New way to cheat with Bitcoin! be careful

[blckhawk]

Well, this scheme is not new to me though. I've seen a lot of the same cases even the time I was new to everything, and fortunately I never been fall into it. Perhaps, through the help of my friends who have more experience and knowledge always advise me to avoid this kind of scheme. Besides, sometimes you can tell if the service was a scam or not through their promises just like what OPs mentioned. It's kinda suspicious to get a 400% amount of profit within the short term. No one will probably fall into this scheme I hope, but I worrying for those individuals who are about to enter this industry though.

[MCobian]

All investment offers that offer unrealistic profits are immediately avoided, as this is likely to be a scams. For me 400% short-term
profit is so unrealistic, this method is most often used by scammers. Because many people want to get profit in the short term,
so scammers only take advantage of these people's greed. Be careful not to easily trust your Bitcoin to other people. If you want to
profit from investing in Bitcoin, can do your own analysis, it's much safer to do.

[adzino]

Not a new way to scam people. Taking advantage of peoples greed has been one of the prime way to scam people. I still don't get it. How come people still fall for scams like this? How do they expect that they will get "400% return" within a short period of time? I know there are people who knows it is a scam but still gives it a shot in order to see if they get lucky (which they shouldn't since all they are doing is giving scammers a hope), but then there are people who actually thinks it is real. They deserve to get scammed for their stupidity. Being a bit harsh over here, but at least they will learn a lesson and be more careful next time!

[darewaller]

Recently, I have seen various messages on social networks such as WhatsApp and Instagram that promise you a short-term profit of 400% bitcoin.
400% short-term profit and all these things are theft and be careful.

How would you believe anyone that’s promising you 400% within a short term? Even bigger investment platforms that has been running for years can’t pay that much, so how will someone else or a random platform that’s not well known promise you a 400% return and you believe them? Without being told, I will already know that it’s a scam.

The good thing is awareness are spreading and those who first failed to follow those fakes giveaways and promises are now learning the proper ways inside crypto/bitcoin. It's good since there are many people now that also concern with others, sharing information and guides in order to avoid being victimized by scammers and hackers.

Meehn, it’s not today that they started spreading. No matter how much awareness is being spread, people will still be falling for scam. It’s not everyone that’s a geek or good at all these things, so when they are still new and don’t know what’s happening, they will be falling for all these things.

[DevilSlayer]

Recently, I have seen various messages on social networks such as WhatsApp and Instagram that promise you a short-term profit of 400% bitcoin.
400% short-term profit and all these things are theft and be careful.

How would you believe anyone that’s promising you 400% within a short term? Even bigger investment platforms that has been running for years can’t pay that much, so how will someone else or a random platform that’s not well known promise you a 400% return and you believe them? Without being told, I will already know that it’s a scam.

The good thing is awareness are spreading and those who first failed to follow those fakes giveaways and promises are now learning the proper ways inside crypto/bitcoin. It's good since there are many people now that also concern with others, sharing information and guides in order to avoid being victimized by scammers and hackers.

Meehn, it’s not today that they started spreading. No matter how much awareness is being spread, people will still be falling for scam. It’s not everyone that’s a geek or good at all these things, so when they are still new and don’t know what’s happening, they will be falling for all these things.

Those kinds of promotion have a goal which is to deceive those people who are not financially literate. Of course there are many people who do not have financial education and they will easily become interested on this kind of project especially if they have a mindset of quick rich where they want their money to double or even triple in just short period of time. I think it can easily avoided through gaining knowledge and experiences, a right mindset can also be the key for us to not believe and have a good decision. Scammers are becoming smart in these past years and sadly, there are a lot of people who are being scammed. But I think they have also a fault because they did not invested to their knowledge first before putting their money on that kind of investment.

[Kelvinid]

Not a new way to scam people. Taking advantage of peoples greed has been one of the prime way to scam people. I still don't get it. How come people still fall for scams like this? How do they expect that they will get "400% return" within a short period of time? I know there are people who knows it is a scam but still gives it a shot in order to see if they get lucky (which they shouldn't since all they are doing is giving scammers a hope), but then there are people who actually thinks it is real. They deserve to get scammed for their stupidity. Being a bit harsh over here, but at least they will learn a lesson and be more careful next time!

Have someone to learn but too sad that they will need to suffer such a thing before they realized how stupid they thinking about quick-rich investment. May this is somewhat in common but the problem is that people are still naive to listen to what others have said. Either believe me but we can't deny and surely scamming is a way to be normal and therefore, we consider this as a part of our life. Saving ourselves is so easy but that different to save others especially when they live in greediness.

[abel1337]

This is not new in this crypto industry. that is what they called HYIP, wherein they promise for a short period of time your investment might be triple,  there are a lot of people in this world that are not aware what is the real trading in cryptocurrency is, so they are being fall into wrong places, and they will share it to other people and it will. result to stereotyping, the moment they will hear that someone talks about bitcoin and other stuffs they will think that oh this one is fake don't believe it.

[Incarts]

I think crypto investors need to be extra careful because scammers are devising new ways to prey on unsuspecting people. I nearly fell for one myself to a scam mining platform called  "Cryptomining",  many people ended up losing their hard earned funds but i was lucky i had already gained from investment before they ran.

[Renampun]

This is not a new way to scam people, this has been done even before. Scammers always promise to give you more than what you expect where it is really impossible. They promise to make your money grow after a few days or week. But there are still more people falling under this trick even after sending them a lot of reminders.

it doesn't matter whether this is a new trick or not, the important thing is we have to remind each other...
Fraudsters using Ponzi scheme tricks will never stop even if they are under police custody. it is their character and their work. we have to be always tell about the possibility of new tricks they use because maybe many don't know the concept of that scammers.

