This is the issue with altcoins: their projects may fail in the long term, disappear, collapse, and become scams, or their value might drop to zero, as is often the case with meme coins. Not all altcoins are safe and good for investment. Some offer no use cases or harmonious integration with the blockchain and lack competent teams and developers. Although your story ended with you losing your funds, you learned valuable lessons, such as having a long-term investment perspective, maintaining patience, having a job covering your expenses, and investing only what you could afford to lose. Also, your confidence and faith were shifted towards the leading and most secure cryptocurrency in the market, Bitcoin. You would not have reached this result if you had researched before investing and carefully studied all aspects of investing in this token that has disappeared.

Now, it does not matter the years you spent on wrong investments in the past; the decision you made to start a new journey with Bitcoin and increase your holdings is one of the best decisions, but you must control your emotions and not let your psychology overcome your rational decisions in addition to adhere your long-term strategy.

Perhaps the account you mentioned might be one helpful method in identifying rug pull projects, but this individual effort cannot be relied upon fundamentally. They cannot regularly count all the new projects in the hundreds. Also, it only publishes the token contract address without mentioning the project's name, account, website, etc.; it doesn't provide complete details.

Any investor wishing to invest in a project should do his own research and audit the token smart contract from one of the companies and platforms that offer this feature, such as DeFi, Chainaware, Cube3..etc. The investor must ensure that the project token has locked liquidity and examine the percentage of the liquidity pool; if the liquidity is unlocked, the developers can steal the entire liquidity and verify the number of token holders and the amounts of token supply they hold. Also, the most important point is to check the sell order limits for the token; this can be tested by purchasing a small amount of the token and attempting to sell it; the developers of the rug pull token can restrict investors from selling it and allow them to buy it. The project's website, communities, and many other factors and indicators can help avoid falling into rug pull projects.

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Thanks!

Despite your mistakes, you are lucky. I was one of the people who did not hear about it at the beginning and really didn’t have enough time to try to these Telegram games, as they consume a considerable amount of time.

FOMO affected you, which made you sell at 0.004 even though you could have sold at a higher price or waited longer. Perhaps many like you did not expect Notcoin to rise to a higher price again after sell-offs carried out those who received the airdrop and sold their holdings. If you had more confidence in this coin, it was possible to have a part and keep another part. Even if it rose again, you would still make more profits. In any case, do not cry over spilled milk, and $40 is better than nothing. It is worth noting that there are now many new and relatively old Telegram bots that follow the Notcoin approach and may launch future airdrops. You’ll be lucky if you do your research to identify the next promising project if you’re a fan of these click-to-earn bots.

These trades and insider purchases, maintaining a large currency supply by the team and developers, unfair launches after the pre-sales, and price manipulation significantly overshadow the meme coins sector. Innocent investors and Iggy Azalea fans are the victims exposed to high risks after following the harmful marketing created by this famous Australian singer seeking wealth along with her whales' associates at the expense of her followers. I do not blame her alone but also those who followed the hype of the $MOTHER coin without studying the risks and doing the necessary research. While some might have made good profits from the rise in the currency's value, I am confident that thousands lost a significant portion of their capital after the massive sell-offs.

As for the meme coins promoted by celebrities or influencers, they undoubtedly may have a great interest and benefit in promoting them and taking their marketing fees, and the future of these coins becomes cloudy and bleak for those who hold them after the promoters move to promote another currency.

Of course, meme coins exploit the name of Bitcoin and promising cryptocurrencies in the market to promote their projects. There could be a meme coin whose team claims it is the next Bitcoin or the Bitcoin killer or that its value is equivalent to a so-and-so amount of Bitcoin.

These are undoubtedly marketing and promotional tactics aimed at attracting novice investors and making them pour their funds into the coin, as these meme coins' prices only rise through such promotional hype to gain attention. Certainly, many may believe this marketing lies in the hope of achieving wealth, which they do not see due to their lack of experience except in these high-risk coins that cannot compete with Bitcoin or achieve 0.1% of what Bitcoin has accomplished. I do not see that Notcoin, any of these meme coins, or the Telegram coins associated with click-to-earn bots have any significance or may last in the future. Bitcoin, with its widespread popularity, reliability, and solid characteristics, remains an investment with real value and importance.

I'm sorry to hear this. A memo tag is always mandatory for some cryptocurrencies, especially on the Ton network, to ensure it reaches the correct customer account. From what I’ve read, there is no 100% guarantee of recovering your funds even after contacting their support to submit an appeal to recover your crypto deposit. Of course, there are requirements to be met, and you need to fill out one of the forms and pay a fee for this service, which can be up to five times the standard withdrawal fee for this coin. Please refer to this [Article] published by Bybit and follow their guidelines and instructions. Hopefully, they will assist you in recovering your lost deposit in the end.

