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So everything is in the title.
What can you do when you have been scammed ? what are your possibilities to recover your funds, I mean here in the community, excepting going and report to the police.

It is hard to do something in the internet if you don't know the person who spam of you. A lot of spams happened in the last few years but only a little of them been catched.

Not much you can do, probably. Losing cryptocurrencies is just like losing your wallet with paper-cash in it.

Best is to avoid getting scammed in the first place.

But if that is too late, then I guess it really depends on the nature of the scam. Can the person scamming you be identified?
Are you able to track where those coins went to? i.e. if they got sent to an exchange, perhaps you can contact the exchange to see if they are willing to freeze it.

The best revenge is living well.

It is hard to recover the money that has been scammed. I am a victim also of scam, the group that I join is a trading but when there is a sudden drop in Bitcoin they have a hard time to earn the money that they will give to their colleagues. Be careful when you are using internet there are many scammers here just ask first. Don't spend big money when it is your first time. There are many using this stuff also when it comes to Bitcoin. You don't have any choice you will just accept that you are been scammed. Be careful.

You can try availing of a blockchain analysis service somewhere, in the hopes that you may be able to trace the scammer. There's not much you can do beyond that though, and it's very very unlikely you'll ever recover your funds.

Bitcoin gives you complete freedom on how to use your money, but that comes with the downside of being completely responsible for it. It sucks, but the only solution to scams is to not be a victim.

If it were so easy to recover funds that you don't have access to anymore, cryptocurrencies would be kinda pointless.

Doxxing is rarely possible, almost never helps and usually goes wrong resulting in collateral damage.

So in short: Take a lesson, cut your losses and move on. The only thing that we as a community can do is try to educate people on how to avoid scams in the first place. Especially newcomers seem to lose every bit of common sense when entering crypto. Look after them.

I would try to accept the lose. And be more careful next time.

we need to protect ourselves of nt getting scammed instead thinking what can we do later this industry is fast changing even though they are law authorities we cant expect money get back credited to us

If you got scammed it was your own mistake and you should pay for it. Or at least that is what I think.

If we speak about scam where you have lost your money, as far as i know there is low chances for your founds to be returned. To avoid losing you money, when you do trading go through a trusted source (third party) to do trading for you. Check out Lauda (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=101872). She is a trusted member of this forum and have done this kind of jobs before. There are others too, and it should not be hard for you to find them.

If we speak about scam where you have lost your account here on forum. In that case best thing you can do is contact support and report scam. Same thing apply to other sites i guess.

My advice to all people out there is to stay away from shady people and sites. Visit only legitimate sites and do business only with people that you trust, if not apply what i said about trading.
This forum have good system, where people get Trust (positive or negative) for things they have done, which minimize possibility of scamming.

EDIT: Here you can find list of members that provides escrow services https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2439910.0

I think if it's hard to do something, we don't want to take back our losses?
Because bitcoin is anonymous, we can't find people who lie to you through our wallet address.
What a sad thing it is.
I wish you good luck

I believe in a saying that states  "The best medecine is prevention" because most often you can't do something after you scammed specially in the internet and cryptomarket. Its a matter of analysis and prevention of that event. I suggest that before you invest you must investigate and be conservative about it.

I will do a super big regrets coz everything that I work goes to nothing. Even I cried and shout it will not help me. I do a moment of recovering by forgetting what is past and bad things that was happen and always remembering the lesson from mistakes.

All you can do when you encountered this kind of event, first of all you have to report that kind of scam, and let the authority fix that matter. The most important thing to do is to improve or strengthen the security and privacy of your account especially for those account which have not verified yet.

Trust no one.

Never react base on emotions, and think before you proceed to act (i.e. send money for someone). Always be cautious.

If it is too good to be true, then it probably is. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence before they convince you.

If its a crypto related scam, there's no way to recover the fund as we know that crypto transactions aren't reversible just like PayPal.

The only way to recover those funds if the scammer is willing to return the fund to your wallet. Why are you asking this? Have you been scammed? Would you care to share your experience on where and how you've been scammed?

But if the scammer is recognizable and you have his identity the last resort would be filing a report to the authority.

There are different kid of scam, and some could be reported to the police and other authorities. They question is how can you prove that you are scammed and the supporting details it contain. If you knew who and can directly pinpoint the person that took advantage of your money or crypto then you have a chance to bring the case to the police, other wise, it could be a very difficult investigation. That is why most of the time people that are get scammed just look for a way to recover their loss in their own way.

This times, people were catch by clichés anf false or what is barely known as fake news. We are stuck and wanting to take risk for easy money task that cpuld last for somehow weeks yet still taking everything for an easy money. Being scammed is a choice since we are the one who creates our ability. Even the ability of others to be scammed.

I feel sorry for those who were scammed and hopefully it won't happen to others. The best thing to do is to learn about it and make sure that it won't happen to others by sharing your experience and telling them what exactly happened. Most of the people go to social media to share their experience but you have to think twice before doing the same. Also, you can report them to the authorities and directly point the person who conned you. It will never be a crime if its not reported so do your thing as a victim.

I think it is very hard to imagine doing something regarding scams especially if you can not seek help from the authorities. I think the only thing I can do is to be at my most careful state whenever I visit sites and look out for possible scams. I will have research and background checks in companies that may have scam possibilities. I will also make myself educated in Information and communication technology so at least I have some self defense against scam.

I think this is right. Prevention for me is better than cure. We also have the responsibility to educate ourselves in technology and to scam possibilities. We need to be guarded from phising, scam and many more since cryptocurrency is decentralized it is very hard to trace who the scammer would be. So, for us to be able to prevent those from happening, let us educate ourselves and research.

Scam is when a person or a group of people invited to invest and promised you profits. But instead they ran with your money and left you with nothing.

I think it's not possible to have your money back from those scam bags and you have no choice but to accept the fact that you lost your money and move on. Carry with you the lesson not to trust too much and try to have research first before investing.

Scams are all over the place so just be as a detective as you can before going in such circumstances.
You can't blame anyone unless it's you or the scammers.

There is no way you can recover those coins if someone able to hacked or have access to your wallet and get it from you because all cryptocurrency transactions are irreversible. If you will be able to trace every transactions of address that the scammer uses then it could be possible especially if he/she use an exchange but that's not simple thing you can do by your own because there are mixing services that can be used so that it will be hard to trace any transactions because it breaks the connection between the address sending the coins and the destination address.

Nothing, unfortunately :(. No authority would even listen to youYou'd have learnt some big lessons. Then you'll be more careful in the future,and learn to take control of your emotions. If something looks too good to be true, it probably is.

There is very little thing to do and you must just accept it. The internet is a harsh place for people and many demons are just taking advantage and just using other people for their own benefit. These scams should be evaded by speculating deeply the background of a certain entity and making super safe decisions.

Is very hard to recover your found when you are already scammed because this is an online platform and at that you don't have much evidence, it best you just protect your self from being scammed you need to have adequate knowledge about any transactions and programs you sigh up with. Never reveals you secret key to any body.

What kind of a scam are you talking about? Answering this would help in making the replies a bit more specific.

Though in most cases not much that you can do. Learn a lesson from it.

If something looks too good to be true - >> it is not true!

You can't do anything just to recover your funds actually. once a fund was send there is no way to recover it from your personal/alt wallet/adress.  Since it's decentralized there are no banks or what so ever to reverse the transaction. just take caution when handeling your wallet never let anyone get access to your private key.

I believe there is nothing much you can do once you get scammed. Cryptocurrencies aren't regulated in some countries and the government would be able to do anything about it. The only thing you could to is to prevent it in the first place. You could either avail an escrow service (A trusted escrow ofcourse) or you could probe the person you are dealing with and make sure that, that person has a good and clean background. When in doubt, study the person.

It depends on the scam, but normally I would say the chances are quite low. We actually have a really good example on how to try to recover from a scam. I'm talking about bitconnet, since it took huge proportions and a lot of eyes are on that case will be solved. I think it's a good thing they are taking them to court, but I really doubt it will lead to anything. I think that on the majority of other scams, the people behind them are not even identified, so you can't really do anything.

I am not sure how much effective it will be, if you go to the cops and complain that you have been conned out of your Bitcoins. Here in India, Bitcoin is illegal and the cops will most likely press charges against you and demand hefty bribes. And where I live, the cops are very famous for their boorish behavior. I would avoid them at all cost.

Just move on if you are scammed or try to report if your investments can be recoverable. But if not you should see this as a lesson and experience where not everything here is easy. Just be careful next time and dont stop learning and asking about here so that you can minimize your risk of being scammed again.

First thing you do, is to report it under the scam section on this forum. Other people will pitch in to see if it is a scam and if it

is something new. Once you have done that, the community will respond to warn others. A lot of the most common scams are

reported here --> http://www.badbitcoin.org/thebadlist/ ... If you are lucky a white hat might offer to help you.  ;)

Well, I will treat this as a lesson for me and make sure that next time I would see to it that I investigated the ICO or other things that I am entering especially when it is about investing money. But, honestly I have been always thankful that I experienced scam with that I am here due to that happens so for me everything happens for a reason.

