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During the covid crisis, I met a man on Facebook, who was friendly and chatty our conversation was normal,so we exchanged numbers and move to Whatsapp and share massages, After some weeks he started introducing me to crypto currency, how it works, how it been used to earn,he ask me to open a binance account, showed me on how to fund my account  he also  introduced me to his platform and persuaded me  to sign up then he showed me how to move the money to a trading platform where it will be invested. I made my first payment which I was seeing on my dashboard clearly and also how I can freely  withdraw it back to my binance account.

On the third that he persuaded me to invest more money so that I will earn bigger but I instead to see and withdraw the first investment before making or investing more but he keep on persuading me so i starting have doubts and bad feelings about it , I decided to open  the investment site to see if my money is safe and can be withdraw but when I open the investment site I found out that my trading site stopped working then I reached out to him, he asked me to contact customer service which I did and they told me that my account was blocked and I need to pay certain amount of money to unlock my funds, which I did then  I try again to withdraw my funds but i couldn't,  i contacted the customer service again they also demanded for more money, At this moment i absolutely knew that I have been scammed.

When I read this sentence, there's a something wrong with him. It's good he explain you what is crypto and how it's work, but explain how to earn and ask you to open an account is suspicious. It's a stranger or even your best friends, they will not tell you to earn easy money since if they know how to get it... they will keep silent and do it themself. Anyone want to be rich, but no one will ever reveal his secret to be rich.

No social media is safe.. because these types of scams are mostly spread through social media sites in the first place. And scammers will find more and more enticing ways to find victims; so the only real solution here is to think realistically and in a non-delusional manner.

"if it's too good to be true, it probably is."

Strangers don't have any good intent for you when they PM you first, internet is now full of scammers who pretend to have something good to offer but that's all lies, become the boss of yourself do not listen to strangers or receive any private messages from them.

You need to report this individual's ID to Facebook and also if possible raise a police complaint against him. If you know the scam platform URL then do report that URL to Google. It is a possibility that Google might be displaying the platform link in its search result. Google link - https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?hl=en

If someone unknown is suddenly wants to be a friend then always remember their intention is wrong. Therefore avoid such conversation.

I don't think you can blame social media for this. You could have fallen for this scam any other way, like seeing an ad on some website or reading about it on a forum promising you big returns by investing in something you don't even know what it is (ie. cryptocurrency). Take token hype for example. We have had lots of people being scammed by ICO, IDO, IBO, IEO, ITO, STO, DeFi, NFT,... on this forum alone!
The only thing about social media is that the scams there are more targeted and they hit up individuals instead of mass scams.

These scammers will never stop so only we have to be careful with our actions, here the scammers earned your trust and scammed your money so never trust anyone even if the person so close to you when it comes to money matters, make the decisions by yourself.

You should name the platform if it is still up to warn other people from using that platform, this is a bad start for you in Cryptocurrency but posting your experience here will help people to understand that social media is not something you ask for advice when it comes to investing, I was introduced to Cryptocurrency from a friend who I know very well, people should only take advice from people who they know personally and always do your own research it's your money, whatever happens, it's your losses.

Dillonhebist, I'm sorry for your bad experience.
You have learned the hard way how many people use the Internet to cheat people.
Nowadays, one really needs to be very careful, and check every investment offer thoroughly.
You should always search the internet and see what others have to say about that investment offer, and also check to see if there is a legal company behind it all.
If you can't get the name of the company or the owner, and there are a lot of negative comments on the Internet, that should be enough of a warning against investing.
It is also important to study the crypto industry and know more about everything, and not believe the stories of others.
You really don't need the help of others to invest in crypto and you can do everything yourself.
I hope that this bad experience did not discourage you and that you will continue to invest, but believing more in yourself than in others.

If you name the end site they used to scam you through, I’m pretty confident that it will turn out to be similar in nature to other concurrently running sites we can find around, frequently referred to through social media channels. Bear in mind that the media is just that – a channel, in this case, purposedly used to scam, just like any other channel can be. Faceless is shameless.

I bet that the argument used went somewhere along the line of this other platform can offer you much higher returns than you’ll ever get by trading on Binance, providing mind-blowing examples …

This is exactly were the problem stemmed from, i mean doesn't it look good to be true that a random person is so concerned about your financial life and immediately wants to help yo make money, i am afraid things do not work that way, and again this scammers know novices are usually aroused by the mention of crypto, cause they see it at a means to get rich very quickly.

Having said that, the problem here is greed, you hoped you could make money without any effort, no research, no patience, just invest and reap returns, i am pretty sure a part of you knew all along that this offer seems shady, but the 'greedy part' wouldn't let you have a second thought on it, i am sorry you had to learn your lesson the hard way, but the good thing is you did learn a lesson, and if you grow on that, you'll prolly not fall for scam going forward.

