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Never trust anyone who says you won something. Don't connect your wallet to the fake pancake swap or any other shady  website. Only use the contract address straight from the real  website, yes,  Never store your seed phrases in your phone. Turn off dapps, make sure you disconnect your wallet from pancake swap after you are done using it. Never sell or send coins that just show up in your wallet. Never trust airdrops, Never give out your seed phrases, even to family, just put it in your will incase you die. Never tell people what is in your wallet, you may become a person the hackers and scammers focus on. Never trust anyone online, including any of the advice I am giving you. Turn on transaction signing and password.

In short, remain a lowkey person. Before I'm too proud to tell almost everything but as the year passes by. I'm the one who starts to become quiet with my progress. It's a very prouding moment when you're telling your achievements to others but it'll eventually make you think if you really have to. And before, I'm also a person that keeps important details on my phone like the seed phrase but I've learned that it's a crazy idea. It's still better to do it traditionally through writing and keeping it on a safer place.

I'm thinking with these advise you are listing you want to share an experience with users to make the advise really teaching to readers.



I don't believe this, I think there are people or person you can tell but the most important thing is not to expose your passphrase because even hackers can't have access to it if you don't disclose important feature or clue to your password. The advice therefore should be to be careful with not exposing of your password.

Well, you have to set privacy for your own account and password, because that is the only way you become responsible on your own accounts. Exposing them is always a big NO as it only brings danger in the later part. And do trust yourself more than you trust others. Since in this world of uncertainties, there is no one who can trust but only yourself. Be more responsible on the things you can't afford to lose.

That is likewise my point that exposing of the password is what is very wrong to do because is one step to getting your account hacked. If you don't expose your account then it will be difficult to someone you told to do anything partainng to hacking your account. If you go online and expose your email address password you have exposed yourself to danger that you don't know the effect, that is hacking so to me, if you tell ut to someone is less risky than exposing your password.

Would be just common sense that you would be mindful in terms of security of your coins since its money or does have value then it would really be just normal that you would really be minding
and do all sorts of things for those coins to be safe.Some people do really end up on being that too paranoid when it comes to security which i couldnt really blame off.Storing your keys on
the cloud is just suicide.Nothing beats on having that airgapped rather than on other means of storage which is too easy to exploit on.

There’s no valid reason to give your seed phrase to anyone, this is the first rule to protect your wallet and seriously, you should know your activities and you can’t just win without doing anything, so track your activities.

You should only give your public address, and deal with the legit projects. If its too good to be true, avoid at all cost.

Last year, I posted about how some scam airdrop tokens were made to steal people's tokens (Beware of Airdrops that will drain tokens out of your address. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5350998.msg57538186#msg57538186)

Each passing day, new sophisticated scam come up and people must be extra vigilant. I personally don't see the value of airdrops except to scam people and make the shitcoin appear to have a high number of holders or trading volume if listed in an exchange.

Don't keep a huge amount of your coin on any exchange it looks like storing your luggages in a hotel while they got the keys to the room and feel that your belongings are safe. Same thing is applicable to cryptocurrency, exchanges feels safe but, anything can occur along the line and they will be nobody to meet for safety. If possible change the password to your wallet every week, that is if you feel cool about that. Secure your bank the way bankers do to the banking hall.

My advise as well is don't used your main wallet to any activity specially when it comes to swap sites in order to prevent hack.. Because connecting  your wallet in any swap site is very skeptical to be honest, wherein once you confirm the message to connect your wallet successfully it means your letting them to see your public address.

So be aware and always and dont used your main wallet to anything. Make a back up instead for such activities, i mean a new wallet that can be use in anything and no need to worry afer all.

All of you've mentioned, an airdrop is very prone to scams and it's vulnerable to hacking.
If you really wanted to be an airdrop hunter, just separate your main wallet from the wallet that you've used in chasing airdrop even though when you want to connect your wallet to the dapp or any swapping platform always use a dummy wallet which is you shouldn't use your main wallet.

Be vigilant always as my advice, we never know who are those around us and what's their motive to us.
Store your seed in a safe place and threaten your crypto asset as your valuable stuff and maybe you're safe.

Your suggestions are timely because there are so many types of cheaters on the market right now. If someone claims your secret privacy from you, you should avoid that person without hesitation. You will not be able to connect your accounts to any new site unnecessarily, as this can do you a lot of harm. So do not divulge your privacy to anyone.

Unfortunately, even with several advice, a newbie will always be a newbie. There will be a time when they need to experience painful situations before learning anything. With that experience, they will now finally avoid it in the future.