If I've been scammed the best to do is cry out loud so that this will help to ease pain and anger. If you've been scammed once, though its hard to accept but you will learn from that experience, You cannot recover your funds unless the person who scammed you feel guilt about it. take refresh by yourself and I believe in saying that in order to become successful person you will experience the struggles and adversities-this will helps and leads you to achieve your goal in life.

If i was scammed, if the scammer have a bitcointalk account, i will report admin, so they can give red trust so the others not gonna scammed too.

I think if we were fooled by bitcoin, we couldn't even do anything, because bitcoin is anonymous, and we can't find out who cheated you?
All you have to do is be careful next time.

I do not think that there would be any remedy when you have been scammed.  Just stand up forget about it and start to earn and invest again.  As we all know when we sent our bitcoins it cannot be turned back.  It is irreversible.    Just go on with your life and started to work again.

if you have lost currency, then there is nothing to do unfortunately. however, there is a Department fighting crimes in the field of information technology, as well as illicit trafficking in electronic and special technical means.

It is impossible to leave, then report to the police because no one here can be held accountable
If we are scammed, just say it's trials of god, because success requires a fight. Is not it?
about losing funds, it has become a risk. If you're not ready with the risk you should leave now before it's too late, because I'm private
has been thinking about scammed and losses before plunging into this cripto world, and I am very prepared with all the risks
because after the rain subsided, there will be a beautiful rainbow  ;D ;D

Cryptocurrencies are based on decentralized blockchain technology. You can not do anything if a transaction is already completed and approved by miners. There is noone who can control the transactions. There is no possibility to take your funds back.

Still life goes on so whether I am victim by a scam so what? it is just the money that they took from me now myself, not my dreams in achieving what I want in life, I still has a lot of plan and that mistakes won't make me down instead I will stand up high more and will make that as a moral lesson and motivation.

If i had been scammed then i would drink a full bottle of whisky probably Glenfiddich and try to pretend that it never happened.  ;D ;D

If you don't know who has scammed you then there isn't much you can do, Just learn from your mistake and move on!!

On the Internet, a lot of scammers unfortunately. First of all, you can not cooperate from questionable groups, people, projects. If you are deceived, it is unlikely that you will be able to do something.

Your thoughts are like moving on thoughts after being scammed, its good to avoid wasting time, but its not that easy either. If the money is hardly earned its quite tough to move on, not everybody is strong like you. Also it put some friction to your earning or financially growing plan. But getting scammed via crypto is really hard or nearly impossible for normal people to get back the money or catch those shit heads, so I agree moving ahead forgetting this is the best option and a wise one.

When you've scammed you can't get it back again your bitcoin, the only thing you can do is learn the game of the scammers to avoid them.
Here is some link you can learn some advice to avoid scammers.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2848649.msg29222628#msg29222628
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2764000.msg28229447#msg28229447

I was scammed probably for more money then he lost and I lost the same amount again by being careless. It's horrible and it sucks and you boame yourself but if you keep blaming yourself you just punish yourself a second time. Use it to learn what not to do in the future. Let it fuel your fires for success and prove to the world that even if you scammed you won't just make the same amount of money again but 3x more then that. Now get out there and go on beast mode. Never stop never give up, always on the grind.

we need to protect ourselves of nt getting scammed instead thinking what can we do later this industry is fast changing even though they are law authorities we cant expect money get back credited to us

I'm new in bitcoin I'm still confusing to distinguish between scam or not,
but if WD is a little longer I better leave it, I do not want to follow the promo further.
today is difficult to distinguish between a scam or not, maybe ask questions can reduce the risk

I guess there's nothing you can do about it anymore specially if you lose your money in cryptocurreny, you can never know who scammed you in the first place. The only thing you can do now is to be more cautious in making your next transaction and avoid being scammed again.

When you get scammed its hard you cant blame yourself because they didnt prevent in this industry start over again and nextime be wise and learn some advice to avoid scammers.learn from your mistake and standup again and prepared for all the risk

It's a slim chance that you going to get your money back, crypto currencies is hard to track the owner address, and there is a chance that the scammer is living in other country so it will be wasting your time to try to catch the scammer, the best is to let go and learn from the mistake and spread your experience so no other people will experienced the same

we can't do anything but to accept it and be careful next time.
even you report it to police how they can help you? how about you? do you know who scammed you or what?
be careful and think of you will do first.

The best thing any person can do is to take a lesson from it. This will probably be the best thing one can do since he will definitely regret the decision of trusting that person. Once scammed in crypto, the money is gone and there is pretty much nothing we could do about it. We can surely TRY to trace the person and ASK him to return the money but as you know that would result to nothing. A robber never returns the treasure.
P.S. Unfortunately there are no CRYPTO COPS available in the community who can help us in this matter :D

I sill sure do the same, but I will feel upset for several days. Then I will work even harder than ever to cover this loss.

It will be a lesson to me, I believe that every decision having a different consequences.  Just accept it and learn on your experience.  Make it your inspiration to achieve your goal and not stack in the past. Life must go on no matter what.

in my country bitcoin don't have any regulation yet so can't report to the police or law enforcement. if i got scammed i will do nothing except regret and learn what is my mistake. because can't do anything to recover funds too

I really do not know what you've been tricked to be able to help you. But with the way you handle it, I believe you will overcome it. Most brave and talented people will often overcome difficulties and see them as experiences.
I learned from those who were extremely successful in business. I believe in the future, you will reap many achievements.

Pay for your stupidity, and I've stolen more than a hundred of them in good and bad, paying for my own stupidity, and avoiding the same mistake next time.

It all depends sometimes you will have to shelve out and will end investing more so better educate yourself first on who to trade and when to trade if you are serious to get back on the guy who scammed you and you know his identity and he is residing in the same country as you are, you can still file a case of estafa.

If your coins was scammed there is no posibility that you will recover it. I am thankful that i did not experience it so far. I am taking good care of my coins so that this scammer won't victimize me.

cry for 2 days and then move on,scammers are professional in their respective fields,do you think they are that easy to catch and bring to justice?just make it a learning to experienced,and then recover from your loss.thats the better thing to do than searching for answer all your life,and besides crypto has a lot to offers

It has become a risk if you've been scammed, there's nothing you can do about it,specially if you lose your money in cryptocurrency.

First of all,The best thing to do is to learn from your mistakes and creates some safety precaution before engaging in such money trading activities.With that you will easily overcome those problem and elliminate such negative thoughts appearing in your mind which mostlikely end up with depression and anxiety.Afterall,blaming yourself all day won't help you get back what you've lost since in the system of crypto the concept of recovery does't exist at all  which means if you lost your money there's no way to recover it.Also,any government officials or authorities won't do any help since bitcoin has nothing to do with the government

Theres nothing you can do to recover your funds when you have been scammed. Everything on the BTC price is anonymous and you are the only one that knows the person you do a transaction with. Its better to guide against being scammed than finding a solution when you have already been scammed.

There is nothing you really can do about it as bitcoin is very untraceable. So this is a double edged sworld it gives you the power of being tractable but it makes unable to trace who steals from you. So my advice is forget about it and next time avoid being scammed.

I quite a bit agree with your point what you said at last. Don't ever get victimized when you're being scammed. Instead act with all your cool n patience in such a situation. Availing Blockchain analysis services is a good option though but it rarely helps. So do not have much expectations from it

scam I hope there is a refund like bitconnect case some time ago. bitconnect is willing to refund so it's a fair policy to traders. because we can not do anything other than a refund.

That's some what correct. Crypto-currency transactions are very anonymous, and therefore if your coins are stolen, then it becomes extremely difficult to recover them. I am not saying that it is impossible. But you need to spend huge amounts of time and effort, if you want to recover your funds.

I have been scammed by so many nasty people in crypto and I realize why now so any women are still reluctant to enter this space. Even in the bounty section, you have so many cheaters trying to steal the bread out of honest working folks. They are the smaller end of the scale, then you got hardcore developers taking our money through ICOS scams, hackers and phishing sites stealing from exchanges and wallets and also just nasty individuals that try to get our info to steal our hard earned money from us. I have seen the worst in crypto, but that doesn't mean I will roll over and die without a fight. Still I am here fighting for decentralization and for the real freedom from corporate slavery that has plagues our society for centuries, or should I say thousands of years. If all these idiots didn't only think for themselves but were on our side, then we would have had mass adoption and everyone would be on the moon now with Lambos and all sorts, and many more women in crypto too!!!

Its hard to do anything we can just create awareness among community that's all some ICO i participated that dint collected enough fund finally they given expense list . We cant do anything . But it given lots of lesson to learn . it was worth more than money.

