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I was making a list for my team on how to stay away from Crypto scammers, and thought I would just share it here as well.

Here are the type of Crypto scammers that I have encountered

Type 1. ICO as a SCAM - (More info contributed by: tosindesign)
There are ICOs that are only designed to get your money. Once the ICO is over then the pages are taken off the net and the makers of the ICO disappear with the money. The last case we reported was LoopX, but this is not the only case.

How can you protect yourself?
1. (by: tosindesign) Generally there is no 100% protection here. A good indication for a scam is there is no team mentioned on the website or whitepaper. Although everything is very superficial and promised a lot, but after reading the white paper is not clear how that should be possible.
2. (by: GeckoTrader) One of the best things to do to avoid ICO scamming is to learn and back read all information about that ICO. As they always say " More knowledge is power"
3. (by: GeckoTrader) The team should have been communicating to the community.
4. (by: GeckoTrader) Always they should have an update from their company. If you sense something fishy do not hesitate to ask question from them. In that means you can confirm whether they are legit or just a bunch of scammers.

Type 2. Scammers who sell FAKE COINS (name / coin code is same but coin generating contract is different)
How to protect yourself: Check the contract address of these coins, if it came from the same contract address

Type 3. Social media scammers - Would post like "I will send you 50 ETH if you send me 5"
How to protect yourself: This is an easy one, they all are scammers. Dont even respond.

Type 4: Identity theft scammers - These guys will contact you as CEOs of ICOs or Social celebrities, usually banking upon the names of a famous person
How to protect yourself: Try pinging them from an another ID of theirs (say if scammer pinged you from Telegram, drop them a message over their facebook ID) and ask them to check that message. This would work as a Two-Factor-Authentication for that personality.

Type 5: Malicious code Trojans - Like Wordpress or Chrome plugins, that would use your machine to mine for crypto currencies, using your machine for the same
How to protect yourself: Try not to do plugins or replace them with cloud powered services, OR, Install only trusted plugins, with loads of reviews maybe. I wont be surprised if these trojans take shape of free downloadable games or cracked softwares downloadable for desktop or your mobile.

Type 6: Online Seed Generators (contributed by: tosindesign)
For some wallets (eg the IOTA Wallet) you have to set your own seed. In the case of IOTA, this is an 81-digit password that must consist of uppercase letters and at least one 9. Since some did not want to generate a password themselves, they resorted to online seed generators. These generate you by mouse click an 81-digit seed. However, as it turns out later, a few of these seed generators also stored the generated passwords, The stored seeds were then later used to steal the assets of the investors concerned. You have to know that the seed is something like the master key that allows all credits to be transferred. A thief does not even have to have access to your computer on which the wallet is installed. The seed is enough to access your balance on another computer.

How can you protect yourself?
Never use an online seed generator! When generating an 81-digit seed, all you have to do is push 81 random keys on your keyboard.

Type 7: Phishing website attempts (contributed by: tosindesign)
Scammers would copy exact replica of the websites (wallets, exchanges) and try to get you to login, thereby recording you password. For example, the page Blockchain.info was copied to get the logins. You have to know that Blockchain.info also offers a wallet service where Wallet could save your bitcoins. If Google users searched for “Blockchain info” in some countries, they ran a Google ad that led to Blockchaina.info, a cheat site that has nothing to do with Blockchain.info. The site was a 1: 1 copy of Blockchain.info and was only designed to get login information from users. There are also similar attempts to MyEtherwallet.com and other sites.

How can you protect yourself?
Never click anywhere on a link to a page where you want to log in. The best way is to bookmark the pages and just go over the web pages. In addition, you should always look for the SSL encryption. There will not be a page that stores important data from you and is located at http: //. All pages should now be encrypted SSL and have a https: // domain (although the pages can also be accessed at http: // they will redirect to https: //). The SSL certificates will also show you every browser, for example by a small lock symbol.


Type 9: Used Ledger Nano (contributed by: tosindesign)
At ebay and in other marketplaces there are always offers to buy the Ledger Nano a bit cheaper. This is particularly interesting now, where the Ledger Nano S is sold out and will be available again in one month. There have been cases in the past when users bought a used ledger on ebay and the seed from the ledger was already filled out. Anyone who has not owned a ledger to date will hardly register the difference. Of course, the previous owners have also noted the seed in these cases, which then allows them to get access to the crypto currencies that the new owner stores on the Ledger Nano S.  

How can you protect yourself?
If you want to use a hardware wallet like the Ledger Nano S, buy it directly from the manufacturer and make sure that it is still original packed. The enclosed note on which you can write down the seed should never be filled.

Type 10: Airdrops that ask for personal information (contributed by: StarKay)
There are hyped up airdrops that may ask for KYC information, that may end up being used by scammers / hackers.

How to protect yourself:
Think of your personal information as an investment as well. Research who you are giving your information to and why that ICO will need it

Type 11: Identity theft via Social Media - (contributed by: darkangel11)
You have to realize what they want from you. In the end it's always your money, while in the process they may want some personal data, a phone number, whatever they can get into.

How to protect yourself: Never willingly give anything. Don't share your real social media accounts with random people, keep your email addresses to yourself and if you have to use them make sure to have burner emails. What are burners? Not necessarily emails created for every forum and project. Just emails that don't contain your personal data and that you're not using for online shopping, banking and so on.

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In my years of experience with bitcoin there is only one effective way to avoid scammers. In joining ICO even if you do your research you will not know that they are scammers until the ICO is over. Even if how many preparations we do or make in the end we still end up being a victim to scammers. The best way to avoid scammers is to no invest your bitcoins. Just hold it in your wallet and hold it for a long time and when the price is right you can sell them and you will have a good profit.

it's easy for you to scam if you're offered to invest or pay for a profit making sure that the info is good for you who offers you just not to believe and if you can ask any friends you know for not being threatened

That sure is a good conservative approach and I know many people who do the same thing.
But I guess anyone investing in ICOs is anyways signing up for higher level of risk vs award phenomena. The ROI on ICO investments (when done right) could be nice. Though, I see 90% of the ICOs that even 'experts' review / promote / bank upon are a loss deal... but the ones that made money... covered those losses many times over (or maybe they just got lucky).

1.Online Seed Generators
For some wallets (eg the IOTA Wallet) you have to set your own seed. In the case of IOTA, this is an 81-digit password that must consist of uppercase letters and at least one 9. Since some did not want to generate a password themselves, they resorted to online seed generators. These generate you by mouse click an 81-digit seed. However, as it turns out later, a few of these seed generators also stored the generated passwords, The stored seeds were then later used to steal the assets of the investors concerned. You have to know that the seed is something like the master key that allows all credits to be transferred. A thief does not even have to have access to your computer on which the wallet is installed. The seed is enough to access your balance on another computer.

What can you protect yourself?
Never use an online seed generator! When generating an 81-digit seed, all you have to do is push 81 random keys on your keyboard.

2. Copies of Known Cryptite Sites Another
popular way to get credit is to copy known pages in order to get to the login data from the users. For example, the page Blockchain.info was copied to get to the logins. You have to know that Blockchain.info also offers a wallet service where Wallet could save your bitcoins. If Google users searched for “Blockchain info” in some countries, they ran a Google ad that led to Blockchaina.info, a cheat site that has nothing to do with Blockchain.info. The site was a 1: 1 copy of Blockchain.info and was only designed to get login information from users. There are also similar attempts to MyEtherwallet.com and other sites.

How can you protect yourself?
Never click anywhere on a link to a page where you want to log in. The best way is to bookmark the pages and just go over the web pages. In addition, you should always look for the ssl encryption. There will not be a page that stores important data from you and is located at http: //. All pages should now be encrypted ssl and have a https: // domain (although the pages can also be accessed at http: // they will redirect to https: //). The ssl certificates will also show you every browser, for example by a small lock symbol.

3. Fake ICOs Again
and again there are ICOs that are only designed to get your money. Once the ICO is over then the pages are taken off the net and the makers of the ICO disappear with the money. The last case we reported was LoopX , but this is not an isolated case.

How can you protect yourself?
Generally there is no 100% protection here. A good indication for a scam is always when no people are already presented in the whitepaper. Although everything is very superficial and promised a lot, but after reading the white paper is not clear how that should be possible.

4. Used Ledger Nano
At ebay and in other marketplaces there are always offers to buy the Ledger Nano a bit cheaper. This is particularly interesting now, where the Ledger Nano S is sold out and will be available again in one month. There have been cases in the past when users bought a used ledger on ebay and the seed from the ledger was already filled out. Anyone who has not owned a ledger to date will hardly register the difference. Of course, the previous owners have also noted the seed in these cases, which then allows them to get the credit that the new owner saves on the Ledger Nano S.  How can you protect yourself from this?
If you want to use a hardware wallet like the Ledger Nano S, buy it directly from the manufacturer and make sure that it is still original packed. The enclosed note on which you can write down the seed should never be filled.


 
5. Wrong Twitter Accounts
A variant that has been very popular in recent weeks are wrong Twitter accounts of well-known personalities from the crypto world. These accounts have the same profile photo as the familiar original and a name (Twitter handle) that is very similar. For example, sometimes only an “i” was exchanged with an “l”. The accounts then usually promise the same thing that always sounds something like this:
“I give 10 BTC to my followers as a thank you. Please send me 0.01 BTC and I will return the first 10 of you 1 BTC. ”

How can you protect yourself from this?
If you want to use a hardware wallet like the Ledger Nano S, buy it directly from the manufacturer and make sure that it is still original packed. The enclosed note on which you can write down the seed should never be filled.

5. Wrong Twitter Accounts
A variant that has been very popular in recent weeks are wrong Twitter accounts of well-known personalities from the crypto world. These accounts have the same profile photo as the familiar original and a name (Twitter handle) that is very similar. For example, sometimes only an “i” was exchanged with an “l”. The accounts then usually promise the same thing that always sounds something like this:
“I give 10 BTC to my followers as a thank you. Please send me 0.01 BTC and I will return the first 10 of you 1 BTC. ”

 

Needless to say, the promised BTC or ETH will never be sent out. The texts got attention because they simply responded automatically to as many tweets as possible. This ensures that the texts are seen very frequently.

How can you protect yourself from this?
Just do not believe that someone wants to give you 1 BTC or ETH.🙂

6. Pyramid
Systems These are also available in the crypto area. The most famous case lately was Bitconnect . The company has promised to get 1% profit per day for investors through special trading bots. This has then “worked” as long as new users have joined and the Bitcoin price has risen. In the end, however, most investors ran out of funds and the system collapsed.

How can you protect yourself?
Just do not believe anyone who guarantees you certain profits. With one percent a day you could make a profit of 3,700% per year with 100 € use and the whole grows exponentially. It’s not that easy to earn money in the crypto sector.

7. Pump and Dumps
Especially with small coins, with a low daily trading volume, it happens that the prices are “pumped” again and again . So artificially inflated to attract new investors who also want to benefit from the price increase. The victims are then mostly investors who are blinded by the price increase and the “pumpers” then buy the coins, well above the normal price. A short time later usually the relapse to the old price level follows, since the demand can not be maintained.


Pump and dump example
How can you protect yourself?
Always skeptical when the price rises too fast, especially with very small coins. If you can not find causes for it (for example, any important news about the coin) it’s always better to start with a pump and dump. In general, a pump and dump rarely takes longer than 1 hour Actually, it’s unbelievable how many different scams are currently taking place and the list is by far not exhaustive. So think about everything you do, if that can be serious. The anonymous payment traffic in the crypto area makes it very easy for fraudsters to get their money.

 

 

To protect our self from scammers we don't let others to know that I have a Bitcoin. What we are going to do if I have a Bitcoin we just hold it and we keep it in a very safety places. When the time will come when the Bitcoin reaches in a high value its time to sell our Bitcoin and we can have earn more profit.

That beats the spirit of blockchain and its goal to become rather a main stream currency. The post is aimed at increasing the utility of cryptos, while avoiding being scammed, rather than sitting on a pile of cash that slowly turns into dirt.

Whata great idea lol 😂 😂 😂

This is really truth,how can you be a victim if you put nothing from those.
But kidding aside i believe that this is the better way to do,since 95% of ico now are just scams,and they are very good on this that you wont even recognized that scamming unless it happens

when will join the bounty campaign and also ico project, try to find it ourselves, not a recommendation from people. even if it's a recommendation, we should know for sure the truth of the ico, not just a picture of ico alone, but the whole of ico project. I say this because sometimes people who share info about ico, they do not include in detail the project of the ico. and the next, do not be easily fooled by big rewards, and see also participants, many or no followers, last do not forget join to telegram group.

