We are not great, all tend to submit botches. On the off chance that we are hesitant to commit errors, this is a block for us to attempt. In the event that we don't attempt, how might we develop ourselves? I think the most ideal approach to do it is to teach yourself, know the fundamental and be prepared to submit botches.
Trying to develop oneself should be done by everyone, because it is very important, but at this time all people are not only required to learn in trying, but also have to learn to analyze something, both basically and in the end. 
Topic: How NOT To Get Scammed - page 5. (Read 4649 times)
We are not great, all tend to submit botches. On the off chance that we are hesitant to commit errors, this is a block for us to attempt. In the event that we don't attempt, how might we develop ourselves? I think the most ideal approach to do it is to teach yourself, know the fundamental and be prepared to submit botches.
If we follow the instructions done by the DT members on scam accusation board. We will not find any issues in your investment started or plan. Some obvious cats who can perform like their genuine but if we follow the steps by then and sleep more about the project means we can avoid scammers from this bitcointalk forum.
Thank you so much for presenting us with such a beautiful topic. I have some bad habits. After this topic, I will be very careful. Thanks again.
It is really cautious getting engage into something which promises to make someone to get rich in a quick or an instant way. Though it is really encouraging to get along with those promises, we must be mindful that getting rich can only be instant if you were born rich, otherwise, getting rich cannot be done in an instant and single way instead you must work hard for you to be able to get rich. The urge of getting rich is the main factor used by the scammers to easily victimized people to get engage into them. This is when greed enters, because we do want to get rich in an instant, we are not able to think well about our decision making that is when we are easily attracted to scam engagements. To avoid being scammed, we must keep our mind well focused on thinking and secure our accounts that we are the only one who have the access on it and do not entrust anything to a stranger. Getting rich can be done on a step by step basis and we must not push it too hard so we can avoid getting along into a scam.
we people get greedy about it and it just takes us to a failure sometimes, I think we should let not the greed get us.
Thanks for the post. I'm a newbie so this is very valueable 
Excellent set of tips, which unfortunately will not be heard. In the end, scammers get results partly because of the stupidity and naivety of the scammed, but much more often because of the greed of those who let themselves be dazzled by fantastic earnings.
I think most of those who have been scammed deserved it.
Anyone wouldn't like to any stupidity after reading this thread. If we think this, we are absolutely wrong about it. I believe if you are more active and more sensitive about scam, even though you will do wrong and get scammed. Only you can stay from it, if you research on scam problem. I think most of those who have been scammed deserved it.
I believe that every good lesson starts with a good story and on this note, I want to tell you about the experience I had that made me cautious of "Get rich quick" schemes online especially those pertaining to Cryptocurrencies.
I discovered Bitcoin in early 2013 and although I didn't take it seriously at first, I was earning little money from it doing tasks online (pay for view, faucets and such), I took it more as a hobby and never intended on selling the bitcoin, I just knew in my heart that it would do great so I wanted to accumulate as much as possible without having to spend my money buying it (this was before I got into mining), fast forward to 2015 when the money doubling schemes were everywhere, I kept seeing adverts online and even though I knew better, I decided to invest in one of them (Avabitcoin) with the coins I got from my early days of discovering bitcoin, Avabitcoin was a platform where you invest bitcoin and they supposedly invest it and return profits to you on a daily basis, I decided to take the risk and invested for the first day, got back my money plus 12% profit, and greed overtook me and I did kept doing it for 2 more weeks before they vanished with my funds. I kept going all in even when I had already doubled my money.
If you want to avoid getting scammed online, you just have to follow the following:
Greed: Greed has led a lot of people straight to rekt, like my story above would have told you, I couldn't resist the pull of greed even when I had doubled my funds.
HYIPs: When it looks too good to be true, then it's probably too good to be true, when you see any investments that promise high yield returns, please stay far away from them, when you see genuine projects that offers returns, most of their returns are so low, some of them are average of 10% per annum and it's a wonder that we see platforms offering 10% and above in a day and we gladly jump straight into rekt, like I said, if it sounds too good to be true, then it's too good to be true.
FOMO: If not for the hype that Avabitcoin generated, I would not have invested in it in 2015, learn how to DYOR and avoid what others have to say about projects they seem to support, infact your mindset should be that everybody is trying to rip you off so if you always look at every hyped project with that mindset, you would have a clearer picture of the project without the blindfold of FOMO.
Rushing: Avoid rushing into any investment because you heard it's paying others, one of the virtues of a Cryptocurrency investor is patience, Cryptocurrency investments are high risk investments and you have to treat it like gambling, never invest more than you can afford to lose, never go all in on any project no matter how good it looks.
