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Can you share this experience?

If you say yes, what the project was it? Why did you believe in this project?

No, I wasn't. There are two things at the very center of every classic Ponzi scheme: an investment with (allegedly) a remarkably high return, and a story about just why the extraordinary returns can be so easily achieved. When any time of investment promises a guaranteed compounded monthly return, you can pretty much guarantee you are in trouble. So before you invest make research about the product and the company — do they seem reputable? Do they have history of success? Are they truly who they say they are?

Here are several signs you might be in a scheme:

1. You never receive any real collateral for your investment in crypto currency, just a promise that you will earn money back.

2. The guaranteed return of your investment is too good to be true.

3. You’re told a complicated yet convincing reason about why the returns are so strong.

I do not invest in any other coin than Bitcoin. I think only those people should consider alt coins who have more than $1000 to invest per month. I can just save about $500 per month for this and I think bitcoin is best. I also do not have much time left after job to track the prices of alt coins.

I've been scammed by a lot of airdrops and bounties in here. So much effort wasted. I really hope more mods get to notice scam bounties and airdrops.

You gotta be careful and look into projects for real. Many scammers out there keep it safe buddy.

Normally, is hard to find someone who have been into the bitcoin world for a long time who have not been scammed, the reason seems to be usually the same, the lack of knowledge or information or just because the project fail, looks at mtgox....


I can't remember the name, i forget it faster :P, anyway was only a small amount of bitcoins that i could afford to lose :P

Yes I will support this point as a acceptable answer, I also can't remember the scammer person and projects name! I also forget it because we are want to going ahead. but yes I also loss some huge amount of btc in my life via scam projects and scammers.

If you consider the number of programs on this forum and do a cursory survey, it won't be difficult to see that many programs are scams and the promises they make are not kept. It is clear that many programs like the 'hydro project' which was thrown into the thrash by the manager is a show that the project is out to rip people of their hard earned money, time and efforts. Some ditch their participants after being there for them only to give a flimsy excuse for why they wouldn't have you on their programme, like DETHER.  All these are ways many projects have fared badly. MIROCANA is another project to be flagged for non-compliance of original programme promises. They tell you they reserve the right to change their promises. Nobody should take any such programmes serious. They are a stench and will eventually have problems because avarice and dishonesty runs deep in their veins.
The LydiaCoin project is having issues all over the place with the Chahalal guy personally asking me to send money to his private address. All these rogues give the Crypto world a bad and undeserving name. 

I am on the forum for two years already and I was scammed here by several signature campaigns, which didn't pay. With Bitcoin payments there wasn't a problem, but payments in tokens or other coins came on my wallet not every time, to say more, only two times from 5-6.

 :)No I was not !! The ffirst things happening or the scammers are we can not guaranteed any collateral for our investment in a cryptocurrency.just a promise that we will earn a lot of money and a cash back in a real but diffinately nothing .second ,a guaranteed return about your investment is too good to be true .and thirdly is you should not believed in such a situation as you are in a complicated yet convincing of people to make a reason about it and why people need to ho back to a strong human implacare .an investment with a remarkable high is a story about what extraordinary returns are really just a fear for.when is the time to invest promise in guarantee compounded every month of return you are really the most pretty much guarantee to your problems so before all when you invest who should make a research about and a company that makes the same reputation all make a successful history of success and everything should be true of what they say.I have one word too.

oh that is a shame

So far I haven't been scammed as I never invested in MLM coins, however at early stages, I lost in trading which is quite common if you are new in trading. Now I am really comfortable with crypto trading :)

it is great you found your way

I was never deceived, I invested the crypto currency in various start-up organizations

it is nice to hear!

No i have not been scammed till now by the grace of Allmighty and there is alot of scam going on internet and i assume that i'll be save forever 😁

Yes i've been scammed when i join in Bitcoinbuilder i deposit $100 in my first 2 days i earned $35 i withraw first $5 and in the second day i withraw again $10 and after that on the third day i try to withraw but the site is gone already so i lose my $85 that site is a scam..i never join in any bitcoin site rightnow. i only join in a bounty program and bitcoin forum.

OMG you need to be very careful

Thing is, people need to start asking themselves one simple question "Is it too good to be true"?

No one is giving out free money and due to a variety of reasons a lot of new crypto "traders" are chasing fast money and are very prone to get rich quick schemes.

Fortunately for me, I haven't been scammed. There are two reasons that I think of. First, is because I am still a newbie who doesn't have that much of a bitcoin. Second, I don't have bitcoin investment that may've been scammed. Since I am just a student, I don't have a source of money that I can invest. So currently, I am joining campaigns to earn some bitcoins.

for the project so far I have not found a scam. but I ever received a scam in bitcoin faucet, I tried withdraw but until 2 weeks, never happened withdraw. until now I will never trust again on bitcoin faucet. I believe more in bounty campaign.

I haven't been scammed too but then, that's probably the main reason why I didn't believe in bitcoins at first. The thought of 'scamming' made me had doubts on using bitcoins and campaigns like signature but I'm hoping it won't happen.

The psychology behind this is too complicated, despite the fact that there is too many red flags around certain programs, people do invest in them and tend to defend those programs aggressively like it's their owns, which is really weird.

I belive a lot of people didn't trust bitcoin. they still thought

Well scammers are always there, all you need to do is to make sure that you avoid those scammers, don't join in any bounty that you think is scam and don't also invest to those project that you think is not good in the future to avoid those scammers.

Yes once, but not here. I still don't experience scammers here but I'm aware about it and I'm hoping I won't. I'm fond of online buying and selling. One time, I bought a bit expensive card and I waited for the day to received it but it was not shipped. I contacted the supplier but she didn't respond. Then goes a month and I asked for it, and she said she will give back my refund but it doesn't happen. That moment, I realized I was scammed. As a response, we should always be careful who we have transactions and be aware of fraud.

It always pays to check the background of something in order for you not to experience scam. Luckily I never experience being scam. I always have trust issues with it comes to something unknown that appears from nothing. Because I always check, read and review or ask feedbacks from the members. For me strong evidence counts. In Bitcoin I already proven that this is not a scam. And I have a lot of friends who proves that.

Yes I was scammed but not in the crypto world. Here I participate or invest in projects after some good research.

Yes got scammed after reading a white paper that said "Virtually free transaction fees" and then the miners
put the fees up as high as $55 last month and the other part of the scam is they made out they were against
banker and then tried to introduce something called the lightning network so I read the white paper and
discovered it was full of these things they kept calling hubs but they charge both tx fees and interest on BTC
using to finance the private ledgers and change interest on the movement of your own money, much like banks do
anyway.

What the saying , fool me once shame on you, fool me twice ?

Some great points right there and I completely agree with you. It is obvious that there are a plethora of ponzi schemes trying to rob people of their money in the crypto market and it is easy to fall for such scams if you are not careful. Personally, I know many people who fell for such scams and lost lot of money in the process.

The recent bitconnect fiasco was one of the worst scams which literally stole thousands of dollars from their investors which is seriously insane. I know that such a scheme was not sustainable in the long run what is why I warned people that this scheme could collapse at any moment.

At first I am scammed by someone who does not trusted , thats the first time ive been experiencing it. Its about my first time to work with bitcoin and iI was be able to trust everyone but its not good that way we need to research every companies we want to working with and thats the lesson I've learned that i dont to happened again.

Ive never expercience to scam but ive always keeping my self aware on those malicious people whom trying to steal my money and of course i believe on this thats why i keep posting of my answers to the questions.

No, I am fortunate enough to be a person that is pessimistic on unknown projects. I dont throw my money into random projects, I do my research and I am very cautious when I invest. There is enough money to be made without all these risky investments IMO. Most people that are scammed are reckless with their private keys or passwords, or just give people money thinking they will be getting double the money back... As the CEO of Binance already said in a tweet: That is not how it works.

I have been scammed by a cloudmining company.  At first it was paying but then after sometimes they stopped paying people and eventually shutdown.  I have experienced this several times (lol I never learned)  but then after several failed investment in cloudmining, I finally decided that it is not really worth to invest.  Aside from that, I have been scammed by HYIP company disguised as MLM company. 