You've listed most points but I'll still add mine:
1. Beware of offers that are too good to be true, most are ponzi schemes.
2. Safeguard your personal information and beware of Airdrops that collects personal data.

i also ad that they will also be aware on all things what happen in they were in investing especially hyip site they are the common scammers but people risk there money because they can profit easily when they invest in early opens hyip

I think that is a more simplified way to look at it. Basically just make yourself informed. You won't easily get scammed if you know about those things. Greed also will be the downfall of anyone trying to get in crypto. Just use your logic :p

That is so easy to answer. Being knowledgeable will be the main factor to avoid those scammer. Scammers tend to victimize all ignorance when it comes to this field.

That is kindof a solution to every problem on earth. Would appreciate any practical tips you have gathered while being in this industry.

I can manage to protect myself against  scammers through wise thinking, not giving too much trust in their famous line, "invest, earn double". Through searching and verifying if you are joining a legit group and most important of all is they can prove whatever they are proposing.

Being knowledgeable can help you to protect yourself from scammers,  think before you do and also review before you make any decisions. Don't be ignorant. (peace)  ;)

I can protect it by for not talking on strangers in social media or other website. And protect my wallet using hardware. And you need to be knowledgeable

 Scammer are the worst internet entrepreneurs night mare, the fact that you can lose all your hard work in a matter of seconds is frightening enough, the best way of avoiding their keen eyes is through encryption, encrypt your wallets the best way you possibly can, and if possible, use hardware wallets. they will protect you to the fullest.

You have to first realize what they want from you. In the end it's always your money, while in the process they may want some personal data, a phone number, whatever they can get into. SO, to avoid scammers never willingly give anything. Don't share your real social media accounts with random people, keep your email addresses to yourself and if you have to use them make sure to have burner emails. What are burners? Not necessarily emails created for every forum and project. Just emails that don't contain your personal data and that you're not using for online shopping, banking and so on.

Sear for no one to show their passwords and private key, do not pass to non-secure links and be extremely careful

One of the best things to do to avoid ICO scamming is to learn and back read all information about that ICO. As they always say " More knowledge is power" Secondly, The team should have been communicating to the community. Thirdly, always they should have an update from their company. If you sense something fishy do not hesitate to ask question from them. In that means you can confirm whether they are legit or just a bunch of scammers.

Amazing feedback guys. Just to let you know, I have been updating the main thread, compiling all the wisdom in this thread in one place for us to use.

Any ideas on how to prevent yourself DNS hijacking?

I believe that doing research before taking any decision is the single best option to stay safe. I have saved my thousands of dollars just because I read the topics about the particular investment option when I was about to invest in it. I realized it multiple times that there is something wrong with it and in most of the cases, those sites were exposed and investors lost their money. When it comes to crypto, it is all about self-responsibility and we deserve as per our actions.

I agree with various opinions on this thread, personally I use this way to protect myself from scamers;
-, check or do research before starting investment, transactions, etc
-, keep your privacy for example: personal data, private key of your wallet, password, etc

some cases of fraud occur because the victims are careless, SO keep calm and be carefull

Is just being careful with your private key and your confidential documents.

It’s actually simple as that instead of giving your bitcoins to some scammer just hold it into your wallet and see your profits increase or if you are experienced in trading, you can trade crypto currencies and make some money or even when you lose it you lose it on your own volition instead of being tricked by someone.

This is a very interesting and useful thread.

The best way to scam people is to offers the most sugary word with the things people want! Easy money, easy rich, getting rich by sending money and someone will send back the money in much more, this are the things scammer uses, "What people wants in the most easiest way" so in order to avoid them is to know really your needs and work for them.

To make it short this people wants easy money in a short period of time so you can easily catch them off guard.

They want money and you want guarantee. It will be a fight of patience. When you are asking too much they tend to go away and will never return to you even if they create new accounts.

All of that scam can be seen thru that except the one in ICO's. If they are good at faking the team and the product then it will be a research to go their deepest files.

As what I've knew, scammers are those people who do dishonest acts like stealing of something else with value from the others. So, for you to keep yourself or your account safe form the scammers first thing you need to do is to ensure to lock down your password you need to create and strong and good password security to protect your account from scammers. Second, you need to ensure the security of your connection. You must open your account only at home for your safety. You must not open your account in any other cafe due to account sensitivity. Third, in order to know if there are scammers who attempted to open your account you must set-up account alerts. There must be a signal or notification that you may be notified every time your account will be opened. Fourth, avoid phishing scams. Lastly, you must practice yourself in being a vigilant. You must always pay attention, knows how to catch small problems earlier.

For me, my only reason is, if someone encourages you to join in something that they have a points that they earn from inviting others it is mostly a scam. Because if it is not, then why they offer it to increase popularity?

Protecting yourself from scammers is the one of the hardest thing to do because of its ability to pursued you and make believe that it is true and very convincing especially now a days that they are using names of good investment in the market. So one of the best thing to do is investigate used your ears, eyes, mouth  or in other word your senses and asked all the necessary questions to be asked and go further to investigate them.

If I was to be asked by anybody on how to protect myself or anyone else form scammers I will say the best way is to avoid clicking phishing links and always login to your accounts from the valid secured websites as stated by the projects or the wallet producer. Thanks

I think the information you provide is very helpful but for now there are so many ways fraudsters to deceive the investors so as to make what is available on the website as real and as convincing.

think before you do and also review before you make any decisions, and dont trust other website

There are many ways how to protect yourself from the scammers. Avoid uneccesary thing such as clicking phishing websites and links and always log-in in a secure and protected websites. Don't trust anyone because if you mistaken even a little bit everything will be gone so if you want to avoid this used it in a safety way.

I think the best way to protect yourself from scammers is that keep your private keys very secure and confidential. As bitcoin transactions doesn’t involve any third party seizure and provides users anonymity so it is very very difficult to reverse your transactions so once your bitcoin has been stolen its next to impossible to get them back and moreover bitcoin is not even legalised in many countries so u can’t even do police complaint so be very conscious with your private keys.

Usually the scammers ask for our bank account or credit card details by way of example calling or emailing, to gain access to our cash. More sophisticated fraudsters have typically found a way to hack email accounts so they can send messages that seem genuine to require funds to be transferred to the bank accounts they control. Our way to protect ourselves from scammers is not to panic, do not give any information about our card or bank account to strangers on the phone, do not hurry, do not let greed be better than us, and do not engage in things related to illegal .

Do not invest before you research about the project, take your time to investigate details about the past record of the team behind the project, do not invest hastly in a project base on the bonus giving and deadline. It is better to be patient to invest than to loss eager

First of all to avoid scams do not give up on this huge amount of money in exchange for your investment because of this much scam.all will do a scammer cheat and then one should not believe especially in the easy money offered us.I'm avoiding these things because i do not want to lose those things and i dont believed in the strangers

The most important thing is to not trust everyone whose giving away some money, how can you trust that ? everyone is need money and then you trust with people giving away money ?
And also if you will have a 2 people transaction with someone, make sure u're using escrow, so you won't get scammed easily.

If it's too good to be true, then it might be false. Don't put your details on something that is not trustworthy website or phishing site. Plus don't just upload any application that could affect your computer security. Specially keep away you private keys.

yes you are correct bro. Never trust blinded to unknown peoples outhere. What ever they say just stay away to give your identity or private keys. Always beware on what you downloads and always make a vault for your main source account. that way you will not lose all if hacker manage to break in..always make plan B.

This is a good post, I think you've covered most of the scams, so I just want to add that people should be extremely careful with their cryptocurrencies in general - there are no intermediaries and no chargebacks, it's like handling cash to a stranger, so people should think carefully about every transactions that they make.

Also you should cover one of the oldest scam - the exit scam. It's when some online service that keeps coins of their customers, like an exchange, decides to suddenly close and run away with all the coins. This has happened many times in the past, so people should never hold more coins online than they can afford to lose.

So, when checking the ICO project on "scam", you need to carefully study the information on the token, the team, the mission of the project in Whitepaper, check the founders' pages in social networks Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, be as curious as possible in order to ask questions in such soc. channels like Slack or Telegram.

Scammer tend to victimize all ignorance  person and person with lack of knowledge about in cryptocurrency. If you are knowledgeable person you know how to secure your crypto. Scammer they have full of techniques to get some information only we do is make sure our personal info are safe secure and our password are always secret.

I think that there is no 100% guarantee for that, because we have as for example the projects which appears to be great and turned to be a scam then.

be a smart and selective bitcoin hunter in choosing, because now there are so many scammers. so be alert and be careful.

By learning how to recognize the signs of a scammer, you can protect yourself from fraud.

ICOs are a huge problem. 97% fail regardless of intention going in. Many are scams from the beginning, but there are plenty where the project leaders sincerely intend to follow through once they raise the money but they can't deliver for any number of reasons. Additionally, governments all over the world are cracking down on ICOs because most of their tokens, probably all of them, actually are securities and their not registering as a security is a direct violation of the law, and not just in the United States. Trading platforms which support ICO tokens that are actually unregistered securities are also facing increasing scrutiny, as they could also be breaking the law if they provide markets for unregistered securities. This means that even if the ICO you invested in was run by honest people, and even if those people had the skills to deliver on their promises, there's still the issue that they have broken the law by not registering their security. This means that the government in the country they operate could shut them down any day and that would mean you lose your entire investment as well.

On a technical level, ICOs could be a great way for legitimate companies to raise money, but it has to be done legally and with investor protection in mind and a legal pathway has not been established anywhere.

Because of all this, my advice would be to simply avoid all ICOs. Don't invest in them.

Most of the scams going around can be exposed if people are diligent enough to make research and ask questions about whatever they are thinking of investing in. Most scammers are unable to give straight answers and you will find them contradicting themselves.

Very good thread thank you for posting this.
My rule of thumb is:  don't trust anyone on the internet that you don't know in person.
Its way too easy to impersonate and make people think you are someone that you arent.

Thank you for your work, it is very beneficial, especially for newbies. According to my experience, people should double-check what he is doing and the person that he trades with. Double-check is crucial for avoiding from scammers.

This is a very important information and write up but just to add a little to what you have already written, in other to stay away from being scam one need to stop being greedy because it's greed that lead to over trust on what is impossible.

Only one way to protect yourself: its zero trust for any one expect yourself.
Specially dont trust for anyone who want make you richer for nothing

First of all, you should able to understand the basic functionalities of wallet and applications and their securities protection and responsibility before engaging in something, If things are new to your knowledge then you better have the basics learned before engaging, you will be scammed and hacked for sure if you are dumb to enter crypto with minimal awareness, unbelievable return on investments in just a short period of time can be a potential scam.

Scammers are everywhere so I don't show my password in social site and I should be protected it

I notice that lots of people whom I dont know are sending message to me in telegram.I have read lots of comments here in forum that never give your email address or anything to someone and I did follow their advice to be safe and secured.Lots of people are sending messages in telegram and said they are an admin but every platform I joined I read first the pinned messages and it said that beware of scammers because admin will never give personal messages unless you plead to them.So thats something suspicious why I received messages and told me that he/she will give a helping hand and propose something, so its very unusual right.The best way to protect yourself to scammers is be aware of everything.Never trust anyone easily and lastly try to read more in this forum like what I did coz its really a big help coz you will learn lots of ideas and can help you for all your decisions whether your doing right or not.

I personally dont participate in many of them, so I have less risk of scam, but I always study project hard, ask devs a questions and then only join.

the best way in this case is to take risks ..
bitcoin because of the large group community as well as other ICO projects ..
here's my way to invest:

Related to the number of airdrop program, before joining make sure first that the project actually held an airdrop program with asking via official telegram or social media. It's a very precise preventive action. One more thing, avoid the airdrop program that requires sending some money to get it.

it's easy for you to scam if you're offered to invest or pay for a profit making

If you receive a phone call offering you an easy way to use bitcoin to get rich quick, hang up. It’s probably too good to be true. The Federal Trade Commission announced Friday that it recently got a court order that stopped four men who were accused of duping people in scams focused around cryptocurrencies, or encrypted digital money.

All we know the're many scammers sowing the gloom in bitcoin world all we need to do is to make sure that your bitcoin are safe to don't lose your bitcoin.

thanks for the information Sir, really learned a lot from this. What you wrote is true. It's really hard to filter scams this days. :(

Awesome information in this thread. i read and now i have knowledge how to select ICO.
many scam icos already scam many investors. And i think we must do our own research before joining any ICOs.

wow its a nice thread, to make people in this forum is safe from scam and scammers, i agree with your statement, the best way to step away from ICO scam is see the team and roadmap, it there are anything that doesn't make sense i think that is a bad proejct and just a scam proejct

I add a little, i think the team also must cooperate with the advisor. because I often get ICO scams because the team does not have an advisor. such as symmetry and also altowl ICO.

To protect myself against these selfish and evil scammers whatever you name them, ICO scam, Scammers who sell fake coins and etc., is simply by being vigilant and keen in choosing ICO. Making a thorough research about the project and spying on them if needed. And to other scammers like hacking passwords the best thing to do is be overprotected in securing and keeping passwords and pinkeys. Store them in a usb and other offline storage. If scammers are wise be wiser.

