Words of advice

[Johnyz]

I believe lot's of newbies fall for trusting people online, no matter what you are offering me, just know that I can never trust you, either we meet online or physically not only people you meet online can scam you, even people you meet offline can scam you, so you have to be very careful and also make sure you don't click on links you receive anyhow, don't inpute your wallet private key in anyhow application, also if you are visiting a website make sure you  double check the website and make sure you are visiting the original website.

Its always to do your investing activities alone, and do your own research instead of trusting anyone because in this market, its hard to trust someone especially if its about money. I also have a friend who got victim of online scam, he trust the system without checking if its legit and that’s a costly mistake. I once got scam as well and I will never be fall on those trap again now that I know what to do.

[Vaculin]

I believe lot's of newbies fall for trusting people online, no matter what you are offering me, just know that I can never trust you, either we meet online or physically not only people you meet online can scam you, even people you meet offline can scam you, so you have to be very careful and also make sure you don't click on links you receive anyhow, don't inpute your wallet private key in anyhow application, also if you are visiting a website make sure you  double check the website and make sure you are visiting the original website.

Newbies will easily fall on the scammer's strategies as they have less knowledge on how to combat scammers and hackers. This is the reason why newbies should always come to the market prepared and should have acquire knowledge on how the market will be look like. And thus they should also be aware on the rampant activities of scammers so they will be able to protect their wallet and investments from stealing. In short, keep all their assets privately, away from the eyes of scammers.

[Silberman]

Most people who are members of bitcointalk already know this. However the general public has no idea. Basically crypto was out for over 10 years and yet people  are still getting their funds stolen.

Even people who buy a hardware wallet, they end up just giving their seed to someone else. Or people who still use text messages as 2fa. Or people who sell their bitcoins for some scam NFT or scam alt coin.

It happens everyday because before you get into crypto you need to look into security first. However most people care about the profits first and security later.

Unfortunately this is just the way humans are, they look forward to what they can gain but they never think about what they could lose, and this is a huge mistake, because what we can earn in this market is just a potential while what we can lose already belonged to us, with this in mind it would make more sense for people to worry a lot more about all the ways in which they could lose their money and how to protect themselves instead of researching ways to earn money, but unfortunately this is not the case, and this is why we see people being scammed everyday in the forum.

[rby]

I believe lot's of newbies fall for trusting people online, no matter what you are offering me, just know that I can never trust you, either we meet online or physically not only people you meet online can scam you, even people you meet offline can scam you, so you have to be very careful and also make sure you don't click on links you receive anyhow, don't inpute your wallet private key in anyhow application, also if you are visiting a website make sure you  double check the website and make sure you are visiting the original website.

Its always to do your investing activities alone, and do your own research instead of trusting anyone because in this market, its hard to trust someone especially if its about money. I also have a friend who got victim of online scam, he trust the system without checking if its legit and that’s a costly mistake. I once got scam as well and I will never be fall on those trap again now that I know what to do.

The best thing to do is always to assume that everyone that comes in contact with you online is a scammer, even if the person is genuine. When you have the mindset that everyone is a scammer, you will be more careful about people and that is when you will likely avoid scam and be safe. People seen physical are less likely to scam you than people you see online

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Sometimes we have to take risks and connect the wallet to unknown sites. But you should not risk the contents of your wallet, as it is very easy to lose what you have earned with hard work. In this case, it is necessary to use such wallets that are specially created for the test, having a zero balance.

This industry is built around decentralization so every now and then we have to connect out wallets to dApp for accessibility to the platforms. Before web 3 became a trend we already have platforms that can only be access through us linking our wallet and now that web 3 has become a trend, more and more platforms will be using similar initiative. This means risk of connecting to malicious sites will be on the increase, we just have to be careful of sites we access and make sure they're gotten from the right source like project website or social platforms.

Having a separate wallet not just for testing purpose but for using the dApp platform will be the idea thing to do wallets that holds your personal funds shoudn't be linked as an exploit can develop in the future and cause harm. Opensea was one of the recent victim of this exploit, dApp aren't perfect yet so there are bond to be some flaws and we have to be cautious to avoid falling victims.

[Kelvinid]

Most people who are members of bitcointalk already know this. However the general public has no idea. Basically crypto was out for over 10 years and yet people  are still getting their funds stolen.

Even people who buy a hardware wallet, they end up just giving their seed to someone else. Or people who still use text messages as 2fa. Or people who sell their bitcoins for some scam NFT or scam alt coin.

It happens everyday because before you get into crypto you need to look into security first. However most people care about the profits first and security later.

Unfortunately this is just the way humans are, they look forward to what they can gain but they never think about what they could lose, and this is a huge mistake, because what we can earn in this market is just a potential while what we can lose already belonged to us, with this in mind it would make more sense for people to worry a lot more about all the ways in which they could lose their money and how to protect themselves instead of researching ways to earn money, but unfortunately this is not the case, and this is why we see people being scammed everyday in the forum.

Greediness is what we called it and those who have that sense in mind thinking to make money as fast as possible, the more likely those who lose more. Definitely, they are prone to get scam and surely they will take the bait for they will think this is the answer to their ambitious belief. While for us who knows the sentiment of the market, will make no chance to get scammed but for those who are innocent and greedy people, ain't no doubt about it.

As a piece of advice, knows your investment so well. Nothing could save us but just ourselves.

[kaya11]

In short, remain a lowkey person. Before I'm too proud to tell almost everything but as the year passes by. I'm the one who starts to become quiet with my progress. It's a very prouding moment when you're telling your achievements to others but it'll eventually make you think if you really have to. And before, I'm also a person that keeps important details on my phone like the seed phrase but I've learned that it's a crazy idea. It's still better to do it traditionally through writing and keeping it on a safer place.

It is the same for me too, and even now it hasn't totally gone. When there is a gathering with colleagues and other friends who are also crypto enthusiast, I boast them what I have achieve. At the I regret boasting and should've gone quite, some achievements should be kept on your own, for other not to look down on their selves and feel they are losers.

[Ava-RoseOrr11]

Never trust anyone who says you won something. Don't connect your wallet to the fake pancake swap or any other shady  website. Only use the contract address straight from the real  website, yes,  Never store your seed phrases in your phone. Turn off dapps, make sure you disconnect your wallet from pancake swap after you are done using it. Never sell or send coins that just show up in your wallet. Never trust airdrops, Never give out your seed phrases, even to family, just put it in your will incase you die. Never tell people what is in your wallet, you may become a person the hackers and scammers focus on. Never trust anyone online, including any of the advice I am giving you. Turn on transaction signing and password.

This is so helpful, thank you so much! Definitely gonna take all this into consideration

[AicecreaME]

Never trust anyone who says you won something. Don't connect your wallet to the fake pancake swap or any other shady  website. Only use the contract address straight from the real  website, yes,  Never store your seed phrases in your phone. Turn off dapps, make sure you disconnect your wallet from pancake swap after you are done using it. Never sell or send coins that just show up in your wallet. Never trust airdrops, Never give out your seed phrases, even to family, just put it in your will incase you die. Never tell people what is in your wallet, you may become a person the hackers and scammers focus on. Never trust anyone online, including any of the advice I am giving you. Turn on transaction signing and password.

If you're in doubt, use a new wallet address for airdrops, use that new wallet address when selling coins that you've never seen before in your wallet, because there's nothing to lose when you do it that way, you might find a legit airdrop that could give you an easy money without risking your real wallet where you store all of your tokens.

In this world full of scammers, be someone that could outsmart them. Don't be afraid of them.

[Anguwa]

Never trust anyone who says you won something. Don't connect your wallet to the fake pancake swap or any other shady  website. Only use the contract address straight from the real  website, yes,  Never store your seed phrases in your phone. Turn off dapps, make sure you disconnect your wallet from pancake swap after you are done using it. Never sell or send coins that just show up in your wallet. Never trust airdrops, Never give out your seed phrases, even to family, just put it in your will incase you die. Never tell people what is in your wallet, you may become a person the hackers and scammers focus on. Never trust anyone online, including any of the advice I am giving you. Turn on transaction signing and password.

This is a very good and a strong advice. Many scammers are using Telegram as a means of getting people to scam, I also receive a message from an unknown contact claiming that he knows me in one Telegram group, he said that he wanted to introduce me to their platform so that I can gain crypro for free. Some of them will also clone exchange and claim they want to withdraw and they have reached their withdrawal limits, they will send you bitcoin and tell u to help them in selling them to take some percentage, pls let's be guided.