Well those were my early days into crypto and bitcoin. I bought very small amount of bitcoin and also earned some from a site that used to pay in bitcoin for posting.
And someone introduced me to a site called HashOcean, which was an online mining site where one has to buy hash power and then earn some profit.
So I bought some, it was very low so I bought more and then when I was just about to reach my payout limit... boom the site was no more. They ran away with everything.
So yeah, that was my scam story in the crypto world. Lessen learnt, said NO to online mining forever. And also have been quite careful about these offers and crypto investment opportunities.

Personally I have been in scammed for almost twice in online businesses or networking in a simple term well I am one of its victims because I'm a really business minded person so that's the reason why. But here in digital currency, I haven't been scam and I'm glad that to all of risks that I take, this one is the right thing I've done so far on my searching of a profitable business.

I have never been scammed yes because in crypto world I am lucky enough to have a friend who guide me so I dont experienced been scammed, sorry to those people who been scammed. Be wise next time.

Actually i haven't (i hope it won't happen to me). Because my habbit are:

- i always clear cache my browser
- Never setup un known add on or software
- i put a password in the folder where i put the wallet

I have never experienced being scammed because im a novice and continue posting so i can join the campaign and i hope i can not experience being scammed if i decided to invest in bitcoin soon.

I wish you good luck!

Yeah, got scammed even though I thought it couldn't happen to me, being (usually) quite thorough with my research. However, had a friend recommend me confido after the ico had ended. Wasn't aware it was even going on at the time. Normally, I'd have a look at the team first. Usually it's a dead giveaway on whether the project has chances to succeed. Didn't look this time and it would have been glaringly obvious that it was a scam since all the profiles were fake and could've been deduced easily. Put in 2 eth I think. Wake up next morning to a 70% or something drop. I instantly knew what had happened. Hasn't happened since.

I have never been scammed but my friend has been. That was the first project my friend was involved in. My friend made the signature campaign and the project was promoted on facebook. My friend has not checked information about the project. Most of the investors and staff are very new and nobody knows about them.
My friend was scammed for not checking information about the project's human resources. I hope you will not make the same mistake as my friend.

There was no deceit, everything was conscientious and led only to a positive final outcome

There is no scarcity of conmen and scamsters here in the world of Bitcoins. I myself have been scammed multiple times in the past. On one occasion, I lost more than half of all my Bitcoins. But now I don't think about those losses. I believe in the principle "Let bygones be bygones"....

once I was victimized by scammers. Then I trusted him. I think it's okay to talk to him but not. He took all my money and I did not access him because I was blocked from all his accounts. So Lesson Learned "Do not trust people who are kind to you at the beginning" they just make you fool. It is better if we first trust someone we need to know it completely. Do not trust it immediately if it's a good thing, we know it's a fake persons habit.

Once i got scammed by etherdelta. The Ethereum Network was total overloaded. So i set the Gas price very high to transfer some tokens. I send the transaction because i want to sell fast. For a reason i dont know, the transaction failed. So i lost like 0.012ethereum or 12 dollar for transaction that didnt happen. That was the only time i got scammed. Since those days i dont use etherdelta anymore. And you see in the last days they got huge problems and scammed a lot of people.

not scammed by project but by someone. well at first i know bitcoin there is a trend if someone can get profit from dice site and sell the bet set. and i am interested to buy because i  only think about win. but the trick is not work and i learn in gambling what we need is luck

Nope. I wasn't. I believe you should be wise to notice when something is wrong. When the reward is too good to be true or the reward is very high or can be achieved very easily, that may be a sign that it is a scam. No good things come easy. You should always work hard.

thank you for sharing this information. i hope it will help someone not to be scammed by etherdelta

Last year I sent 1 bitcoin to a fake bitcoin mixer site on the Tor network and lost it. They made good SEO that at that time, when you search bitcoin mixer keyword on google, their site is at the first place.

i get scammed twice on bitcoin and get scammed twice on bounty

the two of bitcoin scam are from some site called "cloud mining " but that just like hyip site
and the two of bounty are from signature , the name of bounty is "C" and "Bitroad"

Definitely Yes. Investing money with a rate of interest of 130%. I was catch up by high interest rate and at the end after I withdraw all my money it absolutely shouldnt send on my digital wallet. Until it was technically scammed and fraud by the company.

I think most people who are into crypto have been scammed at least once in their crypto time. It's also a good lesson, so that next time you will know what to avoid when dealing with people or doing transactions. I have scammed before when I first learned about crypto last 2013. I tried to invest all my funds in a bitcoin investment before and ended up getting nothing from it. From then on, I am very careful when investing or doing any transactions.

Yes, I do. Bitconnect scammed me because of their lending program. I thought this coin have a potential knowing that its in the market but I guess I was wrong.

 yes i was,

 i have been scammed on the networking sites that you clicking only and you will receive 4x payout than your invest money.
 but suddenly they do not pay outing.

Lessons learned, and by reading all the stories, we can know other possible forms of fraud so that in the future we can be more vigilant.

Yes I have been scammed by a bounty campaign I've joined and waited for the announcement of the distribution but never heard since then. And the campaign manager assigned was gone for good too.

No, I never get stuck because I am just now involved in the Bitcoin forum, but I could not make any investment here or I could not earn any bitcoin on the forum side, so I'm away from being scared, but if you can earn

No,but i know that this bitcoin investment are secured and i dont know that it may also create scam.

Once yes, by investing in a bot that looked more promising than the others... I lost very little, but the lesson was learned. It's a cruel world where there are more bad people than good people... You have to be very careful

So far i was never being scammed by anyone relating to btc or projects based on bitcoins.But today  i happened to get an sms related to btc on my mobile .But i did not try risking myself by opening the link that was send along in the message as i have heard few things related to the scam that has already started attaching mobile phone and things are getting hacked including the wallets were being hacked so i never open any links which come as text on my mobile as i don't wish to put myself at risk.

Yes. when i was a beginner i got scam by an investment website. My friend introduce me the investment website, he tells me that i can earn profit without doing nothing just to invest and wait for a weeks or days to get profit. After a weeks the investment website is shutdown and not accesible.

No till now i didn't got scammed. May be its because i use to first go through the entire ann thread and the website of the project before joining. And if the information of the project is not given then i usually don't join them.

Unfortunately yes, I have been scammed in so many ways through couple of times and it really gave me a lot of disappointments and even thought of life as unfair. I have thought that life has been too playful that I even lost my earnings because of those scams. However, the good thing about it is that I've learned from it. I've learned to be careful next time specially if it involves money.

it's been countless how often to get scam
from web mining, bounty
cheats sale coin
donation airdrop
even bounty also been hit
most often web mining and web invest the most often scam

yes, I believe to some extend it happens to everyone. There are many different kind of fraud attempt, especially rising with internet presence, but no need to get frustrated over it, just be careful :)

I have never been scammed as i try to caution and careful when transacting online...

Don't believe anyone still anything clearly!

Its good to hear that you also learned from you past experiences. I also got scam before here, There is antime where I joined in a signature bounty campaign after almost 3 months of afvertising their coins the manager of the campaign leave us and didnt give the rewards for us. Not only there but also in investment I thought that it was only $200 to earn but as the time passed by they have more payment that need to be done and until now I didnt get any return from it.

Fortunately, I haven't. But I don't let my guard down. Scammers are everywhere. They might be popular on the real world but now, they are also here trying to take advantage of users. So try to learn more about something you are dealing with to avoid this kind of unfortunate events. People will try and try to take advantage of you. It will always be a matter of knowledge and familiarization here to survive. And also, well, even though I haven't been scammed, I know that some scammers will not try to hurt you or take something from you, the most common is you will not get something in return to a scam campaign. You will only lose time and effort.

