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Really good article that I think people, especially young and new investors should read up on.
https://medium.com/@gerard_blueteam/how-to-keep-yourself-protected-from-crypto-scams-e44aa0576940

good article and some great tips we all can learn from.
Its true that its mostly newbies who are going to get scammed quicker,
they need to learn about the likes of Pump-N-Dump schemes and HYIP sites also.
Scammers are devising really convincing ways to trap people from Phone calls, e-mails and crypto scams.

Thanks for posting this!

This kind of topic will surely help lots of people not just the newbie because the topic is how to keep yourself protected as we all know keep our earnings safe and sound. In my own opinion about how to protect ourselves from scam is to being aware of all what you do in that case it's on us if we go with the flow but if you're aware and that will lead you to curiousity and what you do next is to investigate about what that person is trying to do if he/she scams or not and that's how you protect yourself to not take risk in the crypto that you just investigate and found something fishy. That topic provided is also another way to protect ourselves so the only thing pop's on my braincells is it depends on us and our knowledge about crypto on keeping ourselves protected.

Thank you! I am relatively new to posting on here and am still trying to get the hang of everything so if you have any tips to help me learn the ways of this forum feel free to share them!

Well this article are really worth reading I hope all new comers here will read this article because it will really be helpful to them to be alerted on those scams out there and to be secured on their coins.

If you share these kind articles on begginers and help section that will be helpful many newbies bro. Because of ICO and bounties itself there are many investors got scammed as so far. We do not find the market always true to all the people.
Hence we need to use these kind of stretegy you have shared with this article. Hopefully this will helpful among large volume of people.

So many laudatory reviews, I am very surprised at this. The article describes several ways to protect yourself from fraud (the Internet is full of content on this topic). But the main point of the article is advertising "BLUE wallet" and nothing more. Let's be real friends!

Thank you

Think what you want, i'm just trying to keep everyone safe.

a commendable act for you for sharing this article, this article is very useful for us all especially for beginners. so that we all avoid the possibility of ICO scam

Join an exchange which is well known and existing from some years now. Also 2 FA is the must and compulsory. Keep changing password frequently so that you do not keep the same password for very long. Also activate google authorization if the function is available.

The article are really helpful and I think we should be more careful in terms of giving our information. A lot of scams here in social sites so if you don't make extra effort to protect especially your wallet and exchange account your money will lose. Also careful on joining some scams ICO so you will not waste time participating on that.

Thanks a lot for posting this. This helps a lot in avoiding these scams and hackers...These days I noticed theres a lot of hacking incidents happening not only to newbies but to all crypto enthusiast. All we can do is to keep safe all our accounts and emails by using 2fa, strong PW and avoiding phising sites.

I couldn’t find any competitors for project Vreo.io, do you know of any? They are doing dynamic in-game advertising. They are going to create marketplace for developers and advertisers. It will secured by blockchain technology.Moreover, the interests of all parties are taken into account. Developers of small games can attract investments and create high-quality products, for advertisers this project will be useful due to the expansion of advertising opportunities and selected target audience, and gamers will be able to receive quality products cheaper, besides they also receive income from the ads they watched, without interrupting the gameplay. It seems the product meets the gaming and advertising industries' needs. Here is their link at bitcointalk https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2886707


Bounty Campaign:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2898738.msg29810876#msg29810876
Telegram grp https://t.me/vreoico

What is your opinion about the project?

It is not stated that it is better to have a computer or any device that are only meant for doing cryptocurrency related things. Let me add this thing up. It is better to have that kind of device in order for you to avoid any viruses and for you to avoid clicking on phishing links. And also having an e-mail account that is not related or linked to your social media accounts is also pretty good strategy for protecting not just your account but also yourself.

Why would you put this here?) Is the theme "what ICQ is better"? Here there could share this and to know whether the attention of the project AI no! Why clutter up the subject ?)We are talking here about security) Let's stick to this topic)) And the article which was published in the first post, really good for beginners!

