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What is Scam?
Scam is a dishonest scheme that is carried out by an individual or groups of persons in mode of taking away something that is valuable to others. Those who perform these acts are reffered to as scamers.

How do people get involved, how easily are people scammed and reasons?

Many individuals think of the internet as a get rich quick scheme and once they are exposed to any form of investment promising high ROI, witjout a second taught they jump onto it, you and I as well know how this will end? In a nutshell, GREED is a factor

Secondly the inability to conduct research and make real findings on our own. All this as a result of laziness.

Add yours!!

I entreat all of us to be on the look out for scan projects, make our findings and proof beyound doubts their scam intentions and also avoid been greedy when making an inveatment

Maybe you can add, lack of knowledge about technology. Most people has the money to invest but lacks knowledge on what and where they are going to be involved to. Not understanding the whole scope of the project, the purpose and it's potential. Also, you can add greed, most investors aim for profit, that is why scam developers create a project that shows a good profit acheme to attract greedy investors.

Its indeed true, the lack of knowledge is the inability to read and make findings, dont you think if you are not good at technology its best to seek fimancial advice from a reliable person who understands better?

You have said it all, there is little or nothing to add after that ;D, the reason why people get scammed so easily both online or offline (yes people get scammed offline too) is because of lack of understanding and most especially greed, if you let yourself carried away by the enticing offers given by this con-artist then you will be scammed even before you know it,

when people don't have the right knowledge to detect lies from truth is another issue, some people are so naive that they will believe anything they hear or see without asking question or doing small digging to know more, scammers are very creative and smart so it requires more knowledge and observation to identify them,
people should equip their self with the right knowledge to stay safe,   Knowledge they say is power.

There are a few main factors:

1. GREED, always at first place
2. FOMO (Fear of Missing out), because of FOMO most people skip the part where they need to make due diligence before giving away cash/coins
3. Inexperience/Lack of knowledge. "A friend of mine told me he's a crypto-guru and this project is pure gold. I don't know what I'm doing, but I will give my money to get rich overnight!" attitude.

When you combine all factors, you have a very easy targets.

There are big lessons to learn about the internet and there is no way to stop innocent people from falling into internet traps until they learn themselves, i have my own principles and i believe that nothing comes easily in this world, when people are been given offer that are too good to be true they never think about where the money is coming from, the greed won't make them think

Because many people have this perception of getting rich or getting easy money quickly, the internet is full of bad and good and if care is noth taking you can easily fall for scam project, or investment sites that will promise to give you good returns if you invest so&so amount,

people should be careful with what they believe,
Some people will post screenshot of their investment and the profit they made, this will entice innocent people and they will put money then the next minute the site is gone, they have fall victim of scam.

Maybe I think it's because they like it too, So even risky they'll come in because they know they'll make a huge profit if they don't get scammed right away. They want to have Easy money like gambling!
No one is going to invest in promises that will deliver a huge ROI in just one week!

Because of their greediness.

Because of their stupidity.

But why people choose internet to scam people is they can hide with someone's identity and also they even can hack devices and makethings without the owner's authorization.

Every investor needs to remember assured High ROI is likely a scam.

Its like buying a new gadget you aren't familiar with and throw away the manual script, newbies don't want to learn, they think internet is for those who wants to make quick money, any scammer can easily trick people this days but since they don't want to learn the easy way they will learn the hardway

they sometimes do not know the limits and therefore they try to find as much profit in investment, and stupidly they do not understand the concept of investment so they are trapped when their funds have entered into the investment. and the last one is probably mostly ignorance starting from lazy reading whitepaper and unable to analyze it

One factors could also be an impact is that lack of experience. Knowledge do important to avoid this scheme but experience as well. Ignorance, greed could also be a factors. In order to avoid to be scammed, don't go for a transaction without having any idea regard this. It is better to consult to a person who have experienced or ask some advice to a forum.

Lack of experience is a factor, people are easily attracted to high returns in just short time period and it is one of the reason why they got easily scammed by other people. Having enough experience and knowledge can help us to avoid to get scammed.

People are here for quick money and they are unaware of the dangers that lurks in every corner of the internet either crypto invest or even social media internet dating, there is no such thing as free in the world, one way or the other you will pay so when you come across offers with huge reward you need to turn away

No, not lack of experience but greed. Lack of experience should refrain people from deciding immediately. When you do not know something, what will you do? It is to avoid giving a commitment or making a rush decision. But the story is different when money or the promise of a big profit is offered. When someone is offered a big profit even if he does not know what it truly is, he might jump right into it then and there. It is not lack of experience that pushes him into becoming a victim, it is greed.  

Ignorance is what really makes some people fall on scams. Although it's not easy to distinguish a scam scheme, but we should dig deep into where we put our money into and look for license if needed.

We can say they are just lack of knowledge and experience. I'm pointing to the newbies which are after making an easy profit.
They don't even spend their time to learn and understand first before taking any actions, that's why they can easily get scammed in the internet.

1. There are so many people who joined cryptocurrency without proper knowledge yet they are greedy to earn fast.
They join cloud mining and deposit money, what is painful is they also refer their friends.
2. Entertaining someone from the telegram that they don't know personally.
3. Improper way of taking care of their wallet specially private keys.

Indeed. Other people just decide immediately that they just follow other people decisions on where they invest their money, which is not a good way to make decisions because it is the reason why people easily get scammed without knowing and checking everything about the project or in a site.

I think people have became lazier. They want everything to happen over internet. People are used to home delivering food and clothes and they also want to deliver success.
People are looking for ways to double their money. They can't wait long to see their money rise. They'd rather lose it all then wait a long time for it to grow.
Many people involved in online scams do know they risk their money being involved. It's not a difficult task to realize there are no prince in Nigeria, yet we can't resist sending him a $100 so that he could send us a chest full of gold.

it is not just about being greedy, it is mostly due to pump and dumps.
in other words everyone is greedy to some extent but when people look at the altcoin market and see a lot of pumps are taking place they become more confident that their assumptions for big profit is possible so they jump in to get involved faster and start making profit but of course the pumps can't last forever and these people always end up experiencing the other side of it meaning the dumps and end up losing money.
all of these are scams not because people lost money but because they were created to be pumped and dumped.

Pretty much how people get scam in real world. They exaggerate thier products or services to lure their victims who will find them hard  to resist. People should probably stop patronizing things they will not get compensated for or get replacement for when the are unsatisfied.
As regards conducting research before investing, I totally agree... unfortunately not everyone will be able to conduct research. I don't think they deserve to be scam for being careless. Wish the cryptocurrency community can self-regulate to help purge out most of the scams around.

scammers know how they can get the interest of their victim, newbies are easily attracted in a proposed way of earning easy money. Newbies easily bite their bait because they are expecting and hoping for a high return for their investment in a short period of time.
They don't even try to make a research to verify if their investment is safe or not.

Lack of knowledge, lack of technology, lack of experience... Greed is definitely a factor, yes, but so is lack of effort. People would rather be like 'it will be fine' than spend some time to research the project and educate themselves on recognizing scams.

One of the reason why some people get easily scammed is they are lazy on doing research about the certain cryptocurrencies or product. I know some of the people still do not have enough knowledge on using internet and some of them always believe on all thing that they have seen on internet. Lastly, you can avoid those scammed people and project if you going to conduct proper research and do not easily believe to the thing that you have seen on the internet.

There are really many schemes on the Internet that allow you to become rich in a short period of time. However, all such schemes are often fraudulent.

When a person comes to the Internet to earn money, he hardly owns a lot of information about what is happening here, so he is easily able to trust the first person he comes across because he had no experience meeting scammers on the Internet.

An individual makes the first mistake when he enters a new unknown field without first collecting information, which in turn leads to the fact that he is easily deceived, because he does not know the rules of the game in this field.

Believers will often be victims of fraud on the Internet. Are they stupid ? Of course not, they are just good people who cant recognize people who are trying to fool them. Since cryptocurrency developed, many people have been deceived, fraudsters use various methods to get money from their victims. However, what we have to do is not to trust people we dont know, especially over the internet.

Well, the worst thing that you can do when starting up your involvement in crypto space is, entering without knowing anything. it's like going into a war without having any weapons with you., and its like digging up your own tomb. For you to be able to manage and survive, you need to be open with continuous  learning and research everything regarding cryptocurrency, trading. mining. investing and such so you won't end up losing all your assets because you got scammed. It's also essential reading threads about scam experiences of others so you could learn from their mistakes.

Thats one of the main reason the GREED most people are after with the easy money and big profit scheme thats why it was easily fall for those promises that offered a too good to be true ROI modus,  and it was repeatedly happen so i guess most people are not yet learn from the mistakes of others when i was scam in ICO in 2018 i promised to my self that it wont happen to me again thats why im very careful now in terms of investing in cryptocurrency specially in IEO.

