I almost got scammed on twitter by a fake account. Scammers are setting up fake accounts pretending to be other people/ICO's/Tokens. It's very tricky if you are not paying attention. Make sure you check spelling on all names to be correct. Be careful who you give your info to. Even if it's just your email address. Scammers will not stop scamming so watch out and pay close attention to what you are signing up for. Good Luck everyone and be safe!
Yes, I was once dealing with Scammers, only he contacted me via telegram, not contact me via twitter. Fortunately, I can tell the difference that it is Scammers. Of course, this makes the experience for me. 
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last night, my friend tells me that she's been scammed by other people. she tells that she's want to start to mining and she meet one person that offers her to mining with her hardware. and she's been told that she needs to pay some amount $10 per day, actually I've been telling her to not trust that guy but she really wants to start mining and I only could say go ahead but I don't want to know the result because it is a scam and you will loss your money. and what happened later is she really lose her money and say to me, I wish I hear you in last day and I don't have to lose my money. and I talk to her, never mind, just make this as your experience and not to do the same mistake in the future. we know that to mining some coin, we need to have the hardware or at least, we need a pc with vga inside so we can start mining. so from this story, we need to be careful with everything that we want to do.
I'm weary of everyone so luckily I haven't been scammed.
I almost got scammed on twitter by a fake account. Scammers are setting up fake accounts pretending to be other people/ICO's/Tokens. It's very tricky if you are not paying attention. Make sure you check spelling on all names to be correct. Be careful who you give your info to. Even if it's just your email address. Scammers will not stop scamming so watch out and pay close attention to what you are signing up for. Good Luck everyone and be safe!
I am an old player and yes of course I have almost scamed and scamed experience, lot doubler bitcoin and cloud mining service that offers to me and I have repeatedly scamed from it all until finally this time I try to stay away from those two things ..
It is pretty pathetic to see what levels this scammers actually stoop too. I mean people do legit giveaways on Twitter of crypto or money, and as soon as they post something you have someone else with the same pic, same name, except their Twitter handle is what differs most of the time. If you click on their profile they never have any followers or are following anyone so that should be the first red flag. You should never need to send abyone something first in order to receive something. Then they have other fake accounts post they received their rewards underneath the original post even with ss of etherscan as well. Just insane the lengths these bots or fake people go to. Utterly disgusting imo.
I almost got scammed on twitter by a fake account. Scammers are setting up fake accounts pretending to be other people/ICO's/Tokens. It's very tricky if you are not paying attention. Make sure you check spelling on all names to be correct. Be careful who you give your info to. Even if it's just your email address. Scammers will not stop scamming so watch out and pay close attention to what you are signing up for. Good Luck everyone and be safe!
As long as trusting people exist we'll suffer from scammers. Their activities brings them an income. Is that so strange?
yes, I almost did a scam. then I want to deceive people by clicking my referral link. but it never happened again since I understood and started going in this bitcointalk. previously I always believed in referrals. but now, not at all.
During my time using social media like twitter I have never experienced or encounter some scammer. But in all things I'm going to be examining everything I do especially if I need to give my an email address to other account. There are so many scammer in the world so we need to be careful in everything that we do.
sad to say, I got scammed multiple times but that doesn't stop me from believing that there is a project or ICO that can be trusted and won't scam you in the end.
If you got scammed multiple times from ICOs then it's totally your fault for not researching everything about it before investing.
A lot of projects scream scam in the first 5 seconds just by looking at their website. After you read the whitepaper you will be able to avoid tons of other garbage projects that will end up just stealing your money.
Of course those are just 2 of the first things you look before even considering investing.
If you want to avoid getting scammed again in the future spend hours into research before throwing your money at them.
but ultimately a scam. how to avoid it
I almost got scammed on twitter by a fake account. Scammers are setting up fake accounts pretending to be other people/ICO's/Tokens. It's very tricky if you are not paying attention. Make sure you check spelling on all names to be correct. Be careful who you give your info to. Even if it's just your email address. Scammers will not stop scamming so watch out and pay close attention to what you are signing up for. Good Luck everyone and be safe!
