Please people, be more careful!

[Captain Litecoin]

It hurts to see so many people get scammed for large amounts!

Fake miners' hardware sellers, runaway escrows, fishing websites and ordinary scammers in sell/buy threads with fake trust ratings and feedback. So many users are losing serious money even when taking necessary precautions. I'm not rich, and these sums would be substantial to me.

Some say that it's the price you have to pay for greediness, but not everyone is a hardcore speculator!

[guybrushthreepwood]

It hurts to see so many people get scammed for large amounts!

Fake miners' hardware sellers, runaway escrows, fishing websites and ordinary scammers in sell/buy threads with fake trust ratings and feedback. So many users are losing serious money even when taking necessary precautions. I'm not rich, and these sums would be substantial to me.

Some say that it's the price you have to pay for greediness, but not everyone is a hardcore speculator!

Scamming has been going on since the dawn of humanity. As long as there's fools there will be people willing to take their money off of them.The only way to not get scammed is to evolve a little bit I think.

[KWH]

It hurts to see so many people get scammed for large amounts!

Fake miners' hardware sellers, runaway escrows, fishing websites and ordinary scammers in sell/buy threads with fake trust ratings and feedback. So many users are losing serious money even when taking necessary precautions. I'm not rich, and these sums would be substantial to me.

Some say that it's the price you have to pay for greediness, but not everyone is a hardcore speculator!

Scamming has been going on since the dawn of humanity. As long as there's fools there will be people willing to take their money off of them.The only way to not get scammed is to evolve a little bit I think.

[Captain Litecoin]

The scammer concentration here is the highest I've seen so far.

[Lethn]

Some of them are obvious and some of them are presumably legitimate newbies etc. that people give a chance on, it can be pretty difficult to tell them all apart sometimes, I've fallen for a scam and I'm normally pretty careful about this sort of thing even before Bitcoin.

[Holliday]

It hurts to see so many people get scammed for large amounts!

Fake miners' hardware sellers, runaway escrows, fishing websites and ordinary scammers in sell/buy threads with fake trust ratings and feedback. So many users are losing serious money even when taking necessary precautions. I'm not rich, and these sums would be substantial to me.

Some say that it's the price you have to pay for greediness, but not everyone is a hardcore speculator!

I speculate that for every person starting a thread about getting scammed there are hundreds of people not starting a thread about how they didn't get scammed.

Either that or I've lost my faith in humanity.

[guybrushthreepwood]

It hurts to see so many people get scammed for large amounts!

Fake miners' hardware sellers, runaway escrows, fishing websites and ordinary scammers in sell/buy threads with fake trust ratings and feedback. So many users are losing serious money even when taking necessary precautions. I'm not rich, and these sums would be substantial to me.

Some say that it's the price you have to pay for greediness, but not everyone is a hardcore speculator!

I speculate that for every person starting a thread about getting scammed there are hundreds of people not starting a thread about how they didn't get scammed.

Either that or I've lost my faith in humanity.

I lost mine long ago. There are probably half as many scams or attempted scams as there are legitimate deals on here.

[Holliday]

It hurts to see so many people get scammed for large amounts!

Fake miners' hardware sellers, runaway escrows, fishing websites and ordinary scammers in sell/buy threads with fake trust ratings and feedback. So many users are losing serious money even when taking necessary precautions. I'm not rich, and these sums would be substantial to me.

Some say that it's the price you have to pay for greediness, but not everyone is a hardcore speculator!

I speculate that for every person starting a thread about getting scammed there are hundreds of people not starting a thread about how they didn't get scammed.

Either that or I've lost my faith in humanity.

I lost mine long ago. There are probably half as many scams or attempted scams as there are legitimate deals on here.

Yes, but who falls for them? A few people who are then quite loud about it, while the majority who didn't remains silent.

[BurtW]

I did a bunch of deals.  I was very careful.  I did not get scammed!!!

[guybrushthreepwood]

It hurts to see so many people get scammed for large amounts!

