Since cryptocurrency has gained a lot of popularity in the last few years, because of this some criminals have entered and are trying to rob newcomers in various ways. Nonetheless, In this post, we will see how scammers try to scam you through Fake giveaways and Ponzi schemes. So that we can avoid them in the future, and save our hard-earned money from being scammed.
FAKE GIVEAWAYS
(1) Fake Giveaway websites
Scammers starts many giveaways by putting a picture of a famous personality on their fake giveaway website which makes people think that this rich personality is giving us money for free, while it doesn't happen at all. You can see in the image below.
(2) Youtube fake giveaways.
Last year, we saw that many YouTube channels were used for these fake giveaways, I don't know that these channels were hacked, or the owners of the channels were paid for this, but the fact is that the crypto community suffered a lot from this.
(3) Fake Twitter Giveaways
Twitter is considered very safe and secure, but the truth is that nothing is secure here. These scammers hacked Twitter accounts of several exchanges and were also used for fake giveaways.
PONZI SCHEMES
The Ponzi Scheme websites encourage you to invest and promise to pay you a fixed amount of money each month or week. They even pay you at the beginning, but after a while, you will not be allowed to withdraw or their website will disappear.
In the image below you can see how these Ponzi schemes sell their investment packages and make you a victim.