STOP! Before you become a prey of a scammer!

[Taskford]

As the USD value of Bitcoin rises, you would now come accross numerous posts accross multiple social media platforms and Chat apps. They as in the the scammer would offer anyone with lucrative offers.

Intriguing offers by scammers usually can be seen posted on social media and they think they can get a lot of newbie investors there since not all people on social media site know that they are running a scam activities. So its really ideal to anyone that if they have doubt on some offers presented to them better decline it and do their study after they hear those messages so that they can figure out if what offer they receive is legitimate or even not.

The biggest one would be to make you realise that you can use multiple avenues for your portfolio to get a big push, if you allow them to handle it. Next, it would be airdrops which will ask you to surrender your Private Key in the end after going  through their requisite.

Airdrops is risky venue for newbie to earn free money so they need to be aware that there's no legit institution that will ask their private key if someone telling that to them and offer something crazy then they should decline it since nothing is good with them as they are only going after with our money which we can afford to risk.

Another one would be a pump and dump group showing you how much they make a profit everyday through paid signals
In the end it would be a project copying others or a new one trying to cash on the trend.

I participate on groups like this but to be honest I didn't get anything as the people handling that channels is just trying to earn from the people they invite to join. I doubt there's accurate or good prediction comes from this group so we should avoid to waste our time and focus on other investments.

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[Porfirii]

It's best to stick to what you are doing and avoid any unnecessary chats with crypto strangers.
That we would eliminate half of the scams approaching us. Also, we have to stay with the trend and keep reading news.
By doing that we can stay up to date with latest scams and hacks. Yes, we have to do our due diligence to save ourselves from scams.

What you suggest is so easy to do, so effective to avoid being scammed, and still so hard for many people...
We like when people tell us things we want to hear, but scammers know it and they will use it against us, so it is a good policy to not answer to unknown people, especially if they want to make you an unsolicited favor. They are ubiquitous in Telegram, Twitter... even in WhatsApp lately (where the hell did they get my personal phone number? damn leaks).

We all want to know new people in the cryptosphere, especially when we are new and want to find your place, but especially in that case one should be the one contacting interesting people, and not the other way around.

[FMLS]

I am a beginner and this is my first post.

I believe I've been scammed from last months. This is difficult to expose my situation in a Forum. But that's it, I doing it now.
Unfortunately I did not follow all rules and all advises listed here and other forums.

In my case it is an Exchange Trade Company site.  Till today I was not able to find any information if the site is a Scam/fake or not. I did several searches on Bitcoin Forums and on Official Authorities.

I do not know the rules of this Forum, so I do not know if I can put here the name of the Exchange Trade Company.

Is there any list of Scammed Exchanges Companies that I could really check it the exchange company that I put the money is a scammer?

Thanks in advance.

[Miles2006]

The first thing I learnt about bitcoin security should be our first priority, bitcoin is a modern technology and anything associated with the internet scammers will always find new method to scam, unknown contact trying to offer juicy offer sounds suspicious at the first place, if those offers were true no one would have contacted anyone. And times like this have seen a lot of influencers who claim to know about crypto organizing sites that discuss about bitcoin and crypto, I still don't listen to such. The best thing is to ignore such offers, people still falling victim to those scammers, if topics like this are been treated often about scammers and juicy offer then why do people fall victim, maybe they fail to understand, although most people get excited with offers like this and unknowingly they give out their private information.

[Nheer]

As the USD value of Bitcoin rises, you would now come accross numerous posts accross multiple social media platforms and Chat apps. They as in the the scammer would offer anyone with lucrative offers.

This is what we should expect as the bull season is quickly approaching. Due to the bullish trend, most project owners are waiting for the bull season to launch their projects, and like shrewd scammers, they are also waiting for this time to use their scam techniques because they know it is the ideal moment to target their victim.

Many individuals are investing a lot of money in the cryptocurrency business at this moment because everyone wants to take advantage of the market opportunity. Scammers will then use deceptive information and attractive incentives to get people to engage in their fraudulent ventures. Investments that seem too good to be true should always raise suspicions, and those kinds of ventures should be avoided.