The most thing you could do is to move on and continue what you're doing. It is hard to believe that you've been scammed and the total of the money got from you will never come back unless you work hard again to earn it back. My friend has been scammed and he moved on and got Recover. Just be careful when doing some transaction or trading. It's hard to say that it is safe or not.

If i scammed, I know its going hard to recover, I just let it go, moved on and learn from mistakes, avoid things to reoccurred again. Life must go on:)

I don't think we can do anything, because bitcoin is anonymous, and we can't find out who cheated you?
We don't know any information about liars in real life, we can only be careful next time.

its so hard to trace the scammer if your being scammed in online internet or especially here in crypto currency investment etc. All you can do is to move on even if its hard to say because its very little chance to get your money back. Just charge it to your experience not to trust other person so easily.

I think it is very hard decision because i dont know what or where to start so I'm going to let them go because I can not find them and find out who has scammer in this transaction and then I will first start at the beginning.

i think if i get scammed so hard to get it back
the best think what i can do is move on and try to gain back what i've lost and learn for not to get scammed again

Well if you got scam here in the forum it is easy to report it to the moderators and they will work on it. But if you got scam on other aspects like investing on sites that is not official know by others and not a safe site then you got a problem with that. It that happens, you can do nothing about it and just move forward to your goal again and work harder to earn what you have lost. Thinking that you got scam will only get you stress, just have to gain your strength be positive. Let the karma handle the one you scammed you. And next time make sure to know or what are you transacting with and ask the opinion of others and make research about it.

Experience is the best teacher. If you are scammed . You learn from your mistakes. And remember those that are greedy are the ones that really fall into scammer's trap. Any thing that is too good to be true avoid it

Well, nothing. Once scammers get your money, especially in crypto, they're gone. Basically you just treat it as a hard lesson and move on. It will make you a bit more cautious of course and wary,but if you've been cautious and wary in the first place you won't end up as a victim to scams.

Police can't do much in this ..the only thing you can do is to hire a professional ethical hacker and let him do his work..
Well a friend of mine told me about something that happened with him..he asked someone of his group to you know try and recover his funds and he was able to get back Everything and his I'd pass and everything too ... Gave him a fair warning and let it be.

Well, doing an online transaction especially using bitcoin, we don't have any power to bring back what is loose, because as we all know, our identity here is anonymous. the only thing we can do is accept our faith. If it happens here in the forum, we can report them to the admin and put a red tag on them, but that's the only thing we can do, about recovering your fund, you can only do work on a campaign for you to slowly recover from what you lost.

if you got scammed with bitcoin payment you can't do anything

But what if the person who scammed you was not feom this forum?  Maybe we just have to yes, accept our fate.  Acceptance would make it easy for us to understand things.  Just go on with your life and try to work harder and focus on earning again and do double time.  Just focus and forget it and let it be a lesson.

i don't know i don't ever get scammed
but i think that was right, we can tracking the transaction but we can't report to anyone just hoping that someone will get it back

I think we got no choice we have nothing left to do we won't be able to retrieved our lost money specially here in crypto. I know it is really hard to move on but we have to accept the fact and move forward. Anyway, if we're lucky enough we can be able to get it back if we participate again in some good projects just make sure to make an extraordinary precautions nextime not to be a victim of scammed again.

Speak from my experience, nothing that we can do. I got scammed one time when I tried to sell Bitcoin for Skrill, Bitcoin is irreversible and Skrill is reversible if the scammers use fraud or stolen cards. Anyway it's a lesson learnt

not much can be done if you are a victim of the irresponsible person, it's just that you need to be careful in following the trading because too many scammers in this internet world. I myself was very careful in saving money in my wallet because it is very unfortunate if I to lose the funds I have painstakingly earned,

Just to point out the very obvious reason of why you can't do things when getting scammed when using cryptocurrencies is that the transaction is "irreversible". No organisation or governance that could cancel the transaction because all is decentralised.
Basically end of discussion. However if you still can track them down and then find out where they live, still a slight of chance you can sue them and filling a lawsuit.

Many got scam yet got the courage to continue to move on. Ive been there got scam not only once but more, so a lesson should learned. This is the best to do next time on being careful to choose the legit and true investment.

I experienced to be scammed by someone and I don't recover my funds anymore,I tried to do something about it but my it doesn't work at all,after what happened to me ,I lost already my trust to anyone.my experienced serves as a good lesson to me.

The possibilities to recover your fund is almost Zero and this is undoubtedly Crypto's one of the biggest flaw.Sometimes you can't even realize how you have been scammed.Once it is done it is done,You can complain to the exchange or to the authorities but that will only help in creating awareness and that's it.The biggest positive you can get from this is a trading lesson. 

WannaCry hackers withdraw £108,000 of bitcoin, even FBI can't catch them, so recover the fund is impossible for the professional scammers or hackers

once we get scammed in crypto we cant do anything so invest what we can afford to loose

Depends on the amount involved. If the amount is like $2,000 or $3,000, then my opinion is that you should forget about it and move forward. On the other hand, if you had lost your life savings, then definitely you should try to recover your losses.

It is difficult for police to profound solution to internet scamming case because there are several ways to scam without means of identification. Just use all possible tool to test any site before engaging in any business.

One saying that is most applicable in Crypto-Trading is Precaution is better that cure as there is no cure in this.Once you are scammed,it's gone.You can't retrieve what you have lost neither you can lodge any complaints as it is very difficult trace them.If you get scammed don't get into depression or make any fail efforts because it is just a waste of time.One thing that you can do is to take it as a lesson and be more careful  afterwards.

The first thing you should do is inform other fellow crypto people about the scam, give as much info as you can. Next learn from it, since bitcoin is decentralized there is no central body that's responsible for this incidents.

Next time you do transactions with anyone make sure you do research wether it's an ICO or  an individual trader.

You cannot not be scammed in a way that no one can scam nay of the crypto currency and cannot access your wallet until and unless you yourself provides him with the private key. However, if there comes a situation when you feel like you are scammed, then you can do nothing else than hoping for the minimum possible loss to suffer. You need to make yourself a learned man to avoid such kind of mishaps.

I will continue. Thats life, accept the fact there is always a convenience.

With Bitcoins, transactions cannot be reversed. So always use escrow, if you are dealing in large amounts.

i think you create new account and make sure it would not hacked again make that you not tell anyone

nothing we can not argument about that crypto is using a private key so if you lost your im sorry pal you can do nothing to win back your tokens.

So everything is in the title. What can you do when you have been scammed ? what are your possibilities to recover your funds, I mean here in the community, ex

There is nothing you can do. Even you would report it to police as cyber crime, they can do much.. It's really hard to track these guys..

it depends on your payment method
if you paid the scammer btc,you will have to forget about it

It depends. The best course of action is prevention. Also, there is value in learning from past mistakes. When it comes to cryptocurrencies, security is paramount.

If I got scammed, all I need to do is to move on, because there is no way for me to get it back because greedy people will not allow that to happen. I believe in law of karma and that people will face it, always be careful on dealing with people because in this kind of market everyone is prone to get scammed.

At the moment it's very hard to report scams, especially if you're sending crypto. that's why it's important to be extra careful when sending funds.

Recovering the funds is definitely out of the questions but I have some spiritual avenues that will ensure that the scanner doesn’t easily take my money for granted and will suffer the consequences.

If you are consumed by the seduction of a scam service then it is your own fault because you are not careful to invest your money in the form of digital assets. It is very difficult also we can get the loss because the authorities to crack down on the crime have difficulty to track the perpetrators if the service is anonymous status. So, we better be careful in making investments because the internet is very vulnerable to fraud.

This should be a medium article.

Having a new account doesn't make things more secure. Getting hacked is different from scammed these two have the same objective but different in execution.

I was scammed before and it ruined my day because there's not much that I can do about it after he ran away with my money. What I did after getting scammed is spread awareness by sharing the incident that happened to me so there could be less victims and that served me a lesson when I transact with strangers online.

If the incident happened here in the forum make a thread on the scam accusation board  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0) so that he'll get negative feedback/reputation from dt members

You have to accept that you will not get your money back.  Sure report it to the police/FBI.  But don't expect anything to come of it.  Before sending BTC or other, always check who you are buying from thoroughly.  Search intensively about the person or website on this forum.  Check the listed confirmed scams here;

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1978151.0;topicseen

Use escrow.
If your not sure about the deal then don't send the payment!

 ;D Common!  Did you say police?  Common!  How is that possible? Bitcoin or cryptocurrency business is decentralized and that means it is globally transacted. You can only have the wallet address of the coin you sent your fund to but you might not be able to trace or see the receiver physically. That means police is out of it for now that regulation has not come. Although,  someone can be lucky to get it sent back if it was sent in error to a nice person but if it is a hacker, you just move on because a hacker is on his business.

Being scammed is a difficult and a very big problem that needs a big and good solution.  Getting started is a little bit harder that will be needing more hardwork.  If i am being scammed i will be more careful with my actions and verify all the things that i need to do before making a decision.

