That's normal because until now there are still people who viewed bitcoin like a HYIP.
Scammers are pretty smart on convincing people, maybe they'll start by saying, bitcoin when started was $1 and look at the price now, so that alone would already attract people with no enough knowledge about bitcoin but as usual later they'll regret and understand, and worst if they still failed to understand despite making a mistake by falling to the scams.
I will take time before they will learn, let's just accept that that's the trend since its impossible that all of us will earn, but eventually the market will mature due to people are getting more educated.
Topic: PEOPLE WILL NEVER STOP FALLING FOR SCAM - page 4. (Read 1045 times)
Scam comes in different shapes and forms but there are some simple ways to prevent them.
Firstly secure your funds, use good passwords and 2FA wherever possible. Don't copy paste or screenshot your keys or phrase and keep them on same device or on the cloud.
Don't make quick decision, look over for every of your investment more than twice. Something that looks promising might not look the same tomorrow.
Firstly secure your funds, use good passwords and 2FA wherever possible. Don't copy paste or screenshot your keys or phrase and keep them on same device or on the cloud.
Don't make quick decision, look over for every of your investment more than twice. Something that looks promising might not look the same tomorrow.
and increasing interest in bitcoin, more and more bitcoin scams are deceiving people by promising huge profits, bitcoin is a digital currency that cannot be controlled by any authority and its anonymity is an opportunity for scamer because it is not detected.
Meanwhile, to use a hardware wallet, two-factor authentication can indeed guarantee to reduce risk, but that doesn't mean anything if we don't realize bitcoin fraud.
You are absolutely right, some people really too greedy, so they won't stop falling on scam ever. They want to earn huge money within a short time so they keep looking hype site, invest there and keep sharing their scam referral link to earn more. I feel they are very dishonest people who share scam links to earn more rewards! Whoever offers you a quick profit in a short period, they will end up by scamming you, this is simple and most of the people knows it, but still, those greedy people keep investing in those scammy sites to test their luck and when they fall, they start blaming others! You did your job well, now if they still want to fall in that scam, let them! Don't tell them bitcoin is a very good investment, try to teach the tech first, otherwise very soon they will blame the bitcoin too.
A lot of scams awareness online and yet, some people just ignore this. May the problem is not the scammers but maybe because we are allowing them to do so and collect our hard work money easily. Some of us feed them that is why they can't be stopped even the others do.
Stupid and lazy people will always lose their money in the end.That's how capitalism works. 
The situation you are describing was back in 2017.Back then,people were way too ignorant and naive about the cryptocurrency world and all the ICO,HYIP,ponzi,MLM scams were flourishing.
I hope that,at least a part of the people,who were scammed back then didn't give up and tried to learn and gain experience about using bitcoin/altcoins, crypto trading,etc.
And hopefully, they could learn many things from that. It eventually fueling scammers to scammed people if we still think of easy money and quick returns which are usually be heard from scammers. Though we can't eliminate them (scammers) totally but at least we will do something that could take them down and be starving. The situation you are describing was back in 2017.Back then,people were way too ignorant and naive about the cryptocurrency world and all the ICO,HYIP,ponzi,MLM scams were flourishing.
I hope that,at least a part of the people,who were scammed back then didn't give up and tried to learn and gain experience about using bitcoin/altcoins, crypto trading,etc.
Scam comes in different shapes and forms but there are some simple ways to prevent them.
Firstly secure your funds, use good passwords and 2FA wherever possible. Don't copy paste or screenshot your keys or phrase and keep them on same device or on the cloud.
Don't make quick decision, look over for every of your investment more than twice. Something that looks promising might not look the same tomorrow.
Firstly secure your funds, use good passwords and 2FA wherever possible. Don't copy paste or screenshot your keys or phrase and keep them on same device or on the cloud.
Don't make quick decision, look over for every of your investment more than twice. Something that looks promising might not look the same tomorrow.
I think you're mixing things up, hacking is quite different from scamming, scamming is a process of been convinced to do something or pay someone which eventually turns out to be false as oppose to hacking which requires one to secure their online private property or investment which in this case requires the individual to input details like 2FA and the rest in other to stay safe safe, scamming is more of a greed thing, that's why many fall for it
Stupid and lazy people will always lose their money in the end.That's how capitalism works.
The situation you are describing was back in 2017.Back then,people were way too ignorant and naive about the cryptocurrency world and all the ICO,HYIP,ponzi,MLM scams were flourishing.
I hope that,at least a part of the people,who were scammed back then didn't give up and tried to learn and gain experience about using bitcoin/altcoins, crypto trading,etc.
The situation you are describing was back in 2017.Back then,people were way too ignorant and naive about the cryptocurrency world and all the ICO,HYIP,ponzi,MLM scams were flourishing.
I hope that,at least a part of the people,who were scammed back then didn't give up and tried to learn and gain experience about using bitcoin/altcoins, crypto trading,etc.