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Click on random websites: Many airdrop websites you see these days asking for personal details are fake and many of them are just clever ways to steal your private details and use it to steal your funds, be careful of the links you click and if possible, bookmark your sensitive websites (the ones that need private information like private keys and passwords) so that you wouldn't fall for a clone website.
Use new wallets: We can all remember the recent incident that happened with satowallet where the wallet stopped working and users lost a sizable amount of funds, we should stick to the existing and trusted wallets instead of just jumping into any random wallets swe see online, many of them don't have your best interest at heart.
Repeat Passwords: I was just surfing through the forum a few minutes ago and saw a post where a guy managed to hack an ICO website and contacted the admins and the admins just don't care, never repeat passwords in two websites so that if a hacker manages to get their hands on one of your passwords, they would not be able to affect your funds in other platforms.
If you have any similar experience, please kindly share it, it might help others (especially the newbies to avoid being scammed by shady projects out there and if I see good suggestions, I would edit this post and add them as well.
Seen some awesome answers and I would be adding them soon, keep the suggestions coming.
I discovered Bitcoin in early 2013 and although I didn't take it seriously at first, I was earning little money from it doing tasks online (pay for view, faucets and such), I took it more as a hobby and never intended on selling the bitcoin, I just knew in my heart that it would do great so I wanted to accumulate as much as possible without having to spend my money buying it (this was before I got into mining), fast forward to 2015 when the money doubling schemes were everywhere, I kept seeing adverts online and even though I knew better, I decided to invest in one of them (Avabitcoin) with the coins I got from my early days of discovering bitcoin, Avabitcoin was a platform where you invest bitcoin and they supposedly invest it and return profits to you on a daily basis, I decided to take the risk and invested for the first day, got back my money plus 12% profit, and greed overtook me and I did kept doing it for 2 more weeks before they vanished with my funds. I kept going all in even when I had already doubled my money.
If you want to avoid getting scammed online, you just have to follow the following:
Greed: Greed has led a lot of people straight to rekt, like my story above would have told you, I couldn't resist the pull of greed even when I had doubled my funds.
HYIPs: When it looks too good to be true, then it's probably too good to be true, when you see any investments that promise high yield returns, please stay far away from them, when you see genuine projects that offers returns, most of their returns are so low, some of them are average of 10% per annum and it's a wonder that we see platforms offering 10% and above in a day and we gladly jump straight into rekt, like I said, if it sounds too good to be true, then it's too good to be true.
FOMO: If not for the hype that Avabitcoin generated, I would not have invested in it in 2015, learn how to DYOR and avoid what others have to say about projects they seem to support, infact your mindset should be that everybody is trying to rip you off so if you always look at every hyped project with that mindset, you would have a clearer picture of the project without the blindfold of FOMO.
Rushing: Avoid rushing into any investment because you heard it's paying others, one of the virtues of a Cryptocurrency investor is patience, Cryptocurrency investments are high risk investments and you have to treat it like gambling, never invest more than you can afford to lose, never go all in on any project no matter how good it looks.
EDIT:
Click on random websites: Many airdrop websites you see these days asking for personal details are fake and many of them are just clever ways to steal your private details and use it to steal your funds, be careful of the links you click and if possible, bookmark your sensitive websites (the ones that need private information like private keys and passwords) so that you wouldn't fall for a clone website.
Use new wallets: We can all remember the recent incident that happened with satowallet where the wallet stopped working and users lost a sizable amount of funds, we should stick to the existing and trusted wallets instead of just jumping into any random wallets swe see online, many of them don't have your best interest at heart.
Repeat Passwords: I was just surfing through the forum a few minutes ago and saw a post where a guy managed to hack an ICO website and contacted the admins and the admins just don't care, never repeat passwords in two websites so that if a hacker manages to get their hands on one of your passwords, they would not be able to affect your funds in other platforms.
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Please try to include telegram scams on your list, they are trending big now and almost all newbies from india have fall victim to this scam tricks, scammers steal project teams image and use a near identity name too, for example a legit project team member can go by @fisher as the username and scammers will change the name to @flsher with same profile image to give you good offer, if you don't check very well you will think its legit.
If you have any similar experience, please kindly share it, it might help others (especially the newbies to avoid being scammed by shady projects out there and if I see good suggestions, I would edit this post and add them as well.
Seen some awesome answers and I would be adding them soon, keep the suggestions coming.
You really gave out the best tips so far and I wish majority of us would read and adhere to this points, I love the part "Repeat Password", as I have many friends that do use same password for all their transactions, now will copy this post link and send to them so they can read through
Excellent set of tips, which unfortunately will not be heard. In the end, scammers get results partly because of the stupidity and naivety of the scammed, but much more often because of the greed of those who let themselves be dazzled by fantastic earnings.
