Here is how you spot a scam:
A guy, girl, or transvestite contacts you on Telegram. That's it. Please follow me for more trading advice.

Joking aside, 8 or 9/10 unsolicited PMs over Telegram are surely a scam in one way or the other. It's not worth anyone's time.
This fake deposit scam sadly still works. Please deposit 0.01 BTC as a fee to withdraw the 1 BTC we gave you, and from where we can't take fees ourselves. 

Yeah, there is surely no Ledger IPO, otherwise they would have advertised that all over the place. We all know that Ledger spends loads of money on marketing and advertisement, and this is not something you would have missed if it existed.

Don't rule out that possibility that quickly. Hardware wallets are equally appealing to beginners with a bit more money to spend as well as those who have been around longer. And we have already seen all sorts of scams that successfully targeted HW users: Phishing scams where they entered their seed words, receiving and sending money to fake devices, getting tricked by social engineering schemes like address poisoning, etc.

It's not the friend who has had their funds locked, it's OP. The alleged friend tipped OP, later asked to get the money back. When OP tried to send the tip back, his account was already locked.

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it's weird that the site asks you to reset the password when that's exactly what you are trying to do (hopefully).
One of the images states that there is a security risk with your account of some sorts. Perhaps a weak password, no 2FA, etc. Did the casino send you any email after you clicked on the reset password button or are there any other emails from them? Some casinos, for example, require having 2FA active for withdrawals. 

Try to reset the password and then log in into your account. As holydarkness pointed out, you haven't entered the correct verification code.
How good of a friend is that online friend of yours? Some people are too fast to call strangers friends.

Let me give you an example of how such a scam could potentially work if your friend is part of the group of scammers.

1. Your "friend" gives you a tip.
2. He then asks you to give it back for whatever reason.
3. In the meantime, the casino blocks your account and doesn't allow you to send the money back.
4. Your friend pressures you to give him his money because he needs it.
5. Since you can't send back the tip, he might suggest you pay him from your personal wallet.
6. Eventually you give in and send him the $150 you owe him.
7. Your friend and the casino just made $150 from you.

That depends on the type of software. I agree with you that the desktop version of Electrum is a pretty neat piece of software. It could benefit from a DEX, for example. Maybe even a non-KYC fiat on/off ramp.
However, the mobile version of Electrum isn't my go-to client for a mobile wallet. It lacks several functionalities of the desktop client and it doesn't feel right. It looks like a weekend experiment developed by some students 20 years ago because they wanted to see how difficult app development is.   

It's interesting that the Crypto Guard box refers to the device as a hardware wallet, while the site you linked to calls it a device for password-protecting private keys. I guess it can be considered as both. it generates its own public and private key pairs, but the question is how secure all that is? Despite not being expensive, it's safe to say that the device never became popular, as there is almost no information about it anywhere.   

Any mixer that cooperates and listens to government demands shouldn't be trusted. Today the reasons could be that the money is stolen or hacked. Tomorrow, it could be because the owner is black, white, Jewish, Muslim, in the opposite party, anti government, too liberal, fascist, pro gay, young, old, American, Russian, Iranian... No censorship at all. A little bit of censorship opens the door to keep raising that bar in the future little by little. 

Wasabi's coordinator zkSNACKs works with an unnamed blockchain analysis company to surveil and identity UTXOs they consider "unwanted", "dangerous" or simply "tainted" in their own definition of those words. If the company tags certain UTXOs as such, they will be banned from coinjoining.

In that case, I would make them aware of the existence of this thread. PM the forum representatives you would like to hear from. But remember, it's all about image. None of them will tell you they will cooperate with any government investigation. What would really happen is something only they know, and it's not for the public.   

He mentioned it in our local board but I don't think it was in his thread where he announced Coinslotty. Yeah, he isn't the owner, but he is managing and operating it from a higher position. One that surely gives him some decision-making rights. If I remember correctly, the two casinos will be quite different one from the other.

Many? I don't think it's many. Some have pilot programs, where they are testing the new systems. I only know of China and Australia. Several other nations have announced readiness to start working on their own CBDC, like Russia, the US, or Sweden. Which countries use it officially as working digital tender? 

All countries want more control over their people, especially the big democracies of the world. That's where CBDC's enter the picture.

Obviously not, but we need some way to at least see what options are available. CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko serve that purpose just fine. After that, it's up to you to carry out more research and pick what you think is good.

There are dangers in all popular ways people look for new crypto exchanges. Looking on CMC or CG is one of them. Listening to so-called YouTube influencers and self-proclaimed "trading experts" is another. Asking google and trusting its suggestions also. And some people trust social media recommendations or reviews found over the internet. DYOR will always be necessary.     

