I wasn't scammed. I was almost got my wallet hacked back in 2018-2019. I can't quite remember the exact date.
It was from an airdrop of a certain new coin that is about to run their ICO. I put in my junk details to avoid possible identity theft, then I checked my junk email that day and got an email from the airdrop. It was that they want me to claim my token, but then it was a clone MEW site that I got led into. Almost put in my private keys there, but I already smelled the first fishiness of the site on how the css and layout of the site looked like.
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Luckily I have never invested in a scam project, but I did invest in shitcoin. I invested during the market crash around mid 2018, they promised a minimum of 5x, and stupidly I believed it because it made sense. and until now the token was worthless, lol
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
). 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)
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
). 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)
I did not invest money to participate in other activities such as ICO，But I spend a lot of time doing bounties or airdrops, and many of them are not harvested，So now I just need to find a good project to do it.
very much, even I joined the bounty campaign of those scam projects. I even forgot how many projects I participated in, they seemed very professional in releasing projects, but in the end they turned out to be scammets. I invested a lot even though it wasn't that big between 50-100$ per project. but still suffer a huge loss if all counts.
About 5-10 I think I like to invest in doubler or Ponzi/Pyramid schemes when I was new in crypto,
I also like to ride on gamblers they would play with our money and give back a fixed reward since I believe on their skills but some of them would only be good for a few times and would run away with your money.
I know it was my fault for trusting those kind of people or investment so I just take it as an experience and lesson to never trust those kind of investment again.
I also like to ride on gamblers they would play with our money and give back a fixed reward since I believe on their skills but some of them would only be good for a few times and would run away with your money.
I know it was my fault for trusting those kind of people or investment so I just take it as an experience and lesson to never trust those kind of investment again.
Lol, I'm glad I didn't make any mistakes with scam projects. Maybe, I'm a bit sensitive and I always do thorough analysis, keep an eye on important situations, I'm quite a perfectionist for ICOs, I would rather not invest my money, not put my money on the spoilers. .. I have quite good psychological control over the calling situations from the community. No, I am not overshadowed by an unrealistic, illusion!
The market boom will last very long since this year. Therefore, I hope the boys use the wisdom of their eyes to cleanse the projects of sabotage, deception, occupation and causing consequences to this space. Be passionate in a wise way!
The market boom will last very long since this year. Therefore, I hope the boys use the wisdom of their eyes to cleanse the projects of sabotage, deception, occupation and causing consequences to this space. Be passionate in a wise way!
None for me.
When I'm still starting to learn cryptos, there was a time where I focused on scams and I researched what are the common ways these scammers are using when they are scamming people and luckily after some research I didn't fall into their traps until now.
I know that being scammed is part of every investor especially when they are starting. Being scammed once is still ok but being scammed twice with the same strategy that scammers are used?? That is pure ignorance already. As an investor, you should know which projects/investments are scams and which are not.
P.S. I still remember I want to invest into Fantom ICO last 2017 when they launched it but unfortunately, I'm not one of the whitelisted investors. That is the first ICO that I want to invest with but I didn't and now 4 years after their token sale, it went up more than 50x already. Anyway, that is what it is
. Just move on.
When I'm still starting to learn cryptos, there was a time where I focused on scams and I researched what are the common ways these scammers are using when they are scamming people and luckily after some research I didn't fall into their traps until now.
I know that being scammed is part of every investor especially when they are starting. Being scammed once is still ok but being scammed twice with the same strategy that scammers are used?? That is pure ignorance already. As an investor, you should know which projects/investments are scams and which are not.
P.S. I still remember I want to invest into Fantom ICO last 2017 when they launched it but unfortunately, I'm not one of the whitelisted investors. That is the first ICO that I want to invest with but I didn't and now 4 years after their token sale, it went up more than 50x already. Anyway, that is what it is
. Just move on. 
Thank God, I still haven't experienced being scammed yet. I don't know if its because I'm cautious or just too Anxious to let go of my fund. Either way, by reading from this Thread I learned and increased my knowledge on how not to get scam in the future. BAck in my early transactions, some of my mates would get angry for losing to scam but later on they'll just let it go cause it's what risk takers like them would do.
Every ICO I have ever invested in turned out to be a scam or a failure. Paragon Coin, BitDice, Edgeless, and SIFT have all failed miserably. I don't know if they were all intending to scam or it just turned out that way but I have been really disappointed with ICOs.
