Have you ever been scammed ?

[Kemarit]

Bitcoin doubler scam, and that's where I fell in the beginning. I thought it's very easy to make a lot of bitcoin and I was so naive then. Without thinking, I deposited some bitcoin because someone recommended it to me.

But by now we all know that this is obviously scam. And so I'm not afraid to tell everyone was experience about it and try to spread the news that there's no such thing as easy bitcoin. It's hard to earn BTC by the way. It's better that we work our ass off and earn it rather than thinking of investing it into something like a doubler or whatever the scamming is calling it right now.

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[sokani]

6. The betrayed scammed. Whether a beginner or an expert, the betrayed scammed has trusted someone (friend, colleague, lover...) and lost his or her funds.

There's this elderly guest in the place I used to work, he appears nice and we got along very well. One day he reached out to me for help for some money, and I didn't have the amount of money he was asking for which I told him. And he pleaded that I should help me with what I had and that he would source for money somewhere to add to it and solve the problem. I sent him the money, after 1 month when it was time to pay back, the man refused to pick my calls and whenever he picks it's just one stories or the other. After 6 months I gave up and I forfeited about the money, and it's been 2 years now and he has never called to apologize or return the money.

7. The shitcoin scammed. He/she bought lots of shitcoins on an obscure Pump and Dump group.

I've actually bought a couple of altcoins that ended up badly in the past but there's this one I bought last year which is my biggest lost so far. The project was hyped, there was a lot of publicity going on, I bought some token and it turned out the team are bunch of scammers with just empty promises. After launch, the chart took a deep dive as if it wanted to discover oil and I had to sell and cost my losses.

[qwertyup23]

Has this happened to you or someone you know ?

Oh definitely and it brings back memories!

Last 2017, the infamous "USI TECH" visited our country (Philippines) in order to host an event where we were able to meet and greet the developers. Since my friend who owned around ~120 BTCs at that time convinced me to try this investment scheme (ponzi), I was influenced by it given the young spirited teen I was (19 years old). At that time, I invested around $100 worth of BTCs which was definitely expensive given my current financial condition at that time.

During the first month, I saw my BTCs actually in increasing in value by purchasing these so-called "packages." But after the third (3rd) month (they promised that our BTCs would mature at the sixth (6th) month), the website crashed and everything was gone!

From here, I learned a valuable lesson to never trust any ponzi-schemes as there is truly no safe way for you to secure your funds.

[rachael9385]

This days the rate of scam is increasing forcefully, I can't remember if I have been scammed before or not , but I don't want to get scam by anyone again, yes I have been scammed oftentimes when I was high on carelessness so I was scammed through my Gmail that's it.

Scam can come in many forms by the scammers, but what i may not take as scam is when we from ourselves rent out our private informations to them for hack,

Yes man, the thing here is that these scammers can not do with out our private keys, if every investors or every individual can keep their private and important things (keys) safe it will be more difficult for scammers to hoping to our system or savings.

[Findingnemo]

Am I forgetting any?

Has this happened to you or someone you know ?

Deceiving scams is also executed on many occasions especially targetted towards which is someone who will contact you on telegram, Facebook or in any other way and seek your help to withdraw their coins because they will claim that its stuck on the exchange or any platform and their country is not letting them to withdraw it and even they will show their profile and will give access to it but all of them were masked and it is under control of the one who is contacting you.

They will offer 50/50 to withdraw the amount so you will say okay and get the site credentials from the random person then you will try to withdraw but the support says you need to deposit $50 or $100 which is a red flag straight away but due to the amount, they can make most people will be deceived and fund the address provided in the screen, once you send it then there you are scammed!

I received such kind of offers lot of times and many were too so I think it can be added too in OP's list.

[AbuBhakar]

This days the rate of scam is increasing forcefully, I can't remember if I have been scammed before or not, but I don't want to get scammed by any one

This days also has a plot of warnings and guidelines on how to fight scam that will make newbie safe if they will just follow unlike before when I started on crypto which there’s no much guideline on scam prevention since everyone is still exploring too on crypto.

