Topic: Have you ever been scammed ? - page 2. (Read 941 times)

Yes, that actually happened on Telegram. I trusted the guy since I had really good conversations with him in the group chat. But, also I was in a rush to pay the WiFi bill, or else they would cut it off ( had a call from ISP on that day and I had no money in my mobile banking account ). And I also know 13$ is a lot in here, cuz it's almost that kind of money that you could buy a nokia button phone. But well I had to learn my lesson. sometimes you gotta take hit in life so you can be really careful about it. Anyways I'm just letting everyone here, so hopefully nobody falls for this scam.

An i and l is very easy to distinguish due to the dot part unless you are in rush or really trust the user he is impersonating just like what happened to you. What platform you are using and do you post a selling topic? Because receiving a PM from someone that you didn’t ask for is major red flag when dealing P2P.

13USDT is still a significant amount on a 3rd world country. I’m just confused on how you get scammed by a man impersonating an admin while his profile description is different. Is this happened on telegram?

One time, I got scammed by someone when I was doing an OTC trade, exchanging a few fiat money for 13 USDT. I'm going to name him as "Miskrib". Anyway I don't do deals with unknown people, but this guy is an admin from a group and is a really legit guy. However, I didn't really DM him before, so he approached me. And of course, I was idiotic enough not to check his profile, which had an username as "Miskrlb". So, what's the difference here in usernames? All he had to do was just change one letter to an L in lowercase to make it seem legit profile.

The real name for that practice is Social engineering actually. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security)
It allows hackers to go beyond technical limits, so it can be a powerful way of hacking, I think we can categorize it as a kind of scam, but it's not a pure scam since the goal of social engineering is not to directly steal funds of one victim but to get informations or an access to a system.
Reverse engineering or backwards engineering, is something else, it has nothing to do with hacking and scamming "process or method through which one attempts to understand through deductive reasoning how a previously made device, process, system, or piece of software accomplishes a task with very little (if any) insight into exactly how it does so."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_engineering

One of the scams known is Reverse engineering which takes a talk with the hacker and the victim. After those conversations, the victim provides the details and the hacker now have the full access to them. Next is phishing which is a website that pretends to be the legitimate one the hacker now accesses your account or device without knowing of the victim and stole all of the funds.
This is the reason why having an anti-virus is a must to make sure your device is safe from those attacks.

Personally, my journey to cryptocurrency was never without hard lessons. First, it was the difficulty in accessing FX to pay for services overseas that  raised my curiosity for asking questions about alternative as a lot of things depended on me sending payments across borders. This was how Bitcoin was suggested and I began learning and using it. Then we were buying from third parties because of the Fx restrictions... and this exposed me to a lot of scam attempts. I fell for some and paid dearly but I never gave up because I had already seen the opportunity and beauty of Bitcoin. With time I was able to get some reliable merchant and that was when the journey became more interesting.

Good enough this technology have evolved and awareness have also increased leading to reduced scams but one still need to be smart and guide against greed. "If it seems too good to be true, it probably isn't "

In my beginning days, I tried a lot of doubling sites and the first 2 times I did it, it worked out and I thought I found "the hail mary" lol. Offcourse, started doing it with bigger amounts (especially trying to double my amount of DOGE) and lost a bunch of them. Also participated in numerous bounties/airdrops that turned out scam but it is almost unavoidable.

My early crypto days yea, aped a lot of low mcap rugpull projects in dextools. Overtime I've learnt the hard way, I now do in-depth research before any investment, using credible CEXs like bitget has also helped me since such CEXs filter projects before listing them.

It will be very difficult to find anyone who got into cryptos between the year 2010 up till 2020 who would say they haven't been scammed one way or the other. I've had my fair share of it, from doubling sites to rugpulled ICOs to unpaid bounties here to lending coin days. Anyway, the good thing is that were still here today despite all that challenges. We learn everyday and hopefully I don't encounter such ugly experiences going forward again.

Man, that's really rough ain't it. I heard some people back in the NFT days that they played so much that they almost risked their mental health over nothing and it all turned out just to be a rug pull from the devs. I love video games, but damn that might be so exhausting that I might not even consider grinding even non-NFT games as well.

When I hear of rug pull, I know we're talking about NFTs. Damn. Good times, bad times.

There was a period in my life that i was so enthusiastic about Forex trading, so there was this FX trading group I saw on Facebook, a lot of experts where always dropping analysis of trading signals.
So one particular guy caught my attention, so I gave him a private message, asking him few questions about trading and how I could improve on my trading abilities.
He replied me and started to have a discussion with me, telling me there are some robots that he uses, that helps him to analyse the market and make favourable trades, he said that for me to use it, I will be paying him $100 every two weeks, so I could also enjoy what's he is enjoying with signals he gets.
Sincerely speaking, I saw this as an opportunity for me to really improve my trading skills, but unfortunately I wasn't having the money as at then, I wasn't really happy with myself for not having that money.
So I planned on making saving to give him the first $100, at least to give it a trial. So I asked the guy to give me sometime, that I will get back to him.
So after about two weeks, I had to come on that same group again, I saw a post tagging that guy, saying nobody should have any form of transaction with him, that his is fraudster, that he has scammed a lot of innocent persons on the group. I started seeing comments of people affirming post, saying yes I was scammed by this Same guy of so and so amount.
I was so amazed, as to how I would have fallen a victim, the only thing that held me, was the fact that I wasn't having the money as at then.