Aside from what OP has said, computer and internet literacy is also one of the factors that affect the chances of getting scammed. There are several possible attacks online not by scammers, but by thieves. One example is through phishing, if one investor thinks a mock website made by a hacker is legitimate and made him input sensitive data such as private keys, thefts are made and it's one way to lose funds. Other factors also said by the OP is greed, mainly by luring the victim by advertisements that tricks the minds of investors to send funds, which are irreversible.

It is because most people are gullible, and Silly, don't know what the coins are were in the end mostly got scam by the scammer.
And sometimes maybe they are not aware in some phishing site too. This is the reason why they've become a victim.

You have said it all, people get scammed easily most times because of greed and because they want to get rich quickly, so immediately they see anything online without any proper investigation, they will go ahead and invest their hard earned money.

There are posts around the web about how many people make huge profits of their lives investing in coins and tokens in 2017/2018 and every one was in 'wow' state, this news have make many blindly join crypto space with no single research and they are willing to take any risks investment they see

We are to be blame for any action we take on the internet, i don't expect people to trust others easily since you can't see them physically, i don't expect people to look for easy money because they will only lead to their doom, greed should be put aside and make your profits worth the work done

It is because of the rush profits which invites them to invest even if the risk is high or they really never knew what it is all about.
Just a promise from a group that something good will happen when you buy this or you would give some money.

Many of them will make it happen in the start but as it goes longer and you are investing larger then that is the time they run.
Just rotating the money like a pyramid and then saying goodbye afterwards when the members are getting more greedy.

People are get scammed easily because sometimes people are really need money for life or they are greedy.
Sometimes those both reason can close people eyes about what they are investing, and the scammers make them sure like they're a pro. So those people will caught by the scammers

People get easily scam because of ignorance and they do not know the real situation, they all thought, that it is just investing and waiting because the first people or early birds in Cryptocurrency did just that, and they thought the situation now is the same as those early days.
If they see the warning signs and all the risk involved, they will be very careful and will do research on how to check if the project is legit or not.

Indeed, humans are greedy. And since, many people have wrong connotations about cryptocurrency especially with bitcoin. Most of the public, the number of people that are not that so familiar with crypto, doesn't even know the difference between bitcoin and crypto. Not all don't even know that there are other coins such as alts that exists. That's why they can be easily scammed when they were told that this particular project is like "bitcoin but better". This false promises are the beginning of the scam then escalating to them investing in the wrong hands.

I do not believe people get scammed easily
There are few comprehensive factors; such as greed and covetousness

Whenever an individual or group of people bring you ponzis idea in form of signals or investment site
Or a project promising moon and the sun

You should naturally avoid such to avoid been scammed

More and more scammers are developing because new investors have also begun to emerge. This is the right target for scammers to launch their actions by making SCAM projects with high profits. New investors who are greedy and don't do research in advance will get into their trap. We all need to remain vigilant and do research in advance which projects will be followed, don't be fooled by scammers.

Aside from greed, ignorance is also the lethal flaw of some people in this industry. They tend to trust a project so easily because they are ignorant to what the project really is. I am not just talking about the legitimacy of the project in terms of the reliability of the dev team. I want to also point out that when you invest in a project, you should also share their vision and mission, not just to gain profit.

crypto and its investment are not free from fraud because of the fundamental reasons there is no legal power that provides protection and certainly there is no absolute legality for crypto and crypto currencies can be used anywhere and anyone so that makes fraud will be easy to do

People get scammed because many of them is greedy and for that reason they make a wrong decisions, fast decisions for a fast money.

The scammer will not stop, always looking for a gap / effort to find the next victim. the internet is the best place or platform for scammers, as reported by wikipedia [1] "in 2017 the Internet Crime Complaints Center (IC3) received around 300,000 complaints". woww that's not a small number and at this time scammers are turning to crypto, so it's becoming a trend right now. I agree with the OP, which is the factor of greed and it is difficult to avoid, because in reality it is pure human nature, but at least we can reduce the nature of it.

one way to minimize undesirable events is that we must be aware of greed. no sudden rich words, everything needs a process and must want effort from scratch.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_fraud

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many people have gambling character, they attempt repeatedly do invest in 'prospect' with high ROI
they think it's okay lose some money they can afford, so they even dont be dissapinted getting scammed lol

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The important thing for investor is just be rational :)

Major reason is that they are lack knowledge about the internet itself, they tend to forget that all information in the internet isn't real well, half real but not absolutely real. Second reason is that, they need something that has been shown in the internet. Lastly is that those information in the internet seems to be real; sugar-coated words persuades them to engage on those scam stuff over in the internet.

Usually fraud is more often the result of greed and lack of knowledge before investing. Most people will not think long if they see many benefits to be gained if investing in the project, and this greed occurs due to their lack of knowledge in investing so this will make it straightforward for fraudsters to persuade them to want to invest in the fraud project.
My advice, before investing more should find out in advance about the project from reliable sources, and do not be easily tempted by a very lucrative offer from a project before you are convinced if the project is truly trusted.

People also get scammed because of their lack of education. If people are fully aware of the number of scammers on the internet. It's better to be media literate to avoid getting scammed.
There are also cases that even if you're cautious enough but some people are just very good at convincing and manipulating others, it's easy for them to scam people.
It's easier to scam people here on the internet because you can give wrong information and there's a lot of internet users nowadays are not really a techy people. They're just adapting to the mainstream but not really good at it.

Greedy is a normal human attitude trying to get something more than what has been obtained. I think most people have this attitude in crypto, because of opportunity and ability. But if this is not supported by experience, knowledge and analysis then loss is a sure thing to accept. Cryptocurrency is full of speculation, so sweet words and promises from project developers are common here. So in my opinion its very reasonable if this causes many casualties.

People use the Internet exactly as much as they need and, as far as possible, based on the nature of their activity, they are exploring various ways of protecting their data, means and how to minimize the number of situations when it is possible to cross with scammers.  But people who want easy money have never had immunity from fraud in this area of ​​activity.

Well.. I am someone who got scammed multiple times in the internet. Back then, I was too young and my mistake was that I used to blindly trust strangers. I lost a lot of money, but even then I am glad that I learnt a few lessons in my life as a result of these scams. I took each one of these scams as a lesson. And made sure not to repeat them in my life thereafter. And I am glad to say that no one has managed to scam me for the last 4-5 years.

I believe that some people believe that they are smarter than others and can just come to any project and earn money in it, while not having knowledge and skills. This self-confidence often leads them to fraudulent projects. I personally know several cases when they turned to me for advice and I said that this was a fraud suggestion and even provided evidence. People told me thanks for the information and still went to this scam. After they lost money, they came again and complained that they had lost money. So it turns out that they think that they are the smartest and now quickly earn for free. But as the practice shows, they lose money very quickly.

Yes no doubt it is our own greedy nature which makes us suffer in different ways and gives other people chance to deceive us and take advantage of our unawareness.  Most of scamming sites will show you green garden and then they will open up their system to take all your data so better abstain them and don’t trust easily for temporary profit.

One of the main reason is basically the lack of knowledge. People nowadays are mostly dumb because they are always long for convenience wherein instead of reading the whole content of something, they would just scan it quickly without even carefully reading all the details. Carelessness at its finest when they just click and join something right away without even having a background or history check. We should keep on reminding them to pay attention and avoid such behavior so that the scammers wouldn't get feeded by their infos and money.

I agree with you man, lack of knowledge is the biggest problem. I always point that out, people need to be more educated if they wish to be successful in the long run. I think that reminding them is useless, we have on this forum so many topics with same headlines, many good comments and advises, but people are to lazy to read all that, to check out what others have to say about something.
I think that its easy to scam people everywhere! How many times we have seen that in the past? Do you know who is Ponzi, and why ponzi scheme have that name? How many investment companies scammed people for huge money? People are victims because they are greedy, they fall on huge promises about high ROI. When I see promises about fast ROI I close the window! I will repeat once again for all the people and for myself, if it sounds too good its probably a scam.

From my opinion, people are not able to talk with those scammers face to face thus only from the words they wrote on the internet, it's hard to tell if they are true or not. Also, scammers are from all over the world, so they are not like people who live near you, they will lure you with high return investment or project, once they got your money easily, they default easily. The cost to scam on the internet is very low.

main part why people it's too easy for being scammed :

Attracted with Hype Issue, this is related with money exactly. Due I ever become a victim from this scheme. In our brain it just for collecting much money with easy way. Business with PONZI SCHEME ever take out all of my money. So please don't stop learning and ask the expert before joining in any business investment. Knowledge will give you everything, but being greedy because of money its so disgusting.  ;D

Lack of knowledge is a fact. Once they've seen people making off it, they won't do research on how exactly these people made money.
The thing that's on their mind is that 'this guy made money on bitcoin'. In which, everything that has associated with bitcoin is going to be a money-making machine for them. And sadly, many of them fell for those ponzi scams.

because they don't know what is it.
basicaly they just follow what a trend on internet , and well, mostly didn't research or something like that.
lack of education about crypto is a major factor why scams are so easy to do.
because most of veteran just busy to grow their pocket self.