I remember being a victim of ponzi and doubler before because the person that introduced me to Bitcoin doing it too to increase his holding. We consider it as gamble before but it turns out that it’s just a pure scam and waste of time and effort especially that our Bitcoin back then came from hard work in faucets and captcha service.

[Bushdark]

Bitcoin doubler scam, and that's where I fell in the beginning. I thought it's very easy to make a lot of bitcoin and I was so naive then. Without thinking, I deposited some bitcoin because someone recommended it to me.

But by now we all know that this is obviously scam. And so I'm not afraid to tell everyone was experience about it and try to spread the news that there's no such thing as easy bitcoin. It's hard to earn BTC by the way. It's better that we work our ass off and earn it rather than thinking of investing it into something like a doubler or whatever the scamming is calling it right now.

I could remember in 2017, Bitcoin doublee scam was one of the major type of scam that many of the Bitcoin investors fell on because it was a quick way for people to earn more Bitcoin from there portfolio of Bitcoin holdings. I have fell for this kind of scam before and many of my friends too and that made us to say no to cryptocurrency. Although I don't even know what was Bitcoin and how I can ew.rn from it.

They were the one that helped me to purchase Bitcoin since I was not even aware about all that it entails then. I thank God that now we have more ideas in cryptocurrency and we can proudly tell people to be more conscious about buy and trading Bitcoin with people they don't know especially when it is not escrowed. There are still new scam that investors are falling on especially for those newbies that areoney conscious and don't like asking questions.

[ZAINmalik75]

You have mentioned the most common scams which are also happened a lot. There is another hack which is just started now or maybe I came to know about it not which is Backdoor in Windows. These windows are cracked versions that do not require us to pay money to buy their activation keys. Such windows would share your data with the scammer without your permission same goes for apk MOD apps that we use on our smartphones and Desktops.

There is another scam known as Wallet address Poisoning in which the initials and final words of your address are copied and the scammer uses them in his or her wallet address. He generated those addresses by using Vanity address generators which are also not easy to make.

Another scam is, cracked versions of Applications and software we download from third-party sources such as getintopc is a website that has caused one of my local community members to lose a lot of money because that app contained some loopholes or viruses who h provided unauthorized access to hackers.

[Becassine]

Bitcoin doubler scam, and that's where I fell in the beginning. I thought it's very easy to make a lot of bitcoin and I was so naive then. Without thinking, I deposited some bitcoin because someone recommended it to me.

But by now we all know that this is obviously scam. And so I'm not afraid to tell everyone was experience about it and try to spread the news that there's no such thing as easy bitcoin. It's hard to earn BTC by the way. It's better that we work our ass off and earn it rather than thinking of investing it into something like a doubler or whatever the scamming is calling it right now.

Never heard of that, I will see what it is.

Am I forgetting any?

Has this happened to you or someone you know ?

Deceiving scams is also executed on many occasions especially targetted towards which is someone who will contact you on telegram, Facebook or in any other way and seek your help to withdraw their coins because they will claim that its stuck on the exchange or any platform and their country is not letting them to withdraw it and even they will show their profile and will give access to it but all of them were masked and it is under control of the one who is contacting you.

They will offer 50/50 to withdraw the amount so you will say okay and get the site credentials from the random person then you will try to withdraw but the support says you need to deposit $50 or $100 which is a red flag straight away but due to the amount, they can make most people will be deceived and fund the address provided in the screen, once you send it then there you are scammed!

I received such kind of offers lot of times and many were too so I think it can be added too in OP's list.

Is it like the old spam e-mails when people said they had a blocked inheritance and had to pay the fees to unblock it? Because otherwise I don't really see what it's all about. Why anyone would pay $50 to unlock funds on a CEX just doesn't make sense (I guess I didn't quite understand the principle of this scam).

