Do you think all members here in our forum experienced scam?

[Rizky Aditya]

Haven't been scammed before myself. In reality if you use a lot of common sense and don't overly trust people by default, you're unlikely to ever get scammed unless you're quite unlucky, even if you do go first to some people when you're buying or selling (which I still do quite often, and never get scammed). You just need to actually have some vigilance about who the person you're trading with is.

Yeah that is what happened to me. I trusted the person I was trading with too much and then I ended up getting scammed. Just use common sense and trust no one, that is the best way to not get scammed.

[BitHodler]

I can happily say that I have never fallen for a scam.

I am not a fan of investing my coins into a certain site or service where you are promised a certain return per week or month.

Just using common sense will help you to avoid being scammed here or anywhere else.

And when it comes to making deals on this forum (haven't done any yet), I would only work with really trusted escrows from the level of OgNasty.

[erikalui]

I've been scammed twice on this forum and it's not that I did not use escrow but I accepted the payment first. It's mainly because I used payment processors like Payza and Citrus that reverse payments if anyone opens a dispute/the funds are fraudulently taken from other accounts by the sender. It's hard to even trace the source of funds being sent to you and hence I stopped dealing with processors/users that I can trust.

I believe that since BTC is an irreversible payment method, all members must have experienced a scam attempt or must have been scammed and there needs to be atleast a section in this forum where reputed/verified members should be able to trade (I know it may be an issue for many but atleast it would be helpful for those members who are genuine and reliable and feel safe to trade here).

[barbara44]

I agree that not all here, but what's for sure is most of the members experienced being scammed. Even newbies and jr.members that have known bitcoin longer before joining this forum. Well especially those who wants easy money, who always wanted to take high risk on doubler, hyips, cloud mining.

Yes, most of the members above from jr. member has experienced with scam just from this forum due to different services like hypis, cloud minings and also from some exchange services too talking about my self just few years ago I got scammed by hashie.co badly

[squall1066]

Yes 

Anyone who knows my history knows I fall for things from time to time, I normally like to think I am wise to it now, but the scams are getting harder to detect. (in some cases, others are just getting worse)

[Jet Cash]

Nope

I see Bitcoin as a payment method, and not a get rich quick method, or as an income source. If you are stupid enough to believe most of the claims in the sig campaigns here, then you deserve to lose your money.

[snipie]

As the title do you think guys many people here are experienced scam or all members of this forum except newbie and jr.member experience scam by investment site or cloud mining or any other services?

I am pretty sure that everyone visiting frequently investor-based games and services had experienced a sort of scam, i was scammed too but didn't deposit too much..few k of satoshis many months ago

[RodeoX]

No. I have never lost a Satoshi. Frankly, the people who I see lose their money here are often meeting the scammers half way.  Just follow a few basic rules and you will be fine.


1. Never "invest" in anything here. I would only consider investing in a licensed and registered business with a business plan and a lawyer for my lawyer to deal with.  If they are not a licensed business then they are not a business.

2. Never loan coins. The only exception for me is a "secured" loan. I would need to hold a car title or the deed to a house, something I could sell for more than the loan principal.

3. Don't get side tracked with crap like alt-coins. First finish your degree in cryptography, then you will see why bitcoin is what you want.

4. Trust no one with your coins or private keys. Trusting no one is at the very core of Bitcoin.

[fransbauer]

Hi Guys, I lost almost 1800 coins due to theft by Patrick Strateman. (Formerly known as CEO at Intersango)
Anybody knows where he works?
His mother lives in the San Francisco Bay area. Carole J Strateman.
I probably paid for her apartment.
Anybody with a solution can count on big reward.
I have all the proof.
So, I am looking for a nerd I guess.