Topic: How can I identify a scammer using Bitcoin or crypto to scammer people - page 2. (Read 570 times)

The first rule of avoiding scammers is when you accepted "there is nothing like free money on the internet", it's either you invest your money into crypto or you work to have it. If you can master this and remove greed from your ways, nothing will move you and scammers will find it difficult to get you because this is the easiest route to scam person in crypto.

There are other ways of scammers getting you as a victim, it can be through phishing scam, email scams, impersonating, romance scam, high return investment scams and malware attack. Apart from the recommendation I have given, make sure you practise a sekf custody, doing that will make your wallet from accessible because your keys will remain offline. If you remove greed and protect your wallet with outmost care, you will free from scammers.

The last but not the least, learn to be a private person. When a scammer don't know about your existence, they wouldn't be able to know how to attack you because they know nothing about you but if you are the type of person that will buy $100 worth of Bitcoin and announce it on your Facebook, WhatsApp and X, you will become a target for scammers, so learn to be a private person, it's part of ways from staying away from scammers.

You are absolutely right one of the reason some people fall victim is because of desperation and greed. When some people heard or see a link with a write up that if one invest so so amount he or she is going to have so so huge amount in return and sometimes, the amount they say you will get in return will be enough reason for someone to know that this is not real but because of greed and the desperation to make money they will dive into it thinking they are going to turn into millionaire or billionaire overnight. I think we should be careful and mindful not to click anyhow link  and one shouldn't get attracted to everything they see online because as much we are thinking how to identify fraudster that is also how they are thinking for a way that people won't notice or observe them.

Always avoid them and don't be to rush to click on link sent to you on WhatsApp or any other social media platforms because it's easier to hack you, like I do, I don't always click on random links or any links shared on whatsapp group and social group because I know the implications. To avoid being scammed you need to set a 2fa on your social media accounts with this it makes it very hard to access your account whenever your being sent to phishing link that would hack your account. Again, avoid being desperate to make money online with this you can limit the rate at which you get trapped to this scammers.

Countless time we have been instructed never to click any link you know nothing about more especially in facebook platform because the rate of scammers is very high mostly in facebook platform. Just imagine telling someone to click on a link to register for cryptocurrency? isn't that obvious that the person happens to be a scammer even without someone telling you that the person you're dealing with is a scammer. if making money online is that easy everyone would have been in a better position by now this are the things you need to think about before doing what they ask you to do, is only those beginners who are naive and also wanting to get quick money that will fall for this time of scam. However if you don't want to get scammed you see the spirit of being (greedy) you need to let go off it, because that's the most common thing that always lead people into a wrong direction.

To me I think the answer to this question is that we should be careful and pray not to experience or fall victim cause it's not easy to detect or notice that a particular person is a fraudster because it won't be written on there face or there profile. And been able to detect a scammer doesn't just require only Bitcoin or crypto knowledge cause if we want to take in that dimension I think some expertise in crypto has fall prey, my question now is that, is it that they don't have knowledge on this ( Crypto) the answer is they have knowledge but sometimes it just happened like an accident perhaps I think Bitcoin knowledge will only help one to overcome those basic way scammers come inform of. Note most scammers studied before executing anything so it is very difficult to observe them.

If you read the threads in the forum and follow the steps then you will know more and always follow the scam accusation board to learn more and to spot a scammer is very simple. And all what you have to do is to refrain from all greediness. Don't plan to buy cheap things and don't plan double your money in any form. Always be contented of what you have then when you see all those things in the social media, stay away from them or you first attack them of saying "Scammers Run oh". Or if you want to buy something always Payment on Delivery.

And always secure your seed phrase by not given out even a letter of your phrase. Whenever someone asks you to deposit bitcoin to his account don't do it. You have to know that he is a scammer. Unless you know the person face to face.

I agree with you that it takes someone who's knowledgeable about Cryptocurrency to be able to spot a scammer though scammer may come with different strategies to decieve people but someone with a good knowledge about Cryptocurrency won't be easily convinced or lured into making wrong investments only Newbies with little knowledge would easily fall victim.

 Some people instead of making research about a project would just jump into it with the high quest of making money, those are the people these scammers are after, those that would quickly rush to click a link they know nothing about and register immediately not knowing that they're exposing some details to this scammers to get access to their documents.

 Most times these scammers would come up with fake airdrops that looks very legit at first and after acquiring their fake token through task they'll request you pay certain fees to claim your airdrops those are the kind of scams people should note of and avoid them totally.

The thing is that it takes only someone that has a good cryptocurrency knowledge to be able to identify or I have a doubt if they are being lured into wrong investment by scammers, that's why learning about Bitcoin is very important because it will open your eyes to see that it will be very difficult for someone to be paid Bitcoin only by joining a platform or link, however for now is actually very difficult to identify scammers because since they know that people are beginning to understand there method of operation they have actually established different method and sometimes they could even lure you to register on a particular platform and not to ask you for investment but instead what they just need is your email and some personal information so that they would use it for other people, while some will ask you to perform a task to be paid a certain amount of Bitcoin and after performing all the task they will ask you to deposit a certain amount of dollar for you to be eligible to claim it, so you can see that they actually have so many ways and the reason why I have  this knowledge was because I have seen people who got scammed through this method and however with the knowledge I have about Bitcoin I don't think I can be lured into a wrong investment platform now.