Some things to consider is if you know the person, the whereabouts and some other important information that you can trace him. Otherwise, it will be hard to recover the funds if its an unknown person that you sent your btc to. All i can say is, be careful who you transact to next time. Move on if you hold no important information with that scammer and try to recover your losses in some other ways, like trading, mining, and staking.

Before I encounter that also,ive been scammed by a friend of mine to invest in  a promising site that offer something that double up my money. So one time they pay but on the second time they become scam and they did not pay us. but its okay now i recover all my loss here in btt because i learned how to join in bounties.

If I experienced to be scam , I will make sure that it will not happened again and I will surely know everything that I've been working to. And need to be more educated when it comes to bitcoin I need to understand more than than is to ask someone and check if the person im working with is trusted so it will never happened again.

You should report it because if you don't do something, the criminals will just keep doing the same thing over and over again to other victims. There are organizations out there that want to help you. The one is the ICCC or the Internet Crime Complaint Center that you can report the online extortion, identity theft, hacking, Economic Espionage and other major cyber crimes.

If I don't have any legal leverage on the scammer, then I won't be able to do anything, unfortunately. :-[

nothing can be done except to report it in the forum on the Reputation sub-forum
fraud is very difficult at discharge if the transaction is anonymous

If i will been scammed,  i will find that person who is the reason why he scammed me and i will share all the people and users here bitcoin that person is a scammer so that they will stay away from that person or user.

If you have been scam in the cryptocurrency world, there's really not much you can do but learn from the incident and prevent it from happening again.  You can try to report it to authorities but I doubt they will do anything about it.  Just think of it as a paid lesson and move on.  

You said it right buddy.. Just be careful next time because there's a lot of scammers and you cant do anything but to move on and grind hard again.

Well By saying you that. you've been scammed you cant recover that because any people who gets your money token or anything thats in your wallet has a dummy account and dummy address to hide their locations and who they are. you can do is for the next time when you make an account be more wise and careful on what your doing So that to prevent the hackers or scammers get your money again.

Be a model. Do not be too shy that you scam or you do not admit you have scammed, because we I think has experience that. The thing is we need to educate people who are unknowledgeable for enable them to not meet this bad doings of other people, scamming. One kind of a sure scam is HYIP sites or High Yield Investment Platforms which has deceitful interest that can really make people invest. They are using Ponzi Scheme in most cases.
I myself is a victim of HYIP Sites. My responsibility in order to help other people is to teach and aware them of these sites.

Scams are everywhere. Should I been scammed. I will learn from my mistakes. I would rather invest and choose on legal, official, popular sites of Bitcoin. Instead of trusting on sites which would not guarantee me a good future but problem, and stress.

Taking the wisdom of what has happened is our duty as a human being. Sometimes I am also angry and panicked if exposed to a scam. However, I realized that there was no point in my anger and there was no point in my regret. So, we just need to forget and find another way to cover the loss.

You can do nothing,
I lost more than 5k$ because I logged in a phishing site by I couldn't do anything, you will never get your money back.
When you loose your money because af scamming or sending to a wrong adress you will never get your money back because you don't know how is the person that got your money.

its so very to recover your account i think you should create new account and secure it and be aware in scammers

It is so hard to be scam .. If you will send it to the wrong addres you will have your money back.. The saddest part must avoid unknown site to prevent scam.

I think that there is no way for you to get back the amount of coins that has been stole from your since blockchains are not programmed to return something and it was just created to transfer different kinds of coins to another place.

You are usually screwed when this happens because there is not evidence and even if you have screenshots they still say it is not enough evidence.

It it happens to me, I will try to find a way to report the scammer. That is all the we can do I think. The scammer's IP address will be banned if they were tracked. His account on the forum will be banned as well if proven guilty. I hate it when I hear/read news that a scammer got away and nothing happened to him. It's always happening that is why those scammers keeps on multiplying. They will always have a way to get into someone's account and steal everything to their victim. Don't trust anyone and use different passwords. Don't login on other computer or login in a public wifi.

There is not much you can about it, even in a regulated platform such as online shops there is only little you can do, more so with this decentralized one.
Where anyone can go anonymous, and transaction are not monitored.
Best is to avoid getting scammed by reading whitepapers. I have not heard of anyone getting refunds.

Being scammed is so hurting. But there is nothing we can do because we don't know them and we don't know where do they live. As a safety precaution, everyone should be aware of the ICO you're going to participate, have some research and thorough investigation about the project. This will help you being scammed.

well I think it's very difficult to imagine doing something fraud especially you can not seek help other than to the authorities about fraud cases, if possible there can track every passing transaction or address used scammer then it might happen especially if try to use the exchange but that's not the thing which is easy or simple you can do yourself because the mixing service that can be used so that it will be difficult to track any transaction because it violates the relationship between the address of the coin and the destination address, perfect yourself when you have ever got the problem of fraud karna be successful people you will experiencing pavilions and difficulties - this will help and bring you to be more careful in transacting,

There is little to none you can do after being scammed. I can't imagine all my hard work go to waste. I didn't even enjoy my fruits of labor now because its gone. You can try reporting it to the authorities but lets face it that won't actually help you at all. The best thing is to think of it as a lesson and learn from the bad experience.

Tracking crooks and tracing their IP addresses are all very difficult and require strong Internet technology. I think this is a very difficult matter.

Keep a good record of your data and organize it. Find the authoritative website to make a complaint. You should learn more about how to prevent fraud, as well as learn to keep your account safe and learn lessons.

Bitcoin is not a scam. Bitcoin is a legal technology. The problem is how useful and valuable it can become.

There is nothing you can do i think. Just make it a lesson to be more selective to transact or invest your funds.
You may can track their address, then their exchange address, and contact the exchange.

I don't think there's is much to do.
Knowing only the wallet address, We can't know where our coins went. Well, that's one thing about cryptocurrency  :( :(

Ya kita harus mengihklaskan dari suatu kehilangan atau sudah kena tipu,mungkin itu coba'an dari sgala crobohan,mungkin dari itu kita harus berhati hati lagi,dan harus teliti menjaga apa yang kita punya

This should be a medium
article.

of course i will sad if i was scammed, but what can i do? just let it go, let it go all the things and forget it, and of course you need to save it in your mind about the experience, and dont let it happen twice, just once in your life, dont be scammed again because it will hard for you if you fell it twice

Of course I will complain with the project to the concerned. And what I do remains patient so that all the projects I do can be achieved goals.

Its hard to catch the scammer when you only meet them in the internet. So far i dont get scammed, but when that happend to me, that will be my lesson next time to be more cautious about trading, investing in bitcoin.

It all depends on what legal right your situation. The best thing you can do is tell others about it. And never fall for the tricks of swindlers. You have to be careful and you can't trust anyone .

There is no gurantee that all you've loss because of scam can be return and recover to you. All you need to do next time is to secure your money and don't let other know your personal informations and don't trust easily. Learn from your mistake that you will not be scammed if you check everything first.

Once you entered and starts investing and trading bitcoin, you don't just expect to win, you also have to prepare yourself to lose. For me, it's like a gamble, you have to be smart and wise. Once you got scammed, it's more likely that you won't get your money back; what you can just do is to treat it as a lesson and moved on. In some cases, if you know or you can identify who scammed you, then this will give you a bit of chance to recover your investment. Scammers nowadays are very sophisticated, they are very professional on what they are doing, anyone can hardly distinguish if an investment is fake or not. It's always important to be very cautious and think many times before deciding on whatever you want to do.

Actually I've never experienced scams to invest in my own money, but in the Campaigns scams I have a lot of experience and the only thing I can do is let it go. I also do not know because I do not know the people who run the campaign, so all my efforts to promote the campaign are neglected. The only advice I can do is not expect. Join campaigns that are definitely not scammed and of course the campaign leaders should be transparent.

I will draw lessons and avoid being cheated in the future

I experienced fraud while investing, I was invited by my friend and I also invested there. for several weeks I received payment, but after 5 weeks I did not receive payment, my friend also experienced the same thing. and we tried to contact the suspect but could not because the suspect's phone number was inactive and we tried to find out where he lived and we could contact the suspect's residence, but unfortunately we were late because the suspect ran away. and we are very resigned and can not do anything but be patient, this is my learning to be careful when I want to invest.

Sad to say this is where cryptocurrency's system can backfire you when it comes to privacy in which it will be very hard for you to trace someone who used your funds nor the transactions itself. The least you can do is to spread information to prevent people to being victim to that scheme again.

I scammed before but its only for bitcoin mining site. I can do after that is find another job to earn bitcoin or BTC mining site, but now i learned that you need to search or observed first in the website if your website is scam or paying.