A very interesting and helpful article to read. It will guide the users who face scams on regular basis while using crypto

For keeping yourself secure from scams you have to take some strategy, you can use password or you can go for digital asset storage, also. Just you have to be bit careful so nothing can make you failure.

In a time where so many fail prey to even the dumbest scams, this is so necessary

Thank you for this one ! We do really need this kind of information.  I propose that everyone should have time to read this. It is really important and worth our time, especially those newbies or newcomers here in industry for them to avoid the major problem of scamming and hacking.

Good article though. I have an experience in being cheated by a scam. I am sure everyone might be aware of the guy who came in December 2018 with a campaign "C". A very bad experience. Thanks god that none invested in. We were asked to invest minimum $50 in 'C'. Address was provided. Everyone was disappointed on X-Mas and on New Year eve. Thanks god he did not prolong it with his lovely tricky words. Though we are aware of scams and share experience how to identify a scam, we still get caught. Need to be so pro-active.

Good share! Thank you.
Might I add: Not replying on unsolicited e-mail, DM/PM. I see a lot of scammers on telegram trying to impose as admins or team-members.

good article. thanks a lot. btw. im receiving phishing emails (address used for bounties) probably twice in a week. beware. dont show your private keys to noone. even to Santa Claus.)

I advise you to be careful with the free distribution of coins (Air Drops). Very often this is fraud.

thank you his article .. I think it is very useful for me who masij newbie this, I hope that many read the article supya tidam ad people who got cheated.

I'm looking for an article for the history of crypto history. Can you help me ?

The only way to protect it is to not let anybody know your password or just simply write it on a piece of paper and hide it on a vault. And if you are familiar with the new way to protect with your password it is the 2FA verification and then make sure your password contains with mixed of capital and small letters with numbers in it to make sure it is stronger than your previous password. But make sure you are using a safe computer before logging in to avoid any phishing attacks, just install any antivirus, it will protect you from being phished.

One short tip I can give aside from what's listed inside is, when you fell suspicious on the transaction and smell something is fishy on the project, group or individual then turn down the offer as early as possible.

You cannot find the person fishy as it is mate. You need to have a proof or the review from the previous user of the concern project or website. For this I have found the website called badbitcoin.org/badlist
Here you can find the n number of websites which has been scammed the people through out this world.
After I suggest some services which are all mostly being scammy one. cloud and browser mining, mining equipment reseller site, doubling website, casinos and sports betting website as well. Please read the website details before you join any of these projects.

one of the most effective ways to protect us from fraud is we must be able to keep passwords do not leak and passwords that do not only use numbers or letters only if we can make numbers and letters one and we do not easily believe about token offer for free because maybe it is a fraud. basically in this cryptocuerreny world we have to be careful.

Recommended is really for everyone not just for those who are new to the crypto world but for those who have long been in the world crypto sometimes love to forget things like this because they feel it is the most true, yes once again good, if that have read try to further dig again in order to avoid something called fraud, but actually articles are common to me but do not know for them, yes more diligent again to dig important information like this do not be lazy to search not just want to post and add activities only .

Should have more post like this to aware investor toward scammers.

I think the best way to avoid scam is too invest with a very low amount of money. The amount should just value for a single meal or or just a transportation fare for you to get home. Because you will use it to gain experience in determining scams and you can now protect yourself after that.

Scammer is always a scammer and its very difficult to recognized them, to minimize the failure of joining in any investment platform is to study and research regarding their programs and their capability and by investing the amount that you are able to loss just in case you entered in wrong investment.

How to protect meldtown and spectre attack,must wait to ryzen 3?

In order to protect yourself from crypto scam, always be vigilant and never trust anyone on the internet.  If something seems too good to be true, it’s usually a scam.  Don’t send your hard earned cryptocurrency to anyone over the internet. Even if the account claiming to give you free coins is the real account of the social influencer or crypto figure, you can’t discount the possibility that their account may be compromised by a hacker. 

