In bitcoin world? I think just once. By cloud mining... damn I hated that. Worst experience and that too at the start of my bitcoin usage, but I learnt my lesson.
Me too, I was thinking bitcoin mining like some magic when I was new into this and hence any site that claims that they are mining bitcoins and sharing profit, I used to fall for it. Most of the sites are scam, which I realized a bit late but anyways I have earned too a few times, loss is like negligible. 
Topic: How many times have you've been scammed? - page 14. (Read 19009 times)
When it comes to bitcoin i got scammed 2 times, one was when i started learning about bitcoin and i wanted to buy it so i went searching for a good price when i came across this site that offered me to buy bitcoin for half of its price and i got scammed for 200 $ 
, and one when i first started earning i put 35$ in a cloud mining site i believe it was Hash Ocean and then the site closed.
You should learn right now since i think we are already experience to be scam here online so right now increase your instinct and always check every thing and ask if it is legit or not here in forum experience is the best to learn that there is no cheaper than the present price of bitcoin and there is offering 100% free money just to invest in cloud mining site or ponzi.. better to stay away and look for other way to find a good source of bitcoin.. , and one when i first started earning i put 35$ in a cloud mining site i believe it was Hash Ocean and then the site closed.
I have been scammed for quite a lot of times when I was still a newbie in bitcoin because of my enthusiasm about it and wanted to double my bitcoin as fast as possible, I ended up joining a lot of HYIP in short amount of time and then they all disappeared in an instance, then I tried to join lending sites like btcjam but it ended up the same cause almost all of the borrowers I funded defaulted their loans. But at least now I have the experience to see what is a scam and what is not.
When it comes to bitcoin i got scammed 2 times, one was when i started learning about bitcoin and i wanted to buy it so i went searching for a good price when i came across this site that offered me to buy bitcoin for half of its price and i got scammed for 200 $ , and one when i first started earning i put 35$ in a cloud mining site i believe it was Hash Ocean and then the site closed.
, and one when i first started earning i put 35$ in a cloud mining site i believe it was Hash Ocean and then the site closed. 
I have never been scammed, if you ask me bitcoin is the safest way of monetary transaction, if you check how much people get scammed in other fiat currencies comparing to that with bitcoin it is safest way. Also with ‘no backsies’ ideology people are even more careful.
If I were to tell, I would say that it happened more than 1000 times, being honest, when I arrived in this forum I believed that the HYIP sites that were posted here in the forum were legitmos. I mean, who would have thought that bitcointalk would have scammers? In my head it was like: impossible, nobody in this forum would steal something like 0.001 btc. But I was wrong. All site that was posted here, not pay. All site was just shitty ponzi sites. Sites created by thieves.
But I learned to lesson. Never invest money on ponzi sites, hyip, double.
Always do research on every site you see, every new coin you see, you should do research. Scammers do not rest and do not measure means to achieve their goals.
But I learned to lesson. Never invest money on ponzi sites, hyip, double.
Always do research on every site you see, every new coin you see, you should do research. Scammers do not rest and do not measure means to achieve their goals.
first time i got scammed in Cloud Mining but after that i have never went for any offers from any one which is too good to reject but having bad experience from previous i got saved. But after that one genuine offer look a like gave me offer to download the exe file and install and do daily work but as soon as i downloaded the exe file my computer got hacked and my wallet got hacked and my account become zero.
I lost few bitcoin in cloud mining ponzis before like in coince better to say them as hyip with the face of cloud mining with big promises. Other than them i haven't tried any other hyip/cloud mining because i have learnt a very good and useful lesson not to invest in any big promising program giving high return daily.
Fortunately I never lost any money in scams but yes I have paid some amount frequently to learn some lessons (I ended up in learning lessons by throwing money). When I started trading, I used to follow the some piece advice from the shoutbox and thus met with loss 99% or more. Definitely it was not scam but still I lost money in such cases and I learned a lot from such incidents.
I have been scammed by many users many times because I had been so gentle to all of them and whenever they asked for some loans as a help, I gave them and they never returned them back. I could have easily given away more than 2 bitcoins in just loans, and even few were my friends.
Be nice to everyone. That is good. But don't be stupid.
No one will advice you to refrain from giving out loans to others. But at the same time, you must ask for some collateral in return. Giving out a loan without collateral is the stupidest thing that a Bitcoiner can do.
This is not nice at all, I get how you feelin. Sithara told you nicely, be good and nice to everyone but don`t be stupid. Before giving something make sure they will able to return it in some way. This is a lot of money to just be given away, for me that is a little fortune, 2 btc in no return loans.
