Topic: Have you ever been scammed ? - page 5. (Read 952 times)

Getting scammed is not the end of the world in my opinion, because anyone can get scammed even the smartest crypto-currency enthusiast can get scammed, but the problem is that when you get scammed you should always learn from your mistakes and work on it. Where is would have an issues is when someone who got scammed repeat the same mistakes again and get scammed as a result of it.

As newbies you should focus more on this topic scam because it's one big problem we have here in the crypto world and we need to also try to protect ourselves against it.

I don't think there's a way of dropping words of advise on how to prevent one from getting scammed, is really hard to even tell when you'd be scammed. They have so many strategies of getting one to fall for their lies. In my own case, I picture the whole story as fake before the scammer finishes preaching his story, at times I just say lemme try or test it if is really or not. And I always find myself falling for them knowing quite well that they are fake, giving scammers that benefit of doubt has made me lose so much. So to me I'd say is just to be careful when you sense any funny story that you're not sure of, you can ask questions about it before going for it.

For sure most of us here that is already been in the cryptocurrency space for years probably already experience a lot of scams here or on different platforms. But throughout the years there, you're going to gain knowledge and know if something is fishy is going on. One of the mistakes that I did back in the day was investing in scam shitcoins, believing in something that is actually new to the space most of the time there was a huge hype on new things, when defi, ICO, and new tokens are being launched most of the time a lot of people hype this kind of investments. Luckily I only invest a few hundred dollars just to try a new coin investment this kind of scam is pretty common since developers could easily get out on the projects after they already get the money from ICOs, but sometimes it could sometimes payout a big amount of money.

Luckily I didn't really get scammed into something like with real people transactions since I always get careful every time I make a transaction if I think something is fishy going on and there are a lot of red flags on the transactions I already start to avoid the transactions since most of the time we all get greedy when they already start to talk about money or prices so if they bring that out easily that might be a red flag.

Telegram is a well known fraud media and I wonder what the heck the team is doing to clear that belief people have about their app. It's one among the reason why I don't fancy it and hardly believe whatever I see coming from there. I once joined one group where they claim to give signal and unfortunately, I fell for it and was scammed.


Lol. This was my experience back then also. The shitcoins I gather hoping for pump is unaccountable to the extent I have to abandon the wallet/address so I can have peace of mind because sadly, I use to check on a daily basis before I eventually woke up to reality and realized I was scam. Some bad experience like such is actually an eye opener for a beginner and it taught me a lot that myself and anyone under my guide will not fall for again.

This must be bounty I guess. Time is very precious, should be utilize well and dedicate to something worthy because once lost, it can never be regain again.

Never heard of that, I will see what it is.


Is it like the old spam e-mails when people said they had a blocked inheritance and had to pay the fees to unblock it? Because otherwise I don't really see what it's all about. Why anyone would pay $50 to unlock funds on a CEX just doesn't make sense (I guess I didn't quite understand the principle of this scam).

You have mentioned the most common scams which are also happened a lot. There is another hack which is just started now or maybe I came to know about it not which is Backdoor in Windows. These windows are cracked versions that do not require us to pay money to buy their activation keys. Such windows would share your data with the scammer without your permission same goes for apk MOD apps that we use on our smartphones and Desktops.

There is another scam known as Wallet address Poisoning in which the initials and final words of your address are copied and the scammer uses them in his or her wallet address. He generated those addresses by using Vanity address generators which are also not easy to make.

Another scam is, cracked versions of Applications and software we download from third-party sources such as getintopc is a website that has caused one of my local community members to lose a lot of money because that app contained some loopholes or viruses who h provided unauthorized access to hackers.

I could remember in 2017, Bitcoin doublee scam was one of the major type of scam that many of the Bitcoin investors fell on because it was a quick way for people to earn more Bitcoin from there portfolio of Bitcoin holdings. I have fell for this kind of scam before and many of my friends too and that made us to say no to cryptocurrency. Although I don't even know what was Bitcoin and how I can ew.rn from it.

They were the one that helped me to purchase Bitcoin since I was not even aware about all that it entails then. I thank God that now we have more ideas in cryptocurrency and we can proudly tell people to be more conscious about buy and trading Bitcoin with people they don't know especially when it is not escrowed. There are still new scam that investors are falling on especially for those newbies that areoney conscious and don't like asking questions.

This days also has a plot of warnings and guidelines on how to fight scam that will make newbie safe if they will just follow unlike before when I started on crypto which there’s no much guideline on scam prevention since everyone is still exploring too on crypto.

I remember being a victim of ponzi and doubler before because the person that introduced me to Bitcoin doing it too to increase his holding. We consider it as gamble before but it turns out that it’s just a pure scam and waste of time and effort especially that our Bitcoin back then came from hard work in faucets and captcha service.

Deceiving scams is also executed on many occasions especially targetted towards which is someone who will contact you on telegram, Facebook or in any other way and seek your help to withdraw their coins because they will claim that its stuck on the exchange or any platform and their country is not letting them to withdraw it and even they will show their profile and will give access to it but all of them were masked and it is under control of the one who is contacting you.

They will offer 50/50 to withdraw the amount so you will say okay and get the site credentials from the random person then you will try to withdraw but the support says you need to deposit $50 or $100 which is a red flag straight away but due to the amount, they can make most people will be deceived and fund the address provided in the screen, once you send it then there you are scammed!

I received such kind of offers lot of times and many were too so I think it can be added too in OP's list.