Oh dear, if only you would have made some research about cryptocurrencies and related scams then you would have had the chance to avoid this scam with you.
Such scams are quite normal these days where people approach you on social media and persuade you to invest in some crypto platform.
I have myself been contacted by many people on social media platforms such as Instagram, Telegram, Twitter, Reddit etc...
But since I am a long term member of this forum I am aware of the most of the scams and have never been scammed except once (Bitconnect).

We all learn, one way or the other. It's a pity some get to be scammed first before they learn. In this case, OP has  learnt the lesson they paid for. For me, even when I know someone for a long time and they're trying to introduce me to a trading platform, I get skeptical and on the alert. Let alone when I'm being introduced to a trading platform by a random stranger of over a few weeks. OP made themselves an easy target. I hope the amount scammed wasn't much anyway. Report both the trading site and the user's Facebook handle and then move on.

From what I read, it seemed like you got "too attached" to whoever this man is that made you move your money to his "platform". OP should learn that nobody would give a crap about one's money unless s/he will give it to somebody.

Scammers are everywhere, OP. Even if you get attached to someone, never ever entrust your money to a person you just met in social media. I wouldn't even entrust my money to my friends in a blink of an eye.

This is literally all you needed to know you were being scammed.  You do not randomly meet someone who is friendly, suddenly introduces you to making money and all of that for free.  That is one in a million and I would take it with the biggest existing grain of salt.

There is a saying.  When something is offered to you for free, you are the product.  Big, true words.  You have been sold a scam.  Unfortunately, most of the victims falling to these scams are horny men hoping to get rich overnight and a one night stand with some sexy Asian woman who contacted them all of a sudden while this 'Asian woman' never even existed on the other end of the conversation.  They get what they get though, these scams are pretty obvious if you use basic, common sense.

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That's the usual scam that they'll directly hit you a personal message. At first, they'll make rapport so that you'll feel confident as if they really care for you.
But in reality, it's part of the scam so that when they ask a favor, you'll easily going to follow them and you're kind to them because they seemed kind to you. As said, that's part of the trick, to play with your emotion. They're on different social medias and as well as telegram and discord groups.

Scammers have many dimensions of deceiving people and especially newbies that needs instant money and multiplication of finance, what normally lead's them to scam platform is greedy of making more than capital via trading investment, how can op continues to fund account someone created and at the same time someone will be persuading you to fund an account and you continue to dance the person's tune, what i will tag his level of scamming is ignorant, because everyone is smart enough for online platform investment that you don't know the profile of the platform, I don't think such is still in existence.

As a matter of fact, you have to be pretty naïve and gullible to fall for these kinds of scams.

There are always going to be scam artists out there. They will find new ways to obtain and use your information. They will find new ways to get you to do things you might not otherwise do. This type of scam is actually quite common and has existed for a long before social media sites became a popular part of the online world. And these types of scams will continue as long there are greedy, immoral, impulsive, gullible, or just plain dumb individuals out there seeking easy ways to make money. So, in that sense, it’s likely that you are going to have to deal with such scammers in some form or fashion for the rest of your life.

I think we must be careful about the social media accounts we have so that we can use them well and with security we can use

from your story what i focus on is that you not met him in person but you dare to invest your money in that person. even though you feel  comfortable with him but please don't trust strangers, especially regarding financial investments and this will be your experience for the future

Social media can be useful for us but also there are reasons to be hesitant to use it.   Privacy or lack there of privacy being the first reason why I am careful with Social media.
But it is also part of many daily lives and part of society.  So I think to be anti social media isnt right but just be careful cause it's not safe and proven.

We can say that about everything over internet.
Not only the social media but anything is not safe.
Do your own research, use your brain and trust no one than those you know

The correct statement should be "No place is safe".
It is correct we understand this sad reality that no place is safe. In your immediate environment, even the few friends you could look upto are not safe. Do not depend, do not rely on anyone to make money. They will not do it for you, it is only your trusted friends and relatives that will give you necessary information to make money and you will work your way out. What you need is genuine information and not invest in so so platform.

Everywhere is not safe so we need to double our security do not give our trust easily in new sites like what kingsden said even your friend or  best friend is not safe cause money can change your decision example if you gave them an big amount of money to gamble or anything what you want to. But as a human we are all sinners and the temptation is there, and other person saw a huge amount of money they commit a sin. Like in social media there are many scammers now adays.

Yes, everything is not totally safe but social media is the worse of it all and I am surprised that the OP just understands this fact because social media is never safe right from the beginning.
Meanwhile, trusting an outsider's investment advice is bad when people are always to always dyor first and the worst part is the OP didn't ask questions about this issue after the person makes her create an account on this forum.

