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I wanted to participate in the Iagon pre-sale.  I joined what I thought was the official Iagon telegram.  Turned out it wasn't.  I followed the instructions on the pinned message, which directed me to send ETH to a specified wallet address.  Turned out it was all a scam, and I lost 5 ETH. 

Really sucks.  The lesson is be careful out there.

Oh, man sorry to hear that. These scammers are getting ever more creative. Was it a phishing scam? I mean, was the page they sent you to the exact replica of the legit Iagon page? And how did you end up visiting the wrong twitter page in the first place? Was it via google, other social networks, advertisement, or any other way? This info could be helpful to the other forum member to avoid the same mistake. You can never be too careful these days.

Did you follow the link from the official site and ended up in a fraudulent chat?
I'm very sorry for your loss. This is not a small amount in fact. :(

Another kind of fraud in telegram chats.
A scammer with the same avatar as the administrator writes you a personal message. Well, he goes on to tell tales and tries to take your money.

Oh very sorry to hear that man, indeed its a pretty big amount. Please guys be careful on links you visiting and telegrams you ever join. Dont ever answer to anyone messaging you asking for payment or whatever demand... Scammers are getting more and more creative nowadays.

I searched for Iagon in telegram, and the fake telegram group is what came up (not the official one).  It had 350+ members and seemed legit, so I thought it was the real one -- real logo, and the admin had the name and picture of the company's CEO (who is in fact active on the official telegram). 

The pinned message had instructions on how to participate and I was also pm'ing with who I thought was the CEO. 

I should have been more vigilant.

This is reckless on your part, how can you invest in a company with huge amount of 5 Ether , amounting to about 2500 USD without any due diligence. You should have asked questions, on the telegram group, visit the website and contact them from there. Even the announcement thread can offer you more info.

I'm very sorry for your loss, lately there are a lot of scammers. Please double-check all references several times, or work directly with project managers via telegram.

Thanks, I now know that.  I had done due diligence on the company and the investment.  I should have been more careful with telegram.  I'm posting this more as a PSA than anything else.  I wouldn't have made the investment if I wasn't prepared to lose it -- I just didn't expect to lose it so quickly.

It's sad. This kind of fraud has increased a lot. You need to be very careful. These fraudulent events cause great damage to the market. You can compensate for loss of hope in another way.

I join the good people here to say sorry for the loss. That is quite some etheruem and when converted to dollars is like $2,000 buzz. We need to be more careful..

I am very concerned about what you have experienced right now, if you want to invest on ico I suggest to follow the instructions on the website and do not buy coins through any channels because it is just trying to deceive you, I hope this will be an experience for you and will not happen again

Oh, crap, that is a lot of money. I am sorry you got fooled, it is very easy to confuse the group. Normally they will not ask you to send ether just like that but...

And why did you send money to someone on the details that were specified in the Telegram chat? Usually all the requisites and instructions are written on the official website of the project.

Comrades, don't you have any suspicions when you are asked to transfer money? Is it serious? Is it really that bad? It's time to stop doing this nonsense.

Well, it feel so sad to imagine that you got been scammed by other people out there. It will serve as a lesson for you to secure your funds out of using cryptocurrencies and avoid signing in your information in some pishing exchanges sites. Be aware and be careful always. ;)

Cryptoworld is a real jungle.
Before to send money somewhere, check, check, and recheck anything: at any corner there is a scammer.
Sorry for you, bro.

That does suck. Sorry for the loss. I know people who lost 20-30 BTC for the peep coin too. It was like 3 days ago. Crypto world is definitely not a game for new comers. Read more, learn more

very pity once you bro, thank you for your lesson I will be more careful in following the project hopefully eth you back again bro 5eth it pretty much, it must be very sad once :(

Sorry to hear that, yes, you have to be careful when it comes to transferring money. Unfortunately, with the increase of ICOs popularity more and more scams are emerging. A lot of people lost money during TON ICO, for instance (old news, but still): https://www.coindesk.com/fake-website-scam-targets-aspiring-telegram-ico-investors/
So where did you find that link anyway? Did the official Iagon give you the wrong link, or you just found it somewhere else?

It was a huge amount , I think it was not easy to forget it. In fact I already get scammed before during that time I dont know what to do to recover it. They also said to send some amount then when I already made the tansaction they didnt reply anymore. We all learn from our past experiences and others experience to be careful always.

so do not be fooled by unknown companies I can advise you where you will not be deceived by Socratus

Wow. That is about $2k plus. My apologies bro. But where did you get the telegram link or was the official telegram hacked? I think it is safe to follow the telegram address on the project website or official bitcointalk account to prevent future re-occurence. My apologies once again

Sorry for the loss. Many projects remind potential investors to bookmark their ICO website in order to guard against this. But there are many ways scammers can get at the investors. How did this happen? Were you sent an email asking you to participate in the presale, or you visited a phishing site. I'd like to know how it happened so as to guard against such.

Wow, sorry dude. This is one i have never heard of so thanks for the warning. Someone is trying to scam me as well by joining the same bounty as me and using a different eth wallet address! Lucky i noticed it, just alerted the bounty manager who will hopefully resolve it. Be careful everyone!

The fraud as you have encountered is widespread. Therefore, before dealing with any stranger, you should go through the escrow, and if you are the impersonator of the ICO project, you need to confirm in the telegram group before transferring the crypto to them to minimize the risk when trading with anonymous.

i am so sorry to hear that but do not be disappointed and do not give uo and i thonk that you will cope with this situation soon

I agree, the lesson is serious. Now there are a lot of such situations and one must be so cautious, because at every step they can deceive. I wish you that such lessons were as small as possible

You see, sometimes people do not know how to learn from other people's mistakes. But you have acquired a very valuable lesson and experience in your life.

this is a verysad ztory, bir you are not the only one and i thin,t hat thwpere are a lot of people who have also been scammed

this is really too sad and i tho k that you will find enough strength in yourself to fight woth this situation and nmove ob

people can get scam,ed, and unfortunatelly it heppensa more odten thae n we would like it to. move on and hold on, you will cope

It's really bad such thing happened to you, I know how you will be feeling right now considering the bearish market condition and the lost, Just take heart and move on, And thanks sharing with us to learn from your experience.

What are you trying to say? Are you drunk?
Well, to OP that was your lesson you must be researchful first before you grab the opportunity, because just like that situation you've never know you putting all your money into risk and turns nothing. Can I ask you why you invest in that huge amount to them? The good thing more convincing to me that it is true if you include to post here the TX hash.
So, next time be careful.

it's a bad experience, as an investor and bounty hunter, we should be more careful to follow an ico, because if we are not careful we could have got a scam ico. experience ever passed can be a learning in choosing ico in the future. and hopefully not to find a scam ico again.

That is so painful. It is always best you get your links from ICO rating sites, they usually have the correct links to the website and social media accounts.My sympathies please

Oh wow!! That’s terrible to hear; 5 eth is a lot!! I was planning to joint the Iagon bounty campaign but many things raised red flags and pulled out!! Smells like a scam.

I'm sorry to hear that. It's a very expensive experience, you lose 5 ETH. Well, the fraudsters are getting smarter to hide their crimes, we must make sure that the websites and social media accounts and their chat groups are official accounts. One thing we need to understand does not believe it easily if someone sends you a PM to ask for some money or join an ICO project. Have you reported the Iagon scammer telegram group?

How can you invest such large amounts in one project?, it is better to distribute these 5 ETH for several hundred dollars to different projects, this increases the chance, not to lose all money and at least to return something.

DOn't get fooled and scammed by those scammers. Be aware on technology on the internet some will give you high returns but let's make it shorter you must take care of your money and keep it safe. Put your private key on a safe way. Ask help or permission if you want too.

It really does suck when these things happen. Which is why we should be extra vigilant in choosing projects to participate in. Bad elements are lurking around the internet space all the time seeking for new victims. These are smart people and the only way to counter them is to be smart ourselves!

A very disappointing event, of course, I am very sorry for your loss. More and more ways are being done by fraudsters. Hopefully the incident becomes learning and more vigilant in making decisions.

If this is real, then I feel sorry for you. But in any case, there a lots of ways from which you can have chosen to how you will invest. When you invest, you need to sign up in their website with your information and then afterwards, the process of investment are given. In your case, you joined a telegram with 350+ members which is fishy enough but didn't bother to pay attention. Iagon is quite known in the community so it is impossible to only have 350+ members. Also, you chatted with the CEO and instructed you to send eth to invest instead of visiting their site which is odd. Too many loopholes in this scenario, most people with common sense could have sensed that there was something wrong.

You should always check ann thread of the coins and visit the official token sale page. Don't trust any telegram channel or email you might got from email that looks like official.

Sorry for your loss but you should and many other should learn lesson from this.

I agree that we should check ann thread first before joining their token sale. I think telegram is a nice one to interact with the developer and team. I also look at their twitter and facebook page for some update.

Being scammed is a possible outcome in whatever field in the world , and on top of them comes the altcoin market . Numerous altcoins are created to either be used for chilling or are just total scams that are made by teams that the best accurate description for them is "jokes" .
Sadly retrieving your money or reversion the transaction is not possible due and i presume you already know that .
What i advice you tho is to fight for your money and expose the bastards , bad publicity means bad reputation and that means they'll not get an other bit from anyone else .
Try contacting trusted members to help you expose them if they got an account on the forum ..

