Topic: Awareness of scam on social media will help reduce scam (Read 813 times)

good one, don't ever trust people who send messages related to money, even the sender is people you know, you should to check the username first. Because, nowadays people scamming by resembling friends on social media that we know IRL and pretending to come to borrow some money. Besides not trusting people who ask for help or offer some money. Don't just accept and click on all the links, this is mostly enough to make us safe from scammers.

I have always have the mindset that anyone who enters my pm to talk anything concerning money is a scammer. Coming up I have used people's experiences to be very conscious how I interact with people on  social media.   Scammers brings new strategies to get people,  people don't need to be fast in accepting offers in social media.

Yes, scammers are not restricted and that is because no one well taught it was a scam in the first place. They are actually smart that can hide their true colors and intention until someone becomes a victim. I'd never know what are the precautions that these social media are doing to combat these things but for sure this can never be stopped and the only we do as in individuals is to be more responsible for our doings and never trust those huge offerings in social media as this is a very known scam trick.

You're very right. Some bunch of Scammers always come after newbies trying to scam them off the little they have. On one or two occasions, I've encountered them especially on Telegram. Once you ask a question as a newbie, you will see a lot of them flooding your DM and claiming to have good intentions meanwhile, they are there to scam. Very pathetic.

Is there anyone in bitcoin right now who doesn't know a thing or two about social media scammers? They're no longer new to the public, all they've been doing is repackaging frauds that are far too obvious when you see them.

If you go to Twitter, it has become a mess to enjoy good replies without sporting a scammer in crypto related threads and it is very annoying, they have even decided to push CZ picture on all of their bots account to comment auto generate replies just to get peoples heads that CZ is doing a give away and Twitter has not found a single solution to these bots. We have these guys all over social media, but I believe Twitter and Youtube are the most dominating places where they hide and mimic channel owners, and nothing is done by the owners of these platforms.

The best one can do to avoid falling into scam be you a beginner or an old user in this community is to create the attitude of avoidance to all those juicy offers and mouthwatering offers those scammers use in getting their victims.

Learn to avoid clicking on almost every site that look promising to you, try do more verifications and research on the said promos, bonuses or promises such may be offering, perhaps you could contact others that have debt knowledge about the business ask questions about it, and stop having the fear of losing out if you don't do it immediately, for there's always market opportunities in the crypto business.

It is not surprising indeed that Youtube is one of the core spreaders of scams. Because in recent years the use of YouTube has increased. So this could be the reason why it happened. If we look at the data uploaded by wordstream.com, Youtube is currently in the second position as the social media with the highest monthly active users.


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But, I'm a little surprised by Twitch, this social media isn't really big, and can be said new for a lot of people, unfortunately this platform become number 2 for fake giveaway. Is it possible that this fake giveaway case is increasing because of the P2E hype?

Everyday there are newbies who came here try there fortune on cryptocurrency and once they see something like this for sure this will catch there attention. This is the reason why we see this scam ends up since there are still so many newbies around and for sure they want to fool those people so thag they can accumulate more money on their pockets. For sure the interest of mainstream media is one of the reason why people got interested on this and scammers use the current events to use it on their scams.

I recently read an interesting study by Group-IB, a Singapore based cybersecurity firm, on the raise of the giveaway type of scams (i.e the send me x and I’ll send you x2 back). I presume that they only detect a subset of the cases, but at least it gives us an idea of what’s going on:


During the first half of 2022, the company identified over 2K registered domains specifically created for these false giveaways, being the figure a very significant rise over last half of 2021. The main domains being used are .com, .org and .net, totalling  80% of the cases.


The majority of these domains were registered through Russian domain registrants, though the scams themselves were essentially carried out in English and Spanish.

The study indicates that the main source for traffic to these giveaway scam sites is YouTube, followed by Twitch and non-cited crypto streaming platforms. The average number of viewers for a fake giveaway stream is in the 10K-20K viewer range. I was surprised that regular social media posts (FB, Instagram, Telegram, etc.) were not mentioned as a core source.