Well I hope you will be able to earn that money on some other way. Good luck my friend.
I have been scammed by many users many times because I had been so gentle to all of them and whenever they asked for some loans as a help, I gave them and they never returned them back. I could have easily given away more than 2 bitcoins in just loans, and even few were my friends.
Be nice to everyone. That is good. But don't be stupid.
No one will advice you to refrain from giving out loans to others. But at the same time, you must ask for some collateral in return. Giving out a loan without collateral is the stupidest thing that a Bitcoiner can do.
2 btc is already a lot. 
I have been scammed by many users many times because I had been so gentle to all of them and whenever they asked for some loans as a help, I gave them and they never returned them back. I could have easily given away more than 2 bitcoins in just loans, and even few were my friends.
Be nice to everyone. That is good. But don't be stupid.
No one will advice you to refrain from giving out loans to others. But at the same time, you must ask for some collateral in return. Giving out a loan without collateral is the stupidest thing that a Bitcoiner can do.
Mine include HYIP, Cloud mining scams and ICO scams. I have been scammed twice with HYIP then I stopped and moved into HashOcean which was not that hurt because my repayment was almost completed and the ICO scam was Declouds. I have learnt now that there is no free food in life.
I have lost few mBTC with one Nigeria based altcoin exchange (really could not recall its name). Till date I regret for what action must be cex.io cloud mining investments. I bought hash power for more than 0.2 BTC but recovered less than 0.1 BTC, it is not scam yet. But I have not reached ROI with them and my hash power is simply sleeping there.
I have not tried investing in a cloud mining firm or invest in something that says you could profit. From what I've learned here in Bitcointalk, it's always a scam, especially when it has big returns (obviously when it's too good to be true, it is). Are there even Bitcoin investments that you could really earn profit from?
Actually it is unfair to say scam to the sites that is yet proven to be a scam site, but of course as client or investors we should do our own research to be able to spot this somehow fishy offers. One of our way of detecting scam is when their offer is good to be true and u got it lol, anyway there are some investment that you can earn profit, one of which is thru investing in casino bankroll but there is also of risk on having a negative profit on that. But I read that Beking.Io is having their ICO, so in my opinion, that would be a good investment since they have been in the industry for years, besides one of the thread here show, in his venture in Casino investment, that BetKing is capable of giving profit to its investors.
I have been scammed twice in one year by two different site I now I should of learnt my lesson but I did not but have learned a thing now never deal with bitcoin with paypal as that is how I got scammed so now if I did use paypal never send as friends and family !
How did you lose money with Paypal and BTC? Did you use any unknown service to make the transaction for you?
I know there are members on this forum able to make the transaction between Paypal-BTC without issues. You should check them here before use any other kind of service offering the same results. They know exactly the trick to make it works fine without later headaches.
I have been scammed twice in one year by two different site I now I should of learnt my lesson but I did not but have learned a thing now never deal with bitcoin with paypal as that is how I got scammed so now if I did use paypal never send as friends and family !
No doubt scammers are here in bitcoin world, but it is not difficult to handle them, only use your mind well and do the right work in investment. Actually, many chances of scammers are here in investment instead of trading and gambling. That's why i am not giving my amount to an other hand, because i am doing my own investment.
It is quite simple in hindsight but its hard when we are either new or are desperate like for example you need a quick loan and a newbie says you send him account details and he sends you loan, so sometimes we might get tempted and hence the scammer takes the account. But hey guys if such things happened to you, you can claim back account.
When I was a newbie, I have invested in some HYIP sites, and doubler sites because I wanted to make some quick money. I also got scammed buying small amounts of bitcoins, exchanging bitcoins into prepaid load, and P2P buying/selling altcoins. I'd say I have been scammed at least 15 times ever since. Nowadays, I don't do transactions unless I personally know the person I'm transacting with or my friends said that the said person wasn't a scammed and they have had transactions with him before.
In my early days here in bitcoin world, I was scammed many time as all of the HYIP I joined scammed me resulting to overall loses of quite a big amount for me. I don't remember exactly how much I lose but one thing I have proven is that never trust on investment with HYIP.
Well I've been scammed before when I was just starting on bitcoin. Due to lack of knowledge on things such as 1-10days investment sites. But now that I know about those kind of things, then I'm very rarely to be scam since experience teach me how to avoid those things.
Im on the same way too. I have been scammed five times before, I was a newbie at that time. But after that I have learned some things by research and asking questions how to avoid scams. So at this day I am no longer prone to scam sites but I have been gambling recently so I still lost my bitcoins to gambling sites.
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