Oldest scam in the book can help you make money

[Lorence.xD]

Every person, including you, is pathetic and gullible to some degree. Why do you draw a line that decides who deserves sympathy and who doesn't, and why should anyone care where you draw that line? Everyone deserves some amount of sympathy. Where I'm from, we call someone with no sympathy "asshole".

First of all, the fact that you posted on these topic meant you cared, could've ignored it until this faded into obscurity. It is okay that I am called an asshole but atleast I said what should have been said, we tolerate the fact that these people's excuse is that they did not know that it was a scam, as if Elon will double your money if you give him money first, isn't that a red flag? The sympathy part might not be properly worded, it was the first word that came to my mind.

[wozzek23]

To be sincere, the poster has got a point here lol. Even as a newbie I was always sceptic about things that talks about money.
I can remember a lot of people who would come through my DM on Facebook then and be talking about some schemes they claim will help me make if I put money them.

I usually question the strategy, and I ask myself a lot of questions before anything, and I don’t forget my friend Google, was always helpful in those days; although even I didn’t have to do research, I don’t think I was ready to put penny in a anything. People have to be careful and not be in a hurry to make money all the time.

[davis196]

I've always wondered what is the type of people,who fall into such stupid scams.
I have come to the conclusion that 90% of them aren't dumb.They are just desperate.I guy that is financially desperate isn't dumb,he just isn't thinking rationally.He wants money NOW and FAST.It doesn't matter how he might "get" the money.
There is a certain percentage of  dumb and uneducated people,who are falling for those scams out of ignorance,which is sad,but laughing and ridiculing a person,that lost his/her savings is just cruel.

[Lorence.xD]

Just imagine, many noobs might be reading our discussion at this point and they might have come to know how doubling is scam. Prevented from scams!  

laughing and ridiculing a person,that lost his/her savings is just cruel.

I hope that this discussion helps. Borrowing John Doe's words from the movie Se7en, if you want people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention.  

[mk4]

Granted that they got scammed, shouldn't that experience make them become more smart and skeptical in the traitorous lands of cyberspace. But if these were to happen the second time then that is not something I myself could not let go, they did not learn from their mistake so they should be ridiculed and laughed at.

The point though is, we don't even know if this is the first, second, or third time they got scammed. So why do we automatically need to go with the "victims of bitcoin doubling scam should be ridiculed and laughed at" route?

So sending in the coins may not be as dumb as you think.

As the sender will go after twitter for the loss.

Tbh no matter how you flip it it's still dumb as hell; at least in the finance and investing aspect.

[Slow death]

anyone can be deceived and it is shameful that some people can deceive other people even knowing that it will be taking their money away and will leave them down in psychological terms.

I even get more irritated because we are in a time where unemployment is increasing every day and people will be looking for alternatives to earn money to help in this crisis, to see another person lying like that to steal money from people who are already suffering from unemployment and pandemic should place a very exemplary punishment for any scammer who does this

[KrisAlex18]

That is obviously a scam, there is no website that will require you to put the specific value as your investment and will double it for only a few days, don't fall for it. $1000 is a really huge amount of money do not let it gone from you. If you are going to read some advice here in this forum, you will know things that are scam or not. You may also read the reviews about the website so you will know the feedback of other people or users of the website. You should read firs the website before trying it because there are so many fake and scam websites in this crypto world.

Oldest and most obvious scam but still being use and people are still falling for it.
I just don't get it why people still fall for such an obvious trick just think about it how could they possibly make it happen when it is all about business.

Maybe those people who are newbies in crypto are the ones who will fall with that fake or scam website, they should be informed with good advice from other expert people.

