The news is misleading, that would ruin bitcoin's reputation because in the first place bitcoin is not scam.
Why these media are dragging bitcoin into negative news, they could have make a different title like "Ponzi scam using bitcoin" or anything but not this title posted by OP. Scams are everywhere, people has to be educated to prevent themselves into falling this kind of scam, that's the only weapon we need to have so these scammers will not succeed.
TBH, the title of the thread was really catchy that's why I opened this thread, but misleading as I said.
It is still related to Bitcoin since firstly, they use the name of Bitcoin "investments". For all we know, those being asked are actually misunderstanding Bitcoin as a sort of "company" that is asking for investment. The details of the "investment" wasn't really released so I just assumed, but there's still a chance after all. Ignorance is something we all know about, and something abundant most of the time whenever someone gets scammed.
Those who fall for this scam does not have the idea of what bitcoin really is, but the writer who made the article for sure knows what is bitcoin, so for me, the title was really mislead and it would again mislead people who has no enough knowledge about bitcoin, I guess their first impression when reading the title would be "BITCOIN IS A SCAM, AND IT HITS CANADA".
I hate when they call it
"bitcoin scam" it should be
"fake Bitcoin investments". Well, this is not new, fake investments are always there trying to fool some people, especially to those who are a newbie in cryptocurrency. In my country they exist they have different styles. Some do it through fake websites, in social media (they will keep approaching you using different accounts offering some scam), Also, some have the guts to do some fake trading training and they will encourage everyone to invest with them I hope they will get punished.
TBH, the title of the thread was really catchy that's why I opened this thread, but misleading as I said.
Yeah, it is pretty misleading. If they used the dollar to scam people, so its a "dollar scam?" I am pretty sure some of it is just spreading this news to FUD.
There should be a responsible journalism if that's the right term to call it, it must not be misleading and the title alone would already hint the real story not to only catch the attention of the readers.