For scam projects, gladly, I never experienced it.
However, for such kind of shitcoins because only following the hype at that time was yeah, it is likely a funny experince. Let's see the Ignis and NXT. they are not scams, but maybe many people know how the progress of these coins
But, let it flow and let it be, at least, it can be my important experience where not to put my money into hyped coins or tokens, because this is very risky. Although always being ready for all kind of risks, at least, we are better to minimize the risks or avoid the risks.
However, for such kind of shitcoins because only following the hype at that time was yeah, it is likely a funny experince. Let's see the Ignis and NXT. they are not scams, but maybe many people know how the progress of these coins
But, let it flow and let it be, at least, it can be my important experience where not to put my money into hyped coins or tokens, because this is very risky. Although always being ready for all kind of risks, at least, we are better to minimize the risks or avoid the risks.
In 2018 there were a lot of people losing money with scam ICO, at which point people were investing in ICO based on hype.
I also participated in a few ICOs at that time and lost my money, it was a sad experience.
I was one of the victims. At that time I was still a newbie and was carried away by the hype, so I joined ICO without doing any analysis first. yes, it's purely my fault. after that I lost up to 80%. I forgot the name of the project, which I don't want to remember anymore. lolI also participated in a few ICOs at that time and lost my money, it was a sad experience.
That's an important lesson for me, since then I have been more careful before joining any project and prefer projects that are already running and have good prospects.
I think that year there were also many who experienced the same thing.
For ico fraud I experienced 3 in 2018, 2 in 2019. And that's all I did without research. I bought and invested there based on high Twitter followers and the active community in telegram. I don't even remember the name of the project because I just joined in. I even found out the project was a scam after the telegram was inactive for a few months. i admit i am very stupid haha
In 2018 there were a lot of people losing money with scam ICO, at which point people were investing in ICO based on hype.I also participated in a few ICOs at that time and lost my money, it was a sad experience.
I think the majority of people in this market have been victims of scammers.
I have been a victim of them myself, I have been involved in promoting the Markaccy project, so far they have been revealed to be scammers.
I have been a victim of them myself, I have been involved in promoting the Markaccy project, so far they have been revealed to be scammers.
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Form my 4 years crypto life I did not put any money to scammer box before this year. But a few months ago I invested in a ICO (defi project) about 1 ETH. It was my bad that I did not investigate more the project. I thought I am gambling this (Go high or nothing). I lost the money. This was my first ICO investment and I lose that money. 
Omg. I have been fooled so many times that it is quite embarrassing to talk about it. I have been in this industry for soooooo long and have seen good projects that are obviously better than the ones I invested in. Its just that my dumb eyes back then were easily fooled by baseless and too good time be true promises. Good thing though is I only invest amounts that are of not that much use to me so I can easily move on from the pain. But still though, I could've been sitting on hundreds of thousands of dollars had I invested in the right ones instead back then. I even invested on doge due to my stupidity back then but sold when I realised it was a joke of a coin but now I feel even more dumb than ever watching how much dogecoin went up in price recently. This industry is making me nuts!
I never put money in to envoin and alp mining, first time i got scamed was LTC gear which operate by bee keeper and i think a lot of people here got scamed by him. After that tragedy i never buy any bitcoin cloud mining. For the ICO, i put on AAVE, Swissborg, dent and pundixwhich is not scam project.
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For ICO, there are many specially those in 2019. I got 3 which gives me more knowledge on how to spot one and how to protect my funds.
Will you mind if you can share your method on how to spot scam project? That will be beneficial to the Bitcointalk community since tons of scam ICO existing daily and still many newbie fell for it though.
I also do bounties and got paid by scam coins also which is worth nothing sadly.
This is the saddest part to here. Because scammers are using free advertisement from Bounty hunters who has no idea about the service they are promoting. 
Scammer got me once when I was a new in cryptoworld, I send ETH hoping to get more ETH in return only to find out that, it was a scam and I lose money that time. I almost got scammed with so many ICO’s before but fortunately, I was able to leave right before the team exit the market. I guess early users here in the forum have their own story about scam project, the market is over populated that time with fake projects.
For ICO, there are many specially those in 2019. I got 3 which gives me more knowledge on how to spot one and how to protect my funds. I also do bounties and got paid by scam coins also which is worth nothing sadly.
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