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December 14, 2013, 10:46:20 PM
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It will be interesting to collect some statistics on the scammability of bitcoins. Please be honest so we can all benefit from the result of the poll.
Were you scammed before? How much?
Definition of scam:
a) You bought something with btc and got nothing in return.
b) You wallet was hacked.
Scammability Index 1 = 100% scam
Scammability index 0 = 0% scam
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hilariousandco
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December 14, 2013, 10:52:41 PM |
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People are scammable, not Bitcoins. Never been scammed so far, and hopefully never will be because I would be mad as hell and probably punch a puppy.
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siameze
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December 14, 2013, 10:53:53 PM |
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Wait until all of TradeFortress' victims find this poll.
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December 14, 2013, 10:57:41 PM |
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"Scammed" by shity software and no support twice.
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GigaCoin
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December 14, 2013, 10:57:56 PM |
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always be careful, even if it means losing on 10,000% return opportunities that may turn out to be real, if it doesn't sound right it probably isn't, do your research.
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December 14, 2013, 10:58:01 PM |
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i am slow to react with my BTC since i know it's the wild west with BTC.. so i haven't really been scammed yet. if you're willing to take a lot of risks, maybe there's a good deal of reward.. but you will have to accept the chance of losing your money.
everybody should remind themselves to not be so greedy, as sometimes chasing the BTC may blind them from potential risks. your wealth is entirely in your hands.
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December 14, 2013, 10:58:46 PM |
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It will be interesting to collect some statistics on the scammability of bitcoins.
Statistics and a poll on a web forum are basically orthogonal concepts. |
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December 14, 2013, 11:22:45 PM |
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It will be interesting to collect some statistics on the scammability of bitcoins.
Statistics and a poll on a web forum are basically orthogonal concepts. Statistics and a poll on a web forum are even more basically redundant not everyone will be honest. a few people will say they lost thousands to get sympathy votes to then later beg for free coins not everyone will be honest. a few will say they only lost a days worth of trade when infact they lost the lot. but dont want to admit to it. not everyone will want to answer. so making a poll is useless.. all it will do is identify people that do not do any 'due diligence' or risk checking. which future scammers can use as their list of targets for future scams |
I DO NOT TRADE OR ACT AS ESCROW ON THIS FORUM EVER.
Please do your own research & respect what is written here as both opinion & information gleaned from experience. many people replying with insults but no on-topic content substance, automatically are 'facepalmed' and yawned at
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December 14, 2013, 11:27:33 PM |
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I have a private key and password holding service. Its totally free, forever.
If you want to protect your BTC from scams, just post your private key details here and I will store them safely for you.
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descarte (OP)
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December 14, 2013, 11:48:51 PM
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Well, base on the poll so far, most people have not been scammed before => so most people were very careful when making btc investment.
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December 14, 2013, 11:59:48 PM |
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I got scammed once for 0.1BTC on BTCJam, I've been extremely wary ever since.
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Voodah
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December 15, 2013, 12:04:39 AM |
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Nice poll.
I've yet to be scammed.
I did make bad investments though.
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December 15, 2013, 12:10:35 AM |
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I have been scammed 0.15btc months ago (but actually knowing the risks involved at the time)
and about 0.01btc still unconfirmed (will find out soon)
Overall, I consider myself pretty careful with my bitcoins
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December 15, 2013, 12:12:29 AM |
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never been scammed so far but I still have to see withdrawals from crytpsy  nice poll but do preorder qualify as a scam? |
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December 15, 2013, 12:33:06 AM |
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back in the day
someone posted a 200$ gift card for 50$ worth of bitcoin
he assured me he just didn't want the gift card and wanted to get his hands on some bitcoin fast so thats why he was selling it cheep
epic fail on my part, got scammed!
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December 15, 2013, 12:46:38 AM |
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back in the day
someone posted a 200$ gift card for 50$ worth of bitcoin
he assured me he just didn't want the gift card and wanted to get his hands on some bitcoin fast so thats why he was selling it cheep
epic fail on my part, got scammed!
Greed got the best of you? Whats was a bitcoin worth at that time? |
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December 15, 2013, 02:35:55 AM |
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I lost some 25 BTC when Litcoinglobal and BTCT decided to shutdown without a warning. At that time they represented some 60% to 70% of all my BTC net worth. (Right now no matter how hard I work, I still can't get to that 25 BTC mark).  |
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Voodah
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December 15, 2013, 02:46:44 AM |
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I lost some 25 BTC when Litcoinglobal and BTCT decided to shutdown without a warning. At that time they represented some 60% to 70% of all my BTC net worth. (Right now no matter how hard I work, I still can't get to that 25 BTC mark). My BTCT shares were transfered to Havelock.. Did they keep everyone's BTC? |
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descarte (OP)
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December 15, 2013, 02:48:44 AM |
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I lost 16.8 btc due to purchasing a scammed miner.
looks like the scammability index now is 0.5, so 50% of bitcoin users got scammed before. 15% got scammed less than 1 btc. 6.5% got scammed more than 1000 btc. wow
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December 15, 2013, 04:16:34 AM |
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I just got my bitcoins out of inputs.io before it was "hacked" But god did he make it difficulty for me to move them out. I had no idea why at the time. Now I do  |
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