I salute those newbies who are using their common sense. They are being responsible despited being new to the whole idea of exploring everything about cryptocurrency.

You are right, but it will always be prevented. That's why I really admire those newbies who have basic knowledge on security or identifying scams online, even it is not crypto-related but their common sense is already there.

That's why for me, I will not accept a reason "sorry I'm just a newbie" at all because in the first place, "you know you are a newbie, why you did it?"

Good advice especially to newbies however I think those kind of things were basics and just like more of a "common sense" just like what other users said. In regards with airdrops yes there's a lot of scam in airdrops some projects will ask you to verify your identity through KY, some projects will ask you to send a small amount first like $1 to receive the airdrop (Imagine thousands of people sending $1) and lastly the random coins you will see on your wallet, don't ever go to those coin's website they are all scams.

Yea, just never trust anything in general. Especially when it comes to money. The only thing you're supposed to trust is in your judgment, and to do that, just do your own research. Always, check three times, and if you're still doubtful, check it again. The thing is, most people that get scammed are either pure carelessness or just simply because they are scared. Might be because of taking responsibility. Getting scammed really actually just gives them an excuse for their actions.

this would sound stupid if you have not joined anything yet you win? but if you literally joining some events then check those if you really won something.

this sounds like some service provider in cellular phone in which some scammers sending notice that you won something and needs your details.

always Save the site you tend to use , because this will also save your ass from scam or hack site.

Thank you for all advices mate, this is really a big help .

But do make sure your lawyer doesn't have direct access to your seed otherwise they can just sweep the funds for themselves and easily get away by feigning ignorance and "you must have had poor cybersecurity" card. If you're going with lawyer route, I think it's better to just put on clear instructions on where and how to retrieve the seed.

I agree, but this also raises that old question of how can we make it so that if the person dies, other family members can benefit from bitcoin left by the dead, this has become a very difficult task and without a safe solution until today


in my opinion the safest would be if there was a bank to hold the funds in case of the person's death the bank would contact the relatives

These aren't new advice actually. But everything gets fail when we can't control our greedy behavior. When you have been using social media means always you will receive random messages with phishing links. There would be many greedy offers, don't fall on that. There is no such money-making machine. And be careful one you are visiting adult sites. Most of the attacks coming from there. You can't multiply your fund over the night. And never store private keys or seeds on your device.

It is really tempting once some talk about money and especially when the mentioned x2, x3 and soon with your capital. Those who are greedy individuals will take the bait so easily. But later on, surprisingly regrets will come into their mouth saying they got scammed.

Being aware of this situation is very important but we couldn't think that these scammers and hackers will stop. No, they are getting smarter and they can still get a victim because not all of us were into the mind thinking that there is no easy money in real life.

Can you tell me how they will legitimately check to avoid getting scammed?

IMO, to avoid this, just stay away from hunting money on airdrop or any bounty-related, or maybe every fancy token project had if you don't know technically how to check it.  If you will always go with Bitcoin there's no problem with it.

If I were OP, never trust those who have ads on social media, most of them are scams.

I can trust it if I know the person and I know to my self that I participated on that contest. It only becomes unbelievable when some random message pop up and says you won something, no doubt that its just a scam. We shouldn't try to click on it even if we know that they are already a scam because worst things can happen to us.

If we want to be sure that we are on a correct site we should always check the url address and do not neglect the power of bookmark. It can come in handy. In this digital age, the technology have grown too much and so as the knowledge of the criminals. They have now formulated a new ways to scam or hack their victims.

I would like to add "don't click just anything". They are getting better. SMS, don't believe those. Even from known companies like Binance, you wouldn't know what it's in there. Better just take a look at their website if the promotion does exist.
What you have suggested are all the basics to keep anyone from being hacked, phised, or whatever scammers do for a living now. It should be the first things that should be learned by any newbie before they take their adventure into greater heights. I told all of this to my wife when she got hooked with NFT games. Never ever trust anyone, even an email from me for it could be someone else. Be 100% sure it is me.

I do agree with all things OP wrote except this one. Life is uncertain and we dont know when we will breath our last. Many bitcoins are lost just because there wallet owners die without giving key/seed or password to there next of kins. Even if you share things like key/seed or password to your next of kin make sure he/she can operate your wallet and use them.


Cant agree more. There are nobody in this world who will be happy with your success rather people felt jealous because of others success. Its best not to share what you have achieved.