They also talk about the existence of a whole marketplace out there to aid (at a not so high cost) others to commit these types of scams, providing services for hijacking streaming accounts, domain names, programmers, hosting, tools for deepfake, and so forth.

The things that lurk in the gutters …

See: https://www.group-ib.com/media/massive-crypto-attack/

Unfortunately, not all knew about this and how to verify a legit account which is why still a lot of people easily got scammed and they use rewards to attract greedy souls. Many impersonated known personalities and scammers use this account to trick innocent people - I guess there is easy money in social media more than the profit we earn from investing in Bitcoin or crypto.
As per to see, as the technology keeps on upgrading, more and more scammers had already popup and more tricks. And the more we don't have to trust strangers anymore.

When it comes to the problem of social media scams, especially on Telegram, where multiple people posing as women and serving as support on various exchanges, most of us learn from experience, it is crucial to exercise caution. We should be very aware of scams as they are quite strategic. NOTE: Don't give out your private key and know what project to invest in. I once fell for a social media scam when I received a message from an unknown individual seeking to introduce me to an investment and requesting USDT.

Exactly! We have to change this kid-like mindset of social media that actually are very complicated tool to use!

Beginners should be aware that cryptocurrency is not a ponzi scheme, but rather a place where you can invest and expect a return on your investment in a matter of days or hours. Beginners should be aware that they cannot trust anyone they meet on social media. social media is rife with scammers, so you must exercise extreme caution when communicating with strangers on social media. I understand that scammers develop new techniques on a daily basis, but we must also be cautious and wise.

This blue checkmark indicates that the account is verified for the @DJMAX_global account, so it is not related to Vitalik Buterin - @VitalikButerin.  If law enforcement agencies are interested in this scam, they will receive comprehensive information from Twitter support about who @DJMAX_global really is.

Right now the @DJMAX_global account looks like this:

Scams on social media are unavoidable because there are so many tricks they do to trick beginners into getting caught up in their seductions, even with hype methods that are created or trending, usually fraudsters make every way to do it so they can earn money. more money from these scams, indeed I also hope that beginners know and be careful about scams on social media a little bit carefully and don't be influenced by their unreasonable offers.

For example,,, I found the Ethereum Giveaway on Twitter, the blue tick marked below the account has been verified by Twitter, but the scamer was able to get it only for the fake giveaway trap.

Look at this.



It's very clear this is a fake twitter even though it's a blue tick, so don't believe it.

Not trusting anyone doesn't mean closing your mind when most people and even victims speak with evidence that a service is indicated to be a scam, including the service you're promoting.
Sometimes a certain amount of money can change a person's stance to help the scammers themselves.

Beginners needs to understand that social media is a wrong place to trust people,  this is something no one needs to teach everyone, we hear different stories about people who are victims of scammers,  that should give beginners awareness that scam is real and scammers are every where.

It is better to be properly and well-informed about whatever that might seems shady or confusing especially when it comes to transaction and investing into any form of cryptocurrency. No matter the amount of money involved, no money is too small to loose into the hands of scammers. In other words, social media awareness is also one of the ways to minimise the activities of the scams online but that doesn’t eradicate them completely, the ability to have a non-greedy habit is very important so as not to fall into their traps. Scammers attract people with a lot of sweet offers whereby most people falls for their trick, so therefore the awareness starts from our self awareness and training, then to third party and social media as well. Scammers are also on social media, therefore, the awareness starts from our mind and self discipline.

This often happens because of the ignorance of newbies, plus they don't find out in advance about anything related to their investment, and even they just follow the others because they are carried away by FOMO and also the hype that is spreading. Most newbies think that the investment or projects are very good and they can earn high profits very easily. This is what makes many newbies then lose their money and make them blame cryptocurrency. Whereas, they are starting in the wrong way because of ignorance coupled with an unwillingness to find out first. This often happened, but again, many more newbies still become new victims again.

beginners and scams are always some of my concerns. I don't want to bring my family into the crypto world cause I know how heavy the responsibility will be to encourage them to learn about this new world first. They are prone to scam trials. I don't want to feel responsible. Even if they want to jump in, I always warn them that crypto is not an easy way to get rich, it's complicated, and you need to be serious to learn it so you won't get trapped later.

