Topic: Crypto scams flourish most during bull runs. (Read 363 times)

It is always a good idea to conduct thorough research before making an investment, especially at this time when a bullrun market is about to occur and scammers will be working extremely hard to convince people with new fake projects because they know that investors are eager to make big profits this season.
I was recently introduced to a new coin on Telegram that I should invest in. I am sure it is a scam, but I just have to pretend. But what worries me is the number of people who are naive of cryptocurrency that may turn into their victim, that is why It is good for us to conduct research before making any investments.

Well, I hope there is data that supports such a claim OP because based on my experience, scammers have never chosen the time when they create them as it appears almost every day. Maybe it comes up in your OP that it flourishes during the bull season and it is probably because during this time a lot of people enter the market and fall into scam projects and then make a report about it. It was just the number of no-how people got into the situation, not the number of scam projects created.
That is why we should carefully know the project that we are about to invest in and stop following influencers.

Besides there are different forms of scams going on out there. And as such it doesn't care of whether it is a bullish or bearish market. However, for a bullish market, there is a different kind of scam, scammers know that people don't do diligence because of the urgency to fomo into a trade, one might end up buying a token that can't be sold. I have seen it happened

Yeah. I think I understand your point and line of thoughts. During bull, there are a lot of fomo and people tend to forget to do due diligence because they want to quickly ape into a trade without doing their own research and sometimes end up falling for a scam.

I agree that any season of the market, scammers are always active. As long as there are people that they can scam, they will always there waiting to fetch some newbies.

A scammer that disguises as a trader can promise you anything and that is for sure. It's sad that many newbies will fall for that scam whichever offers they show to them.

The thing is they're going to make people believe that they are real profitable traders and gullible people will believe them.

I do believe that scams may happen any time, but based on my personal experience in the market, when everything is bullish about the market, that’s where scammers mostly take advantage those innocent people most especially that they can be easily put into their traps since all they think about is to make immediate profits from the market, not knowing that the more they become greedy on their profit making, the more they become susceptible to fall on the scammers traps.

 Too good to be true offers become rampant and here comes the newbies who easily fall on any type of scam.

Scams will flourish regardless of the market sentiment, whether bearish or bullish. So, it will be wrong to conclude that scams flourish in a bullish season. Whether bear or bull, one has to be very careful not to fall for these scams. Double check your links and addresses and ensure that you don't interact with just any link you come across

Good to know that you are aware on those scams and for that you can avoid picking those unrealistic gain offered by scammer then get scam by them. Usually there's a lot of scam would came out once there's a hype coming by this bull run event since a lot of scammers think that people have a lot of money to release for their investment that's why they want to catch up and wait for their potential victims to get attracted by the offer they present that's why you or newbies should be careful on other upcoming attempts.

People need to know that if it is too good to be true then its not true, this word has been mentioned for many times here especially if other forum users want to warn newbies regarding on those investment scams.

Although this will be my first bull run experience and I know that because Bitcoin will be very profitable in this season, many newbies will want to be part of the profit experience so they will be looking out for any advice and opportunities to buy Bitcoin and be part of the bull run profit. Scammers will also increase their activities to scam as many of them. This forum is good for everyone who wants to be a Bitcoin investor or trader so that they will increase their knowledge about it, we need to do our own research on every investment opportunities that we hear on social media before we can trust whether it is genuine or scam, I have come to understand that there are many scams and hacks in crypto business.

True hidden gems don't stay hidden for so long, if you got one and still stay hidden after several months it's probably a crappy hidden gem, when SEI was released, everyone thought it's another crappy one, but now it's looking tough like solana all over again in 2020.

You said proof of work is safe? Are you sure about that? Because there are many crappy PoW coins out there too, this was the same mindset that I had in 2018 when I started mining proof of work coins, only like 2 survived out of eight others, they mostly failed and some ends up losing value, now they are all abandoned projects.

You really have to be careful with all altcoins, just because Kaspa did amazingly well, many new Kaspa wannabe have been created by scam developers, there is one that share name with Kaspa with few extra words tweaking, kaspion? Or something, they are all trying to grab attention.

I only knew about rug pull since 2020 or 2021. It looks to be connected to DeFi projects because developers of those DeFi projects will create trading pair on DEX and it raises a need of Liquidity pool. Liquidity pool will be provided by developer team and contributions from users. If a trading pair's liquidity pool is mainly provided by the project team, if they are scammers, run with liquidity, we will have a scam calls as rug pull.

It is only restricted to DeFi and DEX if I am not missing any fact.