I think most of those who have been scammed deserved it.
I think most of those who have been scammed deserved it.
I invest in HYIP in the year 2017 2x I'm really interested the first time I make a deposit at the site of HYIP around 0.015 BTC within 1 day I get a gain of about 0.015 BTC when that time I was tempted and make a deposit of about 0.1 BTC I waited for a gain of about 0.1 BTC but it's been almost seven days I waited without BTC coming in my wallet and I regret investing in HYIP.
That is why this forum has a zero tolerance for HYIP promoting scheme because in a long run they ended up scamming many investors I felt sorry for your lost I am quite sure you are newbie then that is why you easily fell for that prank, there are cases of some greedy investors who fell to those baits dangled on them by those HYIPs and ended up being scam a word is enough for the wise.They experience the hype when 2017 comes and they think that it would happen always so they come up from assuming that they could earn from the following years so then when the year comes that there are a lot of scammer releases they get caught by trust of they've experience. Now, there are a lot of scam so think wisely because it would affect the price of bitcoin by a lot of scammer get a few victim.
I invest in HYIP in the year 2017 2x I'm really interested the first time I make a deposit at the site of HYIP around 0.015 BTC within 1 day I get a gain of about 0.015 BTC when that time I was tempted and make a deposit of about 0.1 BTC I waited for a gain of about 0.1 BTC but it's been almost seven days I waited without BTC coming in my wallet and I regret investing in HYIP.
That is why this forum has a zero tolerance for HYIP promoting scheme because in a long run they ended up scamming many investors I felt sorry for your lost I am quite sure you are newbie then that is why you easily fell for that prank, there are cases of some greedy investors who fell to those baits dangled on them by those HYIPs and ended up being scam a word is enough for the wise. 
I invest in HYIP in the year 2017 2x I'm really interested the first time I make a deposit at the site of HYIP around 0.015 BTC within 1 day I get a gain of about 0.015 BTC when that time I was tempted and make a deposit of about 0.1 BTC I waited for a gain of about 0.1 BTC but it's been almost seven days I waited without BTC coming in my wallet and I regret investing in HYIP.
There are some factors like greed, hype, lavish promises that work for the incidents of investors and bounty hunters getting scammed. There are groups of scammers, who give sweet promises and talk big only to scam investors. I find your very useful and informative about avoiding scam projects and stay safe from getting scammed. Thank you for it.
Almost all of the investors are greedy but not all of them are smart, if you are smart and greedy at the same time, you might still be successful investing here, because you know how to play the game in your favor. The problem with some investors are they are greedy and stupid at the same time, they just look at one side which is the reward and look away on the risk.
They don't understand the risk and reward in crypto, they think if they invest here, it will be like a money machine that will give instant return.
There are some factors like greed, hype, lavish promises that work for the incidents of investors and bounty hunters getting scammed. There are groups of scammers, who give sweet promises and talk big only to scam investors. I find your very useful and informative about avoiding scam projects and stay safe from getting scammed. Thank you for it.
For sure people who want to scam with us will give us good promise that does not even exist so better not to listen to them only this way we can avoid scamming. Projects that we choose for investing money should be a famous one and people must feel safe to get involved otherwise they will scam us and we will later regret investing in fake sites.
Thank you for this information. This is a good guide to avoid fraud. The most important thing is critical thinking. You always need to question any words and not believe the promises, according to which you will be able to get a big profit. This doesn't happen.
It's a grievous mistake, to use almost the same and sometimes very close password across different websites. If you feel you can easily forget the password used, why not get a note in which you can record all your passwords. Using different and complex characters can help protect your accounts.
Indeed, having different passwords in our accounts are much safer. Its one of the simple way to prevent ourselves ending up in a worse situation like hacking. We should be careful always not clicking those links sent from our email because it might a trap to hack your account.And keep in mind that in crypto there's no easy way to double your money so dont believe scammers word to make you rich quick.
It's a grievous mistake, to use almost the same and sometimes very close password across different websites. If you feel you can easily forget the password used, why not get a note in which you can record all your passwords. Using different and complex characters can help protect your accounts.
You are very accurate, greed, FOMO and hype has made some persons got scammed by projects , imagine having 50% interest instead of selling you are waiting for 200% profit when you are really not sure of the project and some are hype from paid groups to say good regarding the project which without good monitoring one join and buy. It's good you check before joining any project despite good said about it.
I remembered a very good lesson, never believe in huge profits that projects team is promising. Calculate everything on your own and if somebody is offering more than 5 percent per months, they are running a ponzi scheme.
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