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Indamuck

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Quote from: noormcs5 on May 11, 2019, 07:57:48 PM

Quote from: Slow death on May 10, 2019, 01:59:23 PM

Quote from: r1s2g3 on May 02, 2019, 09:45:39 AM

So how you get duped? I will like to learn reasons from you.

I was cheated several times, unfortunately it was a very sad episode for me. I bought an altcoin where the Dev made several promises, I believed altcoin would go to the moon, but the devs ran away with funds to develop the project and altcoin fell a lot and with that I lost 90% of my money. then I went to buy verge that I believed the partnership they would make was something revolutionary until I knew they were partnering with a pornographic site. After that I started to avoid investing too much money in altcoins. The truth is that it is very difficult not to be deceived in this crypto world. Most people who create projects are dishonest and unethical people.

The moral of the story is that do not invest in new coins and projects. There are enough good coins in coinmarketcap and we should only invest in those top 100 good projects. I have seen a victim of few ICO where i spend some good amount but the token never make it to the exchanges. I have learnt my lesson well and now i do not invest in any ICOs.

ICOs are startups, just like the real world they are very risky but have a chance to bring a huge return on investment. The days of bitcoin going 100x are over but it can still happen for some of these new projects. Most new businesses fail so why should crypto be any different.

romero121

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Scamming is very common in the crypto space, to be on the safer side it is must to be more aware about the market. Most often I encounter scams through Telegram. Recent being the one where an user requested me to support him in withdrawing his funds as he was unable to withdraw as his country has restricted from using the respective exchange. Also offered me to give half the amount withdrawn, and for the same I was supposed to deposit 0.2btc which is completely a trap.

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Quote from: r1s2g3 on May 02, 2019, 09:45:39 AM

For ex below are the stupidity:
1. I can send first to a newbie without escrow.

I have never scammed ever. But I learned how to prevent the scamming from a scammer. And I learned from them who already scammed by study their scamming issue.
If we are aware every time for everything then we can prevent the scamming.

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Quote from: noormcs5 on May 11, 2019, 07:57:48 PM

Quote from: Slow death on May 10, 2019, 01:59:23 PM

Quote from: r1s2g3 on May 02, 2019, 09:45:39 AM

So how you get duped? I will like to learn reasons from you.

I was cheated several times, unfortunately it was a very sad episode for me. I bought an altcoin where the Dev made several promises, I believed altcoin would go to the moon, but the devs ran away with funds to develop the project and altcoin fell a lot and with that I lost 90% of my money. then I went to buy verge that I believed the partnership they would make was something revolutionary until I knew they were partnering with a pornographic site. After that I started to avoid investing too much money in altcoins. The truth is that it is very difficult not to be deceived in this crypto world. Most people who create projects are dishonest and unethical people.

The moral of the story is that do not invest in new coins and projects. There are enough good coins in coinmarketcap and we should only invest in those top 100 good projects. I have seen a victim of few ICO where i spend some good amount but the token never make it to the exchanges. I have learnt my lesson well and now i do not invest in any ICOs.

99% of them are trash and 1% are the legit ones who would able to reach out on exchangers but majority of them do die along the way yet these project owners

didnt deliver on the thing that they should supposed to do when they are still seeking out investors.Investment do have always that corresponding risk thats why its important
to always have that kind of research before jumping in.

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Quote from: Slow death on May 10, 2019, 01:59:23 PM

Quote from: r1s2g3 on May 02, 2019, 09:45:39 AM

So how you get duped? I will like to learn reasons from you.

I was cheated several times, unfortunately it was a very sad episode for me. I bought an altcoin where the Dev made several promises, I believed altcoin would go to the moon, but the devs ran away with funds to develop the project and altcoin fell a lot and with that I lost 90% of my money. then I went to buy verge that I believed the partnership they would make was something revolutionary until I knew they were partnering with a pornographic site. After that I started to avoid investing too much money in altcoins. The truth is that it is very difficult not to be deceived in this crypto world. Most people who create projects are dishonest and unethical people.

The moral of the story is that do not invest in new coins and projects. There are enough good coins in coinmarketcap and we should only invest in those top 100 good projects. I have seen a victim of few ICO where i spend some good amount but the token never make it to the exchanges. I have learnt my lesson well and now i do not invest in any ICOs.