You don't have to tell every story that's happening in your life including the successes and even your failures. People will be happy if you tell your failures and they won't be if you tell your successes. In the crypto market, the failures are even more chance to show than successes because it's going to require everybody a lot of time and patience to succeed. That's why it's also understandable when someone is happily sharing his journey. But as you voice out, you don't know who's really happy with your experience and who's not.

Caution is always a duty, caution is required when dealing with unknown sites, as well as beware of phishing sites that use Internet addresses that are very similar to the addresses of famous exchanges, and when you connect your wallet, you will lose everything. You keep a list of trusted sites in your favorites and also you should beware of Telegram channels because it is full of scammers who try to steal your private keys, the golden rule is not to give your private keys to anyone in this world no matter what.

Save your favorite links, double check everything once you are doing something and never click any link from unknown sources since they can corrupt your files and you might be on a bigger risk, especially if you download fake files. Connecting your wallet should be done on a legit site only, if in doubt better not to try or ask someone to confirm if its legit or not.

In this era in which people publish every single aspect of their lives on social media this is becoming more and more rare, but it has to be done, no one else needs to know about your success in the market of cryptocurrencies and how much money you have in your wallet, and the reason for this is simple, many people as soon as you mention that you are in this market may assume that you are rich, even if you are not, and if they talk about it with the wrong person you could find yourself in a difficult situation from which there is no escape, so with this in mind it is better to remain silent about our holdings as this is one of the most effective ways to keep them safe.

Luckily we do really have this forum or community on which you could really ask out some questions on some manner or situation you are dealing with which you could really get
real time or real experience kind of responses which could really be helpful on your part.In terms of security then you should make yourself a bit paranoid when it comes to that
which i dont see for it to be bad looking but rather its just right to have those kind of measures because we are talking some money on here.

Then, it is away better to spread the good news and awareness to the people we know in order for them not to fall into this. Because if we are just into the silence, then this forum isn't working as a source of information.
Actually, we are hoping that the others will give more concern in regards to their security and keeping aware of this thing must be taken seriously. Our action will result something bad , a nightmare if we are too careless enough and I think we all don't want this.

Most people who are members of bitcointalk already know this. However the general public has no idea. Basically crypto was out for over 10 years and yet people  are still getting their funds stolen.

Even people who buy a hardware wallet, they end up just giving their seed to someone else. Or people who still use text messages as 2fa. Or people who sell their bitcoins for some scam NFT or scam alt coin.

It happens everyday because before you get into crypto you need to look into security first. However most people care about the profits first and security later.

Yeah, you can be cool even you're not sharing all of the things that are happening to you. It's wise to remain silent with your success but it will eventually make noise.
As it makes a noise, it won't be you that will startle it but it will be the people that are witnessing your success. Cryptos are our wealth and it's the same that others are looking for especially on these times of hardship, you can be a target of them.

These are familiar advice and information for every newbie and everyone. We need to be resounding this advice everytime. But one thing is that upon all the advice that is available people still fall pray to scammers.
About to show off, there is no need to show off when you have it, it will only attract enemies to you.
When you talk about to put seed phrase in the will, it sounds simple but very difficult to implement. How will you include the seed phrase without letting the will personnel to see the seed phrase. And anyone that has your seed phrase now has your money.

It is very risky to visit sites not secured because your phone can be attacked by virus which will be the beginning of trouble. Some people care less about this kind of security and they sign up to just any site publishing job opportunity or how to make money gimmicks, this way they can be scammed because such kind site will require your details like email , phone numbers and other details of contact. As you said no money making machine anywhere, except to be hardworking with patience.

It is usually not easy, but I believe that if we are to follow the due process, we will all be able to avoid getting into nets that are being laid by these scammers and hackers. They will only be able to get you when you’re not very careful with how you keep info that has to do with your wallet, like emails and private key, or maybe you’re the greedy type that wants to get rich quick and you come online to be looking for such opportunities, when you could have patience and quietly build up your wealth.

There are people who don’t know what to keep secret; just like the poster has said, I have seen people that will be telling others that they are into crypto and how much they have in their wallet, which is quite funny to me because this is something that you’re not meant to be sharing with people.

I fully agree with that, try to be as cautious as possible when it comes to doing transactions online. After the crypto rally last year the number of scammers and hackers in the crypto world increased a lot. 2-3 years ago I didn't get any emails about cryptos and that I won something, or that I should accept a transfer of coins. Now, every 3rd or 4th email is either a fake Amazon invoice, or some crypto promotion which is not real. Even on discord I get approached atleast twice a month from a bot about new crypto deals or special casino promotions. Before accepting anything online these days, I make sure to tripple check the information. Clicking on one wrong link can already download malware in the background that will steal our data.

