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[okae]

rule 1
do not trade with anyone you do not know or do not have the address of, to slap them with a wet fish, should they do you wrong.

rule 2
holding bitcoin is in itself a better investment plan then investing with third parties. thus the only trust you need is with yourself to hold

rule 3
if you do not know or trust someone or some business you are trading with, do not hand over more then you are prepared to lose

People should record with blood on his brains all those rules

But you forgot the best one:

rule 0

Always use the common sense, sometimes is the less common of the senses

[Mickeyb]

OP hate the player don't hate the game!! Simple as that! The game can be anything of value out there. Bitcoin, cash money, gold, whatever!

Cheers!

[Jeremycoin]

That's why the transactions take a bit long time for confirmations, to avoid double spends.
However, there's no scam with the Bitcoin system. The scam occurred from the users

[mixan]

I don't get why so many people get rooked here  

I have yet to lose a Satoshi and your money is safer with bitcoin not less safe. For whatever reason there seems to be an endless line of suckers who think "Double my money in two days!!! What could go wrong?" Or thinking that they should buy with PayPal after a million warnings.

I know. I always think of the lucky charms rabbit when these sites come on the forum.
"Silly rabbit tricks are for kids!" 
Those rookies are the rabbits for those site owners. Don't they ever learn? I sposse there will always be the uninformed or the ones who don't want to spend the 2 minutes to read the fore warnings before handing over their satoshis.

[asuryan180]

i like bitcoin

low fee but more scam

what about scammer ?

Its nice you like bitcoin! You're in the right place.

I don't really understand bro, more scam compared to what? Fiat? If so sorry but I have to lol

There is scams everywhere for anything that has any kind of value its just harder to find the btc scammer so take more precautions in keeping your funds safe.

There is not much you can do about scammers except remember, "If something seems to good to be true, then it usually is" Good luck!

[GannickusX]

I don't get why so many people get rooked here  

I have yet to lose a Satoshi and your money is safer with bitcoin not less safe. For whatever reason there seems to be an endless line of suckers who think "Double my money in two days!!! What could go wrong?" Or thinking that they should buy with PayPal after a million warnings.

I don't think serious complaints are about ponzies or get rich in 1 minute type of scams. People is concerned because something that happened to mt-gox can happen again and there was no way to know.

[electronicash]

Read a lot from the scam and accusation section and scammers are getting very creative lol.
 Haven't scammed yet but pretty sure with common sense we can avoid them. isn't there a site that will act as escrow?

[electronicash]

Double posts sorry. bticointalk loads so slow.

[RealPhotoshoper]

we can't hide from scammer,but we can avoid their scam trap. some advice maybe usefull for you and for me.
- dont trust what you found before you make sure to yur friend and your trust one (web invest)
- keep watchout,dont too much deposite or trust if you hav many profit,and carefull with your opened email.

[maokoto]

There are lots of scammers. It is better not to trust anyone without escrow or something. What is fun is once they scam you, they come again for more using different nicknames lol.

Beware of not being greedy too. That clouds your scam detectors greatly.

[Miiike]

There still other "method" of scamming, right? Though there are more than enough warning written on this forum about how to deal carefully with ponzi site, there still many people fall into that trap and screamed SCAM on their anger of being fooled. Maybe this is the one which OP refer to scam. If this is the case, then simply do a little research on this forum about the site you're about to invest, you'll get insight on how safe the site is in no time

[sirslayer]

scammers work for isis and terrorists..   

[Small]

Bitcoin is a irreversible currency which makes it a great target for criminal. The most you can do is only to deal with trusted people or use a third party escrow. If you do not want, create 2-of-3 multisignature address and use a neutral third party to control one of the keys, giving another one to the other party.

[foxkyu]

i like bitcoin

low fee but more scam

what about scammer ?

You have to check their reputation first before going to transaction with other people you don't know.

For more safety you can use escrow.

[sirslayer]

and how about current exchanges?? .. state of the art trading or scammers?

[Kakmakr]

I think scamming is more of a threat with Bitcoin, because it's pseudo anonymous and transactions are not reversible if you did not work with escrow. There is reasons for OP to be concerned and most new users do not know about these escrow services and even if they do know about it, who can you really trust?

Some of the escrow services also scam people, if you do not do some homework to see which of them are reputable.

[TastyChillySauce00]

i thought you never tryin to read ,this forum have an escrow and if you dont want to get scammed then use this service but if you get scammed (even inside this forum) its all your mistake from not using an escrow , prevention is better than a cure

[lihuajkl]

I think the most of scammers are from the currency exchange and lending boards. If you are not familiar with the trading procedures  and don't know how to pick up the trusted traders, I would suggest you to step away or either start with small trade you can afford to lose!

[mezzomix]

Every currency can get you scammed. Thats why you should use escrow for every transaction, no matter how big/small the transaction is.
For bigger transactions you should use multi-sig with an/multiple escrow, that would ensure you that the escrow wont run away with your btc.

ACK. There are some simple tools to support the multisig escrow process: https://coinb.in/ and a forked version at https://multisig.btcnet.eu/. All critical parts are executed in your browser. For console users Gavin documented the process using the bitcoin-core command line: https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/3966071.

[knowhow]

Its amazing that most people connect bitcoin to a fast and safe way to scammer,but before bitcoin paypal,payza ,and others payment processor that used fiat were scamming and keep scamming all everywhere soo put bitcoin on the top makes no sense since scammers are at online market already for several years stealling fiat,now they have one more way to scam but its at our hands to invest on such project or not.