How many times have you've been scammed? - page 19.

Zadicar

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Quote from: chesatochi on November 29, 2016, 11:32:38 AM

I got scammed one time in a high investment at risk, now I try to do my due diligence before investing or try something new on the internet. The feeling is never cool when you invest your hard earned money or bitcoin and lost them all, people can't lose faith.

Also when I joined the bitcoin community this past summer I wanted to invest in bitcoin mining, but before I wanted to make the move, the site shut down Wink

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We could really not avoid these kind of circumtances at first time because of lack of knowledge thats why we fall easily into these schemes because when we are a newbie we are mostly like to earn money on a fast way without any hard works involve thats why we put up directly our money on this HYIPS and hoping and believing that it will give us good money on the long run but most of them ran away on earlier times and its really frustrating especially the money you invest on is a hard earned money same as you mentioned.

chesatochi

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I got scammed one time in a high investment at risk, now I try to do my due diligence before investing or try something new on the internet. The feeling is never cool when you invest your hard earned money or bitcoin and lost them all, people can't lose faith.

Also when I joined the bitcoin community this past summer I wanted to invest in bitcoin mining, but before I wanted to make the move, the site shut down Wink

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ardentvolcanoes

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I can say that I have been scammed by hyips 10 times or less. after being scammed for how many times then I got tired of putting some of my coin to some of fake investments especially those doublers because I realized that i will be losing more and more of my hard earned satoshis so I stopped and avoid being fooled by these scammers.

mastica

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I had been scammed at some hyip this year, i had tryed with 0,001btc, and in the past with bitcoin no money lost for the scammers, but before bitcoin i had lost money at paid to click websites, were i did buy gold, and when i were starting to get my investement back they run away, the biggest value i spent were 104 dollars at one single ptc.

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what is this "brake pedal" you speak of?

just once, butterfly labs.

only being scammed once must mean im not trying hard enough. after all, no risk, no gain.

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I have invested in several cloudmining services, the company shutdown before I got my ROI. I never invested in HYIP's and ponzi sites since I'm well aware about this stuff. I thought cloudmining is different because way back that time, cloudmining is very popular, then it turns out to be a big ponzi scheme.

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Quote from: olubams on November 29, 2016, 09:45:35 AM

I have been scammed quite a number of times and I have regarded all as a form of lesson. Firstly was as by HYIP as I was a novice. I saw this nice site with all the promises and the likes and I was like " i could really make a cool money" but alas the dream was cut short my money went down the drain. The other one was when I wanted to exchange Bitcoin to FIAT, I was actually still a novice then too. I was scammed and because Bitcoin is irreversible, I lost my money...

Hmm., it's a sad story or experience. It all does happen because we haven't learned the science or it could be said that any of the things we do and get bad results then it is a learning more means than formal learning (school). So every experience will make a very big Foundation and will eventually create a huge advantage for those who are willing to be patient

yayayo

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I've never been scammed within the Bitcoin realm. Maybe I was just lucky. Maybe I'm not an attractive target for scammers, because I'm not rich. Maybe it's because I'm a rather paranoid individual... Cheesy

I don't really know. But I witnessed other people being scammed and took extra precautions for myself. After all the characteristics of scams in the cryptosphere are no different than in real life (for example making up fantastic stories, promising big returns), so if you pay attention and don't fall for your own greed, you can quite easily spot a lot of potential scams. That said, you can never be sure what the future brings - maybe I will fall for a BTC scam some day.

Although I'm not a victim myself I feel a lot of compassion with those who suffered from a scam. Scammers are one of the most gutless and malicious kind of criminals, who also do great damage to the perception of Bitcoin. They deserve to burn in hell.

ya.ya.yo!

olubams

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I have been scammed quite a number of times and I have regarded all as a form of lesson. Firstly was as by HYIP as I was a novice. I saw this nice site with all the promises and the likes and I was like " i could really make a cool money" but alas the dream was cut short my money went down the drain. The other one was when I wanted to exchange Bitcoin to FIAT, I was actually still a novice then too. I was scammed and because Bitcoin is irreversible, I lost my money...

