Crypto Scams are a global issue

[joshy23]

There will be no scam if we start to be aware and try to educate our fellow crypto-users to research first and be responsible for spending hard earned money if they want to invest in crypto projects, almost everyday there are new websites, different domains but almost the same style of scamming, always ask to others if unsure in new projects that promises good roi in just short period of time.

Those sweet promises are common inside this market better to take time to review and we also need to be concern with our co-investors or traders.
If we do learned scam projects we should share it and give people more awareness about the style from that point it will give information and it will
avoid many investors to be victimized. Everything around this business needs a deeper understanding, it's all about money matters so best to take
care of your investment.

[BartS]

The problem with any kind of scams including crypto scams is there are those who are willing to join even when they know that eventually, scheme will collapse and those who joined last will be the victim. You can even hear them say "invest only what you can afford to lose" and "enjoy it while it last". As long as there are people who will invest in this kind of schemes, this will continue. A new scam will be born every time an old scam closed down after being caught.

This is something that really bothers me, many investors can see that a project is a scam and despite that knowledge they join that project believing that there is always going to be someone behind them willing to invest in the project to which they can sell their coins, not realizing that most of the time they will be the ones holding those useless coins.

And then they begin to complain about how they got scammed when they knew very well in what they were getting into.

[Oneandpure]

The problem with any kind of scams including crypto scams is there are those who are willing to join even when they know that eventually, scheme will collapse and those who joined last will be the victim. You can even hear them say "invest only what you can afford to lose" and "enjoy it while it last". As long as there are people who will invest in this kind of schemes, this will continue. A new scam will be born every time an old scam closed down after being caught.

This is something that really bothers me, many investors can see that a project is a scam and despite that knowledge they join that project believing that there is always going to be someone behind them willing to invest in the project to which they can sell their coins, not realizing that most of the time they will be the ones holding those useless coins.

And then they begin to complain about how they got scammed when they knew very well in what they were getting into.

During many ICO have been scam with lower price after listing, many people think crypto are global issues scam and look ahead with bitcoin and altcoin most terrible scam investing, how ever fault mistake by investing on ICO or IEO have contributed giving opinion to many people with scam crypto, although bitcoin and altcoin is never scam but after ICO have lower price people claim bitcoin become scam.

[Vishnu.Reang]

During many ICO have been scam with lower price after listing, many people think crypto are global issues scam and look ahead with bitcoin and altcoin most terrible scam investing, how ever fault mistake by investing on ICO or IEO have contributed giving opinion to many people with scam crypto, although bitcoin and altcoin is never scam but after ICO have lower price people claim bitcoin become scam.

Users need to understand that ICOs have no relation with Bitcoin or other established cryptocurrencies. It is true that some of the well known and most popular altcoins came in to existence through ICOs (Ethereum and TRX for example), but the recent ICOs have diverged a lot from what we had during the 2015/2016 period. A boundary must be drawn between the earlier ICOs and the recent ones.

[BartS]

During many ICO have been scam with lower price after listing, many people think crypto are global issues scam and look ahead with bitcoin and altcoin most terrible scam investing, how ever fault mistake by investing on ICO or IEO have contributed giving opinion to many people with scam crypto, although bitcoin and altcoin is never scam but after ICO have lower price people claim bitcoin become scam.

Users need to understand that ICOs have no relation with Bitcoin or other established cryptocurrencies. It is true that some of the well known and most popular altcoins came in to existence through ICOs (Ethereum and TRX for example), but the recent ICOs have diverged a lot from what we had during the 2015/2016 period. A boundary must be drawn between the earlier ICOs and the recent ones.

Things have changed dramatically, when icos were first created it was nothing but an attempt by good developers to get some funding for their project.

Basically you had some of the most brilliant minds in this market with great ideas but that were unable to make them a reality because they lacked money but since 2017 we are seeing something completely different most of those that are organizing icos do not really have any experience and do not have any idea what they're doing they just want the money and don't want to do anything for the community

[CarnagexD]

During many ICO have been scam with lower price after listing, many people think crypto are global issues scam and look ahead with bitcoin and altcoin most terrible scam investing, how ever fault mistake by investing on ICO or IEO have contributed giving opinion to many people with scam crypto, although bitcoin and altcoin is never scam but after ICO have lower price people claim bitcoin become scam.

Users need to understand that ICOs have no relation with Bitcoin or other established cryptocurrencies. It is true that some of the well known and most popular altcoins came in to existence through ICOs (Ethereum and TRX for example), but the recent ICOs have diverged a lot from what we had during the 2015/2016 period. A boundary must be drawn between the earlier ICOs and the recent ones.

Things have changed dramatically, when icos were first created it was nothing but an attempt by good developers to get some funding for their project.

It was nothing but the idea of changing something with lacks of funding. ICOs back then were more promising than today, roughly 70% of ICOs were legit and true to their promises what has planned became real but after the bitcoin has climbed to the top it all changed and scammers took granted of the newbie investors in the market making crucial days of the entire year 2018.

Basically you had some of the most brilliant minds in this market with great ideas but that were unable to make them a reality because they lacked money but since 2017 we are seeing something completely different most of those that are organizing icos do not really have any experience and do not have any idea what they're doing they just want the money and don't want to do anything for the community

I noticed that the funding of ICOs went wrong in previous years because of the competition from various groups of developers plus the scam ICO have taken the booming industry of cryptocurrency that taught the investors their lesson. Now I rarely see a succeeding ICO, probably there is a single project out of 10 that atleast reached their soft capitalization to continue bearing with the market.

[BartS]

Basically you had some of the most brilliant minds in this market with great ideas but that were unable to make them a reality because they lacked money but since 2017 we are seeing something completely different most of those that are organizing icos do not really have any experience and do not have any idea what they're doing they just want the money and don't want to do anything for the community

I noticed that the funding of ICOs went wrong in previous years because of the competition from various groups of developers plus the scam ICO have taken the booming industry of cryptocurrency that taught the investors their lesson. Now I rarely see a succeeding ICO, probably there is a single project out of 10 that atleast reached their soft capitalization to continue bearing with the market.

This is bad news because developers will always depend on the desire of investors to risk their money in a project that has nothing to show for, but thanks to scammers and their enormous greed now investors are afraid to invest in any of those new projects.

And I'm sorry that legitimate developers are experimenting huge problems to get enough funding for their projects but we cannot deny that scammers have taken over the market of icos and the risk of investing in any of those projects is simply unacceptable.

[Shasha80]

Until now, problems related to scams became a global issue, because scammers are everywhere. Not only in the crypto world.
But strangely, the deception that occurred in the crypto world was more in the spotlight in the eyes of the world, therefore ICO
projects were a scam, become negative effect on the crypto world. We as crypto supporters must try to educate newbies so we
can avoid scam, because there are many newbie victims of fraud. I hope next year the number of victims of fraud can be reduced
drastic, because I'm starting to see now that people are good at distinguishing between real and fake projects.

[Sanugarid]

Now that crypto is allowing us to transact globally I am questioning if we are going  to start to see more scams happen between countries. Do we need more compliance companies to step in to help major scams and illegal trafficking?

Full report: https://ciphertrace.com/articles/q1-2019-cryptocurrency-anti-money-laundering-report/

It is indeed an issue not only in cryptocurrency but in the whole blockchain technology. Scams are everywhere so the best way to minimize being victimized is to be vigilant and refrain from logging in to phishing sites.

Scams not only occur in blockchain technology and in cryptocurrency. It happens in any part of the world because everyone is vulnerable about being scammed. Let's just accept that we can't avoid being scammed, but we can minimize and prevent being a victim.

For me, I try to become more strict about the security of my account, based on my transactions. I do not make a transaction with someone who has a hidden identity or in short, anonymous. Also seeking information about how to avoid scammers can also help you to have a safe and secured cryptocurrency.

Always be alert in your account because many people nowadays are working hard just to fool people with their bad doings.

[Savemore]

Until now, problems related to scams became a global issue, because scammers are everywhere. Not only in the crypto world.
But strangely, the deception that occurred in the crypto world was more in the spotlight in the eyes of the world, therefore ICO
projects were a scam, become negative effect on the crypto world. We as crypto supporters must try to educate newbies so we
can avoid scam, because there are many newbie victims of fraud. I hope next year the number of victims of fraud can be reduced
drastic, because I'm starting to see now that people are good at distinguishing between real and fake projects.

