Crypto Holders, Beware the Covid-19 Scammers

[aioc]

Only donate amount if the fund raising program is organized  by reputed services/ individuals. Don't trust the newbie fund raising programs because they know this is perfect moment to steal thousands of dollars from rich since they are willing to help the people who sitting from the home itself.

That is the purpose of these Covid related cryptocurrencies they invite you to invest or donate because they will share the profit on the victims if I will donate I prefer donating it to my localities who is also badly hit by the COVID 19 virus and not to an unknown unorganized people, people should research we have projects that are like that now.

[Ridwan Fauzi]

This is the crucial time of our lives, we should be careful for whom we're dealing with, because scammers is everywhere. Online virtual world with anonymous individuals will find any ways to intrude on their potential victims, that's why it's more important to be vigilant. Fraudulent activities will arise and take advantage of the covid-19 pandemic, just to use it as their escape goat to gain sympathy like crypto donations for whatsoever reason.

During this time a lot of people will tend to scam more and you need to protect yourself when participating in this market. At telegram there are millions of people who intend to scam by inviting investment projects and it will only cost you money so be careful. In addition, the world is now very chaotic and hundreds of millions of people are unemployed making the situation worse.

I am the victim of work termination, I feel bad now but fortunately, I know cryptocurrency at least I can have money from daily trading or from investing. Corona Virus is worst, it can destroy an economic country with several months.

The scammers have always been there, before the coronavirus came in my telegram and this forum either have a thousand of scammers. But you have to know, you won't be scammed if you know them and now the characteristic of their way.

The most and an old trick scammer to scam the people is they will ask you to deposit money and you will get double money when you have sent it. If you find this situation you have to ignore it immediately. There is no free money, I mean you have to spend your effort even your capital to gain money as you want. 

[michellee]

The scammers will always try to use the moment to get the money from people. We are in the pandemic, and the scammers seem already moves to trick the people and asking them to donate with them. The worst thing the scammers can do is sending emails to the victim to send some money to them because they use WHO in the email. It is our responsibility always to be careful from the scammers, not just because that is our money, but it is about how we can protect crypto as well, so people out there don't think that crypto will only be used for illegal things.

[Bestmanbuka]

There's no denying that this is a wild time that we are currently living in, and during wild times like these people tend to get desperate. Unfortunately desperate people combined with panic create the perfect conditions for scammers. The FBI has officially warned traders that there will be a rise in “cryptocurrency-related fraud schemes”.

Given that case. FBI should have a method on how to bust these scammers. Using covid19 as a tool is not funny anymore. I dont know why these people think of it as their way of scamming. Dont they have conscience in their doing? If this continue cryptocurrency will be flagged as as worst industry for investment related.

Do you have idea OP if those people have accumulated funds from the victim? FBI should be able to identify and sort out for this.

Cryptocurrency scammers might not be too easy for FBI or the police to catch and punished appropriately because of anonymity of such transactions and many countries around the world haven't legalised cryptocurrency because of the effects they think it will have on the banking sector.

[pakhitheboss]

If you want to donate for a particular cause you should always donate at the local level to people or organization whom you know. When you donate to some organization onine you should be aware about their work. Donating unknown people or organization will only help scammers or fraudsters.

[Bestmanbuka]

This is the crucial time of our lives, we should be careful for whom we're dealing with, because scammers is everywhere. Online virtual world with anonymous individuals will find any ways to intrude on their potential victims, that's why it's more important to be vigilant. Fraudulent activities will arise and take advantage of the covid-19 pandemic, just to use it as their escape goat to gain sympathy like crypto donations for whatsoever reason.

During this time a lot of people will tend to scam more and you need to protect yourself when participating in this market. At telegram there are millions of people who intend to scam by inviting investment projects and it will only cost you money so be careful. In addition, the world is now very chaotic and hundreds of millions of people are unemployed making the situation worse.

I am the victim of work termination, I feel bad now but fortunately, I know cryptocurrency at least I can have money from daily trading or from investing. Corona Virus is worst, it can destroy an economic country with several months.

The scammers have always been there, before the coronavirus came in my telegram and this forum either have a thousand of scammers. But you have to know, you won't be scammed if you know them and now the characteristic of their way.

The most and an old trick scammer to scam the people is they will ask you to deposit money and you will get double money when you have sent it. If you find this situation you have to ignore it immediately. There is no free money, I mean you have to spend your effort even your capital to gain money as you want. 

Sorry for the Loss of your job.
Inline with what you said, people should be disciplined if not you will loose hard. I learnt the hard way with Telegram scam because I wasn't contented, so I always fall for the double your money scams both with fiat and cryptocurrency until I lost all and took corrective measures. So once people discipline themselves, they won't fall for those reaping where they dint sow.

[ahmia39]

If you want to donate for a particular cause you should always donate at the local level to people or organization whom you know. When you donate to some organization onine you should be aware about their work. Donating unknown people or organization will only help scammers or fraudsters.

Yes, that's right, and what we donate must also be useful for those who receive it, because if the contribution is worthless, the donation will automatically mean nothing to those who receive our contribution.

[Viscore]

The pandemic will make us all struggle financially too, so I guess donating is only good if you have enough funds.
It's expected that we will see fake charities now, but if we are educated and we know how to verity if the company or the site asking are legitimate, then we should not face any problem.

