Topic: Have you been a victim of scams? - page 2. (Read 696 times)

i have managed to avoid being scammed, i try not to download any suspicious files, i dont give out my private info

Ever since my friend who taught me bitcoin is scammed and another was victimized by a phishing sites I've been very careful of my actions and investments specially when the offer is too good to be true. It is part of the risks in investing to cryptocurrencies and sadly it affects the acceptability of most legit project and tokens so I make sure to know how to spot these scams and be update for future threats.

   I've never really been a victim of any scam and I Pray never to experience such. The key advice here is to do some investigation before partaking in any ICO and to adhere to certain principles when interacting with any online entities like;

• Do not click any suspicious link in your emails especially one that leads to your wallet.
• Do not reply any email with your personal details.
• Do not share your private key with anyone irrespective of the reasons provided by these entities.
• Always check the URL of any site you are on to make sure they are encrypted and bare the symbol or trademark of the site you intend to visit.
• Utilize search engines, forums & experts to obtain information about a specific subject or software before participating or downloading.

These are just few out of the many precautions that are to be considered in order not to fall victim to any scam.

No and i wont be a victim ever,i do some researching before i invest anything in the market,this sounds crazy but investment for me is a not as buying items and let it increase its value,investment is a job that you need to focus to be able to achieve success.You may find a lot of people complaining that they were scammed but its really their fault of not being aware that the ICO they are joining is a scam.

I dont know whether it is considered a scam or not

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Fortunately, I’m still not victimized by any form of scamming but, I’m still not going to be confident, I always read about articles and threads here in the forum that could help me determine scams or any form, type of means.

have you made a research before buying?

credence coin...  i buy coin in exchange then after a week the price was dump because the dev disappeared

I received an email that introducing they are the team of etherdelta then, the email was very presentable when I've read it. The content of the email sent to me including the link that they want me to confirm if I am the owner of that account address, then when I click on that given link, it was saying error. I have a doubt that time but I ignored it. After a few days, I noticed that my token lost in my wallet. It is a serious scam.

Fortunately I have never been a victim of scam but it doesn't mean that it will always be the case. I follow some golden rules which you should also consider before investing into any ICO and for the sake of awareness I would like to share.
Before investing in ICO, always read and understand the whitepaper of the project, it's road map, it's core team members and CEO background analsis. These important tips helps a lot to stay safe from scams.

1 time ICO 1 time shady exchange, sadly but thats true

Not really a scam but more of an account hacking.
Will make you register to one website promising a payment afterwards then boom!! He will try the password that you have used to any accounts you are link to or any websites including you email account.
Beware of that specially here in bitcointalk where they could also used it for scams or loans.

I stupidly didnt read any reviews for PET the paynext coin. I was reading about ICOs on the coinschedule site and read about this one.

Sent some eth, not a lot but still. Right away it was transferred to another address, then another and it continued being moved around until I got bored
following it.

The balance in the wallet actually shows that the depo was made. When you try to buy the coin it makes you wait until the next level of availability because the last level "sold out". So this morning Im on there when the next level opens (again I know at this point I will never see this money again but I wanted to see how elaborate the scam was). Level opens, they offer 200,000 coins, and after 30 seconds or so there are magically no coins available. I sent a withdraw request but it is of course "pending".

There is a thread about this scam on the forums and there are a few other stories like mine out there. Apparently the website claims to be Swiss, but its somewhere around Veitnam and most of the activity for the site is there. There is also very little traffic to the site, certainly not enough to sell out the coin levels so fast.

Once you sign in the whole dashboard looked legit, live and learn, I took a shower to wash all the scum away!!!
Bad on the a-hole scammers for the site, bad on me for not doing the proper research.

Yes I've been a victim of scams. In playing Leaue of legends, there was a time that I need to log in my account on a certain website to be able to avail free champion skins but after a while I cant open my account anymore.

I also have experience about Scam you mean .. but I am just a victim of a bounty scam. Not a victim of a coin investment scam .. then I followed the bounty of a project that has been said a big success but the project owner was blurred and no clarity about what I do and not in pay .. it is very disappointing but I am sincere ..

Mine was with a HYIP scheme which I thought was a guaranteed way of making money online. It as so enticing that all I had to wait is 5 days which was one of the longest day I ever witnessed because I didn't even know it was scam until after five days then I realized the investment was ripe for withdrawal, I withdraw got a mail to that effect but with the amount of times I refreshed my wallet, I realized that nothing was coming that was when it dawned on me that I have been scammed.

Yes been scammed several times lke on hyip sites.. But in altcoins or crypto so far been scammed once on chronium ico and not that huge amount glad i didnt invest too much... Now im not interested on any hyip investments im focus on trading, airdro and bounty  now more gain than loosing..

I was scammed by an ICO,electroneum to be specific,i joined its pre-ico sale and the tokens were hold for months it was stucked in their wallet because there are some bugs i think,the price of the coin was decreasing everday and they cant do anything about it,5months have passed i didnt get any return of investment.

thanks for share i think everybody can alert now from this, although i am not victim , litecoincash is also a scam everyone alert from it always.

So far I never victimized in form of scam sites. Because since I begun to this industry I most often checked the background of the ico project in the bounty campaign campaign.