Pages:
Author

Topic: Bitcoin is for scammers, yea right! - page 6. (Read 14133 times)

legendary
Activity: 3346
Merit: 1352
Leading Crypto Sports Betting & Casino Platform
June 07, 2019, 09:16:20 AM
Yup the last words from OP i agree, scammer always happen no matter on crypto or fiat. Everything connected with money, scammer will be there.
I strongly agree with it no matter what it is as long as it have a value scammers would always be there,
Scam has been around for so long even back when we are still using gold as currency or to pay for everything.
You could see some from the old movies that scams has always been around as long as they could use anything that have a value.

Agreed. Even before the creation of Bitcoin, the scammers were fooling people and stealing their money. Bitcoin is an attractive medium for the scammers, because it can be extremely hard to track these criminals once they vanish with someone else's coins. It can be especially hard, if they moves the coins from one country to the other.
sr. member
Activity: 994
Merit: 257
Best Bitcoin Casino www.coinsaga.com
June 06, 2019, 02:30:34 PM
Yup the last words from OP i agree, scammer always happen no matter on crypto or fiat. Everything connected with money, scammer will be there.
I strongly agree with it no matter what it is as long as it have a value scammers would always be there,
Scam has been around for so long even back when we are still using gold as currency or to pay for everything.
You could see some from the old movies that scams has always been around as long as they could use anything that have a value.
member
Activity: 378
Merit: 10
June 06, 2019, 11:33:19 AM
We regularly read FUD articles in the popular media about Bitcoin being used in scams and that it is a perfect tool for scammers to hide their activities and the movie industry already labelled Bitcoin as the Internet of Money for the DarkNet.  Roll Eyes

I am currently watching a series called, "Undercover: Nailing the Fraudsters" and most of the scams featured there are done within a regulated environment. Boiler room scammers are not requesting payment in Crypto currencies to hide their activities, they get the victims to deposit money via their Bank accounts into their Bank accounts.  Roll Eyes

In business, the term boiler room refers to an outbound call center selling questionable investments by telephone. It usually refers to a room where salesmen work using unfair, dishonest sales tactics, sometimes selling penny stocks, private placements or committing outright stock fraud. - Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiler_room_(business)

So, next time when someone tells you that Crypto currencies are used for scams, please highlight the fact that most scams are still being done under the nose of the regulated financial industry.  Wink
Yes, that is the generous generosity you have for the liars and the scams. It is understandable to find a place full of sunshine in a struggling life because of suspicion. It comes from everywhere. Another face of truth. Roll Eyes
legendary
Activity: 2324
Merit: 1604
hmph..
June 06, 2019, 09:15:53 AM
Yup the last words from OP i agree, scammer always happen no matter on crypto or fiat. Everything connected with money, scammer will be there.
member
Activity: 546
Merit: 11
June 04, 2019, 05:11:12 PM
Corruption and scam are everywhere and not only in Bitcoin. Imagine that there are so many financial institutions that scam people and run away with their money. Bitcoin is never a scam currency, all those spreading FUD should stop.
jr. member
Activity: 42
Merit: 2
June 03, 2019, 11:15:58 AM
Bitcoin anonymity makes its very attractive to scammers, online thiefs, since they cannot be traced. Mostly illegal money is pushing Bitcoin from $1000 to $8000. Bitcoin has become a dangerous asset which is increasing crimes.
jr. member
Activity: 136
Merit: 1
June 02, 2019, 12:13:59 PM
Scammers are everywhere and i feel sad for bitcoin, We can't deny the fact that some people used bitcoin for their own benefits. Bitcoin is for everyone and it depends to the people if they use it for good or bad. People are very dangerous and all we can do to all scammers over there is pray for their changes.
Associating scam to bitcoin is hypocritical. Many people have been scammed using fiat. Nobody ain't gonna pray for any scammer to change. Most crypto scam are associated with greed and lack of factual knowledge about blockchain and cryptocurrencies.
full member
Activity: 616
Merit: 100
June 02, 2019, 11:11:04 AM
Not all of us know the truth. Bitcoin can be used for crimes against terrorist acts. Usually they hide funding activities not through the bank, so they cannot be tracked and know who owns the wallet.
legendary
Activity: 1358
Merit: 1000
June 02, 2019, 06:47:12 AM
Quote
"Bitcoin is a scam"

That is the usual motto of the people who does want to hear the word of cryptocurrency. Some of them are saying, stay away from that hyip. But that is only for ignorant people. Those who are saying that bitcoin is a scam are more ignorant. They did not know what is happening with their economy and based their inferences between what they saw in the news. Not knowing how this industry revolves and make a history. They judge bitcoin easily.

These people do not want to listen to anyone who is telling them about cryptocurrencies as they think they are smarter. However, the activity of these guys really negatively affects the minds of people. They stop trusting BTC so much.
jr. member
Activity: 444
Merit: 2
Theagriverse.io
June 01, 2019, 02:32:53 PM
Scam happens on a daily basis before cryptocurrency came to play, people were being scammed. The only difference in cryptocurrency scam is the fact that anonymity covers the scammer such person can't easily be traced unlike bank wire transfer.
legendary
Activity: 2170
Merit: 1427
June 01, 2019, 01:34:35 PM
Those people who are using bitcoin for their fraud and scamming are the ones you should pity.

