In Q1 alone of 2019 there was $356m in theft of digital currencies from exchanges and scams while losses from fraud hit 851m. This number includes the QuadrigaX scam which accounts to about $134m in total losses.
What can we do to help stop these from happening and getting worse?
For me, I think what we need to do now is to practice doing thorough research about certain projects and we must also include malicious and suspected scam exchanges to be able to spread awareness to the people within the forum so that they will be informed and be knowledgeable enough specially for the part of the newbies who are just getting started into exploring their cryptocurrency experience in which we do not want them to easily give up and be traumatized because of falling into scam projects. So to be able to make it possible, we must take part on spreading awareness once we found something really helpful for everyone so that we can create a safe working space for all of us to avoid getting into scams and lessen or much better totally no one will become a victim of such schemes. If we will be helping each other out, we will worry less and can work on safely and enjoy getting into cryptocurrencies edploring and maximizing the whole out of it.