How will someone you don't know text you about investment opportunities in cryptocurrency, and how can you trust such a person and invest through them? This is what a lack of information costs us: the moment we don't know basic safety rules for Bitcoin or any form of crypto, we are likely to get scammed because they'll exploit our ignorance about what we need.
I actually find it funny when people say text message scam doesn't work anymore when we see it happening around us everyday, it wasn't always about crypto but the smarter people get the more complex strategies these scammers are employing in order to outsmart them.
Also one of the reasons why we don't hear about this as much as it happens is probably because victims keep it to themselves because after the scam the whole scheme might end up appearing obvious and people don't want to appear likes fools to their friends and family, we usually hear about it when the scammers get outsmarted.
One of the lessons on cyber security is how scammers come up with various ways to target the psychology of the individual into believing their stories and I think instead of us shifting blame or looking for whom to blame, we should try to make cyber security a more taught subject as we teach about crypto currency based investment or other investment opportunities that arise.
If we understand that any business opportunities could be a potential scam, we would see and examine every text message or call or email as a potential selling point and we would learn to set our devices in a way that it refuses access to unknown people or tag them as spam so as we be very alert and careful when they start selling off their ideas to us.
Anything is possible these days because people need money, so it is true we only mostly hear about scammers when we outsmart them, but we should also try to be more comfortable sharing new updates we get from suspicious sources to those close or mostly on this forum where no one knows us that much to judge us.
That's how we protect ourselves and our little money from being stolen before we talk about how to increase it.
