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quite surprised that there are still many people who are deceived by the fake giveaway program....even though there's been a lot of news about this kind of fake giveaway, the greedy and stupid ones are still there. 

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https://twitter.com/whale_alert/status/1417476350554804227
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I never trust this kind of events. It's obvious that it's not safe. Hackers captured even Elon Musk's Twitter account and swindled many people. Do not trust everyone! There are frauds everywhere. This is a very simple trick.

It sounds absurd that some people still fall for this kind of shit after the hack of famous people's Twitter accounts. I'm curious how did they determine that those BTC transfers came from innocent victims? It could be fake. The scam alert doesn't give information other than the address.

In the past it was multiplier schemes. Crypto users were reached through different means with some multiplier scripts. Beginners easily fall for it, even I've fallen for it without researching much about it. By the time I spend around 0.05BTC on a single multiplier scam. Later only understood all the reviews on those sites were fake ones. From that day I never get into any form of attempt to increase our holdings, other than trading.

You mean some twitter verified account got hacked and changed it's name to elon musk or any famous people. There are lots of the same incidents happened before. It just that many people are still ignorant for such obvious scheme, even though they knew it's a too good to be true offer but it just happens that they were more greedy and now this happens. It's just that people never learned.

As long as there is a greed in the people. the scammers will exploit it and make people poor.  We need to understand and use common sense when participating in these giveaways.

Scams would really continue no matter what since not every people would really be aware on how scheme or modus works if you  do lack experience and awareness of this market.
We do know that not all are experienced and  there would be always those noobs who do really have zero knowledge and this cycle would continue because human beings are naturally greedy
and when they do sa some easy money things then its just normal for us to have that kind of  reactions which would really continue as long this market do exist.
Common sense should be used but there are people who do learn up things after experiencing problems.

It's all about scale for scammers. There are all kinds of scams where one would think how the heck could they fall for it? But it's not like many fall for it, it is relatively many from the huge total they address with their emails and tweets and whatever. If they send out a tweet or email to 10,000 people, and 0.1% fall for it, that's 10 people. Depending on whatever they are asking for, that could already pay off big time for scammers.

Greed often covers logic...

who are not interested in the benefits they provide, if they are not able to control themselves then they will fall into the trap of deception. Honestly, I used to almost fall into a fake giveaway trap like this, but I was lucky to have a husband and friend who reminded me to think more critically and logically because it is impossible for anyone to easily give their BTC easily.

Someone did a medium posting a while ago, that I can't find at the moment, showing how a lot of the BTC going into these scams actually belongs to the scammers.
They post addresses, send money to them, send the money back out and then wait for everyone else to send more.

Don't know how accurate what they posted was, but they did show a bunch of BTC that could be traced in a loop from one address to the next and back again.

-Dave

Yup there are still lots of newbies and beginners out there who are not aware of the scams around the corner. They're just prone to "shiny opportunity syndrome" where if they see any of them with big amounts and high returns, they are not hesitating to jump in without question. In the end because of not doing their homework, they've lost their hard earned money.

I've known a lot of newbies here in my city and province, and they always fall prey to these scams despite giving them warnings but ignored them.

As we become aware of those scams and won't fall for them, there are tons of newbies that are coming to this space and sadly, they're the target of those scams.
If those newbies don't have someone that guides them, they're likely to fall for those scams and they believe that they're for real and they got easy money but they don't know, it is the scammer that's getting easy money from them for not knowing the scam that's being done to them.

Simply using our common sense will sometimes protect us from the scammers like this, remember that there's no free money on the internet and once there's a random people offer a service that if they promise you’ll make a profit, that’s a scam, a high ROI of investing doing without nothing is most likely a scam, doubling your money is a scam.  That's right, greed and naive people will always fall victim to this kind of trap.

We saw that there are always victims and most of them are new in the crypto world, which means crypto adoption has been kept growing and while there's a newbie that potentially gets scam, scammers will always take advantage of this scenario.

The usual problem here is that people who are not very well -versed in crypto, they are usually the target victims here. A lot of people want high profits at a short period of time and they will only know that they have been screwed once they sent their money and there's no more communication from the other end. People who are long enough in crypto know their schemes, so most of us here don't fall in this kind of trap. But sadly, a lot of people outside the forum are being victimized, and they will only ask if they already sent their hard-earned money.

It's because these cyber criminals knows how to play with someone's emotion. That is their first mode of attack, offer someone big in return. So obviously, newbies and even experienced investors most of the time will fall for this scheme.

And they know that they've been scammed when it's too late. Yes, they learn their expensive lessons, but there could be new set of beginners that are going to be trap again, it's going to be cyclical. The only weapon for this kind of scheme is too really used our common sense and don't easily believe this kind of giveaways because there is none. No one will give your free BTC in this market.

The scam will stay forever. Especially now, with Bitcoin and the help of the internet, scamming made easier. It's just sad that there are still people falling for it. Most of them are newbies and lack knowledge.
I recently watched a documentation series in Netflix called Money, Explained and there's a an episode that talks about scams, titled "Get Rich Quick", they explained the history of these kinds of scams, and fake Bitcoin giveaways that spreading right now is another method of scam.

I think a lot of people who would give money to scammers would never read this post, because they are complete beginners, people who bought coins because their friends did, know nothing about this field and have little experience with finance in general. I've seen stories like this when someone gets intro crypto, don't do any research, get scammed immediately and then blames their friends who introduced them.

This kind of scam was much doing the year 2017 when a lot of persons just got to know about Bitcoin, different sort of investment was spurring out like a growing flowers then, making people to lose there funds as a result of greed and lack of proper information on how Bitcoin works. A lot of scammers had restrategised using enormous ways in gaining the heart of investors to decieve them and trickishly scam them of their coins. Greed lead many persons to this calamity.

One of the best ways of preventing much victims from falling into the hands of scammers is by educating newbies and the society of easy way individuals can be scammed. Although there is no sure way of stopping this cause some people are meant to learn from there mistake which is a life lesson the victim will never forget.

I guess this will never end. People falling victims to a scam must be as old as civilization itself. Bitcoin does not fix this. Bitcoin actually makes it a little bit worse, in fact, with its irreversibility feature. People must be more cautious now than ever before. They are facing someone they do not even know and whose location they have no idea about.

I wonder how greedy or clueless the victim is for risking 1.16BTC for a mere giveaway.

True, but not only for newcomers, but also for those who already knew but tried their luck. When I first started in crypto, there were a lot of investment(Return of Investment) like for a week or for days that really could attract newbies that will invest but later on it turn to scam, a lot of this kind of ponzi happen way back few years because the newbies were not aware of this but now most everyone is aware of this so I haven't seen any right now regarding this, I was also scammed by this kind of ponzi

Usually they want more bitcoin than what they have today, well, at that time they tried to follow a giveaway event like this without being careful in doing so, I've often met this, even ever almost fooled, because I was asked to pay first.

Everyone is always greedy and thinks that what is given is enough, and newcomers to cryptocurrency don't know these, they don't know whether they are real. They don't know what to do. When they see those tweets, they will not have any doubts, and they will not do some research on their own. That's why they found out that they had been deceived after investing.

Let those stupid Greed people be a  victim of these scammers so they will learn their Lessons.

Promises in Crypto investment is like Waiting for the Salt to be Tasteless in which will never happen.

Don't expect to earn when you don't even trying to learn what's the business you are investing really do because Victims fall from traps every single day.

Since i came into this investment i think i smart enough to not fall into this kind of stupid like this. I still can't understand to the people who fall into this trap, they just too greedy if believe in something like this. There so many scammers right now and most of them want to scam us from telegram, so we just need to increase our knowledge and don't be greedy so we can't fall into stupid things like this.

if we want to be successful and want to get a lot of money, of course we have to work hard, no one wants to give their wealth to us for free, a lot of fraud occurs because we are tempted by the sweet promises given by scammeers, but the end in the end we lose our hard work that we have collected for a long time,, before doing anything I always ask my close friend for advice who has been playing in bitcoin for a long time, all the advice he gives I always follow, and until now I am safe only, haven't been fooled by any scammer yet, thank you my friend for guiding me from scratch..

