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This is for all those who thought that newbies are learning about scam schemes here is a shocking revealing story for you... Hours back Twitter accounts of big crypto influencers and exchanges were hacked and I've read few posts on this forum that not many would fall for it but guess what? You are damn wrong, scammers cater away with over 100,000$ worth of Bitcoin.

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Honestly people aren't learning anything, I am so disappointed in the way people think nowadays, believing they can actually double their bitcoin, as a newbie, the moment I saw the giveaway on binance official Twitter account I knew it was a hack

same topic has been posted many times this day so no need to create another discussion  for that topic.
Instead of creating you can read other members opinion about the incident  here --> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5262442.0 .

They are not posting it the same method as ponzi scheme. Hacker use legitimate account of crypto exchange and known influencer, that's why  there are people fall for it and believe that it can be true since it came from legitimate source.

You don't get the point of my post, many people thought no one got scammed because the giveaway trick isn't new, my post proved that over 100 thousands dollars was stolen successfully

users who are not from this community yet are unaware of scams like giveaways and they are new to crypto. they rely to people they know who give them advice. i have a sister who suddenly was interested to BTC when someone introduced him to a famous online payment system in our country.

from then on i already guide her not to invest to doublers, avoid giveaways and no clicking links form emails are advised as well. these are just very simple advise to those people to avoid but some of the still fall for these.

That is not an excuse, @op is right, it appears people haven't learn anything or they just too greedy to care, who will actually believe that someone else can double your money for you without working hard for it?
This shows that, till now it is still too easy to scam lots of people because they are looking for quick money and not ready to earn it the right way, None of this hacked account can ever demand for a thing like that, immediately you see such post, it should be avoided.

These scams are so absurd, because they look for the most naive. This is how they work. Even a few victims and the scammers are happy. It costs them very little to get the operation going after all. So they manufacture a scenario where the most vulnerable would be encouraged to transfer most of the coins they have under a FOMO situation. Hopefully as the world gets more educated about bitcoin we'll reach a point where crypto isn't considered an oddity where such things appear within the realm of possibility to anyone. Such scams are also prevalent with cash but at least not on the same proportion... But on the other hand, there will always be newbies.

Actually people who are relatively new and chase giveaways and airdrops do still believe in these things but people who have faced all this before know it is a scam so unfortunately some people will only learn the hard way and being greedy is natural for most people so they do not care.

Found out on this site: https://www.worldcoinindex.com/news/twitter-hackers-seek-bitcoin-donations-by-hacking-accounts-of-famous-personalities-businesses-and-politicians

Why was twitter hacked so easily?

The number one  factor why people still fall for this trick is that they're greedy by design. Second, it did came from a verified account, so it's really hard not to believed on it until it's too late. The hackers are so brilliant that it was a well played to design, and I don't think that only newbie can be victimized here. There could be grown up man and experienced crypto enthusiast who can't distinguished scams.

It is truly shameful to admit but seems like it is true people doesn't learn anything from the past they still get carried away by their greed.
It is so easy to know that this doubling scheme is just a scam so why would they even believe it to be honest even in 50% profit guarantee is too suspicious.
Only those who are truly earning online would know how hard it is to get that much profit and gaining profit isn't guaranteed to us all.

People will still continue to fall for this tricks because many new crypto investors will come around and without the proper knowledge about how crypto space is they will want to try out some new things without knowing that they are walking into a trap

I don't know ,maybe they are just new with this crypto investment I am sure old investors will not fall for that even how good they promise to give in to sender.

They believe in everything they see because they are newbie and less experienced  and this moment will take them to a new lesson so they will not feel victim again next time when someone posting the same scheme as this one.

Seriously if I had someone who put me through crypto risks I would have been able to safe some money I thrown away years back, to find answers I have to took risks and yes with my actions I am able to know which is right and which is wrong but having a teacher or a guidance would have helped alot, it's what I tried to teach newbies in my country today but they aren't getting it

if its a giveaway it wont need for us to pay other than that it was a scam . to the doubling scheme , its hard to believe on those if not gambling .  they cant say that they didnt knew it was a scam even if those offers were came from popular personalities  .  you knew that it was a scam the first thing you saw it , that only shows that you are an expert but most those falls for those scams are newbies  . hope they learn and grow up .