Those people simply don't mean why they are in crypto, and the risk of danger they will eventually face later on. As much as possible, we should always keep our privacy when it comes to money matters because there are scammers around who are only waiting for their victims to fall onto them. And we should always be responsible in the safety of our own wallets as exposure what's inside them will only give reasons to hackers to steal our assets.

What you shared here is home truth in its simple form. However, concerning a fake pancakeswap site, I think you should've shared that site url here so that other users can be aware of it. Anyway, let me take the liberty of putting out the genuine link here www.pancakeswap.finance

The genuine site has a warning against any phishing attempt. Yes, being cautious isn't a crime. At least, not yet. For me, I believe caution should be better observed by the subscribers more than the companies. If companies issue caveats on scam activities, then it's because they're genuinely seeking the safety of their users. This must not be joked with.

On reality people would only learn after they had experience unfortunate events which they should have done out some research on the time that they've been starting so that they wouldnt really be having that condition on where they do lose up money that much before they would really be doing some conservative movement because this market is really that unpredictable
and theres no way that you could able to handle it out on a short span of time which simply means that experience will really vary.

These words are indeed general and basic advice that we must know and hold and implement. What's more, this is indeed for everyone, not only for newbies but also for anyone.
There are actually lots of advice that we can get here, including sharing information and valuable experiences from other members to prevent us from making the same mistakes. Or make us avoid various scam activities and other acts of carelessness.

However, sometimes, advice is advice, we may be reading o it. But actually, it will never go very well. Sometimes, greed is higher than what we think and we can be trapped very easily because of greediness, panic, and also impatience.
That is why, reading and reminding us about he advances always will really help us to stay in line with what we are doing,

"Money loves silence." And this fully applies to the cryptocurrency market. So you should think carefully before talking about your successful deals and how many years it will take them to achieve the same result in real life. So modesty should save your deposit.

Crypto World as a new type of advance payment system which we can not control over. It is a big issue for world to make this industry smooth and very positive for all of us. Crypto market has been risky as scammers make new crypto on daily basis. So i think this industry is very risky and we should take good knowledge and understand all Canario before entering into this industry. World governments should make some guidelines that will keep scam away.

thanks a lot for the advice.
I think there are some things that need to be done, such as telling confidants or close family members because we all don't know when we will die, it's a shame if we close everything ourselves without anyone knowing, when we die suddenly the asset doesn't exist. 1 more person who can take it, very unfortunate in my opinion. Therefore, I think there must be one trusted person and the best is our own brother who knows everything about what we store.
other points very good advice. we do have to take care as best as possible to avoid bad things.

That's helpful but there are outside entities that aren't connected to the forum that's going to always try to scam people and we know that a lot of them are really good at scamming because we always see people falling for this scams. For me, the best advice is to be low key and don't talk too much about what you have outside of your crypto circle because you're going to end up getting mixed with bad people because you have a loose lips.

Yes we must have to tell someone because as you said one day we may be no more and if you don't disclose to someone, we just have our coins registering as lost coins. Likewise today it is already happening like we see some wallets having lots of btc that we suspect the owners not having access to them again. The people we can tell are those close that won't scam us like next of kin. Keeping coins only to ourselves is not the best. We can include the password in the will .

Right, I agree!
It's better to keep it if there's no need for you to tell everybody. Never broadcast your success to the people unwilling to hear your struggles and only wants to hear your success because they might get jealous of what you might tell them about your successes.
There are people that want you to go down and it's not related anymore to cryptocurrencies but personal life and all they want to see is for you to go down.

Don't let us show other people the coins we have, let alone we have a large number of coins. It only attracts the attention of scammers and hackers
to steal it from us, be careful scammers are not only in the online world. We also have to be careful of the people around us, my advice is only to tell
about the coins we have to people who we really believe. The fewer people who know where and how many coins I have, it's the best thing. Indeed,
apart from maintaining our privacy regarding the crypto coins we have, we also have to really pay attention to the storage of the coins we have.
Store our coins in a hardware wallet and for private keys, keep them in a safe place and not easy to find. This will prevent our coins from being stolen
by hackers.

Trying to keep silent about your success makes sense in an online world. There are too many beggars that will ask money from you and that is a very bothersome thing and I would understand people trying to avoid that.

I personally do not say how much I own even though I am not rich at all, I am literally poor but if you have 50 bucks then they will come in to ask for that as well, it's that bad. However, they are not the real trouble, the real trouble is the people who will try to hack you, if you have 50 bucks then you will probably not get hacked but at the end of the day there are some situations where you are going to get hackers if you have too much money and I mean like tens of thousands of dollars. Doesn't mean that they will hack you, but at the very least they will try and that is the scary part, if they manage to get it then it is even worse.

