Topic: Have You Been Scammed? - page 26. (Read 3494 times)
Yes I too was stung by a HYIP promising 100% return in a very short period of time. Lost 10 litecoin a few months ago. Wish I had just HODLed it, would have made my money back several times over anyway!
I just came over from the 'Investor Games' subforum (hope I got that right). A guy there said he came across a site asking to double his bitcoin, he paid in $20 and got $40 the following day or so. He then went for a higher plan of $300 hoping to cash out $600 but they asked him to pay in another $300 before cashing out. He got confused and was asking for advice.
I think I've been there before. Before I became a forum member. I once came across one of those scam sites promising to generate bitcoins. Thought it was real, but when they asked me to pay some transaction fee, I was stuck. I had no money to pay the fee. With the benefit of hindsight, I know I'd have sent them the 'transaction fee' had I had the coins to send them.
Now, what have been your experience with internet scams?
How do we help people not to get scammed?
To avoid being scammed, one of the best way is to check if the website is safe and tested. Look if the site has a proof of payment and check if the payers are real and look also if it has proof of paying. I think I've been there before. Before I became a forum member. I once came across one of those scam sites promising to generate bitcoins. Thought it was real, but when they asked me to pay some transaction fee, I was stuck. I had no money to pay the fee. With the benefit of hindsight, I know I'd have sent them the 'transaction fee' had I had the coins to send them.
Now, what have been your experience with internet scams?
How do we help people not to get scammed?
Yup, I have been. One of my Steam accs was stolen but I managed to get it back thru the Steam support. Took me 2 weeks tho.
So far i'll never been scam since i start using bitcoin, because before i try something new i make sure that there propose whitepaper is not trusty propose or convincing to join them, also im very careful and picky everytime before i choose it. I just came over from the 'Investor Games' subforum (hope I got that right). A guy there said he came across a site asking to double his bitcoin, he paid in $20 and got $40 the following day or so. He then went for a higher plan of $300 hoping to cash out $600 but they asked him to pay in another $300 before cashing out. He got confused and was asking for advice.
I think I've been there before. Before I became a forum member. I once came across one of those scam sites promising to generate bitcoins. Thought it was real, but when they asked me to pay some transaction fee, I was stuck. I had no money to pay the fee. With the benefit of hindsight, I know I'd have sent them the 'transaction fee' had I had the coins to send them.
Now, what have been your experience with internet scams?
How do we help people not to get scammed?
Actually being scammed in online platform was now getting a normal scenario nowadays because as people are getting desperate of earning an instant money through working or transacting online, they will give all what they have which is literally wrong because it is what the scammers really seeking for to gain their victims and have their own instant income. This scenario was made easy by the presence of internet because even you do not know the person, you are getting into it even you are just new with it and no one can evenly know whether you got scam or what. What is important thing to do is to assure and seek for further information so that you have tough knowledge out of it to avoid getting scam I think I've been there before. Before I became a forum member. I once came across one of those scam sites promising to generate bitcoins. Thought it was real, but when they asked me to pay some transaction fee, I was stuck. I had no money to pay the fee. With the benefit of hindsight, I know I'd have sent them the 'transaction fee' had I had the coins to send them.
Now, what have been your experience with internet scams?
How do we help people not to get scammed?
Internet environment is easy scam because nobody knows together. Therefore, before trading you should learn and trade through acquaintances to be safety for your own money.
Yes. When I was starting, I tried to buy BTC but I only had money on eWallets and no one wanted to accept money from those methods. So I found a member from this forum who apparently was going to help me and was trustful. Then, I didn´t know escrow or anything like that, so I simply sent him my money. Two days later, he disappeared and I never saw my 450 USD again. It was a shitty experience because they were my savings, but I learned an important lesson.
when I often play games when I was a kid, I was often fooled into making transactions. but from that experience, now when I am going to make a transaction or want to join a business, forum, or whatever I am always careful to avoid fraud or such
I just came over from the 'Investor Games' subforum (hope I got that right). A guy there said he came across a site asking to double his bitcoin, he paid in $20 and got $40 the following day or so. He then went for a higher plan of $300 hoping to cash out $600 but they asked him to pay in another $300 before cashing out. He got confused and was asking for advice.
I think I've been there before. Before I became a forum member. I once came across one of those scam sites promising to generate bitcoins. Thought it was real, but when they asked me to pay some transaction fee, I was stuck. I had no money to pay the fee. With the benefit of hindsight, I know I'd have sent them the 'transaction fee' had I had the coins to send them.
Now, what have been your experience with internet scams?
How do we help people not to get scammed?
I think I've been there before. Before I became a forum member. I once came across one of those scam sites promising to generate bitcoins. Thought it was real, but when they asked me to pay some transaction fee, I was stuck. I had no money to pay the fee. With the benefit of hindsight, I know I'd have sent them the 'transaction fee' had I had the coins to send them.