Dear all,
With scammers rapidly developing new strategies to scam the crypto community, many young and new investors are getting scammed out of their investments. I am here to show you steps to ensure that your digital assets will be safe and protected from the scammers of the inter webs.
- Password protection
- Phishing
- 2 Factor Authentication
- Digital asset storage

Good luck!

thank you, Yes useful information. but if all technologies go forward and swindlers do not lag behind and come up with something new. they have the sense to steal, and to make their own something, the mind is not enough. not love such people

It's just a simple way to avoid the crypto scam so we should be able to scour the beautiful ICO project you'll be able to get through you to avoid scammers who know I can not easily scanners but that's just how you approach it.

looked thru the article, great tips! a lot of scammers are constantly upgrading their tactics too, so always be careful! think twice before clicking that transaction!

Before investing in any ICO project, or buying any coin or token, I take my careful time studying the project and making sure it have good value and potential, and only after doing this I invest or buy.
This way I minimize the risks of lossing because I select the most promising coins and tokens which generally reach some level of success.

Here are my own ways that I would like to share
1. I do not show my face like linking this bitcointalk account to any of my personal accounts
2. I always log out my accounts and log in later if I am going to use it.
 why because any personal information can be used from any of my accounts for a scammer may talk to me and do a talk with to make me invest on things that is fake or that is created my the scammer.

Great article, address almost all types of scams

Password and 2FA are to protect you from hackers , scammer targeting greedy people who looking for an instant profit , then offering you something too good to be true service , that time you should be careful and curious what exactly the service they are offering.
The more greedy you are , the more vulnerable you are to get scammed.

Experiences from others does also help. Fast track.
By clicking the link, I've been looking for only one type of popular scamming strategy nowadays. This has been done through those people who loves to follow famous people and loves to stick with altcoins and good to see that it's listed as social media phishing. People are so greedy and gullible nowadays that they will receive something in return and even doubled or tripled in value after sending their donation to the posted address on the fake account on twitter.

Great article which has many good tip to avoid scams.
In 2017, some of ponzy structure scam slot of money from newbies who is the first join crypto. They did not check and easily give the private key when join the scams Airdrop campaign.

Thanks for your sharing!

Very good article for beginners. Hope everyone will read it and remember all rules like a, b, c. Of course there is not any guarantee  that you wont be scammed, but security is the first thing in crypto.

A very important topic. It will be useful. Congratulations. You can review the codes if you understand the coding. Also I think it depends on your experience, your knowledge and your attention to the market.

Surely if you follow this tips you'll be safe 90% away from ICO with untrusted team member and shady groups, just learn more about the project as a counterpart when joining.

The motive for profit, or greed, is the motive that makes people easily deceived.
re-con artists will usually use this "cool button" to make somebody out of logical work. People began to wish and hope. That's when the logic function is stopped. Here, people are more driven by the desire to win, the lust for easy profit, the lust of getting rich quickly. And that's what makes someone so dark eyes.

In fact, if we use logic and common sense, we should be able to think simply, that something too good to be true, should be suspected.

after reading  i have enlightened and very helpful at all so we always try to minimize the asset safety, nice tips, just a little input why blue wallet? should you write the excess of the blue wallet, who is the maker, reliable or not? how it works, free or paid, so readers really enjoy the articles you write, but the rest is nice and very useful, success and passion

Thank you for your article, it is really very useful to protect your capital from scammers and hackers. And this information will help all newbies.

yes it is very necessary we get protected with all the scams happening in the market we just make an effort to learn and keep yourself protected in risky crypto scams the only way we have is to update 2FA verification

Even the site provided in the OP can help you to some extent, I believe that still you cannot be 100% sure about anything as there is always 1% chance of losing your money due to any reason as future is not in our hand. One can only try to be 100% secure and rest leave to future. You might read a project that seems very beneficial and many people are investing and it get good reputation in the market also, but what if all of a sudden it crashes like Bitconnect. So, crypto is full of risk so if you invest be ready for any outcome. 

And the reason the newbies are the ones that fall the most in those scams is not just because they're newbies is because they are investing for the wrong reasons, they see the examples of people that became rich with cryptocurrencies and they want to emulate their success not thinking that they are the exception and while there is a lot of money to be made you need to be constant and you need to be patient.