I was scammed many times because i have lending shop for gambling , on a particular gambling sites
Even those people who are close to you in gambling will scam you if they are desperate in something or if they were in a dire situation
What i do is to go to gymn and think different else.  . Revert your attention until you have moved on and continue

It is hard to do anything about the scam that you have gotten yourself into. Except you know the person or any of the officials who took part in it, then, through that you can make any move that will be of help in getting your money back.
For example, the ponzi sites and doubling sites are sites where one can be scammed sooner or later. And when that happens, you have no one to hold, which means you'll have to move on with life.

very unfortunate when our wallets gradually drained let alone the coins we collect from some of our own money let alone we follow the project with difficulty and just miss it, then of course there is a role when there are cases like this, so fraud can be controlled and we must multiply the knowledge to not easy in the guise of unclear links, and do not suggest that I do not drop a private key on the wrong person. this learns for us all so as not to fall victim again

I have been scammed before by someone named Rajesh, it through social media and I was referred by a friend. Little did we know that we joined a scam. First thing that happened was, they let me invest an amount and promised that it will doubled quick because a lot investors are present. At first, I'm receiving my profit for like 2-3 days but after that my investment is no longer earning and it cointinously deducted little by little.

of course yes surrender is because it is also our own mistakes that are less careful in doing anything like investment. especially if you invest in ICO, if we are not careful and we are careful of course it will make the impact of losses in the token of a scam

Not much really. Even the police in most country is still not that keen on tracing cybercrime. At least with bitcoins it's possible to follow the money trail but that won't assure you anything. For example, the person could have already cashed out. Or worse he could have had it mixed and converted to other currencies and moved multiple times.

If it's straight cashed out via exchange, there may be hope though I guess only the unseasoned would do that.

Retrieving what you lost from the scam companies online would be very impossible like online investments. But still, I highly encouraged that you report it to authorities because cybercrime division can take a look and see if there's a pattern to their activities and catch these criminals.

If i've been scammed I want to find a way to get back my account because it is very important to me because when bitcoin came to me my life becomes better. If there's no chance that it will come back I tell the moderator to banned that account so that no one can get benefit to it. You can only be scam if you trust other people.

Nothing, we can do if it has been deceived, but it can be used as a lesson for the future to be more careful again, better forget it and keep on going, to work better.

If you have scammed i think its impossible to get the money but the person who scam you might be imprisoned if you know him but being scammed will teach you a lesson to be careful and remove your carelessness in doing some transactions or in investing in something, but to avoid it is have some knowledge on some scam sites like ponzi schemes and avoid participating in it and most of all know the people you are talking in the social media world.

It mostly depends on the situation and what you exactly mean. Bitcoin transactions are irreversible so if the scammer run away with your bitcoins then there is nothing you can do beside reporting him on bitcointalk in case he's registered here and report it to the police but you would have to have his real information. Usually when people trade here, they don't expose their identity. Never trade with lower ranks, if you do - don't use PayPal or hire an escrow which will take some % of the transaction but certainly the whole trade will be much safer.

there's probably nothing I can do because before being in bitcoin I've been looking for information about possible risks and I'm ready with those risks so I should be able to deal with them

If you have been scammed what you need to do is to keep calm and control your emotions. Yes it is very frustrating if you were been scam how matter the amount but the trauma and the depression it can bring to us is the most matters. So better to keep calm and control the emotions to avoid additional problems due to not so good emotional state of our mind. The next thing to do is to accept the fact that you were already scammed. Acceptance is the virtue in every mistakes that we will encounter if you will do this, automatically our mind will never do the same mistakes ever again. 

There is really little to nothing you can do whenever you are scammed. Reporting it to the authorities is just a formality specially when dealing with internet scams. The best thing you can do is learn from your mistake and grow from it. Next time be careful when dealing with money to avoid being scammed.

well you have nothing to do with the scammers once you get scammed you will never recover your funds on the hand of scammers specially if you dont know their identity

 If you are just investing in your place then it will good for you because you can ask the help of the authorities to arrest the people who faclilitate it and win justice but mostly your money will never be return to you because they might already hide it. Then if you have been scammed thru internet site then there is nothing you can do but to charge it to your experiences and learned from it because that is the most difficult situation in which you invest to that site like fake ICO with the true identities of the facilitators are unknown. So better to review carefully the investing sites to avoid to become a victim.

Depends on the situation, and on whether my money was transferred

Bitcoin is in still gray zone in most countries all around the world. So even if you alert authorities there isn't much you can do, I am pretty sure there is serious lack of knowledge about cryptocurrencies at police department.

it depends but almost all scenarios you cant recover what they scam to you

First of all, I feel sorry for your experience. I think if your currency is cheated, then you can find it difficult to get it back. We can give you some suggestions. You can send your cheated experience to some public platforms. Do it with everyone's suggestions.

do you mean to be fooled by what, if you mean bitcoin of course I do not feel cheated if my investment with bitcoin is very profitable for me

First, i don't think you can report bitcoin scam since bitcoin doesn't regulated by law and there is no proof of you've being scammed other than your transactions tx. However what prove can you report to police or authorities that you've been scammed? You can report them to authorities if there are proof or if you sign some contract from some HYIP coins like Bitcon*ect, etc because as i know they even have some Head office in some countries which being shutted down now by authorities.

there is not much we can do when getting a scam investment. especially investment in ico. this case of course will be different from the real world. instead of reporting to the authorities, but in the virtual world? who can we rely on in cases such as fraud.
all we can do is to tell the community not to get caught in the same fraud case.

I don't think that if you have been scammed then there is a chance to recover your funds because that is not possible since the scammers are smart and they know how to exit from that scam. The only thing that you can do after you have got scammed is you should take it as a lesson and don't easily trust anyone in your environment to manage your money.

Just move on if you are scammed or try to report if your investments can be recoverable. But if not you should see this as a lesson and experience where not everything here is easy. Just be careful next time and dont stop learning and asking about here so that you can minimize your risk of being scammed again. I have been scammed over 3 times now and I moved on with my life.

To be honest I think we all have been experience this and i just do what ever it takes , at first yes i report from the authority to have a concern and what will be the action something like that , but one thing i learn at the end of the day its our fault by trusting too much , and at the end of the day it's a lesson for us , to not gave all , be wise and be careful and awareness, think and most of all presence.

If we will get into trust with any person in just small time than surely in that case we will get scammed and also it should be known thing in the field of the cryptocurrency where we face many types of the scams because we always goes with simple ways to make money . Here my main focus was after scam with the buy of bitcoin about 3 years ago was to not to believe anyone and also work with better understanding instead of again work in the same way .
And also getting better knowledge of the market in current time with perfect prediction of the new new projects and perfect coins to make long term investment as a trading .

it is very difficult to be able to return your money on the internet, especially in the cryptocurrency community which basically uses the transaction system anonymously. I've had a case of scam in the form of a hyip investment (High Yield Investment Program) and a ponzi scheme. and what I did was to give up my money lost, because I had realized from the beginning when following the two forms of investment, it always ends up with scam. and the risk I have taken.

when ive scammed i pray to god and wait again to earn more money to buy bitcoin and to avoid some investment scam. in buying bitcoin i can earn money and hold until i earn profit. compare in investment i cant sure that they are all legit.

When you use or use crypto currency, you should know all the advantages and disadvantages of this. Here, you will not do anything if you lose money in the form of tokens. Be attentive, since in the world there are many crooks in crypto currency, but, as elsewhere.

Its very difficult to return your money in the internet,  if you been scamed. Allways be carefull if you doing some investment specialy when it comes to money, because its hard to trust the people specialy if you only knew him in the internet.

If you have a proof that you've been scam and you know their place or person behind it, you can report them immediately don't hesitate because if you have a strong proof that you've held. In my country bitcoins will be their asset to earn or investment but some other people are greedy about money, scam are calling it a "PONZI" I don't really know about that meaning but they called that word of being scam. In here our forum, there is a reporting thread about scam projects you can report it and have some proof, also who is the bounty manager or held that project. So that he can learn that scam or ponzi is bad reputation in this forum.

I don't imagine that on the off chance that you have been defrauded then there is an opportunity to recuperate your assets since that isn't conceivable since the con artists are brilliant and they know how to exit from that trick. The main thing that you can do after you have defrauded is you should take it as a lesson and don't effortlessly put stock in anybody in your condition to deal with your cash.

Hmm., to take up a scam issue especially on internet is not that easy, as one has to be very sure you got the scammers well. And for one to locate such person it requires real dedication of time. On rear occasion do people get them. The best is to avoid being susceptible to their effect.

I stumbled into a few crypto scams, so I learned my lesson to be a lot more skeptical in the crypto world. Also, on an unrelated note, I got a personal email from a Nigerian prince who needs me to forward some money for him, so I should have a lot more money to invest in crypto soon.

At first, it is very annoying and frustrated coz all of a sudden I lost my hard earned income.It taught me to be more careful and wise. Move on and used the said experience as a teacher in our journey in this world.Scammers are just around looking for their chances to do their illegal activity.Be more watchful.