There other ways by which people also fall victim of scam and not scam projects this time. A lot of people have heard of wallets being hacked. Although, sometimes greed can be associated with it, but it goes behind that. It can happen as a result of ignorance, by unknowingly and without much knowledge, expose your security details to s scammer.

yes, a lot of people lazy to do a research before drop money on any investments opportunities mate
and sometimes they didn't learn from their experience, thats why people always get scammed again and again mate

Scammers can get absolutely anyone. And it won't necessarily be newcomers. Beginners may fall for easier ways because of their naivety. But for more experienced users, there are more sophisticated ways. There are always new schemes of fraud and you need to be always on the alert, because no matter how much experience you have, you can still become the next.

Personally I think a lot of those people would be scammed on the phone, or even in person. A lot of older people and unexperienced internet users often understand getting scammed and think people online are the same as meeting someone in person.

Their mindset would just be "I wouldn't ever get scammed in person by a person or company, so how would someone online be able to scam me! I'll be able to call the police".

It's pretty rare nowadays though, people have gotten a lot smarter and understand things better.

Because they are following the wrong leaders, and reading the wrong articles, they follow leaders and articles created by bounty hunters, we all know that bounty hunters are paid to shill tokens and coins they are paid to promote, people should differentiate bounty hunters and researchers, so you'll know who is shilling and who is promoting the right token.

People get scammed on the internet out of desperation for something, typically for money. Out of desperation, a person loses the stable sense of making sound decisions and ones this stage is reached, the individual is apparently blinded to the identification all forms of scam. It is very good to always stay calm in our adventures on the internet and take time to research well especially to all forms of enticing offers that comes on the internet.

Due to the high expectation of an individual especially those new to this industry, they can easily bite the bait of scammers. They lack of knowledge and experience to tell if what they are going to try is risky or dangerous. Most of them are victims of promising a big return in a short period of time, which is we all know that it is impossible even in cryptocurrency.

Exactly. There are so many educational threads and so many warmings and advices but people still neglect after watching how these scam happens.

There is a saying "When there is a thing too good to be true, that ain't true in the crypto world". ( I guess was in one of the cointelegraph articles)

Many people look easily scam on the internet, less knowledge before investing make people very easy to get scam with investmnet project. Trusted with people ask him for joining or buying some altcoin and ICO make them very easy with scam. I got scam with some project investment but I can get back my money first before my project investment have scam.

Basically we can identify them if they aren't really reading comments and verifying the legitimacy of each topics. But on the other hand, we cannot blame them for the knowledge they can get is far way broader compared to when we are in our newbie stage. What is better is for them to look at the threads specifically in the beginners thread, there are posts that can help them avoid being scammed.

Once newbie come across any way of making money online they will want to give a try to confirm if it will really work or not, they put aside research or reviews on such idea of money making maybe its scam or it does works, too eager to make money is the first wrong step humans make

Everybody are here to make profits and gains right? this is why i think there is no way to escape scammers, they always hunt in new ways and people will always fall for them, when it comes to money making one needs to be very careful and think very well before making any attempt

One of the main factors that prompt investors and bounty hunters is lack of crypto knowledge. Mostly, people follow big (often false) promises made by crypto projects even without daring carry out a research thoroughly. As a result, they often end up in being scammed. So research is most important factor to escape being scammed. 

   It's a new trend. Scammers are working in shadow's, they can hide their face,
they can work from anywhere as long as they have internet and computer. It's
easy to be a scammer in that conditions.
   People get easily scammed first time, after that they start paying more attention
and it's get harder to scam them.
   "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”

Not only newbies falls victim of scam, anybody can fall victim of it. You shouldn't just generalize it that way. Once there's greediness in you, there's every tendency you'll fall for scam easily.

The some reasons why people are getting scammed is because they don't have any knowledge about the internet and also they don't know how big internet is and they also don't know what would be the internet can do in everytime lives. People get scammed also through the used of internet or computer is because they don't know what they are accessing into so that they become being cave man about the internet.

Seen as a easier money taking scheme. You can not see this kind of behavior in Forex, because people are aware of the slower movement of prices, they can not easily get what they want with such small movements, also at the end you will face loss without knowledge. However, the chance factor in the cypto is like a new door to them. In this case it is not trade, it has one name: Gambling.

We are easily fooled in the internet world because there are so many tempting offers that we easily fall into it, and the inaccurate factor in evaluating an offer is also very influential, and the most influential because many people have already gotten lucrative results so that we are easily fooled with the scamer project.

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In my recent reading over the internet. Most scammer are frequently contacting possible victims over e-mails, text messaging and by social media. Those three lies with a one mean which is the use of technology rather than personal. Technology was one of the reason why people easily got scam since, it is very tough to distinguish whether if the people you are talking over technology is a fraud rather than personal. Frauds uses social media to advertise or to persuade something in random people in exchange of something, and in technology everything is possible which is majority of people tend to believe that they often forget to analyze further the infos and the scheme they have been engaging, and in the end they fall and got scam.

Some of people seeking how to be rich people instantly in the internet and they tempting if there is particular sites offering high profit of return so those people sometimes ignore the risk behind it and starting to invest their money and thinking they can be rich from it and when they got in trapped because those sites disappears then they just realize got scammed from those sites and i think these mistakes was dominated from the people who still don't have much knowledge

I can only speak for myself because I have been scammed several times and the big factor is greediness, because I was easily deceived when people starting to show their payment proof and their income from a particular program, it's to late when I find out that they are early birds or have been paid to promote their program, this is a newbie mistakes that all mistakes gone through.

Everybody wants to earn money but they don't want to learn, everybody are in rush to get rich but they don't want to work hard for it, they look for easiest way to get money which is what scammers keep providing them, of course they will keep falling victim to scams, unrealistic desires at work

Oh well most of the victims are like this, they are rushing everything and never paying attention to possibilities that things are prone to scam instead, they are jumping into conclusion that everything will work out and opportunities should never be wasted. Scammers are very good with promises they've mastered the skills of attracting their prey and grabbed right away once victims shown interest.

I agree if greed falls into the category of why people are easily fooled right now. Indeed the fact is, people who have experienced losses due to fraud usually see large profits going forward. Though the benefits are no guarantee, only a promise from the project. Though the fact that in crypto all that there is no guarantee, a sweet promise is not enough. This is what often people enter into a fraud scheme because of the sweet promise of the project developer.

The answer you gave was too far off the question in this topic, what was asked was Why is it easy for people to be cheated on the internet? if the answer from me is because it's easy to believe in new things offered by people who are not known, so the potential for fraud is very open.

If we consider the entire Internet that fraud in it is minimal, laws have long been introduced that control many activities within the global network. Now fraud has long blossomed in the cryptocurrency industry. The reason for this is the absolute anonymity of community members and the indifference of regulators.

There were many peoples has been scammed because they didn't know well about the project they invested.
Other possibility is they has been approached by the scammer who impersonating other else, offering some quick money investments.
Never trust anyone who you don't know yet on internet, it can saves you from scammers.

They trusted the team and the project because of their project, people gets easily hype because of it, I don't know why some people are really procrastinate or lazy enough to do their own research then when they found out that they were scammed, then that time they will do research and rant to the project and to the team about their promise.

Because there are a lot of people on the Internet who seems to be very vulnerable when it comes to scamming. They know what people wants and they will use it to scam others. Very small example is online selling. A lot of people likes to buy online but some seller are not really legit. They'll attract you and when you already send money to buy their products, no product will come to you. Because not everyone on the internet are all smart users. Not everyone needs to be intelligent about the internet, they just want it for entertainment but others are using their weakness to take advantage of it.

I think being lazy about research is not one of the most experienced things, I think many of the investors do not yet know the procedures for conducting research, in other words they are wrong in researching a project. I think it takes continuous practice to perfect our analysis to better predict a project

The scammers take advantage of the weak nature of human greed so that sometimes they make offers that actually make no sense but they still believe the fools of investors. they should be more careful in finding more appropriate projects because now there are so many scam projects

It is because they are relying on other ppl thoughts and sometimes easily fall on some sort of false information and promises reason they easily get scammed as well.  And as the matter of fact this is very common problem even before.  wherein until now also there's is no development and still happening on some investors , especially those still hoping that can make profits without spending much money with crypto currrency.  They didn't realize how much money they spent on it after how money times they got scam.  Instead investing on some finished projects wherein ensured.