I start to make videos about crypto on my youtube channel to share my experience with beginners and I always remind people to guard themselves in this cruel world. I'm also planning to make a video about many types of scams in the crypto world in the near future. Wish me luck.

Sometimes, it is no need to be very smart to be a scammer because once they only promise very promising results and prospects, they may be able to do that easily if they find certain people who are greedy and also obsessed with money, instant ways, and beginners who don't really know the world of scams.
But, although we have told them many times, they will not believe us and become a victim of certain scams.
Convincing people by giving a high promise, moreover wth instant profits to gain highly will really attract many people as stated above. And this becomes a very good loophole for scammers to take advantage of those people.

In fact, social media become the most platform that newbies get and fall into scam. Although have been taught several times, they may be too easy to be approached via social media.

Simply as that. People often get aware through social media but when scammers start to target them, they tend to be more greedy and bite their offers. That is why people often get scammed because their actions pushed them to fall as victims. So most likely, it’s not the social media that lacks awareness, but the people themselves.

Often we have been seeing a lot of scams on social media. Shouldn't we take a lesson from there? Who can help us prevent scams unless we help ourselves? We are responsible for being deceived. Because most scam happens due to our greedy behavior and careless activities. We need to be strict about our privacy as well. We can avoid the biggest scams just by avoiding greedy offers. It's pretty simple nothing is free in the world and there are no quick rich methods.

Please be mindful that it's scammers are everywhere and not just in any social media since their main goal is to lure the prospect to their traps and once they lured them in then that's the time they'll do everything to scam people who hasn't enough knowledge of what they were doing. Being aware of how scam/scammers work will suffice the need to spot them since they almost have the same storyline on how to take something from their target. Be it crypto related stuff or real money, voucher, things, scammers will take whatever they get from their target.

Yeah I was even a victim of one, although it was not crypto-related scam, but still fake vouches with lots of bots reaction makes it less suspicious. I had moved on from it already, but it should still be a hard lesson for me to always bring to my daily life though I am not doing any sort of money-related transaction in social media sites like Facebook.
There is just nothing that would protect you except you and support themselves are useless anyway even if you reported since you are also a consumer of their product already. There is nothing that would make me trust anything anymore in social media sites.

In part of crypto there are a lot of people who would like to join in but of course, they don't know where to start from scratch and one of the best ways to access information is social media that's why some of them are visiting, joining and interact with those groups to gain more knowledge but some of the people take this as an advantage to scam newbies because they don't know how the circulation works but some of them have a weak thing to ask first if this is reliable or not to make sure their safety. Investment with knowledge and experience is the best thing to do, if there's someone pretending to teach you and ask for money it is not all about the training. If you join the group to make your selves grow it is all about the community helping each other there's no need to pay.

The process of scamming people is a lucrative business. But we have to remember that every business needs a market, to sell their product. If we as end-users (commonly referred as internet users) do not discover scam plans and behaviors, then it will keep on existing and thriving. Social media are the most popular way of communication used in the present days. It is the best way to reach out more people with zero costs and fast speed. However, some pushers use such ways for scamming others by making use of their weakness. Well, we cannot stop scamming from existing on social media platforms. What we can do though is to be aware of types of scams, and avoid them altogether. But as always, we are also responsible for our own actions, and it is up to us to keep ourselves safe and secured when investing. Being aware, being diligent and exerting extra effort will significantly reduce the potential of falling into scams. There is no magic formula that will prevent you from scamming. However, by having all these in place, you have significantly increased your ability to avoid it. So please, be careful with anything you do online.

The only way that we can reduce scamming in all aspects is being educated and informed about scams, and knowing the investments well before you fall as another scammer’s victim. The social media is not responsible to make us aware, since we are all responsible of our own actions. But somehow, through social media, we get to learn and discover that this certain investment is another trap to fall us as victims.

Social media may sometimes need not to be trusted because apparently, this is the playground of all scams happening today. These scammers will do everything to get your attention by pretending to be helpful at first but later on they will start to set up their plans and steal everything you have. So we should still be aware and be very cautious in every investments we plan to invest as it can be another scam project funded by big scammers in the social media.

The main social media platform scammers are using this days is Telegram, they find it very easy to scam someone using their tricks in Telegram, and sometimes it is not only beginners that fall into their trap, even some experienced users whom are greedy are also always involved in the scam. Scammers can never live social media because they have the way the arrange their scams in all the social media platforms.

Until today, we are still prone to these scammer tactics. Yes we are aware that these scammers kept improving their skills, abilities, etc. They don't just master it quickly, but also takes time to learn and apply until their grand plan succeeds.

This is why they kept targeting newbies and beginners who are very prone to "shiny objects" that would entice them to do it rather than learning to have second thoughts by seeking opinion from the experienced ones. But they're also targeting Average Joes too as they kept improving themselves. They also learned from their failures in scamming, so they never stop learning something new to easily scam victims.

We just keep on being role models to let our connections aware about the latest scamming tactics, etc., and how to prevent them.

Despite of many warnings announce by sec and other government entities about those MLM scams and other type which use the presence of bitcoin and crypto still there are people fall on the traps because they ignore those news and think about that SEC is just taking the opportunity away the opportunity for then to earn. That's why they fall from bad schemes and regret the decision they made.

Greediness is the main reason why many people even skip to do searches and find the legality of the said investment and even forget everything that has been read in the past. In fact, being too active and connected to social media can be a source of information but in many cases, this is also a source of major scam incidents. I was thinking that there is no way to stop them as they found out that the use of social media is their big asset to success and know that many people would still fall into their trap.

Social media has always been a good source of awareness not to fall for different traps of scammers. Its just that people are not mindful and are not cautious on what kind they are investing. Maybe because of personal greed or desires or whatsoever, but the fact that you invest simply means there's always risks on it. Its either you fall into wrong investments and lose your capital, or you end up investing in the right investments ang gain good amount of returns.

OP you are correct. And I agree with you.  A lot of people who have watched or heard stories of people getting scammed on social media live with the belief that - it can't happen to me, I am too smart, the other person is not or just too greedy. But this is not true. Anyone can be scammed that is why you may mostly like become more conscious of getting scammed when you have had a personal experience. That is why the maxim says, experience is the best teacher.

I think social media have done enough in creating awareness about scams and scammers but the problem has always been the victims who do not pay more attention to the information they see online about scammers rather they focus more on trying new things they see either through adverts or brand influencers who get them attracted through their post and sugar-coated talks. A lot of people get attracted once they see an advert about money doubling business not minding the origin of the business and what the outcome will be they always get involved because they want to make x10 of their investment capital. Until people stop being moved and focus more on getting vital information about a particular investment before they get involved, they will never stop being scammed.

Greed is always a gap for us to be deceived by scammers. because of the various methods used by scammers to target people who are easy to persuade and promise big income. Social media is no longer safe for young people who do not understand the dangers that lurk them. need to be aware of fraud from an early age so that there are no further victims. scammers continue to grow and develop so we also need to develop and must be smarter than scammers.

People work hard every day to put food on their tables, and scammers are no exception. They are constantly on the lookout for new innovations and strategies to improve their method of defrauding people; they come up with brand new ideas every day that appear very real in order to take advantage of people who fall victim to their trap.

Scammers have made social media their home; they find more victims there than anywhere else; they believe that young people spend the majority of their time on social media, so they devise various methods to entice victims to scam.
Greed always leads to us being scammed; let us all remember that no one has free money to share; it's all a trap for beginners to fall into; please be wise.

Beginners should know that cryptocurrency is not ponzi, is a place where you will invest and expect double of your investment in few days or hours, also beginner's should know that they can't trust anybody they meet on social media, social media is just full of scammers so you have to be very careful with people you meet on social media, don't disclose your confidential information with any stranger you meet on social media because they can't be trusted. I know scammers are coming up with new strategies everyday but we also have to be very careful and smart.

It goes without saying that you should not expect scams to be completely eradicated, that isn't something that is possible, no matter the level of awareness about scam that is spread around the world, there must be people that probably do not have access to the information, people that lack knowledge, greedy people, etc, that must still fall victim. Before cryptocurrency people were scammed with fiat and other valuables, now crypto has added another method for scammers to use, it is not a new thing, and some people must be unlucky.