This is really a good advice for all of us .We need to keep everything secure .I always follow my tricks which is same as you mentioned and i never got hacked .So that i also suggest you to all to keep your seed phrase and privet key safe .The main thing where we fall into the trap its mostly click on the phishing site so ,we need to aware on this mostly .One more thing ,I just need to share that never share your privet key and also seed phrase to your close friends even with family .Your wallet is your asset so you have to keep it safe .Hope you will follow these suggestion to keep safe your wallet from hacker who are always ready to steal your asset .

yeah, I believe there is a way to keep secure of money, our wallet keys/password. It can be just easy but sometimes we got tricked with this malicious software, links containing malware, and accidentally click it. Well, I think a single mistake is enough to be more careful the next time, maybe in that way we can avoid getting hacked. It can really be skeptical as long as in our mind we keep thinking "Safety First" but if not, then we are prone to this.

There are already lots of people who have been hacked due to password and seed phrase leakage. This is a good reminder, especially to those who trust people easily even those who are telling us that we have won something though we knew in ourselves that we didn't join any promo. We should always be wise and skeptical before we click especially if it would affect our wallets with huge funds.

actually if we don't follow the promo and we get information that we won a prize, this feels strange and we must be suspicious, after that they will send a link in which we are encouraged to follow the instructions to get the prize. As long as we ignore it I don't think anything will happen, but sometimes someone gets curious and ends up trying

Sometimes we have to take risks and connect the wallet to unknown sites. But you should not risk the contents of your wallet, as it is very easy to lose what you have earned with hard work. In this case, it is necessary to use such wallets that are specially created for the test, having a zero balance.

do not be easily provoked by software that is promoted or offered to you via email or from anywhere before you check. Using unknown apps will only harm your device as well as your own wallet. Caution is not enough if you don't learn how to avoid it and how not to click on a link that contains malware.
Don't be so paranoid that you don't trust anyone. Being too paranoid will put mental pressure on yourself so that you look more careless and unfocused. Safety First and more calm in doing things will be better. every security there must be a loophole, but every loophole can be secured.

It has been said in this Forum repeatedly that In order to protect your wallet from scammers and hackers, you should be mindful for those you expose your password to. Even some family member and friends are not to be trusted. Not every link you should probably click. And also not saving your seed in your phone, is another important means of protecting your wallet. With the increase of cybercrime, out there is no longer that safe, we all have to be careful.

No reasonable person will disclose his/her seed phrase to anyone,  seed phrase is to be stored anywhere that is best and safe to the user which can be accessible. Normally anyone who is just new cryptocurrency and have wallet must understand how important a seed phrase   is and if it is not save in the proper place anyone can easily have access to it. It is good advice you are giving out ,  
some people have challenge on how to keep seed phrase in a safer place that can be reach anywhere.

Even in real life, you can just be silent as you are hitting your success. It's not all about the beggars when you're too talkative and generous in sharing your life's journey in investing in cryptocurrencies. But all about the danger that it might put you due to its monetary issue that can be seen in your success. Whether online or offline/real life, you owe yourself to remain silent as it can be a safety measure and protection from those stalkers that might have a bad plan to you.

I believe lot's of newbies fall for trusting people online, no matter what you are offering me, just know that I can never trust you, either we meet online or physically not only people you meet online can scam you, even people you meet offline can scam you, so you have to be very careful and also make sure you don't click on links you receive anyhow, don't inpute your wallet private key in anyhow application, also if you are visiting a website make sure you  double check the website and make sure you are visiting the original website.

Having to live in privacy is the best thing ever as you don't need to mind other people's business because you also have your own. Because problems will only start to arise if you let other people know that you have been successful in this field as they will start to envy and start looking for things so they can come close to you. And if you let that happen, your success may put you in danger as scammers will put you as their target and they won't stop hunting you as long as they will not be successful in their plans.

Its always to do your investing activities alone, and do your own research instead of trusting anyone because in this market, its hard to trust someone especially if its about money. I also have a friend who got victim of online scam, he trust the system without checking if its legit and that’s a costly mistake. I once got scam as well and I will never be fall on those trap again now that I know what to do.

Newbies will easily fall on the scammer's strategies as they have less knowledge on how to combat scammers and hackers. This is the reason why newbies should always come to the market prepared and should have acquire knowledge on how the market will be look like. And thus they should also be aware on the rampant activities of scammers so they will be able to protect their wallet and investments from stealing. In short, keep all their assets privately, away from the eyes of scammers.

