Be safe: READ THIS BEFORE TRADING/BUYING/USING YOUR MONEY

[Urod88]

Recently I was thinking of doing some business and I was unsure how do I start and with whom. Your advice helped me and now I feel more confident. Thanks a lot.

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[Streets 2.0]

I thank you for the extra reminder of safety and caution! A friend of mine had an incident related to the situation a few years ago. I think if he read such topics and articles more often, it would help him avoid trouble. We need more helpful forum content so the community doesn't repeat mistakes. 

[konflikkastil]

I think major of people have fell victim of this before. I had my own share of I too. The best thing is to be very careful else you are playing with your money. A few years back, I and two of my friends wanted to sell a coin and our third friend said he know someone who could buy it from us at a reasonable price. Only for the guy to receive the coin and block my guy from the group. It pained me to the bone because I needed that money seriously around that time. Don't ever make a transaction with a newbie like you of you don't want to develop BP.

[chichigirl]

Alright, so I've been PM'd by a few people what red-flags to look out for since I have a pretty good track record of spotting scammers. Sometimes I get it wrong, but better safe than sorry.  Here's a couple rules to follow to avoid becoming a victim:

1. Newbies, NEVER DO BUSINESS WITH OTHER NEWBIES, EVER. There are plenty of veteran members to do business with and ALWAYS use escrow. If you're a newbie and you're doing business with another newbie, there's nearly a 100% chance that one of the parties is a scammer. I can not stress this enough.. just work with people who have been here at least a year.
2. Always use escrow.
3. See rule #2.

True! thanks a lot for the great reminders. Just be careful in everything and never trust anyone that easy because scammers always there looking for a new victim.

Thank you so much for this post.

[JrRini]

From what I came to understand and what I saw in this threat, I realized that the big brothers have posted some useful things for us and explained many beautiful things to the new ones. Many thanks to the big brothers for explaining well about our trading and cryptocurrency.
 I don't think you should trade with anyone without trust, so for the little ones, you should not invest and trade without someone you trust. Thank you.

[Raindeer07]

ZEBPAY is a fake trading platform. They charge an immense amount of fees for trading. They hold on to your amount after the transaction so, to buy it at a low price and perform batch transactions and then they keep the difference. If you transfer EOS or XLM, that takes less than a min to transfer. ZEBPAY usually takes around 5- 6 hours or sometimes a day to transfer, when they have a chance to grab the transaction difference. They won't give you the tx Hash ID, their customer support won't reply if you are stuck at this issue. It is run by an Indian guy with only 20 people as staff, which is a huge red flag too. If you have this app installed, please uninstall this app ASAP. I never did a large transaction on this platform because of this trust issue, and I was right.

[Bitcoin_Arena]

ZEBPAY is a fake trading platform. They charge an immense amount of fees for trading. They hold on to your amount after the transaction so, to buy it at a low price and perform batch transactions and then they keep the difference. If you transfer EOS or XLM, that takes less than a min to transfer. ZEBPAY usually takes around 5- 6 hours or sometimes a day to transfer, when they have a chance to grab the transaction difference. They won't give you the tx Hash ID, their customer support won't reply if you are stuck at this issue. It is run by an Indian guy with only 20 people as staff, which is a huge red flag too. If you have this app installed, please uninstall this app ASAP. I never did a large transaction on this platform because of this trust issue, and I was right.

I don't think enough people will get warnings from here. If you were scammed, just write up a full scam report with evidence in the scam accusations board.

Judging from you story, it seems you have used them several times. Why do you continue using a service if it sucks?
We have lots of alternatives that you can try out.

[Crypto_Dotar]

I think major of people have fell victim of this before. I had my own share of I too. The best thing is to be very careful else you are playing with your money. A few years back, I and two of my friends wanted to sell a coin and our third friend said he know someone who could buy it from us at a reasonable price. Only for the guy to receive the coin and block my guy from the group. It pained me to the bone because I needed that money seriously around that time. Don't ever make a transaction with a newbie like you of you don't want to develop BP.

Everyone should be careful. Arrangements should be made with familiar people. Otherwise, dealing with strangers can be a problem with transactions.

[Bitbrabo]

I had another Bitcointalk account, but as time passed, I stopped tracking crypto when I lost a big investment in 2013.
Now I come back here and see this topic.
I couldn't agree but I don't disagree, as I've seen other answers and the question is very broad.
There is an old saying that there are people, and people.
There are people who are manipulative and expect high status to take a big hit, whether with a project that never gets off the ground, or in a high-value transaction after making several low-value ones.
I don't say that this is today but lately with the great global crisis that affects millions, the number of frauds has increased significantly.
So whether new or old, rich or poor, after big losses I always take precautions.
To prevent yourself, it's not enough to look at user status or time, the ideal and a recognized and registered platform to do something with guarantee. Even if it generates expenses. Of course there are millionaires users here and who am I to discuss someone's integrity.
Most recommend to everyone a transaction in a regulated environment. for high value transactions.

[R1ski_sehi400]

I was impressed, I must admit. It's rare that I come across a blog that's both educational and funny, and let me tell you, you've made it. The problem is one that not enough people speak intelligently about. I'm so glad that I found this in my search for something about this.

[Ariaryanto]

I've never been scammed in this forum, but I hope I've never been scammed... for friends in this forum to be careful of scams, if there's someone we don't know, he suddenly PMs you then in Your conversation raises suspicions, so be careful... let's make all of this a lesson and don't let us here become the target of scammers.

[roseybess22]

Another sign: when you are a reputable member like me, and when you ask the noob to send first and suddenly they stop replying to your PM. Scammer! Maybe I should start a list in the public interest?

Latest possible scammer(s):

- penetration -> confirmed scammer has scammed multiple people



EDIT: I have decided I will keep this list updated and maintained. (and of course remove people who later turn out not to be scammers - but if they are genuinely looking for a trade and have only about 100 posts why would they not send first to someone like me? Hopefully I can help everyone here)

HI IM A NOOB AND I HAVE ALT AND MEME ,I WANT TO TRADE AND SALE ,HOW DO I DO THIS SAFELY