Topic: How do you avoid scammers? - page 4. (Read 646 times)

Just think of this quote. "If it's too good to be true, it's not true."
A simple yet powerful quote that will prevent you from getting scammed.

Always think realistically. If some new projects used the word "GUARANTEE", and "RISK-FREE" then yes it's a guarantee - GUARANTEED SCAM. If a new project says that it will give you 10% monthly, that's a scam. If a project says that you will not lose your money if you invest it into them, then it's a scam. TBH, I don't want to overcomplicate things, and thinking of many ways to know which are scams and which are not.

There are many Youtube videos that are giving some tips for newbies on how not to get scammed, but basically this is what I'm thinking whenever I want to invest into something. A scam project will promote high returns because that's what makes a project attractive to the investors. Well that's the common way, but point is, there are many ways for you to identify is they're scamming you or not.

Mind you that scammers do not only target your cryptocurrencies, they basically want to steal from you, whether it is your crypto, fiat and other precious stuffs; so you generally have to protect yourself from scammers. Anyway crypto is a tool that most scammers enjoy to use because if they are shrewd, it'd be hard to trace them.

That being said, in order to protect your Bitcoin from scammers, you should keep it offline, if your Bitcoin is kept in an online computer, you are definitely going to use that device to browse and click on random links and you can't be certain if those links are safe or not. Thus you have to buy a hardware wallet for your Bitcoin and also watch out for different forms of social engineering that scammers use, like Bitcoin doubling giveaway, fake earning flatforms, etc.

They are everywhere and even in messaging apps where your number is associated with your account, out of nowhere they will come to get you by.

As long as the person is a stranger then you have the idea already that you must avoid and do not engage with them. Like what everyone is saying, no free money these days even airdrops will require you something.

Scammer and phishing attacks never stop and will continue to spread using various methods, one of which is the attack most often created by scammers by creating phishing attacks on links/websites to deceive their victims. Always exercise caution to avoid phishing, your explanation in Op already represents part of your question. Next, you need to be more realistic in responding to all offers that look profitable, because it is very likely that these offers will lead to fraud. Remember, there is no money that suddenly falls from the sky, you have to try hard to earn it.

There are many ways you can avoid scammers in the community which it will help you to be comfortable in your hodling till the market price is high before you can supply to the market to make profits.

Just apply those steps, you will always have victory over scammers:
1) Don't be carry away by free gift in the community: Many newbies fall victims to scammers through fake give away they saw in the platform that made them to change their minds to release all their personal details to scammers.
2) Stand with your knowledge: Ensure you develop good knowledge in BTC and, it will help you to identify scammers in the community because, scammers always go after newbies because they know that they are very easy to fall victims to their words.
3) Don't be carry away by other people achievement: Scammers use this common strategy to scamm people in the platform by showcasing other people success just to convince other people.

The problem of scammers is quite widespread in the cryptocurrency environment and is associated with cyberspace. But as someone who regularly works with crypto, I recognize some basic situations
- links that contain viruses, hijack devices or steal information.
- investment with attractive profits from such meaningless project, usually it works more in bullrun phase and various marketing programs to attract users.
- tokens take over users' rights, this is very common in recent years, operating mainly on the chains ETH, BNB, MATIC,...
- people who think they have skills, and want to share how to make money. Most of them are just taking advantage of the greedy psychology of newbies to make them put money in the pockets of scammers.
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There are many other scenarios that I think will come up for someone, but for now, these are the things I see most often in this market. But don't be too scared because the problem is due to our information management, and improving our investment skills to prevent these things from being exposed and causing harm.

Thats quite easy if you really meant to avoid it. Usually scammers takes in the form of a good samaritan that will lend or give you free money but its a total opposite of it since they will lure you and when you are already hooked then they will start doing their hidden agenda. Might as well avoid strangers or talking to someone you literally didnt know.

You can't avoid scammers, you will encounter them all the time. Sometimes they will approach you, sometimes you will find their offers. What you need is avoid dealing with them, and for that there's a simple principle - if an offer is good, and all that is required is for you to send them your money, then it's likely a scam. That's it - don't send your money to strangers on the Internet if you don't want to get scammed.

And if the OP is in telegram, discord and other social media channles, you will likely receive unsolicited offers or PMs.
Ignore them as much as possible as more than likely, they are just looking for naive users that will take their bait.
And when it comes to phishing emails, don't believe too-good-to-be-true emails, because the chance is they are really bogus.