I've been cheated on twitter once, and it's about that;
"To support the development of the coinage, I promise to transfer the first 100 transfers to 0.2ETH. (wallet address). The person will receive the two ETH I give back. First come, first served.
In order to make the scam look more believable, the fraudsters would also create a bunch of fake accounts, using twitter's real-life avatar and name to say, "I really got 2ETH."
I almost got scammed on twitter by a fake account. Scammers are setting up fake accounts pretending to be other people/ICO's/Tokens. It's very tricky if you are not paying attention. Make sure you check spelling on all names to be correct. Be careful who you give your info to. Even if it's just your email address. Scammers will not stop scamming so watch out and pay close attention to what you are signing up for. Good Luck everyone and be safe!
I have victim of an attemped identity theft that tried to subscribe to a service using my paypal email... except that they tried with a wrong email because I am not stupid enough to give my personal data plus my paypal email.
Well, I got scammed in several ways and also almost got scammed. I got scammed a lot regarding airdrops. For example, I would see some free airdrops but later I would realize that it’s not even a real ICO. I also got scammed regarding bounty works especially translations. I would spend days translating for them and they refuse to pay or just not respond at all. It’s a horrible feeling. I get a lot of fake users on telegram that are trying to scam me, and I saw some fake myetherwallet address.
I almost everyday get phishing emails from scammers but luckily haven't been exposed by them. I guess I get them because I do bounty works and my email gets out in the world like open air by the bounty managers. There was this Bezop bounty campaign which has scammed all of the bounty hunters. I was almost tempted to invest in Adblurb but since it was proved by ATriz that it was a scam ICO I got a huge relief!
You do get people trying to scam youy on instagram sometimes pretending to be admins to various icos with the same pic to represent an admin. I take not notice.
I almost got scammed on twitter by a fake account. Scammers are setting up fake accounts pretending to be other people/ICO's/Tokens. It's very tricky if you are not paying attention. Make sure you check spelling on all names to be correct. Be careful who you give your info to. Even if it's just your email address. Scammers will not stop scamming so watch out and pay close attention to what you are signing up for. Good Luck everyone and be safe!
Sadly, yes. I was so pissed of myself for falling for such thing. But it was because of that experience that I became vigilant in choosing projects for a campaign. There will always be risks, period! It is up to us to be aware and be smarter than these crooks. These people got there reward in this lifetime. Sorry will they be when they are thrown into the fiery pits of hell!!! sad to say, I got scammed multiple times but that doesn't stop me from believing that there is a project or ICO that can be trusted and won't scam you in the end.
If you got scammed multiple times from ICOs then it's totally your fault for not researching everything about it before investing.
A lot of projects scream scam in the first 5 seconds just by looking at their website. After you read the whitepaper you will be able to avoid tons of other garbage projects that will end up just stealing your money.
Of course those are just 2 of the first things you look before even considering investing.
If you want to avoid getting scammed again in the future spend hours into research before throwing your money at them.
I have scam emails every day. From Paypal update your information to Nigerian prince died and left you millions of dollars. The best way to protect yourself from this kind of scam is never to respond to any of the emails you don't know for sure where they come from.
at least the PayPal system is very well established, and a huge number of users will because of you. Of course, there are some nuances, but this should not be a negative light for this payment system. 
I have scam emails every day. From Paypal update your information to Nigerian prince died and left you millions of dollars. The best way to protect yourself from this kind of scam is never to respond to any of the emails you don't know for sure where they come from.
Almost. A guy on the slack channel for gamecredits almost convinced me to exchange some gamecredits for bitcoin. He was posing as one of the mods. I asked to send me the bitcoin first, and when he refused I finally began to figure out it was a scam.
Be carefull with any middlemans. For example I been scammed from ex exchange btc-e \ wex , most of people been scammed from MTgox.
I generally try to trust people less in such situations. I'd rather earn less than lose everything.the forum already speaks so much about this but the problem is not done less. Jump to: