How many scammers have you funded by putting your money in? - page 7.

mrongos

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Quote from: hodap on May 03, 2021, 10:53:50 AM

I once tricked a Telegram scammer into believing I am going to send him some BTC. He reached out to me telling me about his sick mom, and I fully responded with all empathy you can imagine, but in a tricky way. I asked him how quickly he needs the BTC and he said immediately. I said I can't because I have my hardware wallet at home and won't be home before two days later. That guy bombarded me with messages asking when exactly I will be home. He said he already told his mom help is coming ^^I hope he lied, if not may a lightning bring me judgment! Cheesy

Some time many scammer make you believe with some site show to you about he has much money but can withdraw because not get enough balance, then they give us the ID and password about this account, but never believe with that because they try to make you scam and better looking with other opportunity with your assets,

hodap

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I once tricked a Telegram scammer into believing I am going to send him some BTC. He reached out to me telling me about his sick mom, and I fully responded with all empathy you can imagine, but in a tricky way. I asked him how quickly he needs the BTC and he said immediately. I said I can't because I have my hardware wallet at home and won't be home before two days later. That guy bombarded me with messages asking when exactly I will be home. He said he already told his mom help is coming ^^I hope he lied, if not may a lightning bring me judgment! Cheesy

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I've met a lot of scammers throughout my journey in cryptocurrencies since 2017, and yes there are no such clear glasses to see through the project. Sometimes what we've thought a great project with the great whitepaper, developers, and so on apparently just professional scammers. I was amazed by their effort. I can't even differentiate between the legit and the scam one. However, although not 100% accurate, I started to learn to be wiser in choosing projects. Currently, the scam was just changing the name and form. They would always be those devils in crypto as long as there's no regulation, so let's bear with it and guard ourselves right

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Quote from: MonaLeeTracy on May 02, 2021, 10:11:11 PM

This year, I lost a lot in shittoken, mostly on the Binance Smart Chain network. the desire to be able to make quick profits cost me a lot.
this is a risk that must be faced. For others I suggest to be more careful in choosing tokens that are still new, especially in terms of low liquidity which will be at risk of a scam in a short time

Yes lately the BSC network is at the top, many people use this situation to cheat.
Some people managed to get a big profit from Shittoken, it made some people interested in follow, and we can see results, there are many fooled people
And one more I want to suggest, don't buy based on other people's advice.

MonaLeeTracy

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This year, I lost a lot in shittoken, mostly on the Binance Smart Chain network. the desire to be able to make quick profits cost me a lot.
this is a risk that must be faced. For others I suggest to be more careful in choosing tokens that are still new, especially in terms of low liquidity which will be at risk of a scam in a short time

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Quote from: Gagal Mancung on May 02, 2021, 09:50:58 PM

Like sharing money for free
I have never join & invest with ICO, not interested at all.
But I noticed from year to year, scammer comes in a new way, they make it as good as possible, follow market trend

Actually not all ICO projects are scam, if we can choose carefully and do research properly, should be able to find a good ICO project.
Although I admit it is very difficult, better like you who avoid joining and investing in ICO. And only investments in top altcoins have
proven to be profitable, I agree every year there are always scammers and always take advantage of newbies who don't have knowledge
and experience in the crypto world. So avoid it if we find projects that promise huge profits in a short time. It's true that scammers always
come up with some new ways, but they usually have the same scam patterns. By offering instant profit, due to the fact that in the crypto world,
it is a long process to be able to generate large profits.

Gagal Mancung

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Like sharing money for free
I have never join & invest with ICO, not interested at all.
But I noticed from year to year, scammer comes in a new way, they make it as good as possible, follow market trend

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Quote from: soul-impact on May 01, 2021, 04:26:13 AM

It's a pretty bad thing, I think every one of us has ever made a mistake. I'm no exception. 2018 was a bad year for me, when I invested too much in ghost projects. And I'm pretty heavy, I have to stop for a while to think about learning my lesson. Around mid-2019, I just started coming back

yup! I am also one of the people who have made that mistake. I have also stopped several times to reflect on the stupidity that I have done, and think as to whether I should come back again or stop here out of frustration.

but i don't want to stop for a long time, i just need to take a break while doing a lot of my own research on some good looking projects before deciding to come back.