Even though there are a lot of scammers in the internet, you can still protect your capital if you have knowledge to the investment that you will take. There are investors who easily believe to the attractive words of scammers. You can easily find out if the project is something fishy or not if you will research it background well. There are techniques that you can use like reading the reviews of the other investors participants. In their reviews you can see if the project is legit or not.

[Pamadar]

Until now, problems related to scams became a global issue, because scammers are everywhere. Not only in the crypto world.
But strangely, the deception that occurred in the crypto world was more in the spotlight in the eyes of the world, therefore ICO
projects were a scam, become negative effect on the crypto world. We as crypto supporters must try to educate newbies so we
can avoid scam, because there are many newbie victims of fraud. I hope next year the number of victims of fraud can be reduced
drastic, because I'm starting to see now that people are good at distinguishing between real and fake projects.

Each of us can help if we are all going to expand educating those newbies to avoid or to lessen the chance of getting scam, people who understand well this market needs to open their doors to give extra precautions as the global problem regarding to scamming people really affecting the market. Most new investors who got victimized shared their bad experienced and no longer interested to continue investing.

[clickerz]

Until now, problems related to scams became a global issue, because scammers are everywhere. Not only in the crypto world.
But strangely, the deception that occurred in the crypto world was more in the spotlight in the eyes of the world, therefore ICO
projects were a scam, become negative effect on the crypto world. We as crypto supporters must try to educate newbies so we
can avoid scam, because there are many newbie victims of fraud. I hope next year the number of victims of fraud can be reduced
drastic, because I'm starting to see now that people are good at distinguishing between real and fake projects.

It becomes a global issue because all involved are worldwide. Investors or victims are around the world also. Blockchain technology is good, cryptocurrencies let us live in a smaller world wherein we can transact anywhere in the world fast. These scammers exploit this advantage for their own gain.

[Driggers95]

Until now, problems related to scams became a global issue, because scammers are everywhere. Not only in the crypto world.
But strangely, the deception that occurred in the crypto world was more in the spotlight in the eyes of the world, therefore ICO
projects were a scam, become negative effect on the crypto world. We as crypto supporters must try to educate newbies so we
can avoid scam, because there are many newbie victims of fraud. I hope next year the number of victims of fraud can be reduced
drastic, because I'm starting to see now that people are good at distinguishing between real and fake projects.

Even though there are a lot of scammers in the internet, you can still protect your capital if you have knowledge to the investment that you will take. There are investors who easily believe to the attractive words of scammers. You can easily find out if the project is something fishy or not if you will research it background well. There are techniques that you can use like reading the reviews of the other investors participants. In their reviews you can see if the project is legit or not.

Agree, even though scam in crypto has become a global problem when quite a lot of people have gotten involved and lost a large amount of money but over time, the knowledge and perspectives of investors and participants have gotten better, the scam has been too easy to recognize, almost everyone has many factors to evaluate a project and plan. However, a common problem we cannot control, it is the greed of everyone, sometimes the attractiveness of money is so great, it makes people ignore the tips and criteria to evaluate projects.

[supercanada1]

Until now, problems related to scams became a global issue, because scammers are everywhere. Not only in the crypto world.
But strangely, the deception that occurred in the crypto world was more in the spotlight in the eyes of the world, therefore ICO
projects were a scam, become negative effect on the crypto world. We as crypto supporters must try to educate newbies so we
can avoid scam, because there are many newbie victims of fraud. I hope next year the number of victims of fraud can be reduced
drastic, because I'm starting to see now that people are good at distinguishing between real and fake projects.

Even though there are a lot of scammers in the internet, you can still protect your capital if you have knowledge to the investment that you will take. There are investors who easily believe to the attractive words of scammers. You can easily find out if the project is something fishy or not if you will research it background well. There are techniques that you can use like reading the reviews of the other investors participants. In their reviews you can see if the project is legit or not.

Agree, even though scam in crypto has become a global problem when quite a lot of people have gotten involved and lost a large amount of money but over time, the knowledge and perspectives of investors and participants have gotten better, the scam has been too easy to recognize, almost everyone has many factors to evaluate a project and plan. However, a common problem we cannot control, it is the greed of everyone, sometimes the attractiveness of money is so great, it makes people ignore the tips and criteria to evaluate projects.

Scams and frauds have been with human race since its very beginning. A man can think and act in any way he likes to, whether positive or negative. That is an entire choice of individual. With cyber space, it has become more technical for scammers to scam and more difficult for authorities to control or arrest these scams. Being a little bit smart can prevent us on internet. It is not a very difficult task.

