Have you ever been scammed ?

[Razmirraz]

After I read the first point to the end, there is nothing I can tell here about the fraud that happened to me. Maybe all this time I've always been careful and implemented a comfortable living scheme regardless of an offer that is profitable but doesn't have to work. I am also the type of person who is quickly satisfied, meaning what I get is my fortune. Often times I ignore profitable offers with small capital that can get big rewards. I always avoid this type of fraud because I have learned a lot from events that have happened to people around me.

Many different stories have been experienced by victims of fraud and until now different types of fraud continue to claim victims. You need to be careful in digesting something that is easily profitable but doesn't need to spend capital or doesn't need to work. In order to get free Bitcoins on forums we have to write some posts which managers ask as a condition to get paid. For me, nothing is free without having to work, except getting an inheritance from my parents.

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[Porfirii]

Since my interest in crypto increased in 2017 and started spending many hours of my time working for several campaigns of ICOs and other services, mainly as a translator, I have been "scammed", if you call it with that name, by devs who never paid or flew with the money and abandoned the project short after beginning the roadmap.

I have to say, though, that the works who paid compensated all the time lost in the others, and that as I invested my time, I can't say that I have lost money (but time is more valuable than money).

I think that this is the way most of us learnt crypto: the hard way.

[Spaceman1000$]

There was a period in my life that i was so enthusiastic about Forex trading, so there was this FX trading group I saw on Facebook, a lot of experts where always dropping analysis of trading signals.
So one particular guy caught my attention, so I gave him a private message, asking him few questions about trading and how I could improve on my trading abilities.
He replied me and started to have a discussion with me, telling me there are some robots that he uses, that helps him to analyse the market and make favourable trades, he said that for me to use it, I will be paying him $100 every two weeks, so I could also enjoy what's he is enjoying with signals he gets.
Sincerely speaking, I saw this as an opportunity for me to really improve my trading skills, but unfortunately I wasn't having the money as at then, I wasn't really happy with myself for not having that money.
So I planned on making saving to give him the first $100, at least to give it a trial. So I asked the guy to give me sometime, that I will get back to him.
So after about two weeks, I had to come on that same group again, I saw a post tagging that guy, saying nobody should have any form of transaction with him, that his is fraudster, that he has scammed a lot of innocent persons on the group. I started seeing comments of people affirming post, saying yes I was scammed by this Same guy of so and so amount.
I was so amazed, as to how I would have fallen a victim, the only thing that held me, was the fact that I wasn't having the money as at then.

[isaac_clarke22]

Not only that I am scammed but also a victim of rug pull and hack as well. I’ve got nothing to do but learning my lessons in the past.

Overall I think I have lost approximately almost $40k in scams, rug pulls and hacks combined ever since I have started my crypto journey.

Even though that crypto is still a long way in terms of cybersecurity level, but I always believe in it and I am here to stay. Crypto saved me from financial disaster.

Lost approximately almost $40k in total doesn’t stop me from fulfilling my dreams and keep going. The opportunities are endless here in the crypto space and I ain’t going anywhere.

Man, that's really rough ain't it. I heard some people back in the NFT days that they played so much that they almost risked their mental health over nothing and it all turned out just to be a rug pull from the devs. I love video games, but damn that might be so exhausting that I might not even consider grinding even non-NFT games as well.

When I hear of rug pull, I know we're talking about NFTs. Damn. Good times, bad times.

[Mpamaegbu]

It will be very difficult to find anyone who got into cryptos between the year 2010 up till 2020 who would say they haven't been scammed one way or the other. I've had my fair share of it, from doubling sites to rugpulled ICOs to unpaid bounties here to lending coin days. Anyway, the good thing is that were still here today despite all that challenges. We learn everyday and hopefully I don't encounter such ugly experiences going forward again.

[Vivageneviv]

My early crypto days yea, aped a lot of low mcap rugpull projects in dextools. Overtime I've learnt the hard way, I now do in-depth research before any investment, using credible CEXs like bitget has also helped me since such CEXs filter projects before listing them.