Aww. That really sucks man. I'm not aware of Iagon but why did you join the Telegram though? What not look at the official website so that at least you will be safe. This is the first time that I heard this kind of scam being pull off by those criminals. Yes, I'm calling them criminals because they all are a bunch who steal other money. So just be careful out there because scammers are just around the corner.

Oh yikes, 5 ETH is definitely more than I've lost in my internet ventures of randomly buying things and trusting people occasionally. The kind of ironic part is that even if you managed to go to the right telegram and buy into the ICO the likelihood of you STILL being scammed by the ICO is very high ;D so at least you can rest easy knowing that most likely you would have been scammed either way.

Sometimes there is a project that hasn't yet created an announcement thread in this place. The only important thing for him to remember about never try to open any PMs in his telegram app. I thought that the developer has been putting a pinned massage in the telegram group.

Man I know your pain. I once got scammed to by those scammers on telegram. They pm me said they where one of the admins and gave me instructions then turns out he was not one of the people behind the project after all. I know it sucks but the lesson here is to be careful when dealing with people.

Glad to hear your story and experienced for others to learn from it or even be vigilant more. I know that there is always a times that we are on the rush in investing on something that we forget to double check it’s legitimacy and blame them to others. But don’t, we have to accept the fact of our imperfections and move on with it then start a new strength to be a much better investor.

becareful on joining any ICO, do your own research, don't follow people opinion.
Many ICOs are scam right now and the scammer cannot be arrested, that's why too many scam ico right now, stay safe.

It feel so tiring when you know that you got scammed but you have no idea how. It makes you give up and stop doing things but later on gonna realize that stop won't be a better solution. Be careful next time around and better to learn a lesson form what happened and do not make same mistake again.

thank you for sharing your experience, hopefully you continue to be given the fortitude of the incident, hopefully soon be able to replace more. which obviously need to be remembered before you spend your money for an investment would be much better if you see the review of the project do not rush out your money just because interested in a very large profit offer.

Did you transfer it by yourself or automatic. Did you realize that it transfer ETH to that wallet? Maybe next time you have to be more careful to preventing from losses.

It's not the amount that a little bit and I became one sorry to hear it. better next time and meticulous analysis of the first seriously so that this incident does not happen again. 5 ethereum is a value that is not a little. so use this as a lesson for the next investment.

So sorry to know that. Well, nowadays, we may face many scams ICO that will make us lost of anything. Here, what we must do is that's right as you said, be careful. It is very important to be more and more careful when going to participate in ICO and crypto. We must do the deep analysis and exact considerations regarding to all elements of a good ICO. Just be patient man and move to other ICOs with big carefulness.

It is true. We're supposed to feel confident that everything in crypto is an uncertainty. This will make us do more careful in choosing a project. I'm sure it's not just you who feel stuck. Yet many people have experienced similar things. The key is never to feel desperate, try again and make learning not to repeat the same mistakes.

are you sure that Iagon is a scam? are you sure it is the official group of Iagon? Please share with us the direct link, so that the same event also does not happen to others. You should be more careful, because the more scammers like the example of a fake telegram group. You must first make sure that it is really an official group.

It is sad for you to meet the scammer when the amount of 5 ETH is quite large. You seem to be careless, do not check the information. When investing in a project, you should check their website so you can search for information about telegrams when you need help. Phishing by telegram I see a lot, do not believe the DM to you and call for investment. Always be careful when investing, because making money is not easy.

I'm sorry that you ran into scammers, now there are a lot of scammers, and they come up with more clever ways of cheating. You should always check the data several times, only this can increase the likelihood that you will not be deceived.

Oh well, welcome to the club, dude. Scammers think of a new way to fraud people. I never though they can simply scam through telegram. Unfortunately, those who believe they will gonna receive any pre-sale token in return will gonna bite the trap. Anyhow, there are still self drop that offered real tokens when you send eth.

Accept my condolence for the loss. We all have to be careful especially when it comes to icos because there are a lot of scam related issues with ico.

Thanks for sharing man, yeah should be careful next time, there so many bad people out there that already smart to foul us. Upgrade the knowledge and self awareness to avoid any scam in the next day.

mostly in crypto worlds theres a rampant scam,and phishing site who waited to us to get mistake,so therefore in order to prevent this happen to us,we must be aware and still precaution ,when joining some campaign or airdrops or any different kind of ponzi campaign by researching  or review there ICO project if its legit or not,just like happen before to me when im noob,buts thats all is charge of experience and teach me a good lesson to be aware in next time.

Really? Is this for real? Can you please post the transaction txt so that we can verify if its really real or not, But if its true then why you did not check first the legit address in the official website of IAGON before sending such huge amount? You should search first the official website and then ask how you can participate in presale not in the telegram group. Always use google search then you can find it in ico reviews like icobench then official links are posted in that site btw where did you find that telegram group??  

an ico scam is not only disappointing for the investors, but also for the bounty hunter. as a bounty hunter, i also have experienced it. it feels very disappointing after doing it seriously and in fact that it's a scam. and now I am more careful in choosing an ico in order that in the future i can find the legit ico to get the satisfactory results.

You have to be extremely careful because fake chat groups and social media profiles are everywhere not to mention phishing websites/emails/PM's

Always double and triple check that all the details are official before you invest and also inquire with the projects team if there's anything you're unsure about

This is too bad. Have you joined the telegram through the official website? Have you also encountered a phishing website? Remember this lesson. It must be noticed in the future. Before the transfer, you must confirm the correctness of the information. Lost ETH cannot be restored. This loss can only be borne by oneself

Real tough deal, and no amount of placatory words or cautionary ones can change that. No matter how vigilant one is, these things happen, for there is no way of verifying the facts.

Learn from that mistake mate, I'm sorry for your loss so you landed to the fake Iagon telegram channel or it was their official telegram channel?

This is why if you want to invest to such ICOs better buy coins instead. 5 ETH isn't a joke for someone who's investing and wanting to grow it.

Just do day trade which is much better.

5 etherum is a fairly large amount. sadly! Of course we do not know if this is fake or not.  Must learn from mistakes. Telegram is full of scammers.

It was very pity. So sorry to know this. Many people like you feel the same. I also have been ever scammed when joining the bounty and I work for free about 2 months. From this situation we can get the lesson from this. We can learn more carefully how to find the most legit ICOs. We must be also smarter in analyzing the ICO. So, we can minimize the scams.

That's really bad. Scammer commits his crime in many ways and we must be more careful now because of this situations. Imho, before you joining ICO or bounty, just read whitepaper carefully and hope it helps to minimize the scam.

As long as they're novices, they're gonna keep tricking people over the Telegraph. Never send money to anyone. Admins never ask you for money through the telegramm channel and never send you the first message

So sorry to hear that bro. But yeah, as you have said. Always be careful out there. This is cryptocurrency and there are so many scams right now lurking around in the market.

5 ETH? Damn. Why would you even take such a risk without doing proper research op? I know that you are in a bad place right now and it sucks, but this is the truth. Scammers will continue to scam people as long as they receive rewards like the amount you sent frequently which is why we need to discourage by improving our brains and not falling for these stupid traps. Do you research before sending even a small amount of money since this is your hard earned money people. Don't give scammers the pleasure which they seriously do not deserve so easily.

This is really sad and it may pinch you wherever you think about this loss. Please be vigilant man join group from the official sites or announcements only. If you could have given time to go through official sites today your investment could have been safe. That's great you brought this issue on forum so that other people's can be safe. Also please inform about this incident on official site so that they will take some necessary action if they can!!

It is a pity that such a thing happened. But you are in the official telegraph group, and it is seen in the news of the top. It should not be wrong. Why is it still happening? I feel that if this is not guaranteed, then nothing can be believed.

therefore you should be more wise in every speculation on ico investment. nowadays there are many ways people are looking for profit from imitating ico developers. this becomes an important and valuable learner to all of us in order to learn first before actually investing.

Be concerned about the Internet is very fraudulent. Now it is a wonderful time for them to break the jackpot. You have to check it seven times, and buy a dope. Because it is not small money 5 ETH. it's more than $ 500. But now, you will send more and more time to the heart and send it to the unknown where you will not go. I do not understand you even 1 litter sent for the beginning.

5ETH is a considerable amount. You should ask a question, in a telegram group, visit the website and contact them from there. Even the announcement threads can offer more info. and always use the main website to access any links, such as twitter, facebook, and telegram. hopefully you learn from your mistakes.

its a big amount you had lost, you should be more careful when sending any amount of ethereum to a wallet. why you didn't hesitate to send that kind of amount? have you imagined what will happen next if you send that kind of amount and i think its too much for you to invest in an ICO. Or maybe you didnt research well to their project if they are good or not. You should visit their website to make it sure that their project is good.

Oh, man sorry to hear that. These scammers are getting ever more creative. Was it a phishing scam? I mean, was the page they sent you to the exact replica of the legit Iagon page? And how did you end up visiting the wrong twitter page in the first place? Was it via google, other social networks, advertisement, or any other way? This info could be helpful to the other forum member to avoid the same mistake. You can never be too careful these days.

I sympathize with you, bro.  But this is how wisdom is made by trial and error.  I hope next time your flair will not let you down

It’s real.  To be clear, I think Iagon is a promising project, and I don’t blame Iagon.  I just got scammed by impersonators who created an official looking Iagon telegram and pretended to be the CEO and telegram admin.  The part that confused me is that Iagon is working with Rocket Fuel Capital, and all US and China investors have to go through Rocket Fuel to particupate.  The instructions on the Iagon website aren’t clear about how this works, and I got scammed.