[BartS]

Until now, problems related to scams became a global issue, because scammers are everywhere. Not only in the crypto world.
But strangely, the deception that occurred in the crypto world was more in the spotlight in the eyes of the world, therefore ICO
projects were a scam, become negative effect on the crypto world. We as crypto supporters must try to educate newbies so we
can avoid scam, because there are many newbie victims of fraud. I hope next year the number of victims of fraud can be reduced
drastic, because I'm starting to see now that people are good at distinguishing between real and fake projects.

Even though there are a lot of scammers in the internet, you can still protect your capital if you have knowledge to the investment that you will take. There are investors who easily believe to the attractive words of scammers. You can easily find out if the project is something fishy or not if you will research it background well. There are techniques that you can use like reading the reviews of the other investors participants. In their reviews you can see if the project is legit or not.

Everyone is different but I am why past the point in which I try to figure out if a project is a scam or not, the most effective way to protect yourself from scammers and their lies is to never send them even a single satoshi, if that means that I'm going to miss investing in some of the best projects in the market so be it I do not really care anymore.

I am not going to enter the game of the scammers, I'm not going to try to figure out if a project is good or not, and in my opinion this is the only way to protect yourself completely from scammers.

[kesmex]

Until now, problems related to scams became a global issue, because scammers are everywhere. Not only in the crypto world.
But strangely, the deception that occurred in the crypto world was more in the spotlight in the eyes of the world, therefore ICO
projects were a scam, become negative effect on the crypto world. We as crypto supporters must try to educate newbies so we
can avoid scam, because there are many newbie victims of fraud. I hope next year the number of victims of fraud can be reduced
drastic, because I'm starting to see now that people are good at distinguishing between real and fake projects.

Even though there are a lot of scammers in the internet, you can still protect your capital if you have knowledge to the investment that you will take. There are investors who easily believe to the attractive words of scammers. You can easily find out if the project is something fishy or not if you will research it background well. There are techniques that you can use like reading the reviews of the other investors participants. In their reviews you can see if the project is legit or not.

Everyone is different but I am why past the point in which I try to figure out if a project is a scam or not, the most effective way to protect yourself from scammers and their lies is to never send them even a single satoshi, if that means that I'm going to miss investing in some of the best projects in the market so be it I do not really care anymore.

I am not going to enter the game of the scammers, I'm not going to try to figure out if a project is good or not, and in my opinion this is the only way to protect yourself completely from scammers.

now ICO is not as popular as in 2017-2018, this 2019 IEO has replaced ICO,
if your intention is not to join ICO anymore it is a good idea

[Magkirap]

Until now, problems related to scams became a global issue, because scammers are everywhere. Not only in the crypto world.
But strangely, the deception that occurred in the crypto world was more in the spotlight in the eyes of the world, therefore ICO
projects were a scam, become negative effect on the crypto world. We as crypto supporters must try to educate newbies so we
can avoid scam, because there are many newbie victims of fraud. I hope next year the number of victims of fraud can be reduced
drastic, because I'm starting to see now that people are good at distinguishing between real and fake projects.

Even though there are a lot of scammers in the internet, you can still protect your capital if you have knowledge to the investment that you will take. There are investors who easily believe to the attractive words of scammers. You can easily find out if the project is something fishy or not if you will research it background well. There are techniques that you can use like reading the reviews of the other investors participants. In their reviews you can see if the project is legit or not.

Everyone is different but I am why past the point in which I try to figure out if a project is a scam or not, the most effective way to protect yourself from scammers and their lies is to never send them even a single satoshi, if that means that I'm going to miss investing in some of the best projects in the market so be it I do not really care anymore.

I am not going to enter the game of the scammers, I'm not going to try to figure out if a project is good or not, and in my opinion this is the only way to protect yourself completely from scammers.

Well yes that you will be secured from scammers and hackers but you'll miss lots of opportunities and i think it is part of the risk that we're taking when we enter the crypto world, it is our job to research about the project  that we're investing with because once we found out that its a scam, we can warn others specially newbies about that specific project that only scams people and you could save other's money by your research.

