The easiness of creating a scam site

[Wandering Soul~]

It s not about easiness to create a scam website. It s about whether people can be ready to send money to unknown website and hope they ll get their money tripled or quadrupled in a matter of minutes.

Some people are born ready for that. It's enough to just make a site look reasonably well set up, where you are selling cloud mining contracts that return 1% per day.

People will jump on it and vouch for your site as they get paid. Other people will see that as a positive sign and will start buying these hash contracts as well. It's literally that easy.

Problem is that people are desperately looking for ways to double their money within an x number of weeks or months. In order to achieve these returns they will take every risk for granted.

people are still falling for it even with all the warnings though. if they do, i think they deserve it as they are all helping the scammers to scam. its a motivation to the scammers. these people are in a hurry to get money back. in fact they always wanted to be the first to send btc to these doubles in hopes to be the first to get paid and put testimonials as well.

Some people really need to commit mistakes before they can learn even though it's not necessary . Yes they are helping scammers but I think these scammers are something that's permanent in our lives, Since in the past people who deceive other people for their personal gain have existed, they are just changing their ways as the time pass by . The fact that some people lived with them without getting scammed means they've adapted to it .
Those people of today who are getting victimized or still showing interest to some unbelievable offers didn't bother to adapt just like they didn't bother to read/think .

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[SabreMiner]

I'd just like to say, there should be a way of making new people aware of the potential danger in these scams and bitcoin buying companies should warn them in some way.

[iDice_io]

I'd just like to say a warning for many people new to Bitcoin, this: http://prntscr.com/f2kfd8 is how easy it is to make a scam site, so stay vigilant

With Bitcoin, you have to be very careful with websites that aren't provably fair or hold your funds without a reputation.

[khufuking]

No matter how much you will warn people they will keep fall for it again and again and again . i can link you few threads here in this forum with people get scammed no need for fancy site or anything just dump thread and 3 newbie account vouch will do it . there is a thread that have 3 pages full of warning that op of the thread is scamming and yet turn the 4th page to see some one still got scammed ( LOL ) . ( Maybe some people love getting scammed so they can tell there offline friends a story about how they got scammed dealing with BTC  )

[buwaytress]

Of course for people like us, it's easy to say common sense, logic and brains but spare a thought for actual newbies who simply haven't had the time nor experience to learn this "common sense". We forget that we once started out and did not have this common sense.

I remember in the 90s teaching my parents to use email. My mom had replied to a 416 scam email, luckily she told me about it. Now my mom isn't a Mensa candidate but can't say she had no brains. It's just the way things were for a 40+year old experiencing email when my town welcomed its first ISP.

It isn't true that "everybody knows X about Bitcoin". It isn't smart to keep saying "do your research".

That been said... and this is just my opinion: most people who get "scammed" and whine on forum probably understood the risks prior to sending off their Bitcoins but greed got the better of them. When the gamble doesn't work out, they wail over spilt milk.

[Bitcoinsummoner]

According to the image i think the domain is .tk never seen a business with .tk domain its should be treat as scam because .tk is just a free domain in freenom or dottk..
Also before of the fake site which is invented by chinese hacker like they are made a fake apple.com that you cant imagine do domain is the same as the domain of apple base in my research its called punnycode..
Look at this article http://thehackernews.com/2017/04/unicode-Punycode-phishing-attack.html
So for those who wants a legit site go first in the big forum like bitcointalk.org that honestly almost all bitcoin users can give you some advice.

[senyorito123]

According to the image i think the domain is .tk never seen a business with .tk domain its should be treat as scam because .tk is just a free domain in freenom or dottk..
Also before of the fake site which is invented by chinese hacker like they are made a fake apple.com that you cant imagine do domain is the same as the domain of apple base in my research its called punnycode..
Look at this article http://thehackernews.com/2017/04/unicode-Punycode-phishing-attack.html
So for those who wants a legit site go first in the big forum like bitcointalk.org that honestly almost all bitcoin users can give you some advice.

Aside for the domain i tagged for myself that any online investment site who doesn't show some strong proof is consider by as scam thats why its pretty rare for me to see on that scene since im pretty much aware and well educated about it and its truly much better if newbies will seek some feedbacks and guidance here so that can avoid losses for such untrue promise of earnings.