Here is the pinned message in the fake telegram, which I followed:

https://i.loli.net/2018/07/01/5b37a945a8287.png

https://i.loli.net/2018/07/01/5b37a94bf17ed.png

https://i.loli.net/2018/07/01/5b37a9514e9ba.png

It looks real and parrots the information from the website, except for the part where it just directs you to send ETH.  But again, I wasn’t sure if that’s just how Rocket Fuel works (I should have done more research, I know).

And here’s the etherscan transaction history showing my 5 ETH going in and a total of 5 ETH out, which I’ve traced to binance accounts:

https://i.loli.net/2018/07/01/5b37a93fd8fc8.png

Sad to hear that from your experienced which is not good. You can considered it as your charge experienced, However, You've became a victim

actually by the fishing site dude, yeah your right then also we better be careful on clicking the site, before doing it ask first before anything else

to your friend here who has a knowledge in this industry anyway.

Thats sad dude... 5 ETH is a lot to loose. But you should think about it and take care of your funds next time, double check and full research will help you

Well it sucks getting scammed but it will be a good lesson for the future, how did you get the wrong telegram link? You should've open the official website and get the telegram link from there, also you should've join the telegram several days before the ico start so you can see the activity of the group, the official group will have more discussion about the project and ico itself.

Many scams are using ico projects. such as telegram and website. so my advice always use ico project app review and see the official site address of the ico project there.

Buddy, sorry about ur loss. Better luck next time. Dont trust telegram groups lot of scammers there

Think about it as a valuable experience. You wouldn`t repeat this mistake again because you lost money and remembered it hard. Everybody lose some money at the beginning I think

The mistake you made was paying without verifying the wallet address from the website. It is always advisable to participate in any ICO from the project website.

I guess that really gives you a big lesson for you but the same thing happened for me I got scammed in a different way but also in Telegram. I joined a group where they are buying and selling coins which is legit because I have tried it once and it worked but then it is really up to you to trust the one that you are trading with. I regretted that I have sent my coin first before confirming the person is legit or not. Then I lost 200 coins which worth not much at that time but if I still have that coin I would have more money now. Which is really a big lesson for me that don't ever trust anyone incomes with trading.

it is not small. try contacting his telegram contact or contact about the project.
you should take care of it immediately.
very unfortunately, now there are some projects that are scam

indeed now we have to be careful in making decisions so we do not regret in the future. because now the fraudsters will do various ways to get what he wants.

I am truly sorry for your loss, but something not add up here ! From my knowledge you can not search for channels unless you are member of it, so if the fake group came up then you was already a member of that group before making the search. Why you did not follow the Telegram link in there ANN thread ! Or why you did not just follow the instructions from their official website . Can you provide a transaction TX for your transfer ? .

Feel something is not right here  ::)

For me i think thats a lesson for u. i got scammed to so i decide to quit when i quit i regret my decision immediately so dont giveup.

How did that happen? you give your wallet address then they did hacked it?  :o

Scroll up.

Yes, you can definitely search telegram.

You're not the first and won't be the last. And this is not the first and the last project, under the guise of which will be hiding cheaters. However, in your situation you are to blame yourself. As the proverb says "measure 7 times, cut 1 time". It seems, you have hurried.

Sorry for your loss friend. You should be very careful when you join any ico telegram page. Most people impersonate the admins and send you DM requesting you to send some amount to purchase tokens from them. They are all scammers

The proverb is measure twice, cut once.

Of course it's sad, but the author also needs to be sharper. It was necessary to first find an official website and there already register and buy tokens.

Lesson learnt ;D. Next time you should check telegram link carefully or you only should take telegram link on official website of ICO project only if you don't wanna be scammed anymore ;D. I also know that there are so many fake telegram groups of so many ICO projects that why I only join telegram group via link on official website and everything is still fine to me ;D

In the Russian proverb - 7 times measure, cut once!
And we still have a good saying - rush is needed only when catching fleas

I feel bad to you. Lesson learned that you should check everything first if it is official or not before you do something. Always remember that there are a lot of scammers today, that is why it is now hard to trust everybody when it comes to money.

Wow... a lot of money has been tack down by scammers. Did not you check it out first? Usually the project admin will not send the first time message, but you should send the message first. And then keep check your email to be spared phishing. I feel sad to know the news. Be careful to invest your money.

Sorry about that, my knowledge is wrong, can you please share the TX ? I scrolled up and couldn't find it, maybe we can trace the address and link it with more scams ! .  I also searched gor Iagon and only 3 channel came up 1 news 1 14 members and 1 344 members, it is strange that there main channel with over 29k members did not came up ! .

You really need to be careful before making any sort of investment in cryptos. The market is full of scam, pumps/sumps, phishing attacks, hacks etc etc. It is your money and you need to be extra careful with it. Before sending coins to any wallet, just make sure to whom it belongs, see the past transaction. In case of ICO, try going to their website, check URL and then participate there. Never believe anyone giving wallet address on Telegram or Twitter. There are lots of scammer.

So so sorry buddy, many of this scammers out there just wanting to scam whoever comes their way. This should sound as a warning note to many of us to be careful of this guys

Thank you for sharing your sad experience, and henceforth we will all be even more vigilant. I hope you can get your ETH back.

Exactly!

I guess I’m not sure what you mean by the TX.  I can post it if you clarify.

Is this it?

https://i.loli.net/2018/07/01/5b37a93fd8fc8.png

The full TX hash is:
0xee83fa0c3fb96229e61c5ded62f96893fcbabdb395f36aecba5dbad9091ff219

The transactions out of the account ultimately lead to binance accounts.  I reached out to binance support, but I won’t hold my breath.  I’ll take this as an expensive lesson.

I'm sorry for you dude. But how can you trust a group of telegrams? There must be a site with security certificates

Gosh, this is an expensive lesson. Always send your ETH to the contract address listed in official website. There are fake contract address send by members in official chat too.

What I could find in Telegram when I tried to search for Iagon was 3 groups: one of them is Russian with 139 participants, another one is "official" with 344 participants, and the third one seems to be a redirected chat.
Which group did you enter into? Can you remember how many participants were there? Was it at least over 5k?
If not, then I'm sorry to say that, but you were really fished by a scam  :-\

Be EXTREMELY careful when sending ETH or any other crypto through commands/instructions given on a Telegram channel. Really easy for scammers to change their profile pic/name to lure people in.

Just use official webpages for participating in ICOs.

Waoh always very easy to lose money on crypto. Sorry for your loss. We always can't be too careful but to be more alert to notice some fraudulent activities especially the telegram groups. They set up avatar like admin and pm you, if you are not carefully you fall for it.

350 members seems pretty low. Should probably speak to a few of them before investing, to confirm that they arent bots and stuff.

You need to do everything possible to punish these people, because these people can unequivocally deceive some other people, you need to call people to account and write about it on the forum. Do not be afraid to do it.

I am very sorry, you should check carefully on their home page and on the battery pack telegram on it, they are specifically informed in any ICO project, if you get mail asking you to send the number of ETH I'm afraid scam, including the email address you send me is correct or not, because they can not send out the message to each other but through the mail server system, they can hardly do more work together. At one time, the best way to do this was via the official website and the telegram channel where many people watched

I do not cease to be surprised by the ingenuity of fraudsters. Although phishing sites seem to be not a new way of fraud. Although high techologies create additional conveniences for us, they also give us a lot of trouble. Crypto currency in general is a gold mine for scammers and hackers. Apparently, this illegal type of business will only thrive, because transactions in the crypto currency are held around the world and criminals are very difficult to establish and hold accountable.

Where you found telegram group link? And why you thought it's a legit one? I think it's your mistake so there is nothing to complain about ;D. At the begin you only should take telgram group link from ANN thread in this forum or from website only and don't forget to check number of member in telegram group to not join wrong group and get scammed one more time ;D

You have to be careful. at this time a lot of fake telegram groups made by fraudsters. If you are asked to send a coin directly without having to go through the official web, you should reject it, because it is a fraud

I have often had similar situations. Especially when I got on scam when I participated in bounty campaigns. It's really hard to experience it.. But it makes me choose bounty more careful..

And I have this bounty, the company introduced and it seemed to me that this is a serious organization. And I'm sorry your that 5 Ethereum has gone to fraudsters. Today there are a lot of scammers. Every day they come up with different schemes of income.

check and recheck, etherscan the address they have u sending too, do your best to look at every possible angle someone can take to scam you, 5 eth is alot hopefully the next ico u jump on can get u some of that back.

I feel bad that you have scammed you should doubled check the telegram if its official or not. Next time to know if its a scam or not you should ask questions to your friends who knows better than you to make sure if its a scam or not and better check the members in the telegram.

Sorry to hear about your losses, there are plenty of scammers around. It is better to check the contract address properly before sending your ETH over. And don’t ever send your ETH to an address posted in telegram or anywhere.

this is very sad man, sorry anbout your loss, i also had such a painful experience although i notified the main group about the scam telegram group. Always join every ICO telegram group via their website, that way you are sure of joining the right channel

Too many fraudsters divorced and they became very sophisticated. Therefore, you need to be very careful not to get into their network. Be careful.

For newbies out there it should be a combination of all the links to identify which one is the real official. Alot of telegram groups nowadays are fake or even before because of airdrops. The cryptos that is already trading were a trend with an airdrop but when you check their site which can have the official social links, they were not doing one. So be careful and do the extra mile to be safe.

It was a great loss 5ETH isn't small money.  This will teach all of us participating in icos to be extremely careful and vigilant.

