Topic: Have you been a victim of scams? - page 4. (Read 696 times)
I got scammed in my first experience to try make money from internet. I join on some ponzy scheme website, I invest some money and never get profit or money back like their claim
I was victim of bitcad ICO. It was a very interesting project and i was really impressed about it. And i decided to invest a bit. But whenever token sale completed bitcad team start to respond less and after a while they dissapeared. ;DIt was about 1 year ago. I dont complain so much. It was an experience for me. I started to search about team more before joining icos after bitcad.
I have avoided being a victim so far even though I do invest plenty of altcoins. I just had a close encounter when etherdelta was hacked but that's pretty much it. I like to read this kind of posts to remind me to be more careful.
Yes MLM networking some two years back. It promised huge amount of interest 30 to 40 % of capital for 2 months of keeping your money with them. I was too naive and couldn't realize it was a ponzi scheme. It was not based on any value, so I should have be smart to identify it was scam. First few investors were paid but the later entrance got scammed.
In this forum there is a bounty called C project by EHRHC. At the first look the project is a scam but I put in mind that probably let's try some work in this probably it might give a reward. I tried joining twitter campaign in C but no pay 
. Luckily for him he had a best Christmas for his life but should have a great karma ahead
. Luckily for him he had a best Christmas for his life but should have a great karma ahead I got into mining last summer and needed to download one of the .dll files for the miner. I was careless and one of the .dll's was an executable. All my passwords were compromised, had to wipe and reinstall my system and reset all of my passwords. I learned my lesson. Stay safe, fellas
I became a victim of hyips, pyramiding and doublers but I think that's the scariest kind of scams. It's not just your money but everything is in jeopardy and it will need a lot of effort to start again.
I was scammed in 2014. At that time, I bought $20 worth of BTC and transferred it to an exchange called Mintpal. Recently, I would like to check if my money is still there. And I found that Mintpal is gone and it is a scam.
Technically yes. A coin was pumped and dumped. I was a noob. Lost lots of cash. Ruined me, though I much better now. But can't replaced what was lost, and what could have been.
Technically, it isn't a scammed but rather you've loss your money because of your lack of experience and patience. Being scammed are being fooled or deceive by someone.
Personally, I was scammed by some bounty campaigns here as they didn't paid the participants after the campaign ended but I just thought to myself that their karma will soon be serve.
The reason why I call it a scam is because it was an indirect way of taking somebody's money. Even though I can't see them, don't know who they are, they were performing actions to take away people's money. I was certainly a noob and learned big time. It wasn't a lack of patience though, if I'd panicked I would have taken all my money out sooner.
I am really interested in this topic and am writing Bachelor thesis about types of frauds on the internet. I believe it is serious problem and it is important to share your stories so others would be aware of these issues.
Please share your experience, where you faced scams, what were your losses, do you know anyone else who faced same issues?
Examples of scams:
1.) Shady Exchanges
2.) Pyramids and Ponzi Schemes
3.) ICOs
4.) Mining software with malware
5.) Emails from scammers.
I will be really thankful for your stories!
P.S. Please specify scam websites, token names or projects in order to bring awareness.
i am aware in pyramid scams and email scams so i have never been a victim of those and the mining and shady exchanges, i do not know both of them.Please share your experience, where you faced scams, what were your losses, do you know anyone else who faced same issues?
Examples of scams:
1.) Shady Exchanges
2.) Pyramids and Ponzi Schemes
3.) ICOs
4.) Mining software with malware
5.) Emails from scammers.
I will be really thankful for your stories!
P.S. Please specify scam websites, token names or projects in order to bring awareness.
the only scam i experience is ICO, in almost a month in this forum, i only experience one and that is atlant. its almost 3 months since the ICO done but they can not calculate the stakes and give the bounties
Ambis and ATS
There are scams for every letter.
bitconnect for B
C, we are looking for a C scam...
There are scams for every letter.
bitconnect for B
C, we are looking for a C scam...
Yea I'm still waiting for that Nigerian government official to wire transfer me $30 million...
Technically yes. A coin was pumped and dumped. I was a noob. Lost lots of cash. Ruined me, though I much better now. But can't replaced what was lost, and what could have been.
Technically, it isn't a scammed but rather you've loss your money because of your lack of experience and patience. Being scammed are being fooled or deceive by someone.