I feel bad for people who get taken advantage of by these scammers. Social media sites have to do better in stopping these scams from being advertised. I have reported fake accounts doing fake giveaways and it has taken days to have them removed from Twitter. I have reported them on Facebook and Facebook support says they are not breaking the rules. Unreal.

Those newbies are prone to this kind of scam because they thought bitcoin is a kind of giveaway that you only do little works and you will be given such freebies. Well, it's doesn't work like that. easy money is a scam in this industry. everyone is working here and most of the time they've worked like 10hrs a day just to get that few satoshis in their first time engaging in the crypto industry without using any capitals. Those who are using their own money are working to get some real-time experience on crypto trading as well, so basically there's no free money here. everyone is simply working towards their own goals.

Bill Gates,Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk will double your Bitcoins,if you send them some BTC. ;D
It doesn't make any sense from a financial point of view,but what the hell....
Sounds like a great offer,if your IQ is under 60. :(
Such scams are a tax on the stupid.Even if we keep raising awareness about the BTC giveaway scams,there will always be naive and greedy people,who will send their hard earned Bitcoins to the scammers address.


Well,most of the newbies aren't that dumb.Don't underestimate them.

That's the price we pay for education. We pay it either through experience of through knowledge. I also had that nasty experience while starting up as a noob in this industry. It was greed that drove me to that supposed doubling sitel, thinking that we had Santa Claus in mid air. Till date, I still see people indulging such gestures. It's even appalling when you get to find out that someone repeatedly falls for such hogwash, believing that one day luck will shine on them. It's pure greed that makes anyone fall for these scams. Nobody throws money at you for no reason. There must be something or a task they tell you to do to earn. Again, why will anyone trying to better your lot ask you to send them something before they give out to you what they're promising you? It doesn't add up. The red flag is obvious but people choose not to look.

Unfortunately, someone will still fall for this kind of trap. Giveaway tactics are still famous online and due to an urge of having free money (which most likely scam), they wouldnt take the lesson without experiencing such fraud.

I remembeted being scammed too online but that makes me become more vigilant trusting something like this fake giveaway. And I was newbie that time, so probably those victims were just new and trying out the risk of thst giveaway.

Lack of experience and education on crypto is the main reason why there so many people getting caught on this trap. I fell so pity for those peoples who get scam with this kind of method.

The most common things i see is many Scammers DM me on telegram they try to bait me and they say if i send 1 eth into this address then i will get 2 eth just in overnight, luckily I'm not that stupid to believe them.

most of us are trapped and deceived by scammers, because of ourselves, we are too easy to believe in their sweet promises, we also want to get rich quick, even though without us knowing it the scammers have used us, if we are not smart and don't want to ask questions. people who are experienced in the field of bitcoin, most likely we will be easily exploited by scammers..

This kind of situation is quite common. One is to use the credibility of celebrities, and the other is to use the greed of human nature. This is very hateful. This kind of behavior is naked fraud. If you don’t want to be deceived, there is only one way：

forget it, it's a pie in the sky

I can't beleive people can still fall for this kind of fake giveaway trick it obvious inexperienced newbies will always be caught in this fraud due to their greediness how can someone ask me to to send some coins in exchange for double or triple offer? even disguising with Elon Musk's twitter account, this cannot be true it is a pure deceit and scam, it quite unfortunate that many had fallen victim of this cheap scam due to ignorance and social media had indeed contributed to this type of growing scam unfortunately it is always late before those scam post, videos and tweets are reported to the relevant authorities a lot of damages could have been done, before it is taken down or deleted. we have to extremely careful with social media promising fake giveaways and continue to enlighten newbies on dangers of falling for hacked account of highly influential figures twitters, telegram, Facebook etc by some fraudulent scammers.

many say they are newbies but why do they have a lot of Bitcoin, did the newbie buy Bitcoin after reading the giveaway or is it the BTC they are saving. This is still a big question for me.

even so, we must always remind friends on social media not to easily believe in giveaways held by fake influential people.

I often see many advertisements about sending some amount of bitcoin and earn double the amount from them. Luckily, I never follow it and skip it right away because, at that time, I do not have many bitcoin. I only think that how it can be like that, I mean, how they can send the double amount to us while we do not do something.

I read many stories on the internet and my friends tell me that it is a scam and many of them lose their money by sending some amount to that giveaway. It is a simple trick that could always succeed to gain attention from people, especially new people, to join with their giveaways.

It's not only about being greedy or stupid. I wouldn't blame these people, to be honest. They just didn't get enough education to sort the information they receive and make informed decisions. Also, judging from victim of other scams, these people are often desperate. I've recently watched a video about a popular Ponzi scheme in my country and people who invest in it. These people are usually pretty old (so they aren't very familiar with how the Internet works), giving away their pensions to the scammers in the hope of hoping their families. There are also people who are ill and need a lot of money for medical operations, and they are desperate to try anything that might help them get this money. It's very sad that the already vulnerable ones are losing what they have due to scams. And speaking of crypto scams specifically, it surely doesn't help to get confusion out of the way when there are mixed messages from various authorities and financial experts, as many say Bitcoin itself is a scam, a financial pyramid and whatnot.

What can we do with this?? Only one things comes to my mind that I need to do when I see this and that is to "laugh".

Kinda weird that I need to laugh with the person that got scammed but that is what I feel whenever I see people scammed especially with this one who got scammed more than 1 BTC. You are holding a single Bitcoin and yet you don't know which are scam and which are not?? Ignorance at its highest level.

This is why you should learn and research more before you hold huge bags of coins whether it is Bitcoin or some other altcoins. Don't just throw your money out there without any information. Don't be like this investor who just gave more than 1 BTC to a scammer. For sure the scammer is very happy with that happened :D.

right, many beginners are victims of scammers, they take advantage of their lack of knowledge to cheat. therefore asking for the opinion of friends who understand more is highly recommended so that we do not get caught up in this. knowledge requires a process of learning, and from this we can learn by finding answers from friends who understand better

I've happened and experienced something like this even though it's not bitcoin but another crypto by sending a private message in my email stating I got a gift from the assets I own.. after that I tried to claim but at that time I unconsciously gave itmy personal data and directly without waiting for the day the assets I have started to be stolen one by one..
therefore my advice we must be careful of suspicious things..

Yes, it seems that used to often use email to do this, maybe now still do. but  just like you, I just experienced it on telegram by wanting to help solve the problem of what is my right by providing a link to connect with my metamask. without me realizing it I believed by not looking at the telegram address first whether they were administrators.
finally all when they got the direct link, it didn't take long for all the coins to change hands.

but this is an experience that will leave an impression on us, we don't always believe in anything that seems to want to help because behind that help something will happen that we don't want, let this experience make me more careful too.

Usually the ones who are fooled are beginners. it's clear if there is a giveaway or event that asks for a wallet password, or asks for a transfer as a fee it's a huge scam and it's not worth participation for a lot of people

Obviously no one is going to do that, the problem is that these so called "scammers" are making sure that they aren't threatening so they do a social engineering attack so the people that they target lowers their guard so they can do it. I think that the real problem is that people don't look out for signs that they are interacting with a scammer rather than the transaction because by that time, you are already defeated.

It's hard to believe that there are still people who think they can double their crypto with such a fake giveaway and in this greed, they also send such a huge amount of BTC to scammers.

Advice For Newbies
Scammers lure you with huge sums of money whether it is a giveaway or a Ponzi scheme where you are promised weekly/monthly profits. stay away else your ending will be the same as this person who sent 1.16 BTC

There is the straight up scammers and then there is the scammers trying to scam the already scammed by offering all kinds of "crypto recovery services" --this is the highest quality crypto forum and I don't see many of these posts here, but there are so many "lost or stolen coin recovery" ads all over almost every other crypto-related forum out there.

Blockchain by nature (immutability) makes the space prone to scams.

For those who believe in the instant rich schemes, instant karma would happen to them.

