Beware of Crypto Scams !

[dvndr007]

Free Giveaways/ Free Airdrops

Legit assets never come up free, if they get value some one have to pay for it. So, if you found anything free anywhere just consider it as a scam.

Fake Websites/ Fake accounts

Scammers are creating fake websites/accounts to obviously scam you, Always be alert and check double are you visiting original website you want to visit.
(Fake accounts can have high level of merits/members/followers can be bought or created in focus to scam people in dealing with them never trust their accounts blindly always double check are you contacting right person and getting right information that's it are accounts for dont click any link given by them)

Malware injection's / viruse's

 

According to research most newbies are getting scammed by malware where their address's get replaced while sending coins.
Never forget to checkout every address while copy pasting through clipboard.
As crypto get valuable all eyes are on it so better to be safe than sorry virus's and malware are on whole internet protect your accounts with minimum 2 levels of security.

Pyramid schemes and alt-coins scams

Pyramid scams are most popular just completely avoid them if your plan is to remain in crypto.
Alt coin scams are 10x 100x avoid your greed (Simple formula is someone have to pay to get you 10x 100x and of course you are a newbie)

Kind Regard's

  

[Charles-Tim]

Also are some special fake free giveaways on social media and YouTube which scammers will request people to pay like 2 into to pay back in 4 or more. Some even were able to hack celebrity's accounts to create such fake giveaway that many people always fall for.

There are also as many as possible ways to scam using social media, especially on Telegram while other social media are commonly also used by scammers.

Legit assets never come up free, if they get value some one have to pay for it. So, if you found anything free anywhere just consider it as a scam.

Many people have been scammed this way but there are also legit airdrops. Just that airdrop supposed not to require KYC while fake ones are using it to collect people's personal information and using it indirectly to scam them, like sending phishing emails to them.

Some airdrops are completely fake and request for VIP fee or certain amount which if paid, the victim is scammed and will never be given any airdrop coin. People going for airdrops should know these risks. People that know much about the scam involved are using another email for airdrops while vigilant of any mail sent to such email.

[lovesmayfamilis]

As always, nothing new, except that the OP decided that his information was unique. I hasten to disappoint you. We swam, we know.
Again, some friendly advice, try to write new information. I still remember that you are the most popular person in the cryptocurrency industry.  

Scammers can be from different nations, different teams but their scam tactics are the same.

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OP, is there anything new in your theme?

[Mpamaegbu]

Some airdrops are completely fake and request for VIP fee or certain amount which if paid, the victim is scammed and will never be given any airdrop coin. People going for airdrops should know these risks. People that know much about the scam involved are using another email for airdrops while vigilant of any mail sent to such email.

Obviously, those who fall prey to airdrop scams are usually newbies. Any veteran caught in this web of deceit should've their head examined. In 2017, airdrop was the frenzy at the time and a lot of us were caught up with it just like faucets too. But looking back now, it's obvious that it was a mere waste of time as what most of those projects did was gather emails and then disappeared into thin air. Even those who eventually airdropped, the tokens didn't worth much; most didn't even list at all. So, I think newbies should completely avoid airdrops, same way they should avoid faucets.

[BIT-BENDER]

Free Giveaways/ Free Airdrops

Legit assets never come up free, if they get value some one have to pay for it. So, if you found anything free anywhere just consider it as a scam.

 

Not really, legit project also do giveaway, and sometimes this may be during a season, like the Thanksgiving, Christmas or at a time when the world is facing a situation, but the difference from the legit and fake giveaways is the hype, and consistency/continuity the fake gives go it, this is because that's all what they are about, that's is that essence of the script, they are alone existing to run scam give aways so you would also see them run that give away, and can even get it shilled, so -Newbies- has to be very sensitive about them.

[TheNineClub]

Also, people need to be aware of just bad financial advisors and companies offering investment opportunities. They might not be scams per se, but their bad advice as well as they being paid by projects to get investments in could cost you money. Sure, the aforementioned scams are the most frequent, these legit investments are also something to look out for.

[GeorgeJohn]

Op i disagree with a concept that stipulates everything that is free is scam, not all things that is free indulge into scamming class, yes of course we have numerous of scammers from different angles and different social media hangout, they will be a stage you found yourself definitely you will know a scammer irrespective of the new method applied, it's a novice in cryptocurrency sphere can be be easily fall a victims of airdrop scam, because with your intuitive sense, you can as well sense a negativity and positivity of good project.

[dvndr007]

Op i disagree with a concept that stipulates everything that is free is scam.

If I have 3 apples 1$ each if I gave one free and charge 2$ from 2nd person and 3$ from 3rd person and 2nd person feeling like my apple value is 3$ yay isn't it a scam? truth is harsh and not easy to accept but we have to accept it will not last long until legit dealing's were made.
what scammers do they create a coin in 2 hrs create certain million tokens do free giveaway/airdrops etc take as much investment as they want leave it takes max 2 hrs to do it again why? because they know it will end tomorrow why not today?

Every valuable thing given free is a scam because community is investing its not your money but due to greed people ignore it.

Newbies are most exposed to these kind of scams and now its getting trend slowly people are getting rekt with time and most importantly scamming is not good for scammer too, but they dont have ability to see outside their nest.

[Cryptions]

Free Giveaways/ Free Airdrops

Legit assets never come up free, if they get value some one have to pay for it. So, if you found anything free anywhere just consider it as a scam.

I disagree with this as many projects do airdrops at early stages, when they don't have any remarkable value. that was the situation for example with Ripple and now it's one of the top cryptos what comes to the market cap.