I got my 6000th merit today and was in a mood to post that achievement here.


I feel like Obama right now. Not because I am a strong black leader and ex President, but because

Same here, to be honest. I much rather search for the service's ANN thread to get more information about it. And there is usually a link to the official website there. Then I compare to see if it's the same that I found on search engines.
But the signatures have its use, otherwise the projects wouldn't be advertising here. You see them, the pictures and designs get stuck into your mind and you remember the names. Later down the road, if you need a service like the ones you saw advertised on Bitcointalk, those images come back. That's one way the projects benefit from signature campaigns. 

Sa pandemijom su već uspjeli da naprave jednu vrstu razdora među ljudima. Tu ne mislim na razdor između onih na vlasti i pozicjama u odnosu na obične stanovnike već na vakcinisane i ne vakcinisane. I jedna i druga grupa je smatrala ovu suprotnu neprijateljima zbog svojih opredjeljenja.

Kad uspiju nagovoriti obične ljude da im pomognu sa smirivanjem onih nepolušnih (nije bitno u kojem kontekstu), tad će biti na konju. Bojim se da će za male novčane nagrade i razne beneficije brat brata cinkati i izdavati. Takvo onda društvo je moguće uvjeriti u šta hoćeš.   

Mislim da je menadžer popunio sve pozicije u Green zoni i trenutno ne traži nove članove. Što se tiče isplata, tačno je ovo što si napisao za obične članove. Ali oni koji uđu u Green zonu dobiju dodatna $2 za bilo koji rang. A to je značajna razlika, pogotovo za one iz nižih rangova. Taj dodatak od $2 Full Memberima je veči od njihove standardne tjedne isplate.

Neće tu biti puno izbora. Kad se najveće Evropske diktature, pardon države, odluče za uvođenje CBDC-a, na svim ostalim je da prate ili da snose manje ili veće posljedice.

Sam si spomenuo pandemiju. Nemaš vakcinu, nema ti ići tamo gdje ti želiš.
Nisi uveo CBDC, zato ćemo ti ograničiti pristup Evropskim fondovima dok ne uvedeš. Tvoji državljani bi da lete malo na godišnji, ha? Žao nam je. Od 1.1.20XX moguće je samo digitalnim eurom kupiti avio kartu. Više sreće sljedeći put. Hoćete da poslujete sa našim stranim firmama? Mi preferiramo CBDC. Izvolite platite 20% premiuma za vaše ne-programirane prljave eure. Svega tu može biti.

Sure. I am aware of Coinslotty and its owner from our local Croatian board, and there is a sense of professionalism and responsibility there. If I am not mistaken, he is considering starting a 2nd casino soon. Just to be fair to everyone and neutral, I will add Coinslotty together with some other casinos that were requested and that I find interesting the next time I add new names here.

I will check it out. I register a throwaway account on each casino and check the data personally. If they don't mention it on the withdrawal page, I'll ask support or post in their ANN thread.

I think you have found yourself a scam exchange. Not only did you deposit money into it but you also uploaded your personal documents. All you can do now is hope they won't sell them on the black market or try to misuse them for other activities.

I can't find anything useful about the exchange on Google.
The domain was registered in 2016. It first appears on Wayback Machine in 2001, (not sure how that is possible) but that achieve shows nothing useful. You can see here that the domain was for sale in 2017. In 2018, it already turned into an exchange and ICO platform.   

I assume you wanted to say their social media channels are dead or inactive. I am not sure how much they used them in the past at all.

Their Facebook page hasn't been updated with anything new since 2019.
https://www.facebook.com/fairlay

They have a reddit page that saw action 6 years ago the last time.
https://www.reddit.com/user/TeamFairlay/

Their Twitter page no longer exists.
https://twitter.com/fairlayDev/

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As dimonstration said, Housebets.io was announced on the forum a week ago, and I won't be in a hurry to add it in this collection.

OK, I made the necessary corrections in the table.
Since you have an account there and I don't, maybe you can check one more thing? The supported altcoins for withdrawals. According to the info I have from when my account was still working, Fairlay supports Litecoin, Dash, and Bitcoin Cash. Have they added some more alternative coins in the meantime?

True, but that's not the kind of information a random person like the OP would have. They would have to contact the casinos and ask for the information from them, and I don't know if they would be willing to share it in public. It also needs to be done regularly as each week/month can have different results.

I don't think that many people click on random signatures anyways. Perhaps only on those from high-quality members that are instantly recognizable.