Bitcoin Forum

Hello Guys,

Its been exactly a YEAR after loosing my Bticoings to SCAMSTERS and days just flew by and its been a year I have joined Bitcointalk as well,Wish I cud have joined early so could have learnt a lot and wouldnt have fallen for the scmasters and loose my HARD EARNED Money !

Thankyou all for your support ! Stay safe,secure and happy !

Anyone can fall prey to scammers,it really has nothing to do with one's longevity on the forum..
There are many ways and techniques to avoid and prevent scammers from preying on you,and all such information is available on this forum..

Sorry about your loss mate, it can only get better

Trust you've learnt your lessons, though in the hard way. Never a good experience for anyone to pass through. In this cryptospace, one just got to be extremely careful and trade with caution.

I wish I wouldn't fall into scams. Could you tell what exactly happened?

make this forum a place to get more knowledge about bitcoin and to get to know bitcoin more deeply
when you fall, try to get up under any circumstances, because you have to complete your life with the aim of success,
it could be, bitcoin is a bridge to your success

you are right
This forum has taught us a lot of it
It is the source of experience basic  for most members

I wish you an excellent future with encryption.

Some scams are out of greed on the part of the loser. If one is scammed because you got a message to sign up & pay in some coin to get more for instance, what do we expect...? I mean there are no free manners anywhere. For such scam, I simply do not see it as being inexperienced but an attempt to scam a scammer who off course is on top of the whole plan.

So we need to be careful, maybe OP could give us some insight on how the coins got lost.

You must  ensure you adequately guard against  scammers from invading your portfolio, use strong password, 2 fa authentication, do not visit unsecure site, avoid phisting mail from unknown source, You are your own security in the cryptocurrney community .

you have to be optimistic, crypto travel is still long, there are many ways to get profit from crypto, trade, investment, and others.

you have to learn from your past, when the price of bitcoin becomes high, then the chance of fraud becomes very large.

joining this forum is not something that can prevent you from being scammed! in fact many people have been scammed because they joined bitcointalk. and there are many different forms of scam, it is not just obvious ones when someone tricks you to give them your money and they run away with it. one of the most common ways of scamming people here is advertising already pumped shitcoins and getting newbies to invest in them so that they can dump on them. that is also an indirect way of taking their money!

I totally agree that being a Bitcointalk member cannot protect you alone. You need to learn to analyze SCAM projects. However, when investing in each project, there is a chance to come up with SCAM. We have to be careful all the time.

Stay out of the ICO and Altcoin threads....

Joining bitcointalk early would make you more knowledgeable but not immune to scammers. In fact many operate right here so you may have lost even more

That is the spirit you have to move on no Matter what your experience is life goes on and those that have scammed you in the past will leave with they own kama to cash up with them if not already. The year has been a great year for bitcoin couples with lots of challenges such as price falls and so many attacks from different institutions but with hope we believe the future will be great again.

Bitcointalk is the right place to expose scam ICO but there are different forms of scammers in this forum, you must becareful and think wisely.
Congratulation on 1st year in Bitcointalk  !!

Joining Bitcointalk does not grantee any protection from hackers, lol, but it definitely will help you to understand crypto, security etc.better.

Yes, really, through this forum many people learn many things about bitcoin. The right and fast decision will bring success closer to us. Keep up the spirit, good luck with Bitcoin.

How many bitcoin that you have lost? I also ever scammed by fake website. It is important to keep get information and education from this community in bitcointalk. Don't forget to keep an eye on scam accusation section there we can get more information about scam project.

Thankyou for all those kind words ! Two things I would like to say !

1) Joining in this forum could have given me more knowledge and I myself I have posted quiet a few posts on how I was scammed so the same way if I would have come across some post would have bought some awareness and hence was the reason I said that may be it could have given me quiet a bit of more knowledge to be safe and secured !

2) Somebody repled saying ,coz of greed I lost my coins,I would like to say it was for no greed,coinbase number was misused by some scammers and I was the victim where I was told that they were trying to put my account to make it more secure and have to move my coins and theyw ere from coinbase and that was the way I was robbed but not for the sake of greed !

THe damage has happenned and I lost 2 BTCs worth of $15k,so nothing was done excepting an APOLOGY from coinbase ,I called them in 2hrs when i realized it was a scam,but the worse has already happenned !

It takes time for transactions at times but the scam transaction was super fast :(

This year is an extraordinary year for bitcoin with many challenges such as falling prices and so many scammers from various institutions but you still have to be careful and think wisely before making a decision.

Now you've  learned you lesson that you can't easily trust for you to earn but you need also to secure, learned on how to choose a right project and you need to be vigilant on all things specially if have a money involve like on the investment you do. Scammers are always their they act normal and legit but deep in side thyme are scammer so on the next time you join on the project always check all before you invest.

well sorry about loosing your bitcoin a year ago but you should move on and forget it. that is the way life is. we take risk daily you either win or you loose. But whatever happens, we keep pushing forward always

Let us face the challenge here in bitcoin that we will really win and lose. This is why we should know the risks before we invest in bitcoin because of the volatility of the price. This year is not good in crypto but still let’s hope for the best.

do not have to rush in taking decisions, study and carefully before taking actions such as investing or trading and others. all need precision so that all can succeed and earn a lot of money. make it an opportunity to buy when the market goes down, buy the best coin.

Agreed - one night I was drinking and ran an executable that put a virus on my machine.

While I slept, a hacker accessed my computer and took 2 btc in my hot wallet.  Odd thing, he left almost a bitcoin behind.   ???

I was able to recover my account quickly because I had staked a bitcoin address, thanks to Tomatocage's thread.

everyone must have made a mistake and experienced a bad event. I am also concerned about what happened to you one year ago. what I can say now is, you must keep the spirit, make the past events as a lesson in itself. even with you sharing these bad experiences, you have contributed to other people to be more careful in conducting transactions with scammers, this is a good step, you have become a benefit in this community. crypto will continue to be open to anyone, hope you enjoy with your new journey, and welcome back to this community :)

Hey, congrats on over taking that loss mate. We all make mistakes right? But those mistakes makes us wiser and more knowledgeable about something. Maybe it's a good thing that you got scammed because you learned something and that something will make you rich someday  ;D

making the right decision is something that is difficult for investors and traders to do, of course, we cannot predict bitcoin and other altcoins easily and precisely, because price movements are very difficult for us to predict, bitcoin and other altcoins can suddenly rise and go down, so be careful when investing or doing trade now.

It is good to see that you have learnt a great deal of lessons from the experience. Nobody is perfect but there are just some very cheap scams out there but people easily get carried away by greed. Always do your due diligence and invest only the money that you can afford to lose.