There's no measure of of techniques to identify scammer, just have every unknown and untrusted links from anonymous suspected to be scamming mode. Don't click on it unless you've a strong anti fraud software in your device capable of resisting the intention of the scamming of having access to your wallet or your devices in anyway.
And if there's an opening to invest on cryptocurrencies in order to make profits, do always enquire and research before you proceed.

I believe not being scammed means staying better ahead of the scammers, they keep on figuring new ways and patterns to trick people into falling for their scam but the better we keep unto their trend and always stay updated then we can avoid being scammed. We should be very careful on our medias, especially telegram which is the most avenue likely to be used by these scammers, a valid project or site will never PM you directly to invest or partner will them, scammers are the ones more likely to behave in such manner.

Scammer offers a very high profits which is high from what you think it really could be with very little or no risk at all ,and they will keep on disturbing you until you accept their offer without allowing you to investigate ,their details and informations are not clear. They will stylishly ask of your personal or financial information to know your worth through any means they want to get you . Don't use any network that refers you to another network such as not being able to withdraw/transaction directly . Avoid pressure from a particular platform that wants to introduce you to Bitcoin or Cryptocurrency investment, you will know it's scam. Make research on your own and obey instructions of whoever must have introduced you to Bitcoin until you are well grounded with the knowledge and keep reading.

E get many ways wey we fit identify crypto thieves and scammers.Crypto scammers dey always come up with their get rich scheme strategy for example unknown person go just dm you to invest on project wey go give 100% profit in a twinkle of an eye,and out of ignorance many people don fall victim because dem go fail to carry out their own research to dey sure if weda na legit or not, ignorance don make many crypto users to lose their coins give scammers, nothing dey come so easily but scammers go always tell you say you go make am overnight all those informations from pipo online na to scam pipo carry their crypto run.And to dey on a safer path e go good if we avoid to dey click links concerning crypto online.

You just answered one of the ways scammers use, that is, when a stranger send you a link asking you to click to register a stuff, as most always happens to be a link which enable these scammers hack into your device, so as to chat with your friends asking for help pretending to be you. And secondly another way to identify a scammer online is when a total stranger chat you up, trying to introduce you to a platform where they claim you could make much money if you invest a certain amount. Just know it's a complete scam if you happen to come across any of this format.

No be today wey scammers dey hide under the umbrella of Bitcoin to scam people. E don start tey tey and naim make many people hate bitcoin because when dem join bitcoin with a clean mind, them no go know say dem join for the hand of wrong people. Dem go scam dem and in the end dem go talk say bitcoin na scam why no be bitcoin be the scam, but na means through which dem scam dem.

But with some experience we don gather here, we go fit detect scammer like as follows;

• Any person wey dey pressure you to act fast.
• Any person wey wan do you too much better when u no even know the person.

And many more signs we need look out to.

I think one of the easiest way to identify these sets of people is how you personally interpret false information, which is: "Anything that is too good to be true should not be trusted". If you can abide by that statement, then you shouldn't be clicking links that promise to offer you any form of cryptocurrency. I think greed is actually a massive contributor to why so many people fall victims of this scams, as they want to earn what they didn't work for, even though it's coming from an unknown source. I hope my contribution is valid.

From what you have said it means that you should not click on any link that you are not familiar with and always think that everyone is a thief trying to steal from you, then from there you look for how you can be smart, you will have gut feelings confirm some things but simply following the safety and golden rule of not being a victim and not sending your money to anyone that you don't know will keep you in shape.

Well you can start by knowing that nothing ever comes very easy so immediately you see the proposal you can verify for certain that it's not real and it's a total fake. I have seen many people tell me or even share me links to join different channels but I have always had this thought about clicking of random links as many fishing things could be encoder in that supposed link so before I try anything I first of all check if the link is verified or the service it's renderings is something can be relatable.

These are just rebranded websites that will waste your time. Back then, it use to be an investment website where you can earn dollars when some of these scammers know nothing about Bitcoin or understand how it works but since Bitcoin adoption has increased, even the scammers has improvised and what they do now is to design a website and gives investment package for people to invest their Bitcoin and get a high ROI in return and we know that's a big fat lie, there is nothing as Bitcoin investment by sending Bitcoin to another person.

How do we combat all this for people:

Education: People should get good education about Bitcoin, the security and some technical aspect of Bitcoin, it will help them to fight scans and identify one when they see them. They don't need to wait to be told about Bitcoin scams, as soon as they see one, they will identify it.

Buy Bitcoin: Some people don't even understand how Bitcoin looks like in a wallet and don't know how to buy, sell and even send, they should buy and see how it looks like and it feels to own a Bitcoin instead of just hearing and don't have no experience of holding it.

That is a candid advice, most at times scammers use mischievous means in form of links to try to caught people of guard, I've even heard of some links containing spyware that they could use to monitor your device and steal your password and paskey and that is why as a person into crypto you need to stay away from links as much as possible, especially unidentified links cause you could end up giving out your privacy to scammers.

Take every unsolicited message, either requiring you to click a link, invest/deposit money in any platform, etc, as a scam, until you can prove that it is not. If you have that consciousness and eliminate greed from your mind, it'd be hard for you to fall victim to scammers.

That being said, it is advisable that you keep your assets offline, you can go for a hardware wallet, so that if you get unlucky and scammers come manage hack your device, dem no go fit steal your money, as e no dey online.