Dear Crypto-Community:
Lately I have been receiving emails and calls regarding scams and other difficulties. Please read my comments below and make your own suggestions so that we may try to help keep people from getting hurt.
1. Do not keep any meaningful amounts of crypto currency in trading exchanges. Make your trades and then secure in a wallet.
I know it is not convenient to do it, timely again and again but it make sense to give yourself assurance of your action. Maybe it’s time to go back study my strategy and security. An information that has been forgotten because of laziness that I should been doing since before.
2. If you make large deposits or withdrawals from any account you are raising a red flag. You will likely find that the larger the transaction, the more identity information the exchange or wallet requires in order to comply with AML laws.
I have read about it for so many times from ordinary members of this forum and to have legal advice from a law practitioner itself is much better.
3. If the exchange or account is a smaller company and you make demand for a large withdrawal you may find that your withdrawal will be delayed. If the company is over-extended or a scam or ponzi then your account may be "frozen" and your demands for explanation go unanswered.
This is reality that most of us should understand that a company they have they’re own rules and those is mostly be to be followed and we can’t do about it.
4. As to cloud mining, you do take more risks that difficulty will rise faster than the ability of your investment to give you a true ROI. This is also an area that seems to have more scams.
I personally been victimise by a cloud mining syndicate last year and those experience bring me a lot of depression but I’ve move on and forgetting it is not an easy thing, that’s why I’m hesitant to join any cloud mining site today. Learned from it and Stay away if possible.
5. If the company you have funds in does not have a verifiable physical address in the country that you live in, you will likely have no legal recourse for any rip-offs.
That’s why I used local bitcoin wallet providers that is licensed and regulated by the government and the central bank in my country for this purposes.
6. Be aware that fees in many exchanges and wallets seem to be creeping up. You may start with $30, U.S. in BTC and by the time it is sold and reaches your Bank as U.S. Dollars it is reduced to $22 U.S.
I can’t argue with that for some reason it is beyond what can we control about. It is more of we choose what we deserve if we don’t make a different path.
Thanks sir George, for this incredible opportunity to give our own opinions on the same way respecting it. You’re kind and worth to be in conversation with. It is a great help for the bitcoin community as a whole.