Common red flag to detect a scam

[Viscore]

The second technique listed is a well and popular technique used by scammers to scam naive, new beginners and unexperienced member or individuals. So i urge and advise new beginners like my self to be very careful and vigilant in any work or giveaway they might encounter because some might just be a way of giving personal information in one way or the other. Thank you for the well said advice and notification mate.

Almost all of the techniques listed are used by scammers to set traps for cryptocurrency beginners in order to see if they can get them scammed.

Beginners must be cautious and take their time learning everything there is to know about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency before they begin trading or investing, as scammers are just waiting for them to fall into their trap due to small mistakes made by beginners, and scammers will take advantage of the opportunity to scam them because they are waiting for any slice mistake to scam them.

Not just for beginners alone but even to those who have been here for quite long, extra cautious and extra vigilance is highly needed knowing scammers can be smarter than us, they will always upgrade their ways of scamming as it won’t seem too obvious for their target victims. But most especially for newbies and beginners in the market investment, as they never had experiences that’s why they easily fall to the scammer’s traps.

[Pokapoka124]

Still a good percentage of people will ignore these red flags even though it’s in their face. Scammers aren’t very creative, they are just really good at selecting their victims. Scammers use the same trick, a profile of a beautiful girl or a successful trader who has fleet of luxurious cars and houses always seem to get people to put their guard down when in reality it should be a red flag. I think some people only learn the hard way.

[Krislaw]

-High pressure tactics: A key indicator of a potential scam is if you receive repeated messages and calls from the investment firm urging you to act quickly or risk losing the opportunity, Bonuses, or discounts that are being offered at the time. So it's Always important to take your time to research well and fully comprehend what you are getting into.

This is how most scammers are able to scam their victim. Trying to capture their victim mind without them having to say no or think twice.
This is currently being used by scammers in NFT space. They always claim to have received millions of funding from big VCs but they end up setting a high mint price, or they give or short mint window so as to create FOMO.
Proper research and investigation will help a lot if you sense this kind of tactic.

[Flydolphine]

The assurance of quick returns is one enticing bait scammers use to attract their victims.its important to check and double-check to be sure of where you want to put your money.it pains to loss funds to this so called online investment.but instead of the pain of losses I would recommend the pain to search,research, thoroughly investigate
and background check before putting your funds in.caution is the key word here.

[Belarge]

Though have not really met a scammer of Bitcointalk, but sincerely i read through your guidelines and I must confess its really educating and anyone who reads, understands and abides by the guidelines won't be scammed, all I have to say is thank you for the guidelines, it's helpful....

[freedomgo]

Still a good percentage of people will ignore these red flags even though it’s in their face. Scammers aren’t very creative, they are just really good at selecting their victims. Scammers use the same trick, a profile of a beautiful girl or a successful trader who has fleet of luxurious cars and houses always seem to get people to put their guard down when in reality it should be a red flag. I think some people only learn the hard way.

Well, it’s certain that a lot would not still believe until they experienced it on their own. That’s the time that they will realize that scamming could actually happen in a lot of ways as scammers will never stop being creative until their victims fall to their traps. And for those who seem to be scammed multiple times, I guess that’s another story to tell. If these type of people cannot make their own analysis, then I think they will be never good enough in trading or investing. Although they can still invest or trade, but they will never succeed from it.

[Xal0lex]

The paradox is that such materials are most often mentioned in articles that tell you how to protect yourself from scammers and at the same time these same methods are the most common among scammers, and the most profitable. People still believe that some project is ready to accept $10,000 from them at 69,000% per annum. Where is their sanity?  Can't they calculate on their own that this can't happen?

I also started to notice how in social networks corrupt bloggers spread information that some altcoin, which is worth $0.00000000000000019 now, will be worth 1 cent in 3-4 years and people are running to buy these tokens. Can't anyone calculate that such a price increase would have to attract hundreds of billions of dollars to the project for it to grow that much? There seems to be no limit to human stupidity, just as there is no limit to greed.