Greed for unreasonable profits, easily manipulated, lack of information technology knowledge. These three things that make a scammer easily get prey, we talk about the mindset of a scammer. They tend to attack people who have a deficiency in these three things. so as long as the victim does not have these three things, then the scammer will not get anything.

There are many factors actually why someone is hit by a scam. What I highlighted are 2 things, first, they are certainly tempted by many results. It is undeniable that everyone will want to earn a lot of money easily. This is what was finally used by scammers. Second, the lack of exploring the projects to be invested. That way we will only be stuck in the same hole.
Scammers always have many ways to fool victims. Always be careful!

Not every one that got scammed on the internet is as a result of greed, some make a lot of research yet they still got scammed. Don't forget that scammers are also reading your post and they are also coming up with new strategies every day.

Most people get a scam project because they don't make observations and analyzes about the project they are going to follow and greed to get big profits can also be one of the factors that support someone to participate in the project without thinking. So, I think it all depends on each of us, how we are more careful before participating in a project to avoid or minimize the possibility of getting a project scam.

I think so many people are rushing on the internet, even when they are still new investors. Well, I also have a story about this. many people see it so easy to generate income through crypto, because of that they want to try it. however, they were in too much of a hurry and that they got the HYIP site. for new investors,  HYIP is something interesting. imagine, making hundreds of percent profit in a short amount of time, of course it makes people want to invest (I've done this before).

seeing other people can do it, they think that HYIP is a pretty good way, and fast, and the result is of course they are disappointed. the point of this is, why people get fooled so quickly is because they trust the ads so quickly to make profits in a short amount of time without learning about what the site is doing.

the limited knowledge or laziness of someone who makes himself easily fooled, I urge all of you, including internet users or crypto forums to always be careful because scamers are always around us. if you let your guard down, your money will disappear quickly. Con artists always like someone who is off guard. so always protect yourself in this digital industry.

Lack of knowledge and greed. Some people are not careful when investing, they easily believe the too good to be true offer and didnt conduct a research.

Sometimes they are just following the trend like the bull run on 2017. Many investors lose their money after investing in crypto at peaked price then panic sell after the price declined, not being patient to wait is one of the problem of investors.

Of course, the basis why the people get scammed is greed and the desire to make quick profits. Another motivation is the desire to protect your assets from inflation. Therefore, whoever has a free couple of hundred  dollars will invest them in the projects without regret in case even of failure of project or scam.For example-the sad experience of Mavrodi's Pyramids didn't teach people.They again and again invest their accumulations in the such projects.

What you already know, no one can take it from you. If we all understand the nitty gritty of security in the crypto space, most especially on how to stay safe, play safe and secure our funds, scammers would have found it so hard to scam users. Well, we all are still learning.

people who are easily fooled are people who are greedy in terms of profit and it is used by scammers to make projects with investment offers or other products that provide huge profits but it will not fit the concept because their initial goal is to deceive many with the project

Theres a lot of main factors why people easily get scam on the internet maybe they have lack of knowledge on what they doing or what they entering, also being greediness  and fomo on what they can see in the internet  thats why if you invest make sure you know what your doing.

This is an important point that we must understand. There is no instant success, everything needs a process. Do not easily believe in offers with high investment value after you send a number of funds, it is fake. Make sure you check and analyze it, choose a platform that is truly trusted if you want it. How to? of course by studying the cryptocurrency ecosystem well, learning from trusted friends, that way you will get a lot of lessons and important information.
Get rid of feeling lazy, although cryptocurrency provides many opportunities to take profit, if we don't know the right key then it's useless.

There are lots of people that you get their trust easily especially those who are new to trading in the internet. They lack the knowledge of faking accounts, emails or the basic info and most of the times they are primary target of scams.

I'm not generalising but it's most applicable to everyone. We lose our guards, we forget to think, we start believing everything we're told, that's how we get scammed. We look for easy way out of financial distress we believe lies by scammers to multiply our funds within a short time frame which never happens.

Majority of us just want to be rich overnight without putting in any difficult effort so we easily fall for any cheap proposals that offers us lucrative and tempting deals. By the time you realize, you will be already scammed. Not all that glitters are gold. This is what we should always have at the back of our minds

I could go on and on with so many reasons, but one of them is Laziness, because some people don't want to work but they want to get rich over night and as such they get involved and before you know it, they have been scammed. I think Greed could also be seen as a factor here, aiming for too much, yet you are lazy.

laziness is indeed the main reason because they do not want to read articles that discuss the security of funds owned. as long as they don't want to learn to avoid scammers then they will continue to get caught up in scammers, I think for newbies it might still have a lot to learn but for seniors should be more careful in researching

Internet been too powerful like social media that can manipulate anything, we can create any thing believable through copy paste and editing. And this way there will be able to attract many investors to scam. That's why before risking our money we must not be too amazed that will lead us to nowhere. Think before we trust and give our money. When we know we already do our research that's the only time we can continue. Sometimes on the spot thinking worsening the situation. Take time to analyse and think.

Because people invest immediately without proper research. Investing on something impulsively and without sufficient knowledge about the coin and its history get people scammed.

Another reason is because many people are lazy to learn and have no knowledge in the internet world. in this case especially new people who are easily fooled on the internet because they do not have basic knowledge. Therefore, before you start a business in this industry do not rush to take decisions, do detailed research every decision you want to take.

Well most of the investors these days are only focus on getting profit and not looking deeply on the importance or worth of the project in the future, once they got promised to have a better returns they just easily throw their money without doing any research and later they will complain in the community because they were deceived which in fact its their own fault.

Many people still trust various freebies in which you need to invest first and then you can get a huge amount of money, but unfortunately this is a common scam and the biggest problem is that people believe in various frauds and easily give their money to scammers, so there’s nothing to be done.

Maybe one of them is the factor of greed. When people are greedy, sometimes they don't think about the security of the websites they visit or are hooked to click on suspicious links. I agree that we do not need to rush into making decisions and be patient if market conditions are not good

The reason why we have to learn everything about crypto is to be aware of its risks and to get rid of scammers. We can't eliminate scammers but we can do something to avoid them. Awareness and knowledge would give us the capability to determine scam and fraud projects. We should also be mindful and careful in all our actions here in the crypto world 

People get scammed easily because some people are extremely lazy and don't  want to work to get money. Laziness alongside greediness  makes people follow the wrong source  just because the offer to be given is of huge amount and the amount to be invested is little.

Dude this is legit. Because of their laziness, they want to earn easily and want to invest with those investment scams that tells them that they have guaranteed profit. But we all understand that when an investment scheme which isn't known promises an amount of return, be scared of it. A start up project is still on the sideways of their business and there's no way for them to give the returns of their investors with promised amounts.

So many reasons can be attributed to why people get scammed. The first one would be greed, wanting to get so much profit with a little capital, also sometimes like in the crypto space, if you lack the required knowledge, some scammers might take advantage of you, so knowlede of the environment you find yourself is needed. So you know what to do to avoid these scammers

it’s very difficult for new people in this market to get the necessary knowledge because there are too many “professionals” around and people don’t know whom to trust

Because they are stupid enough to fall for it. Most of the people that gets scammed are either because of greed or laziness. They don't tend to know about the site or person before initiating any trade. Again, like you said, greed is another factor. They see offers that are too good and then they end up jumping on the trap. We also see some people who blindly trusts their trader and ends up getting scammed. At least they learn a lesson from this.

The main reason behind any scam is lack of knowledge among people that whether this project,person,company is legit or not and the second main factor is greed among people to get rich in short span of time which is only nightmare.People need to know the details first and inquire about it and invest their money after that only because its hard earned money and you can't let anybody take away in Scams.Be aware about this internet world as anything fake can be provided to you and you have no idea what can happen.

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People always look to increase their capital and they will not look for the authenticity of the product or the project they are investing all they think about is the profit they can make after investing in it. You can call it greed and the laziness to study about how the company they are investing is planning to make the profits rather than blindly believing what they say and it is sad to say that these people are learning it the hard way.

Yes, finding out and experience is key to be free from fraud or scammers. It's actually really easy, and if you can prove fraud or a scammer, make an announcement on Scam Accusations or tell another friend.

Easy and big money is always promised through the Internet, and no matter how much fraud exists, there will still be people who make the scammers money.  Perhaps it is really greed and faith that you are the one and only, that luck will smile at you, makes people make very bad decisions, and as a result, of course, cheating on the Internet.