Spreading awareness is a very effective way of reducing scam, and it is working, the reason why you feel it is ineffective is because you expect scam to be completely wiped out, which is impossible.

Social media is possibly the most virtual space we have, because it's not real, thus becoming a favorite place for criminals to run rampant. That social network is the information channel that helps the government and people spread anti-fraud news the fastest.

Today, most national governments, major organizations around the world, as well as local police departments have different social media outlets. New news and announcements are always broadcast on the first social network to help people update the fastest information.

I have seen several scam awareness posts on social media, but newbies don't take them serious. It sounds very normal and doesn't bother them. Even when the signs are too obvious, there is always this part of them that will say, give it a trial, it might be real. So, no matter how you create the awareness, the best form of it is experience. Once a newbie has experienced the scam, he will now recall all the advice he recieved and ignore. From henceforth, the newbie will not fall for such scam again.

But then, scammers are very dynamic and smart, introducing new technics to their scam business, yet they possess similar characteristics. They will always be at the pushing end.

It is supposed to be the thing but unfortunately, this is even getting worse as scammers find another way to scam us.
Almost every day we spread awareness but almost every day as well we heard some people got scammed. This means that this is not really an effective way, it somehow could help but I think we don't have the chance to eliminate and get rid of these scammers in the community. This situation will depend on us and everyone should have to care of ourselves as these scammer will certainly be doing something.

And if they read, it’s like they never take time to understand and learn from it. So maybe, it’s better that they experience being scammed at first, because that will leave a good lesson on their part and make them become cautious more on what and where to invest. Social media these days have posted a lot of awareness most particularly on scamming, sad to say scammers still find ways to continue looking for victims and make them fall on their traps.

scammers always stalk their victims and use various methods to trap them and use them for profit. Social media is a good place but on the other hand social media is the most dangerous place. we do need to be vigilant and must know the characteristics of a scammer. we must be smarter than scammers so it is not easy to fall into the trap. it is not easy to believe messages from strangers who will give big prizes or get giveaways that we have not participated in before.

If we don't need to e scammed then we must have a mindset that we should not easily trust any person we met in the internet because as we know that many scammers nowadays trying their best to get your attention so that they can communicate with you and easy for them to scam you. An also nowadays we need to be more vigilant for the sake of ourselves. ReSearching and investigate is also good if we are newbies .

The best advice you can give to beginners is to avoid all social networks. That is, do not register accounts in such places at all. Once upon a time, such networks were invented for communication between people around the world. But unfortunately today it turns into one continuous dump of fraud. There are official news sources where you can monitor events in the world. But social networks, and the news that they provide, are one big evil.
Today it is time to make a regression in communication, teach your children not to trust strangers, not to communicate with them, and to use the Internet for a minimal time until a person is fully aware of all the danger that he can receive from the network.

Some adopt then think that they can play with fire and can able to earn once they got their payments on those scam platforms. There are also other people who are just posting referral links which and didn't care about promoting scams since they only think the referral payments they can get from convincing people to invest. This is rampant on social media and it happen before and even exist now so I think this one will never stop since there are still new people keep coming and that's the target of those scammers.

Most of the time we just realized that we fall into a scam or Ponzi scheme and make regrets after losing our hard-earned money. I'd see how rampant is this kind of trick and I believe no one is not aware of these things but because of money, in fact, hearing about doubling your investment in 1 day is really enticing and changing their minds make some people got believing it, especially those who are really in need of money.

Even if we spread awareness every day, posted on the walls, I'd see no help because people will still ignore this and even don't bother to read it.

Beginners are seeing those different of scams on social media. The problem with them is that, they prefer ignoring it than making a research unto it.

Social media is full of scammers I agree. Platforms like Discord, Facebook, Twitter and Telegram are the ones where scammers are lurking, waiting for their prey which are the newbies. It's very unfortunate to see scammers getting the money of those innocent newbies thru their strategy but like I'm always saying, a newbie investor will not learn unless they will experience it. Getting scammed once is still ok but to get scammed twice then there's a problem to you already.