As weird as it may sound to you, I don't even blame criminals for using Bitcoin. If you want Bitcoin to be open and free, you also have to accept that criminals use it, because it's useful and valuable. I'm sure that with time people will be less bothered by criminals using Bitcoin, but they have to accept first that Bitcoin doesn't need a central entity to be in charge and issue the coins.

Average joes are used to have banks and governments be the central point of everything, and the decades of indoctrination in economics didn't really help either.
hero member
Activity: 1162
Merit: 516
1BTC Welcome Bonus
June 01, 2019, 12:54:07 PM
Boycott such thread from this forum. After Craig, McAfee and etc continuous criticism are here in the Bitcointalk forum as well. We are here to keep the bitcoin healthy.
That trolling single user also not allowed in this forum in that stand bitcoin is staying in the place. OP needs to trash off from the campaigns and all the places from here.
member
Activity: 322
Merit: 20
Donating 10% to charity
June 01, 2019, 12:43:18 PM

It is like blaming violence on video games and blaming instant messangers for phedohiles.  I still remember many years ago when one IM became very popular people were even blaming it instead of the parents  or the kids that go talk to adults in adult rooms when they like 12.

You remind me something i watched not too long ago from the U.S. Department of Justice, a pedophile who convinced a children to do a lot of weird things in Clash of Clans, was the game guilty for it? - Is the gun guilty for the crime is was it the person who pulled the trigger?. Tools by themselves can't do much, most anything without human interference.

People too lazy to come up with informed opinions will exist for a pretty long time i'm sure. But if you look carefully, there's an opportunity there, a really huge one. Among a lot of difference industries.

We can just try to inform those who are willing to listen and think carefully, even some of those who speak without knowing might start thinking carefully in the future.
newbie
Activity: 88
Merit: 0
June 01, 2019, 11:37:17 AM
You need to change the way they think about bitcoin. I agree that scammers use bitcoin to do illegal activities but in reality they only use bitcoin to do illegal activities and we cannot blame bitcoin for that. There are a lot of scams with other currencies as OP explained but not like bitcoin.
copper member
Activity: 455
Merit: 0
June 01, 2019, 11:33:54 AM
Yes, indeed people think of bitcoin for scammers, but that kind of thinking is because they don't understand crypto so they think negatively.
legendary
Activity: 2240
Merit: 1069
June 01, 2019, 11:07:18 AM
It is just a ploy to discredit bitcoin, but we all know that any scams, thefts or illegal activity that is done using crypto can also be done using fiat. Fiat scams, theft and illegal activities are even more rampant than bitcoin.
hero member
Activity: 1065
Merit: 510
June 01, 2019, 09:52:26 AM
Those people who is telling that bitcoin is uses for scam is the kind of people that don't have idea about Bitcoin,I agree that there is a lot of scenarios that scammers uses bitcoin to scam investors but not all the bitcoin use it in badways because there is also a good benefits that bitcoin can give us all we need to do is to be careful to avoid scam.
sr. member
Activity: 1638
Merit: 300
June 01, 2019, 08:29:13 AM
Scammers are everywhere and i feel sad for bitcoin, We can't deny the fact that some people used bitcoin for their own benefits. Bitcoin is for everyone and it depends to the people if they use it for good or bad. People are very dangerous and all we can do to all scammers over there is pray for their changes.

You don't need to be sad about bitcoin because we all know that it did nothing wrong. Those people who are using bitcoin for their fraud and scamming are the ones you should pity. We are truly dangerous but we all know bitcoin is a decentralized crypto currency and we will never be able to control those people that want to use it for illegal purposes.
full member
Activity: 868
Merit: 185
Roobet supporter and player!
June 01, 2019, 07:08:33 AM
We regularly read FUD articles in the popular media about Bitcoin being used in scams and that it is a perfect tool for scammers to hide their activities and the movie industry already labelled Bitcoin as the Internet of Money for the DarkNet.  Roll Eyes

I am currently watching a series called, "Undercover: Nailing the Fraudsters" and most of the scams featured there are done within a regulated environment. Boiler room scammers are not requesting payment in Crypto currencies to hide their activities, they get the victims to deposit money via their Bank accounts into their Bank accounts.  Roll Eyes

In business, the term boiler room refers to an outbound call center selling questionable investments by telephone. It usually refers to a room where salesmen work using unfair, dishonest sales tactics, sometimes selling penny stocks, private placements or committing outright stock fraud. - Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiler_room_(business)

So, next time when someone tells you that Crypto currencies are used for scams, please highlight the fact that most scams are still being done under the nose of the regulated financial industry.  Wink
"Bitcoin is a scam"

That is the usual motto of the people who does want to hear the word of cryptocurrency. Some of them are saying, stay away from that hyip. But that is only for ignorant people. Those who are saying that bitcoin is a scam are more ignorant. They did not know what is happening with their economy and based their inferences between what they saw in the news. Not knowing how this industry revolves and make a history. They judge bitcoin easily.
member
Activity: 280
Merit: 10
Bcnex - The Ultimate Blockchain Trading Platform
June 01, 2019, 06:08:12 AM
if so, there must be a strong legal umbrella.
and simulations on how to avoid fraud.
This forum has provided an interaction space for people to understand about crypto.
Pages:
Jump to: