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I was trying to buy NEO coins but I didn't know it's not an ethereum based tokens. I searched for NEO contract address on google and I got one, not knowing it's a fake NEO created by a scammer. I used the contract address on forkdelta and it brought the fake NEO with the price slightly different from the original NEO being traded at bitforex. I was about buying before I sensed that something was wrong cos there was neither a  trade history nor any buy orders; only sell orders. That was how I got saved from being scammed. Please be weary of these people especially if you're a newbie in crypto world.

That’s good that you saved yourself from such scam. Actually nowadays scams have become very common. The criminals know that cryptocurrencies are a new industry and as more and more people are becoming aware of it, they can take the advantage of it to scam them. Therefore, beginner should be especially careful while investing their money. I think this is one of the main reasons which discourage many people to invest in this market.

Nowadays, the scams are designed in such a way that they seem almost real. You were really close to being scammed, it's fortunate that you got to know the truth. I'd  suggest you to approach the verified ones only, and also I appreciate how you shared your experience with others and spread awareness.

In fact, it's just because you don't know this token, so I still don't recommend that newbie use a decentralized exchange, so it's easy to run into problems and try to trade on a large exchange, like binance.

You will never know if you'll be scammed or not. Most of the investments scheme nowadays are just to good to be true. Collecting different kinds of coins and then runaway. some are true but didn't work out, then turn into scam again. Just be safe, and always invests or put money on something that you can afford to lose, and diversified of possible.

Thaks for sharing your exprience. we all know scam is one of most popular threat in crypto currency market. As it's a  online market we can not get rid of this. We all have aware of this scam carefully we have to invest.

It is important to look out for scammers. We always need to see the number of investors associated with the coins as well as the trade history. This proves that if it has had any transactions or not. We need to extra careful, given the scammers have gotten smart too.

Thank you for sharing your experience to us, this gives me more information on how to detect scams from real ones. It is fortunate of you to notice it before you made a transaction with the fake one. It is really important that we are very keen even to the smallest details so that we can avoid scams.

Guys common i think this post isn't about a scam, this is all about bewaring invest fund without knowing what you buy, without even research that NEO isn't ERC20 and use own blockchain!

The reports of scam has skyrocketed. The scammers are getting smart therefore we should be more careful. Investor should check for the trade history as well as the background of the coin. Also it should be discussed with the people in the forum.

Neo and Ethereum have different protocol though their sevice are similar in that you could create smart contract on both platforn. Neovis not an ethereum token and you should not make such mistake in future!

Better buy NEO on a specific exchange rather than a doubtful seller. The more secure technology is the more smarter the hackers. The people should be aware of anything that is ambiguous things they see, an example is your "fake" NEO that you almost bought from scammer. Lucky for someone like you that you escaped that modus. Newcomers on crypto world should be aware of contract addresses to know the altcoin's legitimacy. It is also sad that these kinds of things are mostly ignored but I think it is better to spread awareness rather than keeping it secret. Or the best way is you just buy on legit exchanges to prevent those things, NEO is available in most exchanges.

it's really wise of you! your emotions under control ;) the way scams evolves these days is something outrageous, one day they'll learn how to fake your own thoughts

Scams are not that easy people, if you verify with trustworthy sites and have strong grounds of information, no one has a chance to scam you with fake news. Don't worry.

Your information will be helpful to the people of the crypto. Thank you for sharing it. There are many scams online that can offset you or cause damage to you. So from now on you will have to resort to the truth. Only alert can keep you safe.

Sincerely, sharing this experience of yours is very much appreciated ....Thank God you were fortunate enough not to have paid to d fake one... The incessant increase of scam as far as crypto is comcerned is alarming.... People looking for innocent individuals to dupe.... Let us be more careful and do our findings well.... Thanks

You are one lucky guy, you escaped that one, scammers and hackers are now getting good in what they are doing, as you can see a lot of post of their wallet getting hacked so better install metacert to verify the site that you are going to visit and of course, bookmark the real site so as not to get lost.