Many times I've experienced a scam not just one but many times that I really care about when I'm going to campaign because there's a scam in the campaign when you're upset then you're not going to get paid. and of course the investment needs to be careful because you invest in an investment site.

haff... I was naive to invest in some projects, first project I invested by failure I did not pay attention that it was another coin different from the coin I wanted and to make worse the situation the dev disappeared and the coin fell 100% of its value that I bought , resulting in total loss of my money

i invest in another alt, this time the dev was banned from yobit chat because he was promoting his altcoin. you already know how yobit moderator is strict. the coin was deslited from yobit and fell to 1 satoshi, I bought when the coin had the price of 450 satoshi was a big disappointment... I bought many coins in yobit and I had many disappointments, if I were to comment my disappointments I think it would occupy more than 10 pages... hahahaha



I will not speak the name of the coins



Dude, when you're a newbie, you believe in a lot of empty promises.

Well, I never get scam yet on my own investment but I got plenty scammed on bounties who says they paid big in stake. So lesson learned, never a victim again.

Well, I haven't. How? Don't invest in something which is so good to be true. There are lot of ways to track a scam but then, we usually get blinded for expecting high profit. But, as an investor, we need to be wise enough. Think a lot of times before making a decision, but if you really have the courage to lose, you may take the risk, sometimes, those things that has higher risk has higher comeback of profit. So, be wise!

To be honest yes I scammed in a cloud mining site. I believed in this kind of platform to earn bitcoin because its really paying at first when you invest, but in a couple of days or weeks after I reached the minimum withdrawal I request a payment for the 3rd time pay out but sad to say its forever pending in the site til the site shutdown and I'll never get my withdrawal and my investment.

Luckily not yet.

I think so. There was a website a few years ago. It was "cointellect". They claimed they were in cloud mining business. I got some payments but one day they stopped to pay and closed their website. I still do not know what they did. As I remember I did not lose money but I had some coin which was unpaid.

I experienced scamming in faucet sites. Before, I will spent the whole night doing faucet, clicking what is required and doing what is asked just to get coins just to reach the minimum withdrawal amount requirement. And when the minimum amount is reached there will be additional requirement before I can withdraw which is often buying something from the site to continue earning free coins. You see, I started with 0 BTC balance and I am doing faucet sites because I wanted to earn bitcoin at that time. Only it turn out that I wasted my time for nothing. Life really is cruel but I believe that there is something good and best to those who persevere.

Yes, I've been scammed by some airdrops. And one was 1katoshi site. Which you can earn free Satoshi and they didn't give my 60k satoshi earnings. Please stay away with that site it is scam.

If you think that the promise to pay an aidrops is a fraud, then this is far from the case.
Not all aidrops pay their promised coins, but only 2 out of 10.
Especially do not need to trust those who ask donates for the transfer of coins. They will never send you anything. So be careful!

yes, it was awful but i learned from it, half ass due diligence will lead you dip with those scammers.

I am also the same as you experience, I often get a scam project. I also often get projects from scam airdrop so I stop following the airdrop project.
without joining the airdrop I still earn money from bounty campaign, so I think airdrop removed from this forum is also not a problem.

I wish I wont suffer the same fate as you. It's really sad to waste your time and effort to promote such projects without pay. Though, i'm just on my second campaign and I hope it will be successful and pays us when it ends.

Fortunately for me, no but I’ve heard lots of stories of people being scammed.

Actually I don't experience scam because there's a friend that guide me so that I can explore without scam. Almost of the users here have been scammed they all say because of airdrops. There's a user here that been scammed on satoshi and they didn't give the 60k of the user so they guide us or tell us to stay away on that site.

Until now, i have never been scammed because if i want to doing transaction with other people, i will use escrow service or check the person profile first

Luckily, I have never been scammed for my entire existence here,. I hope I will not experience that in the near future. I must be very careful and vigilant all the time.

I think I am fortunate enough because I've never been scammed. It's a good thing because if ever it will happen to me, I maybe don't know what to do..

Same here. I have not been scammed since I am a newbie in this community. It is also my first time to join in a campaign and it is not finish yet and I believe it is not a scammed simply because the project is great and the campaign manager is trustworthy. I am confident that I will be paid for my effort on this campaign, because surely the campaign will be a success.

getting scammed is one the most dreadful ish in this biz,i mean u go through stress working your ass off and get nothing?thats some crazy ish mhn.the thing is sometimes you might not even know that the ish you working on is a total scam,you keep your fingers crossed and high hopes thinking it'll come in any way.one way i check my work this time is to see if that ICO has ever been up and how well thay did

So far I didn't experienced to be scammed which I did is to secure all my credentials in my safe place. Also as I observed here in the cyberworld, scammers are rampant in their bad doings which they do their best to scammed those people who doing their job seriously. Hopefully it will never happen to me because in some point there is still possibility to be scammed even how secure our credentials. All we need to do is to stay observant and attentive since we work here to earn and those scammers are waiting a right timing to have a victim.

Yes before ive been scammed and sadly she is one of my friend who scammed me. It is like referral system you need to invite someone under your table for you to earn too but sadly i didnt get back what I invest before.

Scammers are everywhere,some ICO campaign to sell their coin and after which  the investors are lift with no update of what they have bought and sadly enough you can not trace them because all information on social media and website will be deleted.

I had been scammed once that's why I am not into investing. The trauma I get by scamming the money I earned manually through faucets and mining were scammed by a Nigerian that offers binary trading in some website that he recommended onto me in facebook.

Fortunately I haven't been scammed ever since then. And it's just sad to hear stories like that when people get scammed by those who use the name of bitcoin for scamming. I've heard stories about that. That's why let's always be careful. Study well, invest smart so less people could be victimized by these scammers.

Yes in this website forums there is lots of scam, for example scam project like i joined bounty campaign few months ago because im not actually into it that time i have no idea that project is a scammed and i waste my time by joining that project its probably 6 weeks are wasted and never received any payment from them and those participant are complaining that they did not also received payments from that project. the main reason why we did not get paid because the ico failed so the project ended up as scammed. 

Once or twice in my early crypto days when I tested cloud mining waters. Since then, I only go for proof of stake coins, DMD Diamond is my favorite, by far.

No because im too secure of myself and i dont do transaction in a person that i dont know his/her identity because my money will be scammed if i dont think smart and my money will be turn to waste dont negotiate in any person you dont know who he or she is because maybe that peeson is a scammer and your money is his/her target to scammed be careful always and think smart.

from the day i joined here at our forum, I didn't experience yet this scam, because I didn't want to join in bounty and airdrops at that time, I only participating in Services Sections that pays only bitcoin every week, and now I decided to start joining/participate in bounty and airdrop to earn more tokens/coins. I just started 2nd week of January with this signature I have, hoping not to got scammed because I don't know the feeling of being scammed at first time doing things in a long run campaign.

Yes, I was! Before it was in some ponzi scheme, I put an investment then they run. Then here, some bounty after it's done, I haven't heard any updates and some changes the rule in time of the distribution. Effort and time were really wasted though there are still a lot of good bounty.

When i was a newbie, i get scammed a lot of times because all i know with bitcoin is to just invest it into different HYIPs or High Yield Investing Programs and also depend on the people that i am really thinking that they are good at something and follow their promotions but it all ended in negative profits so i already learned my lesson and i know what to do now.

I have been scammed once and it only happened because I received and e-mail that seemed legit.
It was an ICO which I really wanted to participate to, but, I missed the sale, and it ended quickly, the next day I got an e-mail saying that I get a second chance. Instead of a second chance I got screwed! :(

Never buy coins of your ICOs from an e-mail notification. Always go straight to the official website and do it from there.
I learnt my lesson!

Sure I have, and I'm sure anyone with over 100 online transactions during their lifetime has been scammed at one point or another. Luckily I haven't lost that much money though, but it has made me really change the way I do business online for sure.

Scams on the Internet come in many forms,I could be phishing attempts, email hoaxes, or online selling and a lot more.But I've never been experienced so far to be scammed.

I once attended the project, and the project failed. Though at the beginning of sales smoothly, but do not know why at the end of failure.but I don't despair, because not Fortune me. there are still another project is to give a gift that much.