Research and Research in every way, make it a habit to verify before you make a decision to avoid all forms of fraud, because as clever as a cheater to cover the action, of course leaves a trail indicating that he is a fraud.
Related fraud in the world of crypto also required verification to avoid the fraud of people who are not responsible and only concerned with the benefits for himself or his group.
After you verify, you also need to find out from friends who already have experience before you make a decision.
And the very important thing to avoid fraud, never give any personal identity related to yourself. Because this is usually used as the main target of fraud perpetrators.

Great article while there are scammers everywhere. Most popular scammers nowadays are twitter scammers with similar names trying to get your  coins.

The only way to protect yourself with scammers is to be conscious  all the time.  When someone or some website ask for your too personal info,  back off its probably a scam,. When making a transaction ,use escrow to be safe,  escrow is a middle man just to be sure on your transaction.  Last is to not to share anything or any hint regarding your account it is really dangerous.

If you have good enough technical knowledge of how everything related to crypto works, you will be fine.

The only way to protect your self from scammers is to ignore them and hold your coins in your wallet. Hold  and hold and hold till when price is good then sell off.

Find a real person to mediate, good for both

I have been in crypto world for quite sometimes and I can say that I had been protecting my accounts so securely. I just don't give my password or private key to anyone and to any sites. Do not ever deal with people offering you with great coins or rewards by giving your address and password. Do not deal with scammers.

A popular trick for hackers is a telephone attack. Scammers track users on forums where electronic addresses and telephones are published, after which they call the victims and are presented as a support service. Further actions of fraudsters are aimed at stealing funds. Once the hackers have access to the wallet, they reset their password and steal the crypto currency from the account.

A comprehensive report on how to protect yourself.thanks, but the quick guide is to always bookmark the correct website so that when you entering again, you won't be fooled to a phishing a site.

we should keep ourselves with phishing links sent in the mail and fake link  especially myetherwallet tokens they may hack dont link on any links

very good information. to protect my data from hackers is to install anti virus and add on to detect web phishing.
And never save a Private key on your computer. print out in the paper.
it's safer in my opinion.

You are right there are many viruses that might steal your data or your money, some time ago I almost lost my bitcoin due to virus, when I want to withdraw and then copy my bitcoin address, but then i paste it, its not my bitcoin address that are copied lol, luckily I'm still in focus, remain cautious with all forms of online crime

doubly careful and you need to have your account accounted for each net or you know you can be threatened

Here are some additional points to protect yourself from scammers:
1. Being knowledgeable is the main factor
2. Avoid giving your personal data in any malicious sites
3. Dont click any links or join in any programs that are impossible to happen.

To protect yourself from scammers you need to be careful and do not just trust the people you do not know or even know you because when money can easily make a sin.

Scams target people of all backgrounds, ages and income levels. Every year scams cost millions of dollars and cause considerable non-financial harm.

Scammers will always find new ways of fraud, so the only option is to check everything all the time and bare in mind all types of self-security which are represented here.

The most important thing you must possess to avoid scam is that bring knowledgeable enough to determine whether the person is a scanner or not. Another you must always be careful everytime you transact online because scammed nowadays are very intelligent so be careful with them.

Protect your self in the scammers when you do not truste in other people like invite to you to invest you to her investment sites and keep safe to other scammers because the scammers now is very genius because the scammers is promise to you you get a big interest when you invest but is not true because that's is cam. That's my opinion keep safe to scammers.

I think this is very good with this information I hope new traders can read and can avoid the web and whatever it is that threatens your assets with a scam, many new traders who have to read information like this for the provision of knowledge.

This is good advice, not only for ICO scams, but online safety in general.

Where there is the potential for a fast buck to me made, scammers of all types will be trying to get your cash, your assets or your identity. As with the 419 email scams, if something sounds too good to be true, or if there's any indication that something isn't right, it's usually because it's a scam of some sort.

Scammers have always been and will be. To ensure from them need a sober mind and analytical mind, any fraud can be recognized with certain knowledge and experience.

Learn thoroughly before making a decision. Do not let people know you have what it takes.
Try not to get in contact with unknown people, especially a transaction.

My experience is not to click on suspicious links, and to keep away from some high profit items, these projects must be a hoax.

Thank you, this is good knowledge, but you can not always protect yourself only by owning this knowledge. However, many companies are open and not always have the opportunity to follow everyone.

I think that it is possible to avoid scammers but this will be really difficult as nowadays there are many of scammers. I would like to recommend you to find the reliable places to trade and not do this on unreliable sites

This list contains excellent tips to avoid scammers and I agree that all caution is little when dealing with our investments

This is a very important tips and thank you.
if peoples keep spreading about this, i am sure that the peoples won't be scammed by bad peoples anymore.
nowadays not only investors that has been scammed, but the community and supporters such as bounty hunters has been scammed by scam ICO too.

thaks topic,there are so many importance information,now there are so many scamers,I think we don't trust any stranger,if you buy ICO you on buy on website,don't trust anyone on telegram,starnger,don't give private key and acc for anyone,nobody can protect my acc,only we protect by yourself

Thank you for this very important information every one could have an idea how to avoid scammers and also avoid entertaining people you didn't know and also giving information to any link that you didn't know what it is link for the

Scammers comes in mysterious ways, they are extend from asking for donations, account managers and to Huge frauds like ICO frauds. It's out job not to give them any chance and inform the crypto society as soon as we saw or heard about one and preventing anything happen to anyone else.

It's a really well explained collective about how to protect ourselves .Most important things are phishing attacks and giving private key to the Airdrops, something we definitely should be on high alert about. 

For me i think i will not give my acc password to anyone and dont trust people who you dont know. Nowadays not only the investors are being scammed but the bounty hunters has been scammed by scam ICO.

I am very grateful for these ways. of course everyone has different ways to avoid this scam. of course the more ways we can avoid the swindlers, the con artists do not want to lose too, they will definitely make a better way to deceive people into the program. the point is always alert only.

to protect yourself from scammer,keep your etherum wallet,keep all the password and dont share with anybody

To protect yourself from scammers: Dont ever give your PK to anyone , bookmark every site you open to avoid phising sites, dont be fool to any offered big profit investments. Educate your self.

As for me there are testimonials from 7 tips, and our tips on how to protect yourself from Scammers.
1. Don’t believe every email or text message you receive
   We don’t receive easily if we get email we must know detail about it.
2. Go to the experts when you’re just starting out
    Although many people are buying into the cryptocurrency craze and eager to invest during the current bubble, very few actually know
    anything about it. If we’re intent on managing your own investments, another option is to do business with a reputable brokerage firm,
    which ensures safe and secure transactions. Always keep in mind that going to a specialist is a lot cheaper than getting scammed!
3. Don’t share your bank details over social media
    If you find yourself in this kind of situation, refrain from divulging your banking information,   unless you are certain you are using
    a secure line of communication.
4. Don’t share personal identity information
    Leave any documents containing your personal information at home in a safe place. To be on  the safe side, you can also regularly
    request a copy of your credit report from credit reporting  agencies like Equifax or TransUnion.
5.  Don’t pounce too quickly on online deals
    It’s important to exercise common sense when shopping online. If an offer appears too good  to be true, it may very well be a trap.
6. Don’t be blinded by love
    A tip for those looking for love online: Be wary of anyone who’s more interested in your financial situation than they are in you,
    especially before you’ve even had a chance to meet them.
7.  Exercise caution when buying or selling stuff online
     If we want to do buying and selling online we must be careful.  These 7 tips should help to ptrotect  ourself from scammers.
     and we may   steer our away from disaster and serious financial losses. We can also refer to our security at any time. Thank you.

Some people are taking advantage of the popularity of bitcoin and other cryptos. There really are people who can easily be persuaded to join and do something like this just for the sake of earning profit. They may feel like they understand what they are going into when the truth is they are becoming a tool for other people to gain the profit that is supposed to be for them. There are lots of news now about fraud bitcoin investment and this is not helping with bitcoin trying to recover from the big loss last January.

Scammers are everywhere and sometimes even if we are cautious about everything we do just to make sure that we won't be used and maybe hacked, we are still not cautious enough to see which is real and which is fraud.

These are good advice for you not to be able to get scammed by people here doing the cryptocurrency or bitcoin job. This will be a great advice for those beginners who ought to find a decent and good job here but afraid of getting scammed because people who doing these kinds of things are targetting them. But yet it still depends on the individuals attention and alertness. We have to know when we are already getting scammed.

This is a very good and interesting write up

ensuring team and developers pass KYC
and the profile of the team must be ascertained valid, authentic, and accountable
if the team is convinced, all investment models will be safe, because we already know, who should be responsible

I think it's very easy to protect yourself, YOU MUST BE CAREFUL! Scammers are very many, so you should protect yourself in all ways that you can only come up with. First of all, stop storing money on the stock exchange, get a cold or hardware wallet!

Do some research first before joining in any ICO.  It is important to know more about the project and check the status if the project is active or not. Through checking,  it will help to minimize the scam ICO.

First of all you need to be knowledgeable so that you will not be victimized by the scammers, knowledge about this stuff is very important,you can't be easily fooled, by someone who offers or try to invite you to join in their ICO, because if you studied and educate yourself about these things then scammers will not be successful, most of the people who were victimized by the scammers, most of them are not knowledgeable enough, ignorance sometimes will make the scammers easier to scam you.

Bitcoin scams are becoming increasingly common, so you should stay vigilant. Before making any moves,you should research the products  (are they safe and fairly priced?),and what's it's reputation?)and consider the proposal  (what's the plans compensation structure? )

Most online generators are client side so whenever you use such sites disable your Internet connection and generate.

Here is one good security article that you may find useful:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Jennicide/status/940236428411367424/photo/1

To protect yourself from scammers you should not trust anyone your password account. Also if you want to join any campaign you should read and do some research about that campaign. Protection starts from ourselves so we need to be careful all the time.

For me, we must learn to take good care of our belongings, it is just the same as that, take good care for your bitcoin accounts, use it wisely, be sensitive, research and be sure to accept the reality that you are taking a risk so bitcoin holders are risk takers.

I always encounter scammer in telegram,they dm with offer,saying hey user do you invest later on i said hey scammer and then block.Also in airdrop so most of them scam,they want to get our private key,donation eth.So i know that kind of strategy is scam no legit airdrop asking for 0.5 eth donation.Ignore report and block

thanks, it is a very helpful post for the newbies including me.

Easy as hell.
Download Metamask.
Keep your Private key and valuable informations highly-secured.
As much as possible, get a printed piece of your informations in BTC instead of storing it onto your computer.

They prefer to use a lot of things. For example to pretend like YouTuber, admin in Telegram, write to you from fake e-mail and etc.

For me, It just like a relationship if you want to protect your girlfriend you need to be protective and you don't need to talk to other if you did not know that person. I want to talk to them if I know them. My parents said that don't talk to strangers so in that way you can protect your self in the scammers and do not talk about your bitcoin, because it is the key to victim you.

This is very helpful to us not only for the investors but also to the bounty humters who are working to promote the coins but in the end they will end up empty handed and lost thier time and effort.

This will helps for everyone especially for the newbies. We all know that mostly had experienced for being scammed but in different way. Honestly, Im a victim of a scam when I was new here in crypto I was decided to invest without nothing to do like researching and study. And after i experienced, I make research and study so that I will never  scam again. And the most important thing is to secure any personal accounts like email, password and even a wallet account.

There are lots of scammers out there so one have to be extremely careful.One of the ways of being carefull is by being mindful of the site we visit

Scammers are really active now they are unstoppable. The only way to prvent those scammers are being knowledgeable enough about this forum because no one can fool anyone if you are aware and knowledgeable. And avoid joining projects that are too good to be true and lastly don't give any personal information in any sites and avoid clicking links.

Scammers are always there to disturbed you, you just need to be careful in every stage.

First of all to avoid scams do not give up on this huge amount of money in exchange for your investment because of this much scam.all will do a scammer cheat and then one should not believe especially in the easy money offered us.I'm avoiding these things because i do not want to lose those things and i dont believed in the strangers.

Be conscious on every sites that you visit, search and get information if there is someone offers earning easy money because your investment gonna lose if not and cannot irreversible. Those knowledgeable people cannot be a victim of scam because they have techniques and do not be greed on the higher offer. Protecting your account in any scam is like protecting yourself to be down of anybody.

To protect your self from scammer is avoid giving a personal information and don't give a private key to anyone. Take time to read some articles about scammers.

in fact for new players it is definitely going to be difficult to protect yourself from scamers but for old players are very familiar with scamers, to protect yourself you better look and find information from the coin you want to buy.

Because im beginner I didn't experience scam right now, but i suggest we don't let yourself to people who you don't know, and don't invest your bitcoin just hold it in your wallet hold it for a long time until the price high and if its right time you can sell your bitcoin and be careful to the scammers.

