How many times have you've been scammed?

[alphablitzer]

I have forgotten...i will say...20 times or so.

That's really sad, what have you been doing then? Investing your coins to HYIP or ponzi schemes? Hope you could get back what you've lost.

[Bitcoinsummoner]

I have lost few mBTC with one Nigeria based altcoin exchange (really could not recall its name). Till date I regret for what action must be cex.io cloud mining investments. I bought hash power for more than 0.2 BTC but recovered less than 0.1 BTC, it is not scam yet. But I have not reached ROI with them and my hash power is simply sleeping there.

I have not tried investing in a cloud mining firm or invest in something that says you could profit. From what I've learned here in Bitcointalk, it's always a scam, especially when it has big returns (obviously when it's too good to be true, it is). Are there even Bitcoin investments that you could really earn profit from?

If you are smart you can think it that there is no investing that can gives you real money or profit for a long time unless if you are investing in the banks but the interest is very small every year.. i never trust those investment site because i heard many times for those investment site that we can also seen in this forum investors based games. that you can found almost all are scam..

[serjent05]

I have lost few mBTC with one Nigeria based altcoin exchange (really could not recall its name). Till date I regret for what action must be cex.io cloud mining investments. I bought hash power for more than 0.2 BTC but recovered less than 0.1 BTC, it is not scam yet. But I have not reached ROI with them and my hash power is simply sleeping there.

I have not tried investing in a cloud mining firm or invest in something that says you could profit. From what I've learned here in Bitcointalk, it's always a scam, especially when it has big returns (obviously when it's too good to be true, it is). Are there even Bitcoin investments that you could really earn profit from?

Actually it is unfair to say scam to the sites that is yet proven to be a scam site, but of course as client or investors we should do our own research to be able to spot this somehow fishy offers.  One of our way of detecting scam is when their offer is good to be true and u got it lol, anyway there are some investment that you can earn profit, one of which is thru investing in casino bankroll but there is also of risk on having a negative profit on that.  But I read that Beking.Io is having their ICO, so in my opinion, that would be a good investment since they have been in the industry for years, besides one of the  thread here show, in his venture in Casino investment, that BetKing is capable of giving profit to its investors.

[winspiral]

I have forgotten...i will say...20 times or so.

That's really sad, what have you been doing then? Investing your coins to HYIP or ponzi schemes? Hope you could get back what you've lost.

No it is not sad...it has been my own risk to test ponzi shemes...
Fortunately I have not only lost...
But often it is as well programmes like faucets or PTC.
All works ok...and suddently the site collapses for some reason...generally scam.

[nizamcc]

I have been scammed by many users many times because I had been so gentle to all of them and whenever they asked for some loans as a help, I gave them and they never returned them back. I could have easily given away more than 2 bitcoins in just loans, and even few were my friends.

[rickadone]

I never been scammed because I simply do not trade or buy things from people that are not having a good feedback or not even have one these days its just so important to be on the look out.

Glad to hear that from a newbie because most of the newbies either scam or get scammed in mostly exchanges threads or lending threads. I would also give credit to the people for advertising this " no escrow no deal " slogan so much that newbies get inspired and hence avoid being scammed. Just I regret when escrow like master-p scammed.

[btvGainer]

What are your bad experiences in bitcoin? Not just scammed by other users it could also include HYIP, Cloud mining scams, investment scams, etc. I know it's a bad thing that happened, I think it's better to share them here so you could vent out on what you are feeling.

Feel free to post anything.

Luckily I have been scammed only once by one ponzi cloud mining firm.I was new to bitcoin then and saw someone was referring to this cloud mining making false claims.I got excited and sent 0.01 btc to them only to find later that all my btc disappear and also the website without any trace

[Jemzx00]

Well I've been scammed before when I was just starting on bitcoin. Due to lack of knowledge on things such as 1-10days investment sites. But now that I know about those kind of things, then I'm very rarely to be scam since experience teach me how to avoid those things.

[Rahees]

I've been scammed about 9 times total of over  $500

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[kidoseagle0312]

What are your bad experiences in bitcoin? Not just scammed by other users it could also include HYIP, Cloud mining scams, investment scams, etc. I know it's a bad thing that happened, I think it's better to share them here so you could vent out on what you are feeling.

Feel free to post anything.

I remember when I invested in zencloud mining, I've been a victim in that sites. So after that happened to me I'll take it a lesson from my experience and got a phobia in cloud mining up to now.

[Xester]

Well I've been scammed before when I was just starting on bitcoin. Due to lack of knowledge on things such as 1-10days investment sites. But now that I know about those kind of things, then I'm very rarely to be scam since experience teach me how to avoid those things.