What Is a Rug Pull? How to Protect Yourself From Getting ‘Rugged’

I don't know if this is a language issue or what, but a "rug pull" isn't a specific type of scam.  It's just two words that keep getting repeated by a generation of people who like to create new words to describe old phenomena--the same generation that took the word cringe and made it into a noun somehow.

I seriously hope most of you know this already and stop parroting stuff you hear on social media sites or wherever.  Be skeptical.  Think critically.

I have been in so many project community that do not really make sense at all especially when looking at the site of the project and their white paper. The road map of a project is open to the ways we could also determine whether the project looks like a scam or not.
People that buy tokens at presale need to be very careful because this is one of the ways scammers do an use to scam people.
Their are real presales too but we need to be very careful when making this kind of decision.

Yes more reason to be active on bull run as people are engaging on investment. People or users who are into airdrops and investment must be cautious cause there are lots of scams lingering around especially on social media. On Twitter we can see those styles already when there are projects announcements and they pop up like the real one and youll get hit if you dont check it carefully.

Yes, you are right. The biggest reason scammers spread themself bigger during the bull run is that people don't care much about their money during the bull run. For example, someone has raised his fund 2-3x with some coins during the bull run and he can see a good investment opportunity, just invest there and start to think he can raise again some X of his investment. This is the chance scammers don't want to miss.

I couldn't say YES but scammers have not stopped yet creating projects maybe if not every day. This is why every now and then we witness some investors suffer losses due to investing in scam projects as these scammers won't just come during a bull market but every day. Not to be surprised that the market has already been filled with these useless projects because the number of scammers is also increasing and at the same time, they are quite improving their dirty tactics which is why many newbies have fallen into their traps.

During the bull run in the crypto market, is the time more people start investing,because it is time many people make money, so Some bad people, called scammers, are always around, trying to trick others and take their money. But guess what? During the bull run, when many people are excited about making money, the scammers become even more sneaky. This happens because there are lots of new investors who might not know much about the things they want to invested on. They see a lot of different tokens, which are like special coins, and some of them might not be good. Scammers take advantage of this by creating fake projects that sound really exciting, and they trick new investors to invest in the projects. it's important to be careful and learn about what you're investing in, especially doing the bull run period.

During a bull run, Ponzi schemes tend to increase as they take advantage of new projects to deceive people. These schemes often exaggerate and make big promises, enticing individuals with the prospect of significant returns. Therefore, in the excitement of a bull run, newcomers should exercise extra caution. It's important to be wary of new projects that make grand promises of high returns, as they could be potential scams. Keeping a watchful eye and being cautious about such tempting offers is crucial for safeguarding oneself from falling victim to these deceptive practices during the bullish market trend.

Because of a lot people participate in the bull run, which is like a time when everyone is excited about trading, they often come across many signals that suggest when to buy or sell. Some folks use these signals to convince others to pay money and join a special group on an app called Telegram. In this group, they promise to share constant updates about what's happening in the market but all is fake. However, this approach is not really new or surprising anymore. It only works if someone is really eager to make money quickly in the world of cryptocurrency. So, it's important to be careful and not fall for tricks.

There's always like that since scam site always want to present good to their potential investor so that they can attract and convince them to invest on their project.

That's why its really better for newbies to do their own investigation and after that they should seek for proper guidance from those people which have a lot if experience in crypto investment and not asking anything in return because they want to help newbies like him.

Luckily we have this forum since there's a lot of generous forum members share their ideas that's why a lot of newbie here learn a lot and upgrade theirselves in investment matters.

Completely agree. The advice on conducting one's investigation for a person coming to crypto for the first time looks like advice, of which a newcomer is not always aware. Beautiful promises, bright advertising, and many twisted reviews will create an impression about the legality of the company.
Therefore, we always advise those who create warning topics to conduct their investigations and to communicate more complete information on how to conduct these investigations properly. After all, in the eyes of newcomers, black can still be considered white.

The flourishing of crypto scam during bull run is usually because that's the time people are most vulnerable because there's usually a lot to show such it will convince them to believing in the fact that what they have been exposed to is a figment of the actual truth, it's usually best to not try to hurriedly hop on the trends because you think you will get rich almost immediately by following the trend, another has to do with dealings with third party, because during the bull run the scammers will have what they can present as results over a short period, they claim to help trade portfolio and in short time it doubles up but unknown to the victims these guys may just be scammers.

