Don't give your bitcoins to scammers

[macson]

quite surprised that there are still many people who are deceived by the fake giveaway program....even though there's been a lot of news about this kind of fake giveaway, the greedy and stupid ones are still there. 





https://twitter.com/whale_alert/status/1417476350554804227
https://scam-alert.io/scam/1BezossqWVQdbpZQnGogd6Xvp3AMoWDHym

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[ILuckyGuyI]

I never trust this kind of events. It's obvious that it's not safe. Hackers captured even Elon Musk's Twitter account and swindled many people. Do not trust everyone! There are frauds everywhere. This is a very simple trick.

[Yogee]

It sounds absurd that some people still fall for this kind of shit after the hack of famous people's Twitter accounts. I'm curious how did they determine that those BTC transfers came from innocent victims? It could be fake. The scam alert doesn't give information other than the address.

[romero121]

In the past it was multiplier schemes. Crypto users were reached through different means with some multiplier scripts. Beginners easily fall for it, even I've fallen for it without researching much about it. By the time I spend around 0.05BTC on a single multiplier scam. Later only understood all the reviews on those sites were fake ones. From that day I never get into any form of attempt to increase our holdings, other than trading.

[bL4nkcode]

I never trust this kind of events. It's obvious that it's not safe. Hackers captured even Elon Musk's Twitter account and swindled many people. Do not trust everyone!

You mean some twitter verified account got hacked and changed it's name to elon musk or any famous people. There are lots of the same incidents happened before. It just that many people are still ignorant for such obvious scheme, even though they knew it's a too good to be true offer but it just happens that they were more greedy and now this happens. It's just that people never learned.

[Core.i7]

As long as there is a greed in the people. the scammers will exploit it and make people poor.  We need to understand and use common sense when participating in these giveaways.

[Mahanton]

quite surprised that there are still many people who are deceived by the fake giveaway program....even though there's been a lot of news about this kind of fake giveaway, the greedy and stupid ones are still there. 

Scams would really continue no matter what since not every people would really be aware on how scheme or modus works if you  do lack experience and awareness of this market.
We do know that not all are experienced and  there would be always those noobs who do really have zero knowledge and this cycle would continue because human beings are naturally greedy
and when they do sa some easy money things then its just normal for us to have that kind of  reactions which would really continue as long this market do exist.
Common sense should be used but there are people who do learn up things after experiencing problems.

[temple]

In the past it was multiplier schemes. Crypto users were reached through different means with some multiplier scripts. Beginners easily fall for it, even I've fallen for it without researching much about it. By the time I spend around 0.05BTC on a single multiplier scam. Later only understood all the reviews on those sites were fake ones. From that day I never get into any form of attempt to increase our holdings, other than trading.

It's all about scale for scammers. There are all kinds of scams where one would think how the heck could they fall for it? But it's not like many fall for it, it is relatively many from the huge total they address with their emails and tweets and whatever. If they send out a tweet or email to 10,000 people, and 0.1% fall for it, that's 10 people. Depending on whatever they are asking for, that could already pay off big time for scammers.

[Renampun]

As long as there is a greed in the people. the scammers will exploit it and make people poor.  We need to understand and use common sense when participating in these giveaways.

Greed often covers logic...

who are not interested in the benefits they provide, if they are not able to control themselves then they will fall into the trap of deception. Honestly, I used to almost fall into a fake giveaway trap like this, but I was lucky to have a husband and friend who reminded me to think more critically and logically because it is impossible for anyone to easily give their BTC easily.

[DaveF]

Someone did a medium posting a while ago, that I can't find at the moment, showing how a lot of the BTC going into these scams actually belongs to the scammers.
They post addresses, send money to them, send the money back out and then wait for everyone else to send more.

Don't know how accurate what they posted was, but they did show a bunch of BTC that could be traced in a loop from one address to the next and back again.

-Dave

[cheezcarls]

Yup there are still lots of newbies and beginners out there who are not aware of the scams around the corner. They're just prone to "shiny opportunity syndrome" where if they see any of them with big amounts and high returns, they are not hesitating to jump in without question. In the end because of not doing their homework, they've lost their hard earned money.

I've known a lot of newbies here in my city and province, and they always fall prey to these scams despite giving them warnings but ignored them.

[passwordnow]

As we become aware of those scams and won't fall for them, there are tons of newbies that are coming to this space and sadly, they're the target of those scams.
If those newbies don't have someone that guides them, they're likely to fall for those scams and they believe that they're for real and they got easy money but they don't know, it is the scammer that's getting easy money from them for not knowing the scam that's being done to them.