There will always be a first time for everything, crypto is evolving and we keep seeing newbies joining crypto train, they will surely fall victim to scam projects because they lack ways of doing good research, I wish they will listen to old crypto members advice but the will of making money quick is always on fire

Those who fall once will learn not to fall for such tricks again, mistakes is something you can't ever over power, it will happen over and over, crypto space is full of goodies and badies, without learning you will make many mistakes and even after learning you will still make some mistakes

Well I hope not, it will be foolish for someone who already make this mistake once to make it again, it will only mean previous experience never thought the person nothing,  those who fall victim are probably newbies who don't understand the ways of scammers yet, i hope there can be more information on the internet to warn people from fake news,  most important aspect of making a mistake is learning from it.

People are smart enough to buy btc and the same time dumb enough to believe in scams like this. Mad world

This is well said because they know the potential and the future of crypto and buying bitcoin whenever the price falls is a good thing but falling in the trap like this is really a questionable thing. For newbies mostly it is still understandable though even by now they would have read in past few years such things that quick returns in few hours or in days does not happen and so this was really a sad story to read.s

greediness is the cause of destruction. nothing is free in this world. but people believe it blindly in this online world where privacy is more valuable than anything itself. all people know very well this is fake and still, they trust them due to greediness and loss of their fund in that fake giveaways.

Greed will be the biggest problem that we must prevent. We already see many examples of greed and not just happening in the crypto, but it's also happening in real life. We never learn that enough is enough. There is no free lunch that will come to us by itself. We need to get it by doing something, and if we don't want to struggle like other people, then we do not deserve to get the reward in our life. Be careful of the doubling scheme and fake giveaways because that is too good to be true.

Yep i feel bad for those people who lost their money because of this giveaway trick. Also, i dont know why they believe on that. I mean its obviously a scam why people still get trapped. Its 2020 i though people way more smarter.

Crypto community is starting to be educated but still some of these people particularly newbies can't get rid enough from scammers. They are still lured by those giveaways and too good to be true offers and these scammers are actually using legitimate accounts so that newbies will easily believed on them.

Again, as I have said in my previous posts, it really looks believable in the eye because it came from an official twitter account. No way that you will find out that it was a scam people pulled off by bad actors. But of course, we really felt bad for them, that is still money that they have lost. And we are still in the pandemic and every money counts. So if you lost that to the scammers, then it's a double whammy for you. Hope that this will be the last time that we are going to hear people falling for this kind of trick.

Indeed. Some giveaways are too good to be true that results in people getting trick and scam at the same time. Since a lot of people need a source of income and money, it is straightforward for scammers to fool this kind of people, and we can't blame them by that because people who get victimized by this fake giveaways still don't do proper research and check the post or site if it is legit.

I am surprised that after such a serious hacking attack, we did not see a bitcoin price dump. this is a very serious threat to the cryptocurrency market when accounts of famous people hacked and writing about the cryptocurrency

It has nothing to do with this market, the problem is that twitter is hacked and I believe they have lost a lot of user trust. I think that after this event more people will know this market

I am also surprised that from the tweets that the hackers shared were very strange and these tweets have often been encountered on scam sites and to my surprise that there are still many who are trapped without finding out more. Bitcoin value obtained by hackers is not small. Maybe it's because the tweets of the verified account slightly increase the victim's confidence, still it's very strange. From what I've learned why many people are still deceived in various cases because they are not vigilant and often believe in someone.

It should be twitter's issue and not bitcoin or crypto in particular, those hacked account that being compromised and the numbers of people who
got lured by those scammers who used legit twitter accounts to scam. This incidents should focus more with twitter and not with crypto. Holders
and investors should think wise not to be moved and let this things past to avoid losing money.

You shouldn't be surprised mate,

You should realize by now that even if there are so many reminders and instructions for newbies regarding doubler and schemes, they won't still listen as it is common for newbies to choose for the easiest way yet risky enough to lose their money.

But when you see the post which says I will give you money from someone who is one of the richest person in this pandemic situation then many newbies who don't have scam experience yet will believe it for sure.That is why they are using the verified accounts of most richest person not only the crypto related accounts.

That's right, the problem lies with twitter. They didn't have enough security and it caused the accounts to be hacked, completely unrelated to the cryptocurrency market

I dont know why more and more people are still a victim of an old ponzi scheme. Since i started on crypto bitcoin doubler is the easiest way to to double your money but also the easiest way for them to steal your money. I nearly bought a script and run a doubler but i dont want to.

You cant say that when you are in their position maybe their mind set already for sending their coin, cause you can see that the one posted are those big names in the industry and some are recognizable around the world. Its make your confidence boosted knowing the one whose giving are legit people. But the process is suspicious thats why other are curious if its true or not. Good for you cause you already assume it was a hacked.