Now in the market is extremely unstable situation. Bitcoin goes up, and altcoyins are falling. In such unclear conditions, the best solution will be to wait and see the developments on the market.

Thanks for warning the community, these type of scams are nothing new, forums like reddit and bitcointalk have previously listed suspicious activities which will identify scams, your incident is same as the listed ones. Hopefully, nobody will fall for these scams anymore.

At least you saved yourself on it good for you. unlike what happened to me before , that I'm accused here in forum  because of using fake ETH wallet, which is without knowing it was controled by hacker, i think we're 3 users here accused and suffering because of that wallet. Which is we are tagged ( known as alt ) because of having the same address , Lol , so be careful guys don't jump quick on any results in google 'cause most now is created by hackers,  and make it sure first always to avoid such issues.  

There are more forums like bitcointalk and others who have listed ways to identify a scam, It is important for all the investors to go through all of them to avoid getting scammed. Good to see that you didn't fall for it but be careful in the future. Nobody would like to lose their money to some thieves.

Many people’s are doing the same things they think neo is ehereum based token but it not. If you search on Google and then you will clear about this and there are so many fake neo are available in the market but they have a huge price difference between original one. So you need to careful when you buy neo.

thank you for this information it will help us to be more aware, this is a online trading site so scams are part of it and that's very normal,  it up to the users that how conscious they can stay , accessing your account safely is  important otherwise you can lost your coins

Thanks for sharing the incident with everyone. One of my friends was trapped by same type of scammer once. He had lost a good amount of money for that mistake and from then I have become more careful in these kinds of matters.

this is eye open how newbies get scam so we should be careful in selecting the right way of buying coins

luckily you have looked again correctly. if you already spend money, you should first inform yourself a little more detail. wish you luck that something does not happen to you again.

There are a lot of scammers out there right now trying every means possible to scam people.This is just one of the several tactics used by unscrupulous people now a days. Thanks for the heads up.

This is a very popular and unhealthy way how scammers are looting people.
I remember the ICO boom when the tokens get ICO complete and then there will be fake tokens created and start trading on etherdelta. For example, I once saw message buy WePower Token on etherdelta before it lists to exchange on etherdelta.

The token name was "WPR Token", similarly I saw a lot many other cases too.
This is the dark side of cryptocurrency where newbies and less knowledge investors get scammed time to time, greed is also a big issue here. People fall for such scams in excitement and later regret, they dont even verify the contract address.  ???

I believe buy and sell activity is safe when you do that on exchange or trusted friend, you knew their history and performance. Don't try to find another information about person you didn't know or new exchange to support your activity, it's dangerous. See people act in front of you and learn what they do to keep their activity safe. Not always easy but worth to be done.

Never hurry on making any transaction. Being a late by a few hours won't yield you very large loss.
Be sure to check both from the sending, exchanging and receiving parties, rules, and what they offer.
I have not been scammed as such but I sent a few times to wrong address, double payed some, sometimes due to the delay form where I sent.

these days lot of scammers around the world. specially in Crypto currency most newbies get caught. There target is new people always. i also recently faced 1 ETH Scam. please be aware. always try to keep private key with you. dont not give anyone under any circumstances.

Well there's a lot of phishing email saying you log in to this and that so better be cautious and always check their email address.

As per OP, don't trust anything in internet as nothing certain until you confirm it. Much better if you look at the CMC, click the coin and look for the contract address. And if you're unsure just trade in centralized exchange as hackers can't make their own address easily. Furthermore, good for you for saving yourself.

This is not rare now..each and everyday happening similar things..for newcomers please study on the market how the coin works what is ERC20 token and basic things..cause each and very coin on the market there is a similar token created on ethereum block chain. those are very cheep you will impress by price..but actually there is no value for them...BEWARE people and save your cryptos..

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These type of incidents are the reason to learn the right way to deal with cryptos and how to avoid getting scammed. Thanks a lot sharing your experience with the community and hopefully no one will fall for such trap from now.