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No place is safe at all but Social media is worst because the person you trust can decide to deactivate his/her Social media account after the scamming strategy works very fine,  be deactivating of his/her account their wont be any way for the person to be reached again through social media.

You don't have to trust anybody you meet on the internet no matter how nice they are to you, hope the amount you invested in the site is not really much and also the amount you paid to unlock your account is not really much. I will definitely blame you for everything that happened because why don't you do research about the site which he asked you to invest in and also why will you trust the person you meet on the internet.

Social media is the fastest and easiest way to spread scams and sell conviencing scam projects or intents. When it comes to investment depending on a random person in an online platform to make investment is likened to throwing funds into the lagoon. If an investment looks legit enough avoid using a link sent to you on social media rather try confirming the site using Google search and also read about their mission statements

Every legit social media platforms are safe if you

1. Don't reply strangers PM.
2. Don't click on random links.
3. Don't FOMO on projects on Twitter and telegram, instead do your own research.
4. Don't plan on doubling your money just because someone said it's possible.

Social media users are the ones walking into traps themselves.

Hmmmm to check this, l believe that it is both disadvantage an advantage because so people are using social media as scams an fraud i.e. interm of disadvantage but there is till good information on social media,because in social media message are been send ie it could be email an text message.

I do not agree, in my opinion most social media platforms aren't concerned about your privacy, as a matter of fact, they are even created to somewhat ensure you do not have a private life by linking you up with friends and people who may know you, just as facebook does for example. And mind you that it doesn't even matter if you post or not, the information they request from you upon registering is usually enough for them to know who you are.
There is no way to prevent scammers from joining a social media platform as there is no way to identify them as scammers when they are registering, the onus is on the user to do their research, verify who is communicating with them, and shun greed.

From your experience with the man you just met on Facebook and the next thing to come to your mind is to be your saviour (God sent) helper,  this is a wrong approach as things are not done all of a sudden, you can't expect someone you're yet to build a quality relationship with just decided to help you within a little space of time you met come on.... That's a suspicious act and if one is not careful  will end up being a victim of scam, many has been a victim of such people because they tend to prove been smarter or to quickly  grab advantage,  scams come in different ways and techniques, watch out.

Well every known social media platform there is indeed legit, but the problem is those who reside in the Marketplace side of the social media. I am not sure if Twitter has like sort of "Marketplace" section like Facebook but in Facebook, there's just plenty of them and it isn't all just crypto-related stuff. Even in the part of selling physical goods, there are those who are highly skilled in PS and you just can't use Google Image search/Google Lens to see if the item being sold is even legit.

We're on the internet days and this type of scam will never be gone.

A sad approach to those victims by these scams that they're too quick to believe what they've been told about. That's why, someone has to educate himself on what he's tackling about specifically in cryptocurrencies.

You can have someone to teach you what you lack of but that doesn't mean that you can never learn on your own.

In social media, everything is not safe and can be dangerous, it is open enough for everyone who wants to see our profile and also to interact with us.
That is why we should have more control over our own social media, by setting the privacy and also make a certain settings in order to limit the chance of scammers and also we only limit for friendship with only friends that we know.

One point to always note for us, never trust anyone that we know from social media, except that we exactly know them in real life, we must also still be careful about it. Moreover when someone is offering something, not only investment but also products, themselves, photos, identity and many more that they may give us. Moreover if this si related to a kind of investment. I will ignore everyone who invites me to invest soemthing from social media information. Better to be more and more careful

This is the truth because when they started to approached you via email or pm, you need to be alarmed and automatically consider it a scam right away because they already calculated and have all the recipes once you reply to their message and you might even think that they were the best man in the world while they were acting. When they knew their victim is simple-minded, that's when they let you do things that you aren't even aware of it being scammed. The best thing to do is ignore and delete the message once you receive such kinds of offers.

Being scammed through social media are becoming common. Strangers for the most part have no great plan if offering money making method just for simple clicks. Our simple mistakes can lead harmful things. Basically when a strangers approach you through pm or any methods they have most certainly interest include it. However, Ignore and delete the messages with unconscious mind not would be the best arrangement. But, verify because some messages could turn out qualified to peruse as well as ideal technique to follow.

Social media has turned out to be a place different manners of scammers exit. I hardly click on a link sent to me by a close friend talk more of a stranger I met on social media. Social media is not a place you can easily trust someone. Avoid anyone persuading you to click on a link to sign-up cos it doesn't end well. We're on a stage of everyone is finding who to scam. Don't ever trust anyone

You communicating with a stranger is the first step of a high risk structured investment offer scam and he measures your potential in investment knowledge, then bid greed begins!