Nobody wants to give their money to scammers in the first place but somehow, people are getting crazy when hearing x2 profit from your investment every day, every week, that is certainly attractive and a lot of people just fall into this trap. I do believe that we are all aware of this but this problem remains and I don't know how these people will learn from this trick.

a lot of newbies are still exposed to this kind of trick, and no one can be blamed for it all because they are too rash to follow something.
I think this will continue to happen until whenever there will always be because greed makes everyone forget about honesty and in bitcoin not everyone does the right thing there are a few people who collect their assets by means of deception and hackers.
this is of course unsettling but we can do nothing about it other than secure our assets and tell those around us not to fall into this kind of trick.

Most of the victims of these scams are newbies, those who lack knowledge, don't learn when entering the market, those who want to get rich quickly will all become targets of those scams.

All kinds of methods are used by scammers to trap their victims. Even beginners or professionals sometimes still fall into the trap of scammers. But the beginners do dominate and become the main target of scammers. They use new or old methods such as holding giveaways with bitcoin prizes and some fake emails to trick their victims. Nowadays, what is happening more and more often is fraud via telegram, because many scammers give private messages asking for help, giving giveaways, pretending to be admins of a project and others. it is certain that all of this was done by scammers. Never give access to private wallets or click on links that scammers provide. Because they usually provide phishing links, malware and the like. Must stay alert.

It is easy to determine whether certain event or project is a scam nowadays. Usually, they offer promises that are too good to be true. Nevertheless, we should not still be too complacent about the stupidity of the scammers. There are still some who can manipulate you and deceive you up until they are able to steal your money. Regardless of how shallow and how scams can easily be known, the best way to avoid sudden loss of huge amount of money is through not trusting anyone right away. Scams are still evident in the market and we should always take extra precaution over it.

Fraud in crypto is taken in many ways, from GA via twitter, facebook, telegram though, if we are not careful we will be trapped, not only new players I think old players too if you are not lucky will be exposed to fraud with giveaway

And that is why we need to make a search before participating in giveaways. Mostly, newcomers had fallen into this trick and then wondering and ask why they lose their Bitcoin after joining? Now, this thing is common to hear, unlike before where many giveaways are legit

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What I could suggest is to ignore or never ever participate in this thing. It was hopeless to think about free, doubling your money, you will receive xxx...this is all lies and we don't have to compromise ourselves into this.

There would be no victim if no one would really believe on easy money or profits but since greed is already a normal part of human being in terms of emotion or intent or behavior
then this cycle would continue on where there are people who would really get scammed due to lack of knowledge and having those kind of things in mind believing about
easy money.People who would experienced scams would turn out to be experienced ones but we know that this market will have that continous flow of newbies
that do easily get hooked up with a simple ponzi or hyip scheme which had been continuing through ages.

I am not surprised at all. There are too many people around the world, they have various educational backgrounds and may have a different understanding of scams. Also, some of the cases may be caused by the characteristics of the individual, one of the examples is "greedy", like you said above. Not only greedy, but some people can be also careless, so they can be deceived because not careful to read news and analyze the giveaways first.

All of these are possible to be the causes. Unfortunately, we have no power to stop it. There are too many people in the world, no chance to make every single of them be aware.

Not only beginners people, sometimes people who have been in the crypto world for a long time can also be tricked because they basically don't think smarter or do not research more carefully on that giveaway.
Well, it's good here we should remind each other of beginners and people who are crazy to giveaway.

ignore them coz that's how they work for a living and no one can stop them..as the matter of fact if you really aware in such event you will never jump in it because its very obvious. for me IMO much better to report it to assure they can't scam other people around the internet, it becomes very common way for them TBH especially here in the crypto world because of some people who don't have enough information when it comes to such way of scamming.

This kind of scam is generally aimed at investors who are not proficient in the crypto field. They understand the sentiments of these investors and grasp the psychology of investors. Investors will not think that they have been scammed, and they will be unable to recover after the reaction. Especially on the Internet, filled with all kinds of scams, the most fundamental way is to enrich your knowledge and not to be blinded by greed.

In the world where the Internet is now developed, this kind of thing is normal. Not only in the encryption field, but in any profitable field, there are such scam gangs. What we can do is stay sensible, stay sensible in everything we do. Although the deceived people are a bit stupid, it is understandable that when they first entered the market, their level of knowledge in this area was not high, but they must have a sense of self-protection and safety.

You have 30,000 dollars in bitcoin, that's your hard earned money  but you choose to get into a giveaway that's suppose to payout to you,you go as far as paying them..just how does this qualify to be a giveaway? Let greed not take the best of you, temptations are high and everyone is looking for a quick buck.

Yeah giveaways does not have any required amount to put in because if they will impose this meaning this isn't a give away instead it is Investing and that is far from Giveaways.
We are joining give away because of it is being free since we mostly not trusting the provider but once there is a specific promise of earning and you have to put funds then think twice because this may end up being scam  for sure.
many of us don't realize this because they only looks on the amount to be getting but the funds on lose will be cried after the event happened.

As far as I know some of the giveaways conduct KYC or want some type of data from you so the price you actually pay for the coins is to give away the most valuable you have: your data. I would never give away a single piece of data for a give away except for my public key obviously. Anything else can be abused like hell.

Usually ? lol always not usually mate .

Because all of us are here to make profit and that is it.

They are not following give away but they are hunting it and when they found some greedy offer they tend to grab and then become a victim.

And then if you pay, you are a fool right? never pay when it is called give away .

I remember one gambling site here-even though almost all members warned the site-a scam-still-every day the victims are growing.

Fake giveaways-despite many warnings about Bitcoin so as not to be scammed-it still happens-due to lack of information and neglect, for the sake of the will to accelerate the profits that are multiplied in fact fall into the giveaway of deception-self-awareness is needed in this case.

The people simply get eroded with lucrative offers and their greed doesn't let them think for a while that it's scam and nothing like this giveaway or free money is around.When they will understand this fact more scammers will face difficulty in getting victims but as usual many newbies who don't have knowledge or even who are old to crypto World fall victim to such scams inspite of many warnings.You can't stop anybody bu just advice them and the whole and sole decision lies with the people and how they deceive such scammy offers.

Most of the newcommers is very easy to being scammed because they still has 0 experience and lack of knowledge about scam in this crypto field, i've been trading and investing since 2017 but i never getting caught into this stupid trap like this.

It makes me wonder too how some people are so gullible to the extent they will trust some random link online which has a caption of too good to be true campaigns and giveaways. There are so many clickbait links which spread virus and can instantly hack, corrupt, and steal your privacy information in a snap. Hence, it still bugs me why people are so naive despite being warned several times already. Certainly, ignorance is dangerous. It can cost you so much if you are not careful. Most especially if your gadget such as phone or laptop contain so many important information that should only be known by yourself. 

There are many greedy people out there, who don't care to confirm any information they received, but just agreed to anything they see online. We have to be very careful about what we believe online, because there are many scammers, who create fake sites. I have been in the Crypto world for some time now, and I make enough investigation and research before believing anything I see online.

That was a good idea but it is much better I think if you have to share to any of your trusted friend or any of the family member just in case if there is a bad thing happen on you. We can't ignore such instances and much better if there is someone who could able to claim that.

Anyways, scammers are smart and they will continue to find a way just to scam people. Most noobs had fallen into their traps because of some ignorance and market awareness. If it keeps this thing happens to them, we can never win this war but instead, scammers will getting bigger and bigger.

the act of fraud will continue from time to time indiscriminately and knowing our age we also need to be careful in taking an attitude or action before starting a business that we have not been able to fully control and still cannot reach our minds, such as we still have a lot to learn from people before we start a business for the future, this will be very influential for our survival in the future

fruads are everywhere and we can't determine them unless someone will give a try just to expose their works, lol and you know this kind of GIVEAWAY is too obvious and very unrealistic, because how comes there are some ppl who will believe in it?  They're a big fool that despite of the situation they will believe to some bitcoin giveaway wherein the amount fees is too high as well.  ;D

I am always wary of attractive rewards and calls for profit or have joined but have to invest money of unknown origin, now there are quite a few scams that make many people unjust, new people do not understand know how to trust scammers and make mistakes.