Unfortunately this is just the way humans are, they look forward to what they can gain but they never think about what they could lose, and this is a huge mistake, because what we can earn in this market is just a potential while what we can lose already belonged to us, with this in mind it would make more sense for people to worry a lot more about all the ways in which they could lose their money and how to protect themselves instead of researching ways to earn money, but unfortunately this is not the case, and this is why we see people being scammed everyday in the forum.

The best thing to do is always to assume that everyone that comes in contact with you online is a scammer, even if the person is genuine. When you have the mindset that everyone is a scammer, you will be more careful about people and that is when you will likely avoid scam and be safe. People seen physical are less likely to scam you than people you see online

This industry is built around decentralization so every now and then we have to connect out wallets to dApp for accessibility to the platforms. Before web 3 became a trend we already have platforms that can only be access through us linking our wallet and now that web 3 has become a trend, more and more platforms will be using similar initiative. This means risk of connecting to malicious sites will be on the increase, we just have to be careful of sites we access and make sure they're gotten from the right source like project website or social platforms.

Having a separate wallet not just for testing purpose but for using the dApp platform will be the idea thing to do wallets that holds your personal funds shoudn't be linked as an exploit can develop in the future and cause harm. Opensea was one of the recent victim of this exploit, dApp aren't perfect yet so there are bond to be some flaws and we have to be cautious to avoid falling victims.

Greediness is what we called it and those who have that sense in mind thinking to make money as fast as possible, the more likely those who lose more. Definitely, they are prone to get scam and surely they will take the bait for they will think this is the answer to their ambitious belief. While for us who knows the sentiment of the market, will make no chance to get scammed but for those who are innocent and greedy people, ain't no doubt about it.

As a piece of advice, knows your investment so well. Nothing could save us but just ourselves.

It is the same for me too, and even now it hasn't totally gone. When there is a gathering with colleagues and other friends who are also crypto enthusiast, I boast them what I have achieve. At the I regret boasting and should've gone quite, some achievements should be kept on your own, for other not to look down on their selves and feel they are losers.

This is so helpful, thank you so much! Definitely gonna take all this into consideration

If you're in doubt, use a new wallet address for airdrops, use that new wallet address when selling coins that you've never seen before in your wallet, because there's nothing to lose when you do it that way, you might find a legit airdrop that could give you an easy money without risking your real wallet where you store all of your tokens.

In this world full of scammers, be someone that could outsmart them. Don't be afraid of them.

This is a very good and a strong advice. Many scammers are using Telegram as a means of getting people to scam, I also receive a message from an unknown contact claiming that he knows me in one Telegram group, he said that he wanted to introduce me to their platform so that I can gain crypro for free. Some of them will also clone exchange and claim they want to withdraw and they have reached their withdrawal limits, they will send you bitcoin and tell u to help them in selling them to take some percentage, pls let's be guided.

If possible you don't need to share with people what you have of course imagine having a lot of bitcoins and spreading out this for sure many people would like to get that from you like giving links just to get your information always take care no one is safe in the cyberspace. As possible become a low key person only. Just shows up your achievement but not your money. There are a lot of scammers everywhere just to get your funds.

My opinion is that a trader should bring more knowledge about how to ensure the security of his wallets than he would like to gain knowledge about the market before coming to trade in the market. Because no matter how much a trader is an expert in market research, if he has no knowledge about the security of his own trading account, wallet, then his achievements can easily be lost and fall into the trap of scammers. So your advice is important for a trader, because a wrong decision can be a scam for a trader after seeing a lucrative offer.

Why would anyone even share something like that? I end up writing them to paper and double check it and then delete it from my PC. Think about it for a second, I mean we are talking about not even putting it on my PC so that nobody could hack into my PC. This means I would not even consider a situation like sharing my phrases with someone or anything like that.

I literally do not let people into my PC for fixes via remote access or anything like that. That is the type of situation I am in and I can't consider any other type of person, sure you could have a bit less security but that doesn't involve sharing anything important with anyone.

Disclosing what you have in your portfolio and even the seed phrase that needs to be more secured is always a big NO in my part. That is just one way of putting yourself into danger and let scammers have their own target by exposing on the strangers or any random friends what you totally have. If we can live with more privacy, that will be better because that will keep us from any illegal attempts that scammers usually do.

I guess once you become a trader, you are already responsible on the security of your account or wallet. Otherwise, everything you put an effort to win your trades will just go to waste. So as much as possible, always secure your account by keeping it secret from the people around you. Except your family members because they can be trusted for sure. However, sharing or intending to brag what you achieve is never a good option. Chose to be a lowkey person and everything will be put in its right place.

