PEOPLE WILL NEVER STOP FALLING FOR SCAM

[omone1]

Hello guys, back in 2017, during the heavy bull run, I visited my former office and meant some friends and told them the need to key into bitcoin. One who is now occupying my former position at the bank interjected and said "someone just left here to to lay complain how he paid a huge some of money to a bitcoin seller who then scammed him", bitcoin was never paid by the scammer. I asked them to send the person to me for a free tutorial on bitcoin and how to safely buy and store it, I never hear from them again till date. The victim had try to bitcoin because he heard he will double his investment in a week, I told them that is not how it work.

After getting and reading repeated complain of how persons are been scammed in my country while trying to buy bitcoin, I decided to make 4 banners on how to learn how to safely buy/sell bitcoin and other cryptocurrency, and to address the wrong notion about cryptocurrency. I got some calls and follow ups. But most are not interested in buying and holding but want to give me money and be giving them a weekly or monthly returns on investment, when I tell them that is not how it actually works, they will reply they have found a program online that pays some weekly % ROI, I try to stop them from putting their money there, they either stop picking my calls or tell them they are okay with their findings.

I am just weak and heart broken how people are lazy to attend class that will open their mind and eyes to existing realities and set them free from lifetime mistakes. I am dazed by their foolishness in the issue of finance. My banners and office is still open but won't force anyone to learn.  I hope they don't learn the hard way.

[20kevin20]

Sounds way cooler when you imagine something too good to be true. I'm not sure how you've been able to gather only these silly kind of people, but they'll either learn the hard way or they'll give up.

They're like wealth chasers so they most likely believe Bitcoin is a wealth generator. Unless they wake up to reality, even if they leave BTC they'll probably just keep living a more miserable life and try out the next pyramid scheme that's gonna pop up.

So yeah, they need a strong shake so they can realize what they're trying to do is non-achievable.

[Tipstar]

Scam comes in different shapes and forms but there are some simple ways to prevent them.
Firstly secure your funds, use good passwords and 2FA wherever possible. Don't copy paste or screenshot your keys or phrase and keep them on same device or on the cloud.
Don't make quick decision, look over for every of your investment more than twice. Something that looks promising might not look the same tomorrow.

[Assface16678]

Scam comes in different shapes and forms but there are some simple ways to prevent them.
Firstly secure your funds, use good passwords and 2FA wherever possible. Don't copy paste or screenshot your keys or phrase and keep them on same device or on the cloud.
Don't make quick decision, look over for every of your investment more than twice. Something that looks promising might not look the same tomorrow.

Today we want to earn more money and profit and one of the thing we need is to find a job or a project that is related to the crypto currency so we can relate to the topic. Some of us look at the good offer, price and profit we can earn. With the use of good marketing and advertisement today we can now find a good job but still there are some scam projects that telling they are the best and paying so they can got a lot of users just to promote but still we cannot tell what will happen next if they are still legit and authentic project.

[Slow death]

It is very difficult not to fall into the hands of scammers because scammers make promises that not exist in the real world. There was a year where there were scam exchanges that promised the following:

The person gave $100 in Perfect Money and received $150 in bitcoin

The person would give $100 in perfect Money and receive $150 in payeer

People fell into this type of scam because they wanted to have more money and did not ask themselves where the exchange owner would get money to do these kinds of things.

[Darker45]

A lot of people will never ever escape from falling into scams because their attitude itself is attracting them. Why are scams still thriving until these modern times? Because:

• A lot of people are lazy.
• Unfortunately, these lazy people have the dream of getting rich.
• And they don't want riches to come in staggered amounts. They want them one-time big-time very quickly.
• And these lazy and ambitious people won't lift a finger to know what they are getting into for as long as it promises them a chance, however slim, of achieving their dreams.

Charles Ponzi was notoriously using the infamous Ponzi scheme in defrauding these kinds of people in the 1920s.^[1] My goodness! We are already in the year 2020, a full century later, and the scheme is still thriving in so many parts of the world and sucking billions off from people.