[knowngunman]

I can’t see the telegram exchange group own: this one happens locally where you are invited into a group and then you will see them buying and selling cryptocurrency coins and tokens with a much better price than almost all exchanges then due to naivety and greediness you end up buying or selling to them. The group will have fake people in it and a self claimed escrow. They will ask you to send to the escrow first and once you do that you will just be instantly removed from the group.

Telegram is a well known fraud media and I wonder what the heck the team is doing to clear that belief people have about their app. It's one among the reason why I don't fancy it and hardly believe whatever I see coming from there. I once joined one group where they claim to give signal and unfortunately, I fell for it and was scammed.

I held bags of the shitcoin and it just kept dumping and dumping until I just exited at one point  

Lol. This was my experience back then also. The shitcoins I gather hoping for pump is unaccountable to the extent I have to abandon the wallet/address so I can have peace of mind because sadly, I use to check on a daily basis before I eventually woke up to reality and realized I was scam. Some bad experience like such is actually an eye opener for a beginner and it taught me a lot that myself and anyone under my guide will not fall for again.

The other way I was scammed was speeding my time doing tasks for a project, and they just didn't pay. I value my time, once it's wasted, it's similar to losing money

This must be bounty I guess. Time is very precious, should be utilize well and dedicate to something worthy because once lost, it can never be regain again.

[Asuspawer09]

For sure most of us here that is already been in the cryptocurrency space for years probably already experience a lot of scams here or on different platforms. But throughout the years there, you're going to gain knowledge and know if something is fishy is going on. One of the mistakes that I did back in the day was investing in scam shitcoins, believing in something that is actually new to the space most of the time there was a huge hype on new things, when defi, ICO, and new tokens are being launched most of the time a lot of people hype this kind of investments. Luckily I only invest a few hundred dollars just to try a new coin investment this kind of scam is pretty common since developers could easily get out on the projects after they already get the money from ICOs, but sometimes it could sometimes payout a big amount of money.

Luckily I didn't really get scammed into something like with real people transactions since I always get careful every time I make a transaction if I think something is fishy going on and there are a lot of red flags on the transactions I already start to avoid the transactions since most of the time we all get greedy when they already start to talk about money or prices so if they bring that out easily that might be a red flag.

[Jessie2121]

I don't think there's a way of dropping words of advise on how to prevent one from getting scammed, is really hard to even tell when you'd be scammed. They have so many strategies of getting one to fall for their lies. In my own case, I picture the whole story as fake before the scammer finishes preaching his story, at times I just say lemme try or test it if is really or not. And I always find myself falling for them knowing quite well that they are fake, giving scammers that benefit of doubt has made me lose so much. So to me I'd say is just to be careful when you sense any funny story that you're not sure of, you can ask questions about it before going for it.

[BIT-BENDER]

Getting scammed is not the end of the world in my opinion, because anyone can get scammed even the smartest crypto-currency enthusiast can get scammed, but the problem is that when you get scammed you should always learn from your mistakes and work on it. Where is would have an issues is when someone who got scammed repeat the same mistakes again and get scammed as a result of it.

As newbies you should focus more on this topic scam because it's one big problem we have here in the crypto world and we need to also try to protect ourselves against it.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

Yes, sometimes it is not just greed that results in scam victims. Although scammers really do still have these old ways of doing things, if you are really careful, you will likely not fall for them. Some people who are really not informed or enlightened about how things could be in the Blockchain industry can easily get scammed. For example, a user here talked about the clipboard virus, where you can mistakenly send an asset to an unknown address (it was my first time getting such information). In one case like that (although not crypto-related), the guy opened a site that was a copy of the original site, and he logged in with his details to that fake site. Immediately, all his funds were hijacked. He couldn't even explain what happened; it was only later that he realised what happened.
We just need to be extremely careful.