Because of the size of the crypto world, even ridiculous things that sound impossible are very likely to happen. and fraudsters take advantage of this to deceive people who may be new to crypto, they must know that businesses in crypto may be able to give them profit with simple things but many also intend to scam them or steal them. rational and logical tought should be used too even in crypto.

https://i.imgur.com/BDOQ8oW.png

With such kind of detections shown by the picture above, I doubt there are individuals who even dare to give touch the scam website (if they realized it)

This kind of scam has been pretty known widely, it's kinda unbelievable if is there any individual who still fell for it. I'm assuming if that huge transaction was created just to manipulate people and something like to show this is the true giveaway.

No system is safe, we know that already.
I didn't know about Elon Musk's Twitter account being hacked, did that happen recently? and it's similar to the situation where Ethereum's owner, He had to post touse special title after his username on Twitter, something like "I don't do giveaways"


Can you explain how does this scam works?

very many of these cases happen, especially when we introduce it to friends, especially beginners, because they don't understand what steps to take to start a business, I will be very careful in giving my money to scammers, especially among people beginners who will bankrupt us for the future to come, this must be considered wisely before starting something for sure

People jist need to use their common sense to avoid being scammed,
If it is a giveaway then why do they need to pay in order to participate or receive it?
People still falls to those kind of tricks and I just don't know why there are still some who would really send out their money because of those promises?

^ Well you have a point and this is what commonly happens for those who did not think first before they act. It is very simple to us your common sense that it is a scam and also it is a part of our greed that usually people had. Scammers are everywhere waiting that there is someone who falls into their trap, so let's be vigilant at all times. Because as OP shows, that is very popular on Twitter and I think everyone knows this those who had a Twitter account early last year. Hold your own bitcoin and have freedom wherever you go.

One of the keys to avoiding being a victim of scammers is to control our greed, which sometimes makes us not think logically. Therefore, many people
are deceived by being willing to send money in advance to be able to get the promised rewards. But if we can control greed, then we will not
immediately be attracted by the offer of very large rewards. This means that we really have to learn a lot about the crypto world, don't believe
in all methods of getting instant profits. Because it takes hard work and patience to be able to get big profits from investing in cryptocurrencies.

I totally agree with all of you greedy people, they fall prey to scammers, people who want big rewards without working and only a little capital and aspire to big income for people like that who are targeted by scammers.

if people dont know how to analyze what is legit and fake are the one one who will get scam with this kind of advertisement or give away promo it is not totally a give away but a Get away promo after the scammer get their money they will run away hahahahha.

Never trust someone you don't know.  Lots of scam telegram groups.  By reason of doing airdrops for free but we are asked to send coins to be able to claim the reward.  It's all a scam.  So we have to be very careful.

I think this scam.will continue from time to time as long as these.people are still affected.by what scammers.give to crypto investors.especially beginner investors.who are easily.influenced by things.that can.help them.by.doubling the money so that we can.get bigger profits.in a short time, maybe we should.be aware.of this in.giving.bitcoins to.scammers

That's because there's always a newbie every day in crypto, that's why there are people that are still falling for this giveaway scams, they are stupid, ignorant and greedy which is a bad mixture when entering in something that involves money and then they end up getting scammed and then blaming crypto, it's a cycle.

agree, that this is already a new job opportunity for them (scams) and it is difficult to make improvements other than having to always provide continuous education to all those who are in crypto. it's not a matter of old and new in crypto but when you panic sometimes the help that comes is no longer filtered whether it's true or not, only after the incident realized it. used to still use email, now they are advanced use by telegram, they always watch when there is a difference of understanding between the bounty and BM so they can come as someone who can help the problem that occurs, they don't know it is scams.

the taller the tree, the stronger the wind that hits it, as well as us, the longer we play in bitcoin, the more clever scammers try to deceive us, the point is we have to be all careful, don't let ourselves be caught off guard, because one minute just let our guard down, then the scammeers will take the opportunity to steal our bitcoins,

what you said is true, if we still make a deposit then it's not a give away but a get away :D

remembering from my past experience that I almost got scammed by a giveaway like this, imagining the profit is real is the first thing that comes to my mind. just think logically that in today's era no one will give their Bitcoin for free.

I often receive emails related to airdrops, winning contests, bitcoin giveaways, and so on, of course with the condition of sending bitcoins for reasons of shipping costs, I always ignore it because this is a scam.

Everyone will not want to give that. It's just that they don't know, they are interested in what the scammers have to say. Anyone who offers an advantage in the crypto aspect I don't follow. The only exception is the program of a well-known exchange such as staking. Everyone should be willing to investigate before joining some reward program, at least they want to ask someone with more experience.

Scam is everywhere. Giveaway to exchange service, everywhere we can found scammer. Only a great research and smartness can save us from scammers. Scamming with giveaway isn’t new on cryptocurrency history, It’s a common way to scam. But, some scammers really advanced. Be aware from them. Personally, I never believe a giveaway, Where I have to send money.

Before joining the project one should read rules and regulation of the project then have to join that. Every project is not safe and secure some of these may be fraud. so don't trust everyone. In this way you will be safe from scammer and hackers. Most of the people easily trust everyone even then they know about scammer and this lead to big loss. It is an easy way of getting rid of scammers.

There are lot's of scammers everywhere that are after our bitcoin currently you have to be very careful you don't just have to believe everything you see online or anybody you meet online must people you meet online are just scammers and they are just after your money. Don't believe any giveaway don't send your coin to anybody waiting for it to double in return don't believe in all this fake airdrop must airdrop and giveaway are just scam so you have to be careful.

Because people who don't know will be tempted by the double that scamers give them so this promise is too sweet and in the end they ask for a deposit to participate in exchange for doubling it, so I think this kind of trap is only for those who don't understand the real crypto.

There has been a lot going on in the fall of this fake giveaway trick, even more fake giveaways with other big names so that the reality is true, even though all of them are fakes that cannot be validated.
If any site asks for a deposit just to double then it is scamers.

Scammers will always be here waiting for good chances to scam people. And it happens mostly to newbies or to anyone who does not the whole thing about crypto. And this is the sad reality. Scammers will never get lost as long as there are still innocent people who fall as victims to some too good to be true offers. And with this fake giveaways, greedy people mostly fall for it because of their innermost desire to earn money in an instant and fastest way.

Another stuff I would like to add in here is that there are also people that wants you to give them Bitcoin so that they'll be trading your money and just return your profits from their trades. They are quite common spam comments in various social media platforms.
Ironically, I stumbled upon one of those scammers in a certain scambaiter's videos.

in every social network platform, giveway scammers boosted fake giveway post in facebook i see lot of times in my newsfeed greed people will get the trap. in telegram, they created big community for being peoples trust and unconscious guy caught in their trap. don't click in such giveway.

What's even more shocking is when people lose complete sense just because some so-called "celebrity" tweets a similar scheme, only to find out later that their account was actually hacked. I remember some people losing hundreds of thousands in a really basic bitcoin "doubler" promotion posted by Elon Musk and Kim Kardashian. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad that these people blindly follow anything posted by certain accounts and it is very hard to have sympathy. At a certain point these people already had enough money to live on comfortably but essentially ended up gambling small fortunes when somebody claims a preposterous scheme to increase their cryptoassets far beyond what could be considered average.

These are classic schemes way back but due for there are people who are noob on this  market who do just simply believe into those claims and giveaways then there's  still people
who do really fall out for this kind of scam.Its just sad that they would  able to realize when its already too late and if you are aware or just making use of your common sense
then you would eventually able to tell that this offer is really too good to be true which does simply means that it is 100% scam because there's no such thing
about easy money and you should be mindful on things for you to avoid on getting scammed.

I don't really know why people are still falling for Bitcoin scheme which usually ends up taking investors money away. Although most scammers do think of new means to make money which is mostly done by using attractive ways of decieving people without being noticed. The urge to make fast money usually lead people to this kind of scam.

This concept of giveaway is wrong since the beginning. You aren't supposed to send money from your pocket to receive some interest over it later if it was a real giveaway. Legit giveaways distribute money without asking for any amount in exchange. They may ask for a simple task from you, like a sign up, share, like or subscription, but not money.
It could be easily spotted as a ponzi scheme if people stopped paying attention to the label (giveaway) and started observing the content (easy and huge interest = scam).