[thesmallgod]

People that send the money believes a lot in the Twitter handlers that posted. For instance a strong follower and believers of Barack Obama will take his tweet about giveaway serious and might have no reasonable doubt not to send the money. The hackers don't generally select the account but specifically go for account that people hold trust in them. If not, I believe they would have target accounts such as Donald trump page. I strongly believe everyone deserve to be happy and whoever send money should get their money back if the hackers are apprehended

[arwin100]

People that send the money believes a lot in the Twitter handlers that posted. For instance a strong follower and believers of Barack Obama will take his tweet about giveaway serious and might have no reasonable doubt not to send the money. The hackers don't generally select the account but specifically go for account that people hold trust in them. If not, I believe they would have target accounts such as Donald trump page. I strongly believe everyone deserve to be happy and whoever send money should get their money back if the hackers are apprehended

If you don't know about those things and when you see the legit account of the well known personality posted that for sure you will get appealed to send since for quick instance you will provably believe that those things  is true, that's the reason on why we see people getting get scam and since the issue has been raised and this is recorded on the book for sure this will not happen again in future, people are more aware on another scam tactics like this by now.

[Yaunfitda]

People that send the money believes a lot in the Twitter handlers that posted. For instance a strong follower and believers of Barack Obama will take his tweet about giveaway serious and might have no reasonable doubt not to send the money. The hackers don't generally select the account but specifically go for account that people hold trust in them. If not, I believe they would have target accounts such as Donald trump page. I strongly believe everyone deserve to be happy and whoever send money should get their money back if the hackers are apprehended

It's because the tweet really came from the real account themselves and initially it is hard to distinguished if this is a scam or not. And if you look at the addresses, it is just small amount that has accumulated overtime. So the hackers hand pick which account to use in his scamming. So for me you can't blame those who send to that scammers, and it's too late because its been hours later before  twitter acknowledge the hack. There's always two sides on a story.

[Zackgeno96]

People that send the money believes a lot in the Twitter handlers that posted. For instance a strong follower and believers of Barack Obama will take his tweet about giveaway serious and might have no reasonable doubt not to send the money. The hackers don't generally select the account but specifically go for account that people hold trust in them. If not, I believe they would have target accounts such as Donald trump page. I strongly believe everyone deserve to be happy and whoever send money should get their money back if the hackers are apprehended

If you don't know about those things and when you see the legit account of the well known personality posted that for sure you will get appealed to send since for quick instance you will provably believe that those things  is true, that's the reason on why we see people getting get scam and since the issue has been raised and this is recorded on the book for sure this will not happen again in future, people are more aware on another scam tactics like this by now.

I  don't think that people will still learn from this and will again do this kind of mistake of sending their funds to someone else's account on account of a false promise that he will instantly double your money and return it back to you. This attack was just the same where people used to say Binance is giving away Ethereum and other crypto for participating you need to send x amount to this address and then the tokens will be airdropped and this recent scam also happened on twitter as well, the thing is people should control their greed and should think with a rational mind and then only they can keep the hard-earned money to themselves.

[Shasha80]

In my opinion all can be victims of scams, usually people who do not think first before acting and people who want to make money
in an instant. What is surprisingly typical is that there are many around us, so scammers will do everything they can to target people
like that. So don't be easily attracted to offers that are to be good to be true, we must be able to think smart and realistic.

[Lorence.xD]

People that send the money believes a lot in the Twitter handlers that posted. For instance a strong follower and believers of Barack Obama will take his tweet about giveaway serious and might have no reasonable doubt not to send the money. The hackers don't generally select the account but specifically go for account that people hold trust in them. If not, I believe they would have target accounts such as Donald trump page. I strongly believe everyone deserve to be happy and whoever send money should get their money back if the hackers are apprehended

That is also another problem, people becoming sheeps, they blindly follow these icons even though these said icons do not even know them, these zealotry has been plaguing us, and I am not a killjoy when it comes to following people but to follow them without ever questioning or even a hint of skepticism is outrageous. It is okay to have your idols but to become a mindless stan that will do every bidding is something, couldn't believe people like that exist.