Inorder to be safe from being hacked, we must to secure our private key, we must keep it within us like if you are good in memory you can memorize it,  or put it in a piece of paper and keep it to the safest place where you’re the only one who knows, or create your own wallet and store the private key -offline-.

I guess the missing type from this list is

Make a coin with a fake idea, airdrop it to everyone. Pump the coin up in the decentralized exchanges and then dump everything and vanish.

The solution varies from not joining low grade airdrops to sell your coins in the early rise (Scamming the scammer.)

Hopefully this will be added to the list by OP..  ;D

Type 1. ICO as a SCAM

Check out the team - find out whether they are using their real names or just "stolen" pictures from social media sites.
https://i.imgur.com/H8IWKWW.png
https://i.imgur.com/11npTO7.png

Like with this FAKE ICO https://www.uatchain.com/
The photos on that ICO are so fake that they used the same photo for two of their team members.
"James" and Tony" must be identical twins.

Google image search is handy for that.

Find out what other projects they have been involved with before.

If in doubt don't invest.

Type 2. Scammers who sell FAKE COINS (name / coin code is same but coin generating contract is different)
How to protect yourself: Check the contract address of these coins, if it came from the same contract address

Ethereum tokens are notorious for this. - But other token platforms will be targeted too as they become more popular.

Also be aware of non scams that can fool you. Different exchanges use the same ticker for different coins. BTG could be BitGem or BitcoinGold

Waves platform - ensure you buy VERIFIED bitcoin, waves and Ethereum. (Indicated by a green tick)

Every verified asset has a green tick.

https://i.imgur.com/17KWooC.png

https://i.imgur.com/oy3hIou.png

https://i.imgur.com/O4CBftP.png

Type 7: Phishing website attempts
How to avoid getting your exchange account HaCkEd or pHiShEd (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4404175.0)

ADDITIONAL:
Bitcoin Gold wallet scam
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2452110.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2336309.0



When a coin forks it requires using the private key on the new chain - this potentially provides the key to your wallet. With the Bitcoin gold scam the scammer changed the code for the conversion wallet to steal the users Bitcoin.

Self escrow scams-  where a scammer uses their other "trusted" alt to "escrow" the funds. This happens on forums where the same or symilar names can be used to that of admins or other trusted people. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1171059.0

Smart contract scam:
Clever honeytrap scam where users are tempted into sending ETH as "gas" to "claim" 75000 ICX tokens.
Instead the ETH is transferred by the smart contract to another wallet after one confirmation.


Just send me a PM if you would like me to explain anything in more detail.

Resarch first. If the coin is too good to be true, please doubt. Scammers are all over waiting for you to take the bait. Be vigilant and search search search.

Yeah you're right a person who has knowledge of course will be more difficult to be deceived. and the information provided by the OP is helpful for you to be more knowledgeable. knowledge will protect you from fraud. because you can tell which investment is right and fraud, be more careful from phishing sites, and so on

I believe that doing research before taking any decision is the single best option to stay safe. I have saved my thousands of dollars just because I read the topics about the particular investment option when I was about to invest in it.

That is right, you need to protect yourself from those scammers, and that is by being responsible with yourself, I know that all of us here are busy but we should have time to do everything for us to know when a certain investment scheme or a project was just a scam or not.

Never need to relax when working with crypto-currencies. Scammers use ignorance and laziness of their victims

Yes I agree, also research is the key to be aware of scammers and inevitable individual, using 2fa code for your account is recommended before anything study an ICO and assess it, if its ok join it.

damned scammers shit >:(
must always be alert never sleep

With my numerous years from past experiences with the help of bitcoin you will find a particular reliable way of avoiding scammers. Through registering to ICO you will still those who you may not discover quite possibly scammers before ICO has concluded. How to keep clear of scammers is almost always to certainly no dedicate a bitcoins. Solely handle it again on your bank balance not to mention handle it again a long time as the charge might be best suited you can actually offer for sale these products not to mention you have fantastic turn a profit.

that's very useful for crypto beginners, the crypto world now is full of scammers

In my experience with scammer  there are some effective ways to avoid scammers as for me there are six types to protect from crypto scammer :
The first      ; Don’t be easy to deceive things easily
The second ; Be careful with advertisement from google
The third    : Be careful by the link is suspicious
The forth    : Be avoid Offering Odds
The fifth     : Don’t download from Suspicious Sites
The sixth    : Separate E-Wallet Computers from Daily Computer
Thank you

Just simple for me, don't trust anyone. always reading content to avoid the scammer. Never download anything. Have a backup minimal at 3 places,

Well the best way is to never let yourself be fooled by scammers and schemes. Make yourself knowledgable enough to determine whether somesthing is a scam or not. Never trust someone easily especially people in the internet. Never give your private keys to anyone. Don’t be fooled by freebies like free Bitcoin. Avoild phishing sites. Be aware.

First of all, you must secure the money that is stored on your exchanges and purses! Do not store private keys in public access, use two-factor authentication! Always check the authenticity of the site on which you compose your data!

Truly, there is designated kind of scammer. It is too difficult to know whether the ICO is a trick or a genuine on if there are whitepaper and group on their site. Social media scammers are dependable on the Facebook. Facebook is the stage due to the over-burden populace on the Facebook they can simple trick others on it. To those type of scammer, I as of now encounter social media scammers on the Facebook is the method for our association and others stuff. The important is I learn from it. Presently I don't purchase or contact other individuals if there is cash included.

The easiest way for us to protect ourselves against scammers out there in the market is by preparing or buy letting ourselves be aware on the different things about bitcoin. We should need to learn all the information or the updates in regards to cryptocurrency and its market. It would help us to know what is the real way for us to earn or the best investment we could join upon for us to gain profit for the future. Do not believe on some people that says that earning would be just easy because there will always a risk in earning and starting an investments so be aware.

that can protect yourself from scammers is yourself. well, then we must be careful in making decisions, and actions. we know that so many people want to capitalize on such moments as investing to cheat. so, if we are not careful, then it could happen.

Those social media scammers that ask for some bitcoins to send huge quantity are very common. One should be careful against their too good to be true claims.

it is necessary to adhere to the elementary rules in here. Do not let the scammers fool themselves. for example, you should never share personal information with strangers, do not give credit card numbers, bank accounts, or even phone numbers. in some cases, even a page in the social network, since basically users are registered there using e-mail or phone number, and by them you can calculate all the other data that you can use.

Scamers have upped their game in the recent past, comng up with all sorts of new tricks to defroud people of their had earned money, one has to be very careful when approaching cryptocurrency especially ICOs as there are quite couple of them with only intentions of grabbing money and disappearing, for this special detail should be kept on the projects, development teams and the products on offer and ensure they are authentic enough

It is all over the news and social media now!  Scammers are everywhere now a days.  If you will allow them to control you, they would get everything from you, from money to properties.  I just do not know how some people would believe immediately when someone promise them heaven like income.  Invest this much and get twice or trice much of what they have invested.  As I have said, it is all over the news and everywhere, so why do we still believe on easy money they are baiting us?  Some people just never learned.  Recently, a syndicate was raided in our country, the Philippines, it was run by Israel nationals with I think hundreds of Filipino employees I considered victims of situations.  Thanks God it was already busted out and if not, there will be still hundreds of victims who will continue believe they will earn as much as they wanted with this kind of opportunities these scammers are offering, only they would end up crying.

The rate of scammers have increased tremendiously, and we need to be extra careful not to fall a victim. I pray none of us will fall to this sammers.

Truly, knowledge is power! Educating yourself is the key to prevent such fraudulent schemes! Don't just jump in to an investment without knowing a thing or it is just because you are promised of a certain return without doing anything. There is no such thing as easy money in investing! It takes right knowledge, time and great effort for us to survive in this arena!

A way I used and seems to be a viable way to distinguish a fraud ICO from a legitimate one is by looking at the projects they are aiming to do. If it is so good to be true (Ex. Cryptocurrency Credit Cards). then they might be a scam. This has worked for me a lot of times and has saved me from losing hundreds and hundreds of dollars.

You can protect yourself form scammers first be aware of making a deal with anonymous person or having a transaction them because i think  some of users here in bitcointalk are not giving their real identity and also keep your private key in a safe place that no one can know except you

I agree with you once you have been decided to make a transaction are buying something with your cryptocurrencies you need to be a careful from the scammers but once you have been learnt or something it will be very helpful to you be safer in this field .

 Scammer are continuously getting creative with their strategies on how to commit scams,  its unfortunate that your hard work can go up in smoke in a matter of minutes, THIS CAN however be avoided through proper caution and thorough analysis of projects before one  commits to a coin ar any activity, make sure that they are authentic

thanks for these information, i learnt from it and i also see it as an eye opener. although you have said it all ... there is no 100% precautions that proof safety when it comes to internet fraud but we just have to be care in all our dealings to avoid scammers.

Scammers are everywhere now especially for cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin and other coins have more enemies than friends. Developers and programmers are really taking advantage of the novice in this industry. The best way to guide against them is to keep your private key and wallet id and password from the public. With this you can be safe from scammers and fraud.

Thanks for your suggestion. It is very useful for me... :)

There's a lot of kind of scammer but the  same is they want is to steal your money so we need to be extra careful in any situation.  Because once you fall in their trap you cannot scape and you lose everything.

The only effective way to secure your assets against scammers is by holding your information away from them, never store any thing like secret keys online or backing it up in an email, and also stop being greedy because that is the only thing that will drag you into being scammed.

There are many ways to protect your cryptos. One of the most basic to secure your assets is to keep your personal information and account private. Second, learn how to read. It’s very simple instruction but many of us are blinded by these scammers with their flowering words by promoting false information. And lastly, learn to be realistic at all times.

Nice information for the newbies. I want to give some opinion regarding this.
1. Some of the icos really are a scam, even you are just doing campaign it is still a hard work so read carefuly their projects and their plans. If no spreedsheet dont apply for it.
2. Fake coins? They use same name of the known coins so you better reqlly check their contact address when buying.
3. Most of the scam are in the social media. Check their account if its new. Beware of that. Dont be lured by it.
 And for the rest, just be careful. Some People who are in tgis wrong doings will do all the strategies just to have our money. If you are not smart enough to differentiate this scam, its very unlucky to you to loss all your money to nothing.

to be able to protect myself from scammers it seems like I need some experience so should be able to avoid it, the way I use it is I have to search for very clear and deeper information, and do not believe it by doubling the bitcoin easily.

You should always be careful every time you transact online because scammed is currently very smart so be careful with them. And the most important thing you must have to avoid a scam is to bring enough knowledge to determine if the person is a scanner or not

Never ever share your private key!!! Not even to anybody who says he's from the support or anybody ever!!

Well i didn't say i don't agree with your opinion but scammer is everywhere even though you don't share your personal password and even if you didn't tell anybody about it but still scammer's have a way like using online site's, there are some reports in transferring funds that most of the site's now are not trusted.

Scammer and hacker now a days are smart they will do everything to get what they want that is why we need to doubled our security to protect our wallet and we need to be knowledgeable or wise enough so that they will not be outweigh by the those scammer. 

Thank you for sharing that wonderful statement of yours and I hope it will come to handy someday.
It is true that there are a lot of ICO who are just scam, but in my experience in cryptocurrency what I do is to avoid scam is to buy it when it is already available in the market, ICO phase is something I don't trust completely and this is my way of protecting myself to some scamming incidence.

This is a very nice initiative but you forgot the most important one common sense and logic, if it's to good to true then it's false. People often fall for those catchy ads and fake generators saying they'll get one btc or they fall to simple tricks like giving away their seed and password which is so dumb. I hope you can add common sense and logic also to your list.

There are many ways to protect ourselves from scammers but the major tips to avoid scammers are being knowledgeable in the world of cryptocurrency because if you know everything no one can fool you and you can detect or analyze what is true and not. Just be aware and dont make decisions without thinking.

I think that the best protection for hackers is your own care! Do not store money on the exchange, use double authentication and do not store your passwords in an easily accessible place.

It is best to trust proven solutions in this industry. Already a long time ago there are hardware wallets. You can buy yourself such a purse and do not worry about your private key more than ever.

I agree. That's my main way of determining scams too, but mind you, it's easier said than done. Scammers nowadays are also becoming witty and smart, they know how to hide their tracks, and you wouldn't even see it until the very end of a project. Therefore, I would say that even if you get scammed, you should accept that it's part of this market since there are only a few safeguards that are put up to actually protect users, the only one you can rely on is yourself.

First of all, you must protect your money, which you already have. If you are not trading, transfer all your money from the exchange to the purse, use two-factor authentication, do not store passwords in an easily accessible place and do not tell anyone how much money you have.

Using wallet exchange untum to store assets is very risky, so use a wallet exchange when trading only. Additionally linking with emails and providing complicated passwords can improve your aet security. Last suggestion, avoid website phising.

First and foremost be very cautious. The fact that you can lose your money within seconds is alarming and as such don't give out your private keys and personal data. Beware of scammers. Don't trust anybody.