For me, the best way to offer some help is to just donate in your country to a legal entity that's mission is to help people during this crisis, that way we can ensure that our money is safe and it's spent at the right purpose.

[maxreish]

Scammers and Fraudsters are using this chaotic pandemic season to scam. I have seen so much fake giveaways in social media which are using COVID virus to make people fall for that because most of the people are suffering from financial crisis. I know FBI are doing their best to bust these scammers but let's just be aware that there are so many new schemes around that you should be careful and be aware of.

[H1N1]

There are many peoples staying at home because this disease, many of them have been fired from workplace and become jobless.
Scammers and fraudster are the peoples who want to steal other people's coin, they need money, so we need to extra careful for now.

[minairia3]

There are many peoples staying at home because this disease, many of them have been fired from workplace and become jobless.

Fired? Im not sure about that, cause they are asked to stay at home but this is not termination but a precaution for spreading the virus. No salary yes, but job is not remove from their status cause its totally unfair to get remove from a work because of this virus.

I do hope FBI can bust these people. If you are using forum, you are already aware of some of these scamming right? So better stay away from any giveaway or money related about covid cause we are not sure if those are legit.

[SacriFries11]

If you want to donate for a particular cause you should always donate at the local level to people or organization whom you know. When you donate to some organization onine you should be aware about their work. Donating unknown people or organization will only help scammers or fraudsters.

Yes, that's right, and what we donate must also be useful for those who receive it, because if the contribution is worthless, the donation will automatically mean nothing to those who receive our contribution.

They should provide actual proof that they really donating this money. Many unknown organization take advantage to this kind of situation and better to give in local government unit rather than online organization with unknown identity. That right, it's better for us to make sure that the money we donating will go in the right hands and together let's fight this virus. I hope it will end soon because it's affects a lot of people especially the poor people.

[Teraboy]

There's no denying that this is a wild time that we are currently living in, and during wild times like these people tend to get desperate. Unfortunately desperate people combined with panic create the perfect conditions for scammers. The FBI has officially warned traders that there will be a rise in “cryptocurrency-related fraud schemes”.

Given that case. FBI should have a method on how to bust these scammers. Using covid19 as a tool is not funny anymore. I dont know why these people think of it as their way of scamming. Dont they have conscience in their doing? If this continue cryptocurrency will be flagged as as worst industry for investment related.

Do you have idea OP if those people have accumulated funds from the victim? FBI should be able to identify and sort out for this.

Cryptocurrency scammers might not be too easy for FBI or the police to catch and punished appropriately because of anonymity of such transactions and many countries around the world haven't legalised cryptocurrency because of the effects they think it will have on the banking sector.

It's easy for FBI to catch these scammers but the main problem is every country has its own juridiction. That means the report must be created inside of the country to make sure the police will be processing the report.
This has already discussed so many times and we need people that also based on that country to create a report.

[Reid]

Where do they get that courage to dupe people in this difficult times?
Are they brothers of the devil?

We are all having a hard time to make money just to provide for the family and yet this kind of scams are still lurking everywhere.
Who would sacrifice to invest in some of this while your savings is going lower everyday?
I doubt they will be successful, but it is also good to warn people.

[Surrapatt]

There are many peoples staying at home because this disease, many of them have been fired from workplace and become jobless.
Scammers and fraudster are the peoples who want to steal other people's coin, they need money, so we need to extra careful for now.

If the problem of extra caution has always been done by everyone, because the scammers have long appeared in the crypto room, not just during the Covid-19 pandemic, and I also hope we are all shunned from Covid-19 and the scammers crypto.

[Btc_1856]

Scammers and fraudsters would take this pandemic event as an advantage in auch a way that there are many fund raisers asking for a donations and organizations that promises to help affected people because of covid19. In this case, we should only choose organizations that are trusted not just receiving funds and use this tragedy as their bait.

You are right, we should be very careful with the Fundraising company because they are asking for donations and without googling about the company it is not a wise decision to send money directly to them. Scam people will always the cause the raise funds and we need to be very careful with those companies.

[mdzahed134]

Personally i made several donations to the well-known organization in my region even those are established from a few years ago. Anyway, a lot of scammers already targeting to do scam in these global pandemic situation. I saw a newbie created thread to fund raise, we shouldn’t make donate this untrustworthy way. @irfan_pak10 already made a fundraising campaign here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5240168.msg54213861#msg54213861                    

[rahmatullah9305]

Scammers and fraudsters would take this pandemic event as an advantage in auch a way that there are many fund raisers asking for a donations and organizations that promises to help affected people because of covid19. In this case, we should only choose organizations that are trusted not just receiving funds and use this tragedy as their bait.

Yes, indeed many organizations have been created to help all those affected by Co-19, but those of us who receive assistance must also be clever in seeing and analyzing the body of the organization, so that we are not trapped in things we don't want.

[kogozer714]

in a situation like now many who use it for personal gain, according to the news that there is a majority of fraud in the name of humanitarian care for covid-19, all fraud will hurt the right people will help this problem. we must be more careful about the problem of fraud under the name covid-19

[Genemind]

Scammers are always taking their chance to scam other people even amidst the pandemic. That is why people must be extra cautious since scammers are not choosing any occasion or situation when will they attack people. It's such a shame at moment like this most people need help and yet people are thinking of ways to scam other people, snatching everything they can.