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in my life ive been scammed many time even before when cryptos are not yet present but im not going to showcase them all since they arent related to cryptos . on the year 2017 i started my journey here on crypto and on this forum . the first scam that i experienced is from a bounty , i join and joined lots of them in the hopes of earning some tokens but my expectation failed me since most of them didnt manage to pay . only few have payed but their market value isnt really worth to sell .

aside from that , i dont experience to scam anymore because im not really into investing stuffs . if ever i buy coins , i only stick on the trusted ones .

Slow death

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Quote from: r1s2g3 on May 02, 2019, 09:45:39 AM

So how you get duped? I will like to learn reasons from you.

I was cheated several times, unfortunately it was a very sad episode for me. I bought an altcoin where the Dev made several promises, I believed altcoin would go to the moon, but the devs ran away with funds to develop the project and altcoin fell a lot and with that I lost 90% of my money. then I went to buy verge that I believed the partnership they would make was something revolutionary until I knew they were partnering with a pornographic site. After that I started to avoid investing too much money in altcoins. The truth is that it is very difficult not to be deceived in this crypto world. Most people who create projects are dishonest and unethical people.

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Quote from: Indamuck on May 08, 2019, 01:28:11 PM

Quote from: jvdp on May 06, 2019, 02:56:05 PM

Scammers are every where even on this forum you can meet people. There are clear explanation on scam accusation section about these kind of problem in various thread.
Simply if you use any good and trusted escrow in this forum. Then there is no problem for anyone. This is the simple and best way to avoid scam issues.

Even someone who has been trustworthy in the past can turn into a scammer if the amount is high enough. I've seen it many times before, most people have their price.

Obviously almost all members in crypto community got scammed. Actually, it's not easy for us to get rid of being scammed in this tough market. As we all know that crypto is considered a world of scammers and rarely a newbie or any others are not scammed. Most of us, actually, are both careless when some first step entered the market. We have not prepared a good knowledge or not ready to start the work yet. In a nutshell, it takes for granted that being scammed in this market is not a shame or a very big mistakes, because this crypto world is inherently severe. The most important thing is that you have to realize the reason why you got scammed and try not to make the same mistakes twice.

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Quote from: spike420211 on May 07, 2019, 04:09:00 PM

I don’t even know whether it is possible to call it a scam, however, quite recently I invested in the Ocean Protocol on the Bittrex exchange, the sale was awful, for 3 days only 80% was collected, after the listing the price fell below nowhere.

It might be possible due to those bounty hunters who might have sold their tokens as soon as the token was listed. These is the common problem faced by a lot of investors including myself. Once we invest in any of the potential project, and it gets listed on any of the exchanges, the bounty hunters who got some tokens for their hardwork and promotion, starts placing their sell orders which then makes the price for that token reach the bottom as already due to newly listing, there is lower volume which makes is easier to reach the bottom or sky with few buy/sell orders. In such situation HODL your tokens to avoid getting into loss. Investors would never sell the invested token as soon as they hit exchanges.

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Quote from: r1s2g3 on May 02, 2019, 09:45:39 AM

I read lot of story of users got scammed. Despite several warning and negative feedback to scammer ,still user got scammed.

I like to know what assumption/stupidity did you did, that get you scammed.

For ex below are the assumption:
1. Nobody is here to scam.
2. User must be speaking truth so I should believe him.

For ex below are the stupidity:
1. I can send first to a newbie without escrow.

Sometimes there is complexity.

1. User urged it is very limited time deal (like an hour) so you are not able check facts/use escrow and get duped.

So how you get duped? I will like to learn reasons from you.

Besides, each possible precaution used, I am been scammed few times but it does not really make the scammers more talented. Usually peoples get scammed because they don't care a lot about smaller amount and afford sending first. Also there are some scammers out there who would successfully deal with you for a couple of times and later on when it comes to higher amount trade, they would show their real faces there and would scam you.

This situation goes worst with the new peoples who just join the cryptocurrency revolution and are interested in making their first purchase but end up by someone scamming them. There are a lot of peoples warning newbies as well as most of the community in terms of this scams but yet peoples do fell for scam.