I have not seen it personnaly but I heard and saw it from the an article that binance and other known personalities were hack and I never knew that there was a scheme or something malicious attacked to occured to scam other people. We'll you cannot blame those people who have following those personalities to have it try since it was a legit twitter page of binance of example. Not most of the people don't have any knowledge with that kind of scheme so you can't really take it on them.

It looks like they were buying it after the scammer has already published a new announcement about that. I should remind you guys about there are so many followers and it's not closing the possibility there was a few percents were belive if that was a legit announcement.

Nah, they're just greedy and try to convince themselves that's a legit announcement. Doubling scheme is never legit or to be a real deal. Even a baller guy never do that kind of thing, he would just do the airdrop and throwing money around freely.

Normally people who still get scammed from fake getaways are new to the crypto industry. People who still believe that money is easy to get in crypto not even researching about the legitimacy of the promotion or the identity of the people or group running it.

Newbies are likely to get exposed in scams first before they realised how Bitcoin and cryptocurrency works.

The recent hacked of high profile twitter accounts is a free marketing for Bitcoin, but its unfortunate that some people still  fall victims to scam. It just prove that not all crypto social influencers followers are aware of these scams and neglect to do their research.

Since there is no manual for crypto invest some people will still lose money to scam giveaways, to invest in crypto you need to find answers about what's safe and what's not safe, there are good and bad paths and learning is the only thing that can guide you through

People never learn that free money doesn´t exist, they will always try quick money schemes and always they will lose more than they get. It is a typical characteristic of human beings to have everything right now without any effort.

I remember doubling was the famous ponzi by the times of 2014/2015 in crypto space but after that people got enough awareness against it.

But this must be a different situation because scammers are first targeting celebrities' twitter accounts and then making use of it for scamming. It is not a plain scam but it involves hacking which is the reason it is getting somehow success even in these modern days after lots of social things and awareness initiatives are happening everywhere.

Basically I will not believe even Binance's CZ will be announcing like they will be giving away 5000 BTC for some initiative because I know the value of 5000 BTCs like they do not need to do that for any reason unless otherwise they are the Satoshi and owning one million bitcoins ;D.

I am still afraid because hackers and scammers are getting more advanced these days which is seeming more than enough to convince more people. Hence, how smart hackers will be attempting their next thing and how many people are going to fall; this is somehow really worrying one for me.

After years this type os scam still is working in crypto. There is just no amount of reminders that will keep people to be warned in sending tokens to someone even if they know it's not coming back to them.  They beleive in the word GIVEAWAY when they were sending tokens to get the giveaway. Its give a bad impression to cryptocurrency every time news like this comes up to social media.

Well, this time I am fine with them falling for it. I mean it was everyone, from elon musk to jeff bezos to obama to god knows who else that I can't list them all here. So, it did made some sense, it was basically a lot of famous people all saying the same thing at the same time which should have been a trigger for scam but at the same time it was also looking like they decided to do something all together as well for a while.

I wouldn't believe it obviously, I wasn't even around and didn't know it happened but if I was online and seen it I would laugh because I have seen the same scam probably a billion times under famous peoples tweets before so I know the scam very well, but I do understand people who never dealt with bitcoin getting excited and buying in for it.

In our world, nothing is permanent, since human greed together with stupidity. For the umpteenth time, people fall for the tricks of fraudsters, and even the same ones. We learn only from our bitter experience and nothing else, which is very unfortunate.

It may be due to there are still a lot of newbies in cryptocurrency. Other's wanted fast profit so those usually ended to be filled by scam and hyip projects. Learning about blockchain takes a lot of time and research.

Yep, there are always many newbies to try their luck in crypto. Unfortunately, it is true that many of them just think about instant or fast profits. Whereas, trying luck in crypto without learning carefully in the first journey will lead to bad results like what we are discussing in this thread. Many of scammers or fraudsters out there, they know very well how to trap newbies. They offer tantalizing rewards or big amount of profits with less effort or in an instant way. This meets with newbies' expectations, so they become easy to be scammed.