Since my interest in crypto increased in 2017 and started spending many hours of my time working for several campaigns of ICOs and other services, mainly as a translator, I have been "scammed", if you call it with that name, by devs who never paid or flew with the money and abandoned the project short after beginning the roadmap.

I have to say, though, that the works who paid compensated all the time lost in the others, and that as I invested my time, I can't say that I have lost money (but time is more valuable than money).

I think that this is the way most of us learnt crypto: the hard way.

After I read the first point to the end, there is nothing I can tell here about the fraud that happened to me. Maybe all this time I've always been careful and implemented a comfortable living scheme regardless of an offer that is profitable but doesn't have to work. I am also the type of person who is quickly satisfied, meaning what I get is my fortune. Often times I ignore profitable offers with small capital that can get big rewards. I always avoid this type of fraud because I have learned a lot from events that have happened to people around me.

Many different stories have been experienced by victims of fraud and until now different types of fraud continue to claim victims. You need to be careful in digesting something that is easily profitable but doesn't need to spend capital or doesn't need to work. In order to get free Bitcoins on forums we have to write some posts which managers ask as a condition to get paid. For me, nothing is free without having to work, except getting an inheritance from my parents.

Not only that I am scammed but also a victim of rug pull and hack as well. I’ve got nothing to do but learning my lessons in the past.

Overall I think I have lost approximately almost $40k in scams, rug pulls and hacks combined ever since I have started my crypto journey.

Even though that crypto is still a long way in terms of cybersecurity level, but I always believe in it and I am here to stay. Crypto saved me from financial disaster.

Lost approximately almost $40k in total doesn’t stop me from fulfilling my dreams and keep going. The opportunities are endless here in the crypto space and I ain’t going anywhere.

If you haven't been scammed yet, then you are lucky. I think you are quite careful about protecting yourself from scammers.You seem to know a lot about avoiding scams. scammers are very active these days and often hear from people that scammers have stolen their assets from their wallets or they unable to withdraw. We all should follow these methods so that scammers cannot easily enter our wallet.You are right that some people earn more money easily in less time,and it's an easy way for scammers to make money.Therefore,We must continue our investment , but we should follow the methods due to which we can easily protect our capital from the attacks of scammers.

They got hacked because they connect their main wallet to those risky platforms that's why think about doing it and instead using your main wallet for that activity better create a new wallet so that when anything bad happen we can avoid to get compromised since we already do some precautionary measures from those scam airdrops which do that connecting wallet scam to their participants. To many ways to avoid that and always be vigilant on what we are trying to do since there's no reverse or dispute if we get hack.

Especially now, there are lots of free airdrop events and lots of users are also participating because they assume it's free. To get it, you have to connect your wallet, for example using our metamasks to the website, they direct you to submit a claim with the potential for high risk because we don't know whether the website that is directed to the real website or fake website / scam. If the main wallet is used, yes, as you said above.

Since I have never been scammed and have never wanted to be, I must admit that when I see the 1, 2, and 3 being mentioned, I'm extremely afraid of it. This is because the best thing that can cause someone to be scammed is greed; if you are not content with what you have, no matter how, you will undoubtedly become a victim of fraud. As an investor, you must be content with what you have in order to avoid participating in any action that will put you in the hands of fraudsters. Additionally, you must exercise caution in all of your online dealings because anyone can message you to ask for your private key or to expose you to something that will cause you to do so. If you are really smart, though, you won't fall victim to scams.

Smartness is, in my opinion, the most crucial quality to acquire since, if you possess it and are exposed to something about which you are unaware, you will be forced to consult others or visit a discussion forum to learn more. I believe that some of the victims of scams are to blame because the majority of them look for places where they can receive free airdrops. This is because a friend of mine who always loved everything about airdrops ended up having his wallet hacked during the airdrop process, wiping out all of his savings.

We know that most scams happen in the online world than in the real world. So we need the utmost knowledge to avoid them from targeting us so that we don't lose our money by falling prey to those scams. There are many scams that promise good things and then walk away with money in various tricks. Scams are really clever since I have experienced a lot of losses as a Bitcoin scam. I bought a coin according to a scam person in a telegram group and he said it will pump a lot. But I didn't know that coin can't be sold but later I didn't hear any more about the scam person he left me with loss. We've seen many more sheetcoins that got pumped up too much and then went down completely and never got monetized, rather the projects went scam. We have seen FTX and Luna as the most scams of people's money from which many people suffered losses and lost thousands of money. So we should acquire knowledge on our own without gaining experience in this online world and not accepting promises from various strangers. Otherwise, it may be better for us to stay away from those who half-heartedly fool us in various ways with the intention of scamming us.

Shitcoin can be sometime helpful. Just that it can make you become rich in a tinkle of an eye and can also make one become poor in seconds. I think one can still invest in it with care and with a little amount one can avoid to lose.