It's usually better you do everything by yourself, don't get involved with third party transactions and don't give anybody your portfolio to trade or grow for you rather just accumulate as much coins as you can and just HODL mind you, be careful not every coin is worth HODL but you can be very sure with Bitcoin.

Ponzi may be outdated but not rug pulls. All I see are new shitcoin advertisement. Most of those coins will remain shitcoins and people will lose their money to the project owners.
So many different CEX advertising their business, and all these exchanges will just disappear with customers funds in the future. These are things that will keep happening because people don't learn.

The offers don't have to be good for rugpulls to happen, all those high yield projects still exists but a normal project with no stake feature will still scam anyone, all they have to do is confuse people that the project is the next best thing and the team or dev will slowly dump on investors.

If you have to go for alternative crypto coins, make sure the team is the best part, it's hard to get scam by teams that have good reputations in their past lives, like a project I invested some money on in 2022, the team are game builders from Activision and EA games, they are well known, and the risk was worth it after all, it's now one of the most performing in my crypto wallet. 

Bitcoin is the most reliable, less risky investment in crypto space, it's the only one I can recommend to anyone, but people cares more about how much they will make, that's why they want the next big thing.

It's true that scammers don't take breaks they operate everyday of the year looking for victims to steal from, but Bitcoin bull run season is also a boom season for them to scam more people because many newbie investors will enter the market. As the OP has stated areas to watch out for it's important for anybody that's looking to make the most of the bull season to be very cautious and carry out thorough research before putting their money in any crypto projects, because scam projects will be on the increase. The Bitcoin ETF approval is a new angle that scammers will also utilize to scan victims because the concept is new to most crypto users, it is an area that should be very well researched so scammers will not tell you make believe stories to steal from you.

Being scammed is easier to spread than having a good experience on bitcoin. It's true that there are still people up to this date that is still think that bitcoin is a scam even without even trying to use it or having it. They are scared of the unknown. This is why I think that if we want a true bitcoin adoption, we need to fill people with knowledge about bitcoin and cryptocurrency. This can reduce the victims of these scammers who are taking advantage of bitcoin and the whole cryptocurrency. Even having a basic knowledge of bitcoin can reduce the chance of you getting scammed. This is what happened way back when internet is still new, people are still skeptical about it and scared to use it. Things had change when people got the knowledge of how to use it and now, everyone use it. I believe that we will come to the point that it will happen to bitcoin and no one will become ignorant about it.

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During a bull market, a massive flow of people will come to cryptocurrency. It is seen as an opportunity of scammers as the chance of them having a victim sky rocketed. I had experience various scam methods and it keeps evolving every bull market. Let's be careful because I'm sure that there will be new scam methods that will be executed during the bull market and also their good old scam methods that are still effective to newbies.

Scammers have been the more reason why most people refuse to invest in bitcoin, thinking that bitcoin is a scam. Its actually true that the bullish season and the ETF approval will increase the rate of scammers online, but that would not stop us from knowing their true identity. Like me I always know their activities especially on Facebook. Now the price of bitcoin is rising so do their activities on trying to scam people also increased. I see them on facebook always telling people that they are investment company which you will invest bitcoin or USDT with them and they will trade it for you and you will make x2 profit, and that is a big fat lie which implies that their motive is actually to scam people. So I believe it's only a fool will fall for such cheap lie or scam. How on earth will somebody send bitcoin to an unknown address or person hoping to make profit instead of seeking for knowledge on how to invest.

You're absolutely right, there are a lot of ways that things happen, and new ones get involved in crypto, and the market is now on a good move, and we hope that E.T. F has been approved and after that we will not get to see the right stuff and Protect From scammers and see on top of the upcoming regulation.
After ETF, many things that are now will go on a good path and the chances of the Scam will be very less and from which we both the new and the profitable investor can earn a good profit.


I remember very well when I came into this market, I also had a scam of 600 dollars which happened in 2018, after that slowly I understood the market and invested in myself and after that I got into it after researching a lot of things, first of all there are many free and free websites and scan websites in the market that people invest in. Which I also did on a mining website and it caused us a lot of loss, And I assured the approval of ETF is also a good proof that all the investors can invest safely and we don't have to rely on any other site.

In the world of crypto, sadly, scams are a common problem. All year round, there are people trying to trick others into giving them money. The real issue comes when a lot of new people join during exciting times. Some folks invest without really understanding how things work, just because others say it's a good idea. These newcomers, not knowing much about crypto, become easy targets for bad people. If you're already in the crypto world, it's important to help these newbies understand that they need to be careful. There are always dishonest people trying to take advantage of those who don't know much. So, stay alert and protect your money.