[Peanutswar]

If possible you don't need to share with people what you have of course imagine having a lot of bitcoins and spreading out this for sure many people would like to get that from you like giving links just to get your information always take care no one is safe in the cyberspace. As possible become a low key person only. Just shows up your achievement but not your money. There are a lot of scammers everywhere just to get your funds.

[ScamViruS]

Never trust anyone who says you won something. Don't connect your wallet to the fake pancake swap or any other shady  website. Only use the contract address straight from the real  website, yes,  Never store your seed phrases in your phone. Turn off dapps, make sure you disconnect your wallet from pancake swap after you are done using it. Never sell or send coins that just show up in your wallet.

My opinion is that a trader should bring more knowledge about how to ensure the security of his wallets than he would like to gain knowledge about the market before coming to trade in the market. Because no matter how much a trader is an expert in market research, if he has no knowledge about the security of his own trading account, wallet, then his achievements can easily be lost and fall into the trap of scammers. So your advice is important for a trader, because a wrong decision can be a scam for a trader after seeing a lucrative offer.

[RealMalatesta]

No reasonable person will disclose his/her seed phrase to anyone,  seed phrase is to be stored anywhere that is best and safe to the user which can be accessible. Normally anyone who is just new cryptocurrency and have wallet must understand how important a seed phrase   is and if it is not save in the proper place anyone can easily have access to it. It is good advice you are giving out ,  
some people have challenge on how to keep seed phrase in a safer place that can be reach anywhere.

Why would anyone even share something like that? I end up writing them to paper and double check it and then delete it from my PC. Think about it for a second, I mean we are talking about not even putting it on my PC so that nobody could hack into my PC. This means I would not even consider a situation like sharing my phrases with someone or anything like that.

I literally do not let people into my PC for fixes via remote access or anything like that. That is the type of situation I am in and I can't consider any other type of person, sure you could have a bit less security but that doesn't involve sharing anything important with anyone.

[Japinat]

No reasonable person will disclose his/her seed phrase to anyone,  seed phrase is to be stored anywhere that is best and safe to the user which can be accessible. Normally anyone who is just new cryptocurrency and have wallet must understand how important a seed phrase   is and if it is not save in the proper place anyone can easily have access to it. It is good advice you are giving out , 
some people have challenge on how to keep seed phrase in a safer place that can be reach anywhere.

Why would anyone even share something like that? I end up writing them to paper and double check it and then delete it from my PC. Think about it for a second, I mean we are talking about not even putting it on my PC so that nobody could hack into my PC. This means I would not even consider a situation like sharing my phrases with someone or anything like that.

I literally do not let people into my PC for fixes via remote access or anything like that. That is the type of situation I am in and I can't consider any other type of person, sure you could have a bit less security but that doesn't involve sharing anything important with anyone.

Disclosing what you have in your portfolio and even the seed phrase that needs to be more secured is always a big NO in my part. That is just one way of putting yourself into danger and let scammers have their own target by exposing on the strangers or any random friends what you totally have. If we can live with more privacy, that will be better because that will keep us from any illegal attempts that scammers usually do.

[Botnake]

Never trust anyone who says you won something. Don't connect your wallet to the fake pancake swap or any other shady  website. Only use the contract address straight from the real  website, yes,  Never store your seed phrases in your phone. Turn off dapps, make sure you disconnect your wallet from pancake swap after you are done using it. Never sell or send coins that just show up in your wallet.

My opinion is that a trader should bring more knowledge about how to ensure the security of his wallets than he would like to gain knowledge about the market before coming to trade in the market. Because no matter how much a trader is an expert in market research, if he has no knowledge about the security of his own trading account, wallet, then his achievements can easily be lost and fall into the trap of scammers. So your advice is important for a trader, because a wrong decision can be a scam for a trader after seeing a lucrative offer.

I guess once you become a trader, you are already responsible on the security of your account or wallet. Otherwise, everything you put an effort to win your trades will just go to waste. So as much as possible, always secure your account by keeping it secret from the people around you. Except your family members because they can be trusted for sure. However, sharing or intending to brag what you achieve is never a good option. Chose to be a lowkey person and everything will be put in its right place.