Oh my bad, :(, You should be careful next time if you want to participate in a project and investing in it, 5 ETH is really a big amount to lose. These days there are a lot of projects that have the objective to scam people, they use a lot of tricky methods for that purpose. I know that there are a lot of people here can be scammed by these projects, I advise them to be more careful and search a lot about any project you want to invest in it before any move.

m sorry for your lost and thanks for sharing atleast people will stay away from there now

Scam projects are all over and we have to be vigilant. People have lost more than that and I think we should be extra careful with the kind of projects we join. Thanks for the information

The legit telegram group of Iagon has many members in telegram. We should be careful in joining a group in telegram as this is one of many scams, many people there are chatting the investors just to scam. 5 eth is a huge amount this is serves as your lesson so the very next time you should be careful.

Iagon is one of the top tier projects at the moment, I'm sure there are many cheats that will behave in the name of Iagon to deceive someone, be careful if you want to invest, especially with a large amount

Oh, that must be really painful man, unfortunately, scammers got what they want. Their shady tactics are more and more sophisticated every day. They will never vanish from this space and that is the reason why we should be really careful. If I want to invest, I double-check sites and social media (at least) all the time. Well, sometimes even this tactic does not pay off and people are screwed as they lost their savings. On the other hand, it was a lesson for every single reader of this topic and thanks for sharing your experience, we should keep our information channels updated, especially if we are talking about scams. This is the Internet, we have to stay cautious all the time!

ICO related scam is a real pain for the serious investors.  With fake channel, fake avatar doing dm etc, seen countless times people lost money with this sht (especially on telegram).  Just do you own research, making sure everything is legit before a transaction guys.

oh, shot. it's very unfortunately, I hope you can get a replacement. scammers are a major problem in the world of ICO, so many companies are increasing their security and trying to lure potential investors to stay cautious before investing

Sorry to hear that man, some people these days are really aggressive just to scam innocent people who are trying to make money without making any kind of bad intention in order to live. But they are really worked on it, many of them are existed in telegram channels introduced their selves as one of the admin and trying to communicate you about transferring the Eth you are wanted to invest but sadly you transferred the Eth into their wallet address not to the ICO.

If that was an airdrop or an ico then you should always read the platform or ico's before following the rules, in order to determine if the project is legitimate or just a scam.

Its quit unfortunate, but the truth is that scammers still exist and they are very actively involved accros the forum and will take advantage of any slug to -steal away from you, it's therefore our responsibility to guard ourselves from such people a they will take andyou will never get back what they have takemn.

The only thing that you can do is to accept the fact and learn from such uncertainty. Such thing is possible to happen especially if you are new in cryptos. The best thing to come up is by learning from it in order for this on not to happen next time. Just be careful and make observation a priority. Don't worry about your loss because you will regain it soon. Just continue your thing thins time but with an additional care.

That is the experience for you. Before you follow the instructions, it is important to make sure you do not lose money. To lose 5 ETH is a big mistake.

I think that the General Director would not deal with any group in social networks. I would at least have this fact would have caused suspicion. It's a shame of course, but it will be a very good lesson for you.

Oh its hard and im sorry to hear that. That is what we say risky because you didn't know if you are earning or if you got scam so this is one of lesson brother that make you next be carefully what is your joining. Cryptocurrency was to risky and be vigilante on all you joining its hard to accept that you got scam but you learned a lesson for that to be not a victim of scammers next time.

WOW, 5 ETH is too much.And probably you weren't the only one.This telegram group scam is on a rise, we need a pinned post or something to make everyone aware about such cheap scam tricks.

No matter how much vigilant you get, at some point you might lower your guard.That's when people get careless and gets scammed by ways that aren't known to them.
Glad you posted this, I hope that many people read this post.

Fake telegram groups of ICOs and even existing project are trending now. You should have double check the telegram group before sending your 5 eth. 5 eth is a lot of money for me. Anyway be careful next time.

I am sorry for your lost and sharing your experience which I think will help others. However I believe you are really eager to to buy the AIGON token to the extent that you didnt check well the information about the ICO before you invest. one of the most efficient way of going about ICO before buying is to make sure you really identify the major website of the ICO before you invest. there are many ICO listing website including bitcointalk that can provide you with that information. Telegram are full of scammers that are targeting investors daily so becareful next time. in fact I will not advise investor to buy any token by simply transfering ETH directly to an address provided by someone or group of people on telegram. it is a sign of scam.

So sad to hear your story. Scammers try to imitate official telegram groups and channel for their selfish purposes. Some scammers even join the official groups and clone the real legit mods so as to scam unsuspecting memebers by sending pm to them. It's the responsibility of the investor to make sure he's in the official group and not fall victim to fake clone mods.

Actually the real CEO is active on the real telegram.

Well lets just say or think for that scammers are can do anything that are possible to happen just to stole some money out there for those who work properly and not even to scam others too this is what scammers do everyday everything on them are may take effort just to get a lot of money.

Sorry to hear this :(
I just wonder if there a lesson to learn, as it seems that you did anything in the right way.
So, check and check, but the possibility to be scammed is always present :(

I'm sorry you had such a story. The amount is not small and it is a pity to lose it. Now a lot of scams and it becomes a problem.

Sorry for your loss mate. One can never be too careful with these scammers. I would like to ask though. Is this your first time of buying an ico and also how did you get the telegram link? Was it from the official site?

You really have to be vigilant in terms of dealing your assets, many scammers are lurking in almost every telegram group waiting for their prey.

Sorry to hear that, be careful next time.
be open-minded to others' opinion and be active here, specially on the altcoin discussion and scam accusation thread

I'm sorry for your loss, man.
You should always go to Telegram channels only from the official website, as today Telegram is flooded with a lot of scam channels.

you learned your lesson. Always follow only the links from their official websites, double or triple check before you do anything. On every genuine project there are mostly like 3-4 clones.

This is a regrettable news. There are indeed many scams in the cryptocurrency industry. You have to pay attention to the activities of scammers and avoid them to make more money.

How do you decide on which project to invest? Didnt you made any research before giving your money to them? You shouldnt just invest because there are lots of ICO scams for a long time now. Understand or research about the project first and find any reviews about them if they already have a bad record or history of scamming. You shouldnt be in a hurry on investing. It is not about being the first to invest it is about finding a more secured place to invest your money.

That sucks...
Where there is money there will always be those who want to fool you.
It is sad, but there is a ton of scammers in each ICO. And they become increasingly inventive.
I hope that it won't affect much your crypto-activities and you will be able to gain even more by investing in ICOs!

Sorry to hear that, I know there are a lot of scammers out there and they even faked to be the community managers and privately inboxed me via Telegram and told me to send ETH to their wallet to buy tokens! Just be careful guys!  :(

 Wow! Sorry to hear that. But also thanks for sharing for everybody else to be more careful, there is so many just scam things happening around everyday, we all need to be aware.

That’s horrible that you just got scammed but let use as an advantage that we learn in our previous experience that can help us to be a better investors someday in this field of the industry.

unlucky. can somebody remember, was the phishing website Binance, there's certainly no one will distinguish the real from phishing. There was some point next to N, and if you read quickly, you will not see this error. so be careful, but better go to the site from the saved links, not in the search engine.

Yes..... scammers are not asleep) freaks moral ((I'm sorry for you my friend, that you fell for their trick. You need to be careful not to get caught on fake websites and telegrams

These kinds of stories really suck. I do know that we need to be really careful around these days. But they seem to be getting better everyday. We normal folks are just targets lying around to be attacked by them anytime. I hope these people put their abilities to good use instead of defrauding everyone around.

Damn dude, why didn't you use the info on the official site?
You could've contacted them there via chat and asked for info.
I don't want to put salt on the wound but that was reckless.

investing is very risky, especially now, ico is being used to scam their investors, you must see the feedback about the ico that you are going to invest before investing.

hello mate, im sorry to hear that you get scam, 5ETH is also an big amount of money that it lost. my advice is next time better you always double check the channel that you are joining with. if you are not sure with those sites better leave and dont continue giving your personal information especially you wallet details, emails, etc.

He didn't get scammed by the devs but some other dudes on fake telegram.

THAT REALLY AWFUL THAT YOU ARE SCAMMED BUT LIKe what do I said,
its better to be scammed than doing something bad or deceived other people just to earn instant money in illegal way.

It's easy be scam by scammers these days, unfortunately, we aren't able to recover the loss that we have as a result of our momentary thoughtfulness or as a result of sending money for investment without much research.

I am sorry that you got scammed. This is why it is very important for us to verify information before using it. Thank you for sharing this as this will help to warn others and let them know to be careful out there. Sadly this kind of scam happens all too often. People lose a lot of coins because then end up on somewhere that is not actually the right site or address.

Well you can whine all day but in the end it's your fault if you don't do a proper research before investing your money.

Scammers and hackers are targeting the cryptocurrency market to steal assets because there is no organized market for managing assets. So investors need to protect their assets before being stolen by the best possible means.

Before giving advice to you, I am sorry for your incident against SCAMMER.

I hope to be more careful about Bounty Thread or ICO who does not have strong team or who does not have perfect whitepaper and website, because every SCAMMER is always everywhere.

Really condolences and sympathizes to you. 5ETH is a big money, the market is always, requires investors to be wise

when I read this story I immediately laughed because the cause of the deceived authors is his own folly as well as he can not distinguish official social media accounts from unofficial ones.