Overall, doing research before investing really helps an investor be knowledgeable on which are scams and which are not. At the end of the day, as long as there are new investors coming, there will be scammers that will try to scam in their best possible way.

Yeah, it’s very hard eliminate those gullible newbie because they know exactly the risk of what they are doing but sometimes they still want to invest there money for a chance of quick profit. Scammer knew this that’s why they keep doing this different scheme as there business on crypto. It’s nearly impossible to educate all newbies for awareness but it’s not bad to educate them as much as possible.

Newbies will continue to fall for scam it I don’t think it can be completely eradicated, all those newbies joining cryptocurrency are looking for easy and fast money that’s why they easily get scammed, scammers are doing research and getting new methods to scam so matter how you warn the newbies they won’t believe, that’s why I think scam can’t be easily be eradicated. Social media is a place where most of those scam happen and why you don’t trust anything you see there.

This idea will only help some people who are new to crypto and are ready to learn, some people feel they know there way around everything, not knowing that the crypto world is different and dangerous, scammers are waiting in every corner of the space to prey on their victims.

I will like to correct one notion in this discussion, scammers are not smart people they are just playing stupid tricks and if the victims could pay more attention to their tricks you will discover their stupidity. That is why they only scam the gullible one who doesn't want to pay attention but wants huge returns. Scammers always leave a trace just look closely and you will discover this secret. Social media users can do much by exposing scammers' tricks to give warnings to others.

Social media nowadays is not that reliable anymore as a lot of fake news and information have been spreading online. So never expect that you can find awareness here as this is definitely a place of all scams happening. This is the reason why we have to DYOR every time we receive offers that talk about huge returns. Or if you have been a victim before, learned from it and never repeat the same mistake anymore.

As someone who has some experience reporting scams in the forum, one thing that I noticed is that there are tons of scam websites and promotions that can be easily avoided. Again, this all boils down to the giveaways and promotions being advertised to random people on the internet.

Everyone, please remember that there is absolutely nothing free in this world. Even if some random guy messages you on Telegram asking you to be part of their team; or that they must exchange their money for cryptocurrencies, etc. remember that prevention is always better than cure. Avoid putting yourself in a situation that would most likely get you to scam.

If someone offers free giveaways if you participate or if someone randomly messages you telling that they have some free cryptocurrencies, always be doubtful against them.

In my opinion i don't see how social media can help to reduce scam, only people can help to reduce scam by informing other people how scammers work, all social media applications cannot upload awareness of scam on their app, social media applications are platforms for networking, people meet new people and strangers on social media, so there is no way they can now work against themselves by warning people not to network with one another.

It goes without saying that people should know offers that are too good to be true, and they should think twice before falling victims to scam, i don't feel we can hold any platform responsible for the rise in scam, even here in bitcointalk that's a bitcoin forum, it is the community that make up the forum that warns others about scam and scammers and not bitcointalk itself.

If each of us spreads awareness on social media and we become positive people, we can reduce scams, as most beginners want to get quick money without making any effort and there are those who trust strangers in order to invest their money and give them income every month and what All of this is nothing but deception. We should know that social media is full of scammers and full of fake ads. We have to be careful and not trust those who offer us tempting offers because overconfidence and lack of experience are what will make us lose our money.

Yes I understood you very well. It is only people who are lucky to follow this top crypto site like you just mentioned that can be lucky to get updates about scammers. Like I was saying if social media networks are also trying their best to spread scam awareness it will also reduce the rate at which people are being scammed, but they are only concern about securing users account.

I disagree, social media is one of the easiest platform to get scammed. Social media is a virtual community, you can be anybody you desire. Most times what you see on the profile isn't real. I think if people just use their common sense they would be able to detect the scams from the go.

Personal experience can be dangerous, It is better you even get awareness from peoples experience than randomly from social media, because some of the individuals who present themselves as activist against the activities of scammers online are scammers themselves whose plan is still to scam you, but their strategy is to make you unsuspecting first with the disguise of helping you.