Be careful and read more about the project before you invest or join in any bounty.  It is much important to read first and learn how the project really works.

Scammers can be seen all around, and bitcoin is no exception to it. As each and every activity related to bitcoin takes place through the internet it is easy for the scammers to make people fall into the trap. To stay away from those scammers we need to analyze the particular project in a better way and one thing need to be considered is the luck. Some looks perfectly legit and at some point they scam us and by that situation we cannot do anything.

Honestly, its not that easy to protect ourselves from scammer, because they are so many. But, what I usually do just to make sure that I joined to the campaign that is not possibly a scam. I read there project goal, visit their website, Facebook ,twitter and etc. and if I see that there are so many members and participants, i can say that there are lots of Bitcoiners who believe it and it is not a scam.

I also wanted to hear about others on how they protect their self from the scammers.

Choose the best project before doing an investment. It is so important to research first and check the updates if it is real or just a Scam ICO. We cannot identify it easily but by monitoring the project we can surely identify it.

Before putting venture on any bitcoin investment sites be sure to google first and find some good reviews about it. Mostly scam sites offer too good to be true program and by that you should be thinking twice and doubt that promised profit is impossible to reach. Having on bitcoin is already a risked to begin with because bitcoin is unpredictable and also the same as risking on ICO / HYIP / PONZI. Just be ready of everything could happened, invest what you can afford to lose.

I once encountered a scammer last week and guess what, he failed. Thank you for the tips you have posted, I read it thoroughly, it really helps me, and i owe you

Research. That's all you have to do to dodge a bullet. I mean, how good can a scammer can possibly be. Obviously a scammer isn't able to write a good whitepaper (we're talking about ICO scammers) so by reading the WP of the project, you can easily avoid getting scammed. Just think of it. If a scammer is intelligent enough to set up a believable whitepaper and a believable website and has come up to a good concept for an ICO, then he's just going to setup an actual ICO which can make him rich in the coming years without having to deceive people.

Funny because by just looking at the website especially the "about" part of their website, you can easily see if it's a legit ICO. If the advisers are some known advisors and they actually confirm that they are advising that ICO, then the chance of you getting scammed is lessened (but not non-existent). There are ICOs where the "about" photos are pictures of random people and there's one time when there was just a drawing of people lol.

Bottomline, scamming is just about details. The more convincing your deal is, the more people you can scam. On the other hand, people with such good knowledge will be doing legit things to make money and not just commit basic scams for money. They can do better. So we're left off with scammers that aren't really that good.

(Of course I'm talking about internet scammers. There are scammers IRL that are really intelligent and was able to pull-off one huge scam.)

To protect yourself from scammers you need to be careful and do not just trust the people you do not know or even know you because when money can easily make a sin.

You should definitely prioritize your safety. You should definitely choose safe access routes to the sites you enter. try to use two-factor authentication everywhere. Also, try not to keep any passwords you have saved online. At least you'll be safer with them.

Yes I agree on that . I believe that learning is the best shield for scammers. I think if we learn more things in cryptofeild we can really also protect our self from scammers, because there are so many scammers on the crypto feild they can really steal all your earnings. So then i believ ethat we need to be more temperate on this crypto feild for good.

it's easier then you can imagine... just follow this 2 simply rules:
- no one will give you anything for free, not trust un-believable offers, you will get scammed.
- use always an escrow (best are here on forum where you have a completely track record of their past actions).

It really helps me to find a good project and it will be beneficial to everyone rather than helping the projects that will make the destruction.

I think there are several rules to avoid scammers: 1) do not respond to unknown persons in chats who want help you to buy ICO tokens and etc; 2) do not open suspicious links; 3) trade only at big criptocurrency exchanges and use official wallets only.

Thanks for makin an effort. I like it and will remember it tho i just want to make it simple for other users who cannot understand. Simple rule would be "do not try the obvious scam scheme like cloud mining and any other HYIP sites". Most of the time legit ways of makinf money are the hardest one or it may be the easiest one but the lowest reward as well

need to be careful not to visit strange sites and observe safety rules

How to Protect Yourself From Scammers?

1. Do online researches - internet is very important to us people especially on our generation. But other people use it as an opportunity to scam other people or hack a systems. Scammers are wise. But let's be more wiser than the scammers.

2. Don't pay money to strangers - if you don't really know who are you talking to, and they offer you something but you need to pay some fees. Then don't ever trust them. Thwy might run and your money will never return to you.

3.Talk to someone whom you can trust - others might want to know your informations. But before you give it to them, make sure you ask for help of your friends whom you can trust so that they can give you an advice.

4. Try to spot the imposters - the scammers might also use copycats to make their bad doings. They might copy the picture of your friends or introduce themselves as a friend of your friend. Be wise.

We must all be very careful before dealing with any transactions online it only proves that there are so many scammers and hackers are spreading over the internet always asked other trusted people if you want to invest large amount of money.

Being responsible enough is one way to protect hour from scammers, when joining ICO learn to investigate a little never trust fully and never give away your private key and address.

I can protect it by for not talking on strangers in social media or other website. And protect my wallet using hardware. And you need to be knowledgeable

By strickly researching about their what going to do,because now many of those scammer was pretending a staff of one ico and they ask for money,im sure  you will know if scammer was came to you its just was horrible.

We can prevent scum against the scummer by keeping our bitcoin account independent of giving your private key to anyone so that you do not rob a btc and so they can not transact your account thereby avoiding the scum of your account scummer.

i think it is very simple,you don't believ anyone on telegram and stranger,you don't give you wallet for anyone,if you buy ICO you only buy on the website of this ICO,no admin pm you with hight bonus,when you click strange link,you have to stop,with me you don't give your money for any stranger

Scammers are the most creative personalities around they will go along way to get those coins from you and when they do, the sad part of it is that you might never get the back ever,, you therefore have to be very cautious on who you dealing with . who you trust with your private information. avoid phishing sites as much as possible, avoid responding to promising and lucrative offers on social media. keep your wallet key safe, and do not expose it to anyone whatsoever

if we know what the scammer will do then we do not have to laboriously secure our wallets because we already know. and how can we know what a scammer will do with us ?. we will never know when a scammer will steal the bitcoin from our wallet. so we must always be ready for alert and careful that scammers do not steal our bitcoin just like that,

To protect yourself from scammers you need to be careful and do not just trust the people you do not know or even know you because when money can easily make a sin.

All we need to know is what scammers always do to scam other people because if you aware about their doing you can avoid to be victim by scam.

I am also a victim of a scammers for a very long time I've been scam here for a lot of times and neither one of them I do not have figure out that they are scammers because they are really as normal as what a normal icos are and they are really hard to know it you will be scammed or not. So for me it is just a matter of luck  because you always join an ico that you never knew in the first place it is like going to a war alone. Even if you check it much more if they are great scammers they will be successful.

What youre imposing here is for long term investors but what about those making a living by joining ico,investing in projects?this is what OP is addressing for them to avoid being a victim of this scammers

To OP you have lots of experiences and knowledge about this damn scammers,hoping that this post and advices my lead to lessen the poor victim ,and may they knowledgeable upon this bad doings

never use your private address

I often meet this types and maybe such types are very common, and many have experienced them. They claimed to be on the team side, and offered to donate to their wallet address. This is usually on telegram. But I don't do anything, because from any point, this is obviously a hoax, a fake, a scam. So I just ignore these things.

save our  key

I can protect my self by keeping my private key in a safe place and I'm not making a transacton in an anonymous person for me to avoid scam or hacker

If you are knowledgeable about cryptocurrency and bitcoin you can really avoid all the scammers, and then do not trust anyone especially the people who have negative background. In addition to that, do not share your password and private to anybody so that you can avoid all scammers on online.

There are some rules to get rid or protect yourself from scammers:

1. Don’t buy or invest in something that seems too good to be true.
   Many coins are rising, there are cryptocurrencies everywhere. We can't stop it. But one thing we should do to avoid getting scammed is that don't believe and invest so easily. Because remember, scammers are everywhere.

2. Protect your confidential informations.
   As we all know, many sites in the internet needs an information about you. Your age, birthday, location and etc. Don't ever post it there because who knows that it's just a scam. And they can use it against you or use it to make crime and you are the one who will be blamed after, because it is your information. Be wise.

3. Don't make hasty decision.
   Don't be caught too easily even though the offer seems to be worth to buy or to invest. Make sure that it is legit and it is not a scam. Scammers are wise. Think twice before you click.

4. Make researches.
   To get rid of scammers or to not get scammed is you need to research a lot of articles and news. Because reading and watching those things will help you secure your information, make you a better person to fight scammers and protect yourself from them.

Just simple for me, don't trust anyone. always reading content to avoid the scammer. Never download anything. Have a backup minimal at 3 places

Thank you very detailed analysis of these situations for me
You understand that it is something that many people desire

You should use your head while evaluating any project or offer. If you are completely new to crypto, I will suggest you to invest only in top 10 coins  based on coinmarketcap.

Thanks, You have shared almost all the clues to identify the scammer. I am caught a scammer one time. The Scammer is added to coinmarketcap before finished their ICO and the price was so high in the exchange than ICO rate. After seeing this I got foolish and invested to that ICO. That was my first ICO. so sad happening.

Do not ever share or show your password and private to anyone so that you can assure that no one can open your wallet. Furthermore, just keep your wallet in a safe place and do not trust anyone. Lastly, you must have some information on that so you can avoid scammers and be careful on social media.

I think that in this plan you should become paranoid and always think that you want to be deceived! It is necessary to check all the details, correctly write each letter, do not store the password in an easily accessible place, do not store money on the stock exchange and so on!

In case of bounty, we only lost our time. But if we invest in the ICO, the worst is that our money is not doubled, our money can just disappear. No one can't just join without reading anything. Learn the project, then do invest after that.

Well, a lot of precautions out there that we need in order to prevent ourselves from scammers, we also have our own knowledge and we can feel strange feeling if something is wrong that is why we need to be careful with everything that we are doing so the scammers will be having a hard time making money.

I have often seen in the tables on the bounty, where is your wallet's address was the key, you need to be careful. very often try to steal personal data through other sites, throw you a link and you go through it and all the data from them! you need to be very careful and never show your passwords to anyone!

The unstable link in crypto-security is people. investors often make their own mistakes and because of this lose their money. so there are some rules: watch out for the security of your computer. use a dedicated PC or mobile device, as well as a secure network. Do not be lazy to create strong passwords, encrypt data and create from a backup. Be careful with mobile authentication and install two purses: the main and multicurrency. Use the services of third-party companies for cyber security and pay attention to browsers. and be sure to use caution on the network.

First and foremost be very cautious. The fact that you can lose your money within seconds is alarming and as such don't give out your private keys and personal data Scammers can be seen all around, and bitcoin is no exception to it. As each and every activity related to bitcoin takes place through the internet it is easy for the scammers to make people fall into the trap. To stay away from those scammers we need to analyze the particular project in a better way and one thing need to be considered is the luck. Some looks perfectly legit and at some point they scam us and by that situation we cannot do anything. Beware of scammers. Don't trust anybody

It's really hard to get rid of them, and whatever you do, they are still somehow out of the question. Do your best research and enter this market. It seems to be most logical to stay away from everything you do not know.

First of all, use hardware and paper wallets

To be scam by scammers is very easily but I think we all need to be care in the kind of project we invest on.
Like most ico project always make sure you study and understand what the project is all about before you you think of putting your fund or if possible try and get in touch with the CEO of the project

Most of this type of scam do succeed due to greediness many people what's to make more than 100% profits over night which is not as easy as they look it to be, cryptocurrency world is a gradual process and needs patient. Just have to avoid greedy habits and stay focus on investing, trading or bounties through this mediums you can attained any level here in the cryptocurrency world not by try to get any coin in a manipulated way only then you will be a bit free from be scammed.

Exactly as long as this is not to be familiar you have to be more careful of it and think or atleast you have to be more practical on what you have to do with , be alert for actuve scammers be aware that you cant be ine of their victim.

I do not think Share your real social media account with a random person, save your email address for yourself and if you must use it be sure to have an email burner. What is a burner? Emails are not necessarily made for every forum and project. Only emails that do not contain your personal data and which you do not use for online shopping, banking, and so on.
You must first realize what they want from you. In the end it's always your money, while in the process they may want some personal data, phone numbers, whatever they can enter. SO, to avoid scammers never give anything.

Thank you sir for opening our eyes to this reality as many of us here has been scam one way or the other.  I have been scams by scam projects and icos and since then I became very wise on the ways I invest my money.
If this you information were available then I could have avoid investments on those scam's icos.  For those that got this fact I will advise us to be careful the way we invest into some of this projects or trade in the exchange.

thanks for the tips. i mostly didn't care much on these things. but after reading this i thought that i should be more vigilante.