Personally, I was scammed by some bounty campaigns here as they didn't paid the participants after the campaign ended but I just thought to myself that their karma will soon be serve.
Hard to qualify as a scam but it's certainly close enough to warrant warning others about it.
Sent a number of NXT to ShapeShift about 10 days before the IGNIS airdrop. The exchange failed (still shows awaiting deposit), and due to ShapeShift being absolutely crap, they still haven't responded to my support request even to this day.
From other NXT users who have also experienced this same issue during this timeframe, I have found that ShapeShift are refusing to return the airdropped IGNIS saying they "don't support it".
So we're supposed to believe that ShapeShift are just going to ignore the potentially millions of $ worth of IGNIS? I doubt they're going to leave these tokens unclaimed for the rest of time, don't you? What a convenient problem this has turned out to be for them. NXT deposits break before the airdrop, they keep the IGNIS and refund the worthless NXT back to users claiming they've done their bit.
So, advise? Never, ever, ever use ShapeShit. You'll be waiting for weeks for a response if anything goes wrong, and they're basically acting as thieves in this instance.
Sent a number of NXT to ShapeShift about 10 days before the IGNIS airdrop. The exchange failed (still shows awaiting deposit), and due to ShapeShift being absolutely crap, they still haven't responded to my support request even to this day.
From other NXT users who have also experienced this same issue during this timeframe, I have found that ShapeShift are refusing to return the airdropped IGNIS saying they "don't support it".
So we're supposed to believe that ShapeShift are just going to ignore the potentially millions of $ worth of IGNIS? I doubt they're going to leave these tokens unclaimed for the rest of time, don't you? What a convenient problem this has turned out to be for them. NXT deposits break before the airdrop, they keep the IGNIS and refund the worthless NXT back to users claiming they've done their bit.
So, advise? Never, ever, ever use ShapeShit. You'll be waiting for weeks for a response if anything goes wrong, and they're basically acting as thieves in this instance.
That is straight out scummy. You should see if maybe you guys can get together and sue them.
Technically yes. A coin was pumped and dumped. I was a noob. Lost lots of cash. Ruined me, though I much better now. But can't replaced what was lost, and what could have been.
I am really interested in this topic and am writing Bachelor thesis about types of frauds on the internet. I believe it is serious problem and it is important to share your stories so others would be aware of these issues.
Please share your experience, where you faced scams, what were your losses, do you know anyone else who faced same issues?
Examples of scams:
1.) Shady Exchanges
2.) Pyramids and Ponzi Schemes
3.) ICOs
4.) Mining software with malware
5.) Emails from scammers.
I will be really thankful for your stories!
P.S. Please specify scam websites, token names or projects in order to bring awareness.
Please share your experience, where you faced scams, what were your losses, do you know anyone else who faced same issues?
Examples of scams:
1.) Shady Exchanges
2.) Pyramids and Ponzi Schemes
3.) ICOs
4.) Mining software with malware
5.) Emails from scammers.
I will be really thankful for your stories!
P.S. Please specify scam websites, token names or projects in order to bring awareness.
Yes I have once been a victim of scam, But unlike others I didn't invest any money. I only invested time ang effort where I should be earning money instead. I joined the ICO where I though I can earn money and put my trust to them, But That mistake gives me a learning exp on how to pich the proper ICO to render my service.
Yes. I have been a victim of scam of bounty and airdrops. In bounty I thought the project will be okay but until now the campaign manager didn't show up anymore. In airdrops some of them ask for a private key.
Yes i am and here in crypto a lot of scams are by phising site,i think also they use bitcoin in pyramiding like redex but it's legit you only need to invite before you earn so it's not good if you ask me another thing this is tool also to easy scam other because this is digital money.Always thinj before you do investment here like in hardware to do mining because it so expensive so what if they scam you.
I dont really know if this can be categorized as a scam, letting you join an ICO campaign and when its time for payment, they just disappear or say that their ICO failed to raise the targeted amount. If this is, then Im a victim too.
I am victim of scam so now i must be careful in what im going to click a link, Because some link are phising so that need to be careful if you are not be careful maybe some of your coins are holding are going to gone.
I actually downloaded a wallet supplied in the OP of the announcement thread and in it was a malicious code looking to steal Bitcoin wallet. Luckily I install all new clients in a virtual machine. I found out after a scam accusation was submitted and their thread was taken down.
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