In my opinion, in the case of scammers and hackers it is different. Scammers perform tricks to trick users into buying something from them or following directions to spend money without having to hack an account. While hackers really aim to hack and then steal money (if the account has a balance)

So, regarding the warning mentioned by mk4, it is a warning for social media users to pay attention when they are talking each other about investment, buying goods or anything related. If that person reads an article/news about a scam, and follow the tips to avoid scam, then that user will be safe from the scam.

I don't mean social media platforms warning their users about their social media accounts. I meant people in social media groups posting warnings(or news) concerning hackers and scammers; which happens quite a lot especially when we get news from the top crypto-related news sites like Cointelegraph/CoinDesk/The Block.

It's  not very common. Social media's only do the best to secure  users account,  when an account is linked with an email and scammers tries to hacked the password, the user of the account receives a message immediately about what is about happening to the account.

This seems like a generic situation and not just crypto-related so I would just put my input even if it is not a crypto-related stuff.
I was traumatized back in May this year when I just attempted to buy my long dreamed GPU through Facebook and the scammer I talked to was vouched by plenty of people so it would seem legitimate. I took the bite and got scammed for amount of $200+.

Social media sites has been plagued by these scums already and they would not hesitate to adapt to how much you try to bust their scams and of course support of these social media site would do little to no help because their users are the customers in the end anyway. My trust for the Facebook groups/marketplace has been damaged beyond repair, so if I would have to involve money if it is crypto-related or not, I would stay away from social media.

Fortunately, I didn't scam a significant amount ever, it might be because I'm fully oriented here in the forum and in social media as well, that's a part of being crypto enthusiast, be vigilant always and never trust any strangers who offer something free or give free money.  There's no quick free money on the internet and no one wants to be generous and provide a few dollars to those people who they didn't know.

Greed, yes that's right!
The mean reason why people will fall into the scammer's hands is because of greed and also possible there's no idea about crypto, as they heard, they will gain profit.  Social media could help newbies not to scam but this is upon the individual crypto enthusiast, if they will not have DYOR possible, this scam will happen to them.

It depends — some people do; at least the minority who's interested enough to actually read about security. Bringing public attention isn't totally worthless and is definitely very important, it's just not as effective as most people would hope.

scammers do initiate new methods according op, and people that always being trapped by their traps is the people who are serious to give them a listen hear.
 
Because your attention is given to a scammer you have create way for a scammer to come inside you, so if you want to keep them far from is to ignore their chat if they pm you or inbox you.

any one who have experienced scammers always like to protect itself not to be victim. The thing that push our new people to the hand of scammers is greediness and bonus in investment, but the up coming beginner's who read all this our discussions can not allow someone to scam he/her again because the information has being passed, right now they are informed of scammers.

a social media should be the simplest place to fight against scammers, but it's same place that people is easily trapped for scamming.

What we are suppose to do is advice our people and our relatives that is working online to be careful on the online investment because scammers that is in social media is much. And especially in the telegram.

It won't reduce the chance of getting scammed, people don't learn from others bad decision, they always feel different thinking same thing can't happen to them so they take their chances too especially when it comes to money.

Perfectly said. Its someone fault when he did scammed by such trick or modus on social media. We all knew how scary those scammers who are using a lot of social media processes down to more tight up technical malwares.

People dont get scammed easily. Its either you let your guard down or literally tried the giveaway or some sort of of freebies and eventually falling into trap. Like OP said, some would definitely do it until they got scammed on actual personal experience first.

Falling prey to scammers is not a voluntary action. It just so happens when one ignores certain fingertip security protocols.
The experience one gets from having been scammed is often to show one how to better secure their privacy and keys. The awareness of how scammers operate is everywhere even on news channels, but these scammers also follow up the awareness campaign created to modify their scam techniques. It is always better to at an initial stage, ensure your privacy when using or login into new devices, new sites, new applications. Also, not saving passwords or keys on browser might be helpful as well as taking advantage of an authenticator app.

The greed is the most important part in these scam attempts where people beleive they are among some lucky people who have the chance of getting free rewards in form of tokens and completely forget nothing comes free in this world especially crypto internet world.The scammers on social media make fake profiles or hack account of renowned person like Elon musk and ask people to deposit coins to get them double in few seconds and people blindly follow them and send coins to those addresses and loose the money.