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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`ve never been scammed while trading btc with other users here or on localbitcoins.com.

I`ve never used any cloud mining,hyip websites and i don`t understand why people continue

to use them and give them btc.

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scammed in bitcoins? never. and I'm definitely not looking forward to it. lol

Kevin77

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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.

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Quote from: clickerz on November 29, 2016, 08:58:57 AM

How many times? I can not count already LOL

When I was just starting from bitcoin, I joined so many faucets sites. Some are paying, and some are not. I Also joined several HYIP's program and mostly I lost and did not recover. Joined some cloud mining too. See? So many experience already Grin

Until one day, I discovered https://bitcointalk.org, I mean this site and read topics here. I learned trading here and I am very grateful of this site as it gives me real opportunity to earn online. I am also earning from signature campaign.which is also a great way to earn while expressing your ideas.

Just like you i have already many experience regarding on scams on this online world or in this crypto world. Ive experienced already being scammed on HYIPS,PONZI sites, Altcoin and ICO scams and somehow lose up money on trading since i was still a newbie on that time and dont have enough knowledge into things thats why.
Same as yours,i do find this forum and already know about those past mistakes that ive done and i learned too much on this site,.

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How many times? I can not count already LOL

When I was just starting from bitcoin, I joined so many faucets sites. Some are paying, and some are not. I Also joined several HYIP's program and mostly I lost and did not recover. Joined some cloud mining too. See? So many experience already Grin

Until one day, I discovered https://bitcointalk.org, I mean this site and read topics here. I learned trading here and I am very grateful of this site as it gives me real opportunity to earn online. I am also earning from signature campaign.which is also a great way to earn while expressing your ideas.

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I don't count cloud mining services, they cheated me few times but I lost time needed for registration and claiming their free hash, I deposited one dollar once and nothing more. I read what is happening here, and I'm more into gambling, there I didn't have problem's. I lost many times, and sometimes I felt like everything was set up, but that is paranoia from loosing. I don't thing casinos are rigged.
Before doing anything people should pay attention, check here what kind of service you choose to deposit your money.

mobnepal

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I have lost few bitcoin when bitfinex got hacked but i have never invested in any cloud mining, bitcoin hyip so haven't lost much. Few months ago i got tricked by one investment site which claim to run several bitcoin faucet for profit and share profit, they ran away after few month.

Techie5879

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Back from the Dead!

None; thanks to paying close attention. Going great so far! I have been able to avoid a great many ponzi schemes on which i have stumbled upon in the past three or so months, but never tried (and never will try, now) to invest anything.

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For me: twice... I once invested in what later turned out to be a ponzi cloudmining company. They made a lot of effort to make everything look legit... Fake whois, phone number, address, photoshopped images of hardware.
They payed out for a while, and afterwards disappeared with the remainder of my funds.

I've also had a guy defaulting on a loan i gave him long ago (somewhere in 2015). He gave his account as collateral but he took 2 loans at the same time and didn't give collateral to the second guy, so his collateral was red-tagged by the other victim and became useless to me.... I'm going to count that one as a scam aswell.

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Just once, by downloading a virused bot for a dice game. The creator made the first two versions legit, and the third one stole your money as soon as you got over 0.001 in your account. I do not know what happened to that guy, but he stole my money and I reported that.

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Quote from: xuan87 on November 29, 2016, 07:42:09 AM

i had been scammed so many times, when i was still newbie in bitcoin, i was mislead into Ponzi, the first ponzi i joined paid two times and the third times it ran away, and then i tried HYIP i split my coin into 3 HYIP, all of them are scams. I don't earn anything from HYIP, joined fresh cloud mining got scammed before ROI, so now i always encourage newbie or anyone else to avoid all of this things, bitcoin is a world with a lot of scammer you need to be extra careful

I think you know the risk before you invest in hyip. Because it is their warning on their website. There is no such profit on cloudmining and ponzi. The only legit on cryptoworld is trading and investing on crowdfunding. Gambling is too risky so i won't suggest it but it is more safe than hyip

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