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My stupid experience in the past was too trusting and because of ignorance about scams and other online worlds. I got information about getting bitcoin easily from bitcoin users on Facebook and after I sent some satoshi, I got or was given information about how to get the bitcoin intended by the scammer and it turned out that it was a trading contest that was really there, but it wasn't the way to get money is easy and I feel it is another scam mode which in the end I have got scammed.

Indamuck

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Quote from: jvdp on May 06, 2019, 02:56:05 PM

Scammers are every where even on this forum you can meet people. There are clear explanation on scam accusation section about these kind of problem in various thread.
Simply if you use any good and trusted escrow in this forum. Then there is no problem for anyone. This is the simple and best way to avoid scam issues.

Even someone who has been trustworthy in the past can turn into a scammer if the amount is high enough. I've seen it many times before, most people have their price.

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Quote from: Landak on May 04, 2019, 02:44:46 PM

If in the past when I just knew bitcoin, I was often cheated by HYIP investments.. Now, I have been scammed by many ICO projects. sad, investment again and again.

It was therefore being said be alert and do your own research before investing and invest only what you can afford to lose . Many of this projects have failed because the owner just created for the sake of their profits and not for the long term investors .

r1s2g3

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I am alive but in hibernation.

Look like most of here got scammed in HYIP ,bitcoin doubler.

I will categorize it as that most are not able to control the greed.

People scammed in lending because they trusted too much.

For Bounty hunters , yes you are scammed of your and you are used to scam others. I do not think if I will think of promoting any ICO, IEO, STO or so on.

Till now , I do not see any complex setup is used by scammer in any story. I guess most user are careless/off guard when they were scammed.

Muzika

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I have not been scam because of investment of fiat, bjt i have been scammed before joining bounty campaign I was on the bounty most of the campaign but in the end I have not received any payment from the team. Being scam sometimes is not by an accident because sometimes it is because of greediness of the people and also having not enough knowledge when investing.

DoublerHunter

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Getting scammed is very annoying on us, I remember before when I got scam on doubler investment in bitcoin. As I remember the name is Aurora cloud mining if I'm not mistaken. I was newbie in crypto at that time since I want extra earning I invested into that doubler site but after a week they've gone as in totally gone site and sad to say my bitcoin has also gone. Getting scam I think is in our fault by not having a research before engaging into them.

CryptoBry

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Getting scammed is one of the nastiest feeling and experience ever for me. I was tricked into believing that an email supposedly coming from a website whom I trust is a real one...it advised me to change something about my MEW account and so I log-in using the link provided by the email...it was of course a phishing site and once they have my login details then they wasted no time into harvesting my many tokens and coins in the wallet. I was then very neophyte at the time. I was not yet exposed how phishing works so I was naive to the max. In fact, nobody can really be careful these days as hackers, phishers and scammers are always ahead of the game...they are genius in looking for ways to get into you and if they can enter Binance there is no impediment why they can't steal your wallet. So be careful.

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Quote from: r1s2g3 on May 02, 2019, 09:45:39 AM

So how you get duped? I will like to learn reasons from you.

I havent being scammed in terms of transactions that do deal with digital good or any other items online yet i do always asked for escrows which i do basically know this thing
when im still noobs about crypto transactions.Reading up and hearing most peoples advices do really help out.

The only thing i do experience when it comes to scams is when i do invest when ponzi schemes due to greediness i have lost some money investing with these things.

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I think the only time i got scammed on here was a few years ago where somebody sold a game key for pretty cheap
and i sent the btc first as stupid as i was and never got the key , he probably scammed several users that way.
I also technically got "scammed" by several account sellers over the years while promising lifetime guarantee replacements they never delivered those
some of them were rather expensive.

And partly my fault (for being so stupid to not withdraw coins that i'm not currently trading) were having at least 5 btc spread across on cryptsy , and several other exchanges that got "hacked" like mintpal and something with crypto in it's name i don't quite remember, bad memories!

Now i'm extra cautious when it comes to paying for something with BTC and i try to keep only the amount i'm trading with on exchanges, sadly i forgot that i still had funds on cryptopia and didn't even notice until last month that it got "hacked" hopefully i'll get my coins back.

spike420211

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I don’t even know whether it is possible to call it a scam, however, quite recently I invested in the Ocean Protocol on the Bittrex exchange, the sale was awful, for 3 days only 80% was collected, after the listing the price fell below nowhere.

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