That's why we should be cautious and spend ample of time to see if that certain project is legit or just wanting to get money from you without any returns. It could a big help also to avoid from being scammed is not to trust someone with unknown identity.

your bad experience is a valuable teacher therefore we should be more careful and conscientious in choosing anything in following the investment with cryptocurrency because the risk is gained big

make it as learning for you. Should be more careful and as much as possible not to happen again. But don't also make you become desperate. Because failure is the earlier you find a success.

Fraud in the ICO market is increasing every day. This market is in dire need of regulatory measures, as some investors lose huge amounts of money by trusting scammers.

I have told many people that easy money will not be available. Many people have been caught in the trap of some fraudulent organization. I advise you not to engage in anything that makes you more money, all just a scam, the Crypto market is a lot of scams. So we need to be on the lookout for scammers.

You must follow links here in the forum some scammers will create a fake group and honestly they are the first one to appear when you try to search in google

I am very concerned about what you are experiencing right now, if you want to invest in ICO, I suggest to follow the instructions on the website and do not buy coins through any channels because it is just trying to deceive you. so Information like this can help other forum members to avoid the same mistakes. You can never be too careful today.

But why would you search on google? Go to the official site.

I'm very sorry about your loss bro, 5 ETH is big for me. These scammers are very smart, makes it hard for one to avoid. Lessons learnt. i have also learnt from your mistake, Telegram is worst these days.

Sometimes we come to a point that we tend to overlook some basic security measures which is why we get into this kind of situation. We know we are smart but there are times that we make stupid decisions without thinking. That is why I believe that being a little paranoid is not bad since it triggers our skepticism making us to look into things before diving in. So yeah, be vigilant and a little paranoid just to be sure.

The scammers are everywhere.I think that is one of the reasons why people fear cryprocurrency so much.I almost got scammed too when I was trying to sell my XYO token at IDEX.My ETH was low for gas so for 24hours I could not make a deposit so I decided to contact support .The scammer pretending to be the idex support told me to send 0.3eth to a certain address to power a bot there to unlock my waller because it was locked. My friends advised me and I was not able to be scammed.

I am sorry about your loss. I am interested to know how did you end up in the wrong chat? Did you followed the link from the ICO page or some other way?

When you're dealing with money you gotta recheck everything at least twice.

Sorry for that mate.Scammers are developing their deception in professional ways more and more especially with the growth of crypto popularity.Everyone should be careful and secure his funds.It will be a lesson for you and all crypto community.

You're not the first and won't be the last. What's more, this isn't the first and the last venture, under the appearance of which will shroud con artists. In any case, in your circumstance you are at fault yourself. As the precept says "measure 7 times, cut 1 time". It appears, you have rushed.

That is terrible. Unfortunately it‘s getting worse and worse with scammers nowadays and I believe they are one big reason why people walk away from crypto.

Was this your first ICO?

Can you share the real and fake telegram here so others don‘t fall into the same trap?

Odd, these deceivers are becoming more and more, and it is already difficult to distinguish a fake account. I most recently hacked my efirium wallet, which was in the general where somewhere on 20 eth.

You need to be very careful. Double-check all references several times, or work directly with project managers via telegram.

It sucks, it happened to a friend of mine a long time ago, all those people on telegram are more than disgusting and it is not worth to join and chat to those  guys. Better to buy tokens directly from the website, that is the way to go

I been scammed also by getting my tokens on my wallet and transfer directly on his exchange account. It was very terrible feeling especially when you already plan where you going to spend it and going to give it to your parents. It really eats you inside and make you cry which will give you reason to do not trust others even sites that are accessing.

Thank you for this warning. I like this forum because having entering on the forum I may read the latest news and warnings. It is very useful to share with others your real experience. Now other investors and participants will more carefully investigate this project before having a dela with it.

it is not only that experienced the cruelty of the project scam more story are far worse than your experience! But people tends to forget it and try to move on and try again, I hope you will find again your inspiration to start over!

Yeah that sucks, but this proves why the scammers keep doing this, they only need to send a few links and now that scammer has 5 ETH that at current prices are more than 2000 dollars and when the price recovers it will be worth a lot more, so they got no reason to stop, this is why it is important to double check every step you are taking before investing or you will lose your money.

Scams target you, we must be careful and do not be easily affected by the lure of rewards or big profits. Always use the link address provided by the official website, and ann or bounty official, do not easily believe in someone who PM you and claim to be the admin of a project let alone to ask for some funds.

I don't know how you sent it so casually . and I'm a little confused . did not you confused by the fact that to participate in the project you need to transfer funds . Is that suspicious already ?

That is where you lost it. Why should you send ETH to any address all in the name of receiving more of ETH. You should know that is a scam. Well, lesson learnt.

it has been repeatedly written about a lot of scams. and to send your Ethereum-you had to first study the project. however, this does not guarantee that you will not get to the scammers.

Gracious well, welcome to the club, fella. Con artists think about another approach to misrepresentation individuals. I never however they can basically trick through wire. Tragically, the individuals who trust they will going to get any pre-deal token consequently will going to nibble the trap. In any case, there are as yet self drop that offered genuine tokens when you send eth.

If that was an airdrop or an ico then you should always read the platform or ico's before following the rules, in order to determine if the project is legitimate or just a scam.

The only thing that you can do is to accept the fact and learn from such uncertainty. Such thing is possible to happen especially if you are new in cryptos. The best thing to come up is by learning from it in order for this on not to happen next time. Just be careful and make observation a priority. Don't worry about your loss because you will regain it soon. Just continue your thing thins time but with an additional care.

This is very common. A few days ago my friend participated in a fomo3D game, but it is not a real fomo3D. After 3 days, this website can no longer be opened.  :-[

Scammers are really becoming more inventive, so you need to be more careful!

Well I would say sorry about that and tell you to pick yourself up being sober will not change the situation you have get up and retraced your self find out where you let your guide down and be very careful next time

This is a lesson for you and all of us. We must be careful and more careful in making decisions. Don't let us regret it in the future.

I'm so sorry to hear that man, please we all need to be careful and make necessary researches about a project before we invest. 5ETH is such a huge amount. Sorry about that.

It is really hard to get back up from these kinds of scams because the money that was invested was earned with hard work and perseverance. We just need to keep in mind that joining this pre-sales does not give us any kind of legit confirmations of their platform being real and authentic. We still need to do our part to look for reviews and research about the team that created that platform. We need to be strong in facing losses because if we keep ourselves in the dump then we wont ever get back up. We just need to strive harder again and hope that we wont commit the same mistake.

I am sad that you got defrauded. This is the reason it is vital for us to check data before utilizing it. Much thanks to you for sharing this as this will caution others and let them know to be cautious out there. Unfortunately this sort of trick happens very regularly. Individuals lose a great deal of coins since at that point wind up on some place that isn't really the correct site or address.

This is sad. No one is immune from this. Thank you For sharing your experience, I think it will help many to save their money.

whenever i read something like this it makes me wonder how long such story could exist. can't those scam understand it all comes back in the end? and there's no religious hint, it's just basic laws of energy

That's terrible, and 5 eth is a lot.
Currently the price is down, but eth was $1000 plus dollars for quite a while and will go back up to that price.

The most common way for people to get scammed is the fake donation address.
People pretend to be a company and give a different address instead of the official one.
It can be elaborate where thy make a copy of the official website but change the url slightly.
Of it can be as simple messages popping up on social  media.

As a general rule, every legitimate ico will have just one payment portal and will never ask for donations through social media.
Instead, they will direct people tot he official payment place.

wow, not a small amount, I'm sorry about what happened to you.
before you send eth do you check first? My advice is to be more careful in doing something, especially about money, so you don't regret it later.

check the team behind the project, learn about the purpose of the project and also its vision and mission.

Oh that's really a bad experience and I think everyone will also learn from it. Those scammers are not resting at anytime until they get something tangible. We should all be careful whenever we are investing in ICO and that's why the legit ICO telegram admin will never send you personal message in order to contribute.

Sorry about your experience, we should all take this as a lesson, it is better to be safe than sorry so when participating in new coins we should make sure that all of the information that we have followed is the correct one before sending any money anywhere. I am sure that there are countless people who have fallen for this. Be careful out here guys

I think all or maybe almost all of the people here in the market industry of cryptocurrency got scammed already. You will not learn to be a good trader and hodler if you have not got scammed for me. People nowadays was making all the strategy and techniques though to suck up money from others. Scam is very normal on this now. There's any law on here though so the scam is freely perform here.

This is so painful to read, am very sorry for your loss. Scammers are getting more sophisticated and we need to always fully check references many times or join the project Telegram group directly from their website.

Ohh, buddy. I'm so sorry to hear that.
But it's OK, don't be sad again. Life must go on, right?
Let's learn from that accident, we should research very carefully when we want to join any projects.

That's very sad you got scammed but one must be more cautious while buying or paying coins. Your little negligency cost you 5 ethereum its a quite big amount. One must learn a lesson from your mistakes. In future always follow the bitcoin thread do not search it with name If you did join group through bitcointalk thread there is no chance to be trapped by scammers. Always double check the address when you are paying to anyone & always do report scammed groups so that they can be blocked and won't be able to scam further anyone.

You're not the only one who got scammed here dude, and every mistake we most often take it a lesson learned. Just sad to hear that you lost 5 Ethereum. But anyway, next time you know what to do now. Just my piece of advise to you is do more research about in crypto or bitcoin, because feeding yourself a knowledge is good thing to apply. Good luck!

Scammers are everywhere, it can be a person who will scam you, or it can even be an app. Those people who made it only want an easy money. The best thing for us to do is to think wisely inorder for us to decrease the percentage of being scammed.