Do you think this will eventually perish? I don't think so. For as long as many humans are crazily lazy and ambitious, this form of scam and its varieties will continue to find victims.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme

[pooya87]

this is not a bitcoin specific thing though. for as long as humanity existed there have been gullible people and there have been scammers who use their gullibility to make money from them. the form of it and the "medium" they use changes but the principles are the same and will remain the same. unfortunately there isn't much others could do about it either. we can only keep informing them and fight the scammers by publicizing their scam, reporting them to authorities, closing their websites,....

[Janation]

As long as people are wanting to earn, they will still fall to these ploys.

In our country, people left and right is still falling to these scams. I know that they want to earn themselves a profit they deserve but they also need to be aware of it. There are those people that will be taking advantage of their innocent minds in earning money. A scam is so popular in our country that even if it did not include money, people still fall for them. For example, a text will be received saying that their son/daughter is in the hospital and needed a load so that they can call other of his relatives for help. My grandmother fell for that thinking that my father is in the hospital knowing she is just scammed. Scammers are smart, that is why people should be smarter.

[Ailurophile]

Sad to say but it's true,
As long as they are blinded by their greed and being played by the right cards then people would surely never stop from falling in scams.
People fall into it because of their own greed and foolishness.

[Yatsan]

this is not a bitcoin specific thing though. for as long as humanity existed there have been gullible people and there have been scammers who use their gullibility to make money from them. the form of it and the "medium" they use changes but the principles are the same and will remain the same.

It is a bitcoin thing tho since we are inside a forum that talks about everything that is happening is crypto-space. 'Scam' has been become the very correct term when blinded online, then we used to call it 'Fraud' before the internet is invented. Principles are technically similar, they are both blinding their victims with much opportunity however these things are not only for stealing money or any type of currency coz some are aiming for personal information and documents. What is inevitable is the gullible people or those who cannot detect the danger of scam because of the possible positive outcome.

unfortunately there isn't much others could do about it either. we can only keep informing them and fight the scammers by publicizing their scam, reporting them to authorities, closing their websites,....

I must agree we cannot do much for the others but to let them know what to avoid perhaps they are going to be scammed. The only BUT we can do is the legality like seeking for authorities help to track and locate the criminals. Well publicizing isn't that effective for me, even using a platform that has a millions of users like Facebook or Twitter coz accounts can be easily made and protect the publicize posts.

[btc_angela]

It's going to be a continuous cat and mouse game in crypto sphere, there are people here that is going to fall for this scammers, one way or another to learn their lessons. I myself fall early in 2017 to a bitcoin doubler program. So it newbie investors just throw out their money in bitcoin and thinks that they are going to earn 100% in short amount of time, then they didn't do their homework. And as long are there are people like that, scammers will just reinvent themselves over and over again to victimised those kind of people.

[fiulpro]

Unfortunately the government system makes them loose so much money plus all the taxes and the job opportunities , it sucks trust me how a middle man is living in this world is totally messed up.
People like sheep's are just doing what the corporate wants them to do and they are literally not reaching anywhere , so when opportunities like this arise , like lotteries and all they try and grab it.
But they should understand that

Not everything that shines is gold

If something is too good to be true then stay away from it. .

I don't even think we can blame them entirely for this.

[Baby Dragon]

Sad to say but it's true,
As long as they are blinded by their greed and being played by the right cards then people would surely never stop from falling in scams.
People fall into it because of their own greed and foolishness.

It just means that sometimes they're also the reason why they end up losing their assets as a result of scams. They just let their covetousness to assume responsibility for their perspective that is the reason why they don't dissect their choices before making a certain action. They don't think the potential results of their choice since they are just intrigued about the potential advantages they may get. They don't even attempt to do their own investigation to decide whether it will be worth it and profitable or it is simply another approach by a fraudster.

[sunsilk]

Sorry about those countrymen of yours that doesn't want to understand it properly. The same as what I've been seeing in my country but I'm doing my best to educate if I find someone who misunderstands it.

I guess many of those people in your country really misunderstands what bitcoin is. And they don't want to learn about how exactly the purpose of bitcoin and those generating weekly interest are total scams.

[xvids]

Unfortunately the government system makes them loose so much money plus all the taxes and the job opportunities , it sucks trust me how a middle man is living in this world is totally messed up.
People like sheep's are just doing what the corporate wants them to do and they are literally not reaching anywhere , so when opportunities like this arise , like lotteries and all they try and grab it.
But they should understand that

Not everything that shines is gold

If something is too good to be true then stay away from it. .

