Its really sad the amount of people who are getting scammed out of their coins by criminals. For every ico there seems to be a phising website. I came across a crowd sale site the other day that looked convincing and I thought about contributing but because I am a website designer I could see something was not quite right. I checked the URL with one from a ico review site and could see it was a scam. I'm lucky because I have enough experience to spot it but newbies don't know about this and are getting screwed left right and centre.
People are making fake nano ledger's and selling them on ebay, there's phising shape shift copies, emails trying to extract your mew key and dodgy bitcoin fork wallets stealing private keys. It's like the whole industry is under attack by some very clever people and I wonder can anything be done? Can phising websites be reported and taken down?
The weird thing is that if the criminals just invested in crypto rather than stealing other peoples they would probably make as much money and not have to go through all that effort. Does anyone know if this a really big problem or is it a few isolated cases.
Well, what do you expect? This is the wild west of the crypto world. And no matter how much we want to stop this from happening, we can't do shit but advice every newbie that they shoukd stidy more not just about bitcoin but also about all the coins and tokens out there. The way they work, security, etc. So thay they don't end up being scammed. Knowledge is power here. Literally. If you wanna be safe, know how to be safe. Unless you wanna learn the hard way. That is just how thing here are.
