How many times have you've been scammed? - page 18.

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Quote from: alphablitzer on November 29, 2016, 06:57:52 AM

What are your bad experiences in bitcoin? Not just scammed by other users it could also include HYIP, Cloud mining scams, investment scams, etc. I know it's a bad thing that happened, I think it's better to share them here so you could vent out on what you are feeling.

Feel free to post anything.

I sold some bitcoin and accepted paypal not realising how bad paypal was compromised with phished account, it is rife. Paypal simply does not care either they just pass all the liability to the seller, which is why i have never used them since and never will again.

you should learn about this and deal again and accept paypal.. because they are still reverse or charge back the money he said to you from paypal..
Unlike bitcoin that has no feature to charge back.. or refund option..

Before i scam many online in facebook fake info and invest some money that i thought that can gives me good profit but those all are scam. so those experience gives me strong to do not trust again..

Kprawn

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Last year, I also got scammed during Black Friday, as did many others.. We were all hyped up with all the Black Friday deals and did not notice

that the site was spoofed. So we lost some money... Roll Eyes

.... I also bought some jewellery online, that were faked. You had to destroy the

item to test the gold. People will go through great lengths to scam people out of their hard earned money. Angry

ukasyah

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Quote from: alphablitzer on November 29, 2016, 06:57:52 AM

What are your bad experiences in bitcoin? Not just scammed by other users it could also include HYIP, Cloud mining scams, investment scams, etc. I know it's a bad thing that happened, I think it's better to share them here so you could vent out on what you are feeling.

Feel free to post anything.

Alhamdulillah I have never been scamed because I always ask to my friend when I want to do a bitcoin related job. Even he explained me about HYIP etc in the first time he introduced bitcoin to me. Besides, I read some threads here about scam, so I carefully take bitcoin earning way.

Sithara007

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I have lost my capital many times due to my carelessness in investing coins. Wasted too much money on altcoins. But I don't know whether I can call them as scams. Other than that, I have lost a few mBTCs in a ponzi scheme.

Chris!

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I've only been 'scammed' once in the bitcoin community. It's when I was a newbie and my Blockchain.info wallet got 'hacked'. I had 2FA set up (which I never got an email) and was using the same bitcoin address I had used for a gambling website. My assumption is it was an inside job or that their algorithms for creating addresses was found out again.

That is why you don't use web wallets. I lost 0.05BTC which at the time cost me $20CAD. Today that would be $50. It annoys me still, but at least I found out early on that they were a terrible wallet. I'd hate to lose what I have now.

Adelajda

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Quote from: MingLee on November 29, 2016, 12:48:23 PM

I luckily haven't been scammed yet, however there is still a lot of potential to get scammed with some of the investments that I'm currently using. So far they've been doing fine and it doesn't look like I'll be losing anything anytime soon, but you never know for sure.

Closest I ever got to being scammed was a really long unconfirmed transaction.

it is really funny to read you post ,what are the potential you seen on you getting scammed Cheesy

what sort of investment have you done ,the possibility of losing from me is when the exchange i am using get hacked and i hope i wont lose that

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Quote from: alphablitzer on November 29, 2016, 06:57:52 AM

What are your bad experiences in bitcoin? Not just scammed by other users it could also include HYIP, Cloud mining scams, investment scams, etc. I know it's a bad thing that happened, I think it's better to share them here so you could vent out on what you are feeling.

Feel free to post anything.

I sold some bitcoin and accepted paypal not realising how bad paypal was compromised with phished account, it is rife. Paypal simply does not care either they just pass all the liability to the seller, which is why i have never used them since and never will again.

Junko

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I got scammed once out of 10BTC. This was back when bitcoin was worth ~$12-$14 or so. I staked a poker player who I only knew from here on the forums for 10 btc and he disappeared with my coins. I had staked him successfully multiple times previously for smaller amounts: 1BTC, 2BTC, 3BTC and earning 10% each time which he paid promptly each time. He seemed like a nice guy, was friendly, polite, etc. After earning my trust, I staked him for 10BTC. And that was when he disappeared never to be heard from again. Angry

I learned my lesson the hard way. Nowadays when it comes to gambling I stick to my Number One Rule(s):

When it comes to gambling, never lend or borrow and never stake anyone or ask for a stake.