Once you do experience loss in scams then you wouldnt really really forget on what you had  done and then you would really be aware on next situation that you might face off and able to avoid it directly.

Being a noob will really be likely have the chance on getting scammed since we dont have enough experience and awareness but not always the case since there are  noobs which are clever and those are noobs who do love to read up community feedbacks and real experiences and with that then you  would really be aware into those schemes.

Its just a matter of sensibility neither you do really mind of on making yourself safe from scams.

we have to be careful because there are currently a lot of scammers and phishing webs that can steal your wallet
they hold a lot of give aways, airdrops and fake bounties to get a lot of participant data which will later be used for criminal acts too
and never believe in give aways and airdrops that require you to send a transaction fee

Exactly, This is one of the most common scam types that we can easily found especially in social media.
I have ever seen many fake telegram groups also create this kind of scam, creating fake members who always say that they can get earning and profits highly during the real.
And many newbies are tra[ped in this scam. Investing in such certain Bitcoin and then being scammed, our money loses and cannot be trusted.
Be careful on this scam

Yep, but honestly speaking the Elon Musk tweet looked quite good and trustworthy. I wouldn't fall for it but I can see how people can actually for it. They top up the fake by sending their own BTC from their own address to that fake address, pretending people are already rushing in. If you are completely new to this whole game, well, you might feel FOMO... Even though it is stupid to lose money that way, I get the point why a small minority of people falls for it.

simple scam giveaways can be easily detected but it becomes hard to detect if some famous personalities accounts gets hacked or their website itself . if the original owner wont react fast and warn the public , many can get scammed .
bitcoins is too expensive now to give away it to scammers  . if im only going to give it to them then much better if i give to the person that badly needs money or the poor .

Anyone that still falls for things like this are actually greedy and stupid people even if the message was from famous personalities accounts that's the more reason it should be doubted ;D If this has not happened many times before and people have also spoken against it much time also, then some might say they don't know but that is not the case. It is because people still believe that miracles can happen in crypto and this might be that chance I make quick bucks so they will continue to actually "GAMBLE" their money.     

Some greedy users fall into trap of scammers. They send their valuable assets (BTC, ETH, or other coins) for getting bigger amount from the fake giveaways but they have to bear in mind that no one will give you BTC, ETH for free. This greedy guys should also bear in mind that they shouldn't disclose their private key, backup in the given fake sites. Greed and lack of awareness will bring sufferings to them at the end.

this often happens to crypto miners who tend to prefer the multiplication process that can make people produce a lot of bitcoins, and this also often happens to some social media accounts such as twitter, because it's not just beginners who will be hit by things like that will but the old players will also experience this for a period that we can't determine when it can happen to us, so we must always remain vigilant against a hack that involves our personal matters.

most of the time people don't pay much attention if they really realize that they're promising such a thing is a real account or not and if it's a scammer's account, then comes the greed for quick profit, people become so blind they don't they can see that it doesn't make sense to send X value and receive 2X, they don't ask where so much money comes from to pay 2X to so many people, greed blinds them and as a result they end up losing money, very sad situation

This types of scam works like chain letter,someone promises that you'll make money if you pay into the scheme these types of frauds or what you call scammers nowadays very popular they send you email ,link messages .Cryptocurrency scams are now a popular way for scammers to trick people into sending money. Beginners or newbies got scammed because they are not aware and think about it people think in a greedy way and they take a wrong decision.I suggest you before doing anything be sure it's not fraud or scam be aware of all these scams. Take knowledge before give your bitcoins to scammers. Don't be trapped. ☺

Yes there are still many scammers here and should be avoided. It's not easy to avoid scammers, especially for people who are new to the crypto world. As an experience, in the past I was hit by scammers several times when I first joined and it made me confused. All assets fell apart and forced me to stay afloat. That's why now I'm really warning scammers because I don't want that to happen again. Just make it an experience and make it a lesson in the future. We must be able to avoid the scam itself if we don't want our assets to be lost and lose money.

The crypto world does have a lot of scammers hanging around, because there are always people who don't have the knowledge and experience
they can influence. By promising huge profits, make these people finally influenced and unknowingly give the money they have to people they
don't know. That's because many people still can't control their greed, and finally think with a small capital can get a big profit instantly, which of
course is not possible. The method most used by scammers is by promising double profits, this method has made many people experience losses.
So it must be remembered in the crypto world that there is no easy and instant money making, everything takes a process that may not take a while.
 

The first mistake that anyone can make is to believe that it is infallible and that others are fools, perhaps that is where we should start, always be alert and above all make the disclosure that the guys who do this type of scams exist.

In fact, other post with a recurring topic that has been discussed countless times, although the OP's  contribution only brings the warning, it is always good to be remembering it, by the way some users do not use the warnings it seems that they need to be scammed to learn the lesson.

You can have all the knowledge in the world and still fall victim for a scam. They sometimes disguise the scams so cleverly that knowledge about the industry can't necessarily save you. There are also the hidden scams or even projects that start out with good intentions and then turn into a scam. In that scenario you didn't have a chance to identify it as a scam in the first place.

It is an advise for everyone that don't give your bitcoins to scammers. Because these scammers make new schemes such as games, ads etc. You have seen an ad that send 1 btc and you will get 2 btc on your address. These ads are fake and don't send any coins to these scammers. Many peoples send their btc to double their balance but at the end they get scammed. So, please be aware from these fake peoples that always trying to scam users funds.

There are a lot of people trusting the different giveaways on different platforms and most of them required a deposit before making a participation in their event. It's not an ideal thing we will become dependent on the faucets and another giveaway there's no person or group will give a large amount to an unknown people always know that.

Avoid that kind of giveaway telling you to.
Deposit and earn double
This is not a scam.
Claim rewards after giving an identity.

Exactly, but what is even more annoying to me is that of the one when they also fall for even Names from big celebs and politicians. Imagine the president of the United States accounts asking for some amount of Bitcoin sent to him before he will send some X amount of Bitcoin back to you, it doesn't make any sense. I believe because we will always have greedy people, things like that will continue to happen.

out there there are still many people who have not received education about scams give away on crypto...

what is clear is that those who fall into the trap of this scam must be a little greedy, they do not use logic and are only interested in the promise of profit. Bitcoin is never given away for free just by making a deposit, this kind of activity is a scam.

Is this not the old fashioned fiat doubling and flipping that has now been taken online, It still comes as a surprise to me that people still fall victims to cheap scams like this. It is important that whenever you see a too good to be true offer or something of this nature that you do not make hasty decisions, but rather take a chill pill and ask yourself;
 
-Why will someone anonymous who is not family or friend related promise to double your bitcoin?

-How are they going to go about it?

If there are no practical or realistic answers to this questions, it is in your best interest to write it off without giving it a second thought.

To be honest, when I first met crypto, I participated in a give away like this, after I lost 1 wallet I started learning that I would never connect my wallet to the web or a link,
sometimes greed. that invites the abyss of destruction

Greed is embedded in human behavior and it makes people to believe that there is free money in this world. It is very simple actually. There is nothing called free money. Even in the case of airdrops, you need to spend some effort in filling the ERC-20 address and other details. Once you are aware of this, you will stay protected from such scams. And I really don't know why people believe that it is necessary to send some money first to these scams. If it is a real give-away, then you should be receiving money, and not sending it.

fraud is now happening everywhere, we must be more vigilant, never trust anyone, because in today's world there are lots of weasels in sheep's clothing, sweet in front but stabbed in the back, sometimes they use other people's accounts to try to trick us, so no matter how good we are with someone, don't easily give the bitcoins we have to them..

There are some scammers in crypto currency who tell you they are influencer and trader give your private key or seed phrase of your account to them. what ever method they use to scam your account but it is illegal they make you greedy and offer you to sell your coins in double payment when you give hem your account private key you will loss your account permanent.

not all those who buy bitcoins are aware that they are falling into a scammers trap
scammers are very smart, they don't give up on taking their money who are a little greedy and want to get rich quick

I also almost joined a fake bitcoin giveaway but luckily I had a friend who made me realize that this giveaway really doesn't make sense
stay alert when on the internet and don't be greedy because people giving bitcoins for free nowadays is impossible

A lot of these scams are appearing and even uses any big exchanges as their marketing strategy. I saw this Telegram group having Thousands and their members are having conversations about sending their BTC and thanking the team for sending back their BTC added by 10% as an airdrop. It was very sketchy though as their conversation flow was always the same. I just hope newbies here do not make a mistake by sending BTC to any malicious address. Don't be greedy guys.