[lionheart78]

The one with little bit of common sense will never send any bitcoin to lottery ponzi like this, it is just plain site with some random jackpot amount displayed in middle and a bitcoin address at end.

All bitcoin related hyip/lottery/donation/mlm are just scams and sooner or later everybody gonna know that. But most of newbie easily fall into this types of get rich quick schemes.

It is because they like an easy to get rich scheme.  They are too lazy to work of have patience to get rich simply by waiting.  Well if we invest in bitcoin directly, we can earn big simply by waiting, aren't we?  Creator of scam scheme just trigger greediness from their unsuspecting victim, and it seems they are very successful since numbers of getting scam everyday keep on increasing.

[jossiel]

Thanks for the information but it's not new that there are a lot of them already in the bitcoin community.

But still there are a lot of newbies that are becoming victims each day and I guess they also have some fault on it for being greedy and not doing some consultation and research.

And another thing is being greedy, newbies are easily believed that they can be rich because of it.  I knew it because I was a victim of it but right now I'm aware of those scams and I keep on warning people about them.

[botany]

If you are gullible and new to Bitcoin, it is easy to lose money to scam sites.
But hopefully, this will serve as a valuable (albeit costly) lesson to you.

[tonygal]

This is useless.. The pic you shared does not show anything interesting.
And your statement is totally banal. It is also so easy to rob a gas station,
just grab a knive from your moms kitchen and threaten the cashier. Oh my god!!!!

Obviously, you should always take care and stay sceptical if something sounds too
good to be true. This applies especially to those who are new to bitcoins.

[iram3130]

I'd just like to say a warning for many people new to Bitcoin, this: http://prntscr.com/f2kfd8 is how easy it is to make a scam site, so stay vigilant

With Bitcoin, you have to be very careful with websites that aren't provably fair or hold your funds without a reputation.

Not just that, as the price of Bitcoin is rising day by day, more scammers are trying to get in and scam newbies and other people for bitcoins. People fall for it very fastly as they want to double their money or because of their greed. People need to be aware of these scams.

[Cereberus]

That website for any one here with normal common sense is fake just by the look of it, especially when it says "Invest Now, Send here". This one is easy to identify but scammers nowadays are becoming more and more complex. You should never invest in any website without reading this very section of the forum, this is the best place to know what's going on , on a certain website.

If there is nothing here about the website you are interested, then with 100% it is a scam site cause if it were legit , it definitely would be here listed to discuss about it. Sorry for your loss but next time be careful and do a lot of research. Remember best investment is to hold the bitcoin for the longer term.

[apoorvlathey]

The number of ponzi sites are on a rise. The newbies that have just started using bitcoins often fall prey to this so good to be true investment schemes with high returns. I think that the advertising network should not allow such kinds of scam websites to host their ads on such networks, as when people visit faucets or other bitcoin related sites, they often tend to click such website's link and finally falling prey to their scam.
Also it was a .tk free domain, and the website is no longer available. The scammer has gone with people's money.

[krishnapramod]

I'd just like to say a warning for many people new to Bitcoin, this: http://prntscr.com/f2kfd8 is how easy it is to make a scam site, so stay vigilant

The nature of bitcoin is like that, it is one of the most used currencies for scamming purposes. You know how to build a basic website, you can scam, you do not know, you can buy cheap ponzi scripts for scamming. Even basic conning skills is not required to pull off a bitcoin scam. Just a good looking website, a small quantity of bitcoins to lure the ever ignorant, never learning herd of stupid bitcoin users. Even after so many cloud mining, HYIP, investor based games scams, new websites based on these exact working models pop up daily. Thanks to some of the ever ignorant bitcoin users for fueling it. Caveat Emptor.

[Supercrypt]

Greed is always there and therefore people still fall for this kind of HYIP... Bitcoin doublers are still the simplest and "effective" way to "fish" for bitcoins.

To be fair though, you would have to be laughably stupid to actually send BTC to one of these addresses. I’m not saying that they don’t work, because they wouldn’t be advertised if they didn’t, but this is barely above Nigerian prince emails in terms of reliability.

I can’t imagine most people smart enough to figure out how to send, use, and receive bitcoin would ever fall for this. This type of thing is just the work of someone greedy enough to try scamming people but too lazy to do anything that would ever actually work.