It is worth noting that they have also listed their fake service on several review platforms, not just Trustindex but Reviewsio, Sortlist, and finally, Webnovel. They have positive ratings from all the fake reviews they have purchased, similar to the fake positive reviews on their official website.

Also, if you look at the Terms and Conditions page on their website, the privacy policy page, and others, you will find that they have placed the template without any changes or modifications. I think they need a brain rehabilitation clinic instead of an omega recovery.



I will support the flag now, thank you OP for this thread.

Why the constant vigilance and the negative psychological factors afflicted him? If he is a long-term investor holding his assets in an offline hardware wallet, what is the need to trust people or anything else? And why worry? If he keeps the security methods for accessing his wallet in a safe place, then he has his own bank and is the primary controller of his assets. Indeed, this field is highly targeted by scammers, as no project or community is devoid of them, and certainly, any of the other financial sectors will also be targeted. Still, with the necessary experience, knowledge, and safer alternatives to secure his investment assets, there is no need to worry.

Laziness, giving up, and making quick decisions are undoubtedly reasons for failure. The successful person in this field is the one who has the key to patience, knows the positives to give him momentum forward, and can overcome any negatives with his experience and continuous learning. Doing research on cryptocurrencies is not impossible or tiring, and anyone can do it. There are no profits and successes without spending some time and effort.

If you are an airdrop hunter and an active user on social media platforms, if you encounter a phishing site and sign a transaction through your wallet and give them permission, in this case, your assets will be transferred directly by the scammer. Additionally, your funds may be drained due to interacting with a malicious smart contract while attempting to swap any scam tokens or assets through a DEX. If your wallet contains a sweeper bot after your recovery phrases or private key have been accessed by a scammer, or if your computer is hacked or infected with malware, your wallet will also be drained in these situations.

I advise you to be cautious before interacting with any contract, granting permissions through your wallet, or installing any malicious programs or browser extensions. You can install extensions such as AegisWeb3, Pocket Universe, or Fire, and always use Revoke.cash so that you can revoke any interactions you may have had with any smart contracts or platform connections.

شكراً لك أخى على مشاركة تجربتك,

وبلفعل الموثوقية وسرعة التحويل وقلة العمولة هي ما تجعل شركة الوساطة احد الخيارات المفيدة في ظل حظر منصات التبادل المركزي التي تتوفر علي ميزة P2P عدد من البلدان العربية بما فيهم سوريا، وفي ظل إنتشار الاحتيال عبر مجموعات وصفحات الفيسبوك وعلي مواقع وتطبيقات التواصل،

 قد ألقيت نظرة علي منصتهم وتبدو انها تحتوي ايضا علي شروحات ومقالات والكثير من الامور الأخري في مجال العملات الرقمية، ويمكن مراسلتهم من خلال إسال رسال من خلال الضغط علي تواصل معنا، ايضاً أتمني أن يقوموا بإصلاح رابط قناة ومجموعة التليجرام الخاصة بهم في موقعهم حيث يظهر أن الرابط مكسور مما يسهل علي الاشخاص التعامل مع الروابط الرسمية الخاصة بهم علي السوشيال ميدا دون الحسابات المنتحلة للإسم.

موفقين جميعاً =)

It is good that you did this, as there are many such scam websites used by scammers to lure victims with the amount of Bitcoin that the wallets contain, and after the victim transfers his money to buy the wallet, his money is stolen, and also sites such as privatekeys[.]pw or allprivatekeys[.]com. Offering services such as Private Keys Database, Buy Wallet.dat, or Wallet Recovery are fake and fraudulent, including Bitcoin private keys with compressed & uncompressed addresses and balances. These services generally aim to steal people’s funds and scam them. Therefore, it is recommended that you stay away from them completely.

Despite it being an obvious Ponzi scheme, these scammers have used an image from an old Elo Touch Solutions team event, whose official website is elotouch.com, attributed it to their team, and put it on their scam platform. Additionally, all the information they provided about their company profile, claiming it was founded in 1916, is false and misleading, just like the withdrawal proofs they posted in their official forum thread solely to mislead, deceive, and lure investors into their trap.



Thank you, tvplus006, for your efforts; I will support the flag now.

Yes, that's correct. The communities of crypto projects, companies, and platforms are not free of scammers. Scammers set their eyes on any event launched by any project, such as airdrops, giveaways, or any of the competitions and other events, and they create phishing sites, fake accounts, and fraudulent programs and browser extensions to target investors and traders and scam them.