I was scammed few hours ago. All my tokens are gone in an instant but I know it is alp my fault. Their "modus" is, 2 or more of them will pm you. One asking for your wallet private key, and the other one is asking to buy your tokens in negotiable price. They will continue to pm you. The other one will send you few tokens to make you trust them. And ask for your private key again because of some reasons they will tell you. (This is where I lost my other wallet). Next person will negotiate to your token price. Once you sent your tokens, they will not pay you. And then block.
Lesson here is don't ever trust anyone other people other than ICO people. Don't send your private key to anyone and don't make transactions to new people or person you don't even know. Be carefull everyone because crypto world is also a world full of scammers.

I think you can protect yourself from scammers by not joining in their ICO project or do not invest your money to them, try to observe and have more research before letting your money in with them, be alert always.

To protect your self from the bad people or scammers don't let anyone know that you have bitcoin because if there is someone who don't have bitcoin and have a negative idea about bitcoin maybe he or she will take your bitcoin. Maybe he will manipulate you by saying anything about bitcoin, he will convinced you to trust him and say to him your password in your bitcoin wallet or digital wallet. Scammers and hackers are just the same, because they do bad things against to you.

The only way to protect yourself with scammers is to be conscious  all the time.Hold  and hold and hold till when price is good then sell off.

You have to trust noone, and that's basically i am doing most especially that scammers are just around trying to victimize others. Once you noticed a very suspicious events around, then you gotta think twice. Investing ICO, for instance, you need to have a deep investigation first whether or not the team behind it is 100% legit.

I think the best way to get yourself protected from scammers is to be educated and do your research.  Try to know the project as a whole.  Its people,  mechanics,  and it legitimacy. The reason why some are getting scammed is that they always take everything without even knowing if the thing is legitimate.

Yey thanks for this im going to share this to my friends cause many of my friend just got hack thier eth wallet they dont know how they have been hacked

Less than 10% of my investments turn out to be mice or those who did not calculate their strengths and did not reach the goal. It's unavoidable. How would you not study the company, no matter what feedback you see, it's like there are errors in mathematics. The best defense is experience and work on mistakes.

And now in many airdrops they send an mail to fill form and require you to sign a message with and you can do that with your private key so be careful and don't give your private key to any one

Donot share your private key or wallet seed, self-drop asking to send the amount of bitcoin or ETH in return of their ICO. most of the scam happen during ICO some DM introduce His/her self as an admin.

In this world of bitcoins, we should be aware of scammers such that some ico's are not paying your job, but at the first place we have nothing to lose. I mean we dont lose money for this investment, but only our time and effort whenever we are scammed. We shall aware of scammers.bounty campaigns posted by the one who has minus trust may lead to scam.

It's really hard to protect ourselves from scammers. It's being part of our society of having these kind of people. And best way to protect ourselves from it is to use our own common sense which is not common :D.

Since bitcoin is becoming larger and larger, the scammers are scattered around. In order to protect yourself to this, I agree on the statememts above. I would also like to add the following: Know the background of the campaign you're going to join by asking the opinions of others. Listen to your guts. If you feel that it is so good to be true  or having hesitation then don't try it out. Be wise in making decisions. Plan everything before taking an action.

I think the most formidable enemy of scammers would be you being knowledgeable. Scammers can not fool you if you have the necessary learnings about bitcoin.

You're right. But remember, professional fraud, you are still the victim. Phishing is not just one person but one team. They are more sophisticated and dangerous than you think. Only you can hold yourself. Be more discerning

That's a load of information that everyone should take a break and read. The best way to avoid scammer is to equip ourselves with enough knowledge like what op stated here, use our common sense at all times and always be vigilant on what is happening around us.

I think do not be easily fooled by the big rewards, and see also the participants, lots or no followers, last do not forget to join the telegram group.
when will join bounty campaign and also ico project, try to find your own, not a recommendation from person. even if it is a recommendation, we should know for sure the truth of ico, not just ico pictures only, but the whole ico project. I say this because sometimes people are sharing info about ico, they do not include in detail the project from ico.

Well that is the first thing you do, i think you don't believe it immediately if what they says. First you need to research if its true or think well before you will decide, you must aware and be careful in your decision. If you really doubt so don't continue  and avoid it. Don't talk if you are not sure. Being wise is better so that you will not victim of scammers.

That's a lot of ways to prevent scammers fooled you. This will be useful for newbies like me in cryptocurrency technology. Hope that i will not become a victim of those scammers.

Scammers comes in mysterious ways, they are extend from asking for donations, account managers and to Huge frauds like ICO frauds. Nowadays not only the investors are being scammed but the bounty hunters has been scammed by scam ICO.

You should not make hasty decisions. Think twice before investing in any project. You should not click on phishing links and protect your confidential information. Use only genuine software and keep it up to date. To truly protect yourself , play it safe 8)

You may be scammed by new entrants to the Bitcoin market who have not had much experience or new investments in the first time led by bad guys. I think we should equip ourselves with strong knowledge to be confident in dealing

I can protect it by for not talking on strangers in social media or other website. And protect my wallet using hardware. And you need to be knowledgeable

Choose the best project before doing an investment. It is so important to research first and check the updates if it is real or just a Scam ICO. We cannot identify it easily but by monitoring the project we can surely identify it.

I once encountered a scammer last week and guess what, he failed. Thank you for the tips you have posted, I read it thoroughly, it really helps me, and i owe you

Right now its hard to identify scam ICOs or not. Some scam ICOs have great website and have good and convincing whitepaper. They best thing we can do is make good research about their project and their team.

Great article! Newbie must read it.
Many of them sooner or later encounter scammers/fraudsters, this will protect them.

Nothing is safe on internet for avoid scam.Do your own research before invest in any ico.

i think the best way tl avoid scammer is never believe in a private message. because lot of people now prending that they are the admin of a ico. always look to the site for address and admin nevee pm a address

 Thanks for this information and I think Doing research to know more about an ico is one of the ways to proctect onceself from scamers.

ICO's have become an easy way to scam investors these days. It is the main reason for different governments to ban ICO's or to keep regulations on them.

Scamers have upped their game in the recent past, comng up with all sorts of new tricks to defroud people of their had earned money, one has to be very careful when approaching cryptocurrency especially ICOs as there are quite couple of them with only intentions of grabbing money and disappearing, for this special detail should be kept on the projects, development teams and the products on offer and ensure they are authentic enough

here are lots of scammers out there so one have to be extremely careful.And avoid joining projects that are too good to be true and lastly don't give any personal information in any sites and avoid clicking links.

Very good article to read for this community because there are many peoples wallet getting hacked.
Your wallet = your responsibility, so you can take every actions to protect your wallet against scammer.
For me, using metamask for ethereum is a good idea, and for bitcoin, using the client wallet like bitcoin core is good.

Thank you sir for your advice, i really appreciate it. After all your wallet is your responsibility without pay attention you can lost many of your cryptocurrency even all of them. Hopefully this help many newbie like me  ;D

I think the very best way to do for avoiding one of the victims from those scammers is to have an enough knowledge and peace of mind about.
Be wise and avoid clicking malicious website .
Because nowadays . Scammers and are in everywhere.

First of all remember what there is no easy money.
All where do you offer big increase 90% scam, maybe 100%
Believe only for yourself and you dont be scammed

Scammers are everywhere, they just actually waiting for the right timing. Be careful everytime you recieve an offer that is too good to be true, learn to determine phishing emails, websites not are not legit and ofcourse always remember not to provide your personal information right away.

thank you very much for sharing with the community.
I see now there is a cheat form in the form of coin floor, to get the identity of the subscriber anymore

These are some of the reasons on how you can protect yourself from scammers but the very way on how to protect yourself from the scammers is to don't entertain them. If you entertain them, the chance that they will repeat scamming to others is 100%. Be wise when you are talking to strangers.

Safety is very important! Thoroughly check the sites, get a good antivirus, learn all the ICO, where you want to deposit money. There are several wallets.

To stay away from scammers, it is good to go through the service renderers trust rate. Probably scammers focus the newbies, because they are the one who can be trapped with ease. As each and everything with cryptocurrency happens through internet, scammers consider it an easy way.

Another is the TELEGRAM BOTS
Always remember that creating bots in Telegram is as easy as 123. Never disclose your personal information to that. Be smart and observant.

Scammers are the reason why many investors are afraid to invest. Safety is very important in investment and as such you need to be careful. You have to keep your private key well by not sharing it with anyone and secondly securing it in a hardware wallet can also help.

Sometimes it is hard to identify or recognize if they are scammer or not. I think the best way to protect ourselves to the scammers is to be aware like, check their website if it is real, the content of their white paper to know their plans about the project if there are lots of investors purchased from their ICO.

True,  scammers are too professional now a days,  can you just immagine how they created their own ico and after a few weeks or months we cannot hear some updates anymore after the ICO crowdsale or token sale.  They are too professional.!
 

We must do something about it and must read more about the ICO before we do our investment. Do some research about the project.

Thank you for all this useful information. Scammers are everywhere now especially for cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin and other coins have more enemies than friends. Developers and programmers are really taking advantage of the novice in this industry. The best way to guide against them is to keep your private key and wallet id and password from the public. With this you can be safe from scammers and fraud

There are scammers every now and then. Some are in the form of ICO's and most of them pass messages through email. We all need to be vigilant in filling some unanimous forms and ICO's.  

There are several obvious characteristics of ICO scams: developers are anonymous, there is no managed wallet, the goal is unclear or unrealistic, and the most obvious factors.
If you find an ICO with any of the above signs, especially if you have any of the above signs, it's best to avoid investing any money!

the most important not to be tempted by the ICO promising a great income.
we must first examine before joining, it is to minimize the risk of fraud.

i am particular about ICO scam. i am pretty sure it is the main reason why most investors are hesistant in investing in most promising ICO projects. i may attribute ICO scam largely to the lack of appropriate regulatory body that will license and regulate ICO's of crpto projects from beginning to the end. the lack of regulatory body along gives scammer the chance to find their way through ICO rating and then into the public, causing detrimental effect in the crypto market.

To really address this issue, i believe appropriate regulatory body should be set up to duly assess a given project in the crypto market before pushing/ licensing it to commence its initial coin offering event. such body should be responsible for monitoring the funds collected during every ICO and ensure its safety.

i am sure this will give most investor the assurance that at least the project he is investing in has undergone due diligence check up by ICO regulatory body and has also be fully licensed, as well as under the full observation of ICO regulatory body.

By joining the ICO even if you do your research, you will not know that they are scammers until the ICO ends. The best way to avoid a scammer is to not invest your bitcoin. It's definitely a good conservative approach and I know many people do the same thing. ROI on ICO investments (when done right) can be nice.

First Spot imposters,Scammers often pretend to be someone you trust, like a government official, a family member, a charity, or a company you do business with. Don’t send money or give out personal information in response to an unexpected request . Then Do online searches. Type a company or product name into your favorite search engine with words like “review,” “complaint” or “scam. Next, Don’t believe your caller ID technology makes it easy for scammers to fake caller ID information, so the name and number you see aren’t always real. Don’t pay upfront for a promise. Someone might ask you to pay in advance for things like debt relief, credit and loan offers, mortgage assistance, or a job. Lastly, Consider how you pay Credit cards have significant fraud protection built in, but some payment methods don’t. Wiring money through services like Western Union or MoneyGram is risky because it’s nearly impossible to get your money back.

Be wary of strangers rewarding or receiving unknown or unknown emails
If a message sees you as a website visitor offering millions of gifts or promotes a quick and easy way to earn money or work, it does not seem to be a well-meaning message. If someone tells you that you are a winner and asks you to fill out a form with personal information, do not be tempted to fill it in immediately. Even if you do not hit the submit button, you can still send that information to the fraudsters when you start entering the data into the form.

So if you don't invest and risk then you won't get burned. That's obvious but the real threat are those exchanges and phishing sites and emails.

Thanks for sharing such an insightful piece to help people protect themselves from scammers.  My friend's bitcoin was hacked, lucky for him, he had just a little amount of bitcoin in it. He received an email that he should confirmation on some kind of transaction he made. Less than an hour his wallet was hacked.

I think do not be easily fooled by the big rewards, and see also the participants, many or no followers, last do not forget to join the telegram group.
when will join bounty campaign and also ico project, try to find your own, not a recommendation from person. even if it is a recommendation, we should know for sure the truth of ico, not just ico pictures only, but the whole ico project. I say this because sometimes people are sharing info about ico, they do not include in detail the project from ico.

agreed with all these but most funny is number 3 hahaha ask 5 eth for give back 50 eth,who believe this?

Trickster are the most exceedingly terrible web business visionaries night female horse, the way that you can lose all your diligent work in a matter of seconds is sufficiently alarming, the most ideal method for maintaining a strategic distance from their sharp eyes is through encryption, encode your wallets the most ideal way you can, and if conceivable, utilize equipment wallets. they will ensure you without bounds.

Even doing research about the project you are investing in will not reveal if that is a scam or not. the best way to avoid these ico scammers probably are by not investing. It's really hard to know if an ICO is a scam or not.