It is the nature of humans to be greedy, and also the nature of humans to know what is real; and what is virtually impossible. Any double up scheme, or high interest platforms are scam, and they have to be avoided; irrespective of whoever has posted or advertised it. We need to be independent and strong with our decisios

Many keep saying this and these cameras are still smiling in their corners because they have got some victims. I sometimes imagine if people will ever listen and yield to advises.
Even if you are dealing directly with CZ and he tells you to send your coins to his private wallet, you had better run away, because it could be a clone version of CZ. If it is different from the exchange created, it will be a high risk of just send fund to anyone.
it has happened on several platforms, such as youtube and eve twitter that is now repeating itself and yet, none of it is legit.

Most of the times if not all the time, falling for all these fake giveaways starts with greed. The person will be so attached to the anticipated reward that he won't ask questions on how legit the giveaway is and once scammed he starts asking those questions. Scammers have understood that people tends to be drawn towards giveaways or doubling schemes once the reward is attractive which will blind them from seeing the truth, that is being greedy. It is sad such things are still happening and from the look of things, until people start being contented while asking the correct questions about most things they come across, they will continue to fall for scammers. Thus, there is need for people to learn from all these and do the right thing always.

Many people become greed if they know how to make money, and many of them fall because of the simple trick, so they lose their money. They know how things work, but the greed tells them that they can make more bitcoin by joining in those programs, and they forget that it is only a scam without a new way or old way with some modification. We can hope that many people can learn from that, so they don't fall with that offer.

I have to disagree with your opinion. It's not true to say those people who got scammed are the ones who are greedy in making money. This is partly true but not completely true. Greedy can be a very dangerous factor affects people decisions in a bad way. However, lack of understanding, knowledge and experiences are the main reasons why people got scammed. I don't think any of us who have the fundamental knowledge and awareness about this market will fall in those scam tricks!

It's psychological just like how social engineering works people could affect someone's minds but doing certain action and in this case the scammer is using popular people's account that's already officially verified. If it's not for that I highly doubt those people who got their money stolen by making mistake sending money to the scammer's address will be tricked like that.

Well, true I guess if the same message would have come from some unofficial account then people would have paid more attention but seeing big accounts tweeting about giveaway made many people trust them and in the end, ended up losing money.

I reminded when a phishing website impersonating online wallet website making some advertisements in Google Adwords. They have the guts to do the advertisement because they know that they will get something in return and maybe the stats of people that have been scammed significantly higher than what's recorded.
Scam will always exist but if we could reduce it to the point where it's almost nonexistent, that'd be great but that's just some empty words because there's no real effective method of getting rid these scammers.

Scammers and victims can never be eradicated in the crypto space. Meanwhile, many scammers gets erupted everyday and many victims are coming everyday too. There's no body to blame when one falls victim on such scam ponzi scheme, matrix but the problem is that, users needs to get rich quickly which it isn't possible. Do a thorough research and investigation before investing.

They are both co-exist as this market have a lots of potentials, money that flowing around this business are huge that's why
scammers really paying attentions and really doing their best to lure investors.


It's not a money making that you see results in a short span of time, there are potentials as this venue of investment is really
a big business but you have to take your time focusing with how will you execute
and how well your mental skills being ready to adjust and adopt.

I've had enough of all of these different scams and fake giveaways.


They are using crypto to scam investors. I've also seen so many ads in Youtube right now regarding Bitcoin and ETH doubling. You need to put a certain amount into the address that they flash and they will double it. Like what the f*ck??? If you are an investor for quite some time already then you should know that this is impossible, that this is a scam. Those newbies are probably the ones who will be falling into this kind of common way of scamming people.

Its also hard for some to always share an advice but in the end they will just now follow it so let the investors learn the hard way. They will not learn if they will not experience mistakes.

Crypto space is never a safe place for newbies, if you don't want to lose money you must first learn about about scammers that will do anything to scam anyone and you must also learn how to spot good projects, everything about crypto is learning

If they have as much of that money to fall for a doubling scam and know how to send crypto to an address, I don't think they're newbie anymore. They have to know it's a scam but still want to try their luck, all because of greed.

Yes, newbies will never be safe in crypto, but crypto scammers don't just target newbies, they basically target a lot of big people like investors and traders, because most newbies who just enter crypto don't bring big capital here , only a few are the opposite.

It's easy for Newbies to fall for doubling scheme since they don't have a clue yet about scammers, not until they are scammed once then they will try to seek for answers, newbies are always in rush to make fast money, I guess that's why they push learn aside first.

it's not about greed, but about their stupidity. I am surprised that there are so many stupid people who send at least 1 dollar to such scam schemes

unfortunately some people who are new to the knowledge of their cryptocurrency are affected by the results offered are very large and very instant so they are new traders who will be deceived which in the end many cases of investors who are disappointed with cryptocurrency because it is wrong in the knowledge of cryptocurrency.