Nah, forget about researching. Just invest into Bitcoin, and you're good to go.

Kidding aside, whenever I want to re-allocate my funds, or when I want to invest into other altcoins, I always spend hours researching because it will help you decide whether it's a good investment or not. Of course you can't research on other altcoins if you don't have knowledge yourself on what you're doing so better gather some knowledge first that will help you.

More scammers emerge during the bull run because many investors are excited about investing into different coins. There's a famous quote and that is "When emotions are high, intelligence is low." This is the reason why some people are getting scammed. They're too excited that they forget if that investment is legit or not. Be vigilant, be aware, and always look if the website you're browsing is the official website. Scammers, and phishing websites are the most common ways of getting funds from other investor, but it works.

With regards on your side note, I don't usually store my funds into an exchange, but for sure there will be some that will store it there. Why? So that they can sell it faster.

I love that part. It's the nutshell in your post. I've always maintained that too. It's sad that many people don't think of investment from that angle. They think some other dudes can preempt or determine the market to give them certain ROIs. No one can determine what the market does. We're at best speculators and the market is the master. The earlier people know that, the better for them.

Like someone said, the bull season is a time for bullshit 😏. We've to expect all manners of nonsense and worthless projects coming to the market now than they did a few months ago, and many more will come a few months from now. It's the pattern every circle.

upto this point you think we have people here that still their investment in exchange account? This is impossible to believe with the high rate of which everyone keeps saying of not your key not your coin and people will be so dom to keep their coin in exchange. Well there is nothing to argue because I believe there are people who are not in anyway connected to this forum that may not have that idea to move there coin from exchange to a non-custodial wallet.

During periods like this scammers tend to utilize the opportunity of the increase in demand for crypto projects and come up with varieties of techniques just to lure victims. This is the period where most investors are eager to invest in any project due to the Fear of Missing Out and so scammers make use of this opportunity. It is more like the market days for crypto investors so as we are all getting ready for gains scammers are also devicing their means to make money because it is during this period that people are easily caught off guard.

This scamming technique is getting old that when i still see people fall for this trick it pisses me off, like how can i just expect free money from some random company without working for it. It sounds ridiculous, no one has any free money to offer you so we need to be careful and take note of that. I’d rather see someone fall for rug pull scams or fall for fake projects as a s result of not carrying out the necessary research before investing.

It’s all not good though, we should be careful in this time of the market because the percentage of scammers active in the industry usually increases by a whole lot during these times.

Crypto scams flourish both during the bull run and bear run markets. Scammers are always changing strategies when there is a bull run, but we should know that people are being scammed both during the bear and bull run. When it comes to bull run, you will see lots of coins entering the crypto space. That’s when you see scammers taking advantage. You will find it difficult to identify real coins and scam coins. You will never believe some coins are fake after doing research about them. That’s why we should be careful when investing in new projects, because you are likely going to invest in scam coins.

Yeah, you are right, rug pulling is a scam that is very popular during the bull run. Any coin with too much hype, don’t be surprised if they end up rug pulling. But the Ponzi scheme is even more popular during the bear market. Lots of people will have lost a lot of money, and they will be desperate to find a way to recover from their losses. If they are being introduced to any Ponzi scheme and they are being brainwashed that they will get a high reward without risk, most people will end up diverting funds there.

Everyone does claim to be a professional trader when there is a bull run. We are soon going to start seeing different signal providers, we just have to be very careful. Most of them are just scammers trying to get from people. Don’t believe anyone that claims to be a signal provider. If you want to trade, learn to do your analysis yourself and trade, don’t depend on anyone.

Although crypto scams are also happening when the market is bearish, but I really think that it's more possible when the market is experiencing a bull run. Probably because the market is very bullish and that everyone will expect that all good things will happen, and that's where scammers will also take advantage of the market by deceiving newbies and naive investors to invest or trade in their own scam projects.

Bull run is not only the best time to profit but it's certainly where people are also highly susceptible to losses as scamming is also rampant that time.

Ponzi schemes and rug pills are some of the outdated scams that almost everyone is aware of, and scammers will not use them this time because they know they will not give them enough victims.

Scammers are always in the crypto space, but they always have targets for bull run seasons because they are very sure that people with no knowledge about cryptocurrency will rush into cryptocurrency due to FOMO. Scammers will give them sweet offers that will convince newbies with no experience. As a newbie who is willing to make money from cryptocurrency, they will tend to accept serious offers that will promise them a high return because of their greed and willingness to make quick profits.