It all depends on the amount of damage caused by scammers)But I would first of all blame myself, because I did not make my wallet safer

I don't think police can help that problem, bitcoin scammers is untraceable and if your scam you can't do anything so your just investing for nothing. The best thing you can do is not to invest online bitcoin mining because most of it is scam, it's only good in the beginning and in the end it will just banished like a bubble.

the police or goverment officers can not make any helping about any crypto scamming if you know the guys on real world you can mke sometinhg but it's not legal things otherwise gone is gone you can be relax and turn back to starting point .. it's very bas positions .

Nothing, clearly you are in a bitcoin error and you cannot expect something to happen against the rules you cannot track someone who is planning to be anonymous Internet work all you can do is wait for him to make a wrong move and then you will get some chance that's how governments and secret Agencies work. But for you all you can do is cry for your money so it's better to be secured then using your money to take all the security you can before it's too late.

If I don't have any legal leverage on the scammer, then I won't be able to do anything, unfortunately

If i will become scammed for a certain ICO or investing sites then i think we have nothing we can do about it but to accept the faith and move on but learn the lessons so that it will be avoided in your next investing. We should move on and make peace of this losses so that it will not disturb our future because who knows? we will become very lucky the next time we invest.

You should report it because if you don't do something, the criminals will just keep doing the same thing over and over again to other victims. There are organizations out there that want to help you. The one is the ICCC or the Internet Crime Complaint Center that you can report the online extortion, identity theft, hacking, Economic Espionage and other major cyber crimes.

There is not much that you can do. The only way to catch a hacker is to watch his addresses and when he send your coins to some exchange and you contact the exchange before he withdraw, you can lock his account and prove to the exchange that those funds are yours.

What I would recommend for you is stay away from newbie seller if
there's not an escrow available, use active trusted seller on this forum to get
your service or goods done deals successfully, you can also find help here at
the Scam Accusations thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0)

Recovering the funds isn't going to happen, or at least, it is very VERY unlikely to happen regardless of the situation. Once the funds leave your wallet you would need access to their private keys or seed phrase to recover it from theirs. Not even law enforcement would be able to obtain that without their permission, unless they're completely stupid.

Well I think you just have to accept it and move on. Acts related to scam should already be on the users' mind and they should be awared of that in order for them to avoid such thing to happen. Everything is anonymous with cryptos since everything is virtual. If you were already been into this situation, just move on and learn from it in order to avoid this thing to again happen.

Well, being that crypto is still a highly unregulated market, there's no choice but to accept and start cutting your're loses.
   We should try to learn from our mistakes, or short comings. Remember to try and practice your due diligence for every pontential investment. The best thing to due is study the scene, learn the ends and the outs of investing.

Investopedia is a vast tool for learning how to invest. I believe they even have a market simulator game.
www.investopedia.com (http://www.investopedia.com)

Your only hope to get back the scammed money is either to convince FBI, NSA and other powerful agencies to really try to solve your case, or to have the telephone number of the scammers and propose them a deal. In all other cases, forget about it.

If I was cheated, I would probably let go. No way to get our money back once lost on the internet. No one can intervene in losing our money. So be careful over the top.

You cannot do much in cryptoworld unless you have -> a very particular set of skills; skills you have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make You a nightmare for people who scam you ( Taken movie ) ;D get it ?
Other way is learn from your mistakes and move on ...

I think you cant do anything when you have been scammed, you cant recover your funds. Internet is very complex, if you click a wrong tab then probably there will be sonething wrong and you cant correct it, just like in bitcoin wallet. I suggest that, create a new one then, be responsible and knowledgeable about the environment.

You cant refund your money when you have been scammed. The only way you can do is to let it go and create a new account. When you create a new account make sure that you will be responsible and secure your account.

Always check people profile to protect yourself when sell or buy online, I rarely got scammed knock my account.

I agree since we are not known here and we dont have any information that was true from that person, we cant do anything. Just like what happened to me before, when I got scammed what I do was pray for that person, why did I do that? Because thats the only thing I can do to bless them even on what he was done to me and I know he needs that money. And aside from that I cant do anything to recover it more.

The best thing we can do is reporting to the admin of this community on scam accusation section,
so that peoples other than us not get scam as well. tough we cannot take our money back, but it is good for community to report it.

To expose people to the behavior of fraudsters, fraudsters should be known and locked by people to prevent more people from being deceived. Always be cautious. Never respond to emotions.

There is not much you can do about it. The fact that cryptocurrencies are decentralized implies that these are not backed by any authority. These are not recognized as a legal tender by many countries. So if you are also in one such country you cannot seek any legal help. All you can do is learn from your mistakes, be careful and never fall prey to such scams.

I've been scammed when I was new in online earning sites that you need to invest to increase your profit, there is nothing you can do, it will not recover your funds just move on and be careful next time.

I think there's no way to retrieve the lost funds,because in this community every transactions made by addresses and name and profiles we're not included.Everything here was anonymous so if we become a victim of scammers no matter how vigilant we are if they will victimize us there nothing we can do.Today people just wanted to owned easy money and don't dare to make money by their own efforts, then most probably they can create more victims most especially that we are in a forum that tend to be anonymous.

Well the thing is, there is nothing you can really do, except if you are scammed by members here in bitointalk, you can actually complain in the meta section. But if you are scammed aside from that, even if you are scammed by ICOs, there is nothing you can really do but move on and charge your loss to experience.

Scammers are extremely existing and getting increasingly. To avoid being scammed you need to do this: Keep your account and personal details secure, and also your mobile device and computer, choose your password carefully and review your privacy and security settings in all social media crypto account.

Well its really hard for me to do something since its in the internet and tracing someone would require much effor and some knowledge about tracing. Tracing ip address of someone is really hard since most scammers and hackers are using vpn to alter their ip address. If im gonna get scammed then I would just accept it because i believe in karma and maybe I will get more than just what I have lost. You will really have to think of the positive side in order for you to start again.

We can't do anything again, so just give up and try not to make the same mistake in the future.

There are various kinds of scams. It depends on the kind, or probably on the gravity of the particular scam whether your funds will still be recovered or not. There were scams involving Bitcoin in the past wherein the amount reached millions of dollars. I think with this huge amount, the possibility that your funds will be recovered is very slim. So you simply have to let the culprit answer to the law for their activities.

Well, I don't think that you have a chance to recover your funds. It is already your responsibility and your own fault no one is to be blame about it.

if you get scammed by other people lets put the scenario you made a peer to peer transaction to a bitcoin seller then he/she scammed you
1. thing you need to do is don't panic gather some proofs of being scam like messages and conversation that you legitimately transact with that person.
2. Get all the transaction information like TXN or the transaction ID.
3. Report it to authorities report the person to blotter it in the police and then inform others to be aware.

instead of getting angry make legal and ethical action first that might help you and always remember it's no ones fault it's your fault you easily fooled and last learn the lesson.
before making transactions or any crypto transfers make sure you know the person you are transacting to.

it is difficult to complain all over the internet, as far as I know if you get cheated on the internet is difficult to solve. so we can only be patient and bemoan our fate like this

This is all good advice and all, but it probably isn't helping. This whole market is like the wild west still, there are barely any regulations and if you get hacked or scammed there is almost nothing to be done.

That's a real serious situation,what you can do is change your password and make sure your device is virus free,there not really much you can do after it has happened.

If you are deceived and lose some money for example from online transactions, I do not think there is any way to get your money back. But from that point take the lessons do not trust everyone you meet on the internet, even though he already has a good reputation. Because crime is not because of intention, but because there is a chance. It applies to people who are considered good and have a good reputation. Because some people are risking reputation just because of money. Thank you

If you got scammed in the crypto and you don't really know the person behind it then there is nothing you could do.
The only thing to do is to move on and forget about it and try to earn again.

Just simply don't expect that something would come back from your investment, if something is confirmed to be a scam it would be hard to see a developer to return something for you. The developer would suddenly disappear and the identity would surely vanish. Thus, before getting to a project be sure that you are engage with a good and legit team.

For me, there's nothing you can do here. The maximum that can be done in this situation is to write that the person is a fraudster, on those or other sites or forums. The real police will not give you money back.

Everything is possible to happen so if you have been scammed you can try and try until you got what you want.You do not have to stop when you are not able to get what you want.Just continue on trying and trying until you succeed.

So, the first thing I have to do is call out Lauda or the others DT1/2 members on the Scam Accusation(s) child board to tag the scammer if only I were scammed in this forum. For recovering my funds, I have no ideas what I'm going to do except punish the scammer.

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EDIT: Is it the right place to post this thing on Bitcoin Discussion?

Yeah,  everything and every bad thing is almost in the title itself, if i am been scammed by some campaign and other people,  i will be disappointed because they make you fool out of this and they are making all your effort put on to them and atlast they will scammed you.  I will never join that campaign again and i will never interested with that people ever again.