In short most of them do hurry to become rich which they do see those successful person do make easy things for them to achieve those situation which it isnt really right at all.It would takes time and patience for you to achieve such manner and come to think of you would need to put up money to earn money. Theres no easy get quick rich scheme on here.

Talking back about protecting yourself from scams.If you just starting up then better read up feedbacks and suggestions which will really give you idea and later on your experience will teach you gradually along the way.

this is a very nice and useful article for crypto users with this topic, it is very helpful for beginners who are cumulative into the world of crypto to keep their assets and this makes cyber criminals more difficult to take on our precious assets.

Thanks for your sharing,
I think this article is very helpful for me and everyone who always care for himself when trade on the cryptocurrency exchange.
As my experience, be careful when provide wallet information, never give private key for anyone in any case. This is very very important.

Thanks for posting this. It will helps a lot of people in crypto; not only newbies but everyone out there. Its true that there are a lot of scams happening around us so we really need to safeguard our investments against these modus scammers and we can get be protected from scams by being aware of whats happening around us and also by researching if it really a scam or legit one. In this case, we need to enrich and educate ourself in crypto-currency on d know-how to check them.

With lots of reading and active in this forum.
Do not easily believe in people you do not know, never give your key wallet to whoever it is and do not be stupid.

keep 2fa protection for all wallets u use that is first and major step to get protected from all major hacking issues

Protecting yourself from scams will depend entirely on the type of investor that you are, if you are only investing bitcoin and you keep all your coins in a paper wallet then the chance of being scammed are very close to zero, but if you are the kind of investor that likes to take some risks and to invest in some icos or new altcoins then the chance of being scammed once in a while goes a lot higher.

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Don't trust also any advertisements coming from someone you don't know, if someone add you in telegram group for airdrop and free items and you don't know about it then keep safe by leaving the group immediately.

Beware of Suspicious Links. Do not be easily fooled by unknown or suspicious links. Because in your email there must be a lot of Bitcoin offers from some popular Bitcoin services that advise you to visit a WEB site, which where there will use information from your Bitcoin purse.

In addition to the ways you share on the Medium, I think it is essential to avoid a cryptos scam project that requires you to have much knowledge about this market and read about case studies on fraudulent ICO projects. Moreover, especially about your security knowledge, you have to be stubborn because so many of the bounty managers are using your trust to steal the cryptos. So be very careful when transferring cryptos to strangers and entering private keys in unreliable websites.

First of all, study the project and team, bounty manager repuatation. And of course use safe transactions and make sure your wallet is safe.

Print out your own printer or use a photo if you need an electronic version.

A lot of useful infornmation has been shared through this article as scammers are trying new ways daily to trap the unaware investors and gulp all their money into their wallets.The new traders and investors need to know this volatile market completely if they want to gain profits in future and how to avoid panic selling seeing normal hype and dips.You need to indentify the legit and scams ICO by reading whitepaper and analyising team and objectives of project So this article is of help to all of us and traders.

stay away from malicious ICO projects. do not give a private key to any project. use an antivirus program. stay away from potentially risky sites. use physical wallets if possible

I'm trying not to participate in fake projects. I'm checking and measuring security. Use secure wallets. I'm using a virus program. and I did not disrupt this care. I keep away from fake sites. I'm trying not to take any steps I do not trust.

Scammers do always target newbie minds in any places or industry which they do evolve and really try their best to be legit into those eyes of newbie investors and we do know on our first investment we are somehow greedy which scammers do really use that weakness to drag us up to easily.If we do really like to avoid scams then better to read up things and become knowledgeable into any informations into this forum for sure you will learn a lot and once your awareness to scams is opened you will able to spot out easily which is scam or not.

This is probably one of the most important things to avoid, once you begin to earn money with cryptocurrencies you need to change the habits that you have when you're surfing the web, most of the time a hacker will not get any kind of valuable information out of you, but if you are holding bitcoin in your computer then the hacker can easily steal everything that you have with just some clicks.