[babygun]

It will be very difficult to find anyone who got into cryptos between the year 2010 up till 2020 who would say they haven't been scammed one way or the other. I've had my fair share of it, from doubling sites to rugpulled ICOs to unpaid bounties here to lending coin days. Anyway, the good thing is that were still here today despite all that challenges. We learn everyday and hopefully I don't encounter such ugly experiences going forward again.

In my beginning days, I tried a lot of doubling sites and the first 2 times I did it, it worked out and I thought I found "the hail mary" lol. Offcourse, started doing it with bigger amounts (especially trying to double my amount of DOGE) and lost a bunch of them. Also participated in numerous bounties/airdrops that turned out scam but it is almost unavoidable.

[Odohu]

Personally, my journey to cryptocurrency was never without hard lessons. First, it was the difficulty in accessing FX to pay for services overseas that  raised my curiosity for asking questions about alternative as a lot of things depended on me sending payments across borders. This was how Bitcoin was suggested and I began learning and using it. Then we were buying from third parties because of the Fx restrictions... and this exposed me to a lot of scam attempts. I fell for some and paid dearly but I never gave up because I had already seen the opportunity and beauty of Bitcoin. With time I was able to get some reliable merchant and that was when the journey became more interesting.

Good enough this technology have evolved and awareness have also increased leading to reduced scams but one still need to be smart and guide against greed. "If it seems too good to be true, it probably isn't "

[Peanutswar]

One of the scams known is Reverse engineering which takes a talk with the hacker and the victim. After those conversations, the victim provides the details and the hacker now have the full access to them. Next is phishing which is a website that pretends to be the legitimate one the hacker now accesses your account or device without knowing of the victim and stole all of the funds.
This is the reason why having an anti-virus is a must to make sure your device is safe from those attacks.

[Saint-loup]

One of the scams known is Reverse engineering which takes a talk with the hacker and the victim. After those conversations, the victim provides the details and the hacker now have the full access to them. Next is phishing which is a website that pretends to be the legitimate one the hacker now accesses your account or device without knowing of the victim and stole all of the funds.
This is the reason why having an anti-virus is a must to make sure your device is safe from those attacks.

The real name for that practice is Social engineering actually. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security)
It allows hackers to go beyond technical limits, so it can be a powerful way of hacking, I think we can categorize it as a kind of scam, but it's not a pure scam since the goal of social engineering is not to directly steal funds of one victim but to get informations or an access to a system.
Reverse engineering or backwards engineering, is something else, it has nothing to do with hacking and scamming "process or method through which one attempts to understand through deductive reasoning how a previously made device, process, system, or piece of software accomplishes a task with very little (if any) insight into exactly how it does so."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_engineering

[R1dwanRz]

One time, I got scammed by someone when I was doing an OTC trade, exchanging a few fiat money for 13 USDT. I'm going to name him as "Miskrib". Anyway I don't do deals with unknown people, but this guy is an admin from a group and is a really legit guy. However, I didn't really DM him before, so he approached me. And of course, I was idiotic enough not to check his profile, which had an username as "Miskrlb". So, what's the difference here in usernames? All he had to do was just change one letter to an L in lowercase to make it seem legit profile.

[dimonstration]

One time, I got scammed by someone when I was doing an OTC trade, exchanging a few fiat money for 13 USDT. I'm going to name him as "Miskrib". Anyway I don't do deals with unknown people, but this guy is an admin from a group and is a really legit guy. However, I didn't really DM him before, so he approached me. And of course, I was idiotic enough not to check his profile, which had an username as "Miskrlb". So, what's the difference here in usernames? All he had to do was just change one letter to an L in lowercase to make it seem legit profile.

An i and l is very easy to distinguish due to the dot part unless you are in rush or really trust the user he is impersonating just like what happened to you. What platform you are using and do you post a selling topic? Because receiving a PM from someone that you didn’t ask for is major red flag when dealing P2P.

13USDT is still a significant amount on a 3rd world country. I’m just confused on how you get scammed by a man impersonating an admin while his profile description is different. Is this happened on telegram?

