Your scammed experience?

[Sikka157]

I get so many spam emails in my email account everyday. Many of them come from the slack accounts that I am part of. Yesterday I got one from Enigma token sale, where it offered me free tokens and when i click the link, it took me to myetnerwaliet.com. This fake website looked exactly like myetherwallet.
So far, i have not been scammed.
You should be very cautious when entering your private key and never enter your private key after clicking a link somewhere.

[uszaty43]

The first time i got scammed on the internet was when i tried to buy some coins of a knowed MOBA that i guess that a lot people are playing it.
But it was a very weird scam, i trusted in that guy, and he asked me to send him $10 and he was going to send me some coins to my account, but he dissapeared, and never contacted me again.
It happened like six years ago, but i still remember it like if it was yesterday, because it was my first lesson about scam.

[clip123]

I have seen many people get scammed by especially by google ads. Use ad-blocker with chrome like uBlock Origin. Scan your computer with two anti-virus or internet security suites . Use cold storage if possible. Stay away from exchanges (read about Mt Gox and BTC-e bust).

You can get started with how-to on coindesk dot com

[WannaCry]

Asking for a tips how can you avoid scammer in this forum?

Well it's actually easy to avoid scammers inside this forum. You just have to be more keen or to be more mindful about the details of the project and of the account user. Also, you might want to try asking information about the user or project in this forum.

[MarkusIsaiah]

I was a gamer the last few months before i learned about Bitcoin. During my gaming times whenever i buy in-game items i always let the other party to go first before i send or give the money that is the reason why until now i haven't scammed yet in my games. That is the reason why i am trying to rank up here and i want to gain reputation in the future so that my transaction will become easier and fast.

[coinspam]

Asking for a tips how can you avoid scammer in this forum?

Well it's actually easy to avoid scammers inside this forum. You just have to be more keen or to be more mindful about the details of the project and of the account user. Also, you might want to try asking information about the user or project in this forum.

@WannaCry are you the BTC scammer who created that WannaCry "send me your BTC or your HD is encrypted" scam?

[Grim149x]

Never experienced that but as that it's best to ask the legendary members especially those with high trust rating. It's not necessarily that all of them are trusted but I believe most of them must be.

[defc0de]

Losing 13 ETH from a phishing page. I thought there was an airdrop for district0x that time and I checked on the page, too bad the url is a .net not a .io. So lesson leanred, always check in coinmarketcap or here in bitcoin talk for the official links.

[dlhezter]

Asking for a tips how can you avoid scammer in this forum?

what kind of scam did you experience here at the forum? because i didnt experience yet to got scam, and im careful to make some transaction on some low rank to avoid scam, as of now i dont any experience about scam, and to avoid to got scam dont make any deal to some low rank account.

[zypa]

You can avoid scams by using exchanges instead of buying from users on a forum. The fees are minimum and overall it is much safer. Then move the funds to local wallet.

[masonli@M_27]

Asking for a tips how can you avoid scammer in this forum?

no i have no experience in scam. i just listen from my friends and colics. i think doing scamming is really very bad thought. so i'm not interested to doing this. now a days most of the people trying to doing scamming in their daily life. because they want to become rich in short period of time. so they making more scamming. but it is not good. my friend once did scam in trading in that process he earned more profit in that time he suggested me but i don't want to do this.

[TarzanNJane]

Ive been scammed few times in Internet, but never in this place And always it was my fault  

[holdingkrypto]

Do not matter reputation, do not trust anyone in any forum. I was scammed in another forum by a reputable member. Never trust anyone online, use always escrow. And even with escrow never use highly reversible payments like paypal, I was scammed in localbitcoins in that way too 

[Kprawn]

You should apply some common sense..... If it is too good to be true, it probably is. {People DO NOT just give money away

for free, they always want something in return} Most people come here to make some quick profits and the scammers are

feeding off of that. They know greed will cloud the mind, so they will rush you to make quick decisions. { In doing this, you

make mistakes } If you get any offer {the too good to be true ones} ...you should sit back and relax and think it over. Then

ask other people and see what they think. {beware, people use multiple accounts and answer their own questions.}  

[LTU_btc]

I don't have much experience of being scammed. In my early days in crypto, sometimes I invested in HYIP's, despite that I knew how it works exactly and big risk of loosing money. Mostly times I lost my investments (only $2-$3) and since then I don't want to feed scammers anymore.
I'm not naive newbie and for me it's easy realize which websites/projects are scams without deep investigations

My three main rules are:
1 - Always use trusted escrow (when you are making some trade)
2 - Trust nobody (consider every single person as possible scammer)
3 - If something sounds too good to be true, it's most probably scam (nobody will give you free money, BTC ...)

Your 2nd advice oppose to 1st. If you consider every single person is possible scammer, how you can use escrowand trust your money top erson, who escrowing funds? I can't agree with your 2nd suggestion, I think you exaggarated a bit. Yes, we have to be really careful when thing is related to money, but considering that every person want to scam you, is a bit too much.

[loragean03]

Asking for a tips how can you avoid scammer in this forum?

its very simple, do not trust anybody to avoid you to got scam, because not at all people (member) here are trust worthy so be careful on who people youve choose to trust for the your transactions, or maybe hire a trusted escrow to be a middle man on your deals just to be safe to avoid scam, or do not deal with someone who are in a newbie rank.

[AkaSnake]

The best way to avoid being scammed is to use an escrow service.

[nexus2k14]

I never got scammed on this forum, but once I joined Token airdrop and I put my email address my account was hacked, password didn't work anymore and recovery via email as well. I had no access for 48h until I contacted Admin when he was online to could assist me.
Lesson was learn... never put your details in free distribution/air drop like email address, always have strong password and never use same password to multiple accounts.

[Gargo]

I never got scammed on this forum, but once I joined Token airdrop and I put my email address my account was hacked, password didn't work anymore and recovery via email as well. I had no access for 48h until I contacted Admin when he was online to could assist me.
Lesson was learn... never put your details in free distribution/air drop like email address, always have strong password and never use same password to multiple accounts.

False people who try to rob us are very much. We practically meet them at their own pace. We only need to do transactions or exchanges with trusted people. I think that 'new' relationships sometimes only hinder us from getting rich.

[Littledragons]

Always use escrow.
Always assume there are motives.

Always avoid those who look real nice in a suits (example of course) to get you to buy into things with killer payouts. If it looks to good to be true, it just may be.

However, there are some crazy new inventions here. Learn the "standard" and go from there.