Yes we always need to be very careful while investing or buying any coins. It always important to check trade history,buy and sell orders. I am glad that you saw that and save yourself. We all should take this situation as a suggestion of our future work.

true so if you are aware for what may ever be happen so keep remind your self that scammers are always there and you have to more careful about.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of such scams, especially recently! You have to be very careful and you're done, I'm glad that you could recognize the scam, some do not notice such things! Be carefull ! If you buy a coin, study it!

I dont understand really what you were thinking while searching the contract address over the internet? Who does that, who search a contract address over the internet where we send huge money to get the tokens. Its always advisable to get to the official sites of the project for which you want to buy the token and then get your token address from there. This is the official procedure you should always follow mate. Its your luck that you saved your ass from getting robbed, but this wont happen always. Lets just be safe all, and always remember never google stuff like this, its like calling for the phishing sites up front.

It is a good thing that people reveal the stories in which they were nearly scammed and that method is very common, in an ico in which I invested some time ago the same happened, the coin was not based in ethereum and yet the scammers tried something similar and many people lost their ethereum based tokens they had and the tokens they had bought, so people need to be very careful since it is very easy to fall victim of people like that.

the experience is exciting and can be used for lessons for yourself and others. scam in crypto already arguably became a daily food. in a variety of stuff to crypto will not escape from the problem and it's definitely a scam. the alert should always be done carefully and even indifferent, it matters if it doesn't want to go in the scam.

Thanks for sharing this with others, alot of clone projects outthere now and are trapping newbies into it, this is on issue that only education can take but most new people enter then space looking to make profit without studing the space and soon fall victim of these scams,

Oh, this is a very crucial incident, im glad you resurfaced and was very cautios
this has happened to me once when polymath token was the talk of the day. I was saved by a friend

Lesson is to ensure to have the correct contract details from the project telegram admins.

I think scammers also win sometimes because people are generally careless and not aware of some basics, although there is alot of crypto based awareness and security being implemented now but still we know the world is full of scammers that are ready to take advantage of your innocence, so do stay alert all the time.

It's very exceptional mistake that you don't know it is not an erc20 token, there are lots of contracts that are scam and not scams, I think that is mostly your mistake  :-\

It's always good to get your information from the right source, using google it can fetch articles published by different users, I believe Neo has a telegram support group, or social media handlers, you can always contact there or even email will do. stay safe guys

I hope in last of this year bitcoin will increases. I hope many investors come back to invest on BTC and it will be felt good impact on BTC and as a result BTC will increases approximately 1000$ or more .

Scammers are very smart I have seen some people selling tokens that had no value in the market anymore, tokens that were valueless since they haven replaced by others and even creating their own tokens with some similar names to confuse newbies, the amount of effort the scammers will go through to get your money is amazing, so you need to always be on your guard and check everything before sending your money to someone on the Internet.

This is an advice to all cryptoneurs. be very cautious when sending money from one wallet to the other. Always get to know the authenticity of the transaction you want to make. Do not risk your money, be advised in your transactions. I once experienced this and i nearly sent $1000 to a fake wallet. from that time till now, i have been very vigilant with divers wallet on exchange sites.

Scammers everywhere! These criminals will do anything in order to steal from the innocent. Heartless human beings having no regards whatsoever for other people! The sad reality is that we cannot do anything to take them down and out. The best we can do is to be vigilant and smarter. Learn the system and know how to go about it.

Crypto world is not safe at all, there are many ways to fool people, like phishing or just simply scamming and more. First of all think about your security and you will sleep well)

We need to be very careful when accessing our wallets, there are some viruses out there that affect the action of copy and paste and when you copy and paste a bitcoin address they replace your address with one belonging to the hacker, so before sending your coins make sure that the addresses match, you do not have to check the whole address but at least the first and the last numbers and letters.

Experiences like this should be shared to other traders. To the aspiring and new traders out there that are still trying to adopt the market, make sure that you are buying the real ones.

Be careful with your trades so you won't fall for those scam schemes.

And as part of it, we only have to be aware of those schemes and we need to be careful as well.