Yes, in this world, it is easy to fall for scammers. Therefore, you must be extremely careful. Do not worry, so it was for many

ohh  i am really sorry to hear that hope it will be a lesson to you and it won t be repeated again and i am sure that you are going to be from now on very careful and will win more than your goal...because after the rain  comes rainbow.

Of course it was the scam ICO campaign. In order to prevent investing in SCAM you MUST check carefully all the aspects of ICO project: team, registration, reviews and other things.

This stiuation like that is really bad for all of us. None of us don't want to lose any money for a nothing so we have to be carefull to invest a ico or like this. Actually I think that ıt is really bad time to invest to any ico or like that things.

that is very bad news, but indeed at the end of this we see a lot of ico who are scam and very detrimental to investors and then they bring the money and live properly, this cannot be left so that no other victims are part of the fraud

I feel sorry for your loss, 5 Eth is a huge amount. This is why we should be more careful and attentive when it comes to websites that involves cryptocurrencies and transactions. Better careful next time.

hey, dont be upset! surely now you will be more attentive to such kind of schemes.and i hope that you'll get your money back in another way, it usually happens that way.

If this is really an experience that you experience, then it's great for me. However, if the post you wrote in this thread is not an event that you experienced, it could be fatal for you. I assume this is really what you feel, therefore, be careful to believe something.

It is always sad to hear that someone was deceived by scammers, but the most annoying thing is that in each such case, the whole fault lies on the victim.  :( The victims are too careless and inattentive, so that the scammers just have to use it and steal money . Before contacting / forwarding money to someone, make sure that you are communicating in the official channel and talking to an official representative of a project . This simple rule will save you a lot of money ....

Awful situation really.  Therefore, you need to be more careful when investing in a product and look for full information about it!

Sad to hear that. I afraid to invest like this, that`s why i look for trusted investment funds to invest into serious project

Try to change you strategy of picking up the project. I believe you will succeed and someday you`ll make very good investment

You know most of scammer are expand their knowledge in other words smart scammer. Actually there's a lot of victims of scam project,  that's why it's necessary to make a deep research before put an investment.

This is really annoying and these people keep making people scared of Cryptocurrencies. People now see it as a scam because of all these.. so sorry for your loss mate.

I am sorry to hear about this, because in my opinion it would be impossible to get your money that has been hit by a scam, make this a valuable experience and do not repeat it again, thank you for sharing the story, because with that we can be more careful

I´m very sorry,

The scammers are more creative day after day, we need to be very careful!

Even scammers today has the talent to create constructive contents and designs, we can hardly tell what  activity today is real. We should be aware of our surroundings. Inspect even the letters 'i' and 'L' scammers often uses phishing sites and replace 'L' to capital 'i'.

Sad to hear that but it's all your fault. Why don't you check twice before making any payment? The Internet is full of scammers. So, we everyone should be more careful while we are doing some business. I always ensure before making any kinda payment.

scammers are getting more and more creative and users are getting more and more naive. Wake up we're on a networking type of work people would really use this advantage to mask their selves and steal other people's money and time.

I want to give an important note: the team has never contacted you personally to provide instructions that aim to cheat and run your balance. All admin telegram ID accounts are usually on pinned posts, you must be careful

your story is so sad for hear that, but we can learn from your experience for participating in ico project, and never buy or send eth from direct message, just send to trusted address from developer

Always double check website and social media platform of projects before joining them it hurts to get scammed of hard earned money sorry for your loss.

In this business, the greater number of persons have passses through one scam or the other in varying degrees and measures, We all make mistakes, the most I had was transacting with individual sellers, scammed on few occasions where I did not receive my coin, that was when I stopped

for this mistakes my advice is find a telegram channel for you which is your friends in it.
 then if you want the join some ico you can ask your friends, discuss and when you all decide to be join in you can now send eth. because in your group everyone gonna talk about that eth adress and you will double check. that's my solution for all of you guys.

Well always think it out several times if you're going to participate in any pre sale. Google is the answer. It won't hurt if you if you get over careful since it's your hard earned money that's at stake

Very sad to hear that mate. Scammer become very creative and intelligence nowadays. But it was your fault. You should check every link before visit and you have to check their telegram and verify before make any payment. Don't make this mistakes again.

i am sorry for you :'( you should be more careful when sending any amount of ethereum to a wallet.

Most definitely, also learn how to encrypt your files that has a wallet in it so it could be used later.

Of course, it seems necessary to get a source that has committed fraud on the Logon Page, therefore it is also more cautious, keeping friends in this forum from the same thing.

That is so unpleasant. Better to learn from someone else mistakes than from your own. The scammers are getting more and more sophisticated and inventive in cheating investors. Thank you for sharing your case so we can be more safe while making investments.

Very sorry to hear this because any one could be at your place( Thisis why before I invst my miney I try to know as much as I can about project(

That is right, you got scammed because of some reason, that is why extra careful should always a key for us not to be a victim of it, but if we were a victim that does not mean we should stop but we should always continue to work hard.

There are really a lot of useful tips written. and through telegrams to receive instructions for investing looks very suspicious. You should always invest through the official website of the project and before sending money you need to be at least 90% sure that these are not fraudsters. 100% guarantee that this is not a scam in such a market unfortunately not

I'm so sorry to hear about what happened to you. Indeed scammers are getting more creative these days. We all need to be more careful when it comes to this. You need to tell others about what happen so that others won't fall into the same trap. If they don't believe you then it's their lost, at least you've warned them.

it was really sad to read , scammer are so very diffucult to detect , my opinion dont settle for the project that personal messaging you to invest money , and you must review first a lot before enetering to a project.

Man, sorry to hear that. I've been scammed once for a couple hundred bucks through a fake website imitating the real one. But it makes you very vigilant in the future once you get scammed.

Several month ago I was investing almost everything, while now I will not even try to make a transfer untill I will be sure that every damn team member is real. Risk is too high and we shoudl be ready.

Today, when amount of fake ICOs is growing, we all need to be extremely attentive. In addition, you should check all the data twice before you make token transaction.

Oh jesus. Sorry for your loss mate. in crypto space we need to be really careful about spammers. i dont understand these people. why they are trying to steal people's money.
They can earn with their honour .But they are not doing that. Shame.. Sorry bro.

ohh i  am  really  sorry  to  heart  that  it is a bad  experience but  it  is  okay  next  time  you  will be  more  careful and every step   you are going to make   will  think twice  so do not  be dissapointed.

At a minimum, there is an official website with all the contact details of the project, including the Telegram, the official wallet number ... You need to be careful
Well, you are so far from one, and the scammers are very creative.

The most important thing is not to be sad, because today many people immediately begin to worry about this and many people are now beginning to seriously leave cryptocurrency, but you must understand that cryptocurrency is a risk

I had been in such situation before, but I have noticed that account is fake just because the link to the website for automatic payments was not connected to the platform. Be careful, bro.

I feel sorry about that. 5 ethereum is really a big amount. It is also not easy to earn eth these days. At least you have learned your lessons though it ks really disappointing. Just don't trust sites easily and have enough knowledge before releasing anything.

oh buddy this shit happejs from time to time do not take it that close ypu will see that the world is getter thatn you think

yes this is very sad thing hut i think that nothing is lost yet and we will find out more and mpre thing that we will see

I know what you feel guys.
And yes same like me, now so many projects get scamed and i just get loss for every project.
I just hope next project will better next time.

This was one of the very basic mistakes that you can make. Some of the scammers even go much further aka infiltrating (via social engineering) between the moderating staff of the project and then lure investors into transferring their funds to the wrong address under the pretense of being a genuine staff members. So there is a lot of mines to step on via those channels.

This is a regrettable situation that has been encountered very often in recent times. This is especially true of the top projects that ICOs carry out, there are a lot of participants here and everyone wants to get into the whitelist, and sometimes the participants are in such a hurry that they do not thoroughly check the address where they send their money. Personally, I did not get into such situations, but my friends suffered from such actions of fraudsters.

Today, you need to be very careful, because the cryptocurrency business attracts a lot of attention to scammers. There are many ways to make easy money and therefore we must be careful not to lose what we have or not to work for someone.

How did you managed to move to the fake account? As for me it is obvious that all links are listed on the ICO official websites and there is no other source of truth.

If you start to invest and any project without doing any intensive research then you deserved to be scam and this could be your best lesson towards any kind of investment so next time don't do invest just by seeing any message you can find most of the scammers by exploring the sscam accusation section of our forum.

There are so many phishing  sites done professionally that many non -experienced  users get into their trap.
This  is why I always check the URL when entering to any site connected with crypto and checking the official ETH adress in Etherscan prior investing.

That is quite pathetic, because that is a huge amount you lost. I saw the same telegram link too, but since i joined the real telegram channel, i knew it's a channel for scammers.
I tried checking for the fake telegram channel, but i found out it has been deleted.

For reference and future purpose, this is the real telegram channel:
http://t.me/Iagon_official

Today, fraudsters are becoming more sophisticated and are beginning to steal data with more sophisticated methods. But nevertheless, the really new users of cryptocurrencies are not very attentive and not very informed, Therefore, they also come across old Tricks.

That's right, so you should always be very careful. No need to click on any links without first checking that it is safe. Do not store passwords and keys in the clipboard of your device. Do not give away personal data to questionable projects and resources.

In 99 percent of cases, when you are asked to send Ethereum or other payment units of cryptocurrency to some address, it is a Scam.