There is no point that we brag in open place about our crypto hodling or achievement because the public is dangerous, you can be set up and either get robbed of your phone so they want to search it for your information.. Again it is better that we activate the code lock of your phone and the card incase of any robbery, the phone won't be easily unlocked, this is for security reason.

We you disclose your coins to the public, then you have made yourself a target and even your friends may be collaborators of the scammers that will come after you or disclose or point you to government (for countries that have ban bitcoin) It is wiser to be secretive about cryptocurrency because it is even an anonymous system.

Even if it becomes legal in all parts of the world, its always best to be secretive when it comes to crypto as other people may think that when we talk of crypto, its always associated with huge amount. So you might be a target later on by your friends or those scammers who want to take advantage of your investments. Also, disclosing all your success in life will not make you a better person, people will only think that you are just so boastful and you will be subject into envy or hatred.

All you have to do here is set your account and the password you want to keep confidential because this is the only way you will be responsible for your account when it comes to disclosing it.  Believe more than yourself Since there is no one you can trust in the world of uncertainty you just have to be more responsible for what you can't ask yourself

It's a very goading second while you're telling your accomplishments to other people yet it'll ultimately make you think assuming that you truly need to. The counsel accordingly ought to be to be cautious with not uncovering of your secret word. Since in this universe of vulnerabilities, there is nobody who can trust except for just yourself. Be more dependable on the things you can't stand to lose.

Well, there are some people who are fond of such thing, they always let people know how much they have and everything that they are into. They never keep quiet, they just make it obvious for everyone to know, and that automatically makes them a target for anyone who would have something in mind against.

Telling people how much you have in your crypto wallet is just as telling them how much that you have stored in your bank account which is very bad. Things like these are best to be kept secret and not revealed to anyone, except maybe your family that you can trust.

Even without being told, I would seriously question anyone telling me that I won something, because how do you win something when you didn’t even apply for it or involved in anything that would have led to you winning it? So, I wouldn’t believe such a thing.

Although some people are still not well advanced on what’s happening on the internet and the tactics that scammers are using to scam people might fall for it.

Most things are all about experience, you never really get to know until you experience one, unless you’re someone who is always curious and doing research to learn as much as possible, then you can learn from the experience of others and when you encounter such experience, you would know how to go about it.

As long as money is involved, that will instantly gain the attention of the crowd. Particularly for those scammers who are always looking for target so they can make money from it. So its always safe to remain a lowkey person and never boast to anyone about your achievements so as not to make people envy on you. Especially when it comes to crypto. Because that means a huge amount so if you share to everyone that you have that in your wallet, that will make your life not safe from the people around as they won't stop if they cannot steal what you have.

Envy is fine, the real trouble is to attract peoples hacking abilities. That has been my number one concern at all times. I mean my money is in safe places, but even with one hack to my PC and they could probably find out about where my money is and that would be horrible. Even if they can't take it out, they would be able to do the best they could to try and I would probably be notified of their attempts and that is as scary as it gets. I do not want to be at the helm of a hacking attempt, I rather stay away from it as long as possible. People who beg you for money would be easy to just ignore, you do not have to respond at all.

When creating a new crypto wallet, you are advised not to screenshot your private keys with your phone rather you should write them down and store them safely. It's only a fool that will not adhere to the instructions.
I do tell my friends that "before joining any online stuff'' make sure you know much about it before joining. Crypto is no longer safe as it used to before. Hackers are operating in different dimensions, finding whom to devour. A simple wallet connection can put your wallet address in danger.

There are in fact so much devices that are always stated here, many people also have said many advice so far about trust in the crypto industry, about investment, trading, risks, and other things. But in fact, there are still many people who are scammed, lost their money, regret so bad.
WHy?
Because sometimes, all advice are defeated by the willingness or desires of sweet money, moreover much money that may be got. So, some people may change their mind and not be willing to research again if the platform is a scam or legit, what they think is only the profits and money to take.
n the other hand, they may also think that the advice may not need for themselves because so far theya re not experincing by themselves.
Thta is why, never underestimateevery advice that is given, exery experince that is shared. They will be important for us tomake certain cosndierations.

Why would anyone even believe an email that says they won something, when they know for sure that they never even played any game of sort that would have possibly led to them being a winner of such?

Some people would know for sure that they didn’t participate in any activity that would have led to them winning money anywhere, but they would still be acting all greedy and would trust all those scammers that sends them the email.