[sheenshane]

Simply using our common sense will sometimes protect us from the scammers like this, remember that there's no free money on the internet and once there's a random people offer a service that if they promise you’ll make a profit, that’s a scam, a high ROI of investing doing without nothing is most likely a scam, doubling your money is a scam.  That's right, greed and naive people will always fall victim to this kind of trap.

We saw that there are always victims and most of them are new in the crypto world, which means crypto adoption has been kept growing and while there's a newbie that potentially gets scam, scammers will always take advantage of this scenario.

[CaVO32]

Simply using our common sense will sometimes protect us from the scammers like this, remember that there's no free money on the internet and once there's a random people offer a service that if they promise you’ll make a profit, that’s a scam, a high ROI of investing doing without nothing is most likely a scam, doubling your money is a scam.  That's right, greed and naive people will always fall victim to this kind of trap.

We saw that there are always victims and most of them are new in the crypto world, which means crypto adoption has been kept growing and while there's a newbie that potentially gets scam, scammers will always take advantage of this scenario.

The usual problem here is that people who are not very well -versed in crypto, they are usually the target victims here. A lot of people want high profits at a short period of time and they will only know that they have been screwed once they sent their money and there's no more communication from the other end. People who are long enough in crypto know their schemes, so most of us here don't fall in this kind of trap. But sadly, a lot of people outside the forum are being victimized, and they will only ask if they already sent their hard-earned money.

[Baofeng]

quite surprised that there are still many people who are deceived by the fake giveaway program....even though there's been a lot of news about this kind of fake giveaway, the greedy and stupid ones are still there. 

It's because these cyber criminals knows how to play with someone's emotion. That is their first mode of attack, offer someone big in return. So obviously, newbies and even experienced investors most of the time will fall for this scheme.

And they know that they've been scammed when it's too late. Yes, they learn their expensive lessons, but there could be new set of beginners that are going to be trap again, it's going to be cyclical. The only weapon for this kind of scheme is too really used our common sense and don't easily believe this kind of giveaways because there is none. No one will give your free BTC in this market.

[GreatArkansas]

The scam will stay forever. Especially now, with Bitcoin and the help of the internet, scamming made easier. It's just sad that there are still people falling for it. Most of them are newbies and lack knowledge.
I recently watched a documentation series in Netflix called Money, Explained and there's a an episode that talks about scams, titled "Get Rich Quick", they explained the history of these kinds of scams, and fake Bitcoin giveaways that spreading right now is another method of scam.

[hatshepsut93]

I think a lot of people who would give money to scammers would never read this post, because they are complete beginners, people who bought coins because their friends did, know nothing about this field and have little experience with finance in general. I've seen stories like this when someone gets intro crypto, don't do any research, get scammed immediately and then blames their friends who introduced them.

[Mistafreeze]

The scam will stay forever. Especially now, with Bitcoin and the help of the internet, scamming made easier. It's just sad that there are still people falling for it. Most of them are newbies and lack knowledge.
I recently watched a documentation series in Netflix called Money, Explained and there's a an episode that talks about scams, titled "Get Rich Quick", they explained the history of these kinds of scams, and fake Bitcoin giveaways that spreading right now is another method of scam.

This kind of scam was much doing the year 2017 when a lot of persons just got to know about Bitcoin, different sort of investment was spurring out like a growing flowers then, making people to lose there funds as a result of greed and lack of proper information on how Bitcoin works. A lot of scammers had restrategised using enormous ways in gaining the heart of investors to decieve them and trickishly scam them of their coins. Greed lead many persons to this calamity.

One of the best ways of preventing much victims from falling into the hands of scammers is by educating newbies and the society of easy way individuals can be scammed. Although there is no sure way of stopping this cause some people are meant to learn from there mistake which is a life lesson the victim will never forget.

[Darker45]

I guess this will never end. People falling victims to a scam must be as old as civilization itself. Bitcoin does not fix this. Bitcoin actually makes it a little bit worse, in fact, with its irreversibility feature. People must be more cautious now than ever before. They are facing someone they do not even know and whose location they have no idea about.

I wonder how greedy or clueless the victim is for risking 1.16BTC for a mere giveaway.

[xSkylarx]

I think a lot of people who would give money to scammers would never read this post, because they are complete beginners, people who bought coins because their friends did, know nothing about this field and have little experience with finance in general. I've seen stories like this when someone gets intro crypto, don't do any research, get scammed immediately and then blames their friends who introduced them.

True, but not only for newcomers, but also for those who already knew but tried their luck. When I first started in crypto, there were a lot of investment(Return of Investment) like for a week or for days that really could attract newbies that will invest but later on it turn to scam, a lot of this kind of ponzi happen way back few years because the newbies were not aware of this but now most everyone is aware of this so I haven't seen any right now regarding this, I was also scammed by this kind of ponzi