to be honest when i read your title and the words "our roles" i thought you were going to talk about the big elephant in the room which is the bounty hunters and how they play a role in helping scammers.
I thought that we're going to talk about how we can prevent scams or prevent at least people from falling into those scams but although I appreciate the intent of Coolcryptovator, this is a bit of a situation when we're preaching to the choir. People who fall into scams are people who are no researching the project or company where they invest or don't bother to read about security and thus, unfortunately, they are not that eager to read advice either. The ones reading those are usually the ones who already know this and are almost as qualified to give advice on themselves.
Well, of course, one more signal to newbies landing on this board on how to stay safe and avoid ending in the scam accusation section to find out they were scammed is almost welcomed.
Unfortunately, newbies go straight to bounties..
Yea, I forgot to add the DeFi word on my post. Its true DeFi has become a more easy way to scam now. But I believe very soon it will end like the ICO trend. DeFi scamming peoples even after listed on big exchange by pump dump. Lots of traders losing their portfolio due to the DeFi pump dump scheme. That's the reason we have to avoid greediness and move on straightway.
Unfortunately, after the DeFi craze, another one will come, just like with the ICOs, and a new wave of newbies who will make their first contact with cryptos will be scammed and on and on till we either arrive at a point where the majority is already too educated for it or, the other scenario, although much worse when almost everyone has already been scammed once or twice and las learned his lesson.
Scammers are very cruel. They go to different tricks to deceive people and take their capital. I recently read an article about how a trader allegedly persuaded an elderly person to invest their accumulated money in digital assets. The article tells about a pensioner who saw an advertisement on the Internet and, due to her illiteracy, agreed to such a scam. One thing is not clear to me, how was a pensioner able to transfer money to the exchange very quickly, without any knowledge? Here one can blame not only the one who deceives but also the one who blindly believes in things that he does not understand.
Probably the method of transfer was via a banking app they told the pensioner to install and they took control over it and make the transfer themselves, that's how much I can get from google translate since the rbc website mentions something like a remote control.
But in this case, it was also a bit or a bit more of greed involved, the fact that he was attracted by a promise of gain from a simple add tells most of the story.
