICO and for the sake of awareness I would like to share.
Before investing in ICO, always read and understand the whitepaper of the project, it's road map, it's core team members and CEO background analsis. These important tips helps a lot to stay safe from scams.

I received an email that introducing they are the team of etherdelta then, the email was very presentable when I've read it. The content of the email sent to me including the link that they want me to confirm if I am the owner of that account address, then when I click on that given link, it was saying error. I have a doubt that time but I ignored it. After a few days, I noticed that my token lost in my wallet. It is a serious scam.

credence coin...  i buy coin in exchange then after a week the price was dump because the dev disappeared

have you made a research before buying?

Fortunately, I’m still not victimized by any form of scamming but, I’m still not going to be confident, I always read about articles and threads here in the forum that could help me determine scams or any form, type of means.

I dont know whether it is considered a scam or not

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No and i wont be a victim ever,i do some researching before i invest anything in the market,this sounds crazy but investment for me is a not as buying items and let it increase its value,investment is a job that you need to focus to be able to achieve success.You may find a lot of people complaining that they were scammed but its really their fault of not being aware that the ICO they are joining is a scam.

   I've never really been a victim of any scam and I Pray never to experience such. The key advice here is to do some investigation before partaking in any ICO and to adhere to certain principles when interacting with any online entities like;

• Do not click any suspicious link in your emails especially one that leads to your wallet.
• Do not reply any email with your personal details.
• Do not share your private key with anyone irrespective of the reasons provided by these entities.
• Always check the URL of any site you are on to make sure they are encrypted and bare the symbol or trademark of the site you intend to visit.
• Utilize search engines, forums & experts to obtain information about a specific subject or software before participating or downloading.

These are just few out of the many precautions that are to be considered in order not to fall victim to any scam.

Ever since my friend who taught me bitcoin is scammed and another was victimized by a phishing sites I've been very careful of my actions and investments specially when the offer is too good to be true. It is part of the risks in investing to cryptocurrencies and sadly it affects the acceptability of most legit project and tokens so I make sure to know how to spot these scams and be update for future threats.

i have managed to avoid being scammed, i try not to download any suspicious files, i dont give out my private info

my 85.000 $GRS would be worth around 150.000 $usd today i guess. But mintpal took it all and then went bankrupt. Also cryptorush and all my $UNO. well you give some you get some. It is water under the bridge. Happened a couple of years ago. Lesson learned - Never store your coins at the exchanges.

this is very in a common that we have to be more careful of it yes we cant say of who have the possibility to be scammed for but we all know that this is common to happen for and we see a lot of people may suffering i dont think that it may be one of the lesson to be learned for but we must have to be more careful for everything.

Yes i been a victim of scam accusations and that's why i become stronger that before but after gaining knowledge from this people. i get smarter and invest my money wisely but before investing i make sure that i read a lot in whitepaper

Yes been a vitcim of ponzi scheme i am talking about MMM, GHW, MMMUNITED, coinr, lara and many more of them but that was when i was a novice in crypto. recently i have been scam by pump and dump trading channels. they will announce a coin. you will buy they will leave market the coin will crash. it will take month to climb again. I have learn that too. I am learning everyday.

I am very carefully studying the projects of ICO in order not to give money to scammers. Also, I carefully look at the website address to not enter my password on the phishing site. Scammers find it hard to catch me.   

I was scammed by some bounty campaigns here as they didn't paid the participants after the campaign ended...  :'(
It was so enticing as they were giving bitcoins as reward but after the campaign, no payout was given.
It was an experience for me.

Yes i am a victim of scam.I joined on then on the bounty I do their instructions but after it end no payment are rewarded on my wallet.

still not scammed but i think it is inevitable, as scams get more and more elaborate

There's this site sierrahash.com that introduced me into mining so I invested 500$ , 3days passed and I earned the 500$ that I invested , after that the site vanished and I never reached that site again

I am thankful because i didn't scam for know. But i will do my best to avoid that kind of victim but i will not promise because we are all nog perfect for that experience.

Yeah i have been a victim of a scam once , when i am new in the cryptocurrency. I invest in an ICO and because of my curiosity that is why i spend money through it. And eventually i wake up one morning knowing that my money is gone , my invesment is gone. Its the first time that i have been scam. In that situation i learn a lot from it. Now i never invest in any ICO unless i guaranteed myself not to be scam again.

For now i did not experience of that kind of victim, so what do to is i will be careful of what i inter to avoid all of that. Because its hard to be back your worked

being knowledgeable is a must to avoid that kind of scams , we cant say on how we are able to avoid that but as long as you may aware for all of that you may have some chances for to take what you really wanted to be.

Yes! I was scam once by email scammers. I thought it was a news Letter but I'm wrong, later on I noticed my coin lost in my wallet. Grrr! I'll never forget those days.

No, Im not but Im doing my best to not encounter that thing or not to be scammed. Scammers are everywhere nowadays but we should have to be alert and be smart enough to avoid that kind of a situation.

often happens to me. I was never paid when I joined a campaign in an ico.

must have got ICO that turned out to be a fraud and I can not get any profit at all but it makes it a valuable experience for me to be more thorough and careful in analyzing an ICO that's my experience

In my opinion the most important is not to follow unknown links and go to exchanges and wallets only on reliable links. I had a situation when I went to blockchain info, and ended up on a phishing site. Bitcoins immediately left the wallet.

many times I've been victimized by a scam
Frequently victimizing conflict is, investment, bounty and signature
I just wasted my time with such things. Maybe they will change. but they probably have changed because they have a lot of money that they can afford
I see that they are not satisfied with such activities.
how are we lending to earn?
I can only say one thing
If you’ve only ever met online, you need to take extra precautions to protect yourself. Don’t let scammers take advantage of your better nature and steal your money.
Calls, emails and other approaches claiming that you have won an unexpected prize or a competition you did not enter are almost always scams.

how to distinguish a 100% ICO scam?