[Coyster]

Though have not really met a scammer of Bitcointalk, but sincerely i read through your guidelines and I must confess its really educating and anyone who reads, understands and abides by the guidelines won't be scammed, all I have to say is thank you for the guidelines, it's helpful....

On Bitcointalk you can learn all there is to about how to protect yourself from scammers, and what their old and most recent modus operandi is, but you must understand that there are scammers everywhere, even on the forum, do not trust anyone only because they are a user in Bitcointalk, do not trust, but always verify. There are quite a lot of threads (guidelines) that can help you to learn more about how to protect yourself from scammers on the internet, you basically have to use the search option to find them and garner more knowledge.

[CryptocurencyKing]

-High pressure tactics: A key indicator of a potential scam is if you receive repeated messages and calls from the investment firm urging you to act quickly or risk losing the opportunity, Bonuses, or discounts that are being offered at the time. So it's Always important to take your time to research well and fully comprehend what you are getting into.

This is one tactic that they often use to play on ones intelligence. They try to make you feel like, your at stake of loosing such a huge opportunity. They tend to limit the time limit for an investment to be less than 24hours so as to discourage research or seeking any form of professional advise.
This creates in the individual an adrenaline rush that makes you want to ignore reason and secure the opportunity before embarking on any form of verification but in truth, the damage has already been done.

The focus here should be, what is worth doing is what should be done right. In this business of trying to trust the unknown, you must find a way to trust the process and that you can get from verifying the project through any source of information that have been proven reliable over time.

[Anguwa]

some ways to avoid fraud
-Never give out your personal information to anyone you meet online.
-Research and conduct a proper background check on every investment opportunity thoroughly before you invest.
-Double checking on website links to be sure its the right ones and  avoid clicking on links from unexpected social media messages or emails.
-only invest in things you understand.
-Ignore people who come out from nowhere asking you to invest and join a platform you don't know about.
-Ask questions before you act.

I appreciate the update. OP, these scammers are causing some people to despise cryptocurrency because anyone who wants to join it will assume that it is full of scammers. As a result, many people lose hope because they believe that if they invest in cryptocurrency due to scammers, they will lose everything.

Beginners will likely be fully aware of some common scams, so I hope they will take these into account in order to avoid any scams that might arise due to ignorance.

[Queentoshi]

-Never give out your personal information to anyone you meet online.

Anyone who is asking for your personal information online is a scammer.
 

-Research and conduct a proper background check on every investment opportunity thoroughly before you invest.

If you know that you are not a good researcher, you can ask for help from people you know who are better finding things online than you are.

-Double checking on website links to be sure its the right ones and  avoid clicking on links from unexpected social media messages or emails.

It is why you should not be in a hurry whenever you are clicking links on your personal computer or phone. If you are in a hurried state, wait till when you settle down before clicking links.

-Ignore people who come out from nowhere asking you to invest and join a platform you don't know about.

You are not lucky to have met anyone online introducing to an investment opportunity where you can make millions in a short time, they are scammers too.

These days when we cannot even trust people we meet face to face, you should not make the mistake of trusting anyone you meet online, no matter what they say they are or claim to be.

[Alpha Marine]

-Small investment large gains: Any investment scheme that asks you for money and in exchange for unrealistic profit expectations or massive assured cashouts within little period with little to no risk is probably a fraud. We should always be wary of any information offering high and unrealistic profits with no effort or hard work involved since fraudsters are going to any extent to make absurd promises merely to get naïve individuals in. If anything sounds too appealing to be true, then it's certainly not true and is most likely a scam.

This is a very obvious way to spot scams and it's what most Ponzi schemes use. Any investment that tells you you will get more than 25% ROI within an unrealistic period of time has scam written all over it. A lot of Ponzi schemes even offer 50-100% ROI within a month or two. You may be paid your profit at the end of the month but that business model is highly unsustainable and everybody should know this. Sooner or later that business would crumbles or the scammers will scamper away when they've got the right amount of money they want.