When i just learned about Bitcoin earnings before, the first Bitcoin twist that i joined is investing thru Ethtrade.org site in which they use the Bitcoin platform that we will just deposit our Bitcoin to their account and wait then earned as much as 25% per month interest but later on it is too late to be found out that they are a Ponzi scheme and run our Bitcoin losing almost $4,000 btc in the process. After that i never joined investment again in which i focus on bounties and trading. Then by this experience, i start to support the regulation in order to prevent these scam ICO.

I didn't experience those kind of thing because i never join at any investment because i am too scared about that and i want a sure money if i do invest like buying lot or gold.

I do trading but investment are not because at trading, you can see on how where are you going and you can control if you got loss too much or get profit in just a single day or time.

I see that almost all investing site was scam and i know that almost 80% of the site was scam because they say that the time was longer but it is only to invite your friend to get more money or maybe they paid you for just a first time then they want to try if you just add what you get too large your money but it is only your thought because they run your money.

I've never experience in scam because im never experience in invest or trade to anyone else. I hope someday when the time comes i trade to anyone else there is somebody help me on how to prevent in scam.

Nope I think because if the safety that I always do everytime and everywhere I go

Ive been in scammed project and it makes me really sad, I guess it was 4 campaigns, I forgot the rest but there is one makes me wanna freak out, and thats Symmetry fund. 13000 Eth was stole , that supposed to be name after the workers who have sacrificed so much time just to comply with the required post every week, Ive got nothing but regret , for posting it. The project was very successful.

Yes, recently I have taken part in a signature campaign and later at the time of rewards, the company got vanished from the seen. No replies even for emails.

Actually yes a lot of scams lately i dont know why i always joined a campaign that was just a scam. I trusted them because they are popular they reached their gard cap in just weeks but after months i dont even know that the campaign already ends because i was busy back them and when i check the project i cant find the spreadsheet and when i asked in the telegram they said that it was been deleted and why dp they need to delete it? They just scam all the bounty participants.

Actually, this is my first time in a bounty campaign. But, my friends told me that they had an experience wherein the project(forgot it) they are in is a scam. They were totally monster that time. I hope my first time won't be like that. GodBless btc.

As of now I never been scammed.This is my first time that I joined cryptocurrencies.Before  I joined any kinds of business specially  in internet I'll study for how many times that I join or not.

yes,it is wcx,it is the firsttime i invest,no exprience

You must know then, bitcoins are not scam but there exists some people who are working on this phase to create vulnerabilities and voids so that people leave this coin. They are trying to make a bad impact on general public for bitcoins and their intentions lead them to scam people with bitcoins’ name. But the team is working hard, and we hope bitcoins never lose their secureness.

On the contrary on my situation, I haven’t been scammed since I enter this bitcoin world. Everyone needs to be enlighten and have an understanding in order for us not to experience being scammed. And I also that hope eveyone will not be scam anymore.

How angry I become when I got scammed by some cheap person won't let me talk about it

Yes, many times that I experienced scam.  More of us now are victims of scam, why in this world more people not contented of their lives,  they want to get what others own.  More peoe are greedy,  they go scam to others. 

So far, I have not been cheated, because I only participated in one signature activity (ongoing). I have great confidence in this choice.

No.. I hope it'll not happen to me. I'll read more tips on how to identify scammer and how to avoid it.

As of now I never experienced to have been scammed but when in terms about a massive fud with strong evidence to spread all over the community its a yes. I felt cheated so I sold all my tokens for assurance and the price drastically went down though other investors are still waiting for the so called "novel explanation" from the devs about why everything turned that way because its a good project so everything is hoping and waiting that they're not trying to make an exit.

Never got scammed , becuase I don't trust anyoone , even myself , so it is impossible to scam me.

Unfortunately, yes. I lost some money on a Mining Site which disappeared in the middle of the night. That experience actually made me reconsider joining Mining Sites again, I know not all sites are the same but I still don't have the courage to try again.
I prefer just buying good coins and holding them for now. 

I have never been scammed. Because I always think what will happe  if I do this kind of thing. And I always think safety first

Nope because I always think the best way to prevent scammers to scam my accounts and coins. I always put muself into safety

I hope it will not happen because I really did my efforts here to gain money. I will keep reading the backgrounds of the campaigns and learning things about what they produce to prevent scams. Knowing is the best tips not to be scam and prevent regrets.

I've been scammed several times a project, I need not mention one single name of the project, even though the project team is very good and has reached Hardcap, but back again, it means not my luck

I was very thankful that I haven't encountered being scammed. Although, for me, experiencing such thing could be a great way to teach us. But then, it turns out that I am greatful that some people would post such things to express and spread awareness from scams.

NO, I HAVE NEVER BEEN SCAMMED BEFORE AND I WOULDN'T EVEN WANT TO BE SCAMMED OR TO EXPERIENCE IT

Nope, because I've been more over cautious and i do not entertain it. I've been over protecting myself from that. I just don't want to get scammed.

No, because I'm always really careful with my data and the websites I visit. I always check the url when I visit MyEtherWallet for example.

 A lot of times I was scammed:(
Bad thing but i believe in karma:P

As of now, i dont experience any scamming yet because i didnt make any transactions yet and the bounty campaign that i joined was my first bounty campaign since i join the forum. So i hope that my first transaction was not a scam and i trust our manager.

You are lucky to not experience how to get scam and i think that you have a really good mentor or you have a good way of learning, it is either of those two but in the end, i will still suggest you to help other people to not experience scam and also to give them the idea of how to avoid scam and how to find the right way throughout success.

I have not been fooled once in the cryptocurrency market because I am very careful in my transactions. Every time I trade I usually choose large trade pages to trade. When transferring and loading crypto I usually check very carefully to avoid errors. Be careful not to get lost in this market, which is something you should do.

Isn't that exactly what he's saying?
If everybody remains critical on ico or scam threads and posts their real thoughts, a lot of people will be helped.

yes i have been scamed by ico coin. just one

during the project they claim after the end the ico, their coin will list on bittrex, poloniex, bithumb, etc.

Unfortunately, they deleted they team when the ico this is very suspicious, well after i check they team, i know this project was scam.
but i invest to this project early.. i lost around 1000 usd on btc.

after that i learned how to investigate the scam ico and the legit ico. this experience make me to study alot  about cryptocurrency.

i don't call this scam bro, in as much as you did not invest in their project and you did not lost money.
you where simply tricked not scammed it two different thing

Yes,  I was scammed so many times there's a lot of airdrops and bounties that are fake and using it for scammi g accounts. So make sure to read and always be resourceful in the sites that you are entering and the forms that you are signing up.

No I wasn't ever scammed because I am too clever to be fooled.

of course) here a couple of months ago - BitConnect, knew that everything is not easy, but so spontaneously closed

This forum is full of scammers, i cant believe it.
Someone wanted to sell debit cards so i mailed him and he gave me a link with malware, firefox warned me and i closed it.
After that he also confessed that he wants to scam! Here are his emails: https://prnt.sc/ihg2r5
Be aware of him! I think his thread got deleted, cant find it anymore.

As soon as the minister said “I now pronounce you Husband and Wife”

Don't make the classic smart person's mistake thinking no one's smarter than you. - Carl Van Loon

I was scammed by many airdrops and bounties here wasting much effort.

Yes, i have been scammed in past, but wasn't by a full project, it was more direct by users.

After be in casinos for long time is normal to meet lot of people, some people looks realy nice online, at the point when they ask you for loans and you think you can trust them. But is easy for them to hit and run, then come back with a new name.

I has been scammed other way, by casinos for example when they block my balance because they say i was doing something out of the rules, maybe it wasn't a full scam, but for me feels that way.

At end is hard to not get scammed, because we are under an economy/hackers ambient. and all of we just want to get more bitcoins  :P

Yes. But not in the bitcoin because I am just new in this. I have been scammed in games, lots of games and lots of money.

Yes, iv'e been scammed alot these past few years because i became stupid and didn't background check it before  invested on it.

They will scam you if you don't get out of this community still.

Yes, on request of my friend, I invested in ponzi scheme gainbitcoin. MCAP token is a scam.

I invested money in website development
And later I was deceived by the company

They said that if i invest in them 600$ and waited for 16 days my money will be doubled so 1200$ i was excited about it, but after 16 days they did not respond and i can't call the phone #.