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Quote from: alexeyLis on April 30, 2021, 07:38:36 AM

I'm not sure that I have a moral right to tell my story because it so happened that I did not put any personal dollar, only time. I raised a little capital by completing bounty tasks of various types. But I can say with confidence that my whole story is 80% scam. Despite the huge amount of time spent on companies, I never received payment for my work. To be more specific, I can summarize the statistics of participation in bounty companies in 2018-2019, so that the next one going this way would know what awaits him on the way.
And so, on average, I spent 2 hours a day, 6 days a week on tasks. It turns out about 52 hours per month. Of these 52 hours - actually paid, it turned out 10 hours (here you have to believe me, although I can give my calculations in excel Grin

). Considering this, an hour of my work was worth 70 dollars. Consequently, I received less than $ 2940 per month. For your information, bounty companies last a couple of months on average.
Summary: it is up to everyone to decide whether to participate in bounty campaigns or not.
From myself, I can say that it is rather unpleasant to waste your time)

The more people who are attracted to a prize campaign, the more hype a campaign is, the higher the chances of a scammer coming up, expecting too much of it without further research will make it easier for us to fall into the scam trap.

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Quote from: alexeyLis on April 30, 2021, 07:38:36 AM

I'm not sure that I have a moral right to tell my story because it so happened that I did not put any personal dollar, only time. I raised a little capital by completing bounty tasks of various types. But I can say with confidence that my whole story is 80% scam. Despite the huge amount of time spent on companies, I never received payment for my work. To be more specific, I can summarize the statistics of participation in bounty companies in 2018-2019, so that the next one going this way would know what awaits him on the way.
And so, on average, I spent 2 hours a day, 6 days a week on tasks. It turns out about 52 hours per month. Of these 52 hours - actually paid, it turned out 10 hours (here you have to believe me, although I can give my calculations in excel Grin

). Considering this, an hour of my work was worth 70 dollars. Consequently, I received less than $ 2940 per month. For your information, bounty companies last a couple of months on average.
Summary: it is up to everyone to decide whether to participate in bounty campaigns or not.
From myself, I can say that it is rather unpleasant to waste your time)

Of course, by participating in various bounty campaigns, you will most likely be dealing with a scam. There is a lot of him. And of course, you should not place great hopes on this type of cryptocurrency earning.

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Quote from: cryptoperkele on April 27, 2021, 11:25:36 AM

I don't think there's no shame admitting that we make mistakes, that's where you learn from. Sometimes even with DYOR, legit looking projects turn out to be scams. And sometimes we just want to risk it.

During last bullrun ico frency 2017-2018 many people were saying that ICO scams are now over and next time people will be smarter. However now there are more scams then ever, especially rug pulls in uniswap and pancakeswap. We just don't call them ICOs anymore.

My failures of judgement contain 2 icos from many years ago which were obvious scams in hindsight : Swiss Alps Mining, Envion and one latest where Dev disappeared after i aped in to some BSC shittoken for the hopes of 2x-10 flip (i can't even remember the name of it).

Luckily i haven't invested anything i couldn't lose (to scams anyway), and i have even made money with investing to something that turned out to be scam later on. But still they are obviously annoying.

So i would like to hear your stories on how did you get scammed. Was it because you aped in without research or something else?

It's a pretty bad thing, I think every one of us has ever made a mistake. I'm no exception. 2018 was a bad year for me, when I invested too much in ghost projects. And I'm pretty heavy, I have to stop for a while to think about learning my lesson. Around mid-2019, I just started coming back

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I've lost couple of my accounts when i was 11-13 y.o. so i learned about scammers pretty early. So i never have sent my money or coins to someone. But i don't blame people who've been caught. These guys usually know how to push on people and make them panic.