When someone messages or emails you that you've won big money but you can't remember that you have joined any promo then that's an obvious scam.
Another scenario is when someone wants to give you money out of nowhere and you are just randomly picked, there's no free money anymore coming from a stranger nowadays unless that person is a content creator but usually they do it in person. So, going back with these unusual messages to you that they're generously going to give you $xxxxx money, that's already a sign that you have to ignore and delete their message and never respond to any of them.

when I read your post I understand the first one but the second is I don't. Well, the thing is it's about being cautious about receiving emails as it might be a fake email sent by scammers pretending to be the original website or as you said mimicking the original. You should complete your post mate so that OP would also understand what you mean because there are parts of your post that isn't complete like the one I pointed out. Anyway, if you suggest to OP using bookmark for the legit website is helpful and yes it is helpful but still it isn't secured 100% as it could also be compromised. Well, bookmarking the legit or real website is surely helpful but it is much better if you typed it yourself and triple check first before pressing enter.

Welcome on board.

Careful of what you click is not enough to keep you safe from phishing attacks if you don't familiarize yourself with the real website. Another thing you should emails mimicking.

Good call reaching out for tips on steering clear of scams and phishing in crypto.  It's still kind of like the Wild West here, so keeping your guard up about where you click and how you store your coins is critical.  I think knowledge is the key. The more you know, the less chance you have of falling for a scam. Don't be shy asking around either - folks here have got some serious experience navigating the crypto space safely.  They can definitely drop some useful tips to avoid getting hacked in this digital jungle.

The cause of getting scammed is when a person is being greedy and when someone or a group of people send that person a message then that person is most likely getting scammed because of being greedy. When a person visit a website and got free money but requires to deposit first before he/she can withdraw the amount is a scam. In these times, there's no such thing as free money (all the time) although there are some cases or times where there's a free money but you can hardly find other so that's why we still believe that there's no such thing as free money. Be knowledgeable on what scammers do to scam people.

Educate yourself on the latest forms of scamming. Scammers might be smart but we can always be a lot wiser to them if we chose to educate ourselves on how to protect our private keys to its utmost security and be more aware on the latest trends on how these type of people scam the innocent people. If we do things at a high caution, surely we will learn to avoid them as much as possible.

The crypto market at some point becomes the playground of scammers already. With this, we need not to trust others but only ourselves. Learn to be suspicious most of the time. Educate yourself by conducting continuous research as much as possible. And lastly, never fall on too good to be true offers, and never open those random links that you don't even know who the sender is or is the sender can be reliable or not.

Basically it is very difficult to identify a scam before it occurs. However, to avoid this, it's a good idea to visit trusted and well-known sites. To avoid phishing, don't install applications carelessly, always make sure what you install is official.

I generally avoid offers that are too good or unreasonable. This model is commonly used by spammers. For example, there is an investment offer with a profit of 50% per month, to me that doesn't make sense and is most likely a scam.

Scam is not what can just come to you like that without you being involved in the process that aid them to attack you, make sure you avoid any unnecessary downloads from unsolicited website or link address, don't expose your private keys to the public and avoid any third party from having access to any of your devices used.


After you might have done this, you also need to know the kind of wallets that are expected of you to use, not every wallet is safe for you, there are some already recommended by members here which most of us are familiar with and used, avoid centralized exchanges lastly.

I appreciate your question, my advice for you to avoid fraudsters on the internet is don't be easily tempted by anything on the internet, there are many fraudsters who take advantage of people's greed to make a profit for themselves, besides that, don't be too friendly with people you just met on the internet, there are many fraudsters who pretend to be friends or good people on the internet, even though in fact they are trying to find a way to trick you, the internet world is full of deception, always verify whatever you find on the Internet first.

Thank you for your guidance and I know you all are experienced members that's why I am sticking to this forum, actually my Major concerns was about some news I do hear over the internet how people get hacked and their funds got stolen or even how some groups of people do launched project at the ends they dump empty tokens on their investors, just similar to what you explained above so I am trying my possible best to make sure I didn't experience any difficulty or even as a victim because I know it's very hard to save money to invest in digital asset especially the sudden rise of dollars against our local currency.

So it's very difficult for one to raise money and convert them to dollars before buying bitcoin, I want to make sure all my money spent are in a better place rather than going to waste it in unknown place or to the hand of scammers these are what propelled me to create this topic in other to be guided with my investment.

In the country where I came from its very hard for an average man to survive especially our government not doing with her citizens I wouldn't want anything to attributes to our predicaments which might possibly cause a serious damage to my life and that of my family because to anything I does I easily relate with one person in my family.

To avoid scammers and other cybercriminals, you have to know that you cannot be caught slipping. You need to always maintain consciousness about your security and ensure that you do not let your guard down even for a small moment. Scammers are using new ways and means to deceive people into clicking phishing links, so you have to maintain awareness and not be in a rush to click any links sent to you either by someone you know or someone you do not know. It can be bad to get scammed, it can lead to depression and loss of determination to want to continue investing, it is not something that you as an investor in bitcoins will like to happen to you.