If your assets are in an offline hardware wallet and you don't use your computer that has Telegram and Discord installed on it and which doesn't contain any important data related to your investments or wallets like seed phrases, private keys, backups, etc, to open any links or download any malicious files and malwares from people who DM you first or from your email, and if your browser has one of the security browser extensions, you will be safe. You need not trust strangers, ads, or websites promoted on search engines or social media. Do your own research and bookmark the official sites of the platforms you regularly visit.

The comparison does not seem logical with Bitcoin. Despite their huge sector and prominent names, these meme coins have not achieved anything close to Bitcoin’s market dominance, reliability, and growing adoption. These meme coins, with their enormous total supply and zero use cases, and for which joking was the main reason for their creation, will remain in the market for speculators but offer nothing substantial. They lack any notable features or qualifications to compete with Bitcoin, Ethereum, or other altcoins built on solid projects that play an active role in the crypto industry. Even though there are meme coins that have been dormant for years with no major developments in their current prices, investors shift their attention to the hype of other meme coins. Therefore, these meme coins may disappear and be replaced by others, but Bitcoin remains undisputed at the top.

Chrome is updated through the browser itself without downloading the latest version of the browser again, uninstalling the old version, or searching on Google for sites to download the browser update, which might be phishing sites containing exe files injected with trojans. By clicking on Settings and then on About Chrome, you can find information about the current version and then perform an automatic update. The same applies to Firefox. I believe that most browsers have this feature to install automatic updates as a security precaution for users to avoid potential fraud and hacking.

Every person must make sure that he uses official websites to download programs or browser extensions and avoid using the primary computer designated for cryptocurrencies, which contains important data, to download programs from unofficial websites, cracks, open suspicious links, and install unknown browser extensions. Such actions can pose a great threat to the user's privacy and result in being hacked.

Suppose a scammer manages to hack someone's accounts on social media accounts, steal a victim's phone, or perform SIM swapping. In that case, he can send such deceptive messages to the account's followers or the victim's contact list, as happened in your friend's WhatsApp story, or by spreading phishing links or sending malicious files, so we cannot believe everything we read, even if they are people in our contacts unless verifying it by calling or meet them if the matter is related to money and one of the important matters. A sudden request for money and a change in how your friend communicates with you will certainly raise suspicions.

Frankly, Facebook is like the rest of the other platforms and communication applications where scammers are active. They impersonate accounts of public figures and promote their traps through advertisements. Therefore, every person must be cautious before taking any action and take enough time for sufficient verification, investigation, and research.

Yes, that's correct. Most of those who fall into scammers' schemes, whether old or sophisticated tactics, are people desperate to make money in any form and to rush to experiment without any experience, research, or seeking advice from someone with long-standing experience in this field.

When we find a stranger who sends his seed phrase and private key of his wallet or accounts on exchange platforms and the like and who attaches a screenshot of the stuck money and asks for help from the public in exchange for a percentage of these funds in return, the best solution is to ignore what he sent and refrain from opening the wallet because it will likely be infected with a honeypot. The account will belong to a scam exchange platform. As a result, any funds deposited by the person tempted by the money will fall into their traps easily. Therefore, it is best not to trust strangers to stay safe.

Even if we cannot catch the scammers who are always trying to remove traces of their fraud behind them and create new schemes, the simplest positive thing we can do is to expose and attempt to destroy and tarnish what they have made and promoted to target and steal from victims, by publishing a topic supported by evidence and explaining the fraud method they used, whether their scheme was a phishing domain, or one of the malicious programs that contain Malware, or fake services and browser extensions, and so on.

Any action we take by reporting their schemes and accounts will be crucial in deterring many beginners from scams. Also, increasing awareness among people and familiarizing them with scammers' constantly evolving techniques and the necessary preventive measures will significantly reduce the fraud rate, thus thwarting the scammers' ambitions.

I have seen many airdrops that have been specifically launched on the Binance Web3 wallet. By completing some tasks and adhering to the specified conditions, you can become eligible to receive an airdrop from one of these projects that have paid fees to market their project on the exchange platform and attract millions of its users to engage in the project. You also need to be a KYCed member.

There are no guarantees that the Airdrop for one of these projects will pay off; it depends on conducting your own research to evaluate the quality of the project from which you will receive tokens through your participation, the allocation for the airdrop, and the number of participants. It is worth mentioning that you might participate in an airdrop on one of the exchange platforms, but their token may not be listed there. There is a disclaimer of the potential risks of your participation that you should be aware of.