[Guide] Avoid These Kinds of Scams

[ImThour]

Haha, it's a very old scam where they show you a reward and ask you to put a small amount of yours like 10% of the amount shown in this case and when you deposit, you never get your money or reward back. That's gone once you pay. Also, I have mentioned it various times earlier and will repeat it - Nothing is free in this world.

Also, never do KYC on any platform until and unless it's very important and you have your money stuck.

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[Lida93]

These kind of scans are common and rampant and it take greedy fellows to fall for it when it is obvious that there's nothing like charity money in the internet, every money you are allowed access to you must have worked hard for it.

Common knowledge should detect this technique to you as a scam.  There's no free not minding the amount how much more 0.2btc. Any withdrawal process online that ask you to deposit a certain amount before you could be eligible to withdraw the total is a pure scam and we should learn to dislodge from joining/clicking unrecognized and suspecting groups/sites they are  the genesis of getting scammed. Lastly, strictly avoid doing kyc too.

[Razmirraz]

The tricks carried out by fraudsters on this website are very tempting for beginners who are just making Cryptocurrency transactions, they will think that 0.2 BTC is theirs after successfully registering on the website. Fortunately, you are already familiar with Cryptocurrency and really understand this type of trick.
Nothing is free, let alone the figure reaching 0.2 BTC, of course they will ask potential victims to deposit a certain amount of BTC to claim the BTC on the website. You can guess where this leads, in the end they ask for a deposit first so they can transfer the BTC. Always avoid this type of fraud, lucky members who join the forum have received this information. I can't imagine how many people have become victims out there.

[Hatchy]

the referral bonus promising 0.2 BTC just for using a promo code it's an obvious scam. Did you really expect them to be that generous? Your attempt to withdraw the money surprised me what were you thinking initially? If you were a Bitcoin newbie, you could have easily ended up losing money. The advice is simple, stay away from offers that seem too good to be true, requiring no effort or cost. They might be scams, and it's not worth testing their legitimacy.

[ZAINmalik75]

This is one of the phishing scams. A lot of people are victims of such scams, where they are given offers like thousands of dollars that they don't want to ignore or refuse, and a thought comes into their minds that they should give it a try, but at the end, when they start asking for deposits, etc. Then still, most of the newbies, even the experts, began to think that a small amount of around $10 to $50, whatever it would be, By the way, you did not mention how much they were asking you to deposit.

We think that the amount is small and the reward is big, so we should take the risk, and after losing the amount, we regret what we did.

You did great to stop yourself at the very point of deposit because you at first might fall for it as you have already given the details, and when they asked you for money, you realized it was fake. If it were me, I would call it fake when I see a whopping reward of 0.2 BTC.

[Bushdark]

the referral bonus promising 0.2 BTC just for using a promo code it's an obvious scam. Did you really expect them to be that generous? Your attempt to withdraw the money surprised me what were you thinking initially? If you were a Bitcoin newbie, you could have easily ended up losing money. The advice is simple, stay away from offers that seem too good to be true, requiring no effort or cost. They might be scams, and it's not worth testing their legitimacy.

This is just a mess and it is an obvious deceit which op was able to understand before it get too late. There are so many scam sites online like exchanges that claim to reward customers and if they are able to get hold of the funds, they would have no option that to claim the money without refunding. It's very important for us to stay safe and do anything possible to make sure that we don't get scammed by online platforms that claimed to compensate us for using there services and eane more than what we expected to earn.

[satscraper]

You should have reported the website.

 That site is already known as a crypto scam. To safeguard himself from online frauds  OP should get into  a habit  to find out all the whole truth and inside facts  of any unknown site that offers  financial  service. It took me a few seconds to send query to search engine and get the following information that would stop me if I wanted to proceed with that site.

[lovesmayfamilis]

Admit it to the OP, did you want to try your luck ? The amount of the bonus is impressive, and many were probably tempted by it by sending a certain amount and their documents, which, in principle, was what this site was after. But if you saw that scammers were playing with you, why didn't you leave immediately? Have you ever thought that in the hunt for a bonus, you will be given a link that will give scammers information about you for free in the future? People quickly forget that there are many ways to penetrate other people's data online as soon as any bonuses start winking at them.

[Kelward]

Scammers uses these rewards as baits to entice their victims before they scam them, they come in different forms and the OPs experience is one of them. Personally I don't trust anything online freebies, or rewards for something that I didn't work for.

I always believe that nobody will give you anything for free online, because from people's experiences, it's always potentials for scams. As a matter of fact I did my due diligence, before adopting bitcoin, also before I joined this forum, because I've trained myself to always be skeptical about anything online sites, meetings or transactions.

Most times it's greed and ignorance that drives people to fall victims to these scammers devices, they only realize after the scammers have stolen far more than they promised to give.

[Faisal2202]

I think you gave a try to this thread which was deleted after because sharing phishing links is prohibited on the forum. You might have found it before it got deleted and gave it a try in the hope of earning free money but dear keep one thing in mind there is nothing like free money in the world.

Even if you think airdrops gave us free money, no they don't give free money, they will ask you to do activities or make transactions which will have high fees, etc. The point is, nothing is free and you thought money would be free and not a lesser amount, directly 0.2 BTC will be given to you for free.

If I were at your place I would have reported that thread to the moderator or left a post there for newbies to avoid this link. Sometimes your devices get compromised just by clicking on these links, I know that because I have experienced how things work and how fast they work. Its good you did not deposit on the website otherwise your funds would be gone and who knows they might have some access to your device.