5 ETH is not a small amount of money, you should have been more careful when you want to make it double fold. well I guess your greediness has taken advantage of you. sometime we all gonna need to learn some lesson so if it happen to us in the future we know how to avoid it and not only us but some people too will gonna learn from this.

Even in telegram their is a fake group as this scammer really spreading nowadays. So we have to be careful when having investing in Ico’s since their is a scams group of people. This is  lesson for you so next time you have to be careful.

Sorry man, that's a lot of money and hearing from your story its seemed to appear very legit but still you would have gotten more inquires for perfect assurance.

And it's also indeed as a lesson for others so we can take precaution.

This is a very unpleasant situation. I understand you, I have lost my money more than once. But this is a really good lesson for us. It's good that now in the telegram chats in the attached message they write real data about the project team and call attention to the names of those who write to you, so as not to get caught in a scam.

Really bro? Sorry to hear that and I guess, we need to be wise enough and be careful always next time so that we can avoid this. Much better if you invest only a small amount first so that you can observe the outcomed. And if you think it is legit, then that's the time you invest big amounts but make sure you can still managed your self incase you failed.

Yeah, it really is like that in this ecosystem, it seems like the far west with so many people trying to rip you off, everyone wants a piece of the cake, but instead of working honestly, they do scams to make the unwary fall, I don't blame you because anyone could get ripped off there, you just have to be much more careful next time.

Yes. I was cheated a lot. I did not know the rules of electronic money development. I have failed so hard, that is a valuable lesson for me. I bought the coin at a very high price but now you see it has bottomed out. Now I want to invest in something else better.

Brother sorry for you but better invest in projects that are on the market already . There are so many quality projects with great ideas for use case in the future . ICO is dangerous thing with scammers all around

Oh sorry to hear that pal. I was also scammed once because it is very difficult to identify if which ICO is scam or the legit one. After that, I thought that it was a lesson learned. I promised to myself that i will be more vigilant next time.

Be careful, there are lots of cheaters in the ICO market. The companies hardly ever place wallet addresses in the Telegram. You usually need to pass registration on the ICO website, and after that you are given an address in the personal account where you can invest.

Ouch that was a bad news. Sorry about your loss but be careful next time there are many scammers out there so next time try to crosscheck before any transactions

I am really sorry about that but i just noticed something with this scammers i think the new pattern now is telegram cause about two weeks ago i got a message on telegram from a supposed inmediate admin i missed the kyc period so i was happy that i could get back on the list,further into the conversation he asked me to send 0.0001eth for verification then i knew he was a scammer and i told him bye we should be very careful out there

Yes that scam is really true, because me, and my wife are joining bounty, we have different bounty that was in. But my wife has got scam because first they got twelve weeks to post, and later on their token distribution got in the third quarter as the admin says.Time flies there bounty was gone.So i conclude that there are some bounties are scam.Beware of them.

I ran into a con man once, too. I'll tell you what, it's not the best feeling. To my happiness, I came to my senses in time and managed to get my money back.

It really sucks. But why the fuck you didn't join their official telegram and why the fuck you joined a wrong one? Any logic behind it? You didn't mention. Also, didn't you check the contract address from a trusted source? It's really sad that you guys don't get the lesson.
BTW, have you posted in the reputation?

Be sure to be careful next time you join telegram groups because sometimes even if you joined the legit one a telegram user will pm you and asking to buy tokens with great bonus and it is a pure scam.

Hi there!

Sad to hear you lost this amount of ETH!
i think a good lesson can be learned here, always go trough the official website links, for telegram aswell twitter etc.
Always double check it of you are goin to invest this amount of money.

Always make sure to report these scam activities!
Maybe you can help others out by preventing them fron buying a scam.

Greetings! 8)

There are many ICOs that are of interest every day, and all of them have potential. But some scammers are around you, and they look for ways to contact you in any form to give you fake information to dispose of your money appropriately.

I never understood how people become victims of such tricks of swindlers. I always visit the official site of the project and look for a group of telegrams on the site.

TO avoid being scammed in the future, ensure you take out time to recheck and confirm the project website, do not be in a hurry to invest, avoid the rush mechanism from developer, base on bonus announce, alot of lazy investors tends to  research after investing and this might be late.

ohh, sorry to hear that

and thanks for sharing this information with us, i am pretty sure that his post will help people

and we will be more carefull about such scam and better we do double check with offical site, btctalk thread and etc before we send coin

scammers are everywhere in crypto world, it is one of the reasons ordinary people afraids to invest in crypto

hopefully you will recover soon

I can sympathize with you. Although I do not know this feeling, but I understand how sad it is to lose money, which got not the easiest way.

In modern terms, when fakes are everywhere, we could not be sure even about real projects and real social media accounts, so there is nothing strange.

Shit happens bro. I am sorry to hear this, but I hope we all can learn from this. We need to be more careful and more selective with investing. Always to double check the groups, the payment addresses and so on. I hope nobody else participated in this scam.

I am helping to create a single base of fakes in cryptocurrency industry. Can you please, give link to this channel so other people may not repeat your mistakes?

Today you can be scammed even by entire team, so telegram fake is really something rare. Thanks for your warnings, they could help a lot of investors.

When fomo hits it really doesn't matter are you throwing your money in some pump and dump coin on exchange or in some ICO that you didn't properly researched before investing in it. I dont think that there is anyone in crypto trading that wasnt scammed at least once.

love your statement that you were ok with losing the investment- and the nice touch of joke in the end :)

Seriously, never had any occasions so far when somebody asks to send money through Telegram official site. usually that is for info only and to redirect to right places ..

This is the reason why we need to regulate cryptocurrency in a positive way. The governments in each country allowing cryptocurrencies should have the control over transactions like these. Only those that are registered companies or ICOs should be allowed to receive payments in the form of cryptocurrency or fiat. They should be submitting KYCs and not their clients or customers. So if ever they would be doing scam, surely they will end up in jail because all their identity are established and made known.

You're not the only one, man. I got scammed of 1k just because I was in a rush and didn't take the time to think properly. Now that cost me quite a lot... painful loss.

That is a disaster. But turns out that you learned a lessons from there. Because mostly in the telegram group right now. There are many users pretending to be admins, and they need to send you some money. Always avoid that case. The admin of the telegram group are restricted to pm the user first.

of these things do not want to accept offers from telegrams, better visit the website directly and make sure the link is correct, and follow the official instructions of each project maybe that's the experience I got from this so many spammers here be careful.

very sad to hear it, but this is an experience that you must have, I also experienced it, and from many of these things is a lesson that needs a lot of patience, especially if we join a new project and with a project that is not clear, you need a lot of learning and analysis of crypto market , especially at this time you can see the ico rank on the website, hopefully this can be our analysis in choosing.

This madness needs to stop, so many people are getting scammed almost every month. The only thing that we can all do now is to double check everything, conduct research inorder to avoid getting scammed.

5 ETH today does not seem to be big money. In addition, you may lost them investing the real project, which would not be able to make it to the exchanges.

That sucks and is the first time i hear about this kind of scam. There should be much more information regarding telegram scams, there are tons of those shi*y people out there who will try to scam you. When i have time , i sometimes annoy them ( those who PM me in Telegram) for days saying that i i will invest and that i have sent them the funds already.

It really suck but my concern is where did you get the link to the telegram and who posted it, that is where a search should start from cause I really dislike those mad fellow thinking only to scam people instead of adding value to human with their brain, well that has gone and you need to be very careful with dealing in ico and all these fake group I do join most from btc thread or through campaign manager that am in their group and already know their past n present work , not just any one giving or spamming then I joined.

Now it often happens, so you shouldn’t correspond with someone once again and tell about your interest in tokens, only in official groups!

The most important thing is not to give up and not to give up, because we all go through it and then nothing prevents us from starting all over again, because today the market is full of such participants, unfortunately.

The thing about scams is you don't realize it until it's too late.

While it's happening, it feels completely normal and natural, and you don't feel like you are doing anything wrong.

It's likely the last time that will ever happen to you due to the severity of the situation, but it's too bad you had to lose that amount of money to learn the lesson.

All it takes is a split second of inattention and you fall prey to the scammer.

The quest for yield at any costs has nearly destroyed humanity in the fiat era. 

Let's hope the move to crypto happens sooner than later so we can move beyond this sickening phase of the paradigm shift.

This is happening way too much, I am so sorry that you lost your coins but I am also glad that you decided to post it here so that people will know what to look out for. We always have to make sure that we check that we are in the correct telegram group before we begin to invest in any coins, there are so many scammers out there and so many tricks up their sleeves

Scammers are becoming more and more inventive and this once again should remind us that we need to be more careful. Try several times to check the address of the site, pay attention to the number of participants in the group and social networks of the project. Such examples should remind us that you should not be lazy once again, especially when it comes to the possible loss of your money or personal information.

Oh, so sorry!.
Well, I have heard a similar experience before. I participated in a bounty campaign, I devoted my time and wrote an article for them, only to realize I've been working for a fake project.
So just dust it off and move on to the next.

Nowadays it's common in every ICO. Many scammers work in an intelligent way and setup all the things. It's good to invest from the main website and just for the min amount. Don't put the large amount just in the first try. Even ICO investment are more risky over the past days.  :o

You will be rapidly learning from your own mistakes like in every aspect of your life. But its really easy to eliminate most of the dangers out there. Just follow the rules of not sharing your private keys under any circumstances, dont click suspicious links, always double check everything, dont trust the people you encounter randomly etc.

