Funny: "Nigerian" Scams Shifting To Bitcoin? - page 2.

romecheo

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What could we say about those scammers, they are those intelligent who uses their ability to deceive others, instead of using their gift for the benefits of others.

Because of the high value of Bitcoin and continues gaining of popularity, Bitcoin are now the best thing to offer.

They should join forum or do trading instead of swindling others.

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I receive many emails inviting me to login to my wallet. Personally, i know they are scams that's why i never open links from those emails. Many users lost their money because they don't even know what is a scam.
The good thing is that Bitcoin is being more and more famous that even scammers are focusing on bitcoiners and made them their target.
PS: there is no insult or racism, this kind of scam is known as Nigerian scam or scam 419.

brickafterbrickwalldpt

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As funny as this is it's ironically a good sign. Bitcoin is relevant enough that even the Nigerian scammers have taken themselves to invest their time in trying to scam people invested with bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Those emails always gave me a good kick, good show I say.

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Please do not be racist, there is no where in that message that confirms the location of the sender.

It is well known that these scams emanate from countries all over the world like; Russia, Greece, Indonesia to name a few.

Calling this a Nigerian scam is quite pathetic and racist so I have reported your post

You need to chill out and read the whole post before commenting, that is the name of this kind of scam, it is as simple as that, the OP never intended to be racist in his comment but if that is the name of the scam what he can do? Nothing, it is like being mad that the Ponzi scams are called Ponzi, well those scams are called like that because a guy named Ponzi was the first one to create a scam like that.

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Wherever there's money to be made, scammers are bound to congregate. This scammer obviously knows little about Bitcoin. That doesn't preclude the fact that there are many scammers out there that understand the cryptocurrency and leveraging on the ignorance of many to scam them. Bitcoin generators for instance would deceive many into thinking they are a sort of mining pool. Ponzi and HYIP are still scams people routinely fall for.

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With the price of bitcoin going higher we should expect these sort of scams keeps popping up to get innocent victims ,who wanted to grab the opportunity and the sad part is there is nothing you can do about that,other than trashing those as spam.You cannot specify from which country they are originating yet it is an organized crime .

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Quote from: vaughn125 on October 30, 2017, 04:11:47 PM

Lol. I cannot even count how many times i have witnessed these tyoe of scams from Nigerian people. Hahahah
They are all over the internet! Literally! Haha
Have even gotten lots of emails on both my yahoo amd gmail. Accounts. Even on my steemit and facebook accounts.
Nit to mention the spam messages i get on telegram. Haha

It's either a lot of Nigerian people are doing this, or some sick dumbfck is following me every where and is pretty dead on serious in finding a way to scam me. Lol. I ain't that dumb.

Those Nigerian princes are rarely from Nigeria these days. The scam has been so successful that it has evolved and is being used by people from India, Pakistan and many other countries. Once I got an email from a US soldier stationed in Iraq who managed to get a hold of some of Saddam's gold and he needs help in moving it out of the country Roll Eyes

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Lol. I cannot even count how many times i have witnessed these tyoe of scams from Nigerian people. Hahahah
They are all over the internet! Literally! Haha
Have even gotten lots of emails on both my yahoo amd gmail. Accounts. Even on my steemit and facebook accounts.
Nit to mention the spam messages i get on telegram. Haha

It's either a lot of Nigerian people are doing this, or some sick dumbfck is following me every where and is pretty dead on serious in finding a way to scam me. Lol. I ain't that dumb.

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Just like you quickly added that you are not saying it's Nigerian but the content format looks it. Well, you have somewhat also nipped the bud of thought towards having Nigeria in the spotlight for scams. Well, from the content, the person definitely doesn't understand how bitcoin works and at the same time a desperate and greedy newbie in the Cryptocurrency could buy that and fall victim. Scamming in Crypto world now has to do more with hacking and ponzi.

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Scammers are always devising new methods of scamming people on daily basis, truly it is the gullible ones that will fall from this type of scam, imagine someone sending 150BTC to me and requesting for my hard earned bitcoin this is absolutely unrealistic this is a wake up call for everybody to always verify any source of information.

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Quote from: TrumpD on October 30, 2017, 02:29:44 PM

Dig a bit deeper and you will be surprised by the number of smart and educated people that have fallen victim to the 419 scam. These guys can be convincing and very persuasive. I doubt that bitcoin users are as paranoid as you think, with the number of scams that are being perpetrated daily on this board, I think the will have some reasonable level of success.