Everyday there is always a victim of this so-called giveaway scam, there lots of naive people in crypto unfortunately, it is very easy for them to fall for this type of obvious scam offer,  if it is too good to be true don't get involved, but some people are too greedy to notice the signs, let's just hope constant reminder will help to reduce the number of victims.

The problem with most fake giveaways is that they conceal themselves as "genuine" giveaways in which newbies fell to their trap. If you see any fake giveaways being spread onto different websites, I highly recommend that you post in under the SCAM ACCUSATION (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0) so that everyone could see it.

There are lots of forum traffic coming from people who are not members in the forum. They can utilize the search bar function and if they searched the giveaway, it would notify them that a person has already reported it as a scam. This provides an extra layer of security to newbies and as well as to other members as well.

Fact is that majority of people are way too lazy on searching out even with the basic or slightest hint of information towards certain thing.They do just tolerate on what they do have in  mind specially if greed is
already overcoming their selves.

Scams do continue to exist because there are people who do really get scammed due to lack of knowledge and way too greedy.People once do learn up only when they do lost money.

New scams would exist in different form and thats why we should really be sensible and we should be aware in towards our actions on particular things.

well scammers are too brilliant as well that's why some people can't stop their self joining whatever events it is. Especially nowadays wherein copy pasting is a very common way to attract people around the internet. So if you don't have time to make a research first, like always just to assure the offer is legit or not for sure you always have a chance to lost money because of some scammer out there..for me here in crypo space you're smart enough if you always have time to do research because that's the only way to avoid scam people around the internet.

especially in difficult times like this, where people are confused about finding money to survive. when there is an easy and tempting offer, it will immediately be taken advantage of, often to the point of ignoring logic. I really hate fraudsters, scammers, or hackers who take advantage of their knowledge and abilities to take advantage of others in a very sneaky way.

I always remind my friends, don't trust anyone you don't know from the internet who asks for money for any reason. real airdrops or giveaways don't ask you for any funds.

As for me you need not to get explode to various people so you wouldn't get scam.
That is what helps make the crypto market a prime space for scammers looking for easy money. To help keep your investment safe, beware of the following Bitcoin scams, such as ponzi scheme, fake exchange.
The best way to protect yourself from scams is to do your research before putting your money anywhere. Only use reputable cryptocurrency exchanges and understand the potential risks and reasonable rewards of your investments.
Don’t believe any claim that promises guaranteed returns; free money; or extremely low-risk, high-return investments. Legitimate investment takes time and patience.

Currently the scammers are still on the loose and we really need to be more vigilant. It's nothing new if there is a giveaway or something like a scam here so it can make us more careful by choosing a safe and good giveaway. For new people, of course, participating in such a scam giveaway hoping that it will be fun, but that's not true we can experience big losses. Scammers certainly understand our emotions where they lure very convincingly and make some people interested and enter their trap. Therefore we must be smarter than the scammers.

Right now.

Falling with these scams will cost you a lot and that's why there's always the reminder that we're giving to everyone, even not the newbies.

As long as the person isn't aware of the scam, they're likely to fall and because of greed, they'll become the victims of it.

Scammers tell you to give them Bitcoin they will pay you and they offer you best for giving them Bitcoin if you send your Bitcoin anyone without any verification your Bitcoin will be scammed and then it will unrecoverable and you will lost your Bitcoin for permanent.

very difficult to eradicate something like this.
even though many people have warned but greed and beginners are still trapped in things like this.
indeed for beginners they still do not understand to be one of the reasons but if you don't learn and still rely on greed, this will still be very difficult to eradicate and the victims will continue to grow again and again.

Getting rid of it is something that is impossible because as long there's money in  circulation into this market and some industries then scams would continue to exist.There would be always those people who do

really have some bad plans or mindset to take money on other people via those scams which people are naturally born to be  greedy and once they do saw some  opportunity,they do easily get into those traps

until  they do realized that they had been scammed.Thing here is that you do make your common sense most of the time..-- If everything sounds too good to be true then its 100% a scam.

Fraudsters create various traps and scam Bitcoin. You will always stay away from these cheaters. They are hacking the accounts of big trusted people and stealing money in various ways. A few days ago, Elon Musk's Twitter account was hacked and some bitcoins were seized. So avoid yourself all the time.

None is going to give his money to scammers.
however, because of carelessness, greediness, and also not understand about the scams, they will lose their money them.
they may always think that they will get another big money by doing a certain task or sending a certain amount to the scammers, also including the fake investment. But in fact, they lose their money forever.No investment party that will give you a bunch of big and high profits in a short time.

Fraudsters often lure you with large sums of money usually in the form of gifts or Ponzi schemes where you are promised weekly/monthly profits. better never be tempted by such a gift otherwise you will end up with the same fate as the person who sent the 1.16 BTC.
It's hard to believe that there are still people who think they can double their crypto with fake gifts with this kind of greed.

Scammers with cryptocurrencies are nothing new. Whenever we see the bull market started, such fraudsters fall prey to false assurances in various ways. So there is no other way but to beware of them. Very beginning of my crypto life I fell into a trap. I didn’t loss much but learned lot. Only way is awareness, should be taken to refrain from this.

Usually, the ones who will become victims of scams are inexperienced beginners. They do have great greed. They think crypto is a means of getting rich instantly, so they are willing to give their bitcoins to multiply. This is the biggest mistake for beginners. Beginners should know and realize that many cybercriminals will rob their money in various ways.

People mostly new people hear about bitcoin for trading and not for anonymity reasons, but slowly most if not all get into gambling at some point in their life through gambling.
For reasons-
Its tax free and house edge is very low compared to real life casinos.

People, who think bitcoin is spreadsheet money always blame bitcoin when they are stolen because they shared their private key with someone online and ended up calling it a scam, and the reason being? "They don't know how private key works" and yes there are many more reasons they might end up getting scammed.

Everything that seems to good to be true is probably fake, or scams. Not surprised, but hopefully people will realize it and avoid them. I guess you shouldn't believe anything if you need to handover your bitcoin. It'll be okay if you just need to do something and gain bitcoin instead. Actually, just in case you don't know yet, there are a lot of cryptocurrency give away right now in twitter. Although it seems really fake and too good to be true, but it's 100% legit. They are giving starting from $1, $100 or even $1000 worth of cryptocurrency coins freely. Not really free, but most of the time you just need to follow the twitter account, join their telegram, or vote for the coins. Everything is easy. Although there are some scams account as well which never give out the reward, there are tons that are legit, my friend has got $100, while I haven't got that much but I once win $10 of BNB though, it's good enough without needing to do anything hard or spend any money.

And there is nothing be blame with their actions but just themselves.

I can remember my old friend joining a Ponzi scheme program, he comes and encourages me to join as we can grow our money fast. I said NO and have to give him some warning but he never listens to me. And now, he was in huge debts as he losses almost everything he has because of such a stupid investment.

And this could be similar to this when we are too greedy about money and have no time to think if this is legit or a big scam.

There are times that even the veterans could get duped too, remember Jim Browning got scammed by a social engineering scheme that made him delete his YouTube channel. But yes, most of the time, it's the beginners that needs to be really careful because stupid stuff might happen.

They wouldn't trapped if they are not curious, and they wouldn't curious if they know money can't easily earned with way like that. Some people although not all who trapped into something like that, usually want to be rich in a short and easy way, not only scammers like that, usually they joined ponzi site and don't think what risk behind it. Risk that they can run with all of their money.

Thats why we should not grab any giveaway like this. Those greed people never stop tricking other specially they are targeting those new in crypto. Some would lure you at the beginning but once you bite on their bat that will produce scammmmm.

There are lazy people who continue believing that luck may come and change their lives, instead of doing

good research they will take part in anything that will allow them to win or earned, ponzi is another

type of scam where many people fall from sweet and alluring promises from scam developers.

