Most governments barely acknowledge Bitcoin as it is quite a grey area between an asset and a currency. Because of this, there is no consumer protection. There are many factors of Bitcoin which make it ideal for scamming - one being that it's pseudonymous and therefore people can take Bitcoin payments with there being next to no trace of the scam for governments to see, unless they use the same address repeatedly which is unlikely (and governments are unlikely to want to take action, especially since they don't know a lot about Bitcoin and don't really want to get involved).
Also, Bitcoin itself is never going to take action because there is no specific company to do it unless you pay for some kind of insurance, which would most likely be a scam in itself.
When you use Bitcoin, you need to be careful and practice a bit of common sense: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Luckily, in most cases when you get scammed it's only however much you send to the scammer that is taken for you. They can never ruin your life because they won't figure out your personal information, so the pseudonymous nature of Bitcoin sort of helps the victim as well.
Ok thanks for suggest.
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