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Title: [2018-08-09] Two Super Common Scams in the Cryptospace and How to Avoid Them
Post by: frauswif on August 09, 2018, 02:43:02 PM
A story based on experience encountering mining and wallet scams in the cryptospace. It mentions one site in particular (QoinPro) I've seen discussed a lot.

https://medium.com/@minadown/two-common-scams-i-have-seen-in-the-cryptospace-and-how-to-avoid-them-9a9e79d78ada


Title: Re: [2018-08-09] Two Super Common Scams in the Cryptospace and How to Avoid Them
Post by: Slow death on August 09, 2018, 10:26:18 PM
let's be fair, when the author says:

Fake mining sites and fake faucet wallets are two well-established scams in the cryptospace.

he forget the biggest scams in the crypto world, I'm talking about the ICOs and many exchange.

ICO:

 Ethernet.cash - SCAM (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4840556.msg43668747#msg43668747)

 Hoverex.io - SCAM (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4838781.msg43655216#msg43655216)

 ALFACoin.io - SCAM (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4838693.msg43653595#msg43653595)

exchange:

Yobit Scam withholding 10BTC (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2718718.0)

 Mercatox.com EXIT SCAM / STOLE all the users fund - CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT ONGOING (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2683873.0)


Title: Re: [2018-08-09] Two Super Common Scams in the Cryptospace and How to Avoid Them
Post by: frauswif on August 10, 2018, 01:29:46 AM
Yea, it's true. ICO scams are a whole category unto themselves.