[Sandra_hakeem]

I'm not gonna say that's a scam anyways since I did willingly lend out some funds to someone as a kinda help/support... It was actually supposed to be paid back after two weeks buh the person really flaunted and all measures to get back the funds peacefully turned out to no avail... I just had to forget about it.
I haven't been a victim of a clear cyber scam or something like the ones you mentioned above... I try as much as possible to vert every information given to me about anything on the net. I can spot a scammy project from barely looking out the outlines..

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

[Findingnemo]

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Is it like the old spam e-mails when people said they had a blocked inheritance and had to pay the fees to unblock it? Because otherwise I don't really see what it's all about. Why anyone would pay $50 to unlock funds on a CEX just doesn't make sense (I guess I didn't quite understand the principle of this scam).

Surprisingly lot of people fell for this scam in the past years but I am not hearing about this type in the recent days or atleast in the bitcointalk so people are more informative and start thinking about things instead of beleiving it completely.

[SOKO-DEKE]

There are many ways people usually get scammed by scammers, but seriously, you have outlined the most common ones used by scammers these days.
 
I was once a victim of a ponzi scheme, but this didn't come in a way that looked like a ponzi scheme, but still, I will call it a ponzi scheme because it comes in the form of investment and gets some return. It happens in this way that someone will be buying goods online and reselling them online under their site,so you will have to do some tasks on their site, like spinning, before you can get the opportunity to buy and resell goods in order for you to make your profits. In short, the method that someone will be getting 3% of the capital invested every day, with the idea of low commissions they promise to be given, compared to the other ponzi schemes, people easily believe in them and invest a lot, and some people were easily convinced because of their withdrawal process that was very fast at the beginning moment when they started, but surprisingly, one day we just wake up and see that the site is under maintenance, and from that day on, the site will never work again,so finally I was scam.but since that day, I have believed that scammers can come in any form to convince and scam people.

[KingsDen]

3. Greedy scammed. Those who were promised crazy returns without doing anything.

Not actually a crazy return but a moderate return. As a newbie I believed the system because I believed who introduced the system to me. He didn't advice me to invest with a small amount of money, because of the 10% referral he'll be getting from me, he allowed me invested all I have and the system crashed. An ugly memory.

7. The shitcoin scammed. He/she bought lots of shitcoins on an obscure Pump and Dump group.

Not actually a pump and dump group but when I go my money to invest in bitcoin. I think bitcoin was around $3k. This same guy advised me not to buy bitcoin that it was very expensive. He rather introduced 3 shitcoins to me and I dumped my money there and didn't recover any. It is a dark memory.

But I am glad where I am today both in finances and in understanding of cryptocurrency. What I cannot do is to deliberately deceive people to lose money because of my selfish financial gain.

[Rockstarguy]

Apart from cryptocurrency scam I believe some other people have been scammed also investing their money in Ponzi which they are rewarded with double of what they invested but later in the Scheme got crashed. This is one of the common scam many of us have experienced evern before we came into the   crypto world. I'm sure some people who are  not knowledgeable about this scam still fall for it thinking it is reliable and they can make money from it so quick.

People who don't have experience about scam and know nothing about other people scam experience are  likely to be scammed, I urge newbies to make research on things they know nothing about or experience to know how  real it is or not.

[Myleschetty]

I believe 98% of all cryptocurrency investors have been scammed. ^{I know some people make said that's a lie, I am smart and have never been scammed. Trust me man you're either scammed direct, indirect, online, or offline.}
There's nothing bad in being a scam victim but making the same mistake again is what's bad.

How it works
1. You select a Bitcoin address, and press CTRL-C.
2. The malware changes the address to an address owned by the hacker/scammer.
3. You press CTRL-V and lose any funds you send.
Even if you check part of the pasted Bitcoin address, chances are the first few characters are the same, and you still won't notice the address was changed.

Am I forgetting any?

Has this happened to you or someone you know ?

I have never been a victim of Clipboard hijacking