Man loses $22,000 in cryptocurrency scam

[Displux]

https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2017/12/man-loses-22000-cryptocurrency-scam/

[JJack@]

Just a reminder to be safe and not give people your passwords etc. Dont trust anyone, use exchanges and well known brokers ( even though they have high fees it is safe ). This is how you dont get burned.

[jseverson]

Incredibly sad. I can't say he didn't have it coming though. I mean, sure, all the blame lies on the scammer, but you should still never put yourself in such a situation. It baffles me to this day that some people are comfortable with dropping thousands of dollars into something without investing the time to gather knowledge about how to take care of it. Two minutes on Google. That's probably how long it would have taken him to search for tips on cybersecurity, and he would be $22000 richer today. It's also the perfect example of why you should never put all your eggs in one basket.

[1NV3ST0NM3]

https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2017/12/man-loses-22000-cryptocurrency-scam/

So once again we see a demerit of decentralization. Man loses such a huge sum and all he could do is regret because no law in the world caters problems related to crypto currency scam even if they cater there is absolutely no chance that they would be able to effectively trace any such persons.

[loaddebitcard]

People still do not learn from mistakes of others. Is it hard to understand and remember all the rules of security, huh?

[worldofcoins]

Honestly how we know this guy is not scamming with gofund me?  He looks like the type to use a sad story to make people donate to him.  
I hope he does not get a free ride.  Also anyone can pay someone to write some news worthy story to point to there donation page.  I am very skeptical about this story.  I would be wary in making and donations, we hear a lot of these stories everyday.  I even got scammed but never asked for free handouts.  Also reason why I said this is because look at the OP post history he posts all the time to this news site.

[bitvalak]

https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2017/12/man-loses-22000-cryptocurrency-scam/

it is one of the many cases of loss of many cases that occur. The average cause is a hacked private key, so we must be careful and careful to backup our private key. My advice, keep private-key in the offline network, because it minimizes the incident hack, because most hackers hack through the Internet network.

[Fasunathan]

Just a reminder to be safe and not give people your passwords etc. Dont trust anyone, use exchanges and well known brokers ( even though they have high fees it is safe ). This is how you dont get burned.

Sometimes people are so hardheaded that's why they will be scammed.  There are already many information provided here that beware of scam and even tips for identifying a scam website,  but still they just continue doing it. It is not bitcoin's fault that they lose the money. We all know that we must be the one responsible of our own account and our money.  Just like with our bank account's number,  we should be careful on trusting our money to someone.  You need to invest only to proven legit and not those newly made sites because most of it are fake.

[Xavofat]

So once again we see a demerit of decentralization.

Actually, this isn't an inherent problem with decentralisation.

Scams happen with bank accounts all the time.  They're extraordinarily common, and the vast majority of scams (at least this nature of scams) are carried out with fiat currency.

Sure, Bitcoin scams may be treated less seriously for now, but that's based on the actions of governments, not the system itself.

[VitKoyn]

https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2017/12/man-loses-22000-cryptocurrency-scam/

That was really one of the saddest cryptocurrency related scam story I have ever heard/read, he's been partially disabled an unable to continue his work and now his savings are all gone just like that. But honestly that's very stupid, He called a fake customer support (so where did he get that fake number of exchange he used lol) and that agent asked him to provide his password and he gave it. People have to learn that they should never trust anyone and give passwords or anything that can access their personal computer, accounts, wallets especially to those people they didn't don't know. This is what will happen to those people that didn't do their assignments before investing in cryptocurrency.

[musliyevich]

https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2017/12/man-loses-22000-cryptocurrency-scam/

invest wisely sorry fro his loss.

Scam ICO and  cryptocurrency abused to this great blcokchain

[kuberayt]

That's not really the fault of the cryptocurrency or any exchange, that's the fault of him. He didn't do enough research and gave away passwords to a random stranger. Fake support line? Sorry, I hate hearing stories like that but it's not right to blame crypto

[shintosai]

https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2017/12/man-loses-22000-cryptocurrency-scam/

it is one of the many cases of loss of many cases that occur. The average cause is a hacked private key, so we must be careful and careful to backup our private key. My advice, keep private-key in the offline network, because it minimizes the incident hack, because most hackers hack through the Internet network.

Yes one of the best way is to keep your private key offline and make sure that your computer is free of virus, hackers will do everything to attack
your system so make sure that you have every precautions to avoid them and became a victim.

[piebeyb]

I can not talk much about it, but I'm sure everything will be good after that, experience is the best teacher so do not make the same mistake, whoever he lost the money I hope will come a bigger replacement that got

[jlanzago]

In crypto you need to be extra-careful. Never trust e-mails (verify them first, lot of phishing attempts). Slackbot messages and impersonators in Slack are always there. NEVER share your private keys with anyone. I think most of the scams are because a lot of people are newbies that do not read and want to make a quick buck investing in anything.

[HasHe]

We know that wherever there is money,there would be scammers.Bitcoin is a form of digital currency which has nowadays attained the position of digital asset and due to its high increasing price,it has attracted the attention of every one especially the scammers.

Bitcoin being a digital currency which works in internet makes it easy for scammers to hack the money without having any physical contact with the victims.This rate would even grow higher in future as bitcoin is a new invention and it would take time for people to know how to safely use it.

[lucifochrome]

Oh that's just sad but this part is a mistake for the said individual. Everyone of us is responsible for our own actions, having said that we are the ones that need to protect our hard earned money. There are a lot of measures that can be done in order to protect it. but for this guy i don't know he just gave all the access. Remotely and his password as well. It is pitiful yes, but we should have learned from the mistakes of others.

[tigan_gangmei]

Everyone is responsible for their own actions in a decentralised system. I'm sorry for his loss. I hope everyone learnt a valuable lesson from his experience. Be careful everyone.

[jekjekman]

It's all his fault though and he can't do anything about retrieving it back, who is in the right mind that a valuable account's password will just be given to someone, even though it is a customer support of his trusted crypto exchange because at the first place there is no need for any website to get your password in just helping you to buy a specific cryptocurrency. It is ovbiously a scam and the owner acts so carelessly with this matter so this will serve a solid lesson for him.

[Hazir]

Everyone is responsible for their own actions in a decentralised system. I'm sorry for his loss. I hope everyone learnt a valuable lesson from his experience. Be careful everyone.

My thoughts exactly. People are used to being part of the system which pamper and guide them.
They are used to payment reversals, PayPal disputes and bank chargebacks so much that they no longer can think on their own.
"After all when something will go wrong, then I will just open up a PayPal dispute and receive my money back" - this is normal nowadays.
With irreversible payment methods like cryptocurrency we need to learn how to think - this might be a hard task for people I am afraid.