Hacking can happen to anyone so you have to be patient and make this experience better. At this time a lot of hacking is happening, therefore we must be more serious in investing and choosing projects so that we will avoid hacking. as you say if you can't give a private key to anyone.

Wow. Thanks for sharing your story. This is really bad. Scammers are everywhere. In all industries cryptocurrency. Sell ratings, create groups, and much more. We are all tired of them.

although it was a reasonable amount, you can see the positive side and appreciate the experience that you gained, I've seen that kind of scams lately, that's why so many admins of telegram groups leave a pinned message warning of such scams and remember to be very careful to who you send your money.

Very hard lesson. Okay, now it is equivalent to $ 1000, but the price was 1000 $ for 1 ethereum, and if you consider that the price can return to this point, then you lost $ 5000, it is very hard, as for me

I feel sorry for the experienced you had with that project friend, but maybe next time try to rely on the specific details on the website because it is the only way you can find exact details, all news and information being scattered everywhere are might be a way of scamming people and investors out there, so please be more cautious next time. Its hard to make money actually, so spend it very wisely.

well, I was concerned to hear that, indeed, there are now a lot of forms of fraudulent crime, people are very proud to commit fraud without thinking of other people who have struggled to get results but are stolen by them, be more careful.

This is bad. I understand you. I hope you were able to cope with this and will continue to be more attentive to the projects. It is better to check everything several times than to regret the loss of money.

nowadays it is quite difficult where almost all projects are identical, I try to look at some projects and compare but have not been able to find out what is certain everything is unclear, maybe because of that the spammers took this opportunity. can only remind you to be careful especially with your personal wallet.

Right, thing that I read in pinned message all time is "Admin never PM you first for Invest". That message is simple but so helpful. It's just, that people's mistakes are lack of interest in reading and paying attention to important points.

We really appreciate the fact that you are sharing your experience just to give us a warning. We are really sad for your loss and we are really furious to those scammers that have taken your hard-earned money. Well, I think we really have that something to learned in life, whether it is small or as big as this. What I can only say is that, be very careful next time. I still believe that if something was lost, something will come back to us, a better one.

This is really a sad story and I think that now if the cryptocurrency market starts to grow, then such stories will be much more. Be careful and watch where you invest.

Always be careful of what you are doing or action you made. Next time don't send any amount of coins that you have unless you see it is legit try to ask us when you are make an investment to know if it's legit or not or to get any suggestion .

There are a lot of scam methods like this by making a replica or fake telegram  for a particular ico project, the developer of the ico project should confirm that the telegram is fake. and you should also check first, maybe see their thread ANN first and ask the dev about their telegram, the most important thing is you get a lesson now

Do you mean that the entire Iagon was a scam? or ou have just been phised? This is really important for me because  I was also planning to invest in Iagon hearing my friends talked about this.

Yes, very sad to hear this, but I think you'll be more careful next time, now of course a lot of scams .

This is actually happens with most of the investors who doesn't invest time on research. There are lot of fake groups which collects investors hard earned money by creating fake telegram community with full of bots and fake website with some alphabet changes. Next be vigilant and take action against such groups and thanks for sharing your unlucky story so that others will learn.

hey dude, be careful. it's so disturbing we can't trust, you know, the whole crypto idea is to change the world and here we are, repeating the history even withinn the frames of a new born technology

I am sympathetic and concerned about the incident that happened to you. It can be a lesson for us to be more careful in investing. This lucrative crypto currency market is very vulnerable to fraud. Moreover, cryptocurrency frauds do not yet have strict binding regulations so that people are not responsible for more freedom to carry out their crimes. It can be a lesson and experience for us to be more careful. Before investing, we must understand the transaction procedures in depth from the official website. Don't let us only get information from one door, for example telegram. We have to match all procedures through various ICO social media, for example from websites, from twitter, from facebook, etc. From now on we must be smart and careful investors again. What has happened does not need to be regretted, now is the time for us to get up and organize the strategy again.

I often encounter such fraudulent schemes. We all need to understand that no one will give you anything for free. Success in crypto is a mindfulness and in-depth analysis of the situation. One mistake can lead to a crash. But fortunately, negative experiences allow us to become smarter :)

Sorry for the huge loss. Scammers are every where nowadays.  We all need to be extremely careful, because these so called scammers make replica of the original site and therefore makes it difficult to differentiate between the fake and original.  Scammers are getting creative.

I think you should read the whitepaper wisely and look at the team behind that ICO. Also you can learn how to detect scam ICO on scam accusations, there are have many tips that you can use.
Be careful for next your ICOs investment, its can be a lesson for me too.

I feel sorry about your lost. Next time think twice before you send money to unknown person because you did not know if it is a scam or not. If you really want to joined in a pre-sale be careful to choose. There are lots of scam out there and you must be aware. You should know that there are no free in crypto world even airdrops.

There are many such scams, you must be careful! I have found that a liar's website is exactly the same as a real website! Even you can't tell any clues. The official website ICO has ended, but this cottage website is still in progress. Liars are everywhere, and investors must be very cautious.

Now there are a lot of dummy sites and links that can be brought to the fishing site. It is necessary to check several times the links that you follow. So you can lose your money.

Today, with the growing number of fake ICO, we all need to be extremely careful. In addition, you should check all the data twice before committing a transaction token.

You don't have to be too self-blaming. This is the fault of scammers. Of course, I think you should sum up some experience from this lesson. When you have a lot of experience, those scammers will hard to cheat you.

5 ETH is  5ETH. That's still a lot of Ethereums. There is no shame in being scammed though because It can happen to anyone of us.  The lesson here is to not be too trusting  and be more careful in dealing with the people behind ICO's. In telegram do not just trust anyone. make sure that you double check everything before sending your payments, be it BTC or Ethereum.

I've been in this situation before, but noticed that the account is fake just because a link to the website for automatic payments was not connected to the platform. Be careful, bro.

A few months ago, I put almost everything, and now I'm not even going to try to do the translation, until I am sure that every member of the damn real team. The risk is too high, and we must be prepared.

How did you go to a fake account? As for me, it is obvious that all the links listed on the official websites of the ICO, and there is no other source of truth.

This lesson is very valuable to newcomers. Your five Ethereum prices are all above $500, and you lose $2,500. But don't affect the mood of losing money. The cryptocurrency market is like this. It allows you to make money and make you bankrupt, so investors must have a good state.

You seem to have encountered "phishing scams" and may not be logged into the correct website and telegram group from the start! I also hate these scammers!

Sorry to hear that, it is sad that our industry is full of such scammers. We need to do something to protect more investors on this forum from such bad community members. You should always be very careful with announcements on TG.

Sorry to hear that mate,yes there re any types of scams are now in crypto,they will scam us in so many ways like pretending that they are a legit one,so we investorsd hunters usually have fears to this kind of matter,.we are now totally choosy on making decisions.

I really felt sorry for you sir. Next time you got to be more careful. Especially that there are many scammers lying around in the telegram group. Before making investment, always invest in their own website. Do not bite the trap when they give the address to send the tokens.

You trust others easily, but that has happened. I hope you don't give up but make this a valuable lesson for you. Before you join ICO Poryek, you have to do research because this is very important.

really funny when you easily lose 5 ethereum because less carefully you probably should use it as learning for the next thing. selective and always do your research though it is not easy but it will help in getting. many of the scam in this field and not easy to be fooled into anything like that.

Life is full of colors despite of the obstacles. Lessons never end. There is always a lesson behind the bars of uncertainties that can make us stronger than the past. It is advisable not to be in hurry investment because of huge and good promises illusions. That is why to search the team and ICO is required in order to exclude the scam and support the real and good ones.
Op, you should be more careful whether the market is bullish or bearish. Take care your investment not to lose again. By the way, you can buy ethereum now if you have enough budget to do so.

i am sorry for what is natural,
indeed this is a very good lesson going forward. we must be more choosy and certainly not easy to trust others, if you are interested in what they say. you should investigate before believing it.

your experience will be a good lesson for me.

About the telegram group, i think it would be a lot safer if we look for the real group through the official announcement or from the original website of the project, that would be the safest way to find the right telegram group.

I'm sorry for your loss. Be careful on telegram, there's lot of scammers there. Scammers create a telegram group and then started to put a lot of people into their group to make it looks legit and then changed it into fake ico telegram. Make sure to check the link to all of the ICO's social media and website on its bitcointalk official ann thread. BTW, thanks for sharing your experience.

Due to good income earned from bitcoins there are lots of scammers sorround with this business. They will make very creative works that can get the attentions to investors giving out huge profit of investments which is actually not true. Sometimes we will be convinced by this scam project due to our belief of getting a huge income although it is very impossible to get. So for me being scammed lead me to success in this crypto business because I made it as lessons and learn from this mistakes.

Don't underestimate the ability of the scammer. Scammers in the cryptocurrency market are usually very capable, so be careful when choosing projects. I saw the same website as the official website, but the fake website ICO is still in progress and there are many such scams.

it is very large. yes indeed we must be careful before making a decision to invest, if not careful, of course like that. sometimes there is a scamer that resembles the original group

Seriously???Why would you even take such a risk without doing proper research op? I know that you are in a bad place right now and it sucks, but this is the truth. Scammers will continue to scam people as long as they receive rewards like the amount you sent frequently which is why we need to discourage by improving our brains and not falling for these stupid traps.Learn from that mistake mate, I'm sorry for your loss so you landed to the fake Iagon telegram channel or it was their official telegram channel?This is why if you want to invest to such ICOs better buy coins instead. 5 ETH isn't a joke for someone who's investing and wanting to grow it.