[raidarksword]

I pity to people that got scammed on that incident wherein many were really a victim hence that bogus tweet came from twitter verified accounts, so people want to grab that opportunity to double their investments quickly but without knowing that accounts were actually hacked and it's too late to back it out.  It's an old scam tactics yet some people fall for this type of fraudulent ever since and hoping this recent incident people should be more vigilant because if this still continues there are still scammers will surely use this old habit.

[Janation]

I don't know but I have a lot of bands I look up to but I don't go to that lengths of giving them money.

They are artists, celebrities, content creators and they have money to support what they do and obviously they are paid to do that too. If they posted that I would be in the middle of my thought of either they are that desperate to help or so desperate to earn money. Mr. Beast, one of the biggest Youtubers fell for this hack too and a lot of people are scammed.

[kayvie]

People that send the money believes a lot in the Twitter handlers that posted. For instance a strong follower and believers of Barack Obama will take his tweet about giveaway serious and might have no reasonable doubt not to send the money. The hackers don't generally select the account but specifically go for account that people hold trust in them. If not, I believe they would have target accounts such as Donald trump page. I strongly believe everyone deserve to be happy and whoever send money should get their money back if the hackers are apprehended

If you don't know about those things and when you see the legit account of the well known personality posted that for sure you will get appealed to send since for quick instance you will provably believe that those things  is true, that's the reason on why we see people getting get scam and since the issue has been raised and this is recorded on the book for sure this will not happen again in future, people are more aware on another scam tactics like this by now.

Exactly, this is because people are easy to believe especially if there is one well-known person that will promote or advertise it. Even if it is a scam, everyone will still believe it once it was promoted to the public, there will be an easy task for them to gather so many victims.

[rodskee]

In my opinion all can be victims of scams, usually people who do not think first before acting and people who want to make money
in an instant.

People who also looking for chances those who are very desperate, the first thing to come in mind
since the account is legit account is compassions.

What is surprisingly typical is that there are many around us, so scammers will do everything they can to target people
like that.

Scammers find it's way to triggered known personalities accounts, thought the style of asking
is very old but still people are lazy to dig in.

So don't be easily attracted to offers that are to be good to be true, we must be able to think smart and realistic.

It's better not to participate than being sorry after.

[Eugenar]

This is an old way of scammers to scam other people, that is so obvious because there are already many people who are doing this, this kind of scam is so obvious but there are still many people who fall for this kind of scam, I don't know the reason why but for sure old people or those people who live in the crypto world for so long will not fall with this kind of scam so basically only beginners will fall with this kind of scam because beginners don't have that much knowledge and they will believe so easily for this kind of offers. It would be easy money for them so they will take that kind of opportunity without knowing that it is a scam and fake.

[Latviand]

While I think it's really ridiculous how people could fall for such obvious scams, come on dude. They already got scammed. That itself should be enough damage to them to teach them a lesson. Laughing at them and ridiculing them? That's totally totally unnecessary. Why not try to educate them instead?

Isn't it they are the one who should be responsible with their own mistake?

We can help them, YES, but it is not that we should always remind them about those scammers. They should know how to determine the legit post and a scam post. The OP don't totally laugh at them, maybe he just want to address those victims to become more mindful about the social media platforms that they are using, specially Twitter. People should not rely on other people to prevent being a victim of scams, they should learn it from themselves just by reading news and other platforms to become aware about those crimes in the internet.

P.S. Work a bit on your writing. That's a huge block of text.

This isn't a problem, as long as you know how to comprehend a topic even if it is in a long paragraph form without spaces, still it is full of ideas. 

[ethereumhunter]

When there is a sentence of "send 1000$, and I will double it", people must stay away from that because that is not true and that will get your money without giving it back to you. But as always, many people will feel greed to see the amount, and it seems, the word "I will double it" attract them to send the money to the scammers. That is an old scam that still works today, and many people still have the interest to try it, whether it's in the online world or the offline world. Please don't send anything. Otherwise, you will get a scam from them.