I don't even think we can blame them entirely for this.

Yes we could because each and everyone of us could make some improvements.
I heard something once and it really hit me hard "if you are born poor it is not your mistake, But if you die poor it's your mistake."
There are always a way to earn more we just need to be creative.

[airdnasxela]

It's their fault already if they keep on getting scammed because they won't listen. You're already there trying to help them yet they're being so hard headed and keep on deciding on their own even though they don't know much. It's their loss after all. Scammers will always be there so educating others especially newbies will help them learn to avoid scammers yet if they don't want to be taught, then it's their fault.

[TIDOVEE]

People tend to be too lazy to learn about Bitcoin in a proper way and they won't keep complaining of being scammed. They love the get rich quick syndrome (the Ponzi pattern) and if they want people who will bait them to dupe them, they will definitely see. They believe in just giving their money out to traders and come back month end for double. Many of them meet their Waterloo after the 2017 bull run, when the traders could not meet up with their payments again. Even the trader does not want to be at the loosing end and will therefore have no better choice than to run away with their money.

[Debonaire217]

Yes it is very impossible that scam will be eliminated completely because there will always people who wants easy money with less work. Scammers on the other hand, are very good at persuading people which is why a lot will also fall for it. For me, the best way to avoid getting scammed is to always do research and do background check of the project before investing money.

Way back before, the scammers are quite having the huge advantage because most of the system is quite simple. They could just use different phishing sites and just target almost everyone. But in comparison to what we have for today. The scammers are quite reduced because of the regulations that we currently have for many sites. This leads to a conclusion that we have more chance of today, to avoid scams with the help of systems. And this means that, if we get scam by someone, technically, it could be considered as a human error and mistrust to someone we don't really know.

[BlackFor3st]

Hello guys, back in 2017, during the heavy bull run, I visited my former office and meant some friends and told them the need to key into bitcoin. One who is now occupying my former position at the bank interjected and said "someone just left here to to lay complain how he paid a huge some of money to a bitcoin seller who then scammed him", bitcoin was never paid by the scammer. I asked them to send the person to me for a free tutorial on bitcoin and how to safely buy and store it, I never hear from them again till date. The victim had try to bitcoin because he heard he will double his investment in a week, I told them that is not how it work.

After getting and reading repeated complain of how persons are been scammed in my country while trying to buy bitcoin, I decided to make 4 banners on how to learn how to safely buy/sell bitcoin and other cryptocurrency, and to address the wrong notion about cryptocurrency. I got some calls and follow ups. But most are not interested in buying and holding but want to give me money and be giving them a weekly or monthly returns on investment, when I tell them that is not how it actually works, they will reply they have found a program online that pays some weekly % ROI, I try to stop them from putting their money there, they either stop picking my calls or tell them they are okay with their findings.

I am just weak and heart broken how people are lazy to attend class that will open their mind and eyes to existing realities and set them free from lifetime mistakes. I am dazed by their foolishness in the issue of finance. My banners and office is still open but won't force anyone to learn.  I hope they don't learn the hard way.

Being lazy is one of the problem of other investors that is why most of them will easily fall to the hand of the scammers. This newbie investors are also greedy aside from being lazy as they want to earn a weekly or monthly ROI with their investments without using a single effort.

So the scammers are using this opportunity to grab their money in return of nothing, I wonder why most them still didn't learn their lessons. If they just put a little effort by studying how crypto or bitcoin works then they can easily choose what type of investment that they should choose and they can easily avoid those cheap scammers.

[The Cryptovator]

There is some reason behind how peoples are getting scam like greed, knowledge, lazy and so on. Due to lack of proper knowledge there is chances to get scam. Its quite important to know how work crypto-currency. And most importantly greedy behaviour is the main reason behind most of scam. Most of investment site doesn't serve longer. That's how most of investors get scam. Also they are even lazy to think and deep investigate. Like if you are going to buy bitcoin from someone in your local country then you should know how trustworthy that person. But when bad luck come to us, usually we forget all these things and eventually got scam.