The time has come when understanding crypto in detail and DYOR more than earlier has become a necessity. If you don't understand anything happening in the market then stay away and do not become greedy to ride the wave. Things are not so good as they were earlier post 2021.

Most individuals go into cryptocurrency because of what they are told, and without doing their own research, they simply do what they are told and invest in coins because a friend told them to. Investing due to FOMO is a horrible idea, as is investing because you are told to do so; the industry is a place to invest with precaution. 

[Sandra_hakeem]

I can't tolerate any dms from any stranger at all... If I don't know the source of the dms/links, I'd simply ignore and move on... people are likely to get into trouble for being enticed on things they see over the internet... I seen alot of post about internet fraud and their new avenues; anyone can possibly be victimized but,..that's why you need to keep your corners clean...
secondly, I don't accept offers that are brought to me ... If it's actually a type that'll pay me at the end ....why?? ain't nobody would prefer bringing an offer to you for free without having hidden interest... They can sometimes try to encourage/help you to register on an unknown site.. I don't entertain such discussions.. so far,.. I've been free from fraudulent activities like that...

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

[qwertyup23]

The biggest one would be to make you realise that you can use multiple avenues for your portfolio to get a big push, if you allow them to handle it. Next, it would be airdrops which will ask you to surrender your Private Key in the end after going  through their requisite.

This should be the first sign of a red flag from a random user. The moment they ask you if they could handle your finances, this should definitely spark a red flag that what they are offering is a scam especially during this bullish run.

For best measures, you can take and consider their advice but never let them handle your finances personally.

Another one would be a pump and dump group showing you how much they make a profit everyday through paid signals
In the end it would be a project copying others or a new one trying to cash on the trend.

Again, I agree with this statement.

Pump and dump schemes is like the oldest trick in the book wherein a seemingly genuine project will just suddenly run with the money after investing.

In the current scenario when AI has the ability to swap face and make it sound like an original influencer or a celebrity talking. It is better to research before you invest to gain double or triple multiplier. The best you can do is to avoid them.

As someone who has been reporting scams for the past years, if I see computer-generated/AI photos, this is an instant call out from me. AI-generated photos are definitely a red flag that can mislead its customers especially if the creators make it appear that their project is composed of highly-acclaimed cryptocurrency enthusiasts but in fact are not real.

[tabas]

With pump and dump groups, people never learn. These are the groups that's been made by those leaders that are pumping the altcoins that they are following or probably have been made. With people following blindly, they're only helping these leaders or organizers make themselves rich.

The first thing I learnt about bitcoin security should be our first priority, bitcoin is a modern technology and anything associated with the internet scammers will always find new method to scam, unknown contact trying to offer juicy offer sounds suspicious at the first place, if those offers were true no one would have contacted anyone. And times like this have seen a lot of influencers who claim to know about crypto organizing sites that discuss about bitcoin and crypto, I still don't listen to such. The best thing is to ignore such offers, people still falling victim to those scammers, if topics like this are been treated often about scammers and juicy offer then why do people fall victim, maybe they fall to understand, although most people get excited with offers like this and unknowingly they give out their private information.

It starts from us that we shouldn't be too entertaining to unknown people. And with the obvious about security, it should also be known to us that we shouldn't be someone who's careless that keeps on clicking unknown links and filling up websites that are randomly found.

[Maslate]

Research is the key. If you want to succeed on crypto and gain decent profits, then establish knowledge and develop certain skills that are highly needed to make you successful. Do not rely on the people you found online that guarantee your success in crypto. Remember, strangers are more likely scammers, they will continue to deceive you until you end up convinced and agree on them. When you do that, you are not losing the opportunity to make you real rich, but you are giving them the big chances to make them rich because of you.

Invest in crypto with caution. But invest in your knowledge first above everything.

[Japinat]

Know what you are doing and know who you are dealing and trusting. If you easily trust and rely on other people, you will only get scammed in the end. Scamming is very rampant with regards to crypto and these people will do everything to make us fall into their traps. But we can totally avoid it if we have adequate knowledge in crypto.