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Quote from: lalabotax on April 30, 2021, 07:48:07 PM

Money? -> Never
Promotions? -> several times Grin

It was so sad when at first getting scammed, but in fact, as long as we really cannot find the scam projects or when following other people only, scams will be around us so easily hunting us Grin

I also often join scam projects. There are a lot of bounty campaigns of projects that look tantalizing, but in the end I didn't get paid or even that was one of the scam projects. one of the projects that I remember the most is envion. This scam project looks really good and they managed to get money from investors very much. in the end they deceived everyone.

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I was once invest my money in a scam project which I forget the name. It was around 2017 and most of ICOs brought you money outstanding profit without even spending time for researching. I was blind back then and invested in a project which had low reputation (I made some researches on it after losing my money). They promised a lot of things and the roadmap looked very well. But in the end, I ended up lose my money to the dumpass fake founders. LinkedIn profiles are also fake too. After that incident, I was never made a same mistake again.

It is actually quite easy to spot a fraud, as long as you willing to spend your time to analyze

mrongos

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Quote from: cryptoperkele on April 27, 2021, 11:25:36 AM

I don't think there's no shame admitting that we make mistakes, that's where you learn from. Sometimes even with DYOR, legit looking projects turn out to be scams. And sometimes we just want to risk it.

During last bullrun ico frency 2017-2018 many people were saying that ICO scams are now over and next time people will be smarter. However now there are more scams then ever, especially rug pulls in uniswap and pancakeswap. We just don't call them ICOs anymore.

My failures of judgement contain 2 icos from many years ago which were obvious scams in hindsight : Swiss Alps Mining, Envion and one latest where Dev disappeared after i aped in to some BSC shittoken for the hopes of 2x-10 flip (i can't even remember the name of it).

Luckily i haven't invested anything i couldn't lose (to scams anyway), and i have even made money with investing to something that turned out to be scam later on. But still they are obviously annoying.

So i would like to hear your stories on how did you get scammed. Was it because you aped in without research or something else?

I still remember when 2 years ago there were lots of scam bounties, they didn't pay us. But fortunately I didn't put much of my money in the ICO, only attended their events, made promotions. But never mind, it's one of the challenges and risks that must be experienced. That's why I only analyze with my friends to assess whether this bounty pays or not.

MarjorieZimmermanGinger

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2017 was the year I lost a lot of money. I lost at that time because of the stupidity of investing in an ICO, which currently the tokens I get are just trash. My advice is to be more careful in investing especially in new projects. the possibility of a scam is quite high. it's better to choose an altcoin that is clear and already has a high market cap than choosing a new altcoin that has the potential to be a scam

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Money? -> Never
Promotions? -> several times Grin

It was so sad when at first getting scammed, but in fact, as long as we really cannot find the scam projects or when following other people only, scams will be around us so easily hunting us Grin

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I would also like to admit indirectly funding in scammed projects. I have not funded them with money but with my efforts. XPetroleum and kingcasino and a couple of more I remember. It is good to take some lessons from them and avoid the same in the future. Now a day's I don't participate if I feel something wrong. My decision may go wrong but this is what I think to refrain myself from participating in it.
FTEC project I remember was my first project where I invested a small amount but regret doing so.

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Quote from: slaman29 on April 29, 2021, 08:47:50 AM

Lesson is always that if you're not an expert and not too smart and don't have too much time. Invest in Bitcoin.

Yes.

That strategy and decision will never go wrong.

Quote from: iamsange on April 30, 2021, 03:17:53 PM

Joined ICO, local project the developer is same country as me. But the project really hype and look very promising. But after ICO end, the dev showing off new phone and people start think that the guy bought it with money from ICO. And then usage of investment money that different from their whitepaper make the coin die instantly. A lot of people lose in their investment include me.

That's usually the scene in the ICO or crowdfunding before. They're all hype based and those projects that survived are lucky to still remain and push what's on their whitepaper. But if a project has seen a very bad progress, they'll be having the other path that all investors won't like.

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I can tell you most of the low income earners in crypto has fallen victim of investing in this scam shits since the emergence of SAFEMOON, SAFEMARS and the likes. Many of those shit coins appear to be the next big thing until their owners suddenly rugpull and run away with investors funds.

There is no amount of research you can do on shit coins that can bring a positive feedback. You just take your chances and also take your losses if they go otherwise.

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