Have You Been Scammed?

[Pleione527]

When I joined bitcoin community I was encourage to join this mining btcprominner I was amazed with the amount of income you can get from it later when i try to withdraw my earnings they required me to deposit and upgrade first my account olny then when someone told me that it is a scammed and they really don't pay. I learn from then and whenever someone is offering me a high paying job I make a research first.

[TTITA]

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?

Scammed can happen by anyone anywhere.
I've also been stuck scam a site that offers will make 3x profit from bitcoins investment for 30 days. Then on the 27th day, my account was blocked, I can't withdraw my earnings even my deposit.
At least, I get a valuable lesson, something that offers a profit that is too profitable may be a trap, even though the site is trusted.

[Shimmiry]

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?

Not actually a scam. Because one time i joined in a signature campaign it was good at the beginning and really geeting funds in the first three weeks but in the middle of the campaign it started to fail and did not reache the target cap for the whole campaign. Even the soft cap is not reached so theres no funds to distribute. It is the worst thing happen in my bitcoin career.

[4mane10tori]

Myethconnect...
The site has disappeared.

[racham02]

For me, i have never been a scammed since i joined bitcointalk.When i join the signature campaign or twitter,facebook campaign, i will be sure that he is not scam to avoid losing money or token.

[squatz1]

Well the way to stop people from getting scammed is to teach them what a scam looks like, and teaching people the simple fact that is 'if it looks too good to be true, it probably is' and no one is going to double your money, that's just not going to happen. So if you see this, you should be running immediately.

And if you do give someone a bit of money and you make some profit, RUN AWAY. The business model behind this is that people get greedy, put more money out and then lose out on a higher amount of money cause they now feel safe. It's all a bunch of shit.

I don't even know why people (including yourself) use the investor /game section of the forum.

[apoorvlathey]

The bitcoin doubler sites are pure scam but I must admit that when I was new in bitcoin having only 1 or 2 months of experience, I got scammed scammed a few dollars in such bitcoin doubler site.
Recently too, I participated in signature and bounty campaign of an ICO and got tokens, but the company failed to deliver theur promise and now the tokens are worth nothing and lying as it is

[Mr.grin]

if you're an old user in bitcoin, I think you've been fooled. I thought that was the usual thing. even I've been fooled at some minning sites and investment sites, like HYIP, and others. but, it will also shape your thinking.

[ReLieD]

Who hasn't ! Forget about Bitcoin there are many other things which might have made people greedy and they win all in and lost everything. There are people out there who still get scammed with the most stupidest methods like " I'll double your money and give ,,,,,, I'm the admin of gambling site so deposit and win and many more !

[saedasda]

Yes! I started investing and I thought life is so easy then after weeks the program become a scam thats how I learn from my mistakes.

[gustaf.berg]

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?

Scammed can happen by anyone anywhere.
I've also been stuck scam a site that offers will make 3x profit from bitcoins investment for 30 days. Then on the 27th day, my account was blocked, I can't withdraw my earnings even my deposit.
At least, I get a valuable lesson, something that offers a profit that is too profitable may be a trap, even though the site is trusted.

Half of my income is from investments and another half is from bounties. I wasn't scammed from the projects I invested money but I've been scammed many times from bounties as they wanted to use people's effort for free. Now I'm very selective for bounties.

[dzhan]

Yes because I made some mistakes in my first days with Bitcoin and I invested in some scammer sites. I learned the lesson and nowadays I work only in trading or doing tasks for reputable campaigns here in this forum, or with the most trusted sites paying in BTC.

[Lieldoryn]

It is impossible to determine fraud. If before you cheat professional then it will definitely find its way to your consciousness. But such fraud is very small. Most cheaters use for their scams is greed. Therefore, in most cases, the people themselves are to blame for that fell into the Scam. You should always understand that money is hard to get and if someone offers you an easy way they Scam.

[amacar2]

There are many types of scam that exist in bitcoin world and one of it is bitcoin multiplier, they post fake transaction ID on their site so that people get lured and deposit some bitcoin. Some might pay back if the amount is small like in your case but others will just remain silent with whatever amount they will get. They will run away with all those deposits when there will be not much new deposits.

[shamzblueworld]

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?

I got scammed by HashOcean, I was recommended it by the guys who introduced me to bitcoin, I invested everything that I had in bitcoin, and only received one payment before they ran away with everything. But lesson learnt, since then I've not fallen for a too good to be true trap.

[Kim Ji Won]

This is one of the reasons why a lot of us are afraid to try new things that are new to use or being introduced by someone we don't know. We're scared of the thought that everything that is new to you is a scam. This also results for us to be afraid of taking the risk. I've also been there before but unlike you, I was just testing the person who is trying to scam me and getting the feel of his explanation. Then while we are talking, I get the feeling where our conversation will be headed so I just ignored him and never replied back.

[loaddebitcard]

Yes. Invested a bit in ICO that turned out to be a scam   

[campica]

Unfortunately , like many members here I was scammed too.. Long time ago when BTC price was about 700$ I invested 0.05 btc in HYIP program (getting double on any amount after 10 days) and I never getting back anything. The reason why I invest is that five members posted on forum that they got paid and give a proof with transaction ID, so everything is seems real. Maybe my mistake was that I invest too late, because like every HYIP they paying only first 1-2 week and when people start investing bigger amount they stop paying and run with all deposits.

[gantez]

When I joined bitcoin community I was encourage to join this mining btcprominner I was amazed with the amount of income you can get from it later when i try to withdraw my earnings they required me to deposit and upgrade first my account olny then when someone told me that it is a scammed and they really don't pay. I learn from then and whenever someone is offering me a high paying job I make a research first.

Basically, most of this minning sites are scam. They make it attractive for an innocent newbie, with referral bonuses. I have experienced them too but no regrets because I really didn't waste my time or expecting much from such game.

[rb26]

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?

That's the sad thing about the internet and btc; being used to scam other people. Although we cannot do anything to stop those wrongdoings, we can't really blame those criminals behind the scams. We are the ones who gave them opportunities to scam us by being greedy and that's what they are taking advantage of. I guess people are naturally greedy but to some extent. We all want easy money and will do everything to get rich.

Personally, I've tried those hyip sites just for fun. At first, I got 200% profit from the first site I've tried. Then my greediness got the better of me and I started investing in different sites I even lost count of them. I'm not that much of a risk taker so even if I was driven by greed, I always keep in mind to invest an amount I can afford to lose in every site. At first I was happy with what I am earning but the odds aren't always on my side and to cut the story short, I got scammed by various sites. But I don't have any regrets left in me now since I always knew how risky hyip sites are and that they have lifespan of usually not more than a month. Right now, I took a break from investing in those sites and is now focus on hunting great ICOs to invest in.