You didn't provide specific investment information, but I assume that he is the owner/team of an investment type website or an affiliate member who invites the victim to add as much funds as possible for fake profits.

Extortion is very heinous, even though you are part of the investor supporting the development of the project, but you are not treated like an investor from the platform service team.

You have to resist the temptation of fake profit offers from every social media post, scammers use access to millions of social media users to lure investment victims to specific websites. You must diligently understand the basics of investing and be able to identify fraudulent investment strategies to avoid the risk of losing your funds in vain. Control your money and control your mind.

You can't trust the persons you have met online and most of the scams are through these platforms.The people fall for them in greed or any other way but regret later on.Use these social platforms for your knowledge and avoid contacting with unknown persons who demand money from you.The security steps should be taken with care to protect yourself.

Social media is now a place to find new targets to be scammed and social media is not a comfortable place to chat about business, especially with people you just met.
If he has started pointing you towards something you don't already know, it's best to take some time to learn it and if you find it strange, you shouldn't continue to be friends with him.
We have to be more careful on social media because we really don't know who really wants to help us or just wants to trick us.
If it's about money, just say that you don't have money and you don't work at all.

Scamming is very rampant in social media and if you play like you can easily trust even strangers, that's when they start seeing you as a new target. The moment that you were asked to put more money on your investment, that's already a red flag. You should not be investing in the first place if you think that you lack knowledge in it. Be more realistic. Everything is earned through hard work, and if that person has promised you for a huge return in an instant, its clearly one way of deceiving you. No one gets to earn without no effort made.

I agree! There are so many scammers that will make you feel like they are the most genuine people in the market. Honestly, I avoid talking with traders. All traders/investors should be aware of the common scams people do on social media.

Social media is safe in some ways.
What isn't safe is to have a conversation with a complete stranger and trying to invest into his project or scam or whatever it is called.
What isn't safe is to just invest your money without proper research.
What isn't safe is to just interact with some random stranger out there and you falling into his alluring sales talk and invested into what he is saying.

That isn't safe. Social media is still safe if we are talking about investing because in the end, you are the one who will decide whether you will invest or not. You can prevent yourself from getting scammed if you will not interact with strangers. You can prevent getting scammed if you know which are scam and which are not. You can prevent getting scammed if it's too good to be true already.

Anything is not safe in cyberspace. Most scammers will target those high audiences like social media and other platforms since there are many people on it, and they can find the target easily. I can't imagine scammers nowadays exert a lot of effort like it is their job to scam you. They will spend time and a lot of flowering words to scam you, and still, some people are not made aware of this modus. When someone tries to ask you to invest in it, and your money will be back in a small period of time without any effort, then you should be cautious and have a background check on it.

One of few reasons why we need to put more detailed information on our social media handles since it can be a good indicator to them that you are a nice target. So better stay low key and always use social media as your means of communication so that you can avoid to get scam or getting any harm by people who always do crime using the modern tech nowadays.

I always remember a sentence from a book > "truly successful people don't easily tell their secrets", like MLM members or Ponzi scammers, they lure other people with sweet promises and future success which is all just a fantasy. always suspicious of people who suddenly become friendly with you on social media, even if it's your sibling (sibling you haven't been in touch with for a long time).

Social media has advantages and disadvantages but in the world of crypto there are many scammers out there trying their best, working 24 hours in order to find a victims using social media platforms and we should be aware with this kind of people. And you are right this mate staying in low key has a low percentage to be scammed because the more you put an private information on public the more the high percentage of being scammed.

The point where social media becomes unsafe is when the principle of its existence has been ignored. That is, beyond using instagram, Facebook, tiktok do the purpose it was designed for, seeking other use for it is what attracts interests we often do not need. Like someone suddenly starts chatting with you because you liked a page or made a comment to show how rich one is, is clearly red flags to the way it was intended for use.
Private and family photos are often times discouraged, location information and other personal details with which one can be blackmailed or followed around with is a no-no for social media. Most importantly of all is making new friends on line. Not every one is a friend online. Some are just spies and we are to be careful too.

The advantage of it you use social media on business for sure you can spread out your products by just multiple posting it on different groups or in marketplace. But if you are posting to much information like flexing your status,where you are and wealth maybe this will lead you to danger so best to stay low key if you don't have running business using social media to avoid any harm.

Indeed, we must use social media wisely and limit what can be shared and what cannot. This principle cannot be ignored. Because, social media can be accessed by people from anywhere, and life on social media is virtual life, not real. A person can disguise himself as someone else, with other characteristics. And many swindlers pretend to be nice, to be helpers. Because of this, we must have boundaries, especially when meeting new people, and never trust new people, especially those who offer ways of investing and trading on a platform. Social media always has positive ad negative sides, that is why we must also be smarter, wiser, and more careful in any action.