So they need to realise that what they see over net is not true and proper investigation needs to be done but we still see lot of unawareness or say they have some greed factor inside their mind which made them loose money.

Edit your post with the bolded part as you have mistakenly written transactions are reversible which is not true.

Unfortunately, no one tells children (at least not enough) that the Internet is dangerous in its own way, just like real life, so if in real life they should not get into a stranger's car or take any food or drink from an unknown person, then they should show such distrust and in their online activities. Social networks are quite powerless to fight against scams, which is why they have become a paradise for scammers, and Telegram or Twitter are available today to anyone with a smartphone and internet access.

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That's true, I was recently surprised by a scam in which the scammer sends a seed to the victim, instead of somehow trying to extort it. That's why we should always try to be one step ahead of scammers and think critically in every situation, no matter how convincing something seems at a given moment. Each of us can help to make as many people aware as possible by warning a friend or relative, regardless of whether he is involved in buying/trading cryptocurrencies.

To many awareness already spreading on social media  and it consist of many experiences from past scams happened and it is also covered up by main stream media's but this scams never stops. People need to take out the greed for money and earning it without taking any hard steps because from this scams repeatedly happen if they take the offer to get rich quickly.

Most of the people who are trapped are those greedy people, they think they can withdraw free big money on the site but in the end, it asks for a withdrawal fee, and then if you deposit any amount it is automatically sent to another wallet.

Obviously, the scheme was made for scamming purposes only, and newbies without asking the community can easily scam by this scheme.
I'm also one of the people who was being scammed before that is why I search for places where I can ask how to retrieve them that is why I found this forum but their answer told me all Bitcoin transactions are reversible and no one can able to retrieve Bitcoin from a scam website. That's why I learn and always be careful with any deal that I made with anyone who trades with me that involves Bitcoin. I learn a lot here on the forum and I hope this forum can be easily found on google search because I have different search results on my son's laptop but this forum won't show up, unlike on my PC.

Like the popular wise saying, experience is the best teacher. Most of us learn to be very careful after our first terrible experience. To me, being on social media means you are not longer a kid and you don't need to be told about scammers. Although creating awareness can reduce scam as you proclaim but self caution is the best. And besides not all strangers mean harm. I'm sure in one way or another, we all have met new people online and transacting without fear.

Social media will only harbor scammers and many people on the social media will be victims if scammers. To avoid scam, forum like bitcointalk can be helpful, but many people see forums to be boring.

Many people are scammed because of inexperience, that is true, but that shows how people have greedy nature. But some scam is as a result of fake online intimacy.

People do actually get a lot of awareness on social media(though mostly depends who they're following). It's just the simple (and unfortunate) fact that most of them don't read.

They just want to take any chance of getting free money, similar like how they're participating a giveaway or airdrop, so they think they have nothing to lose. I'd say social media is the place who have higher chance to get scammed, even the account have a blue check to prove it's an official/real account, it can be hacked and promoting scam. Anyone will believe since it's a legit account.

I think it's okay to get scammed for the first time since most people learn from their experiences, but it's just sad to see a same person get scammed for multiple times.

Even kids are told not to take things from strangers or trust blindly, but greed would lead beginners' to fall for scams in expectation of a high loot or reward. Many of the common scams are even done to make the victim feel they are about to scam the stranger. Like this ^[1] reported here

The internet contains lots of information about scams, more people should pay attention to it.

[1] Check full thread

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Scammers are very smart on how to get peoples attentions and they are also smart in inventing new strategies that can be so real to easily convince people . My worries is about beginners who are coming up, and if you make research most beginners in crytocurrency and on social media were once a victim to scammers and till date some beginners still fall for scammers.

To me,  the social media would have been the easiest way to fight against scam, to make beginners get aware "the strangers  you meet is at own risk ". This can always be in the mind when one encounter a stranger who want to offer free money or do business, one will have to think how real can it be.

Beginners don't get awareness of scam on social media,  some mostly get aware of scam with personal experience.