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Title: [2018-05-05]"Beware of Fake Bitcoin Scam Stories," Warns Richard Branson
Post by: Vladdirescu87 on May 07, 2018, 04:45:37 AM
Richard Branson, Chief Executive Officer of Virgin Group has warned the public using his twitter handle and official Virgin website against the dangers of fake bitcoin scam. According to his current blog post “Beware of fake bitcoin scam stories,” he expresses his interest in bitcoin scam fairytales, especially those involving his name.

Read the details in the article of Coinidol dot com, the world blockchain news outlet: https://coinidol.com/beware-of-fake-bitcoin-scam-stories/

https://coinidol.com/upload/resize_cache/iblock/c15/900_900_1/c156105ce74d0fdd8808f5847c9c1999.jpg


Title: Re: [2018-05-05]"Beware of Fake Bitcoin Scam Stories," Warns Richard Branson
Post by: imsotiredofmoviereboots on May 07, 2018, 06:44:32 AM
I think this fake bitcoin scam stories are certainly are just the small ones. People still trusts the media more than anything else when it comes to scams expose' so I doubt people will believe that easily if someone shared his story getting scammed. These kind stories probably came from bankers.


Title: Re: [2018-05-05]"Beware of Fake Bitcoin Scam Stories," Warns Richard Branson
Post by: Slow death on May 07, 2018, 07:59:20 AM
I think this fake bitcoin scam stories are certainly are just the small ones. People still trusts the media more than anything else when it comes to scams expose' so I doubt people will believe that easily if someone shared his story getting scammed. These kind stories probably came from bankers.

This is a real and very serious problem, see this:

https://i.imgur.com/g1pNJ04.png

this is creating many problems and causing many people to fall into this scam and lose money, according to the article:

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Also, Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum (ETH) cryptocurrency founder was so sick and tired of scammers pretending to be him that he changed his username to "No I'm not giving away ETH."

https://i.imgur.com/CvI6A3U.png

we got to that point

"Our legal teams work hard to take down these fake stories or companies misrepresenting us. We are doing all we can and the police also work tirelessly to shut down the major operations. We would advise everybody to remain vigilant," said Branson.

this is the only solution