Fake miners' hardware sellers, runaway escrows, fishing websites and ordinary scammers in sell/buy threads with fake trust ratings and feedback. So many users are losing serious money even when taking necessary precautions. I'm not rich, and these sums would be substantial to me.

Some say that it's the price you have to pay for greediness, but not everyone is a hardcore speculator!

I speculate that for every person starting a thread about getting scammed there are hundreds of people not starting a thread about how they didn't get scammed.

Either that or I've lost my faith in humanity.

I lost mine long ago. There are probably half as many scams or attempted scams as there are legitimate deals on here.

Yes, but who falls for them? A few people who are then quite loud about it, while the majority who didn't remains silent.

Idiots and the naive fall for them. A few intelligent or careful/cautious people just get bad luck in rare cases. Nobody is safe, but there are ways to greatly minimise risk.

[Holliday]

I did a bunch of deals.  I was very careful.  I did not get scammed!!!

Hey! Me too! I did not get scammed! We should start a new thread about how we didn't get scammed!

[KWH]

I did a bunch of deals.  I was very careful.  I did not get scammed!!!

I've had great success with dealings on these very forums.

[Entropy-uc]

I did a bunch of deals.  I was very careful.  I did not get scammed!!!

LOL.  If only your counterparties could say the same.

(For those not in the know, good old Burt here invented the Pirate pass through scam.)

[Vod]

I did a bunch of deals.  I was very careful.  I did not get scammed!!!

I've had great success with dealings on these very forums.

It's certainly possible to make money lending on these forums.

You just have to be careful, do your research and always take collateral.

[Entropy-uc]

I did a bunch of deals.  I was very careful.  I did not get scammed!!!

LOL.  If only your counterparties could say the same.

(For those not in the know, good old Burt here invented the Pirate pass through scam.)

Yes, to be perfectly honest and accurate:  I did get scammed for a huge amount of BTC in the past by Trendon (fucking bastard) Shavers, learned from my mistakes, moved on, have not been scammed since.

I don't know what to call your role in the pirate ponzi, but victim definitely isn't it.  Co-conspirator, accomplice, errand boy...  something like that is more appropriate.

It's a shame you aren't in a jurisdiction where the courts could decide what to call you at the same time they send Trendon off to prison.

[Captain Litecoin]

That's what I'm talking about. Not only small scams are in abundance (like, for example, scratch4bitcoins.com), but much greater ones!

Sheep Marketplace, GBL, Shavers etc. It seems like many here were scammed with vast amounts of money. And recently.... VisaCoin. Seriously?

[guybrushthreepwood]

That's what I'm talking about. Not only small scams are in abundance (like, for example, scratch4bitcoins.com), but much greater ones!

Sheep Marketplace, GBL, Shavers etc. It seems like many here were scammed with vast amounts of money. And recently.... VisaCoin. Seriously?

What happened with Visacoin?

[Captain Litecoin]

What happened with Visacoin?

That's what I know:

http://en.reddit.com/r/scamcoin/comments/1uy6iv/the_visacoins_fiasco/
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=394328.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=399143.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=402536.0

Still need more info for serious accusations, but whoever thinks it's a safe bet and not a scam...  

P.S. You thought that's all? But here's more:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=406337.0

[guybrushthreepwood]

What happened with Visacoin?

That's what I know:

http://en.reddit.com/r/scamcoin/comments/1uy6iv/the_visacoins_fiasco/
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=394328.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=399143.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=402536.0

Still need more info for serious accusations, but whoever thinks it's a safe bet and not a scam...  

P.S. You thought that's all? But here's more:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=406337.0

I agree with the first comment on the first link:

This is why you should never ever IPO or pre-investment anything in crypto land. 140BTC stolen. https://blockchain.info/address/1PmsmFaNQraZVbBv3Q13jmyucXVJfUo4Hb

To the idiots who sent IPO BTC, yeah you kind of deserved it.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=409696.0

[greyhawk]

Let me tell you a few things about being careful.

Firs.... oh wait, never mind, just click this and you'll know all you need to know:
https://www.google.de/#filter=0&q=site:dropbox.com+inurl:wallet.dat