Im on the same way too. I have been scammed five times before, I was a newbie at that time. But after that I have learned some things by research and asking questions how to avoid scams. So at this day I am no longer prone to scam sites but I have been gambling recently so I still lost my bitcoins to gambling sites.

[Positid]

In my early days here in bitcoin world, I was scammed many time as all of the HYIP I joined scammed me resulting to overall loses of quite a big amount for me. I don't remember exactly how much I lose but one thing I have proven is that never trust on investment with HYIP.

[Fatanut]

When I was a newbie, I have invested in some HYIP sites, and doubler sites because I wanted to make some quick money. I also got scammed buying small amounts of bitcoins, exchanging bitcoins into prepaid load, and P2P buying/selling altcoins. I'd say I have been scammed at least 15 times ever since. Nowadays, I don't do transactions unless I personally know the person I'm transacting with or my friends said that the said person wasn't a scammed and they have had transactions with him before.

[GregH37]

No doubt scammers are here in bitcoin world, but it is not difficult to handle them, only use your mind well and do the right work in investment. Actually, many chances of scammers are here in investment instead of trading and gambling. That's why i am not giving my amount to an other hand, because i am doing my own investment. 

It is quite simple in hindsight but its hard when we are either new or are desperate like for example you need a quick loan and a newbie says you send him account details and he sends you loan, so sometimes we might get tempted and hence the scammer takes the account. But hey guys if such things happened to you, you can claim back account.

[mbuk81]

I have been scammed twice in one year by two different site I now I should of learnt my lesson but I did not but have learned a thing now never deal with bitcoin with  paypal as that is how I got scammed so now if I did use paypal never send as friends and family ! 

[mrcash02]

I have been scammed twice in one year by two different site I now I should of learnt my lesson but I did not but have learned a thing now never deal with bitcoin with  paypal as that is how I got scammed so now if I did use paypal never send as friends and family ! 

How did you lose money with Paypal and BTC? Did you use any unknown service to make the transaction for you?

I know there are members on this forum able to make the transaction between Paypal-BTC without issues. You should check them here before use any other kind of service offering the same results. They know exactly the trick to make it works fine without later headaches.

[South Park]

I have lost few mBTC with one Nigeria based altcoin exchange (really could not recall its name). Till date I regret for what action must be cex.io cloud mining investments. I bought hash power for more than 0.2 BTC but recovered less than 0.1 BTC, it is not scam yet. But I have not reached ROI with them and my hash power is simply sleeping there.

I have not tried investing in a cloud mining firm or invest in something that says you could profit. From what I've learned here in Bitcointalk, it's always a scam, especially when it has big returns (obviously when it's too good to be true, it is). Are there even Bitcoin investments that you could really earn profit from?

Actually it is unfair to say scam to the sites that is yet proven to be a scam site, but of course as client or investors we should do our own research to be able to spot this somehow fishy offers.  One of our way of detecting scam is when their offer is good to be true and u got it lol, anyway there are some investment that you can earn profit, one of which is thru investing in casino bankroll but there is also of risk on having a negative profit on that.  But I read that Beking.Io is having their ICO, so in my opinion, that would be a good investment since they have been in the industry for years, besides one of the  thread here show, in his venture in Casino investment, that BetKing is capable of giving profit to its investors.

It is unfair to generalize and call a whole type of investment a scam except in cases like HYIP where it has been proven over and over again that those sites are nothing but a scam, in that case is not unfair.

[housebtc]

Mine include HYIP, Cloud mining scams and ICO scams. I have been scammed twice with HYIP then I stopped and moved into HashOcean which was not that hurt because my repayment was almost completed and the ICO scam was Declouds. I have learnt now that there is no free food in life.

[Sithara007]

I have been scammed by many users many times because I had been so gentle to all of them and whenever they asked for some loans as a help, I gave them and they never returned them back. I could have easily given away more than 2 bitcoins in just loans, and even few were my friends.

Be nice to everyone. That is good. But don't be stupid.

No one will advice you to refrain from giving out loans to others. But at the same time, you must ask for some collateral in return. Giving out a loan without collateral is the stupidest thing that a Bitcoiner can do.

[Zadicar]

I have been scammed by many users many times because I had been so gentle to all of them and whenever they asked for some loans as a help, I gave them and they never returned them back. I could have easily given away more than 2 bitcoins in just loans, and even few were my friends.

Be nice to everyone. That is good. But don't be stupid.

No one will advice you to refrain from giving out loans to others. But at the same time, you must ask for some collateral in return. Giving out a loan without collateral is the stupidest thing that a Bitcoiner can do.

#Real talk here and there are really people like that which they tend to be nice into others but without knowing that those people are getting advantage from you thats why you act like stupid on that situation.As sithara said you should always demand for strong collateral because even those friend of yours would not be sure of repaying back those loan they made. Such a waste of money and seems like you are running a charity 2 btc is already a lot.