Yeah indeed you are right and there are scammers also that would attend to you using telegram and will pm you directly to invest on them or they will going to offer you something that you can earn that much in the process but it is just a lie after you will going to pay them on the said requirement for it to work out. THis is how scammers work and many of the investors or even bounty hunters will fall in to this simple trap.

We all know nowadays many people are involved to scammers even it's a victims or a suspects, before you enter in bitcoin you must read some news articles and go to forum you get a information that you need to avoid scams. To avoid a victims of scam are to no invest your bitcoin just hold that in long time and keep to your wallet in safe place and when the right time is come and the price is good you can sell it and because of that you get a high and good profit.

To fight against fake coin scammers, you have to know what the whitepaper is really about and the people behind the development of the coin or token. If they seem to be really legitimate, then you're in good hands. A hint of doubt then you're free to leave anytime.

Yes you know what you are correct a lots of scammer is everywhere they are just waiting for a new victims especially those who arw just a begginer... So if you want to avoid this we need to be wise in every decision we re making...  Trading and investing is really one of the most riskier work here...  If you doesn't truly understand how to play here safe...  I better observe and learn first before participating too early here....

sure that is really the truth about it because most ICO's or project are scam but you know till the project is being announce as scam project.
now we have to be careful with projects on this forum because the fake bounty project.

We can keep ourselves from fraud by having deep knowledge and insight. For example, we intend to follow ICO. So that we avoid the scam then we should know and seek information about the ICO in depth. When we have knowledge then we indirectly apply smart strategies and protect us from fraud. Besides that in order not to engage in fraud then we must have high confidence, we should not be affected by negative issues that just make us follow the wrong ICO and cheat.

To protect yourself from scam and related infringes, you will need to have a highly suspicious mindset such that when unsolicited mails arrive, you are wary to click on them talk more of clicking on them. This way you stay safe and unnecessarily predisposed to hackers activity and fraudulent messages. The other point is use a metamask or trezzor wallet to stay safe from the activity of internet sharks. That way, you remove you asset from online to offline and keep them cold.

Nice sharing. You guys should investigate all the things related to the project you are going to join, check team work, check products... hope you will not be scammed by any fake project

Just hold on to your Bitcoin, don't use it to take part in the ICO because many ICOs are SCAM now.
Unless the ICO is done in your country, if it is in your country, when there is a wrong communication, you can go directly to the head office.

But the rest can only hold Bitcoin until the price rises and is suitable for sale.

Yes it's good topic relating about the awareness how to protect yourself from scamers because their many people who complaint about the scamers some hunter's complaint about not received reward so must read the project and profile media team white paper must be read and see the rating of all ICO than make your mind in this way you be a edge of safe investing.

That's the point. Having basic knowledge about cryptocurrency is the best protection to deal with all risks. We also have to be smart to establish cooperation and share information with other trusted friends. With the existence of a wide communication net, information will be easy to get and discussed carefully.

Doing research before making a decision is the first thing I always do before starting to enter the ICO project. I have saved thousands of dollars this way. I realized it several times that something was wrong with that and in most cases, the sites were affected and investors lost their money. When it comes to crypto, it is about self-responsibility and we are appropriate for our actions.

There is no other way to protect us from scammer that is much reading and improve our self or knowledge about this cryptocurrency. Then we should take care much with our profit.

this has been a serious discussion for recent here now, more project more scammers another scamming method I discovered recently is icos doing 50% bonus please whenever you come across such project be carefully  your money may lock for 10 years if only they continue with such project (look are erc20) for example no product but 2 token pumping the price although cmc may indicate 40$ in 24 hour in etherscan you may see 1.30$ thinking you rich lol many project likewise

You yourself can protect from scammers to quite an extent by keeping your private data, private key safely and doing prior research before investing in any project or any transaction.

Great piece of information partner...thank you for such information about project because this would really help us the new young ones in this forum from investing into any scam ICOs to save our funds and our time.

I just keep on signing for those ICO but i didnt invest on it Ive just waiting for it to drop on my wallet, thanks if it is real then better luck next time if it not.

how to avoid scammers by not easily believing in ICO projects. we cannot send bitcoin or ETH to invest in ICO projects without researching the project. we must be very careful in investing in ICO, we should often ask in their telegram group to get more information.

We can avoid fraud in this crypto currency very simply. We simply equip ourselves with the deep science and insight of crypto currency. We need to understand every business that we choose in this crypto currency, either ICO, bounty campaign, airdrop, coin, and so forth. Whatever we can extract from crypto currency then we should have done it so that we are not easily fooled by good promotions but actually are scams. We must be a wise and intelligent player so we do not choose wrong decision in crypto currency.

keep it safe your private key dont open click link if you think there's a malicious content.. Scammer are the worst internet entrepreneurs night mare, so please be careful

I've started entering crypto in 2017, so far I did not encounter any scammer, I suggest that always be careful in any transactions.

Its nice to see that people like you would share some information like this to help others. Thats the point , we need to have this kind of knowledge so we will be aware of everything especially on scammers which is common nowadays. Beginners must know this so that they are able to avoid scammers .

There are many scam ICO schemes that pretend to be best to invest in it and ask us by giving good offers.Anybody even an experienced man is not sure that the ICO is real.It only declares truthful when the scheme is over.The best way to protect from ponzi schemes is to stay away from schemes that give too much good offers.

Yes it is true, it is still better to hodl and wait for the price of bitcoin to go up. Indeed, we cannot avoid the scammers; however, we can control our investment and by doing so we wouldn`t be able to provide them money. Thus, strategic concept is focus on our dealings. Focus means be contented and based on what is the objectives of entering into investments. Moreover, this info is very helpful...

Further, investment in other cryptos have an advantages and disadvantages; thus, we would not discourage other investors because who knows there will be other cryptos that will help the community - by means of investment, trading, technology, and individual profitability. Further, it is still good to be diversify. All of us have common grounds and that is to earn more profits. Thus, it is really a risk if we fall on preys but crypto world is risky, a notion all of knew.

That is correct. Only at the time of listing it will be clear whether you will end up with a profit or not. I have seen a lot of very good ICOs failing at the time of listing. It is tragic, actually.

In my opinion to avoid scammers never giving anything. Don't share your actual social media account with random people, save your email address for yourself and if you have to use it make sure to have an email burner. Is that a burner? Emails are not necessarily made for every forum and project. Only emails that don't contain your personal data and that you don't use for online shopping, banking, and so on.
You must first realize what they want from you. In the end it's always your money, while in the process they may want some personal data, telephone numbers, whatever they can enter.

ICO that looks good sometimes scam, especially now many people are not responsible, so we must be really careful not to get caught in the ICO scam.

Dont ever share anything to anyone. Sometimes holding is one of the best choice to avoide scammers. Dont fall for some unbelievable offers because sometimes its a scam. Thats why we reaaly need knowledge when it comes to bitcoin so that we are aware of everything.

Best of all - think with a cold head. Learn well a coin or project in which you want to invest. I made many mistakes before I realized something. And most importantly, I realized - I'm only learning from my mistakes:( but sometimes no:(

That is really true. I have  had an encounter with this two points you just raised. Scammers and Hackers are really smart. My first ICO campaign had not ended yet I received a message that I have been rewarded my token and to claim that, I need to send my private key. Thanks to the one who introduced me to blockchain. I almost made a fool out of myself. These are really good points to note especially when you are new to crypto. Its quite unfortunate that ICO managers too do not keep their promises and the keep monetizing our personal data to scammers.

With cryptocurrency quite often it is possible to find the term scammers. People easily get trapped by scammers if the users were new to the cryptocurrency network. To get away from scammers people always need a strong connection to the cryptocurrency usage and a continued learning without which it is impossible to keep us secure from scammers.

Since Bitcoin became known in the market.
So many scammers became abusive using its name for scamming.
Most especially to the newbies.
Others use it for onpal scheme that leads only to Ponzi Scheme.
Many people became a victim of it including me when I don't really have much knowledge about bitcoin.
That's why other people says bitcoin is a scam
Since they don't know much about bitcoin.

Anyway, thanks for those infos to protect ourselves from scammers. 👍

Another way to protect yourself from scammers is through research, do asking to other people and make everything they said as a guide before investing to a particular project.

First don't be greedy yourself , scammer will offer lucrative deal so as to strike , u need to be watchful and caution greed , before it caution you

That's right. I think although it was useful to keep those above-stated means of protecting yourself from scammers, the best way to actually do it is to be disciplined and aware enough of what to avoid and stay away from. As this market is a big profit-giver, then it would be subjected to schemes and scammer attacks just for them to get some of the profit of people who won't be careful enough to guard their investments. Therefore, one should always be vigilant with every move he makes to make sure that before doing any act, he is secured.

The best protection for you is knowledge. Only if you have more knowledge of this market will you protect you from fraud.

This page really helps me a lot on how to avoid myself from scammers.The info are worth reading .
Scammers are everywhere here so lets be careful and do believe easily .Do a research and educate yourself for the platform and projects  you joining.

A great work with this! Yes we need to become more aggressive ans aware when it come to joining and participating in ICO and bounty campaign. Because the time, money and hardwork we spent in participating become worthless if we are joined in scam Ico. So it is better to become knowledgeable in choosing bounty campaign and uci projects to avoid being scam.

this is just an anticipation that does not guarantee whether in the end the ico is a scam or not. namely by looking at several aspects of ico, such as whitepapers, investors, the development team, manager bounty, and the ico rating.

You can protect yourself from scammers by being smart and contentend with the little you have, because most at times people fall victim of scams by being greedy.

Today crypto world is getting popular in many countries and so scammers have another method to scam peoples so always be aware in some ico or investments always have a proper research before joining in any crypto activities cause crypto is risky and bad peoples are getting aggressive just to earn money even in a bad way.

Knowing the basic information about the investment is the most shallow one but also the essential to. If you want to avoid being scammed by others I suggest that make sure you have a plan to do. Do some little research regarding to the background of the investment and then think a lot of times before performing or joining. If you have doubts, ask someone who is professional in terms of this and if you don't feel it will be successful or worth it then do not invest because sometimes our guts or intuition is correct.

The first thing that protect you from being scam is by not being too greedy and easy giving out personal detail online if you can protect your self from this two aspect then you will be on the part of overcoming scammers.

To protect yourself from scam icos, you must read the whole details pertaining to the ico from the team members information, etc.
You should also note that an ico that has already working product is not likely to scam exit.
You need to know if the problem the ico is trying to solve is a genuine problem or just those rhetorics put up to collect people's money.
Greediness is one major reason why people get scammed, you should also chun greediness and irrational thinking.

Projects may seem so good that if you aren't careful, you will be scammed because scammers are everywhere just beware. I think the best way to avoid scammers is to be knowledgeable. You need to read more about the project you will participating instead of listening to other people.

in my opinion, we cannot completely avoid scammers except we also want to completely avoid ICOs. in every business there is some percentagr of risk . no matter how much research we carry out concerning ICO we wont be 100 percent safe. therefore its left for us to decide whether to take the risk of investing in ICO or avoid the risk and hold our btc . But dont forget if the ICO is successful the profit might sometimes be huge . so the higher the risk the higher the gain and vise  versa.

True, other people maybe only invite you to join in some project that he already join. When he think project not be good thing, they wouldn't do anything to you and you will suffered by yourself. Is is better to pick up project by ourself.

Yes this is very important to the crypto investors who want to participating in ICO.
Looks like the team profile is important to search, but some ICO won't give the details of team members later for security reason.
Many ICO has scammed investors about millions of dollars, but they seems not satisfy enough to stop trying scamming us.

To protect yourself from scammers mind the link you follow, your discussions with unknown friends in an unknown group chat .In otherwards crypto investors who want to participate in ICO must be sensitive and careful because its risky,business is a risk anyway but just play on the safe side..

Very useful information for everyone who want to avoid hackers on their wallet.
To prevent yourself getting scammed in ICO, you must have enough information about the project.
What is the vision of company, the products of the company, and the team or advisors behind them.

At the end of the day, while there are numerous scams, schemes, and perpetrators of various fraudulent activities throughout crypto, the best approach is to proceed with a reasonable degree of skepticism and care. Despite the number of fraudulent projects, there are countlessly reputable, and well-run projects and groups that make investing in cryptocurrency worthwhile.

As with many things in life, exercising reasonable caution when dealing with finances is the best approach, so whenever you are visiting a new website, see something that feels too good to be true, or are storing or accessing information using your private keys, take care, and ask yourself if you could be exposing yourself to any undue risk.

Be careful and read more about the project before you invest or join in any bounty.  It is much important to read first and learn how the project really works

how to protect bitcoin from a scammer is to choose a reputable and trustworthy company, always protect yourself from hackers by always checking our account and creating complicated codes.

we can protect ourselves if we are careful in safe places. one can gain ambition and gain more. so we should not be greedy. and we must listen to what is said. Do not leave money in stock markets. and do not invest for every ICO.

