Have You Been Scammed?

[piter66]

I have been scaled just once and it was really painful. I wanted to buy some tokens online and needed bitcoin, I saw a group for purchase of bitcoin and decided to make transactions there and that was how my money disappeared.

What in the everliving heck is scaled once? Do you mean to say you were scammed only once or something?

[zzxswqq]

I've learned to stay away from Revenue Sharing Websites as they are all just Ponzi schemes waiting to run away with your money once they think they will have enough to hide from the face of the earth.. People, stay away from revenue sharing websites.

No shit? Why will ANYONE give you free money maybe investing and they’ll a little but free money? Hell no

[Kurokyy]

I had been scammed when i was newbie starting to learn something new in online industry. If i still remember that was a paid to click website where i will buy some rented referrals to make more daily profit. And wayback 2015 i had been by a ponzi website and now i learn with all of my mistake not to trust you dont really know or not unsure in online.

[mkettler]

Yes I have unfortunately, that has happened to me by use of the USD, virtual video game currency and Bitcoin. Even though I've been scammed it doesn't deter me from participating with the Bitcoin blockchain still.

It shouldn't, the fact that someone got scammed is not bitcoin fault, people need to learn to be more critical about what they read, I have seen people overly excited about the profits they can get with certain investments and after reading in detail the profits that are promised by some of those websites you can realize immediately that those websites are nothing but scams but people want to believe they can become rich quickly and that is why they invest in things like that.

That’s like blaming USD and EUR for being scammed in real life. BITCOIN is just a means of payment in the scam

[yana0901]

Share please whether there is really someone deceived. If there are send sites or pages. It's interesting ...

[LogitechMouse]

When I first joined here in cryptocurrency, I have already seen some scam sites in social media platforms already so I know how can I see if that is a scam or not. Some scams are the HYIP sites that are giving a 50% or 100% return in a month blah blah blah. Lucky for me, I didn't been scammed even once because I am aware on every sites I visit.

[Rosilito]

No, not yet and I do hope that won't get scammed. That is the very thing I always avoid at all means because it is hard to earn money then they would get that as easy as it seems, and in addition I mostly avoid to do such transaction that needs to lend money on people I do not even know in the first place. I am a safe player even it is hard to be alone I would chose it because it would be more safe than to work with strangers.

[YED]

You can see the positive way of being scammed . Be sure if you have been scammed you will not repeate the same mistake another time ( only if you are really stupid  )
 and you can share your experiance with other people to avoid being scammed .

[Hans17]

I just came over from the 'Investor Games' subforum (hope I got that right). A guy there said he came across a site asking to double his bitcoin, he paid in $20 and got $40 the following day or so. He then went for a higher plan of $300 hoping to cash out $600 but they asked him to pay in another $300 before cashing out. He got confused and was asking for advice.

I think I've been there before. Before I became a forum member. I once came across one of those scam sites promising to generate bitcoins. Thought it was real, but when they asked me to pay some transaction fee, I was stuck. I had no money to pay the fee. With the benefit of hindsight, I know I'd have sent them the 'transaction fee' had I had the coins to send them.

Now, what have been your experience with internet scams?
How do we help people not to get scammed?

A lot of us experienced this situation correct me if I'm wrong and to all that who don't wanted to scam think twice or should I say think as much as you can and be wise though always think and to be accurate , that's all I know some of us being depressed and regret what we done now it affect our self confidence by the mistake that we've done. But always remember said by a famous quote learn from your mistake.

[lunnatic]

Yes, i have been scammed by joining on ponzi website. I've investing a lot of money using bitcoin  and I only get half profit from my capital. Lesson for me to be more careful of suspicious investments.

[Equity0924]

You can't count on your fingers on both hands of yours on how many times I myself has been scammed. I am scanned on many different faucets since last year. After that I decided that, I should stop doing things that wont make anything for my works.

[ashfer]

So far i have never got scammed by anybody in regard with btc as i don't try out something which says i can double my btc infact  i try it own my own by doing trading.I know trading is risk and it all depends on luck and one should have wide knowledge on how the market is running to do trading but trading on btc also has never disappointed me as i used to get advice from the once who were active traders on btc and i used to follow their view so  i never had to regret my decisions.

[DoublerHunter]

A lot. I have been scammed by a lot of HYIP or High Yield Investment Programs back then because i was just a newbie and the bitcoin is cheap back in the old days and all i can do is to just get into bitcoin and buy a lot and bet or invest into different investments that i will see in facebook and i am just investing because i see them earning and now i regret all of those decisions.

[joshua05]

Nope, but who would like to be scammed though? The most important is, to prevent yourself from being one. I've got known friends who has experienced it and its really a disaster! For safe-tier bitcoin? Stop. Look. And Read.

[BitNotByte]

I've been investing on these "forex trading" thing that I saw over the internet. It took us a little while to unravel the truth, its just a ponzi scheme after all! After what happened, the "trader" ran away with our money.

also invested on some mining sites and after getting my first pay out, i thought it was real! so I've waited til such time that I can withdraw my balance again but nothing happened.... 
be careful on investing guys, always check the company background.

[Clement Kaliyar]

Never, but once I've adviced to my friend scam project

That is silly to hear that you helped someone to scam others.
I have being scammed by a few dumb investments in some scam ICO in the past and so is the reason i took a break from every form of investment in new ICO and thought of holding onto my coins i am holding and when the market started rising i concentrated my time on trading than investing in new ICO. There were some good ICO last year and i am looking for new projects .

[severaldetails]

With cryptocurrencies I only participated once at an investment program. And what can I say, I got the promised amount. I think I earned about 5 dollars. I did not participate in the second turn and was right to do so because then it turned out to be a scam. That was the most risky thing I did with my coins. I am really proud that nobody was abel to scam me with cryptocurrencies... yet.
The funny thing is that with paypal I actually paid once something I never got, without a refund.

[jak3]

When I was starting at the Bitcoin system I have encountered many scams but never invested in any of them. They where like give me your money and I will double it in 24 hours, of course they don't have much strategy back then. I have seen many people who have got scammed from those hypes and scams. The most reason people are getting scammed is because they do not have enough knowledge about how Bitcoin is being generated or they do not think before investing. people should at least think how they will double your money when you cannot do it yourself. Making people aware of the system is going to reduce this scamming stuff.

[ross09]

I did but when I was younger, playing a video game called MU, nowadays I  exchange using trustworthy websites or individuals.

In bitcoin thank God I never experience scam. But I experience scam before not in bitcoin. It's really hard to be scammed especially you work hard for what you have, it's just really hard to think that there are a people who can steal the thing that you work for. And if I'm gonna experience scan here in bitcoin I swear I am going to stop doing bitcoin.

[Labay]

I just came over from the 'Investor Games' subforum (hope I got that right). A guy there said he came across a site asking to double his bitcoin, he paid in $20 and got $40 the following day or so. He then went for a higher plan of $300 hoping to cash out $600 but they asked him to pay in another $300 before cashing out. He got confused and was asking for advice.

I think I've been there before. Before I became a forum member. I once came across one of those scam sites promising to generate bitcoins. Thought it was real, but when they asked me to pay some transaction fee, I was stuck. I had no money to pay the fee. With the benefit of hindsight, I know I'd have sent them the 'transaction fee' had I had the coins to send them.

Now, what have been your experience with internet scams?
How do we help people not to get scammed?

It is about your own risk.  You put your own risk at any investment because if you didn't put any pot money, surely you didnt get any outcome that can solve your curiousity.  Too many people or investor are experience that thing.

You can help the people to get about scamming by simple way, don't go for investment if you are scared to know what are the result.