Mastsetad

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Never counted, when i was new to bitcoin and that time i was just accumulating bitcoins through faucets, and that time i used to think that earning bitcoin might be quite easy so i used to believe those hyips so easily, and i got scammed by them quite a lot of times in different ways, sometimes as cloud mining, sometimes as doubling and sometimes as faucet as well.

MingLee

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I luckily haven't been scammed yet, however there is still a lot of potential to get scammed with some of the investments that I'm currently using. So far they've been doing fine and it doesn't look like I'll be losing anything anytime soon, but you never know for sure.

Closest I ever got to being scammed was a really long unconfirmed transaction.

Motivator

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I've been scammed once, and that was due to immaturity. Now that I'm more mature, I'm more cautious with my money and make sure I read aswell as plan every sale/purchase that are from individual users.

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Quote from: alphablitzer on November 29, 2016, 06:57:52 AM

What are your bad experiences in bitcoin? Not just scammed by other users it could also include HYIP, Cloud mining scams, investment scams, etc. I know it's a bad thing that happened, I think it's better to share them here so you could vent out on what you are feeling.

Feel free to post anything.

Bad experience may be a big term for me so I will put it into mild only. Remember the famous scry**.cc? That is only the ponzi scheme that able to put me on regrets. The amount concerned is not that high but back then, a small amount is really mean to me due to the fact that Im still a newbie when scry** is really famous in the world of cloudmining.

But there is a benefit after that loss since with that experience I learned how to deal with any kinds of investments online. Lesson learned indeed with great effect.

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Quote from: alphablitzer on November 29, 2016, 06:57:52 AM

What are your bad experiences in bitcoin? Not just scammed by other users it could also include HYIP, Cloud mining scams, investment scams, etc. I know it's a bad thing that happened, I think it's better to share them here so you could vent out on what you are feeling.

Feel free to post anything.

have only lost money to exchanges that run away. although i have been keeping small amounts but still that does count as scam!

but it surely is so funny to see how many have lost their money to obvious scams like HYIPs and scammy cloudmining services. sometimes it is too obvious these are scams that you are shocked when you find out there were some people who trusted them!

bamboylee

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I have been scammed by altcoins ICO. I believe it is my fault that I got scammed. I did not researched enough on the coins I am buying. So now I am wiser and avoid investing on ICO. And if ever I will invest again, i'll make sure I know everything about the product I am investing.

severaldetails

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I am one of those lucky fellows how have not been scammed yet, although I once invested into some kind of highly profitable investment (just a few dollars).
And for some reason I actually got the promised amount back.
That was at my beginnings with bitcoin. After that I never tried to invest anywhere else. Don't want to push my luck.

trigger1975

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Been scammed a few times. First in 2011 with some mining pool suddenly shut down and ran away with ~7 BTC, again in 2015 with bitcoincloudservices.com lately by some ponzi scheme site … My bad not to see it's a scamming site before sending some mBTC.

Vaskiy

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Haven't got into any scams, because from the beginning was not much greedy to earn much in a very less time. Only way by which lost lots is through gambling.

lol3c

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I think I have been scammed for quite lot Cry

As I can remember that when I first know about bitcoin, I was obsessed with those "promising and potential" investing sites and I risked to put all bitcoin into them with the hope of getting back more profit. But I was so innocence and risk-taking so after a couple of times, my bitcoin balance dropped to zero. After those painful experiences, I've promised to myself that I will never spend any of my coins for these things Grin

BitcoinPanther

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I was about to invest in a cloudmining when I read about cloudmining being not profitable investmet, and some more threads on several cloudmining sites that turns out to be a scam. From that I did not continue my plan to invest. So as of now I have not been scammed by any scam sites, Thanks to the information i found here.

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Quote from: alphablitzer on November 29, 2016, 06:57:52 AM

What are your bad experiences in bitcoin? Not just scammed by other users it could also include HYIP, Cloud mining scams, investment scams, etc. I know it's a bad thing that happened, I think it's better to share them here so you could vent out on what you are feeling.
Feel free to post anything.

I was scammed by a guy who promised to give us satoshi's as a investment, this guy would pay us certain investment he paid us two to three times. Then I put a huge investment and then he just disappeared with everyone money. All investment schemes are a scam, do not fall for any, however convincing they look

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