Topic: Have you ever been scammed ? - page 3. (Read 941 times)

Agree, avoiding greed is the most important thing to avoid being deceived. What we have to understand first is that in every field there is of course knowledge, learn the knowledge as deeply as possible, because nothing can be achieved instantly, nor can you become rich. Even in real business it can (very likely even) make people bankrupt, it all depends on the process. every process there must be a risk.

In my opinion, trading is not something that can be done without knowledge, just like business. And even in business, if what you are chasing is only money, you are greedy without focusing on the process, you could get hurt. that's how.
In the end, everything depends on our mindset and perspective. So be wise in any case when making a decision.

The characteristics of fraud are generally the same and I also almost experienced fraud. Invite acquaintances and he claims to be a successful person because Cypto ends up offering crypto. In essence, we have to seek a lot of information and diligent reading. Do not be easily lured by the lure of wealth.

I have never be scammed and I'm not proud of it, because I know very well that why some people get scammed is because of what they are interested to get with the easiest format, but I'm not seeing that we should not invest in something else but let us not to be much interesting for what we want, nobody that is being scammed 1$ or more than one dollar that is not interested to get the thing is looking for because the thing is looking for is cheap. One of the things that develops the interest of people to be lured into scam is because they want to get things at cheaper particles.

One of the human traits that is easily deceived is that you want big results from the lure of being able to get rich in a short time. Logic and common sense lose because of it. I am grateful that until now I have never been deceived. However, in my country, in the past two years, many have been deceived, including my friend, for playing Binomo and trading robots with the hope of getting rich quickly in the end, all of their funds run out. I was already tempted by them, but thankfully at that time, I happened to have no money to join them. Maybe this is the lesson for me to avoid fraud.

From that incident, I learned a lot from the victims of the scam. In this modern era, we must improve our abilities, improve our reading literacy, and understand the investment risks we will choose. don't let something like this happen again. In my opinion, the understanding of literacy in many countries is very minimal, especially for those who live in villages, that's why many people are deceived in various ways related to crypto.

We should understand that the purpose of investing is not to make someone rich quickly. Because investing must be accompanied by patience and strong commitment and remain calm when the market fluctuates and is ready to take risks. Therefore, every country needs to make an understanding to the public about investment so as not to increase the number of victims of fraud under the guise of investment. Provide understanding to the public about what investment is, what are the objectives of the investment, how about the benefits of the investment.

Good experience from the incident of your friend. I think, This is the need to be vigilant and not carelessly connect our wallet to a scam swap project, because there is a high potential for danger lurking. can be rugpull or when your wallet is connected, the contents of the wallet can be drained. Create a new wallet and don't have any special assets for that.

Luckily I haven't got scammed so far in my life, related or not related to crypto, but most of the scam attempt I received outside of crypto is the last type, number 11. The latest evolution of this type of scam is they pretend to be from a shipping company and said that I have a package that need to be claimed and I need to check the receipt number in the pdf document they sent. But not a surprise that it's not really a .pdf its an malware app that allow the scammer control the phone, I didn't get scammed of course. I read the article about that scam before hand.

Now, one thing that OP hasn't mentioned and I think doesn't include in any of those list above. A scammer once try to scam me by ordering my service. They said that they are part of an exchange and my payment will be send to the address on those exchange, they ask me to create an account. Long story short I created the account, and the payment in form of Bitcoin on the exchange is actually show up, but when I can't withdraw it, and asking for verification which I should send some bitcoin first to those address. I didn't send anything of course, and probably the amount of bitcoin in the exchange dasboard is fake.

Yes I have been scammed by such a person. It was about an account that I agreed buy. He seem like such a nice person. You can't even tell apart if he is a scammer. So like out agreement I send him the fund. Then he said some work had to be done. So I needed to wait. I though it was okey because it was late at night. The next day I texted him he said he was several ill. Then I finally understood I was scammed. I tried calling him many time he didn't received. In the end he blocked me from both social accounts and my number.


The clipboard virus happened to me recently. Someone I didn't know texted me in telegram and gave a file. I thought it was a normal file. I wasn't that caution that time so I opened it and everything was fine.

Later when I was trying to make a trasanction every time I put my send address a phishing address 0x******  gets paste in it's place. Other copy paste functions were okey. But whenever it was a crypto related address, that specific phishing address will get paste in the box. So I tried everything to fix it. Fixed registry, restarted clipboard, system restore but nothing fixed the problem. Later I had to completely setup windows again.

 I think you missed Ransomeware virus scam. I was a victim of it. All of my data got encrypted due to this malware and I couldn't decrypt my data due to it was a new kind of malware. Luckily all of my data, wallets, key, passphrase were stored in the cloud. So I got saved a big time that time.

So as a victim my advice would be never install anything if it isn't from a trusted source.

My friend had experienced a malware attack that changed his bitcoin wallet address to someone else's bitcoin address that a hacker had implanted.
At first, he didn't notice until he transacted and saw that his bitcoin wallet address was different from the one he copied and pasted and then reinstalled the system into a new one.
Scams from HYIP programs always target new people who don't have enough knowledge. I experienced it several years ago when I was new to the world of the internet and crypto.
But my friends also managed to get big returns from HYIP sites because the owner wrote the wrong reward that my friend should get and made my friend immediately withdraw all his balance.

If being rugged on shitcoin degen is considered scammed activity then I am been scammed countless already. But thats on me, providing I am risking funds to some degen tokens on every L1 out there especially on eth. But I know the risk of it since its a pump and dump tokens being traded with high risk and potential liquidity removal. Its always up to you how youll manage funds. But it doesnt I am always losing. I wouldnt do that if I didnt profits on some shitcoin too.

Out of all the ones you shared, this is the only one that I've experienced in my 5 years that being involved with crypto.

TBH, I consider myself lucky that I didn't fall into too much scam by these scammers because before I invested my money, I learned to identify which are scams, and which are not by watching many videos online, but mostly on Youtube. There are some videos out there that are giving tips, and signs that it's a scam. Of course I also some of the projects here that has been launched, and turned out to be a scam. Most of them happened in 2017 during the ICO hype where many projects are popping out of nowhere, and there is this one particular project back in 2017 where they put Roger Ver as one of the developers. Of course the token sale turned out to be a success, and has been listed on an not-so popular exchange, and after few months since it has been listed, the project just vanished including the money of the investors.

Rug pulls. I think you missed it.

There are many projects back in the past where they ended up as a rug pull. I still remember that time back in 2017 as well where I risked some of my money, invested into a project that is on it's token sale, and I did spent hours researching regarding this project. To cut the story short, it ended up as a scam project, and I lost my money.

I got scammed in 2018 due to my ignorance. At that moment i try to buy some stable coins using my social media account. I collect his account number and send the required money. The scammer first told me very well about his business and screamed that he would pay me after sending the money but later after receiving the money he blocked me from social media. I didn't lose much money but at that time i got lesson for my ignorance and have never made a purchase through social media account.

Trying to avoid greed is certainly a good thing. Greed is owned by everyone and it can happen anytime when you don't have full control over yourself. I have several times experienced my inability to control myself to greed because of the panic that arises. It made all my trading plans fall apart and I ended up losing money. The importance of managing emotions so that they are stable will affect everything.
But for scams I am more vigilant and have never fallen into a scammer's trap.

I did not experienced getting scammed but I did get fooled since I ended up giving him some of the money I got for free. It was on 2019 and I did not worry about it since the money I got is free from an exchange platform from using their service and the guy also lent me his crypto to pay the fees and was able to sell it as I don't have money at all and I am not in crypto for years but now, I learned from that mistake. That's why it is important to know the signs if it is a scam or not.

Yeah, Especially for memecoins. Thats why I make good long hours research before buying or buy the one listed on CEX that list memecoin earlier than coingecko like Bitget which I signed up earlier.

Scam is eating deep into the internet and people fall victim including the elites. I have countless times been scammed by vendors who take funds but fail to remit what I paid for in bitcoin. This happen regularly on telegram. Happily for quite a long time I have never lost my bitcoin to such people again, although I still send money first, but good people exist who provide genuine services to buyers. The clipboard attack scam is one of the tricky scams on the internet, ever since I read and researched about it, I've never sent money without cross checking the address. And it also thought me not to download untrusted apps into devices where I transfer btc.

That is I in number 3, I was so happy to make money through their referral program . I was happy and I introduced many person to thesame referral program since it makes my balance to grow. When the day of withdrawal finally come, we where ask to pay some bitcoins to a particular address then we should message them for them to confirm it. That will serve as the gas fee. Boom I rushed to it, did the first one and  chatted them and they said the one I sent is too low to send the coin, so have to send again. I texted them, the kept mute, I complained in their telegram, I got banned. After some few days, the group was locked. I have learnt my lesson at the time I needed money most

Very interesting, especially since I asked myself the question a few days ago. Finally, it is not the QR-code in question that is fraudulent, but the downloading of a fraudulent application, in the same way that a fraudulent link would be used. That said having $20,000 in his account, accessible on his phone is not very reasonable.


https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/how-is-sending-bitcoin-through-a-qr-code-safe-5459840

I skimmed through user responses and didn't find yet another popular scam that is becoming popular these days. There was a story recently. A Singaporean woman, eager to get a free cup of tea, paid $20,000 for it. QR code scams are on the rise. The scammers posted a QR code promising, after scanning the code and filling out a questionnaire, a free cup of tea with milk. After the woman did everything that was suggested by filling out the questionnaire, she downloaded a third-party application, and the scammers got remote access to her smartphone. During the inactivity of the phone, when the hostess did not use it, the scammers took 20,000 dollars from the bank account.
She probably hated tea with milk after that.

Although this story is not related to Bitcoin, everyone should be careful when handling QR codes, as passing through them can lead to numerous phishing sites.

https://upgradedtamilan.com/an-ordinary-cup-of-tea-cost-a-woman-from-singapore-1-5-million-rubles/

Being deceived by greed is possible for a trader - of course that is when they expect more profit when the potential price increase is not higher. But so far I'm grateful I haven't been scammed out of greed or something else like a scammer's attempts - but I always hope to avoid it as much as possible.

Just because I've never been scammed doesn't mean I won't be a target - but I really hope to never be. We can only minimize risk - but can never guarantee ourselves not to become victims. With all the faith and effort - I hope I can avoid that risk as much as I can.

This is in the case of the investment scam pattern, where the scammer asks their victim to give them some money in order for them to multiply it with some kind of fake trading tools or some high APY, which is always the greedy ones and those who have little to No idea regarding Crypto currency who usually fall for their victim.

We just all have to be careful out there, for the scammers are always coming up with some kind of new trick to use in scamming people of their hard-earned money. The more we get wiser, the more they upgrade their own tools.

Since you have not been a victim of any of those scams, I will advise you to look out and be very careful when it comes to the kind of sites you visit with your device that are connected to your wallet. There are malicious and phishing links everywhere on the internet.

I've been scammed by someone for trusting and giving him the money to buy Bitcoin but sadly, the transaction failed due to a scam exchange that he used, and never get back my money anymore. Although it was just a little amount, however, the experience gets help me realize that it was hard to trust someone when it comes to money. I'd realize that if I do it personally and study how it works, I think it never goes off from me and never fall into scam exchanges.