Before you sign up does he redirect you to a specific URL similar to the Binance site.?
Social media is a nesting place for scammers, most of the scams come from there. Don't easily trust anyone you just know, especially when it comes to finances. The way he persuaded him to invest more money seemed coercive, Your doubts and bad feelings have saved you from a bigger loss.

Next time watch out for the kind attitude of people you just meet on social media because they could be "weasel in sheep's clothing". If there is something you want to know you can ask here, the Seniors will be happy to help answer your questions.

Wow, have read about this scam but first time came to read whole story.  sorry for your loss, hope you can move on.

In other words, we need to do our due diligence and use common sense. Learn how to have a second thought mentality rather than just simply believing on what your “fake friend” has offered you.

Also learn how to always double, triple or multiple check the links and social media handles that were shared to you to see if they are legit or not. In my case when a scammer attempts to scam me with his ridiculous post trying to collaborate with me, I usually go to the official Discord or Telegram to verify it to the admins if this guy is indeed working with them or not.

If yes, then we continue the collaboration. If not, I’ll automatically block that person.

Do you what happened to you?
You were much desperate to make an earning from unknown person after much advices from various thread how scammers do use to scam people in various social media. I won't lay any blame to the scammer but you because i believe belonging to this forum could make you much wiser instead of just being scammed, then i have received lot of pm and messages from many social to invest with them most especially Telegram this sets of people are very common on TG after you were being scammed they will immediately changed their telegram username to what i don't know before you knew it they block and runaway.
To be at safer side, whenever you receive an investment messages just block them instantly otherwise you could be convinced to invest with them without knowing they are fake and scammers.

Some people like the OP might be very happy to get a message that he got a very big gift, but from someone he never knew. this is because of their ignorance of the scammer's methods to trap the victim and the victim is very easy to be tricked and tricked into doing the given task.
Trying to be on the safe side of course must know what the scammer's methods are and not trust unknown people who give gifts or give massive discounts on offered investments.

I really like these words "...second thought mentality..."
This is really important to apply in everything, especially in making friends with strangers in cyberspace. Because we will not really know the person, even if we have met and made friends in the real world, we don't have to trust him 100%. This second-thought mentality is important so that we want to think logically, think twice, and always cross-check before taking or deciding an action or decision. because regret will only be at the end and usually we can not repeat it. This kind of thing basically becomes our basis in real life, don't trust anyone 100%, especially people we know through cyberspace.

From what the OP, said I think common sense is what is most important for the OP have totally trust the person after he has introduced him to crypto, Binance which is the most trusted exchange.
If the OP use common sense, he would have asked himself the right question which will make him stop depositing another fund into the scam platform since crypto is never a quick rich scheme.

There are a lot of people trying to scam in different ways that's it is just okay if you exchange ideas because by that you got enlightened about the things needed in cryptocurrency but of course don't become dependent only to him, make your own research platform you trying to use and invest if they are safe, reality thing only few people would like to help without exchange or get something into you, I guess this will serves as lesson to your cryptocurrency progress.

Trust is mostly targeted by scammers now a days, and you can't predict if your new online friend will be trusted, as they will do everything to gain your trust, or in some cases, they will turn out to be scammers if they see that you can be easily manipulated. Trust and common sense really need to be used with caution at this time, and you should double check and not easily trust people when money is involved. As others have said, a person will show their true colors if they are already involved with money.

Showing or letting someone know your vulnerability either online or in real life is the faster way of being a victim of a scammer and it could not be a scam that involves money because some people are also scammed sexually.
Nonetheless, it is not good to totally trust someone even after the person is being tested.

It is very bad trusting a random fellow on social media and discussing investments on a personal message. Even meeting them onsite is not safe either. Investment in crypto is carried out on reputable exchanges. The social medias is full of scammers and looters ready to waste and spoil off what people have gathered. It is sad you had a bad experience OP.

This is where thieves catch newbies easily because they know that at the mention of bigger gain they will rush in. Anyone can promise you anything online but first mark sure they have a track record you can trust. Since he chatted with you on WhatsApp that means you have his number. Trace the number and know how you can track him.


The story in the OP has nothing to do with security of social media account. It talked about how op got scammed and it was greed that caused it.

Social media is a very good platform for information exchange and communication, but at the same time it is full of fraud. Some people say that Musk has the world's largest media of lies. Although it is a joke, it also illustrates a problem: one is the inductiveness of public figures' speech, and the other is that information needs to be screened, and you must judge whether it is true or false.

