CRYPTO SCAM

[JANEEY555]

I’m starting this poll to understand how many people here have been affected by crypto scams. Over the past few years, investment fraud, fake exchanges, and wallet drain scams have become increasingly common.

I personally went through a significant crypto scam and understand how confusing and stressful the situation can be, especially when transactions are on-chain and irreversible without proper investigation.

This thread is intended for discussion and awareness:
   •   Sharing scam experiences
   •   Understanding common scam patterns
   •   Discussing recovery possibilities and limitations
   •   Helping victims know what steps to take next

If you’ve been affected, feel free to share what type of scam it was (fake exchange, impersonation, investment group, phishing, etc.)

[Vod]

If you’ve been affected, feel free to share what type of scam it was (fake exchange, impersonation, investment group, phishing, etc.)

More than 1.3 million dollars in BTC is currently sitting on those Minted Seats addresses

Hundreds of people have been scammed on this forum.  OgNasty tried to buy advertising on my website with these garbage shares/seats, so I answered Yes.  His clients are begging for distribution while he sits on millions in embezelled funds.  

[robelneo]

Been victimized by fake cloud mining before, so I dug deep and figured out that Cloud mining is now the new Ponzi scheme. Scams take so many forms, but they always rely on deception. If you know how to look for the right platform, you can bust all these pretenders and bad actors.
If you've been victimized once, it's time to do your research. But getting victimized a second time could mean you never learn and didn't study how these scammers work.
If you've been victimized a third time, it's better to give up investing, because it is not for you.

[jcojci]

Been victimized by fake cloud mining before, so I dug deep and figured out that Cloud mining is now the new Ponzi scheme. Scams take so many forms, but they always rely on deception. If you know how to look for the right platform, you can bust all these pretenders and bad actors.
If you've been victimized once, it's time to do your research. But getting victimized a second time could mean you never learn and didn't study how these scammers work.
If you've been victimized a third time, it's better to give up investing, because it is not for you.

We have the same experienced with fake cloud mining. In my earlier days in crypto, besides playing with faucets, I also searched for cloud mining. My friend said that was profitable and he can made many satoshis. My mistake is not verifying but just following his step without think much.

We've been naive in thinking that this time will works. The result is just the same and we losing money. But that will not stop us searching for others until we really realizes that we must stops and search for other ways.

Besides cloud mining, I have been a victim of scam projects. I didn't researched who was behinds the project and other things and just sent money to them. But after waiting for some months following their roadmap, they become difficult to contact, and slowly disappear one by one.

It feels bad but I can't get back and just sit down in my chair. I realized that there is no fast money coming without works.

[ScamViruS]

Thousands of crypto users have been scammed, you will find many on this forum who have been scammed in various ways. There was a time when ponzi schemes were easy to scam and the number of these victims was huge. Scammers steal funds safely, but due to the lack of proper investigation, most of those funds cannot be recovered. Crypto users are still being scammed in various ways. Scammers change their scam tactics over time, but their intentions don't change. I have also been a victim of scams in many ways and lost a lot of money, I know how painful the pain of being a victim of scams is.

[albon]

Caution:

This thread appears to be a general discussion but please be careful with any recovery services mentioned in replies or in the OP’s profile. The OP appears to create these threads to attract the community’s attention and direct them to the link to his platform, which can be found in his profile. and based on the red flags I discovered, the platform may be a scam.

I have created a separate thread where I exposed the recovery platform the OP appears to be promoting, supported with evidence. You can check it here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5572649.0

Please do not send any money to any recovery service or share any private information with them.

[MinMan]

I haven't actually been a victim, but I have surely faced so many scammers who tried to scam me with different techniques by offering me jobs, investment opportunities, suggesting me cloud mining platforms with unreal returns where you could get ROI within the first month of your investment with more than 200% in profits, which any person with basic knowledge about crypto and Bitcoin mining would know is not possible because you can't invest $2,000 in mining and get $6,000 back after a month, but people often fall for such things, and that is the reason why scammers never run out of business.

Fake exchanges and fake investment platforms are probably the most common scams these days, because scammers know that a lot of people are newly joining this industry, and they come here with the mindset that they are going to make a lot of money and achieve financial freedom in no time, so scammers use this thing against them and give them offers that compel them to think about it and give it a shot, because they don't even know anything about scams and stuff, they only think making this much money from crypto is possible, that's it.