They doesnt have the so-called conscience, I guess the best thing to do to avoid this kind of circumstance is to have some reviews of what they are offering. With this,  we could assure that we are investing our money in trusted once.

Fortunately not yet already. Even before i got into cryptocurrencies, i never have experienced of being scammed because i am very skeptical on things that is not on my reach and i do not trust anyone much.

I was fooled at work. I lost my job after that. My friend, who I trust, cheated on me at work, I did something wrong and resulted in loss of property to the company I was working for. I never forget that memory.

In long 5 Years I was scammed once but I forgot the name of project as well ;p

Oh that is shame =(

Yes, before when I paid for a membership registration of an MLM company and the person did not register my account with the company. I just let it went off and learned the lesson.

I joint an ico months ago via a friend, he helps me to do the invest since there is no official link for investing. He's my former college, and finally he took much more than we agreed.

Yes, here, some airdrops or some translation that after few days was scam.

Oh that is bad

Yes I did when I took a project for data entry in exchange for 3 Bitcoins which I never got paid

oh what a shame!

Deceived two times in HAIPs for advertising and investing money buying cars

Until that time, I was not deceived. But this situation can happen to everyone. Therefore, you need to carefully study the projects, and if in doubt, it is better not to spend time and money on it.

I don't agree that it can happen to anyone. You should be careful!

I was fooled while I was in school, my friend invited me to invest in securities, then I did not know what the stock was, but heard the sweet introduction of my friend I invested in them, and finally I lost my capital.

Yes but its 20 pesos only :D .

some bounty after it's done, I haven't heard any updates and some changes the rule in time of the distribution

that is money too =)

Luckily I have not been scammed so far.

I hope you will never be scammed!

scammed a few times. brought a ebook but was not delivered.

I have been scammed once......just recently.  :-\

Took mine and the wifes life savings and put it into BTC last year after one of my clients and I had a serious talk about BTC and where it was headed.
So...after a few weeks of trading I'm not really making a lot of money.

So I start looking around to buy mining rigs....Bitmain orders are like backed up heavily....and it wont let me order from the site directly.
Soo I check on Facebook and sure enough I found a guy called LaserEdge3d who is selling these. I msg him and he sends me prices and stuff.
I msg the people that are following him and they seem happy with their purchases...so I think hes legit.....

After talking it over with the wife, we decide to take the plunge and buy it......0.54 BTC! Fully half of our life savings.....this was like August last year so order only goes out end of November.
So i chatted with the guy a few times via Facebook and email until mid November when suddenly the Facebook user page no longer exists!  :o

I suddenly start getting very nervous and contact Bitmain directly with all the details and order numbers I was given. They take up to two weeks to respond to every email. They come back with some crap about my order not being paid....I replied and said no...I've paid...here is my proof(sent BTC transaction records from my exchange and from BTC itself)

I email this guy a few more times to try get my money back and emails are going back and forth to Bitmain but basically it boiled down to I paid this guy and NOT Bitmain as he placed an order with them but only paid a tiny portion......so this douchebag has run off with my money and I cant get it back.  >:(  >:(

And Bitmain refused to give me any of this wankers details cos of "client confidentiality" even though I begged them and they acknowledged it was a scam!

Yes , so many times. I've been scammed in online transaction buying some stuffs but they did not deliver item after i gave the payment. Also scammed in Online Investment company. I cant withdraw my funds and suddenly the site was closed

ooops!

be careful!

In whatever we do,we grow gradually..You cant get all experience in a day....It takes time as you move along gradually..Ive been scammed before.Ive invested in quite a number of project that turned out to be a scam.I was a noob and a newbie in those days..i was easily moved and enthused by suc things until i sat to learn..they made me strong though.

is there anyway to regconize the scammers ?

Yes, for a Nintendo game when I was a kid. Might had been scammed, but it was a good life lesson.

Even legit taps for BTC is area unit half-witted anyway, they exist to create cash for the owner

Yes, a few times. Usually my skepticism keeps me getting scammed to a minimum, but it probably has caused me to miss some good opportunities as well.

I once invested and the results obtained are very disappointing because there is elimination of ETH

I was still a teenager when it happened, It was an online game. A player promised to give me in-game gold, in exchange I need to buy a prepaid card and give him the prepaid card numbers. So I did, next thing that happened was, he logged out. I was shocked and didn't know how to react next LOL. Lesson learned since then :p

Yes,  I've been scammed my many times, I can't even remember number of times I've been scammed, and is through the online business, before I know it I've lost some amount of money

I have never been fooled. I am always bright when deciding something. Even in love. I detect and stop immediately when there are signs of deception. so that now that I'm alone

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Yep! Familiar in Future-Bank? they scam all of users who invest for them I don't know how much they scam but I guess its plenty of btc and eth..

Yes, but shame was on me, I just wanted to make cool investment with fast return

Join the Crypto market I've been cheated many times. But now I'm not easily cheated. I'm very careful.

Yes but it happened in real life (

Yes I was scammed when I wanted to do my first ICO. It was a terrible experience but I have learn better how to protect my self.

Many times, especially at the times when I am desperately looking for work.

Once. The work from home projects where you have to pay to get the work.

Unfortunately, I've invested in PlexCoin and it was a total scam

Based on my experience, I’ve singled out several criteria which speak for a serious ICO, which is to be successful. These are:
   1. White Paper of good quality: a well-structured document with all the necessary information given in a comprehensible way.
   2. Professional team: people with rich experience whose short bio I can read on the website and in the WP.
   3. Social media: if the project has accounts in the most popular social media, where decent content is posted, be sure – the team is really into it. The existence of Telegram chat with active discussions of the project is a must.
   4. The aim: ICO should have a real-life issue to tackle; otherwise, nobody will get interested.

As of now I havent been scammed and hopefully will not get scammed.I joined few bounty campaign and hopefully its not a scam or else I just wasted my time and effort to do the task they given but if those campaign I joined are scam then its a lesson for me to be learned.Well there are lots of scammers here the only way not to be fooled by them is do some background research first before joining in.

I was fooled a lot on the Crypto market. But do not know who the same. And I'm also drawing experience.

I was scammed off an NES game when I was a kid, and later on a Super Nintendo game, (different times/people). Though it really sucked to lose my games, over all it's a good lesson that just because someone is a friend of yours, it doesn't mean that they are a good person.

Yes i was invested in double coins because i thought my btc will be doubled and it happens that i was scammed. Yes the site was secured and i thought it was real because there are lots of details that they have said the site was legit but it was not.

Actually, I am not scammed yet and I don't want to be scammed. I am afraid of scammers. I do some research before I joined any trading, selling,buying or gambling sites.

I've been scammed by a lot of airdrops and bounties in here. I really hope more mods get to notice scam.

Many times, you can not trust people

I am on the forum for 1 years already and I was scammed here by several signature campaigns, which didn't pay.

no. if I am in hokey then I will be more careful :)

I have been scammed by fake airdrops, bounties and ICOs but it is all fun because the experiences has shaped me in the cryptocurrency market

I was scammed few times and it was very strange feelings ::)
Good experience!

I've never been scammed.. but during my entry into the cryptocurrency, my ignorance made me to lose some assets

Yeah, i scammed in my early days in the business. ICOs especially

Don’t remember if I have been scammed ever. But I don’t want to experience that.

Many times, I was doing business with someone, buying and selling of cryptocurrency, I have not met the person before, but we do call and chat, when I sent him the cash the last time, he did not send the crypto, very huge amount

No. Never been scammed. I am smart enough to know the scam.

No. I very carefully choose projects in which I invest

I was scammed in a just ended bounty campaign I was doing.

Yes, by a watch company. It said by the watch for free and pay delivery charge.

yes, but if for the project in this forum has never, because it has never followed it

For those that were scammed by Airdrop/Bounty programs, who were the ICO's? Did you contact them? Did they just ignore your messages to them?

Iya saya pernah ditipu karena beli hp d online

Have you ever been scammed?
I was never fooled about bitcoin, because I am a beginner and hopefully safer in the future.