This thread will serve as a reminder for our newbies in the forum to be careful, know the right channel to invest in, and avoid being greedy.

When you explain the bull run to someone who is new to cryptocurrency they get really excited by the thought of making massive profits from cryptocurrency investments. These kind of people do easily invest in new cryptocurrency, it's usually easy because they know that a bull run is coming and that all alt currency have a chance of being affected by the surge in price of bitcoins so they become more willing to invest in altcoins sometimes, even without taking time to do their personal research which we will usually end them in regrets. Bitcoin remains the best choice to invest and caution should be taken while investing in new cryptocurrency because scammers are also active these period, so that they can gain at least more bitcoins before the bull run kicks off proper.

The way crypto teams are innovative with ideas, so does scammers. When Elon dedicated his time to Bitcoin in the last bull run, there were lots of impersonation about Elon give aways. I literally got tired of Elon giveaways scammers because they just didn't stop. Don't be surprised if you see Gary Gensler becomes the new trend for scammers to get the attention of the newbies into crypto and the painful part of that, people always fall for them at any opportunity.

Bullrun has money, lot of colleague of mine made money last bullrun and I also know some of them that lost money because they weren't inform, the only thing they hear others discuss is I bought that and I got profits, I did this and that but they didn't ask how and where not to, that's how some of them dash away the money they couldn't even invest into the hands of scammers and this scams where even the cheapest but all was because of lack of information.

This is common in every industry, not just the crypto space, where scammers tend to use the trends to exploit newbies (beginners in every industry) who are willing to invest in such trends, maybe as a result of hearing testimonies of people who succeed with them. One thing is very certain: no enlightened person who has good knowledge of the crypto space will fall victim to such a scam, except that person who is just willful to throw away some money even after knowing the truth.

As it has been said earlier, what derives such action could be greed. Yes, most people missed out on Bitcoin when it was first launched and thereby misconcepted Bitcoin to every other shitcoin that promises some too good to be true results. Hence, due to greed investors invest in them hoping to reap good returns as those who have held Bitcoin since day 1. One thing I'm convinced of is that this scam project has already existed for like months now, just waiting for moments like this to shout their shots.

Scam have always been and this doesn't have to do with wether we are on the bullish or bearish season before such is being felt by the crypto community, we must just be very careful of not allowing ourselves fall under their trick whenever they are using occasions like this to perpetrate evil, we should know that scam is real and they try to use the only most trending avenues to launch their crooked ways aiming at those that will not be that sensitive on some of their tricks.

Scammers are always in the market but they always wait for the right time to release their fake scam projects at the time when people are vulnerable to buy them. Times like this are when this people will want to release fake projects thereby luring and deceiving people into buying their fake tokens with enticing offers. Beware of crypto scams, it has render many people lose all of their hard earned money after investing in them. No matter how good a project looks and is showing a lot of potential to make it in the market, always conduct a thorough research as it won’t cost you anything to know the risks to what you’re trying to invest into. These are good times in the market and also a time where many fake projects will be released, be careful not to fall victim of the unknown.

Acts of greed and lack of proper knowledge are what lead most crypto newbies to fall victim to some of those cheap scams. Those who have years of experience in the crypto industry may not be victims because they have studied and have also learned from the experience of other victims.

Cryptocurrency is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Because of this conviction, most people feel it is right to believe that crypto can pump and make them overnight millionaire. They can see a project that offers to give them a huge APY (annual percentage yield), and because of how attractive the offer might be, they will end up investing in such a token.

There was a thread I came across last week; I can't find the thread again. The OP was actually saying that if an investor always handle every crypto investment offer as a suspected scam, they will not easily fall victim to scammers. In essence, I would say that everyone should be very conscious of their investments and holdings during this period.

The Bitcoin ETF has started making the price of Bitcoin to flourish and very soon we may start seeing different crypto scam and fake cryptocurrency projects in the market. This is time when we have to invest wisely because there will soon be lots of scam in the market just like it happened in 2017 when there were different Ponzi schemes in the market making many investors to lose there funds because they thought it was the right decision for them. We might see something similar this season but might also be in different forms.

 It should not surprise you because everyone would be looking to gain more than the next person and scammers know this and will want to take advantage of the gullible ones and just like you mentioned that people fall easily because of their greed, I'd say some are victims of such scammers because they do not really have a background knowledge of Bitcoin and are too lazy to do their research.
 Of course during the bull season, the market is busy and Bitcoin looks more appealing to investors then but what many fail to grasp is that where there are promises of high turnover or profit with no side effects or losses, there's bound to be a catch. Fomo usually blinds most of these victims and they end up falling for scammers.