Let me make very clear to everyone, I'm not reacting to this discussion base on the subject sentence of this thread or but I'm emphasising on it because this statement that stipulates that ^ every rich person don't exposed his it's secret of surviving for free^ i felt excited because of the clause of the statement, but it's very clear and understandable that reviewing a scret of your pathways of surviving is very difficult, and that's while some people doesn't share the methods they use for having or making a profit via trading. I think you're right.

Unfortunately, this is a classic scam promoting fake exchanges/trading platforms that supposedly block your account and request money from you in order to "unblock" your funds. Social media aren't to blame in this case, and reporting that person to Facebook might only close their account at best. The police will rarely interfere with such cases as well, since chances are that any information you were given was forged and it is way too much of a hassle for the police to actually catch such a scammer. In many cases, they might be in a third-world country.

I haven't heard of a similar incident through Facebook. Such scams are known on Discord servers and Telegram groups, pretending that you won a prize through an exchange but still need to pay a small fee to withdraw.

Social media has more often been used as a scamming location, and as such, it is generally a good way in which you can easily be duped and scammed.
 One of the quickest and simplest ways to be scammed is via social media. The majority of con artists form pointless friendships with their victims in order to take advantage of them and defraud them.
  When con artists present you to a platform or website where you will be scammed, you may occasionally find it confusing and contradictory. Websites That Sell Fake Products are another example in addition to social media. These websites sell bogus goods including face masks and hand sanitizer.
False health organizations: Scammers assume the role of medical experts.

   Beware of con artists!

the majority of fraudsters use social media to find their prey because of the tendency of people to have too high expectations on social media without thinking realistically.  I quite often get messages from someone who I suspect is a scammer, they seem very friendly, but in the end, someone asks for money and someone asks me to meet.

You made a mistake by falling into his trap. Every social media outlet is full of scammers, so no one should trust anything they say. I almost fell into that trap, but I was smart enough to avoid it. You can see a lot of scammers out there setting up platforms on their own, and if you fall for them, some of them may even give you a first profit. However, when you try to do it again, you will realize that everything you have vanished. The best thing for us is to stop believing  Because if it was someone you had previously known, he could never escape from you.

yes youre right, sometimes they will make us believe that they are good and can give us a good advantage. actually there are many modes used by the fraudsters, if you are new to someone on social media you should never trust someone even though he looks good and considerate.
stay alert and don't be careless about all forms of online fraud, the fraudsters will always think of various ways to cheat. remember that someone we often meet can deceive us especially people we have never met at all.

Sorry for your sad experience. People you don't know don't just randomly offer to help you especially on social media without a hidden agenda. I kind of wonder how people make some kind of mistakes, even if it's your close friend that introduces you into a business or investment, you really need to take time to find out more about such business before commiting you money into it, not to talk of someone you don't know from adam. There are scammers everything, they come with different ploys to lure unsuspecting individuals and we all need to be careful not to fall for their tricks.

If you are adding unknown people to your social media accounts and giving them your information, it surely isn't safe at all. This is why they allow only 13+ year age to access Social Media.
Also, the privacy which we hinder ourselves with Social Media accounts is too vulnerable. One should stay lowkey to enjoy the most in the life. :D

You can make connections on social media which is good but trusting them on level where you share information with them is out of mind especially when we can't tell how genuine the other person is or even his gender.People fall for it and then regret later on which has no meaning because you should take privacy steps earlier without falling in their trap.Social media is full of scammers where you will recieve lot of such persons trying to find new victims and it's hard to trace them because these platforms are not asking for verifications or something like that so be aware to share any information with strangers over there.

Social media is sometimes scary, because criminal acts such as fraud are very easy to do, and when you are deceived like you are, you must be confused about what to do. Because if you have been deceived through social media like that, it will definitely be very difficult to be able to report the crime. Because all the motives carried out by the fraudster are indeed very neat and will definitely be difficult to investigate. So if that's the case, just make it a lesson, that social media is also not spared from what is called crime.

In the future, you have to be more careful, especially with people whose identities you don't know clearly. Because don't get caught in the same case. Then if you are still interested in the world of crypto, it's better to learn on your own at the beginning. Because if you already have basic knowledge about crypto, when you ask questions or share with other people, you won't be easily deceived, because you already have the basic knowledge.

And if you want to invest in crypto, try to use a platform that has clear information and clear security.

Well, the sooner one gets to really see the positive application of social media to their everyday life and business, the better for everyone.
People make huge funds on social media, irrespective of the porous nature of it.
It is a digital age, and that fear of having ones data exposed on social media should be refuted. Instead, security measures and protocols should be adhered to inorder to prevent the ills of social media bearing down.

The truth is that when you expose your weakness to someone, he will at some point want to take the advantage of that weakness. It has become a natural religion of people. No one should be trusted offline or online. The OP is very nicely used by the scammer and he also acted as per the instructions of the scammer. Nowadays people have no morality so they cannot be trusted. They do not hesitate to do any immoral act. But if the OP hadn't been able to figure this out quickly, he could have lost even more money. I hope OP remembers the lessons he learned from this for the rest of his life.

Social media is the last place you could trust anyone, especially if it's a stranger that you have never met in your life. Even if the person is telling the truth, always have a sense of distrust 🤨 and don't give the person 100% trust; otherwise, you can be jacked several times because scammers on social media have different strategies for making you build trust for them before they strike with their evil scammy act. Some scammers can go to the length of even sending money to you just to earn your trust, and after they are fully convinced that they have won your trust, they will ask you to do some transaction or trade with them, and they can rub off X10 of what they gave you. For you, OP, and every other person, don't trust anyone on social media. Even if those scammers offer to send money to you, you can accept the money based on what you choose to do, but don't send money to them.

Cheers 🥂, Dr.Bitcoin_Strange 👺👺

Not disputing the fact that social media has done so many good things especially in promoting the business of so many people and it has also been a source of income to so many who has used it as a source of livelihood through the monitization of their pages but I think social media has done more worse than good as it has led so many to their early graves through misinformation and scams which are the major disadvantages of it.Having seen the good and bad part of it I think taking more safety measures and not believing everything seen on social media will help in reducing so of the damages it has caused.

But the worst social media for scamming is Facebook and telegram and now they have added Twitter. I only see social media as place to have fun with colleagues, friends and relatives. Though some people use it for businesses of all kind. But even through the business scammers are using it to scam people. Using social media to buy things is not save and not advisable.

I have a completely different stance on it. You are saying Social media nahh in my views the whole Web 2.0 is not at all safe. You don't have privacy here, a huge amount of misinformation, and copied and unauthentic data. My view is if we continue to stay on Web 2.0 our future generation will not be able to find real information, Reason is very simple.. Because you are not even able to control your own created content, you are dependent on the Platform whatever it is.

So buddy Social media is not the only one which is not safe the whole web system is tricky you have to be careful with it. I am not sying Web 3.0 is long live and blah bla you better know about it, I just want to say we need reforms, not only reforms actually what we need are critical reforms and it seems currently its not possible.

When they know how dangerous social media is for their privacy - then they will close all their social media accounts. But some things are also important to have social media, it is a preventive measure for impersonation on your behalf. If you have - do not post anything that you think is not safe for your privacy.

Social media is not safe - that's true, but when we don't have it then someone might be able to use it for his personal gain. So only use social media as necessary and reasonable, not to endanger privacy.

Social media is not safe but it is very powerful. I have made some research and understood that so many children born in this time has no privacy. Even from their mother's womb, their identity has been leaked by their parents. After knowing things about social media, I wish I didn't open any social media account with my real identity name

The method in which social media is built makes it already to endanger privacy. Viewing people's status is like monitoring their lives because with a careless status update you can know much about the person.

Maybe you've heard the phrase never trust anyone you just met, you were lured into investing and opening a Binance account based on persuasion from people you know on Facebook, not from your own knowledge. Your story sounds very funny to me, you are so easy to trust people who have never met face to face with him.
Need to be careful when it comes to money, anyone would want to multiply their money more than the activities carried out. Never do anything without being based on science because it is very risky for you.

On social media, fraud often occurs. Don't trust strangers who message you and tell you to do anything. You have to be careful, and don't trust strangers easily, especially when it comes to money.

Because social media is not safe doesn't mean you shouldn't have a social media account. We use a lot of things that are not safe. Some part of the internet can be unsafe, buying stuff online can be unsafe, but does that mean we should no use it? Nah!
It means we just have to be smart and careful.

Take OP's story for example, he was introduced into something, he didn't research about it, he didn't ask questions from other people, he just did as he was told. This was from a total stranger.
How do you expects scammers to approach you? Like scary, ugly looking demons? Nah! They come as friends, as people who want to give an opportunity of the your lifetime.
It's okay to use social, we just have to be smart and not greedy.

It's always similar stories of fake trading site that require the victim to pay certain amount of money to be eligible to take their earning. The growth of scam in the cryptocurrency market is becoming alarming and everyone should stay careful from con artists. When chatting with a stranger it's a good technique not to stay consistent or replying their messages often. Make out two days gap before replying their DM and you'll see how fast they'll lose interest in chatting you. Op was carried away with the chats to the extent of getting persuaded, which should have been an immediate red flag, but he found out when they've already swept his money.

I'm so sorry about this incidence and I can also  relate with this incidence because I was scammed of about $150 from paxful after clicking a phising link and approved a transaction that wasn't paid but I guess i learnt  it the hard way.
This incidence  you mentioned is a very familiar  one and I've heard alot of such similar  stories and stories like this and that of the binary investment options where one of the stories that have made it very difficult for bitcoin adoption globally and recently  I read an article that my country wasn't really against Bitcoin  and cryptocurrency in general but where trying to disassociate themselves from any of it's transactions especially in fraud cases.

No social media is truly safe and not just social media but the internet space in general isn't safe and we all just always be very careful and learn not to trust anyone

This is actually a typical type of scam. When you try to request a refund they don't let you and probably they'll block your account. If you inquire about the reason for the block, they will attempt to extort more money from you promising to allow withdrawal of your funds, but instead, they'll continue to scam you until you're financially drained.

I've come across numerous investment websites employing such tactics, and I myself fell victim to one a few years ago. However, since then I've learned my lesson and refrain from investing in cloud mining sites or any similar websites. It's possible that the person from Facebook who introduced you to the site could be the one who owns it and uses it to scam people in this manner.

The essence that I can pick up here is not to let us be easily influenced and also more easily told by people we don't know. The point is like that, yes, because everyone must have certain goals that he keeps secret from everyone so that his mission might fail immediately if we ignore his orders along with these influences. Because cheaters are smart people who usually use their words more often to make everyone fall for what they say, so ignoring it would be far better than continuing to care about their mission which will ultimately harm us.

Shiiitttttt!!!!
Why did you go that far?? Holy fuck! I mean, you saw the sings that you were supposed to back off and you didn't?? You kept on persisting?? What was your interest at first, when you decided to follow a dumbass instructions - someone you met on fb and barely know?? Do you think peeps are really that generous??... I mean .. he scammed you!!!!
Fuckkk!!! I really feel irritated! I wish I was there to get that goddam gadget from you cus you misuse it every time. Those theft are out there on every fucking social media platforms - all they do is try to convince you - ...and secondly, why would anyone try to convince you on something you're gonna benefit alot from at the end of the day?? Did you ask yourself that?? Just dumb!!

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

I was just wondering who bumped this over one year scam thread and it happens to have been you! Clearly a year and over 2months apart which should have dished this thread since November last year from the last comment before yours and that gives over 6months apart before you deemed it fit to lift it from the ashes just to remind us how social media is a place for con artists.

I don’t know but, I feel this shouldn’t have been and you ought to have let the thread get washed up with the others from it’s time as, the scheme is already polarized even though it continues to work on some not well informed people.

At times, pay heed to the warning signs not to bump an old thread.

How susceptible you were to this social media level of scam. Ignorance is a price in itself that some of us must pay, and you just paid yours. Sorry about that.
People shouldn't be in a hurry to accept investment plans shared to is by strangers we meet online not even our relatives and friends. Taking time to research about  any investment before jumping knowing how legit it is would have saved OP so much buy his greed to earn fast made him loss more.
Always give time for research its  important.

ignorance is the problem. how can someone who doesn't know much about investing be confident in the advice and direction of someone he just met on social media? even if he knows and has been in contact directly or only through social media, it is not feasible for us to trust them.
Social media can be very dangerous for those who are completely innocent. and social media can be a fun place for scammers to make money. we can only limit ourselves not to get trapped.

Most of it is like that, people on Facebook who introduce web mining sites by sending private messages to you, or through paid advertisements are just scam websites that will take your money if you make a deposit. it's actually an old method, but if you are tempted then it can't be saved anymore. I don't know why people who are trapped still believe in such scams, even though many warnings have been given. this is entirely up to everyone's greed so they don't see how it impacts.

The world has become so obsessed with social media that they can't stop using them even if they know very well that their private information and details are leaked when they are using them, the platforms themselves read and record everything that we do in there so that they can use this information to sell paid ads to their clients, so our privacy is totally exploited as soon as we join social media platforms, that's why we shouldn't join them in the first place if we don't want our privacy to be invaded.

If we talk about safety, I don't think you can be safe if your privacy is invaded like that, I mean, they use your words or stuff that you search and let scammers reach you through targeted ads since you have used certain keywords on the platform and they think you are interested in that stuff.

My condolences.. But, Actually not unsafe. We make it insecure. If you use Telegram if there is a notification that you don't recognize. Just block the user and don't respond. It's tempting indeed. MLM pattern is like that. the first one is always successful, and our gredy factor works. Add more with the assumption of quick profits. Yes. still can. last Yes. All in. That happened like you. Your number is blocked and the site is gone. All felt empty and regret for life.