There have been several threads warning against this scam of a thing and how on earth will you believe such, even airdrops that involve me paying or transferring some amount I run from such don't even read it twice. So sorry for this person

The main target is the newbie. by taking advantage of their lack of knowledge and experience, the scammers make a profit. Usually the most common mode is to ask to transfer a certain number of coins with a certain nominal so that the airdrop can be claimed or withdrawn. luckily I didn't have enough money to claim, so I was able to avoid such scams. after that i started to learn a lot of things, nothing is really free, it has to be some effort or luck.

^ I remember before when I was actively looking for the project ICO that has an airdrop and yes, they are very profitable and I believe that there is money on the internet. But now, that is all are gone, you can't earn even a single penny in airdrop and most of them are just only pure scams or getting your KYC documents. Scammers are everywhere we should keep our eye on our BTC holding, when there is something free that offer online, just look at it and verify what it is.

Those are only the days where that 2017 golden year of ICO's on where airdrops does have significant value for most of them but now only 1% i could say that do really ending up on getting some value.

It would vary on the potential of the project and we know that most of them are just trash or pure garbage or scam.When you do gain sufficient knowledge and experience to this market then

you do at least be already aware on how things been working.You should be careful and be sensitive enough on dealings that do happen in the net because scams are just on the corner.

Let's all try to stay safe and be cautious, it will be so bad raising funds to invest and after buying your precious bitcoin you in turn give it to scammers for free, there shouldn't be a need of doubling bitcoin, just buy and hodl for a while surely good profit will be made, but going in search of bitcoin doubling surely will bring no good but leading to the hands of scammers, remember anything which is too good to be true is a scam.

well scammers exists in every industry and they are part of our life since the beginning of the life but i think crypto currency ecosystem is gold mine for them ,  there are too many ways to steal money here , and too many greed in it . So i don't want goverments to involve this ecosystem then we have only one solution left which is community should fight this . I double check everything when i m making a transaction but still it is possible to get scammed so we really have to fight with this together .

Not so safe if you store it in an online wallet because attacks on online wallets are pretty prevalent so I don't like or advice storing wallets online. I like your splitting though, helps that you don't lose all your funds all at ones although the downside is that it's inconvenient.

Same thing with me. I usually do not stick to just one wallet only. Diversification is necessary. I spread it across multiple Trust Wallet, Metamask, MEW, Exodus, etc., and even my Ledger Nano S. Putting all of our eggs in one basket is such a bad idea to be honest when it comes to asset storage.

Please Give me 1 btc bc1qskp2hhaflujt4teqmnnzazjwllr04sg95vxw00 I am not a fraud, but I cannot even earn that much money in my entire life, because I am an idiot and mentally retarded.

Valuable things like Bitcoin, ETH, or any other altcoin with stable value in the market will be difficult to give away for free easily. Scams happen always, and we need to be vigilant. The best way is to wirelessly them. I have been scammed for money and I am aware of the pain of losing the money I have.
I don't believe in free stuff from this market other than bonuses and airdrops. New projects are hard to value and often undervalued, so social media helps people spread the word. Get rewards from specific jobs that can offer low returns but zero risks.

There are many schemes like this on the web; even on youtube, there are fake events from influential entrepreneurs promising that they will give double the amount of BTC sent to them. These newbies should know that these billionaires have no time for this kind of event, and they don't give things for free. Also, it would be better if youtube regulate this. Schemes like this are very obvious; it should never go on people's suggestion space.

You can't always identify scams for sure unless they do something fraudulent. However, if you are a little alert, then most of the time you will understand which project is shady and likely to scam.

Most of the time scam projects will DM you first. they offer you various lucky things via email, telegram, and so on.
Most of the time e-scam projects come with cheap tempting offers. Samples of these offers indicate that the project is fraudulent.
They will ask you to transfer money quickly, they will not give you a chance to think. They will say time is running out and they will put pressure, again and again, to pay within 10 minutes or 20 minutes.
Scam projects can often ask you to reveal your personal secrets, such as your password, date of birth, etc.
Scam projects duplicate their profiles and never reveal the real face.

Most of the time greedy people are the victims. We need a little caution to keep ourselves safe from these scams.

I have been contacted by hackers claiming I need to reset my password for coinbase and paypal.
The emails that have official logos and headers and are very well crafted but I have been scammed before and I am very cautious when an email claims I need to reset a password.
Not everyone does it but always double check the authenticity of the email sender and confirm it's legitimate. 

I also often get the same message. sometimes, the link they insert is a phishing link to find out the type of email and your password. I've even been hit by a scam like that the first time I entered the cryptocurrency world.
however, there are many ways to discourage investors. even they sometimes do anything to make potential investors believe. some of the things they do are send some bitcoins, or tokens into their own wallets and show them to the public to make people believe.

most of them are new people and the rest are greedy people who are tempted by the promised gifts. I think there will always be people like that one after another. we have to be realistic about any kind of scam as it is very impressionable people who don't think realistically want huge profits.

I'll consider making this donation, maybe...


Youtube, lol it's the best way for promoters to promote scams are yet to come and youtube doesn't have a policy that prevents future scams from being happening and websites like Bitconnect are using people to promote their Ponzi schemes and people in my local town promoted a Ponzi scheme to me and I laughed internally without uttering a word and never met that person again, It's more like Subconscious pushing me to get into it that pisses me off.

Having no enough experience is one of the reasons on why there are still people who do really fall out with these kind of scams.It might really be that very basic or obvious but If you don't know

on how these scam works then you would likely get victimized this is why double checking any sources or just simply telling to yourself if you had done such action or not then that would tell that
theres something fishy is something happening behind.

Greed is ingrained in human behavior, leading many to believe that there is no such thing as free money. It's actually quite straightforward. There is no such thing as easy money. Even with airdrops, you must put some work into filling out the ERC-20 address and other information. You will be safe from such scams once you are aware of this.

It's right! Greed and ignorance leads people to fall into these groups of scammers.
They always act with promises of offering great profit margins to your Bitcoin.
They also act announcing Giveaway on behalf of Elon Musk, the Tyler twins and Cameron Winklevos. Many times I find them on Twitter and reports them as spam with content with malicious links.

We have to talk about this over and over again so that people are educated, in the Crypto space you always have to learn every day and on our part we can provide knowledge to the newbies.

Fraudsters are stealing money from people in various ways through various social media. They are stealing money by showing big temptations. Especially many times they have been seen to be the biggest in the world He hacked the profiles of trusted people and took the money by showing temptation.It is always better to keep yourself away from these people.

To be precisely through the whole internet space, not only social media as its medium. Whenever those malicious individuals see theres chances to take advantage of the vulnerability they would not hesitate to take an action in order to make their own pocket wealthy enough. That's why people are supposed to be aware when dealing with strangers on the internet particularly if they offering you something too good to be true.

Why would you participate in a giveaway? I mean, if you already have a large number of bitcoins, why do you want more in giveaways? And engaging in such an activity without first conducting research to see whether they will actually give away free bitcoins at this time when the value of BTC is extremely high. I don't get it?

Sorry for the language, but I think it's idiotic to transfer bitcoins to someone you don't know and have no way of knowing if they'll give bitcoins.

The more we are wanting to make money easily, the more we are getting close to the get scam. If not today, it might be tomorrow. These scammers will take advantage of our weaknesses and if we are not aware or too blind to see what is really a scam game, someday we also become a victim.
That is why, when it comes to investing in Bitcoin we should be careful enough. Nothing could be able to protect our funds but just ourselves than ti rely on others as we might not know that they are scammers.

Yeaah you are absolutely right people must be aware of all these scammers specially for newbies because they are new in this platform they don't much have any idea of all these scammer or you can say frauds. So be aware 🙏

yep, they are very stupid cause transfer their bitcoins to other people whose reputation is not clear, their greed for "get rich quick" makes their money stolen.  i'm sure there are still many out there who believe in fake bitcoin giveaways, the information they get is very little.

When I was new in crypto I can't deny that I also fall into this kind of scam, but eventually, I get matured because I made sure I learn from my mistakes. It's really important to gain enough knowledge before investing in crypto, familiarize how the market works, and always ensure that you would not go aggressive with the amount you risk, start small as that's the right fund management when new in an investment platform.