Paid channels or apps are not made for us to reach our crypto goals, but it's there to make them take advantage on us by buying on their app or channel. With the use of AI, it even make their jobs easier to take an edge over us. But if we stick to our own knowledge and  established insights about crypto based from our own research, we will never easily fall on their traps.

[Vaculin]

Do not wait before this happens to you and see yourself as a prey to scammers. But do your own diligence to research and study until you find out and understand the main concept in crypto. Crypto is not made to make us instantly rich and wealthy. There are steps and processes to make it happen but everything takes time.

Now, if these scammers have tried to convince you that success becomes easier and faster if you follow them, then definitely that's a big scam. There's no shortcuts to success but you have to learned and take the process step by step, otherwise you will end up using up all your funds and regret why you let yourself fooled by them.

[Stepstowealth]

Another one would be a pump and dump group showing you how much they make a profit everyday through paid signals

Results constantly shown will always be enough to tempt people with weak minds because even though they try to ignore it and avoid that first but do not run and exit it themselves from such groups with emergency, when these scammers who are admins of these groups continue posting these results, and then get some fake members to act like they have had their results and make comments, the opinions and mindset of the unbelieving will begin to change slowly until they are convinced enough to make themselves vulnerable to these scammers.

[TimeTeller]

Research is the key. If you want to succeed on crypto and gain decent profits, then establish knowledge and develop certain skills that are highly needed to make you successful. Do not rely on the people you found online that guarantee your success in crypto. Remember, strangers are more likely scammers, they will continue to deceive you until you end up convinced and agree on them. When you do that, you are not losing the opportunity to make you real rich, but you are giving them the big chances to make them rich because of you.

Invest in crypto with caution. But invest in your knowledge first above everything.

The dilemma of most users is that they easily jump on hyped up things for the idea of generating high profits.
So they are forgetting the basic thing of research and at least educate themselves what the project is all about.
Sometimes, they don't even read the project's mission or target objectives anymore, but they only check the charts in a hurry to gain profitss.
You can't understand market performance if you are blind with what's going on behind the project's developments.

[Yamifoud]

Another one would be a pump and dump group showing you how much they make a profit everyday through paid signals
In the end it would be a project copying others or a new one trying to cash on the trend.

After having a bad experience and losing the hands of these pump-and-dump groups, I swear to myself not to trust them anymore and not to trust someone who talks amount of money saying huge huge ROI after a few days of investing. This is the usual trick of scammers and we can see a lot of them in social media, particularly in telegram groups. We must be careful of someone (strangers) who shoots a message claiming he is an expert and tried to help for free because, in the end, this person will ask for something in return.

We have to learn from the people who have experience with this, we don't need to experience it before realizing that we are wrong.

[lovesmayfamilis]

The time has come when understanding crypto in detail and DYOR more than earlier has become a necessity. If you don't understand anything happening in the market then stay away and do not become greedy to ride the wave. Things are not so good as they were earlier post 2021.

This is the smartest idea I've heard lately. You are right; now there are a lot of telegram groups and various YouTube videos that regularly publish their profits, as well as supposedly closed groups that will help those who make an initial or monthly contribution.
I once fell into such a scam, although it was long ago. I did not see any difference between the information that was published openly and that which was in the closed group. But it affected my wallet.
Now I perceive any hint of bonuses and lessons on how to make good money with extreme skepticism. However, if scammers are still active, people are also falling into their traps. And talking about your investigation when a person does not understand anything does not sound entirely reliable.
Therefore, yes, it is better not to go where we are empty of knowledge now.

[Kristiyana]

Op, this your topic is really nice because they have been using that means to get into people's account and the funny part is that people still fall for them because of greed and ignorant, I wish this post can go as far as possible maybe even outside this forum so that people can see all these means in which one can get frauded.

[Bushdark]

There is a lot going on in the crypto space now and one has to be very careful about it because if we don't take a good approach being the sie guy, we might lose our funds to scammers. Scammers are working very hard to make money from cryptocurrency investors that know nothing about their skill. We can make money in the market and we should also know we can  lose the same money if we are not very conscious of the tricks mostly used by scammers. We have to read news and get information about how scammers could lure us to get our funds.