Actually we no need to trust anyone,for having cryptos we can have it on our own wallet but for the investments most people fall for ponzi like schemes due to their greediness but in real there is no such kind of investment exist.People with basic knowledge can avoid this but what to do they lose their mind when someone say how they become rich stories on internet. ::)

maybe because people have no knowledge at all about the crypto industry, take short decisions without looking at investment risks and people are lazy to read or rush to get quick profits but in the end what happens is the opposite.

There are too many scam projects right now, even some which look good from the outside are high grade scam projects. Most will want to take advantage of the greed of crypto enthusiasts especially by giving huge bonuses or making promises of big ROI. Let's just be extremely careful when making investment decisions, do not invest because others are investing and also do not invest what you can't afford to lose.

Well, I think the inability to differentiate a legit project from a scam project.  That is one of the reason why many people got scammed on the internet.  Another thing is the trust on the circle of friend.  When one friend suggested something to invest in, we often times go for it without even doing any research due to the trust that it is advised or suggested by a friend and believe that it is all good.

The high return of investments is a obvious scam, I just wonder because over and over and over again, other people haven't learned it. Maybe this is one of the answers, even though they know it's a scam they will still try and risk their money here, Because they know it's here to make money fast! That we should remove it from our habit, so as not to victim another person.

I completely agree with your point and conclude that investment does not depend on the investment of random people or I mean it does not matter but on condition not to fully trust them, do further research from every suggestion they say.

I have heard once, that things we read appear more realistic to us than the things we hear.
If you think about for a second, it may be hard to dismiss this notion. Written word is usually perfected with the massage its trying to sell you. If there are no language or grammar errors, if the orthography is fine then our shields have the chance to be lowered.
Well composed text, with attractive advertisement, posted or printed in physical form, can be quite powerful in the mind of the reader thanks to interworking of our psyche. In fact, this is your brain that is reading the massage to your conscious self, why would you be lying to yourself? No way, this must be true, so I will buy it twice... My conclusion; it happens so often, because people refrain themself from cross-referencing information.

yes you can listen to references from many people but as a good investor you should try to learn about research a project that you want to invest so for the future you can do your own research so that you can become a great investor

actually there are many factors but if this is still related to the crypto world I might be able to conclude because many people want to get rich, easily or they are too lazy to try to get rich, so they believe what the scammer has to offer, and to avoid this it might be easier just I'm sure there are always new victims because scammers also usually look for prey on people who don't understand crypto world.

in connection with that because many people don't understand about the internet and maybe they think that investing with crypto can make you rich overnight, but the reality is not like that for someone who has no knowledge of crypto. rich schemes only apply to scamed who have expertise in this industry.

users with excess money and still unfamiliar with internet business, and users with urgent economic needs are not much different, the mind is full of ways to generate instant profits, not a few people who are reluctant to analyze and immediately interested in the invitation.

then there are people who read too many review sites that discuss internet business fraud blindly and skip businesses that are actually legit if understood further.

it's all about experience, for the most part I'm sure I've experienced it, especially in crypto investments. The lack of question and answer intensity with the developer and comparing with similar businesses is also a special reason to become a victim of scams easily.

I prefer to rely on myself in choosing a project for investment, and not listen to the advice of friends. So that in case of failure to blame yourself, and not keep angry with friends. Because very often situations with money spoil friendships.

Right most of the people get scammed because of the lame promises of the scammers and we know that in our society there are a lot of people who are very simple and does not know about the tricks of the scammers, these people can be easily get scammed. Another reason may be that on internet people do not know each other’s identity due to which it become very easy for the scammers to scam others.

Most of the time it is because people are desperate for money and so desperate they do not think properly and start believing delusional ideas of riches coming to you with ease. They see it working at the beginning like HYIP and think they have now found the road to financial freedom.

Sometimes people even lose their head and get all excited about this "amazing discovery" they have found. I truly do not understand how people fall for some of these scams.

Hehehehehe a chest of gold got me rolling 🤣, it saddens me hpw multiple times different people frm different zones falls for this scams and yetit keeps repeating it self as if there is something else behind it, it really saddens my heart to see this things happening over and over again

So that to say is why I blame most folks for not making their findings into what they invest in, more reason to call it lazy, you can't put your money 💵 into what you have little or no idea about, how on earth can you maximize profit, but once you understand the process, you are luckly to join the train and be in the pumps not dump

Fairly said, I believe also that the best teacher one can also have is experience, when you tell folks about most of the risks involved in investing in cryptocurrencies, they wouldn't believe yet they will be able to understand if they face the music and dance to it's tune themselves

You are right . I am strongly agree that too much greed is not good in this industry because all you want is to earn more without considering if the offer is possible or realistic.  You need to be knowledgable about crypto and crypto activity to avoid being scam. There are lot and increasing number of scam and fraud case and issues now and I think this are the two reason why it happened, being greed and lack of knowledge.

People still not so smart and so greedy. Thats two main reasons

They use phishing websites and enter their details there without knowing it is a fake website. They do it on social media platforms to trick people. They just share the link of fake website with a good picture to make people believe. When you enter your info, gone. Those assets or money will never come back to you.

The most common reason people get scammed is because they invest their money in pyramid schemes, and then believe that their money will be doubled and returned back to them. While greed is often the main reason I feel lack of knowledge, and certain circumstances like urgent need of money also lead people into getting scammed.

When talking about a scammer project:
Don't invest in those you don't even know who they are and what their true purpose is? Are they recognized, have a famous partner? Projects that show teamwork activities will not necessarily succeed or end well.

greed and laziness to read one of the factors why many people are fooled on the internet, scamers always target someone who is easily lied to or has no knowledge of investment. in most cases a person cannot properly manage financial management or invest in the wrong place.

I think most people got scammed because they lack knowledge or new to crypto, they don't know anything so if someone offers them to invest to double their money they would immediately grab it then repent later that their decision is wrong.

I think that makes a lot of people trapped into being scammed on the internet because of the desire that is too big to get rich quick. Who doesn't want a very small capital to get rich in a very short time? this might always be the beginning of being trapped into the deception. Continuing, lack of knowledge is also the second reason why people are easily fooled. We prefer the instant without wanting to read and find out something that comes to us.

The highest number of scammers are on internet and most of them are technologically inclined, which makes it easier fr them to be able to manipulate things p, in order to scam their victims. Imagine someone who is still a learned or a newbie when it comes to tech, such can easily be scammed.

People are too trusting. They neglect their own safety in the hope of easy gain. It is credulity and greed that make people an easy target for scammers. Scammers seek out greedy and stupid victims

I have seen cases of fake crypto, scam exchanges or fake ICOs. People easily get fooled by these because crypto needs technical knowledge too to understand it. It is not easy to handle a crypto wallet or trade on exchanges specially DEX. Similarly, it is tough to differentiate between fake ICO and coins. That's why people can easily be fooled in crypto world. Crytpo education is the key.

Well.. that is true. I am someone who got scammed multiple times during the past few years. Everyone is looking for easy profits without much effort. And the problem is that there is no shortcut for getting rich. And when you try the available shortcuts, we end up losing money. It happens to a lot of people and there is nothing to be ashamed of it. But the important thing is not to repeat the same mistakes again and again.

but the important question is: where to get this education? there is no place where you can prepare yourself for those situations that occur on this market, and therefore only thanks to your experience can you learn something

Easy profits without much effort is what most people are looking for, something that is so far from reality, only those who like easy way out will always be a victim to these scam schemes, most schemes i have come across are way too good to be real

That is where the laziness comes to light because many are here who do not only refuse to read but also ignorant of where to look foe information at a particular time but like someone will said internet and crypto has it down sides both for honest and dishonest individuals, if you are not ready don't hook up on it

Poverty, laziness and greed is the main thing that I would think usually make people get scammed in the cryptocurrency market, because it is an extremely poor person that will not be patient to study the market carefully before actually thinking of making investment because they want a very fast way of making return, so they don’t make a good decision through research but just by instinct.

Like you also said, greed is one of the thing that usually destroy lots of people in this aspect also, many people are so greedy that they want to put tiny money and get very large amount of money, which is why you see that scammers are actually using this weakness against them, they promise to turn their very little amount of money to big one which eventually gets to the investor to rush into making investment.

because reading is the beginning in doing research on a project so that you are not fooled by the existing project. Most of the mistakes happen because of ignorance to do research and do not dare to try to research on the investments made

Some people get scammed online because they are inexperienced and gullible. Fraudsters can speak and persuade well, as well as encode. You need to be vigilant and carefully check all information.