There are ways to avoid scams, I think it is important to understand the project. Specifically, as the project transparency, project community orientation.

If you are keen enough and if you are careful about your keys, passwords. Scammers can do nothing to you. when you are in this field you already must know how to avoid them.

Day by day scamming is increasing and we should share this kind of informative articles related to scam very much so that every one can be conscious about it and protect themselves from harm.

To protect my account from scammer,  i think dont be easily trust others,  specially if its your new encounter. Also  Maybe you should be wise when we talk to others.  Dont give your personal info,  use a good security wallet that make your account safe,  continue to search about how to protect your account. 

It's really hard to protect ourselves from scammers. It's being part of our society of having these kind of people. And best way to protect ourselves from it is to use our own common sense which is not common Cheesy.

The thing u feel it’s very good. U need to notice.

Completely avoid the likelihood of contact with scammers will likely be very difficult, but every person should try to comply with at least the minimum requirements for security while on the Internet.

To protect myself from I always do the following: (you should do this too) Never send money or give credit card details, online account details or copies of personal documents to anyone you don’t know or trust. Don't agree to transfer money or goods for someone else. Keep your passwords and pin numbers in a safe place. Be very careful about how much personal information you share on social media sites. Always stay alert and presence of mind when dealing online transactions.

For me to protect myself from scammers is to trust only yourself because if you trust someone there is a chance that they will take that opportunity to scam you. Actually scammer target is the beginner because they know that they need help so they act like they wanted to help but they will only scam you.

The best way to guide against them is to keep your private key and wallet id and password from the public. With this you can be safe from scammers and fraud.

Very much necessary article and this kind of article are very much useful for everyone to save ourselves from scammers because day by day scamming is increasing.

First of all your private key should be kept safe make every necessary research and gather every information you need before getting involved with any project or program that way i think we can be a bit saved from scammers

As the world is becoming so much decentralize as a one community and making life easier, so as we become more expose to issues of scam. They are everywhere but the issue is that we have to be vigilant and careful else we will be scam. Always try making thorough investigation about anything you wish to partake before doing else you might be at the mercy of scammers.

thank you for this. This will really help my friend who really wants to invest in bitcoin for a huge amount. I dont need to explain everything about it. This will really help to be more careful. And if he got questions to say then that just the time I'll answer him. This really help me so much

Wow, is this clear and detailed?
Honestly I don't know this or don't understand this. Because I have never received a scamer project, I am grateful that it has never happened before. If this is true, I am very grateful to you.

How do I protect my self from scammers and fraudsters? I am careful to not visit phising sites by making sure I bookmark the regular sites I visit and equally see to it that I don't click on unsolicited mails or messages and thus making sure that I am not a victim of their nefarious activities..... I look out for suspicious sites and avoid them altogether..... Make sure my circle of friends are largely trustworthy by giving only sensitive data to them and so forth!

Right now many projects,Bounties,airdrops are scam and many people are starting to become a scammers to protect yourself on scammers dont believe what a person you did not know saids because maybe that person is trying to scam you and when you are participating in projects bounties airdropa etc. Study it and explore

I know one rule: all projects who find you themself is scam.
Al who come to you with advertise is mostly will be scam.
Good project dont need ads, you must find him yourself

Dont share anything information to others, to protect your account. Stick to your campaign, listen to advise of your true friend or member has work many years in this industry. Any always make an investigation before you join   

this is very useful information, thank you for that. but before we go to it all, we must really protect ourselves from fatal carelessness, we are required to be more careful and really keep what we think is important, not to be caused by our own carelessness, fraudsters easily deceive us ..

There is a very effected idea and I always use it and believe me it really works, just imagine yourself as a scammer and start thinking through that point of view and it will he;p you in your security.

This information will help us to avoid scammers. Dont give anything even simple information about you. I have never experience being scammed but I am hoping that it wont happen to me. But this information will help me to improve my knowledge about scammers.

Thanks for the information now I have more knowledge on how to avoid getting scammed, before this what I do is just making sure I am using a very secured Bitcoin wallet and i always make sure I make serious research about a project before i invest in it and also avoid anything Ponzi.

We do have a lot of informations/guidelines out there for us to protect ourselves from scammers and it is very important to help ourselves as well, we can always avoid it if we will just smart enough to handle different kinds of situations just like that, we have to think always of ways for us to find out if a certain thing is real or not.

Experience talk. It speaks very much in the crypto world. Because one of the toughest things to find a scam-free project. People, who have experienced in the crypto field, who research regularly, they can avoid scam. Most of the New and hesitant people fall into a scam!

Here, Your points will be very helpful for everyone, I think if someone follows these steps importantly and research himself before joining in any project, they can protect themselves from scam!

Yes, scams are very widespread now. Because of scammers the level of trust from investors in cryptocurrency is dropping. If you are asked for personal data it is already not a good sign as you do not know how it casn be used or where the copy of your passport e.g. will end up.

The above is really cool info. To add up, i think the best way to protect yourself from scammers is by thinking like a scammer. I think if we all begin to think like scammers, we might as well know the moves that scammers might take to invade our properties. in so doing, we will find ways to protect ourselves from them

Make sure that no one shows their passwords and private key, does not go to unprotected links and was extremely cautious. And protect my wallet with hardware. And you need to be knowledgeable

don't choose projects that are easy to understand, recognize skimmers in bitcoin, don't be easily fooled by fantastic promises, don't open strange link links, investigate the reputation of providing bitcoin services. and make passwords a little complicated.

I think to protect yourself from scammers is that to trust only yourself. Just like what happen to my friend he trust his friend so that his friend took the opportunity and scam him.

We are surrounded by scammers and hackers so we need to be aware of everything, the information you give will be a great help to us and to those begginers. This is a clear and very detailed information. I have never experienced something like being scammed, but Im hoping that it wont happen to me.

To protect against scams, you must comply, in fact, all the rules of security on the Internet. This is a long time known rules.

Be more careful in trusting others. Because we must prepare ourselves not to be deceived by people we just know and also we have to check what you really need because it's one way to avoid being tricked in this crypto world.

I agree with you, the emergence of scammers projects has made new investors who do not know more about the world of Crypto, many feel disadvantaged. and in my opinion, the opinions you give are helpful enough for investors to be more careful in investing their bitcoin so they don't get hurt.

First secure your account from the hackers . Use 2FA security in gmail or any wallet accounts to protect it and to protect yourself from scammers you should thing to know is to interview them first and when there are something strange that they said will give you a huge amount that is totally not ignore them and blocked them .

For me it is easy to protect yourself from scammers because you need only to hide all the information that they need to you. You also need to trust yourself only because others will take that opportunity if you trust them.

One of the best things to do to avoid ICO fraud is to learn and read all the information about this ICO. As they always say: "More knowledge is power." Secondly, the team had to communicate with the community. Thirdly, they should always have an update from their company. If you feel something suspicious, do not hesitate to ask them a question. Thus, you can confirm whether they are legitimate or just a bunch of scammers.

Thank you very much for this great enlightenment. Several malicious scams appearing in several formats have rocked the crypto world right from even it's infant stage. Although I personally take lots of precautions to avoid the basic ones especially relating to icos and airdrops, scammers now use more advanced and sophisticated means these days, and thanks to you I have more knowledge of this under my belt.

For me to protect your self on scammer don't trust people to show your private key or password and only you can know your password and private key so that your money or your bitcoin will safe.many people are scammer because of hard to gain a money so don't be trust  on people so that you and your money will safe.

Pay very close to everything you invest in, follow them on all types of social media, and check with the community see who has worked with them and if they are trustworthy!!!!

Or maybe just avoid ICO totally? You really don't have to invest in any ICO in order to make money. It's really risky these days because most of them are just scams. They all appear legit every time but only a few of the coins get listed to trading sites. Fewer are the ones that gets to ICO price since most bounty participants will be dumping the coin right away. Even fewer are the ones that gets a price higher than the ICO price. Even fewer are the ones where you can actually yield good amount of money. So save yourself from all the stress and troubles in investing in ICOs and do something else with your money. Simply keeping it is better. This might have zero gains but it also has zero risk.

You have to know that these people are prepared for your questions. Most of the time the team is unresponsive because they are "busy" according to them but those that are responsive are ready for your questions. Their unresponsiveness is simply a way of avoiding answering questions. You see ICO scams getting exposed by high rank members when they start asking the real questions. So what they do is put out enough valid information to not be noticed or questioned right away and to buy them just enough time to get it past the token sale.

In my years in bitcoin my biggest weapon to avoid scam is keep my bitcoin wallet secret on me only, not even my family because we don't know that our neighbors is also a scammers or something and imagine that when your child knows your bitcoin wallet password and someone ask that on them.
But for me just keep it safe and avoid the free wifi or something and don't forget to deepfreeze your computer because there is so many hackers around the world using any viruses trojan etc... in just 1click your bitcoin will be gone and my advice when you don't want to be feel scam on the profit that you are getting from bitcoin is try to invest at the lower price and wait till the price is up and sell it.

Do not share your private key. Do not install pirated software in laptop or mobile. Don't say everytime your friend and other I have bitcoin or another cryptocurrency. Use multiple addresses for trading and holding.

Thank you for your work here! You've said pretty much everything I think. To me personally it seems very important to care about personal information and see it as a kind of investment as well.

You need to be very careful with scammers as they can do and undo. You need to store private keys well, activate all the security for your online wallets and many more. These are some tips to protect your account from scammers

I think that to protect from scammers for 100% you need to avoid crypto market at all)) but if to be serious, you need to take part in icos only if making sure that the project is reliable

Yes only our personal informations and our private keys must only safe not to be given by anyone,because that is the source where scammers can overview all your personal details.,be observant and alert of all matters.

safeguarding privatekey is very important, if hackers know they can take your money whenever they want without you knowing it

I think that in this plan you should become paranoid and always think that you want to be deceived! It is necessary to check all the details, correctly write each letter, do not store the password in an easily accessible place, do not store money on the stock exchange and so on!

You need to be careful. Very often try to steal personal data through other sites, throw you a link and you go through it and all the data from them! You need to be very careful and never show your passwords to anyone!

thank you for your useful sharing. For me, i will protect myself from scammer by keeping my private key as secret and won't let anyone know.

The only effective way to secure your assets against scammers is by holding your information away from them, never store any thing like secret keys online or backing it up in an email, and also stop being greedy because that is the only thing that will drag you into being scammed.

I have experience his kind of situation before because I share my private key to my internet friend, I trust too easliy but now I learned from that mistake and trust no one unless its my family. We really need to be careful of scammers they are everywhere.

It sounds like that the idea of avoiding scammers is as easy as clicking close button on a pop-up spam messages. But it is not. Getting to know the details on what to do and the case study of what have been done earlier by the scammers will be much of a help. I myself will likely identify the type 3 and type 4 easily. Thank you for the sharing!

i think it is very simple,you don't believ anyone on telegram and stranger,you don't give you wallet for anyone,if you buy ICO you only buy on the website of this ICO,no admin pm you with hight bonus,when you click strange link,you have to stop,with me you don't give your money for any stranger

Your personal information is valuable and you need to take precautions to protect it when you are online, especially when you use social media sites. you can also protect yourself from scammers by  Creating and using passwords. Passwords protect your personal information, so it is important to create strong passwords and change them regularly.

This's really a good write up
But what I know is that one may not be scammed sometimes if someone is not trying to get a virtually what doesn't even implies as been the truth. Like if someone is trying to offer what one should know it can't never be true and existed.

One of the menace in crypto is scamming and day in and day out most crypto noob and even sometimes experienced crypto enthusiast get scammed. I believe this information would go a long way to enlighten may people out there about how to stay away from the schemes of scammers. Stay safe people there are bad nuts among us.

There is one more where people sell BTC or other crypto for paypal money at premium rates. Scammers charge back after receiving BTC and since its BTC transaction, you can't directly tell PayPal team, and usually case is won by the scammers.

I think to prevent from being scammed you should only transact with people you already knew.

I think it's not a good idea, isn't the internet function to connect to people you don't know outside? and how narrow the world is, if you only transact with people only you know

and make sure you use a different password for each account, because there are many phishing sites that you don't know, and maybe you have already put you email and password there?

Good advice lot of scammer's also spreading in bounty ico and selling their token if you pay first they gonna give the token. Probably all selling tokens need buy/sell in the market and have a Legit escrow for doing this.

Thank you for all those advice. I recently met some people that I couldn't trust on 100%. But now I know

Very much helpful thread toward the fight against scammers which has infested cryptocurrency but you fail to note that greed is a personal problem that also leads to one being scammed

Great job @OP because the information provided would help other new members avoid some lame schemes of scammers and one thing that i really urge people in here to observe is never accept offers in pms other than official channels because most of them turn out to be scammers. We really need to find a way to get rid of all these scammers because they are dragging the name of crypto in mud.