[R1dwanRz]

One time, I got scammed by someone when I was doing an OTC trade, exchanging a few fiat money for 13 USDT. I'm going to name him as "Miskrib". Anyway I don't do deals with unknown people, but this guy is an admin from a group and is a really legit guy. However, I didn't really DM him before, so he approached me. And of course, I was idiotic enough not to check his profile, which had an username as "Miskrlb". So, what's the difference here in usernames? All he had to do was just change one letter to an L in lowercase to make it seem legit profile.

An i and l is very easy to distinguish due to the dot part unless you are in rush or really trust the user he is impersonating just like what happened to you. What platform you are using and do you post a selling topic? Because receiving a PM from someone that you didn’t ask for is major red flag when dealing P2P.

13USDT is still a significant amount on a 3rd world country. I’m just confused on how you get scammed by a man impersonating an admin while his profile description is different. Is this happened on telegram?

Yes, that actually happened on Telegram. I trusted the guy since I had really good conversations with him in the group chat. But, also I was in a rush to pay the WiFi bill, or else they would cut it off ( had a call from ISP on that day and I had no money in my mobile banking account ). And I also know 13$ is a lot in here, cuz it's almost that kind of money that you could buy a nokia button phone. But well I had to learn my lesson. sometimes you gotta take hit in life so you can be really careful about it. Anyways I'm just letting everyone here, so hopefully nobody falls for this scam.

[odunybiz]

Generally in life, you hardly can do without being scammed unless you live in a less corrupt country not to talk of being scammed in crypto. You hardly can see someone that has being in crypto for long that has not been scammed either directly or indirectly.

3. Greedy scammed. Those who were promised crazy returns without doing anything. (Bitconnect for example or Madoff in TradFi))

In anything in life, greediness kills. And this is majorly what scammers used in attracting there clients by making the project too real with fake promises.

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

This is highly common in crypto. I myself have fallen into this scam several times. Being greedy plays a key role here. When a token is pumped and one till keep waiting for more pump untill it dump .

[lixer]

that actually happened on Telegram. I trusted the guy since I had really good conversations with him in the group chat. But, also I was in a rush to pay the WiFi bill, or else they would cut it off ( had a call from ISP on that day and I had no money in my mobile banking account ). And I also know 13$ is a lot in here, cuz it's almost that kind of money that you could buy a nokia button phone. But well I had to learn my lesson. sometimes you gotta take hit in life so you can be really careful about it. Anyways I'm just letting everyone here, so hopefully nobody falls for this scam.

Telegram is these days full of such scammers and they are very clever and good at what they do. They will create an exact same username with just a minor difference that can't be identified for the first time when you check the username and they will have the exact same profile image and bio. A lot of such scammers attempted their tricks at me but they could never succeed but I know this because I have seen it happening quite a lot, one time a scammer got very close.

I was working with a project and we had a community in Telegram, we were a team, so the scammer DMed me impersonating my manager and asking to borrow some money from me because he can't access his wallet. I told him that I have some and I agreed to send them, and then when I checked after getting out of the conversation, I saw my previous DM with the manager and that is when I realized it is someone else messaging me.

[babygun]

that actually happened on Telegram. I trusted the guy since I had really good conversations with him in the group chat. But, also I was in a rush to pay the WiFi bill, or else they would cut it off ( had a call from ISP on that day and I had no money in my mobile banking account ). And I also know 13$ is a lot in here, cuz it's almost that kind of money that you could buy a nokia button phone. But well I had to learn my lesson. sometimes you gotta take hit in life so you can be really careful about it. Anyways I'm just letting everyone here, so hopefully nobody falls for this scam.

Telegram is these days full of such scammers and they are very clever and good at what they do. They will create an exact same username with just a minor difference that can't be identified for the first time when you check the username and they will have the exact same profile image and bio. A lot of such scammers attempted their tricks at me but they could never succeed but I know this because I have seen it happening quite a lot, one time a scammer got very close.

