A crypto Scammer on the run

[Stanlo]

You shouldn't blame me from running away from any crypto project that has a nigerian as one of its members, I don't hate this country but it's majority of its people are something else, not all nigeriana are bad though but .......here is a news I came across yesterday,

Nigeria Authorities Put mastermind of Inksnation and Pinkoin blockchain projects on wanted list



The full details can be read on here too

https://news.bitcoin.com/nigerian-authorities-put-mastermind-of-the-inksnation-crypto-scam-on-wanted-list/

[Mighty_crypt]

Scammers are from every damn countries in this world, I know nigeria is full of scammers too but don't go around trusting projects because their members aren't from Nigeria lol, I'm kinda reluctant on russian blockchain projects too hahaha, it's a pity there is no way to safeguard crypto space because of decentralization.

[crwth]

This is the reason why regulations are becoming stricter, and exchanges are enforcing KYC initiatives. I know that it would help the authorities get the culprits. At least there is some security for members that might save them from possible unwanted loss of capital.

I had a thought that governments should work together on this, since Bitcoin is globally used, so everyone is kind of involved. For sure, some of the criminals are out there fleeing their countries and maybe enjoying their lives in another place. Maybe some kind of collective effort can be done. 

[Malam90]

Scammers are not only in Nigeria but also around the world. I don't want to blame only a country. There are good people and good hunters as well as good crypto traders too. Only this particular person can be scammer and he can be caught by their authorities.
He has promised monthly life time income by offering investment. But he has cheated with them by Pinkoin offering monthly which isn't listed in any market anywhere. For this kind of cheater, many countries still are lagging behind to legalize crypto.

[VDraci]

I read the full news about pinkoin and I was able to understand that the tokens aren't even listed on exchange, I'm suspecting the scammer is asking the investors to invest with Ethereum and get pinkoin and the other token in return, promising them high ROI, investors are definitely to be blame on this one

[VDraci]

It's unbelievable how fast people want to make money this days without any proper investigations on new projects first, judging from my own crypto experience right now I can never invest on such project because it's not responsible, greed is highly present here that's why investors fall

[casperBGD]

Scammers are not only in Nigeria but also around the world. I don't want to blame only a country. There are good people and good hunters as well as good crypto traders too. Only this particular person can be scammer and he can be caught by their authorities.
He has promised monthly life time income by offering investment. But he has cheated with them by Pinkoin offering monthly which isn't listed in any market anywhere. For this kind of cheater, many countries still are lagging behind to legalize crypto.

it is a global industry, so scammer from Nigeria can scam people all around the world

of course, these projects look like they were going for local people, that are un-educated regarding crypto industry, but want to earn fast, and when you want to earn fast and easy, without any analysis where do you invest, you usually end-up scammed

[DoubleAweSeven]

RIP for him I guess. He took a huge risk right there by having his face and name shown to the public and now the police are in pursuit of him.

You shouldn't blame me from running away from any crypto project that has a nigerian as one of its members, I don't hate this country but it's majority of its people are something else, not all nigeriana are bad though but .......here is a news I came across yesterday,

Can't really blame you there buddy if you have the trauma of getting scammed by nigerian scammers. It's part of being human to avoid things that will harm us based on our experiences. I can say for myself that I mostly avoid projects that involves indian because I've been scammed for so many times by indians. So it's our experience.

[Greatchu]

God damn, Nigerians again, it's always Nigerians here and there, why? Scammers and hackers are from other part of the world but too much news about Nigerians scammers since past years now, I believe this scammer target local people that's why he earned only 82,000$ if not it would be more, I hope he get caught and face the right panel

[bittraffic]

Surprising that their government is actually active in pursuing such crime because other countries are just letting it slip since their police don't know how to react to blockchain related crime. They wouldn't be doing something when they don't understand.  Good to know they are tracking scammers there.