[gantez]

In short, remain a lowkey person. Before I'm too proud to tell almost everything but as the year passes by. I'm the one who starts to become quiet with my progress. It's a very prouding moment when you're telling your achievements to others but it'll eventually make you think if you really have to. And before, I'm also a person that keeps important details on my phone like the seed phrase but I've learned that it's a crazy idea. It's still better to do it traditionally through writing and keeping it on a safer place.

It is the same for me too, and even now it hasn't totally gone. When there is a gathering with colleagues and other friends who are also crypto enthusiast, I boast them what I have achieve. At the I regret boasting and should've gone quite, some achievements should be kept on your own, for other not to look down on their selves and feel they are losers.

There is no point that we brag in open place about our crypto hodling or achievement because the public is dangerous, you can be set up and either get robbed of your phone so they want to search it for your information.. Again it is better that we activate the code lock of your phone and the card incase of any robbery, the phone won't be easily unlocked, this is for security reason.

We you disclose your coins to the public, then you have made yourself a target and even your friends may be collaborators of the scammers that will come after you or disclose or point you to government (for countries that have ban bitcoin) It is wiser to be secretive about cryptocurrency because it is even an anonymous system.

[Sanitough]

In short, remain a lowkey person. Before I'm too proud to tell almost everything but as the year passes by. I'm the one who starts to become quiet with my progress. It's a very prouding moment when you're telling your achievements to others but it'll eventually make you think if you really have to. And before, I'm also a person that keeps important details on my phone like the seed phrase but I've learned that it's a crazy idea. It's still better to do it traditionally through writing and keeping it on a safer place.

It is the same for me too, and even now it hasn't totally gone. When there is a gathering with colleagues and other friends who are also crypto enthusiast, I boast them what I have achieve. At the I regret boasting and should've gone quite, some achievements should be kept on your own, for other not to look down on their selves and feel they are losers.

There is no point that we brag in open place about our crypto hodling or achievement because the public is dangerous, you can be set up and either get robbed of your phone so they want to search it for your information.. Again it is better that we activate the code lock of your phone and the card incase of any robbery, the phone won't be easily unlocked, this is for security reason.

We you disclose your coins to the public, then you have made yourself a target and even your friends may be collaborators of the scammers that will come after you or disclose or point you to government (for countries that have ban bitcoin) It is wiser to be secretive about cryptocurrency because it is even an anonymous system.

Even if it becomes legal in all parts of the world, its always best to be secretive when it comes to crypto as other people may think that when we talk of crypto, its always associated with huge amount. So you might be a target later on by your friends or those scammers who want to take advantage of your investments. Also, disclosing all your success in life will not make you a better person, people will only think that you are just so boastful and you will be subject into envy or hatred.

[shawon01]

I'm thinking with these advise you are listing you want to share an experience with users to make the advise really teaching to readers.

Never tell people what is in your wallet, you may become a person the hackers and scammers focus on.

I don't believe this, I think there are people or person you can tell but the most important thing is not to expose your passphrase because even hackers can't have access to it if you don't disclose important feature or clue to your password. The advice therefore should be to be careful with not exposing of your password.

All you have to do here is set your account and the password you want to keep confidential because this is the only way you will be responsible for your account when it comes to disclosing it.  Believe more than yourself Since there is no one you can trust in the world of uncertainty you just have to be more responsible for what you can't ask yourself

[gamer4156]

It's a very goading second while you're telling your accomplishments to other people yet it'll ultimately make you think assuming that you truly need to. The counsel accordingly ought to be to be cautious with not uncovering of your secret word. Since in this universe of vulnerabilities, there is nobody who can trust except for just yourself. Be more dependable on the things you can't stand to lose.

[Webetcoins]

If possible you don't need to share with people what you have of course imagine having a lot of bitcoins and spreading out this for sure many people would like to get that from you like giving links just to get your information always take care no one is safe in the cyberspace. As possible become a low key person only. Just shows up your achievement but not your money. There are a lot of scammers everywhere just to get your funds.

Well, there are some people who are fond of such thing, they always let people know how much they have and everything that they are into. They never keep quiet, they just make it obvious for everyone to know, and that automatically makes them a target for anyone who would have something in mind against.

Telling people how much you have in your crypto wallet is just as telling them how much that you have stored in your bank account which is very bad. Things like these are best to be kept secret and not revealed to anyone, except maybe your family that you can trust.