Wow what a nice article it really helpful am happy to read about the topic....  Have really gain another of things from the article... I wish everyone knows about this.... Because if they know about this, people will not keep falling Victim  days after day.

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Plagiarism is always been illegal into this forum which should really need to be reported unless if you did put some sources then it is considered. Usually Plagiarism do get temporary ban unlike copy pasting which results into perma ban.

@topic, just search and read up things into this forum which will be beneficial for you because you will gain awareness.

The way to protect yourself against ICO scams is to join the ICO's commitment to ensuring there are no risks to the investor. At present, ICO Dehedge is an ICO that meets the criteria of risk commitment for investors. They pledged to ensure the exchange rate after the index will not be lower than at the time of the ICO, which would hedge the risk to investors when investing in their ICO project.

To protect yourself from the scams of cryptography. You need your knowledge and understanding of bitcoin encryption. Ignorance will make your password secure and stolen. Learn how to create a passcode for your account.

Nice article and worth the time to read so that we can know how to avoid scammers.

after I read the article you linked me to conclude that the article is very useful to be more careful and cautious and this article must be read by beginners there is only one discussion about a huge loss when we enter the world of crypto if therein the discussion may be this article should be disseminated.

Nice article it's simple but direct to the point as those being mentioned are the weakness of being new in crypto currency, password hacking and phishing attacks are top most. We should be aware and spread this article to all the crypto enthusiast and let's all safe from those scammers.

I've fallen victim to a couple of HYIP scams and Ponzi schemes in the past and all because I was blinded into making quick cash. Well there is no such thing and have learned it the hard way. It's a good thing that we have people like you sharing their knowledge for the newbies.

thank u for providing a nice article this article is worth reading and knowing about market conditions

I would better study the details of the ICO, their projects, team members details,  their infrastructure  and the amount of money they have all allocated for their marketing and etc. The details would certainly protect you from crypto scams. There are the main things to look at to save or make us be aware of scams.

We have to be aware of crypto scams and have to secure all our assets that are in the crypto to be wary of fraud, but the criminals still have thousands of ways to deceive us especially in the crypto world that works only online face-to-face instantly.

For cryptocurrency investors who want to take advantage of new investment opportunities by keeping them safe from cryptocurrency fraud amda can try a few things among them Know well the team / management behind it For that reason, more and more often fraudsters use fake profiles / biographies on the development team for their projects.

Researching About the project team is the gokd way to identify the scam ICOs because lot of scam ICO reams are giving fake details about then so if we can do some deep research then it will be easy to pick them.But still there is no way that cam save us from scam ICOs absolutely that is why ICO investment are much riskier.

very interesting and useful articles, thank you for sharing, now I already know how to choose a good crypto

I'm newbie here and I found the post really helpful, thanks for sharing.

The indenture communicates many distance to defence yourself from put-on. the Internet is full of acceptance on this topic

To prevent yourself from becoming game to these ICO scammers, always double check the ICO contribution address with multiple sources.  When the ICO starts, make sure to check the contribution address on the official website, along with the pinned message on Telegram, and the latest Twitter feed from the company’s official Twitter.  Never blindly trust messages that are being spammed in the Telegram channel claiming to be the official contribution address.  Also, never give in to solicitation on Telegram or through e-mail from people that may look like an admin or support team member.

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I'm not a good bounty hunter and i already accept and be ready if there are times i got scammed because its really hard to choose the good bounty campaign that paying bounty rewards very well after the campaign.

The article is very helpful, the scammers do went through some exchange to defraud the investors but changing the password several time and with  introduction of google authentication before entering the wallet is a good protector to ones account.

A very useful article, with such data, you can make a brief instruction about the security of data in the Internet space for all users, especially for those who are passionate about cryptocurrencies and often use passwords and keys.

keeping from being hit by ICO scams right now I don't dare to invest in new ICOs, for airdrops and bounties I do, but I only do crypto investments on long-established coins for the long term