[abel1337]

I don't want to discriminate against some countries because every criminal exists in different parts of the world, It's just that the scammer rate is more in some countries. Scammers are taking advantage of the lack of knowledge of their potential victims, The solution to these scenarios is simple. Spread the awareness and gain knowledge about the situation.

It's sad that this scammer is targetting his own countrymen which are Nigerian people by showing that this project is for them.

[santouao]

In all countries there are really people who are deceitful and deceptive. Often their victims are people who are quick to believe, so we should be more aware of things running around us before believing so that we aren't going to be fooled by these scammers.

[Spaffin]

I don't want to discriminate against some countries because every criminal exists in different parts of the world, It's just that the scammer rate is more in some countries. Scammers are taking advantage of the lack of knowledge of their potential victims, The solution to these scenarios is simple. Spread the awareness and gain knowledge about the situation.

It's sad that this scammer is targetting his own countrymen which are Nigerian people by showing that this project is for them.

Any form of fraud is bad. And it seems to me that a person who has decided to work in the cryptocurrency business should try to find out as much information as possible about the field of activity in which he plans to participate. Only knowledge of Info can protect against problems, where there is already a lot of risk. Of course, many scammers try to rob even the elderly by stealing their last money, but it seems to me that in the cryptocurrency market, users are more educated and smart, and should be more circumspect and attentive.

[best123]

There is no country that does not have good and bad people. I know so many projects that have scammed people that are not Nigerians nor Africans. You should be proud that Nigeria Government is fighting crypto crimes while their counterparts in West not. Kudos to Nigeria government for this brave act. Let the European and Americans government join in this. It will reduced criminality in Crypto-related frauds.
Say No to Criminality in Crypto.

[pakhitheboss]

Scammers are in every business, cryptocurrency scams are easy because people still not clear about this business or the technology that powers it. People have a general assumption that cryptocurrency business can help them make good money. Which is true to a certain extent and scammers use this opportunity to scam innocent people.

Stay away from giveaways and always DYOR before investing in a new project.

[Coyster]

Even if the scammer is apprehended by the Nigerian Police force, thing still remains that those who invested in the pinkcoin scam have lost their funds, I'm actually even surprised that the Nigerian Police are actually involved in this case of digital fraud; I just hope that there are less cases of fraud using digital currencies in Nigeria, as the Nigerian government could have no other choice but to impose regulations on Bitcoin and other digital currencies and looking closely at the rising numbers of crypto enthusiast in the 'Giant of Africa', that could be bad news for adoption.

[batang_bitcoin]

Scammers have no race. It is also our responsibility to protect ourselves and be wary of such projects that are coming out. From the name of those projects, I wouldn't trust them just basing it on that.
For the sake of our safety with such projects, we like anonymity but there's already crypto that's taking care of it and that's bitcoin. While for the newly launched projects, it is very important to know who are the people working on it.

[ije07]

oh shit, scamers are back rampant again. I don't blame nigeria but most of the con artists are from that country. but maybe it's true that not all scamers come from there, but every time you hear the news of fraud, whether coincidence or uncertain is always from that country.

[InwardContour]

There is actually no nation or race where scammers don't come from, even though places like Nigeria must have been notorious for scams, this doesn't justify that other nations are clean. When I saw that Inksnation scam alert article on Twitter, I was shocked that people can be so gullible and daft to invest in a project with no coin, no blockchain, nothing backing it, telling people that it's proof of charity, backed by human nodes lol. It's funny how greedy newbies got trapped in that shitty scam project. I had to check in their telegram and the pinned message made me laugh for some minutes, it was complete garbage. The likes of TBC lol.

[Sebas.tian]

Nigeria as country is doing it okay honestly becasue they are able to get those culprit from the nation to face the wrought of the laws in the country. I don't blame those replies above becasue they aren't sincere with their thoughts becasue scammers aren't specific in a particular country but everywhere in the world. The world is full with scammers and not narrow to a particular country only. Sincerely he should be brought to book and be prosecuted by the appropriate authorities involve in such offense.