In the Bullrun market, I actually saw it not only because many fraudsters appeared. But because there will be a time when crypto hype peaks and will also attract many beginners or people who are new to crypto. Because usually the FOMO wave is also followed by many people who are also interested in crypto. And many of them also do not have sufficient literacy or insight. Because not all beginners want to be patient and do research first before entering into crypto investment. Because sometimes more people enter crypto just because they are attracted by the ongoing hype and they want to get the same profits as crypto holders who have survived since the beginning and even since the bear market. And these new adopters will usually be targeted by fraudsters. And last season, Ponzi schemes emerged. So it's not surprising that this season will be the same. More altcoin projects will also emerge and indeed most of them create projects only to be pumped and then thrown away and abandoned. But I'm sure that in this bull run market, knowledge about crypto will spread more widely. So it is also easier for beginners to learn and avoid fraud. And actually a topic like this is also needed to warn beginners of the dangers that exist in a bull run market that come from fraudsters who will target beginners. I'm not worried about novice users on this forum. But it's the beginners outside the forum who are actually more vulnerable.

Scam exists anytime in any market but it's true that in a bull market, new projects will be created with their smart contracts to scam investors.

You can use a combination of Coinmarketcap and Wayback Machine to check how many cryptocurrencies exist with each year.

2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20171231045102/https://coinmarketcap.com/ with 1514 cryptocurrencies
2018  https://web.archive.org/web/20181231023300/https://coinmarketcap.com/ with 2094 cryptocurrencies
2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191231050641/https://coinmarketcap.com/ with 4986 cryptocurrencies
2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201231174111/https://coinmarketcap.com/ with 8153 cryptocurrencies
2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211231022251/https://coinmarketcap.com/ with 16224 cryptocurrencies
2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20221231010102/https://coinmarketcap.com/ with 22156 cryptocurrencies
2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20231231005016/https://coinmarketcap.com/ with 2M+ cryptocurrencies

Find old cryptocurrencies, Proof of Work if you want safety. If you are greed, want to find hidden gems, you must know that many of them are hidden scams too.

The topic has been discussed so many times here on the forum and outside the forum, and just a few minutes ago, a similar one was also created to warn users of the danger that might come afterwards.
 
To me, it's worth the discussion as something that is often discussed is good to refresh the memory of others about that issue, and there might have been many who have not seen such threads before due to their being new in the forum and others who might have disregarded the information as outdated. But what's most important is that you are passing on vital information that should be taken seriously, as the rate of crypto scams this season is going to increase and many victims will be recorded if time is not taken.
 
One thing is to create awareness of these scams, and another thing is to ask if these newbies in crypto who actually need to read about them will find the information educational, as it appears that most of them only come to this forum when they have successfully been scammed.

I think it doesn't matter if we are in a bull run or bearish trend, scammers will be scammers. Although it is just magnified in the bull run as there are a lot of newbie investors and this is the target of this cyber criminals and scammers.

So it's very important and I think this is the number 1 thing that every crypto investors need, educate themselves on every project that they put their hard earn money. And as we have said before, “If it is too good to be true it probably is". Meaning, if the offer appear too ideal or promising, it's wise to approach them with a degree of skepticism and investigate further.

With the SEC's approval of Bitcoin spot ETF and with the next Bitcoin halving around the corner, we will most likely witness a bull run that has already begun.
According to research, crypto scams flourish during bull runs. This may because the increase in price makes it easy to convince people and greed and FOMO are also other factors that make people to be easily deceived.

Rug pulls and ponzi have been among the most popular forms of scams in these periods.
Some scammers come in the form of traders or trading companies and convince people to invest with them. Don't be naive.
One thing you should know is, if the offer is too good to be true, it's most likely a fraud. Traders don't control the market so no trader can guarantee you an unbelievable profit. They can't deliver those juicy offers they offer.

I know this topic might have been discussed a couple of times on the forum but I just want to emphasize it because of the trend I've been seeing on social media. I have been seeing a lot of crypto influencers advertising shit coins and other crypto projects. Even influencers who know nothing about crypto advertise crypto projects.

It's good to invest but do it wisely and with the right knowledge. Make sure to carry out your own research before buying any coins.

Side note: Try not to keep your investment in an exchange. Make sure to keep them in a noncustodial wallet.