Not only lack of knowledge but they try new things and get with new or unknown projects which lead them to lose money. Everyone should remain careful and don’t trust any site without getting proper knowledge about it. In the digital world, it's really hard to find real and trustworthy people that’s why to invest only in real sites.`

I think the two main reason why most people get scammed online are
1 lack of knowledge and failure to do research
2 Get rich quick / greed

Most people people that are new to something online are prone to scam because they do not have the necessary knowledge about it. But instead of them to make research about it or ask someone with experience, they will just carry on with it and get scammed.

Scammer's choose their victim base on his knowledge about a certain thing, my guess was you've been scammed or could easily get scam the way you spell out things, no offense but it's one of the weaknesses that someone could have, if you can't understand English well or only knows a few terms then you would have a rough time understanding what others are saying.

Let's give a scenario as an example, if you're interested in a certain project (ICO/IEO) and you want to invest your money in their, but you didn't know that the scammer was just toying you because he notice that you're bad at English, then you're screwed.

new investors tend to be greedy when they see a project with high return and usually they have low knowledge let alone making an analyzation which could make it even worse because you can't analyze if you have little knowledge about project. for new investors it's better to just stick to an IEO hosted by the popular exchange instead of trying a project with zero guarantee. new investors is the reason why there are so many scam project appearing because they are trying to lure the new investors' money because that is the easiest thing they can do.

People like that, indeed only think of money:
Actually what most people think about in building a project is income and money, whether the project idea is able to compete in market or not, they just want to be like others, famous and a lot of income. And if their project ends up not according to plan, they easily leave without thinking about their previous promises, or refunds.

because of this, we really need to really understand the concepts that will be run by a project. to be honest, I also don't really know English, but in project matters, I just know what I need to know, it might be due to experience.

however, all this about the projects that we are involved with. many people are victims because they have not done extensive research and excessive greed. These 2 things are often linked in this regard. however, when you find out what you are involved in, it has a small risk of becoming a scam.

LOL.. the answer to the question raised by the OP is very much evident in this forum. Look around.. the vast majority of the users (especially the noobs) want to get rich overnight. And that is exactly the reason why they have joined this forum. They believe that Bitcoin is some magic wand or magic lotion, that can make them billionaires in a few seconds.

Now let me explain how this works. Everyone knows that Bitcoin may no longer give 100x (like what happened in 2013) returns. And these noobs are not satisfied with 5x or 10x returns. They still want 100x or 200x returns, and therefore they make investments in various shitcoins after trusting the tall claims made by the promoters of these coins. And this is how people lose money around here. Instead of 100x profit, most likely they will be getting a 100% loss.

in many cases people become scammed because they themselves are careless or have no knowledge at all but go directly to the internet, especially in terms of investing in crypto, all they think about is money i mean about the benefits of investing, people get greedy, and finally they end up losing money because they have no knowledge at all.

They are lacking in knowledge and they are not aware on many scam in the internet. They are being fooled by fake advertisement that saying they will be easily rich when they join but they need to invest little amount of money first to gain more. Easy money can fool many people who wants easy work to get money.

Sometimes people make mistakes, some of them are still new to internet things and they just think there is nothing like getting scammed because everything seems legit to them and they don't know how things work they just jump on it without realizing it.

I have fallen for scam once, but I didn't lose my money. I just spent my time working for a scam project and getting people to join their project, I even got a lot of people and at the end I wasn't paid, that's when I knew that it was a scam. I was still new when this happened, I was 16 years old then lol, and I don't know much about internet jobs and investment and all that. It's after that one that I decided to start learning about all these things and how they work.

Ever since then I have never been scammed, despite coming across a lot of scam projects. You just have to know how they work and they are easy to dictate once you have learned it. I can easily tell a scam project this time around , whether in cryptocurrency or elsewhere online.

Agree, besides the knowledge factor about the project we will invest in, we must also be able to control our emotions when choosing a project. One of the factors why we are often exposed to scams is greed and the desire to get profits in quick time.

You are right, greed is still the main thing that scammer projects continue to exist because most scanmer projects provide many existing bonuses. they don't know enough to make a profit because it's a matter of profit you just need to find a good target for your funds. and as long as you are still looking for quick profits without knowing about the project that there are losses when investing in your funds

Most of the reason why people are easily cheated, first because they want to make huge profits instantly, second because they are lack of informations and third because they are easy to trust others. I was tricked by a hyip site that promises a lot of profit, from there I began to realize that, we should not easily trust other people who provide quick profits irrationally. That incident was my reason for being the last time I was tricked, so every time there was a place that promised profit I was always looking for information.

Indeed, many people wants to get rich quick thats why if there's an offer promising high return like hyip they grab it without even searching further about the investment that they would like to invest their hard-earned money, then in the end they will regret everything.

There's no such thing online even in crypto. It takes a lot of patience and guts before you can achieve what you want with your investment. Most importantly knowledge and better understanding are needed to be able to comprehend whats happening.

Indeed and furthermore they easily get scammed because of bigger returns and gains. Little did they know that those promises are unrealistic and results to losses on their side.Always do your own research, armed yourself with education and knowledge ad stick to reality.Those exaggerated promises will make you think twice,and ask yourself if its true.

Because it is much easier to trust somebody instead of being suspicious and check every aspect before sending your money into something. Laziness and greed are the most popular reasons for people being scammed.

I think because not all internet user has enough knowledge of different type of network or maybe about cryptocurrency or investment projects, others depends only on what they read or saw in the internet that's why they are being scamed.

New users should not have a lot of relationships from people who are known so the brand just do their own experiments without learning the basic knowledge of crypto so they will be involved in the conversation. in my opinion this will continue to happen if the user does not want to know the basics of crypto

The Internet is perfect for scammers, since on the Internet you can hide your identity, but no one can protect you from scam, except for yourself. If you are always careful, devote more time to studying one or another issue, in which case it will be very difficult for scammers to deceive you.

Lamest excuse I've ever hear, stupid rather. It is your job to figure out everything that here in the world of cryptocurrency or even in the actual world, especially if you are getting some gut feeling that a certain person is a scammer, you could smell it by the way. Scammers can't provide proof of legitimacy so you better ask it first to confirm if they could really be trusted.

You cannot be a lazy person when we are talking about money, it is hard to earn money and it is so easy to be scam.

Most of the people easily get scammed on the internet because they don't have enough knowledge about online earning specially crypto.that's why  people do not understand and easily get into the trap.

That's for sure, friend. I also think people's awareness is lacking in finding out every offer that comes to them. Not only on the internet.
When there is a slightly good chance, most people will definitely take it. Regardless of whether it is really honest or fraudulent. This is what makes scammers really difficult to stop

OP hit the nail on the head. Greed and laziness are the banes to being scammed. Also I will add incontendness. Although someone can be scammed for the first time due to lack of adequate knowledge but he should learn a vital lesson from it and not fall victim again.

The answer to that is very easy.... FOMO and Greed.
Unfortunately some people still fall into the trap when they hear random people shilling the same project over and over again and after a while, the pressure builds and they feel they can make a fast buck with itt and sometimes it ends up badly, to avoid it, you have to DYOR and avoid greed.

Desire for quick profits and greed combining with the lack of knowledge and business/economic education.
The media is infested of quick "success stories" that people fall for!

There is no doubt that lack of knowledge of a persons is the main reason why they easily get scammed, and to be honest i also got scammed on the internet especially when i am newbie here in cryptoworld that's why my advice is we should be more smart and dont easily trust a person we only communicate on internet.

Lack of knowledge is the fruit of laziness, because if you are not lazy then you must have enough knowledge on the internet and cyber world because you will do a proper research on how internet works and what you can do in the internet. Yes, maybe all of us get scammed before when we don't have yet enough knowledge about what is internet but those experiences like that makes us a good person right now and we become more knowledgeable on what would be the attack of the scammers and cheaters in the cyber world.

for beginners I think it is indeed the target of fraud projects, but when they stay focused the experience will multiply and make someone smarter in managing the project they want to invest in.

distrust can be the basis that makes someone want to know a project more deeply, and finally they find out about the project. then I don't think giving more trust to a project is better researching a project first for you to give trust to them

Because they are not bothering about their safety. In 90 percent of cases it is just the lack of knowledge, because a lot of people are still providing their private keys in Telegram, just because a scammer asked them to do so.

It's due to many reason, some of them are blind trust on people on other end person. Half of the people use the internet as a median for scamming, because they don't know their accurate location and all. Remaining people change their mind without paying, after their work was completed. The fact is risk in everything, but you need to be wise in all aspects.

so many people lose their private keys because they try to find easy money. And when a person wants to make money fast - scammers appear close to him!

Probably the most important reason that I find on why people get scammed on the Internet is the lack of common sense.

If you make a quick search about how to earn money on the Internet you are going to find many websites claiming to be able to make you a millionaire in a very short amount of time, but if that was true do you really think that they would be giving that information for free or for a very small cost? When you ask yourself that question is easy to see those promises are nothing but lies.

Never analyze about some ICOs or altcoin project before investing, many people just get recommendation from the other to invest with some altcoin or ICOs project, never check details about how trusted or ICOs project for investing, will give opportunity to earn profit or lost money with ICOs, just trust with some one ask him for investing there and never want to get reviews first with their project investment.

To answer the OP question, we have many reasons:

- People always greedy, what do you think about free airdrop or something? That's a rat trap, you still to get money but not too much as you expected.

- The scammers always smart, yeah, you know. They are good to find a new trick. So, you must get into the trap many times before you can dodge that. No pain no gain.

Lacking of common sense is one thing, having no capability of determining whether such kind of promise is just imaginary or too good to be true is another thing. Most of people are already put a suspicion when they are being shoved with such promises but there's always some people that could lure them into investing anyway. Those people are taking advantage of the greedines of their victim therefore even if they got common sense they will still get tricked. I've seen too much people being tricked that way despite the many news that highlight this kind of scam they'd still think that some might be a real thing.

I'd say it's primarily greed and the desire to earn something while doing very little to nothing. It's like a pipe dream that society forces unto us, "earning money while doing nothing is good." If you weren't taught how to think critically and assess opportunities before jumping in then you will most likely be scammed.

Sadly, what can we do? We can post all we want, announce scam projects, tell people to be careful, but in the end if they don't listen nothing will happen and people will still fall prey to predatory online scams.

Main scam presence reason is people's greed of course, that's true :)
Not only investor's greed, but also ICO admin's one, heh :)
The other reason is lack of regulation and proper laws in this sphere, that's the other big factor.

Nothing can be done for people like that, people need to understand that those that got huge success during their lives are those that work really hard for what they have.

You cannot really obtain something for nothing, no ones gives money away just because, we need to work for it, even those which are capable to obtain profits from icos are not obtaining money for nothing they are using their knowledge to tell which coins will go up in value and invest early, if anything they are taking a huge risk because if they are wrong they can lose most of their money.

indeed one that makes many people easily fooled because it is usually greedy and easily influenced by something on offer that he thinks can provide many benefits, and usually the experience is still lacking too much to make many people easily fooled as happens a lot around you.

Scam are successful when we are finding a way to get out of our financial insecurity. This can even happen like offering remote works and not paying off after the work. As you mentioned that it is all possible on internet. Even though you have a MOU between both the parties even then you can be scammed.

The main reason is they want an easy money. When they heard the ROI that is very high, they were just giving away their money to temptation.

They don't even bother to do some research first. And when they got scammed then they knew that they were too greedy and hungry for money.

If you think you're smart, well, scammers might be a little bit smarter than you are.

Please also include that other people get easily scammed because of their IQ, they are not that smart to understand what scam is, they easily trust people and that is all they know, it is very unfortunate but yes, there are people like that, they need guidance most of the time. People like this use their heart instead of their brain, because that is all what they have, and scammers like these kind of people because they are easy money for them.

They do not study and not being so careful to the steps they take. They should study first what I mean is that if you want to invest in some ICO. You should know first their whitepaper since the plan is all stated there. There are lots of scammers out there so we should be aware of our moves and decision because they are offering good things that are not true so dont trust anyone you dont know just because they are offering. In terms of trading you should be careful on the website you are using or the trading site you are using because not all of them are trusted.

I am not so sure this is about the IQ of someone, this is about the trusting nature of people, if you ask a question to a person and you get an answer you tend to believe that whatever you are told it is the truth.

I know that this is being very naive but most people are like that, so when they see a project promising all kind of stuff they tend to believe it is the truth even if we know that most likely a project that makes all kind of amazing promises is never going to deliver.

There are a lot of offers on the Internet about quick profit. This is used by scammers. The cryptocurrency market also has many offers to make money quickly. Each investor must learn and understand the offers with which he plans to work and invest in them. And many people do not understand and invest their money in dishonest projects. Therefore, they lose money. Be careful. Good luck to everyone in business.

Desires to make one dream come true can be a weak point most times if care is not taken, this can easily wake greed in us because greed is a living part in all humans just as we all have fears, scam moves are always too good to be real, if you belief this short word of mine you will withstand any tempting offers from scammers

Yes, it is greed that makes them fooled easily by scammers. These group of people or syndicate use the internet as one of the easiest platform to scam people. The users or investors are not that vigilant for these kind of people, what they are looking for is the quick-scheme offered without doing anything but have high ROI.

That's right. Many people take advantage of this where greed will make that person easy to get into the trap. Especially for new investors who do not understand and understand what cryptocurrency is, which makes it easy for them to be interested in what others have to say, not only new investors, investors who have also been getting scams for a long time because they are lazy to do their research. be alone and only participate based on what other people or their friends say.

When something sounds too good to be true, then it's probably too good to be true, unfortunately due to economic hardships or other reasons, people are desperately wanting these investment opportunities to be true no matter how absord they look and they back up with false faith with monetary investments and in the long term, they turn into victims of scams, people should always bear the golden rule of online investments in mind... If it's too good to be true, then it's too good to be true.

Personally, I think that all newcomers will fall for the bait of scammers. And for scammers, this is the best source of income. So beginners should be very careful and not give in to easy ways to make money on the Internet. Since a person loves a freebie and do nothing. And it is precisely these people who are in trouble on the Internet. So to avoid scammers you need to consult with people who already have extensive experience on the Internet.

This era is where the boomer generation whos already have much money then want to greedy multiply their money with the internet and get baited by the internet ads. So i think this era will end in the future. Kids right now are already involved with tech since childhood so when they grow up they won't trust scams anymore.

The internet does have quite a lot of freedom, so there are quite a lot of scams with the internet. plus the ability of users is also not good that can make these people trapped in fraud. maybe because they are not looking for complete information, and easy to believe that can make them fall into the scam

People are easily scammed on in the Internet because of the rule "easy come, easy go". It is so easy to earn on the Internet (comparing to some other professions) and people are very relax doing purchases online or sending money. People are more easy to be caught off guard.

Following Your logic, you can consider all investors-greedy.But this is not the case.Investors, having the funds for investments, invest them and wait for profit. I'm not talking about fraudulent projects, but for working projects, investors are the air for them.As for the scammers, I can say that people peck at them for various reasons.Someone became interested in the project, and someone decided to make money quickly.

most fraudsters when they do a project do not bother much even in the design of the project. Or, initially, the promise of profit is fabulously inflated. probably 85 percent. if you just be careful, you can pass by

The reason people get scammed on internet is because of greed. So greedy people can't think logically and clearly, therefore it is very
susceptible to fraud. Provided that it is rewarded by a large fee a greedy person will be immediately attracted. So control yourself from
greed, then you will not easily enter the trap of a fraudster. Investigate an offer reward to be good to be true. Because the scammers
character from the past until now hasn't changed much, they definitely offer a big reward and instant to get. If you find something like
that do not immediately believe, who knows it's fraud.

as investors work on customs with evaluation tasks on initiation with the trading scheme of jobs on bitcoin business the use gives as might to deliver with least on reference on risks as exchange and collects with difference of returns on completion.

The lack of references, the lack of learning and the large number of irresponsible people seems to be only a small fraction of what can be done on the internet, I agree because many investors do not want to bear a large enough risk to invest here, therefore we need to consider and prepare strategies we are to avoid scamm

That is why being good at analyzing things is a must for all of us, not only in the internet but on everything here on earth. When you can analyze you can certainly identify if a certain project or anything you know you can get rewarded is just a scam or not and to add it self-control is paired up with good analyzation because like what you've said greed can lead us into being a victim of scammers and also when you really cannot analyze if a project is a scam or not and you really want to have that money thats when self-control will take place, it will tell you that it is better to lose that project than to be scammed by someone  in the internet.

in the internet world, there are many people with various characters, so it is possible to easily find fraud through the internet. therefore we must be wise to analyze a project to keep making a profit. sometimes some strategies are needed to support circumstances that might not be what we expect

But before we talk about the lack of knowledge, why don't we start with more basic reasons, greed and trust in people on the internet while it's clear that we and those people don't have too many intimate relationships, a lot of scams just by providing simple information about the project and some pictures of profits, and people were easily fooled. Not taking precaution and letting greed dominate the mind are very good reasons to consider, and another part is the knowledge gap as many investors say, very few people try to find information about the project on the internet before investing

Because we people are easily trusted and that makes us vulnerable to scams people should be very wary about meeting and trusting anyone on the internet because anyone on the internet is anonymous we truly don't know if your talking to is real or a scammer

It's not about lack of references or education. The things that already happened if there was a lot of scam projects that have already started as legit projects.
The investors are getting fooled when it was on the development phase just like when the projects have tried to change the roadmap and that can be considered as a sign of the scam projects too.