Scammers are swindling bitcoins from the common man by deceiving them in various ways. In fact, they are various businessmen in disguise He is copying the celebrity's account and taking dollars in the name of giving profit. It is always better to keep yourself away from these fraudsters.

Amazing ! A newbie can easily judge that its only scam. These all scamers are spreading this kind if message all over tge social media. Even they post this kind of message in youtube comments.
I am astonish why people believe on these spams and lose their money

Nowadays it is very easy to create fake accounts from popular celebrities, making fake videos and photos is also increasingly difficult to distinguish, this makes us always have to be aware that there are many scams, let alone many malicious programs from various sites and emails so we have to store bitcoin in special computer or laptop.

I don’t trust the machine. I’m used to write it in my notebook and find a safe place for him, or write it directly in my head. My memory is still good. Because I don’t have many bitcoins, Hackers or malicious programs are not interested in this little asset of mine.

Not until all the people become educated about those possible scam and how they operate still there will be a victim because sometime those people that had just first heard the strategy can be easily victims.
not that because they are greed but because they are lack of education in which the main target of the scammers .
they are luring people like them into trap because how can they accumulate money from us who knows their way?
let your friends and family learn this problem so eventually all the people in the world will be educated and scammers will die starving.

Thanks for warning! I haven't come across such scams yet, I saw different fake projects that claim that they are well-known projects so you can invest, but they were just fakes, so we should be very careful and use links only from reliable sources. Usually it is so difficult to understand if it is a scam or not, even deep research of project can't guarantee the security, so don't use money that you can't afford to lose.

1.16 Bitcoin ? this is another stupid person to act feeding scammers.

this is ok happening to some small noob about small amount but 1.16 bitcoin means this person is not new into this world and yet believes in scams give away.

Feel sorry for him but i think he deserve this mistake to take seriously and never to fall again.

Always keep in mind there's nothing free in this world, if its too good to be true then doubt it. Scammer level up their way of scamming people by creating fake websites/accounts and click-baiting people with promising rewards. So don't be fooled by the trap they've created. Thank you for sharing awareness on things like this. It is highly appreciated.

Scammers are everywhere so be careful with your investment, password and some link or even fake websites. Scammers are very professional too. It is very important to check and research before doing an investment in crypto world.

Scammers hacked even the Twitter accounts of prominent people like Elon Musk and tried to scam people. And there was some people who believed that it was really Elon Musk. However, they lost their money after figuring out that it was just a scammer. People should never believe someone who says such thing like he/she will make a cryptocurrency giveaway. Nobody would like to give that amount of crypto for free.

Scammers are very good at hacking famous people's accounts, and using them to deceive other people. So always be careful with tempting
and unreasonable offers from anyone. Usually the method of multiplying Bitcoin is a scam, because it takes hard work to be able to make a profit
from Bitcoin. If anyone is offering a huge profit in a very short time, he or she is probably a scammer. Actually the fault of many people who are
deceived, because they are too greedy to make an instant profit. Control of our greed is very effective in enabling us to think logically and ultimately
avoid becoming a victim of fraud.

There are some scammers in market who offers you best and make you greedy then they tell you to give your Bitcoin to us we will sell it and earn more profit then it gives and if you give them your Bitcoin or account they cheat your money and Bitcoin or account. Be secure and not share you Bitcoin to anyone share it only with trusted traders.

It's not about the absurdity of the manner through which these people are scammed actually. Scams like these are like the Nigerian Prince scam that had riddled our email addresses for a couple of years now, they basically cater the gullible and the internet noobies that are still not aware and accustomed to the culture the internet runs in. Therefore, even if for a regular person this sounds absurd and outright scammy, for these gullible people, this is basically their ticket to getting rich. Best solution for this? Information campaign, and doing your own research.That's why we have to always be vigilant every time we interact with cryptocurrency-related activities in mind. If something's too good to be true, it probably is. So might as well shrug it off and get on with the rest of your day, otherwise you may just risk yourself falling for another scam that could cost you all your holdings in the process, and I don't know about you, but I don't want anyone besides me getting their dirty hands on my hard-earned cryptocurrency holdings.

Not really that necessary on going into that extent because there would be still noobs who do fall out of scam due to greed and neglection on reading up on news and updates towards these particular events that should be avoided.

Also, reading up alone or making out some research would really be sufficient if you do really mind that you shouldnt really get scammed or waste up your hard earned money.

On just using up your own common sense then you could really avoid things and everything that do looks to good to be true then you should avoid it on the first place.

My unpopular opinion is that curiosity other than greed might have been the reason why some folks would respond to these giveaways. But like it has been said, "Curiosity killed the cat". Sometimes they know it’s probably too good to be true and they’ll probably lose some cash but they’ll go ahead and try it after all just to satisfy their curiosity.

Can you believe that the guy who hacked the Twitter account of Elon Musk was just 17-years old (Graham Ivan Clark)? It's a crazy world where we are living. Kids nowadays are really getting in to coding and all that stuff at a very early age and they are able to hack giant social media platforms. But it is sad to see at least some of them using their skills for the wrong purpose. Despite his skills, the guy mentioned here would not be able to find a good job (due to his criminal record), and it will make him further vulnerable to connections with the criminal underworld. Otherwise he could have landed himself with a good job, paying millions of USD per year.

I was once scammed which took all my bitcoins and my altcoins, all of it was gone. i remember i was devastated when that happened which led me to quit using this website for a while. but here I am again tryna make some coins on campaigns just like the old days. the only difference is that i have more knowledge to prevent myself from being scammed again.

That's sad.

But it's not too late to accumulate and be more careful this time that you should be aware of these scammers are just out there waiting to victimized anyone.

how did that happen to you? someone told you to withdraw all your BTC and altcoins. how can you believe it?
it is sad, hopefully, it will be an experience for you and all of us.
but how do those scammers get you to withdraw your assets for them?
I'm curious about this. if you like, you can share it here for a lesson for me, as well as others.

All identities can be faked. scammers can do anything. but the signs that can be recognized that a scammer is stalking you is that they send a message first by offering some investment and pretending to be a victim of an exchange with the funds on hold. some of the phishing programs that they spread can also be via email or several phishing websites that use sponsors. should be more vigilant, do not give the private key easily.

one thing that makes me applaud you is that you are back in crypto after that gloomy past...

almost all crypto players that exist today must have been cheated at least once but some of them have really left crypto but some have stayed. with the experience you have, hopefully you won't be scammed again 'lol'

Not only bigginers but also the experienced people can also get scammed. The main reason of being getting scammed is that people are greedy and they need quick money without doing any hard work.
To get quickly rich you will be tempted to join these fake giveaways.

Well can you say how you can point out a scammer? How you can understand that this person is scammer or not. Though today i didn’t explain by tricky i will simply explain you something if you understand that thing i hope you may keep your money safe. First of all just thing why someone give you money? Look everyone needs money and money is a things what didn't come easily. We have to work hard to get it. So just think why a person give you soo much money in just under sometime. Is it possible will you give someone from your pocket. Your answer will be no? So why you should trust other who says he will give you double in 1 hour or 1 day if you send him btc. Stop if you see this typr of ad. No matter who is the person he could be world richest person but before doing anything wait and watch the scenario. If you keep your self stop then you are always safe. Greediness kill us always.

Greed is always the main reason even experienced ones would really be having this kind of problem.The difference here is that most of them are aware on possible actions to be made later on.
Whenever you do get scammed then this would really be adding up on your experience but do always mind that there would be always new modus or ways on where these scammers
do really lure on people to make or deposit money and this is where self common sense will be the key on saving up your own ass on possible scams that you could encounter.

I have learnt from other people mistakes to scammers. Many bitcoin users are still finding it difficult to identify scammer in the community. Scammer sometime they art like helper in the community to scammer some beginners in the forum. They always demand for someone personal details which is the access for them to have way to your bitcoin which you must avoid such people that always demand for your personal details.
If you truly  study their fake promises very well, you will discover that the person is a scammer not a true helper. They are easy to identify in the community, if only you are use to the community day and night.