Those victims can be put into two categories.

1. Investors that never learn.
2. Actual newbies.

And for the actual newbies, we feel bad for them because they thought that it's for real. But from that experience, they'll learn.

Unfortunately, a lot of people come to the cryptocurrency sphere and they do not understand where to start and they begin to believe in everything and scammers find such people and these people lose their money because of their mistakes, and unfortunately this happens very often.

It's not about being a newbie in crypto space, it's about using common sense. How will someone in his sane mind believe in money doubling for doing nothing? Why on Earth will big shots like CZ ask for funds from followers to give back double in return, only overly greedy people will fall for such. The tweet got me laughing, it's more like a prank or an "april fool". I don't disagree that learning before delving into crypto investments and all that is vital, but this doesn't still give common sense.

it's like you are offered a chicken that can lay golden eggs or cows. if you think logically this doesn't make sense, but most people still believe it
send $10 to get 1 BTC ??? how could this happen :D

If they send $ 1, that means they are greedy. But if they send $ 100 or more then they are really stupid people in this market. Ever since I entered this market I've seen a lot of people like that, they need to raise their awareness in this market.

most people belive that kind of scam is very new to crypto world and just trying to invest their money on crypto money, i have friends that really new to crypto and he fall into this kind of scam he is sending about 0.3 btc to the scammer address with hope that scammer will send 2x of the amount to his address, really sad to see scammer take advantage of newbie that just trying to invest on crypto.

yeah,  im agree with your statment bro, some people are very greedy and want instant profit ended up getting scam with their all fund.

Some people need more time and have to pay more fee to learn about the scammers, now they can't blame anyone because their greed is the only cause for them to lose their money and some media reported millions of dollars were scammed not just hundreds because scammers used different bitcoin,ethereum and multi crypto addresses for this giveaway scam.

As long as a person allows greed to override logic or reasoning, they would continue to fall for cheap scams. It's a get rich quick that burns one's finger faster than the furnace. No money doubling scheme in cryptocurrency, neither is it in traditional world, it always end in scam.
Even if you invest in a highly prospective blockchain project or you are a pro trader, nothing is guaranteed until you cash out.

It's a big lesson to all those who fell from the old trick.

People falling for scam will always be a common thing no matter how even they get oriented about scams because most humans were born with imbedded greed and once they see any means to get earn profit, they do venture into it without proper research. Also we have certain sets of people that believes taking huge risk is the only way to earn more but that's not entirely true, only calculated risk should be considered! Scammers will always devise means to scam people, it once responsibility to be always ahead of the game!

people think they can get a quick money from doubling and freemoney from giveaways
but, they absolutely wrong, they will not get anything even they will lost their money if they joined a kind of ponzi scheme such as doubling scheme

It is strange that there are still some people who believe in doubling schemes, even though there has been a lot of education related to this.
Maybe greed has taken hold of them, so they don't think rationally anymore. Regarding the case of many famous people Twitter being hacked,
and many newbies are victims of scams. This is another proof that people are not careful in making decisions and there are still many hoping
to make money instantly. Just remember we live not in a fairytale world.

People still fall for these doubling scams and majority of the users are newbies who are attracted to the doubling as they have no idea about the market or how BTCitcoin works or generated, many of these doubling scams make the users think that they will be using those to invest in some other projects or getting these as mining rewards and it is a common mistake by the new users and when they try with low amounts they usually get the amounts back and then end up loosing when they send a bigger amount.

This money doubling scam is not new and even I once fell for a similar scam when I was new to crypto but luckily bitcoin was not that expensive that time like it is now so I just lost a small amount.

So if you are newbie you will always have to pay extra attention because scammers are lurking in every corner.

It's complete greed that consume people who fall for this scam, they managed to confuse themselves that the giveaways are real, they know how valuable bitcoin is but still they decide to take the risk, it's their money and I don't feel pity for them.

It's really insane to know that people actually fell for the Twitter Bitcoin giveaway scam. When will people stop being greedy? In this era, people still believe in money doubler schemes? These are some questions which keep surfacing in my mind when I saw whalebot alert tweeting transactions from that scam. We need to wise up, and use our common sense. All these keep denting the image of Bitcoin. Also, the Twitter hack might be an indirect attack to Jack Dorsey, the founder.