I was working with a project and we had a community in Telegram, we were a team, so the scammer DMed me impersonating my manager and asking to borrow some money from me because he can't access his wallet. I told him that I have some and I agreed to send them, and then when I checked after getting out of the conversation, I saw my previous DM with the manager and that is when I realized it is someone else messaging me.

That is why I dislike Telegram as it is just filled with scammers and impersonators and it is not going to stop anytime soon. I used it a bit some time ago but almost got scammed ( for a low amount but still) after which I called it a day. A lot of bounties still require that you sign up for their telegram group so I keep it around in case I ever want to do a bounty again, but other than that I would never use it.

[lienfaye]

I've been through 3 and 7. Before I engage myself in crypto, I often look for opportunity online as my side hustle because at that time, i'm a minimum wage earner and it's not sufficient for my family's needs. I started joining in FB investment (i'm quite naive and just going with the flow since the promised earnings are quite attractive). All is well at first, but after a series of payouts, the people behind this scheme deactivated their accounts and runaway with our money. Then I became aware of crypto (particularly Bitcoin), once again I tried my luck investing in shitcoins due to possible profits that are not guaranteed. Again, because of greed I lost my money and it's really unfortunate that I opted to invest in shitcoins rather than taking time to fill my mind with knowledge.

It's all in past now and I think once in our lives we had this experience that can give us a great lesson. Thus, my advice to beginners, don't wait until you made a mistake before you'll learn a lesson. Because you can avoid having these mistakes if you're careful on everything you do. Scammers are everywhere so we have to outsmart them.

[FinneysTrueVision]

#3 is perhaps the most common and something I have experienced myself. Many years ago I invested in several high yield investment programs and they always exit scammed. A few times I was lucky to have made a profit before they went bust. There was some cloud mining programs I invested in which seemed too good to be true but I got caught in the hype after seeing a few investors getting massive returns.

[Streamz]

3 and 7 for me
Platforms like racksterli , swiftfundz, seplat and so many actually and it's to me greed because I'd have just used my money for something reasonable because it's hard earn but I was really blind to these.
Then for 6 yes so many shitcoins feginu , rabbit inu all the inu you can think of I've wanted to make it big through them but the opposite was what I got...

I think you forgot to add Religion scam. Pay all your salary and earnings for one stuff all the other and buy this and that for more money to come in and nothing happens. That is a scam. Where your life isn't checked you just want to get heaven's blessings by bypassing or through socalled alms giving. Oh many many . It's funny though

[odunybiz]

that actually happened on Telegram. I trusted the guy since I had really good conversations with him in the group chat. But, also I was in a rush to pay the WiFi bill, or else they would cut it off ( had a call from ISP on that day and I had no money in my mobile banking account ). And I also know 13$ is a lot in here, cuz it's almost that kind of money that you could buy a nokia button phone. But well I had to learn my lesson. sometimes you gotta take hit in life so you can be really careful about it. Anyways I'm just letting everyone here, so hopefully nobody falls for this scam.

Telegram is these days full of such scammers and they are very clever and good at what they do. They will create an exact same username with just a minor difference that can't be identified for the first time when you check the username and they will have the exact same profile image and bio. A lot of such scammers attempted their tricks at me but they could never succeed but I know this because I have seen it happening quite a lot, one time a scammer got very close.

I was working with a project and we had a community in Telegram, we were a team, so the scammer DMed me impersonating my manager and asking to borrow some money from me because he can't access his wallet. I told him that I have some and I agreed to send them, and then when I checked after getting out of the conversation, I saw my previous DM with the manager and that is when I realized it is someone else messaging me.

That is why I dislike Telegram as it is just filled with scammers and impersonators and it is not going to stop anytime soon. I used it a bit some time ago but almost got scammed ( for a low amount but still) after which I called it a day. A lot of bounties still require that you sign up for their telegram group so I keep it around in case I ever want to do a bounty again, but other than that I would never use it.

Scammer are just too much on telegram just as you have said. But I don't think one can fully do without it in the crypto space as it is being required during some bounties and in running some airdrops. I believe one can still use it with caution and care without being scammed.