I don’t pity people that falls for such a scam, seriously, what would make you fall for such easy scam?
It is only greediness that would lead to that. If you don’t want to be easily fooled, then you have to wise up and know when you’re being misled by scammers.

These words are at least common names along the way give basic advice that we must know and hold on to and implement more.  And we can get a lot of advice here, including sharing valuable experiences, or we can take our various programs this way.  Because we can easily get caught, reading and reminding us about everything will really help us to do what we have done.

You have a point cause we have a situation where some people got scammed out of greedy habits and thirsty for free manna of something they didn't participate in to come their way. But we also have some people who are victims of this bad actor out of inexperience and it is something that has happened to me during the early days of my crypto journey when I invested in a site that promised Roi after 3months which seems legit to me then cause I was investing my BTC.

Correct, but it is still unfortunate that this still keeps happening, after all I could understand if newbies kept falling for scams when this market was just developing, but after so much time there is a lot of evidence that a great deal of the new coins that we have in the market and that promote themselves as the next big thing are nothing but scams, and newbies instead of learning from our previous experiences and do their best to avoid being scammed they do the opposite and get scammed out of their money at an amazing speed.

It is good advice, I know some friends who have had their private keys hacked through their phone, and the viruses they launch see their temporary files and extract them there, the only thing I really recommend is that they make a layer for any wallet additional security 2FA, although it is somewhat tedious at times to use it, it is worth the effort to do it because it is money that is at stake, and our money cannot be left with weak security. And the other is, our QR code should also be saved on paper if possible, you never know if it could be lost and it could be worse, because if the phone is lost or something, it turns out to be very difficult to recover that code, it would take time. re-pass certain KYC items they may require.

Likely a dust attack.

It's revealing the owner of that wallet and much better to just ignore or transfer your holdings from there to another. It's common these days if you have ever published your wallet somewhere.

Do not be showy to the public.

Specially on these days of social media, it's likely the glory of other people to share almost everything in their lives.

There are many fake dex exchange website. That looks like the same real website. But it is not real one. So, be aware from these websites. When we open these types of website and connect our metamask wallet with this website they automatically get access to our wallet. So, the hackers can easily hack our wallet. These websites are very dangerous. So,  connect your metamask wallet with the real websites.

Its always a good thing to keep vigilant on everything that's happening in your wallet, what's going in and going out of that. Otherwise, you're late to recognize that you also fall as a victim. And that's the worst thing that we should always prevent or avoid to happen. However, being scammed or something that makes you a victim is sometimes hard to avoid, but if you have that presence of mind, more knowledgeable and have secured more your wallet, the chances for that to happen is very less. So always prioritize the safety of your wallet and investments.

I guess having us fall as victims either being scammed or what is something that we see here in crypto a natural thing. But that is only acceptable if we are still new in the market, but if we have been already here for years, then its already expected that we are amore vigilant and ware on how not to fall for them. How can you see yourself winning in game when you are not even playing it or have not tried playing it before? The thing that will make you mostly fall from scams is having that wrong attitude to be greedy or want shortcuts to be instantly rich. There's no shortcuts in trading, you should learn it the hard way.

You have a point but the long existence of cryptocurrency users or investors in the market cant be used to judge their capacity and understanding of an individual about the market cause it all depends on what the person devoted her time on not how long she's into cryptocurrency.
I am saying this base on some question which high ranking account member have asked before.

True, you have a valid point. Being an old member doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re going to know everything, it is all about what you have dedicated time, but someone who has been an old member is expected to know more than one that is just a newbie.

I do know people who are just only interested in Bitcoin because they are using it for transactions, they don’t go round the internet looking for investments to make. Such a person, if should develop interest for investments, would be lacking information in this area, and wouldn’t know what’s right for them to do and might even for a scam if they are not being careful.

All in all, I think we should all be careful of the type of information we drop online. You only become target when you’re always sharing information that you’re not supposed to share or inputting your information on the wrong sites.

If you are not sure about a particular site, it is best that you avoid it and not do anything with it, because these days your email and every other info (maybe wallet address etc). Can be used to trace and target you as long as they know that it is an active one. So, knowing what to keep secret is the best way to go.

I have never really experienced coins showing up in my wallet, but I have seen someone that talked about receiving coins out of nowhere.

I am the person who begins to turn out to be calm with my advancement. It's a very creating second while you're telling your accomplishments to other people however it'll ultimately make you think assuming you truly need to. The exhortation hence ought to be to be cautious with not uncovering of your secret word. Be more capable on the things you can't stand to lose.