It's a call for Twitter and other organizations to upgrade their security. See how easy it was to hack popular Twitter accounts , then I ask if the firewall and other security modules were inplace. It's high time 2FA is taken seriously too, but when will people learn not to fall for common scams 🤔. Even till date, people still fall for crypto giveaway scams on Twitter and Telegram.

I believe people can fall for anything if they don't know what they are getting into, for some it's simply greediness and for others it's about something they know nothing about, they fail to seek for knowledge that's why they fall for such scam

It's much more on because bitcoin was a pseudonymous and that makes the scammers will be unable to be traced. BTW there was also a lot of people who have been searching him right now.
A big criticize should be on the security of twitter. That platform was a big crap.

It's the reason why they fall for that kind of scam. Being greedy for profit can also be the reason why people lose too much money instead of earning. For me, we can't blame them for falling and getting scammed on such giveaways since not everyone is fully aware of this kind of scheme in social media that is why they easily believe in what they saw on twitter. We all know that all the twitter accounts who got hacked are well-known exchanges and people in the field of cryptocurrencies so, probably this might be the reason as well why they fall on it. There's no such instant double money in cryptocurrency that's why we need to careful and knowledgeable so, we can avoid all those scams and fake giveaways.

So this, this should be always they remember and should bear in their mind that there's no instant money given on the internet. This an old scam strategy but still there are numerous people in crypto space who are newbies and didn't know yet what will the outcome because they only think a sudden profit could possibly have but the fact it ended up nothing.

Not only in Twitter scam case. It should be in general that any kind of doubler investments are usually end up to scam. Think first if how they can generate profit for only doubling investment, unless if they will run away and take all the fund they'd collected. Naive and lazy people will always fall on this trap.

Because the hacked twitter accounts are big people in crypto. so many believe and immediately send Bitcoin to get more rewards than the bitcoin that we send. That's a lot of people who experienced fraud on the case, it is really sad. People believe because the posts through tweets from big people in crypto. I no longer follow the development of this case, whether the perpetrators have been found or not.

Yes, there is nothing to be sorry for in this matter, because everyone is free to make their own decisions without having to follow the advice of others, even though they have suffered great losses, it has simply been considered by himself.

I found it hilarious that people still fall for the doubling scheme. I would love to see how those people react if a vending machine with "Put in 50 cents to receive 1 buck" sign. How come people like them still exist, even got their hand on bitcoin as well?

Most of the newcomers want to earn money in the shortcut way and dream too much. They don't learn even when others are harmed. Some people learn after hurting themselves.
No matter how much you are warned, the newcomers will remember for a maximum of a few days and then if they step on the wrong path again, they will not correct the mistake until they are harmed.

You're correct, those scammers cut many unaware, because of these notable twitter accounts they hacked into to carry out their evill acts. Even the elite in the world of cryptocurrency were not alerted as many fell for this before the news went viral on social medias about the hacks. Those scammers understand the greediness that's with humans, and took the opportunity to scam gullible cryptocurrency holders.

In this case, Binance and other well-known Twitter accounts had a lot of authority, which allowed scammers to convince newcomers of the reality of doubling the balance. In addition, these newcomers do not understand how the cryptocurrency market works. Otherwise, they would understand that there is no such way to double your balance in 1 day.

Now you said it. There was really someone who really didn't understand how Bitcoin or crypto work but did think you can x2 balance in a short amount of time? If there is then I really want to know how they able to get hold of some Bitcoin.

OP sounds like the recent hacking of twitter accounts of celebrities not into their consideration at all. I mean people would not have gone to believe doubling schemes if there was no twitter accounts of highly famous people involved. So, it must be an attempts with well planning. The lessons we should learn here must be, we should not trust all social media including emails because any hacking may happen at any time and hackers may try to scam like this.

We cannot assume all the people are having well awareness against all types of ponzi schemes. Because we cannot assume all common people are having experience throughout various Internet activities. This is the reason why scammers still keep on attempting because whenever new people are entering into Internet, these hackers are finding them as possible candidates.

I was really shocked to see that people fell for such trick,even if it was Cz or the rest of them, why would you send bitcoin to them just like that, greed is indeed a sickness,if they weren't sick,I'm sure they wouldn't have sent their bitcoin to whoever that claims to double it, people should learn to avoid reoccurrance, no free money.

People will always fall for scam which is because of the greed embedded in many humans. Once some people heard of any means to double their capital, they do forget all their investments instincts letting greed to take over their better part. maybe people need to understand more that no one will present you an investment options that will double your capital