If we get scammed alone, we don't have power to get back what we lost since this crypto world is so dark. Hard to get back what we've lost.
But if we get scamed in a group of ppl, i think we still had a chance to find out who scammed us

I got scammed by Gainbitcoin mining fraud. The organiser of this scam Amit bharadwaj was arrested in Bangkok but these is no way to get the money back.
SO Its really difficult and nearly impossible to get your money back one you are cheated by online scam.

For me, these are lessons that I can avoid. I realized that I had stepped into the investment market, so we should not trust anyone, do what we think is right.

if I am deceived other than to report the police maybe all I can do is resign for not doing much, if my revenge can not solve the problem, then the best way is to surrender to God hopefully the god who reply to his deeds

We can do warn everyone in our community. We should learn from the past and don't do the same false again. Analysis the problem, and never blame someone. Actually, it's simple but many people did the wrong step because most of them focus on the cause of the problem. Suppose you are bitten by a snake, then what will you do? Maybe you will blame and judge the snake, or you will catch and kill it? No man, what should you do if you have to get rid of the snake, then you must immediately treat or healing the poison from the snake, DON'T focus too vengeance and kill the snake! If you do that, yes maybe you will be satisfied but you will sick and died of it? which one would you choose? Let the snake go away and you heal yourself immediately or you can be satisfied because you kill the snake and you will die after it?

It never happened to me , but if happens I never been trust easily .And always think many times and ask and research to those people who has knowledge about it .So it wont happened again.  I will also report his or her account to know that person . And never happened again to someone.

You will lose everything when you get scammed in the Crypto market. Because this is an anonymous market in transactions and everything can be faked.
So you will need to be more careful in future transactions to avoid the risk of fraud. You can learn how to avoid being scammed by experts on this subject.

When you have been scammed then learn from your mistakes. Not all people are lucky to get what they have loss in scam. Do not trust people easily. You must know more about them before trusting them your assets. People can deceive you in many ways and be aware of that. Make sure you will not be scammed next time.

You need to report it because if you can't make a move, the criminals will just carry on doing exactly the same thing repeatedly with victims. There are organizations to choose from looking to aid you. Usually the one would be the ICCC or perhaps the Internet Crime Complaint Center that you could report the net extortion, identity fraud, hacking, Economic Espionage along with other major cyber crimes.

Maybe sincerely. Since we can not do anything, I mean do a lot. Because if you have been tricked on the crypto it may be difficult to return it again. All you need is to move on and work hard again to get what you've lost. That's the best way for you to forget about it.

The only think you can really do is reporting to the authorities and to the community, to prevent other people for falling. And, very important, learn from your experience, learn your lesson so you would not fall for a scam ever again.

In a scam, you actually give away your private keys or you send money to the scammer, who fooled you.

Honestly there is really low change you will recover your funds, unless the scammer goes really stupid (uses for example the same address for all their scams, usually they change it and use a new one for each scam, so they go low profile and difficult to be identified).

I've never been a victim of scam, but if were to be the victim-God forbid. What I would do is to learn from that mistake. Every experience, it could have a big or small impact in your life, it all gives a lot of lessons. Secure yourself from pretentious people and those who get your trust, do backgrounds check, and most importantly report scam and fraud. In these ways, it can help protect yourself and lessen the risks of scams.

Learn the lesson. Move on and just be careful next time. There’s no point in crying over spilt milk. Sadly, anonymity and untraceability is attracting the criminal types to go into cryptocurrency.

We must understand that Bitcoin and cryptocurrency are all about responsibilities and one gets what he deserves from his actions. However, if someone has lost his funds in any scam then, first of all, he should make sure that there is no miscommunication or misunderstanding because goodwill is the extremely valuable asset and if the user has concrete evidence and no justifying response from the group/company then he should immediately report it on the pages associated with that company so that other people won't invest in it until the issue is resolved. I am sceptical about getting funds back without legal procedure so the second best thing that one can do is to find the people who have lost funds in the same way and collectively take for the decision.

Its depend on what you are being scammed. if its not in crypto then you should report it because if you don't do something, the criminals will just keep doing the same thing over and over again to other victims. There are organizations out there that want to help you. The one is the ICCC or the Internet Crime Complaint Center that you can report the online extortion, identity theft, hacking, Economic Espionage and other major cyber crimes. But if you fooled in some ICO for now you can do anything as no regulation are there

make a lesson, which is likely to sly or report to a particular party
such as the crypto community to ask for their help
to track scammed, or to mereport and tell others to be careful

I think everyone in real life will learn a lesson after they get scammed. Being scammed isn't a good way to learn things but it's the most effective way to learn something that normal way can't have.
Anyway, stay away from things those aren't trusted and be safe first when you're trying to do anything. Shouldn't get scammed is better than learning from it.

Scamming is a potential risk that comes with cryptocurrency mostly in illegitimate sites. Other than contacting support to see if the scammer can be identified, or if the coins destination can be tracked for possible freezing, nothing else can actually be done where the internet is concerned. However, it can be avoided by visiting only legitimate sites and involving third party for guidance, especially for 1st timers.

If you are scammed, the best thing for you is to put it behind your back. There is no way to get back your fund.

I support them, we must learn from mistakes. But on the Internet there is so much deception, in life there is probably less, I do not go out into the street)

There is nothing you really can do about it as bitcoin is very untraceable. So this is a double edged sworld it gives you the power of being tractable but it makes unable to trace who steals from you

here is little to none you can do after being scammed. I can't imagine all my hard work go to waste. I didn't even enjoy my fruits of labor now because its gone. You can try reporting it to the authorities but lets face it that won't actually help you at all

Experience is the best teacher. If you are scammed . You learn from your mistakes. And remember those that are greedy are the ones that really fall into scammer's trap

It all depends on what legal right your situation. The best thing you can do is tell others about it. And never fall for the tricks of swindlers. You have to be careful and you can't trust anyone .

Tracking crooks and tracing their IP addresses are all very difficult and require strong Internet technology. I think this is a very difficult matter.

Depending on the amount lost and whether my own lack of due diligence played a role, I would go to the community here for help. I would not report it to the police.

Crypto transactions are irreversible so if I became a victim of scam, I became reckless and careless with my transaction it will be a lesson to me that I have to be careful with whatever I'm doing.

There's no way for me to recover those funds that was scammed to me unless the scammer is too generous enough to send back my funds.

I just don’t think there is a way to recover the loss. That’s why, probably all we can do is trying not to get scammed by doing research about the project before making a decision to invest. I’m also reading all comments here, i wonder if there is a certain way, lol.

almost 1 year I know bitcoin, once I was scammed. total loss of my assets by 5eth. but because in my country bitcoin is prohibited, I can only surrender and be chest with it. because they want to report to police was useless and also the community can not help

well there is nothing much you can do if you have been scammed especially when you dont know the person directly. you just brush yourself up and hustle harder

It is hard to caught the scammer if you scam in the internet specially know who the scammer is so best you can do now is as much as possible try not to be scam do not trust immediately instead make a back ground check and do a deep research and be responsible for your private keys or details.

if you have been scammed, i dont think there is anything you can do about this because you don't know the scammer one on one. you just have to bear the loss and move on

Well, it's 100% that no one in this forum got scammed already by either people who are also in this forum, scam ICOs and many more. So if you have already got scammed, then make it a lesson to not trust anyone and be careful next time around.

If you got scammed, nothing you can do about it, even you report it to authorities they cannot do any help. Make it credit to a learning experienced, always remember you and only you are the sole responsible of your money, it was yours, you own it, you make decision for it.

To avoid scammer in the future, someone should think very hard and not just put investment to anything.

So par as I think Protection is better than prevention. So, we should care full enough about our wallet. If I scammed, I think should rather accept the loss and think for the future.

I don't think there will be any remedy when you are cheated. You've learned some important lessons, and next time you won't make the same mistake. And learn to control your emotions, and nothing can go wrong.

Have you got scammed yet?
If you have been involved in the cytpocoins for a long time , you are most likely scammed by some guys.
Too many scams around.

In internet world, we should be carefull with any offers. I am already scammed for many times but its hard to recover our funds because we dont know their location. What we can do in internet is always carefull and not tempted with unreasoble offers

There is nothinf you can do if you already scammed. I think the first to you do is avoid all suspicious thing , like a phising site or something else. Dont trust anything keep your awareness. I had got scammed few times but only ico scam. I wasted so much time for that and after that i learned to be more careful choosing a good project.

it's very hard to do something to against someone scammed you on the net.
you usually know nothing about them, don't know which one is real or fake so what can you do?
once I know I've been scammed i will delete all things relate to that to avoid thinking about it any more  :'(

in my opinion there is only out of 100% only 1% that you can recover your loss. bitcoins is not like paypal mostly you can't track those fools who run away with your money. there's nothing we can do about it so let just move on.

I am also a victim of a scam when i buy a cellphone online worth 15,000 pesos. He said to me need payment first so i send money to his account and then after an hour he blocked me on facebook. I dont know what to do i search his name but no result, i screenshot all of our conversation and the i post it on facebook to prevent others to be a victim. In fact i accept it and consider as charge of experience because i know it was my fault i trust easily. now when i buy online it will be cash on delivery to make it safe.