Now, what have been your experience with internet scams?
How do we help people not to get scammed?
Avoid to be scammed,through concious step,avoid freebies,work to earn and not be ready to ponzi scheme
Scammed, Yes by Coinbase
I clicked a google link that took me direct to coinbase and it said sign up and spend over $100 and get $10
worth of BTC free so i did just that but never got my free coins and they just ignore my emails when i contacted
them and the joke is they are still running the same adverts today
How can you trust them with $1000's if they rip you for $10 and no the link did not say it was part
of a referral fee which they also run
I clicked a google link that took me direct to coinbase and it said sign up and spend over $100 and get $10
worth of BTC free so i did just that but never got my free coins and they just ignore my emails when i contacted
them and the joke is they are still running the same adverts today
How can you trust them with $1000's if they rip you for $10 and no the link did not say it was part
of a referral fee which they also run
Yes, since i like to invest my money in many scheme, and you cannot evade being scammed since not all business you entered gains profit right? So better not to assume always that you will earn profit for entering certain kind of investment.
Yeah, I've been scammed by my own friend before. It was a year after we graduate from college, This guy just come out of nowhere and he started to PM each everyone in our batch to join in this group. Since I'm jobless at that time I went to go with him and he persuaded me join since he showed me a lot evidence (which are all fake), I invested $1500 as a fresh grad it's really hard to earn those by doing some part time jobs. He promised me an ROI of over 10% in just a week. So has pass and I tried to contact him but he's now unreachable. Then that's the time I ask some of my friends about that guy and eventually I found out that, He was part of an organized syndicate that targets fresh graduates. A month later he was caught but our money was never returned.
How can we help? Financial support is not advisable for some though the least we can do is to help them capture or to help him solve the case.
How can we help? Financial support is not advisable for some though the least we can do is to help them capture or to help him solve the case.
I never being scammed before cause I don't believe in any kind of double the amount of Bitcoin in just a day, I can say that all of them are scam so don' waste your money in this kind of investment 
). Beside I always use escrow when I wanna make a deal with member in this forum or out of this forum.
I have not yet scammed since I am making sure that whatever thing that I am doing, I am making sure that I have no doubt about it, and I don't want to trust someone even my friend and relative especially when it comes to investing money, I investigate and seek question from my colleagues if they have backgound or news about it. ). Beside I always use escrow when I wanna make a deal with member in this forum or out of this forum. 
I never being scammed before cause I don't believe in any kind of double the amount of Bitcoin in just a day, I can say that all of them are scam so don' waste your money in this kind of investment ). Beside I always use escrow when I wanna make a deal with member in this forum or out of this forum.
). Beside I always use escrow when I wanna make a deal with member in this forum or out of this forum. 
I did but when I was younger, playing a video game called MU, nowdays I exchange using trustwhorty websites or individuals.
Yes in investment. I thought it was just $200 but as the time goes by it turns into $1300 until I didnt get it back. The only thing that I did that time was to accept and move on because there are no more ways to get back my money to me. It became a lesson to me so I will not to do it again. Now I became more careful on where I spent My bitcoins. 
Yup, I have been. One of my Steam accs was stolen but I managed to get it back thru the Steam support. Took me 2 weeks tho.
Yes. In bounty campaigns. Some campaigns turned out to be real and some are scams.
Yes I have been scammed by different crypto in past which waste my time and money when there was no bitcoin so I was using some other crypto but they all were useless so then I left all of them when [Suspicious link removed]ived to market and now I have more than five years that I’m using bitcoin and it’s only the bitcoin which return me bake all my lose which I did in other crypto so I will must say thanks to bitcoin whatever bitcoin did for me. 
Yes i am but not really scammed, Maybe i just unintentionally reveal my self. I am using myetherwallet to save up my bitcoins and hold it for long to earn more profit in the future but there are hackers who are creating phishing site for you to reveal your self and get some of your coins.
I got messed out of it for a little when I sold some Ethereum to somebody after doing multiple successful transactions. Unfortunately this time it didnt go well, I got my money back after a long appeals process (so lost the profit I could've made, lost time, and had my trading account striked for a bit of time due to this) and after that I put up my guard x10.
As of this moment, I didn't experienced to be scammed which, as long as my private information should secured always. Scammers here in social media are uncontrollable that they do their very best to do such bad doings. Also, scammers are everywhere once you enter in the social media javing their fake websites that looks like convincing and promising ,asking your private informations which in the end you already scammed and you didn't know that your account was totally zero balanced. Hopefully all of us must aware on that possible situation.
No
I make sure I do open unusual mails or links asking me to click I would rather copy and paste to browsers to avoid malicious attack
I make sure I do open unusual mails or links asking me to click I would rather copy and paste to browsers to avoid malicious attack
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