The beginner's guide on how to not get SCAMMED with cryptocurrency

[stefarion]

Thank you all for the good feedback!

Here we go, another scammer. This one pretends to be Vitalik Buterin and put that blue sign next to his name. Attention, that is NOT the twitter check mark!



Unfortunately he already managed to fool some naive people. When you see this kind of tweets, please report them ASAP!

[stefarion]

Clearify.io developed a tool for reporting twitter scams: https://www.clearify.io/report-a-scam/ .  This is their announcement tweet: https://twitter.com/UseClearify/status/961802660134371328

[manoj kumar k]

The beginners have to be very careful while investing in the ico's they need to know about the ico where they want to invest I woud advise them to go throug with the ico rateing to go with the better crypto investment

[stefarion]

It seems the twitter scam that I wrote about in the original post has evolved quite a lot. Now the scam post is followed by hundreds of other bot accounts which reply that they received the reward. Coinbase is facing the same issues: https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/967094969289846784

[wanderloy]

The only thing that I am going to do to not to get scammed is to bump into their Telegram Channel because the social community of every ICO and projects are one of the most effective evidences to knowing that whether they're scams, fraud or bogus or not.
Social community is very hard to build especially when you don't have enough marketing team to organize them as whole community that is why scams have no Telegram Channels or if the has then the members cannot be faked because good ICO or projects really do have more than a thousand members and some of them are active and willing to answer all of the inquiries asked by other members.

[Lerikaweb]

To make it short and simple: don't give your money to anyone you haven't checked on. If you have checked on an ICO or whatewer you wanna invest in, still don't give them anything. Double-check.

[ORiN]

If this is for beginners why post here.? Better post this in beginners and help section.

By the way you have great heart to reach out new comers not to get scam.

He publishes it here to get a merit. Really it's clear
It's unlikely that people left here who share classified information from a pure heart.

[stefarion]

If this is for beginners why post here.? Better post this in beginners and help section.

By the way you have great heart to reach out new comers not to get scam.

He publishes it here to get a merit. Really it's clear
It's unlikely that people left here who share classified information from a pure heart.

1. What difference does it make concerning merit whether the thread is here or in another section? Enlighten me, because I don't see any connection.

2. Should new users just stop posting useful information comprising of ~1000 words simply because they might be accused that they want to get merit? Such a crime, who would want to be accused of that? We should just stick to "Cool project!" posts.

3. What do you mean by classified information? Do you even know what that is?

4. How does your post add any value to this thread? If you don't have anything to add regarding the aforementioned topic, please refrain from posting.