I think you should give up the money that was stolen. Because this is an anonymous market, you can not find the person who stole your money. In addition, the government will not interfere with this fraud because the Crypto market is more negative than positive.
So I think you need to be careful in the future to avoid losing a lot of money.

The only thing you can do is acceptance which you have loss your money on that. Those scammer will get karma soon.

You can try availing of a blockchain analysis service somewhere, in the hopes that you may be able to trace the scammer. There's not much you can do beyond that though, and it's very very unlikely you'll ever recover your funds.

Bitcoin gives you complete freedom on how to use your money, but that comes with the downside of being completely responsible for it. It sucks, but the only solution to scams is to not be a victim.

I think you should be more specific as there are too many kinds of scams be it online of offline. Try as much as possible to take back your funds. Sue the person if you know personally. If you did invested on HYIPs then I am glad you realized they're scams and you should never do investments online that promises any guaranteed returns.

if you are exposed to fraud then you should be more careful and try not to repeat the same mistakes, better avoid the web or anything that contents "doubling your bitcoin quickly" do not be affected by these words. if you are deceived your money will never get back to you again.

Everything you mentioned is an action to minimize or prevent from scammers. But although we have been careful, sometimes we are fooled, unintentionally or unlucky to have a reality if we have been scammed. If that happens, for me maybe I will be sincere and move on.

i will accept and be careful  next time and do not trust people too much.

I does not think you can do anything. Furthermore we all know that crypto is a decentralized investment the system works like either you are scam or youare not scam the only advice that i am able to give the members in this forum is if you want to invest you better DYOR if not in the end you are the one who suffer and when you are unsure whether a project is legit better to to be safe by don't invest till you can vouch the credibility.

Dont trust anything keep your awareness. I had got scammed few times but only ico scam. I wasted so much time for that and after that i learned.and see the option to other because many bounty is fake or scammer.

This is the right way to do it. We must accept the fact that we are mistaken to the people and project that we are supporting. Most of the people I knew blame the people behind the project, I am saying that it is wrong but you must also accept the fact that you also has some mistakes to it. If we don't learn to our past experiences, we will not improve.

I thinknthat there us nothing that we can do but to accept the fact that you have been scammed i have been scammed by a lot of investment that i did especially those icos because i do not know why even if theybare very great amd successful they still tend to scammed all the people who supprted them and we cannot sue them because there is no government involve in this thing so nothing to tell. Just sit down and find another campaign that is much better than them

If you have been scammed then definitely you cant do anything to retrive your money, but the thing is you can use your experience to be smarter and be picky on choosing on what company you will invest.

when i'm having a fraud then all i can do is bemoan fate and complain but if doing so i can not forget the incident, i should be able to move on and remember what has made you fooled until you will never to do it again and if you can trying to avoid the risk of fraud anymore.

This is perhaps the biggest downside of crypto market where majority of things are unregulated and in case of a scam there is zero chance of recovery. If you want to avoid scam, invest only in regulated ICOs and tokens like ripple. But this is also a fact that many have made fortunes by investing in unregulated ICOs  :)

There is a very little chance where you can get back your money so I guess the only thing you can do to prevent other people from being scammed also is to inform the public that the specific persons are scammers. In this community we should help each other and one way is that informing us which persons shouldn't be trusted anymore in this business so we can all live and work here in bitcoin peacefully.

In crypto,i already scammed and hacked by someone and i dont know why me,way back 2017 my first two token has price combining $300 when i was waiting for the morning to sell it ,i saw my account and there nothing to sell ,that why if their any airdrop or sites that getting my basic identity i review it really hard for securing my account.

first thing first make sure you turn on your 2fa in your email accounts every email providers have that feature in their security and privacy like GMAIL if you are joining AIRDROPS use different email that you use in your bitcoin or token wallet account and different in filling up.
second thing do not fall in the email send to you
always check the links if that is the real links
make sure you do not share your  private key and other sensitive data like password of any personal information online it can be the leak in your account hackers are getting smarter and smarter now a days

These are the lessons for us. Besides having the experience and the lessons I do not know what to do. If you invest in this market if you are cheated, then litigation is impossible.

It's hard to get your loss back!

Because digital cryptocurrency transactions are anonymous, and this BBS user comes from all over the world!

The alarm seems very difficult to recover the damage!

Recovering what you lost from the scam organizations online would be extremely unimaginable like online investments. Yet at the same time I exceedingly empowered that you report it to specialists on the grounds that cyber crime division can investigate and check whether there's an example to their exercises and catch these criminals.

Well, it's always a good learning experience to get scammed. At least you get to learn from your mistakes and you learn how to defend yourselves from future scams. Likewise, everyone learns how to properly safeguard their belongings. Keep safe and always see through scams!

Well,  I think it's all depends on what you do, is right tho to do something which is has good profit for yourself as long as it isn't ilegal. So what do you scare of? The police,  you can explaine what you to them,  tell tgem the truth.

Once we scammed we can never get back even we reported to the police because its hard to identify the scammers considering mostly of accounts used are dummy accounts. So the best thing to do is to be careful and to follow security precaution to avoid happening again.

if I've been scammed, I'll start again, because it's not all over yet, I can still recover if I lose, because I know how to make a Bitcoin income, I know a lot about what to do.

Just take a lesson

I think there's nothing you can do to punish a liar or find him.

You need to report it because if you can't make a move, the criminals will just carry on doing exactly the same thing repeatedly with victims. There are organizations to choose from looking to aid you. Usually the one would be the ICCC or perhaps the Internet Crime Complaint Center that you could report the net extortion, identity fraud, hacking, Economic Espionage along with other major cyber crimes.

I guess the only thing you can really do is to just report the person on the trading site which he scammed you on. I hate frauds so much man! This happened to a friend of mine he got scammed on hack forums for $200 and never got them back, the site didn't care. After the incident we moved on here, to Bitcoin Talk. To round it up, there is not much really you can do to get your money back. Just report the account and pray that everything will go back to normal.

I've been scammed so many times before, when I starting on cryptocurrency. Most scams are from HYIP platforms, thats the time when the bitcoin is rallying up, last year only. But after those many scams, I already learned the lesson and now, I know where to put my money.

If you have scammed,  you NEVER refund it. Because when you do transaction, you already agree with 'scammer condition'.  The police will not help you in any case, because use and transaction crypto currency is not legal in some country and we not know the owner of hacker wallet.

So,  pls check carefully when you do any transaction!!!

I you've been scammed then the funds that you had before will never be refund just keep in your mind that it is the end so don't dare to give up and lose hope though you need to be careful and wise because scammers and those people who did illegal doings are being more interested when they see that it is free to enter or it is unsecured.

maybe you should understand and understand all the risks in the world of cryptocurrency if you may already understand of course that something less fortunate, maybe you are less alert and meticulous in investment

Probably you can do nothing even if you trace the address of the scammer you cannot recover your funds.
There are some pointers to never be scam again, enable 2fa, do not click any suspicious link,do not connect your devices in any public places.

Dear bro
Could you share detail of knowledge after you have been scammed?

yes living well and also i should move on when i scammed so i guess learn to forget what happened in the past and moving forward lets not jail our self to only in the things that happened in the past so we should not think and we should learn into it.

There's nothing you can do if your funds and private key had been stolen, be extra careful next time and learn not to trust anyone when it comes to money especially one that comes from cryptocurrency. Avoid investing in HYIP, check URL certificate if valid and don't click any suspicious link on website and emails.

It is never to say scam,because it tested from many people its give an extra income to everyone, it is not a liar.

There is nothing you can do about it unless you are a big people so you will trace them down but if you are a normal person just like me you will just stay calm as much as possible because i cannot even talk to the manager of that campaign i am always encountering a scam in an ico signature campaign i do not know why but maybe it is easy to be fake and it is easy to get away with it. And i have been scammed in that recently luckily i did not invest in it but rather joined the bounty campaign so it really sucks.

We could not do nothing. I am.ban that is why im starting a new account again. I missed my old account and i am learning how to recover it.

There is nothing you can do after you are deceived. The coin coins you get will not be recoverable if someone hacked or had access and got it from you because all cryptocurrency transactions can not be changed. because this is an online platform and at that time you do not have much evidence, should you protect yourself from being scammed You need to have adequate knowledge about every transaction and program you sigh. Never reveal a secret key to anyone.

If you have been scammed in crypto world you can't do anything, because we use Bitcoin now for being anonymous. Blockchain is not like PayPal where you need fill your information, send your ID and confirm your bank account. If you get scammed PayPal will return your fund just in few click. So be careful with crypto paying because once you send coins there is no chance to get it back.

the perfect to do is you should accept the fact that people sometimes scammed so i guess we should accept the loose and lets move on when we use to feel it and be more carefull on your next thing to do and would be better soon.