[GeorgeJohn]

You know we're about to enter a full blown bull market when the Ponzi schemes are back in full force.

Ponzis make you believe you're making heaps of money, then one day it all collapses and the original person or group who started the scheme, profits big.

Aviod 'Bitcoin Investments', just hodl and self-custody your coins. Don't enter your private key anywhere.

The general rule: if it sounds too go to be true, it probably is.

Many scams will want your Bitcoin.

Many alts will want your Bitcoin.

Stay safe out there.

I really agreed with you because people get people through scam based on personal needs or want, while many people are trapped into scam, it's because them really wants to multiply their coins which pushed people into investment platform's that leads them to lost their coins, scammers use want we are interested to get us, so therefore we have to observe carefully before adventuring into investment because scammers investment platform are multiple, most especially beginners have to take an adequate care for bitcoin investment.

[BlackFor3st]

It is a ponzi scheme for sure and there are plenty of victims here in our country to this kind of scheme as most of the people
here in our country are very greedy, they like to generate some huge amount of money without doing anything that is why they are
risking their money to this kind of scheme that promises a good amount of profit in monthly basis.

And now, they are crying as their hard earned money can't be find already as the founder are now in other country evading the multiple
cases that were filled to them. If you are a wise investors, don't be greedy and be fooled to this kind of promises.

[wxa7115]

This is not a new trick in crypto space, this has been already happening around. Easy money? Quick return? Instant rich? People got reck if they will put their money to them. It is too much to hear that scheme, people should have to realize that these things haven't existed nor to think about doubling your money because it is out of reality.

We don't need to let them have a way to scam us. If we are a smart person, aware of the situation, I don't think that we can still be a victim of this. And besides, this is also common sense for everyone how to know if that is a scam or not, but seeing a doubling money scheme is was pretty obvious that was a BIG LIE.

I agree that this is not new at all, I get offers like that all the time, what we need to know is that such thing is impossible, a scammer can lie all what he wants about the profits that are possible in order to try to attract people to their scam and unfortunately even if most members of the forum can see through this enough people fall on these kind of scams to justify scammers keep doing this over and over again and as we know once people fall for this there is no way to get their coins back due to the nature of cryptocurrencies.

Most people are not careful enough because when you lose your money with fiat in this way there is always a chance to recover it but this is not possible with cryptocurrencies which is why we should be even more careful about who we trust and not give our money away to random people on the Internet just because they ask nicely for it.

[geyayy]

You know we're about to enter a full blown bull market when the Ponzi schemes are back in full force.

Ponzis make you believe you're making heaps of money, then one day it all collapses and the original person or group who started the scheme, profits big.

Aviod 'Bitcoin Investments', just hodl and self-custody your coins. Don't enter your private key anywhere.

The general rule: if it sounds too go to be true, it probably is.

Many scams will want your Bitcoin.

Many alts will want your Bitcoin.

Stay safe out there.

Scammers have been around for a long time, and today they can do things secretly with Bitcoin.
But in any case and at any time, the only way to fight fraudsters is to raise awareness.

 I agree, raising awareness is the key to avoid being scammed. You wouldn't want all your coins to just disappear in an instance, lets all be observant and speculate first what these scammers are using to lure us.

[hahay]

Even if someone is not careful but I think that such scam mode would be very easy to ignore. When someone doesn't understand what bitcoin is, then why expect to be rich from bitcoin so that social network scams targeting random users are at least easy to avoid. Indeed, with someone's ignorance or innocence such a scam is still worrying, but if asked to buy several packages at a high price, I will once again say what someone is buying for a package that is not even clearly understood its purpose.

[Golftech]

I think crypto investors need to be extra careful because scammers are devising new ways to prey on unsuspecting people. I nearly fell for one myself to a scam mining platform called  "Cryptomining",  many people ended up losing their hard earned funds but i was lucky i had already gained from investment before they ran.

Scammers are wise and they can evolved from time to time, they are just around and waiting for another blast, investors needs to
be more careful and not allow themselves without proper knowledge, keep yourself updated and not to stop studying how you can
always prevent any possible attempt of every scammers.

[Anonylz]

400% short term profit! Who will believe that? ( even newbies should be skeptical about such offer) i just think anyone who believe in such offer is either too greedy regardless of if they are newbies or not, it is no longer news scammers uses this method and many more other ways to conquer their prey,
Anyone too desperate to make huge profit in a short possible time and fall in the grips of scammers like this will only have themselves to blame, I hope everyone stay alert and watch out for unusual offers.

[Expecto]

Are there still any people really fall for this kind of cheap tricks? It is obvious that it is scam. There is no way you can guarantee such thing with Bitcoin or any currency in such short time or any time. I hope there won't be any people who believe these frauds.

[tanjiran]

too good to be true.
400% profit in a short period of time, in the middle of a market that is moving slowly and full of surprises, that looks like a sweet promise. Ordinary people who just know about bitcoin can be hooked, especially those who want instant profit.
We have to educate that all things related to crypto have a high risk, anything can happen, so don't just rely on luck and other people's suggestions.
we must be aware and understand what we are investing in.

[meser#]

If somehow they found 3X-4X-10X methods for earnings, nobody shares it. It shows they are scammers. Because free cheese would be in the mousetrap.

[sulendra12]

Are there still any people really fall for this kind of cheap tricks? It is obvious that it is scam.

Yes, there are. People who doesn't have experience with this most likely will fall into this trap hole. I have seen a scam channel on Twitch which exactly does the same thing like what OP mentioned and the scammer took away $2.4K in just a hour from poor people. This is so sad actually.

There is no way you can guarantee such thing with Bitcoin or any currency in such short time or any time. I hope there won't be any people who believe these frauds.

Well, most of the inexperienced people probably don't even know what that is without enlightening them.