[dvndr007]

Free Giveaways/ Free Airdrops

Legit assets never come up free, if they get value some one have to pay for it. So, if you found anything free anywhere just consider it as a scam.

I disagree with this as many projects do airdrops at early stages, when they don't have any remarkable value. that was the situation for example with Ripple and now it's one of the top cryptos what comes to the market cap.

If any coin get on top that doesn't mean it's not a scam.

There are many scams if you remember bit connect, how big it scams and get on second position investors are shouting it can't scam us?

it's quite possible that they may not die coz they started performing well later but we should not ignore the basic meaning of a scam if we motivate them they will increase with time.

So, Best practice is we should follow projects who focus on every single investor in legit way.

[tintingp]

I think this is a huge problem right now, It is very difficult to solve.  Now many types of projects are doing this kind of cheating. For which Bitcointalk does not support Airdrops related project. We need to be careful that they don't cheat anymore.

[Taskford]

I think this is a huge problem right now, It is very difficult to solve.  Now many types of projects are doing this kind of cheating. For which Bitcointalk does not support Airdrops related project. We need to be careful that they don't cheat anymore.

This issue cannot be solve since as long as there's huge money involve in certain industry for sure we can see a rampant activity like this, especially now we are on digital space where anyone can mask and can be anonymous on any form that's why we need to be aware on certain schemes use by scammers so that we will not get victimized by any attempts they made. Hopefully newbie will realize that its never good to grab the to good to be true offers since this is the most common weapon used by scammers to attract the innocent investors.

[YOSHIE]

I hope that newcomers can read some of the writings that the OP has said, the way fraudsters carry out their actions, from the series above, I conclude that 'nothing is free' is the point.

I think there are many points that can be taken there of course to avoid fraud attacks, especially in the Altcoin or crypto section.

Even though what the OP said, it's relatively common that many people don't care about such things, it looks trivial, but the effect of loss is quite large, so stay alert for any fraudulent actions that harm you.

[cryptoaddictchie]

I think this is a huge problem right now, It is very difficult to solve.  Now many types of projects are doing this kind of cheating. For which Bitcointalk does not support Airdrops related project. We need to be careful that they don't cheat anymore.

You cant actually stop that but only prevent it by informing others of potential scams. How can you counter am anonymous people operate on a dark table that no one can even see or locate. These people are ready to do anything by not being caught. I'm sure some of here are doing it but we don't know who and just operating behind the scenes. I'm not pointing out but there is a chance that some or plenty of that doing here without us knowing so we can only advise newbie by reporting this kind of scams on appropriate places.

[Luzin]

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Pyramid schemes and alt-coins scams

Pyramid scams are most popular just completely avoid them if your plan is to remain in crypto.
Alt coin scams are 10x 100x avoid your greed (Simple formula is someone have to pay to get you 10x 100x and of course you are a newbie)

Kind Regard's

  

Yes, on one of the largest exchanges in my country delisted some tokens in its market because it found that the token was used to find new buyers with pyramid schemes. They are proven to sell directly with buyers. Therefore the financial services authority institution in my country filed a delist on that token, This is nothing but to protect consumer losses. But so far, I don't know what the victims are. But it seems that dev has not provided clarification regarding this case. This issue was discussed on my local board.

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[Rengga Jati]

Legit assets never come up free, if they get value some one have to pay for it. So, if you found anything free anywhere just consider it as a scam.

And we cannot know whether the project is legit or not. Except that the project has already exist and they give or provide some giveaway or free programs to get certain rewards.
I found some platforms or legit projects that also come with this kind of free programs to share and promote their platforms again. But you are true, nothing is free. At least they want you to do something based on T&C.
Once the T&C is suspicious and too good to be true, leave it because it is probably scam, moreover if they ask to deposit at first or send some certain amount of money to certain wallet.

Pyramid schemes and alt-coins scams

Hype and FOMO.
And sadly, many newbies are trapped on these. let's see how they are working on this kind of scheme and then fall  into the project (fake or hype only projects)

[Blank-Head]

Thanks For Sharing with us.Actually it's really important to know about the crypto scams and how to be safe from them.
Because In crypto you can lose all by being scammed.I already faced several scams like fake website and fake giveaways.

[Alauddin13]

Thanks For Sharing with us.Actually it's really important to know about the crypto scams and how to be safe from them.
Because In crypto you can lose all by being scammed.I already faced several scams like fake website and fake giveaways.

A great suggestion from you.Even as a bounty hunter I also saw how hackers are trying to steal assets.They try to hack private keys, Recovery Phrase and sometime they launch scam projects and force members to invest there. And sometime beginners start investing without any research.

[Karma24]

Free Giveaways/ Free Airdrops

Legit assets never come up free, if they get value some one have to pay for it. So, if you found anything free anywhere just consider it as a scam.

That's not entirely accurate most (if not all) projects these days do give out freecoins every now and then for marketing purposes,and besides how is it scam if the airdrop is free aka no deposit is required to receive it ?

[Oceat]

Free Giveaways/ Free Airdrops

Legit assets never come up free, if they get value some one have to pay for it. So, if you found anything free anywhere just consider it as a scam.

That's not entirely accurate most (if not all) projects these days do give out freecoins every now and then for marketing purposes,and besides how is it scam if the airdrop is free aka no deposit is required to receive it ?

Free airdrop isn't a scam but something free that's says high return or you will get your ROI in a short amount of time or a too good to be true offer if you invested is obviously a scam. Always think twice if someone offers you a free or an almost free coins do some research first there's nothing wrong with doing some research as long as you are educated since most of these days free coins aren't worthy anymore and you might be holding a tons of shit bag of coins.