[mamahdedeh]

Until now, problems related to scams became a global issue, because scammers are everywhere. Not only in the crypto world.
But strangely, the deception that occurred in the crypto world was more in the spotlight in the eyes of the world, therefore ICO
projects were a scam, become negative effect on the crypto world. We as crypto supporters must try to educate newbies so we
can avoid scam, because there are many newbie victims of fraud. I hope next year the number of victims of fraud can be reduced
drastic, because I'm starting to see now that people are good at distinguishing between real and fake projects.

Even though there are a lot of scammers in the internet, you can still protect your capital if you have knowledge to the investment that you will take. There are investors who easily believe to the attractive words of scammers. You can easily find out if the project is something fishy or not if you will research it background well. There are techniques that you can use like reading the reviews of the other investors participants. In their reviews you can see if the project is legit or not.

Everyone is different but I am why past the point in which I try to figure out if a project is a scam or not, the most effective way to protect yourself from scammers and their lies is to never send them even a single satoshi, if that means that I'm going to miss investing in some of the best projects in the market so be it I do not really care anymore.

I am not going to enter the game of the scammers, I'm not going to try to figure out if a project is good or not, and in my opinion this is the only way to protect yourself completely from scammers.

Well yes that you will be secured from scammers and hackers but you'll miss lots of opportunities and i think it is part of the risk that we're taking when we enter the crypto world, it is our job to research about the project  that we're investing with because once we found out that its a scam, we can warn others specially newbies about that specific project that only scams people and you could save other's money by your research.

at least by doing our research, this will help new investors who may not have been good at researching a project. so the scam project is expected to not get investors and automatically fails by itself. if the movement is carried out then indirectly we have helped maintain the good name of the crypto world

[BartS]

Well yes that you will be secured from scammers and hackers but you'll miss lots of opportunities and i think it is part of the risk that we're taking when we enter the crypto world, it is our job to research about the project  that we're investing with because once we found out that its a scam, we can warn others specially newbies about that specific project that only scams people and you could save other's money by your research.

But many of those opportunities are not real, even if there are thousands of coins in the market that doesn't really mean that you have thousands of options in which you could invest your money, at best you have something like 50 different coins in which you could invest, the rest are scams, bad projects or projects that are copying other coins.

So I do not really feel like I'm missing anything because I can invest in the best coin in the market which is bitcoin and in a few other good altcoins like ethereum.

[TitanGEL]

Until now, problems related to scams became a global issue, because scammers are everywhere. Not only in the crypto world.
But strangely, the deception that occurred in the crypto world was more in the spotlight in the eyes of the world, therefore ICO
projects were a scam, become negative effect on the crypto world. We as crypto supporters must try to educate newbies so we
can avoid scam, because there are many newbie victims of fraud. I hope next year the number of victims of fraud can be reduced
drastic, because I'm starting to see now that people are good at distinguishing between real and fake projects.

Even though there are a lot of scammers in the internet, you can still protect your capital if you have knowledge to the investment that you will take. There are investors who easily believe to the attractive words of scammers. You can easily find out if the project is something fishy or not if you will research it background well. There are techniques that you can use like reading the reviews of the other investors participants. In their reviews you can see if the project is legit or not.

Everyone is different but I am why past the point in which I try to figure out if a project is a scam or not, the most effective way to protect yourself from scammers and their lies is to never send them even a single satoshi, if that means that I'm going to miss investing in some of the best projects in the market so be it I do not really care anymore.

I am not going to enter the game of the scammers, I'm not going to try to figure out if a project is good or not, and in my opinion this is the only way to protect yourself completely from scammers.

Well yes that you will be secured from scammers and hackers but you'll miss lots of opportunities and i think it is part of the risk that we're taking when we enter the crypto world, it is our job to research about the project  that we're investing with because once we found out that its a scam, we can warn others specially newbies about that specific project that only scams people and you could save other's money by your research.

at least by doing our research, this will help new investors who may not have been good at researching a project. so the scam project is expected to not get investors and automatically fails by itself. if the movement is carried out then indirectly we have helped maintain the good name of the crypto world

Those investors who experienced to get scammed are also have liabilities to their selves because they let the other people to get their money. They keep blaming others but the real problem is them. They did not consider the dangers before they make investment. As a investors we should protect our money. The cryptocurrency scams are global issues and we can protect our money if we have right knowledge. Researching and studying can help us to get right knowledge that we can use to not get scam.