That's right. On the internet people can fake their identities or use other people's identities and can easily benefit by deceiving others, so that many people use it to scam and generate profits for themselves and with their ingenuity they can attract people into their projects .

I think it all boils down to the wrong mindset, if someone makes money off trading or other activities that can be done online, they tend to hype it so much when telling it to their friends or even when bragging to strangers, it makes people get the wrong impression, they start thinking that the internet is a big place where money can be gotten quite easily with little investment, the sad fact is that these people would never mention the risks involved especially when they have something to gain from it like referral bonuses, this breeds a group of investors who doesn't have a single idea about what they are getting themselves into, they just believe what they are told and throw in their money, hoping to multiply it overnight.

Yes it is really bad if we trust everyone and every time people who we actually don’t know so it is internet and her people are not true so better making research before trusting them and before buying coins we should learn about them and know well so that there will be no complications between us and we should know all about those projects.

You can make easy money is the key point to find any scams especially on the internet because making money is not easy as they were saying.

To whom they communicate is also an important factor, most of them do not have time to learn, and only rely on trust. More people think of instant profit due to need factors than people with excess money who just want to try, they are almost the same and prefer to try randomly even though they already understand the consequences, almost no different from gamblers, even worse.

Active communication from the developer team might be able to convince investors that they are not a scam project but at the moment there are many scam projects that look convincing so that there are still many investors who have already done research to remain deceived. Indeed, we must always be careful when it comes to investing in online because there is no clear regulation

When there is demand for something automatically it'll be much observed my people around. The same will be taken as an advantage by the hackers who are technically skilled to breach data. Another thing, without internet nothing is possible right now. Whether it is business or something else the internet's contribution is very big. Also none can be questioned as everything happens on trust. This is the reason for people getting scammed easily on internet.

Why people easily get scam? because of their promises like you will get high ROI if you invest their site or the ICOs, mostly newbies will always get scammed. Nowadays don't trust any site which give high profit in just a short time better to invest in cryptos.

The phenomenon of web creation calling for virtual financial investment in recent years is only a small part of the current fraudulent tools using Internet tools. People, especially netizens, lack of vigilance will continue to be deceived.

From e-mail, forums, websites ... wherever the trick is also ready to lie down because of the bait that the crooks apply wins on the greed of each person.

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because the person lacks knowledge of the internet and that person is easily influenced by something that makes that person want to get rich quickly

Its because of greed. Scammers are taking advantage the weakness of investors and that is to earn with high return in a short period hence many bite the offer because of desperation to get rich.

So if you dont want to become victimized by scammers be cautious and dont trust easily.

Basically people who get easily scammed are the ones who is lacking interest of making a long time in doing some background check about the project they wjere proposing. Just like here int the crytomarket, they where to used a  so called good coins but where definitely shitcoins. So to avoid being scammed, be intellectual of dealing into making decision, dont let scammers belittle your knowledge. Don't let them fooled you and be more careful dealing into anyone in the internet.

The desire to get rich quickly even without researching very well about the project they are investing in often causes people to get scammed. Some out of them even invest without even knowing what they are investing in. Hard facts but it is true. And with the help of the internet, the activity reaches victims easier and wider than ever before.

I guess it is not that they don't have interest, they are more concern of getting big returns with few work and they tend to get too trusting to people base on their words and promises. The internet is full of scammers that is why as a responsible investor you have to be very keen in choosing the right and legit project. Besides it is your money that is at stake so you should safeguard your money by knowing the project that you'll invest into. In order not to get ripped off in the crypto world one must have the knowledge about it.

In everyone's mind is about profits when investing, I do not blame it. But the intended benefits are short profits, people who experience this are people who want to get rich quick with a short time. That is why many people have fallen into this scam investment.

I may say that you are correct about the people who doesn't want to make a comprehensive research about Cryptocurrency and how ot works. They just listen to those persons who seems to be connected to the project, that's the reason why they were easily scammed. Scammers have a skill to really make you believe the unbelievable and too-good-to-be-true promises.

Due to lack of prior knowledge about something new which they wish to try to test their luck also added by desperation to gain instant profit or money makes people get easily scammed on internet. Many people are taking advantage and making schemes to make those kind of people to believe into something which is promising that is not totally true. Because people nowadays are seeking for ways to earn easy money, they always jump into conclusion that if they cannot find ways from the real world maybe the answer can be found through online. In this desperate move, scammers are being fed by people that are easily being manipulated to invest money which they do not totally know or understand on how will it be used because their mindset is being focused into the promise of large feedback from a site or stranger that offers them to make their money larger in just a short span of time. If you were a wise individual, you can easily determine at the first place if something is going wrong most specially with a short span of time your money can be multiplied into a larger amount which is impossible to make happen even on real life businesses. People get easily scammed even on obvious schemes because of lack of knowledge and better understanding of what they are usually getting into due to desperation of earning instant money through online.

 I personally have never been scammed as far as I can remember and thats because I am mainly a person who is cheap (as in not like spending money) and that makes me question basically everything, literally everything, in the world. I do not even buy jeans by just going to a store and trying out couple of them, I go to multiple stores and compare prices and "feels" so I can actually get the best one for my money. Which means if you are like me, you wouldn't spend your money that quickly, it would take time for you to believe in something and maybe sometimes that means missed opportunity and thats true I did missed a lot of opportunities but I also never got scammed in return as well.

All this is due to the greed of people. Many people think that you can earn without doing anything in a month 100%. Bought it all the time. Because they think that next time they will be lucky. It would be better to work on the Internet, invest your money in something real. In a cryptocurrency that can really improve something. They just take it and give it to them for some reason.

I think people easily get scammed on the internet because of lack of experience. It often happen to newbie because they don't understand how market work, not just invest and earn profit.

I believe that fraud is now so highly developed due to the fact that many people think only of quick profit and, in turn, cannot create something that is necessary and working. In other words, to achieve success in one direction or another, you need to have a great idea, a plan for its implementation and resources, while at the earliest stages you need to support your brainchild as much as possible. And now we see just the opportunity to run into rubbish that does not matter and will never have support from its administration, since their task is to deceive them.

The main reason People are easily fooled in the world of cryptoqurrency because they have no knowledge of this industry, especially is a beginner who often experiences fraud. It is important for anyone before taking part in the crypto industry to always consider and not rush before making a decision. be it an investment or participate in a gift program.

I will add the authority figure, newbies tend to believe on these so-called experts on what they are feeding them, just because they are posting the check they've received, the car they bought from their earnings, doesn't make them legit, this is how Ponzi Operator attracts their victims, making it appear that their system is flawless and can make you rich when it's really not.

What I can add is that scammers are also evolving, meaning their strategy on how to scam the investors are keep on advancing therefore most of the newbies are the victims of scammers dishonest scheme.

The greediness of ROI is what I saw the most useful for the scammers even as of the moment because if someone received an ROI of their that is pretty high then they will spread it to their friends and that is how the scheme almost start. Even if they are good with research but if they will not gamble to their investment they will not gain also, that is how investment works and the scammers scheme were born.

Every day in my country always have new site scam where many people loss billion dollar in their investment, more than two hundred thousand people got scam with online investment site, I don't why they look easily to get scam with online investment project where have the same working like multi level manager project, why not learn little in internet and discussion with other about their project investment.

they are attracted not only individually, but influenced by investment groups who poison their trust every day. Interestingly, they always have funds to speculate, and always look forward to Legit investment. Nothing can change their behavior literally, because there is still a strong desire and pleasure, they will not learn anything if they are still active in the same group.

At the moment, people are very fond of freebies. And for these freebies, scammers look for newcomers to the Internet in a simple way and cheat. So cheating a scammer is very easy. Many Internet users like easy money, and this is just a trap for suckers who fall into these traps. So I want to give advice for Internet users, be very careful and do not fall for various traps such as an easy way to earn money.

I believe that there is nothing wrong with getting rich quick, it is a natural desire that closely borders on greed. The fact is that everywhere there should be a strategy and mechanism that can bring profit in any business, even if it will be pyramids (tested in practice).

Yes, people enter into this space because they knew that you can be rich in a very short period of time and thats the reason why they get scammed, this was on year 2017-2018. But scammers evolved as they knew that people already learn on scams. Especially the team of projects, they are very active in the beginning then suddenly becomes inactive when they dumped their token and ends the fundraising.

indeed those who are easily affected by scams and deceived can be said to lose but they cannot be said to be a failure because everything requires a process and experience that can make them successful and know which projects are scam or not, I'm sure you also start from failure that ultimately can be successful and wealthy, many like that so respect the process they are running in this cryptocurrency world.