This days the rate of scam is increasing forcefully, I can't remember if I have been scammed before or not , but I don't want to get scam by anyone again, yes I have been scammed oftentimes when I was high on carelessness so I was scammed through my Gmail that's it.


Yes man, the thing here is that these scammers can not do with out our private keys, if every investors or every individual can keep their private and important things (keys) safe it will be more difficult for scammers to hoping to our system or savings.

Oh definitely and it brings back memories!

Last 2017, the infamous "USI TECH" visited our country (Philippines) in order to host an event where we were able to meet and greet the developers. Since my friend who owned around ~120 BTCs at that time convinced me to try this investment scheme (ponzi), I was influenced by it given the young spirited teen I was (19 years old). At that time, I invested around $100 worth of BTCs which was definitely expensive given my current financial condition at that time.

During the first month, I saw my BTCs actually in increasing in value by purchasing these so-called "packages." But after the third (3rd) month (they promised that our BTCs would mature at the sixth (6th) month), the website crashed and everything was gone!

From here, I learned a valuable lesson to never trust any ponzi-schemes as there is truly no safe way for you to secure your funds.

There's this elderly guest in the place I used to work, he appears nice and we got along very well. One day he reached out to me for help for some money, and I didn't have the amount of money he was asking for which I told him. And he pleaded that I should help me with what I had and that he would source for money somewhere to add to it and solve the problem. I sent him the money, after 1 month when it was time to pay back, the man refused to pick my calls and whenever he picks it's just one stories or the other. After 6 months I gave up and I forfeited about the money, and it's been 2 years now and he has never called to apologize or return the money.

I've actually bought a couple of altcoins that ended up badly in the past but there's this one I bought last year which is my biggest lost so far. The project was hyped, there was a lot of publicity going on, I bought some token and it turned out the team are bunch of scammers with just empty promises. After launch, the chart took a deep dive as if it wanted to discover oil and I had to sell and cost my losses.

Bitcoin doubler scam, and that's where I fell in the beginning. I thought it's very easy to make a lot of bitcoin and I was so naive then. Without thinking, I deposited some bitcoin because someone recommended it to me.

But by now we all know that this is obviously scam. And so I'm not afraid to tell everyone was experience about it and try to spread the news that there's no such thing as easy bitcoin. It's hard to earn BTC by the way. It's better that we work our ass off and earn it rather than thinking of investing it into something like a doubler or whatever the scamming is calling it right now.

I don't think it's the same thing. In fact, almost from the very beginning of our apprenticeship, we learn the famous phrase: "not your keys, not your coins". So we know that if we leave our coins on a CEX, there's a risk. In addition, there's the experience of the past.

Being betrayed personally by someone you know is different: it's your trust that's shaken. You can't expect that. It's a disappointment that can be profound and go beyond the loss of funds. Not to mention that for CEXs, there's a tiny hope of recovering funds.

To answer your title, yes I have been scammed a lot.  I believe most of us here are victims of the shitcoin scam where a certain group offer crowdfunding and then right after the launch the project owner runs with the fund without even putting their cryptocurrency on exchanges.  I also experienced lots of rugpulls during the NFT craze and Pay to Earn trends.  

While in real life events, I also encounter people who are agents of scam companies taking advantage of the naivety of people new to cryptocurrency by offering them promises that are too good to be true.  Many of my known friends fall to this kind of trick and never listened to me when I warned them about the possible scams of these kinds of schemes.

Experience this and totally sad that I lost a lot of money way back them from this before since 3)  I thought before that those ponzi platforms are genuine and they can give good profits in return but end up getting scam. 6) Got scam by I thought my friend and let me down just for his greed of money. 7) Experience a lot of this since frequently trading either old or new but the awful part is when ICO craze is so hype since been scam by some of it and never go back to invest on any new launch and now only grabbing some when they are officially landed on exchangers.

I think we clipboard virus should also be included as that's where I have been a prey to which made me created the thread above . This kind of scam is also worth adding to the list since it's not just done by users mistake but as a result of hackers manipulation using different means from pirated software's and O's which is the most common way and that of phishing link.

I believe these two are supposed to be in the same category of betrayed/betrayal scams because both of these scams occurred as a result of betrayal from someone you trusted, and the same is true of exchanges whom we trust and leave our coins with; thus, if they run with our money, they betrayed us, which can be exactly the same as the person you know and trust to betray you.

Yes, I was duped in a Telegram group by some people claiming to be from Binance Exchange. I wanted to buy USDT from them because it seemed easier because I didn't have to do KYC before buying USDT from them. There were so many screenshots of good testimonies and successful deals between the members of the group that they had, no idea they were all set up to swindle newbies. That is how I trusted them and paid the money to the escrow person in the group.

Since then, I've avoided Telegram since I no longer trust anyone on the network; moreover, I no longer trust anyone when it comes to cryptocurrency transactions.

I have never been scammed in most of the other way listed. Maybe the way I got scammed was through a shitcoin that promised to have higher gains. I held bags of the shitcoin and it just kept dumping and dumping until I just exited at one point  

The other way I was scammed was speeding my time doing tasks for a project, and they just didn't pay. I value my time, once it's wasted, it's similar to losing money

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Very funny mate. You did justice to the topic. I have had such experience and I belong to number 7. Shitcoin rugpulled from a scam pump and dump group that suck mate. I got lots of scam shitcoin token stocked up in my wallet for years now during my early years as a newbie. Men I lost funds to those mess as I did not doy due diligence on the pump and dump shitcoin group. Although I learnt my lesson since then and never Will I make such mistake again.