I sensed I can learn so much from this post. I've lost some money too, it seems traditional for all crypto investors to lose money to some scam projects which looks good on the surface.

I have enjoyed reading so many comments by leaders in the business.

Yes, by a watch company. It said by the watch for free and pay delivery charge.

Yes, I have been scammed lately by some HYIP and Lending company called Bitconnect.

I have been cheated by others because they have caught two fish

Yes, a few times. Usually my skepticism keeps me getting scammed to a minimum, but it probably has caused me to miss some good opportunities as well.

I was scammed off an NES game when I was a kid, and later on a Super Nintendo game, (different times/people). Though it really sucked to lose my games, over all it's a good lesson that just because someone is a friend of yours, it doesn't mean that they are a good person.

In whatever we do,we grow gradually..You cant get all experience in a day....It takes time as you move along gradually..Ive been scammed before.Ive invested in quite a number of project that turned out to be a scam.I was a noob and a newbie in those days..i was easily moved and enthused by suc things until i sat to learn..they made me strong though.

Don’t really know if I was scammed ever. I  never go that route where I am not sure.

I don’t think I was scammed ever or I am to naive to realise that maybe.

Yes, sit at home and earn by clicking on the ads is a scam and I was scammed.

I was deceived. Acquaintance with cryptography began with the cranes for collecting satosh. On some I collected large sums and did not pay. It was insulting.

I do MMO, being cheated by other people is a frequent occurrence in the work.

I was tricked by my ex because he caught two hands

I am often cheated to lend money to me, but they do not want to pay for it anymore.

Yes I have but through MMORPG in game money

I have never been scammed and I wish not to be scammed, that is why am always trying to be careful with my activities.

I've been cheated so many times in the past, as there are so many scams today and there are still so many fools on such occasions. There are many people today who are taking precautions to prevent hacker attacks but can not.

I've been scammed one time on csgo site.I lost 100$ because of my credulity

yup i have scammed a lot of time by joining airdrops.

yes, it was awful but i learned from it, half ass due diligence will lead you dip with those scammers.

Come over to Nigeria and see whether you won't get scammed in two weeks. Scams aren't limited to ponzis or dealings with huge cash. It can come in any form

Yeah, I was scammed a few years ago. I lent a friend some money and I never saw it again. Anyway, that's a good "friend-check".

ever. at that time there was a friend who borrowed money, he promised to pay 3 weeks later. but when I want the debt he did not exist exist. and until now not yet paid.

Yeah, when I was younger and just started working. Hard to explain, because one would need to relate, basically a customer led me to believe that a correct amount was inside something, but it just didn't feel right. But rather than be rude because they teach you that the customer is always right, I let go my feeling. Personally it was a great lesson of follow what you feel is right.

I was scammed in December 2017. It was the time when bitcoin transactions didn't confirm for 3 weeks or more and commission was huge. One guy on forum told he can help me with that, and scammed me by creating a double-spend transaction :-[

ever. that time I bought the goods in the online shop. but the goods are not up to the demand and examples of goods  :'(

I've been scammed once
but in an MMORPG RF Online (Rising Force)
since then I never got scam again
I learned a lot from that experience

Yes I was once in the trick when I bought goods online, the incident I experienced 2 months ago so be careful when you buy goods online

yes i was once scammed with my debit card on online shopping mall here in Nigeria

I haven't but I did see how a scam affects a whole country's belief in ICO and cryptocurrency. Now, stricter laws on cryptocurrency have been enacted and I have to say, it's not good for our community :(

I've been cheated so many times in the past as well as the present, there are so many scams to get the property of another, and I'm the fool.

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crestoneum.
I feel cheated with the project  :'(

I have been once in an investment company wherein i lost everything that i had invested.

Yes I was cheated. At that time I was a Playstation rental businessman, someone rented it and then he disappeared somewhere. And that is the result of my efforts in business, but just disappear. We have to be careful with new people, that's my advice

not in cryptocurrency term, but i enjoyed people's experience!

I have never being scammed , and i'm trying to keep this statistics.

Once, I often cheated people when asking for borrow money but when we collect delay to pay it and over time to forget not to pay again.

I've been cheated so many times, and now I'm being deceived by others, maybe my trust has always led to the loss of investment and money.

  So much effort wasted.  You gotta be careful and look into projects for real. Many scammers out there keep it safe buddy.

I have not been scammed but once escaped being scammed nearly a close escape it was

Actually not fraud, but hacked. And my coin disappeared

I never, because I do not know anything about the contents of this forum.

If you have never been scammed then you have not been investing, you have not been trying to get rich. I have been scammed quite a few times  but I'm wiser now

I  invested into a few scam coins and abandoned projects. I am much wiser now and know how to spot scam coins.

I have never been fooled before, and to date, I have been cheated no more than once, I am always wary of people around me as well as on many forums.

Yes. On a bitcoin faucet site

no. if I am in hokey then I will be more careful

ever, only with us ever cheated from there we can become more observant in memilaj something

Nah i am smart enough to get scammed! The scammer should hold a pHd degree first LOL

I've been cheated so many times in the past. There are many people who commit acts of deceiving others in their lives.

yes I am. got scam by fake faucet and games on playstore that offer to earn free bitcoin for played. never get paid and waste of a lot time and data to play it.

I am a beginner in social life and have been cheated many times; there are still people who continue to defraud others.

Nope and i hope i never will

I have been fooled, and the night I got the experience of living

Phishing is common in every job

Yes I have been scammed before, thank God it wasn't much. The funniest thing was that, I was easily scammed by a lady pretending she was stranded at the ATM stand. I gave her almost 40% of n
My withdrawal that day not knowing that she was a scammer.
Scammers are very real! Beware

I participated in the HYIPE Mercury in 2015 lost $ 1500, more in such projects are not naked

got scam once when trying to play HYI

A person wanted to launch an ICO and wanted me to write a whitepaper for him..

I worked for 4 months but he didnt pay me money and rather blocked me on telegram after his work was done

not yet. I'll make sure that I ain't gonna scammed coz I don't trust people so easily.

Ever. Back when I was shopping online I was fooled by the items in the message unlike the agreement

Life is like that. Time and again people lied to, but I thank God a little cheated, and I hope beyond that, too, will not happen.

yes
I was deceived in the early years of 2017
at that time I was starting to learn about bitcoin, and when I invest in a project not until 3 months the project is a scam :-\

I was fooled when I was a student. At that time I was a friend of a lot of money

I was scammed when I went for an interview where #500 was collected from me by a set of people

Yes i did but not in ICO about Game items and loads

I believe in bitcoin because it protects me from scam.

I've been fooled, I feel so hurt for that, feeling like I've come to the end of my life

many times

Yes I have been scammed before by bitpetite. I trusted them because other people benefited from it.

I had my fair share of being scammed by online revshare and cloud mining sites. HashOcean and MyPayingCryptoAds to name a few.

Saya tidak pernah di tipu. Karena saya lebih cuek kepada orang yang tidak saya kenal, saya orangnya lebih berhati hati kepada siapapun. Karena itu saya tidak pernah di tipu.

Ya, a couple! I've mostly been scammed by a lot of airdrops and bounties online. So much effort wasted. I really hope more mods get to notice scam bounties and airdrops.

yes, i have but not in crypto.
when i buy something in online shopping.
there's a different between the goods in the image and the real goods when i received.

yes..and i so mad..

I experienced the feeling of being cheated. Many of us are now victims of fraud, why in this world many people are unhappy with their lives, they want to get what other people own. The greed is the cause.

Yes during my first investment not a big amount and it was 0.1ETH but still that was really horrible for me 

Yes I experienced it good thing I only invest small amount, i was asked by my friend to invest a certain amount & it will be doubled the following week but it did not happen & my friend cannot return the money because the lead investor took all the money and did not pay anyone even my friend was not paid. Be careful with online investments.

Yes of course, I was fooled into buying goods online. I bought a cellphone that didn't match the brand and instead the brand was not good at what I wanted. :-[

Yes, a few times. Usually my skepticism keeps me getting scammed to a minimum, but it probably has caused me to miss some good opportunities as well.

I was being scam once but in a game online only.

I once invested and the results obtained are very disappointing because there is elimination of ETH

I got scammed in real life. Scammer sold me the dead phone but i didn't know/

I have been scammed once and it was a terrible lesson. In fact, I refer to this scam as my personal expensive life lesson. My crime was to invest in MMM scheme with my hard-earned cash. When the scheme crashed, I was caught in the crossfire. I couldn't pay my school fee, house rent or afford daily needs. I came through quite well but it was the most expensive life lesson I've ever learnt!

I just getting scam message and ignore it. Just stay away from stranger when they offer project or good thing that just too good to imagine.

I don't think I have ever really been scammed. Well, actually a couple days ago I may have been to a small extent. Our washing machine broke. I called a repairman to take a look at it. I told him what the problem was and he said it was probably the motor. He came and took at look at it. In about 5 minutes he already told us that it was actually another problem that would cost 3 times as much. He told us he doesn't have time to do it. I think he could have told us what the problem was by phone, if he had just asked us one more question. For some reason, he didn't ask. He just came and took the money for diagnostics after 10 minutes of "work".

I have been scammed by airdrops and one bounty here. The bounty was 'Impressio', the team simply disappeared according to the bounty manager.

I was almost scammed once. I received a message from a friend I hadn't heard from in quite some time. "She" wrote me in French. I speak French, but not that well. She is one of my only friends that I spoke French to when we met. The message said that she was in Burkina Faso with he daughter and she was robbed. She was asking for me to send her some money. I know that she had been to Burkina Faso before. I think her ex-husband was from there. I really believed the message. Nobody ever writes me in French, other than her. Anyway, I was seriously thinking about sending her some money. Luckily, I check her Facebook profile and realize that she hadn't even gone to Africa recently. I sent her a message and she told me everything was fine. Pretty good try by the scammers!

Yes also my private key is stolen and $1100 gone i dont know how they do it

yes I have invested and been hit by a scam

Yes I have been scammed before

My own experience was while trying to invest on Arcblock ICO. I got a mail referring me to the ICO site, whereas the ICO site was a fake site with fake address. It was after I sent my fund and didnt receive my token that I realized have been scammed. I felt too foolish to mention it on the telegram group but later heard of some other victims as they made complain in the group, some other scam came but that was the most regretting because of my carelessness; I should have verified at least before sending my money.

Yes,
1.Hashocean-newbie mistakes.
2.Elite Earners Club by Tamoor Tariq-This Pakistani scammer scammed $10 million from lots of investors around the world.BTC price when the scam happened is around $800-900.I joined the project because of FOMO.

if I'm ever deceived, bro. when I want to travel out of town. finally I pay with double money 3 times the price it should

I believe I can't be scammed, but time will tell.

touchwood*

nope. i've always been extra careful

Well, I can say that I'm victim of scam, but there is more to that, I wasn't simply scammed, I have dealt with someone who is probably a scammer and due to my health issues and personal problems I had lost a lot of bitcoin.
Simply put: I (partially) scammed myself.
I won't elaborate on that, you can search my post history and you'll find what I'm talking about, I don't really wanna talk about this at this moment, as there is some hope to recover my funds - hope dies last.
If you are wealthy person or English lawyer and want to help me somehow don't hesitate to PM me  8)

I was cheated by 3 projects I did not want to talk about. I lost about 2ETH to buy their tokens but eventually it was canceled due to not reaching the softcap. Since then, I have been drawing lessons for the following investments.  :'(

Yes. I experienced being scammed twice before. An investment company also promised me to have a higher return on my investment. That was a lesson for me then. Because I was very eager to earn and to have investment, I was careless in choosing where I put my money.

I almost got scammed when I was selling my console online. A guy have sent me a fake money transfer and wanted me to send him my item.

I've never been scammed and I'm super careful to avoid falling victim of scanners... There are a lot of them everywhere.

I invested once in a ponzi scheme project. Never got my money back with any profit they have been promising :(

Nobody is going to believe me but that’s okay.

Do you know those Instagram fake accounts of regular people “flipping” money?

They claim you give them $300 and they turn it into $3000, $400 into $4000, and so on..

Unfortunately many desperate people fall for the scams because they have a feed full of luxuries and cash. To an average person, it’s clearly a scam, but yet people fall prey to these scammers everyday. Today it’s not as prevalent but I still see them out there. Here’s a good link pretty much explaining in a nutshell how they get people.

When I was 18 one of them DM’ed me asking me if I wanted to get some quick cash. I honestly had a good bit of money saved up already so I wasn’t money hungry at that time. I was already wasting my money on stupid things online like fake soccer cleats from aliexpress so I figured, why not? I spent some time reading exactly how they scam people so I decided to try to scam one myself.

I chatted with the scammer for a few days, posing as a skeptic and I told him if he could prove to me that he could flip my $100 into $200 I would send him $800 to flip into the $8000 he promised.

So I sent him $100.

A day went by and in my mind I was thinking, yep, this is what I get. But when I checked my balance on one of the Visa Prepaid cards - voila! $200 something dollars and a couple of cents.

Obviously he was trying to fish me to actually send the larger amount but I knew better. I said thanks :-) and I blocked him.

Riskiest and easiest $100 I’ve ever made. Not that I have never fallen prey for online scammers. I’ve given away my email many times by accident, ordered things that never came, lost some percentage of bitcoins but nothing too major.

No i have not been scammed.

It is unfortunate that I have been deceived, and not only once or twice, I have been cheated by airdrops, and I also have participated in some scammed bounty companies. But fortunately that what i lost is just time,no money.

I believe you! Haha. I never heard about these "money flippers". Seems like quite a risky business. It seems so ridiculous that they can actually get people to trust them. You did make a risky move, but 100% return on investment in one day is pretty good. I don't think I'd ever try it, but it must feel good to scam a scammer. A little bit of karma for him. Thanks for sharing!

i have been scammed of bitcoins....I felt for a scam site  ....Paypal in exchange of btc

But was it real scam, meaning they stolen people's money or did the ponzi ended without you getting your profit/ funds back? Did you even know it was ponzi or were just disguising they real scheme as some kind of legitimate business (like mining, trading etc.)?


I do believe you. I recently chatted with someone like this on Facebook. When asking for evidence of his profits he sent me video showing computer with his forex account or something like this open. I took this as a hint that he's trying to scam me as I wanted something you can verify (there are websites were traders can post their trades in real time so you can see their performance). Only reason I talked with him was that I couldn't find any fault with his profile, everything looked legit, he had photos and all.
But getting back to why I do believe you - I had intention to do something similar, just with other kind of scammers. And your post... it's my "schizophrenia" (I'll maybe separate topic about this) kicking in again - 2 or 3 days ago I had a chance to perform my act, just wasn't really ready to do it - both mentally and financially, as it would require "investing" (risking) a bit more than $100.
Overally - congrats  ;)

I am new to this game and have not been scammed yet.  I am sure it will happen, but my plan is to only invest in coins/tokens that are in the top 100 on CoinMarketCap.  I will try Airdrops and Bounties that are posted here because this is a trusted site, not so much in other sites.

Of course I think everyone does.
But its part of our life and because of it
we learn from our mistakes and stand again.

Yes, I guess. For the past 2 months, we had a shoot in Cagayan (Philippines) for a tourism video. The handler of that company said that we'll be paid 5,000php per day. And we stayed in Cagayan for 2 days. Before we go back to Manila, they gave our talent fee for P5,000 only in cash, that was Saturday morning when we went to Manila. Then, the handler said that, on Monday they will deposit the balance in our account. Unfortunately, until now we haven't received our talent fee for P5,000. For every time we send a message to her, a reminder for the balance, they always say that they'll follow up to the accounting and nothing happened.

Yes and funny tho. Some were around last year I was scammed some buck of naira note all in the name of ponsi. And they did away with my money without me having nothing

Many small ICO exit scams, not much invested tho so i'm not even mad, part of the danger

* Always check before making a transaction
With this encrypted market, you may lose your money just because you entered the wrong address (many people have lost money for this), you should send a small amount of money before you make it. big deals. Remember, unlike credit cards, the pre-encoding market will not have any chargebacks for you.

Do not try to record remittance addresses and check them with different tabs. It's a smarter way if you just copy-paste address or scan QR code available.

* Look carefully at the websites you visit
Stay calm and take into account all the information you access. What website are you visiting? Is the malicious site your virus scanner has detected? Is this a fraudulent site with a name close to the one you often use?

Please check everything before access. And it's a good idea to bookmark the secure pages you regularly visit, as well as always access them from the bookmarks toolbar. You can also use an extension software like MetaMask, which will automatically detect fake MyEtherWallet wallet.

I pay taxes, so yes.

One time with a bounty program they asked a minimum investment to receive bounty stakes like a fool I invested and it was a scam

it was beginning of my bitcoin . i found many site for mining  they paid 1st time , after someday gone .... :'(
not only one site most of them site of mining did same .  :(
one more, i bought one mining software . because  that person was from my country so i trust him.
but after few hour i understood that it's also ...... :'(

Yes!!! & in this forum  :'(

I've been scamed
when I bought bitcoin

My experience was with a fake agent from a telegram ICO channel. When I was searching a good ICO to invest I came across an great ICO project  and because I was new to the group and to the whole crypto investing one fake agent pretending like a real one told me to send ETH to an address if I want to receive 45% bonus so I did send and that was my first investing experience

Not yet, but the amount loss would be comparable to any scam.

Yes, I have been scammed but not in an ICO project. It brings a lot of memories. When I was about twelve or thirteen years old? I was playing Ragnarok Online and my account has a lot of stuff, like all the items I made from scratch and went on quests for limited edition stuff. Then this person sent me a message, saying he was a Grand Master and he’ll use my account to input a prize. Since I was young and haven’t thought about scammers, I easily agreed then *poof*  no more account. I couldn’t log in anymore.

Of course I was fooled, I was fooled when buying items online did not match my expectations.  :(

I got fake emails from various bounty programs pretending like from official admin asking the private address and sign up if I want to receive bounty rewards and even it really feels like a scam I think many lost there tokens 

I forgot the name of the project. I'm still a beginner so I don't know anything. All I remember is that I didn't get stakes and tokens in the end. not only me but many people experience this.

Yes , everyone is once.

Got scammed ? No but someone hacked my wallet and took considerable amount of ETH. I felt very angry but still don't know how did that happen   

Many people are getting scammed because there are many scammers today because they can earn quick money without getting caught and I am a victim too 

No, I never get stuck because I am just now involved in the Bitcoin forum, but I could not make any investment here or I could not earn any bitcoin on the forum side, so I'm away from being scared, but if you can earn

Of course I ever been scammed, I was scammed by Airdrop who didn't pay and even bounty like that.

Mods should have a way of minimizing, so that events like this will not increase again

No dude, not yet. and I don’t even want to experience that.

No because im too secure of myself and i dont do transaction in a person that i dont know his/her identity because my money will be scammed if i dont think smart and my money will be turn to waste dont negotiate in any person you dont know who he or she is because maybe that peeson is a scammer and your money is his/her target to scammed be careful always and think smart.

Yes by the budol budol gang

I Got scammed from a website which claims to sell top ranking bitcointalk accounts and lost money instantly 

How indignant I end up after I got scammed by way of some reasonably-priced man or woman won't permit me speak approximately it

Of course. Even in real life I have experienced fraud, especially in this crypto world. I forgot the name of the project, which clearly was announced in the thread that it was a scam from the developer

When I worked at a gas station a guy was bulls hitting with me and then convinced me that he had given me a 20 when it was a 10, so I gave him the change for the 20. Then sure enough at the end of the night, 10 short.

 a number of instances i was scammed:(horrific factor but i believe in karma:P

No i have never been scammed

As of now, i dont experience any scamming but due to the fact i didnt make any transactions yet and the bounty campaign that i joined was my first bounty campaign when you consider that i be a part of the forum. So i hope that my first transaction changed into no longer a rip-off and i trust our supervisor.

Nope I assume due to the fact if the safety that I usually do everytime and anywhere i go

i've been scammed by lot of airdrops, so much time wasted and even some i had to send gas fee but never got listed

No I did not luckily I was managed to use every service in the crypto world protecting my security

Only in real life

Nope! never ever I have ever been scammed. Instead, i have scammed people.

You are really very lucky but I'm not so much lucky.Cause I scammed so many times by scamer. :'(

simply i have never (i hope it may not appear to me). due to the fact my habbit are:

- i continually clean cache my browser
- in no way setup un regarded add on or software program
- i put a password inside the folder in which i put the pockets

Yes, and it was a great experience. It was a local company, in my country. Not in crypto world.

sure i have been scamed by means of ico coin. just one

during the assignment they declare after the give up the ico, their coin will list on bittrex, poloniex, bithumb, and many others.

alas, they deleted they team whilst the ico that is very suspicious, nicely once I test they crew, i recognize this challenge was scam.
however i invest to this task early.. i misplaced around a thousand usd on btc.

after that i discovered how to research the rip-off ico and the respectable ico. this revel in make me to examine alot  about cryptocurrency.

I hate scammers and many loose even there life savings to them which is a huge problem today   

I ever got a big scam. They launch the airdrop and bounty campain. Their website is good format, full-information, have a strong team, ICObench rate 3.+. Lastly, bounty manager announce that is a scam project.  :'( I had worked for 1 month and get nothing.

Yes in my crypto journey I have been scammed many times. I've working on one bounty last month and I work for almost 2 months and then the project is closed. That was the biggest scam I experience in my life.

Yes I have been scammed. We were  scammed by our teacher. He told us that we will have a quiz and the quiz will be super easy but when the quizpapers were all distributed, we found  out that we were scammed. What he had said is different to what we saw in the paper. Saddd.

Once. It was annoying and I lost some money also because of that scam.

yes in telegram. btw luckily, what I just invested is time but not money.

yes,it is wcx,it is the firsttime i invest,no exprience

Never. Or I can say not so far. It’s usually the strangers who scam you.

yes i was a scammed once before..
during my early days on world of cryptocurrency i was a victim of High Yield Investment Program
and i already learned on that experience hehe....

Oh damn yes! it was a stupid scam but in the end it was a scam and I was fooled.

No,but i know that this bitcoin investment are secured and i dont know that it may also create scam.

I got so many times even my ether wallet got hacked once   

Tbh it wasn't really project but i've scammed people in CS : GO :p

It was way back. I think I was seventeen and I just got into the university. Looking back, I realize it was a pretty cheap scam. How naive I was! I got a message that I had just won a certain sum of money in a certain raffle draw. (I didn't bother to ask how I entered for the draw ;D) So, I basically needed to send some amount of money to activate the process. In short, I sent the amount and even more. It was after some days of waiting that I discovered that I had been scammed. But I actually learnt that every scammer is enabled only by your own greed. Since then, I've never been a scam victim again.

yes

Yes. A watch company.

I was scammed in a just ended bounty campaign I was doing.

I have never invested but I followed a lot of airdrops and now many new airdrops are scam so I start thinking of leaving them

Yes. Now I do some research before I joined any trading, selling,buying or gambling sites.

I was scammed in December 2017. It was the time when bitcoin transactions didn't confirm for 3 weeks or more and commission was huge.

Yes. Usually my skepticism keeps me getting scammed to a minimum, but it probably has caused me to miss some good opportunities as well.

I don't think you can call this a scam, all investments are risky, it doesn't matter if you invest your money or your time.
Think about people who actually paid for those failed coins - they can feel scammed much more than you. And there is possibility that your post/ signature/ tweet lead them to invest in one in said coins.

My story happened a week ago, someone emailed me, the content was that I won the prize, and they forced me to pay for the reward, so silly.

Yes, I was deceived. It was a crypto currency project. I then understood little and invested money. Then it turned out that this is a scam. :-\

Yes, by one ico :(

Yes and we are 200 people.The person who did it is now missing.