True. The level of stupidity on display here constantly blows my mind. People seem to genuinely want to throw their money away. There is a bit of a difference between being sucked in by a load of horse shit on here with a fancy site and some shills versus being solicited via a crappy email, but maybe I'm crediting people with too much intelligence.

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Lol! Even this, which we can think of as negative, because it links bitcoin to scam, has a positive side. Bitcoin is spreading. There are still many people that haven’t heard about bitcoin but soon bitcoin will be a common word for everybody, just as dollar is.

I haven’t received that letter (yet). I have always received that type of letter saying that someone had left millions of dollars for me as his inheritance. The fact that scam is changing from dollars to bitcoins make me optimistic.

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lets face it the easiest way to open a scam or a ponzi is to accept bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies , so this is a normal thing to happen
ponzis won't deal with ewallets where the members can somehow figure out who are the owners , also it's just easier to take bitcoin payments
and ponzi lovers are riding the wave of cryptocurrencies since they care mostly about the fast gains

what we should do here is spread the awareness in the forums if it was a scam product or a ponzi site , cause that's all what we can do

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Quote from: gentlemand on October 30, 2017, 02:01:40 PM

I'll be curious to see how this approach pans out. Not very successfully is my guess. Your average Bitcoiner is hyper paranoid to start with and they'll be a thousand times more internet savvy than most people to begin with.

The average 419er victim is some grandma who got her first computer that week or a horny grandpa.

Dig a bit deeper and you will be surprised by the number of smart and educated people that have fallen victim to the 419 scam. These guys can be convincing and very persuasive. I doubt that bitcoin users are as paranoid as you think, with the number of scams that are being perpetrated daily on this board, I think the will have some reasonable level of success.

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Quote from: iamTom123 on October 30, 2017, 10:41:56 AM

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I almost fell from my chair while reading this spam email on my Gmail account. It was not long time ago that "Nigerian type" of email scams circulated all over the internet enticing unsuspecting victims about their winnings of this and that...but you have to pay something in order to get what you have won.

Now, with Bitcoin getting popular, these scammers can be back in the business and this time around they would be using of course Bitcoin as the background of the story and of course as the mode of payment in case anybody can still be willing to be the sacrifice in the altar of learning what can be scam and not a scam.

Hmmm...I better be attending to a Halloween sale below.

Note: I want to clarify that I did not say that emails like this originated from Nigeria...take a look I said "Nigerian type" meaning it has some resemblance with those supposedly emails from Nigeria many years ago...and this info is all over the internet...it is not me who called these emails as "Nigerian"...please know that before you make such a report.

This is quit funny, to confirm the scammer is a not inform about how Bitcoin runs,but this also call for caution for everyone to becareful with you wallet,hackers and scammers on the increase daily

Nilda

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Bitcoin is the thing of the future. Scammers know this, that's why law enforcement agencies should at least try to keep up with the syndicates.

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I'll be curious to see how this approach pans out. Not very successfully is my guess. Your average Bitcoiner is hyper paranoid to start with and they'll be a thousand times more internet savvy than most people to begin with.

The average 419er victim is some grandma who got her first computer that week or a horny grandpa.

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I doubt this will be very successful for them.
Most bitcoin users aren't the kind of people who would fall for something like this..at least I hope.

Harlot

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When it smells to good to be true or even smell like a scam your best bet is to stay out with it. Thank you for informing us this new type of gimmick on an attempt on stealing our Bitcoin and money. These "Nigerian Scams" are often routed to them but other nationalities are now doing it as well the best thing you can do is to turn down the email and don't reply to it, even giving your personal information such as your bank account would endanger your money.

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Quote from: ?? on ??

Please do not be racist, there is no where in that message that confirms the location of the sender.

It is well known that these scams emanate from countries all over the world like; Russia, Greece, Indonesia to name a few.

Calling this a Nigerian scam is quite pathetic and racist so I have reported your post

Suck it up, buttercup. It's not against the rules to be racist, and this doesn't even come close to racism. The fact is, Nigerian scammers brought this upon themselves with their scams. Every country in the world has scammers, of course, but some are way worse than others, just like Filipinos are some of the worst shitposters on bitcointalk. They earned their rep. If you're this sensitive, maybe bitcointalk isn't the right forum for you. Me, I'm glad these things aren't censored.

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