I understand where you are coming from. We can't please everybody. To think that they are interested at first but they want to gain easily I mean in a fastest way. Reality is that yeah they are lazy to attend seminars but they are eager to gain. How is that possible? Investing bitcoin needs patience and other don"t understand how it really works as a store value, etc.
People will just get interested if they see some proofs about bitcoin then after, they will gonna invest but the truth is they are not ready for the risks.
People will just get interested if they see some proofs about bitcoin then after, they will gonna invest but the truth is they are not ready for the risks.
I also experienced this kind of situation,
I know people who know bitcoin as an easy money when you invest, even how many times I told them that this is not how bitcoin works, they still insist that this is how they learned on a certain website. I repeatedly explained to them that bitcoin is not some kind of investment that will double their money for a week or a month.
Even after I told them not to try those kind of investment, they don't listen as they are really after for an instant money.
I know people who know bitcoin as an easy money when you invest, even how many times I told them that this is not how bitcoin works, they still insist that this is how they learned on a certain website. I repeatedly explained to them that bitcoin is not some kind of investment that will double their money for a week or a month.
Even after I told them not to try those kind of investment, they don't listen as they are really after for an instant money.
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I already witness some of fellowmen in my country that fall on this kind of scam which they will gonna double your money in just a week and even it is quite possible still not advisable especially if you don't know the person where you gonna send your money. Be wise, Be responsible if you really don't want to end up losing huge amount of money.
That's what I regret, although they don't have to go to cryptocurrency classes or seminars, at least they learn first what will be invested. So it's not easy to just accept an investment offer that promises to be multiplied many times in one week or one month. Come on be smarter, nothing is instant, moreover, cryptocurrency is very dynamic. If they understand the basic characteristics of cryptocurrency, surely people who have never tried it will surely think twice before investing their money, especially in people who are new to them in cyberspace.I already witness some of fellowmen in my country that fall on this kind of scam which they will gonna double your money in just a week and even it is quite possible still not advisable especially if you don't know the person where you gonna send your money. Be wise, Be responsible if you really don't want to end up losing huge amount of money.
This is the importance of educating people around you, cryptocurrency can be beneficial and vice versa, it all depends on how we respond to it.
People will never stop falling for scam for as long as they are ignorant, negligent and remain uneducated. Another reason I think that leads to falling for scams is the general concern of people of missing out on opportunities. And where such an deal is only for a limited time then this limitation would make people more likely to be drawn to it and grab it without thinking twice and assessing the validity of an investment offer. Nonetheless, I also agree that some people won't learn until they had it through the hard way.
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One of my friend name Emranhostat was a victim of fraud. One day an unknown girl sent a message from her Twitter to Emranhostat.
The message goes like:
The girl continued talking to my friend for a few days and able to convince my friend. At one point, my friend agreed to withdraw her bitcoin. The girl gave him a website link as well as she gave email and password too. Emranhostat entered the website and found it to be similar to the other Exchange site, he tried to login with email & password and successfully able to login. He found that there was 0.5 btc in holding.
But, when he tried to withdraw the fund, a popup window comes up and says due to inactivity the withdrawal option is currently frozen. Please make a deposit of 0.002 btc then the withdrawal option will be active again. My friend thought if he makes a deposit of 0.002 btc and able to withdraw the girl's fund then he will get 0.25 btc in return.
He felt greedy, when he did a 0.002 btc deposit after a few minutes the exchange site went server down and the girl blocked him too.
Finally, he lost his 0.002 btc...
The message goes like:
Code:
"Please help me, I'm in a lot of danger, I have some bitcoin on an Exchange site.
But unfortunately, the government of my country has banned crypto trading so I can't withdraw my bitcoins in any way.
Would you please help me to withdraw my Bitcoins? In return I will give you half of my total withdrawal balance, cause immediately I need money to be rescued from family crisis.
The girl continued talking to my friend for a few days and able to convince my friend. At one point, my friend agreed to withdraw her bitcoin. The girl gave him a website link as well as she gave email and password too. Emranhostat entered the website and found it to be similar to the other Exchange site, he tried to login with email & password and successfully able to login. He found that there was 0.5 btc in holding.
But, when he tried to withdraw the fund, a popup window comes up and says due to inactivity the withdrawal option is currently frozen. Please make a deposit of 0.002 btc then the withdrawal option will be active again. My friend thought if he makes a deposit of 0.002 btc and able to withdraw the girl's fund then he will get 0.25 btc in return.
He felt greedy, when he did a 0.002 btc deposit after a few minutes the exchange site went server down and the girl blocked him too.
Finally, he lost his 0.002 btc...
Many people wants to earn money as fast as possible hence its easy for them to bite an offer who promise to give them profit in a short period of time.
Well we cant do anything about this because its their decision, if a person is not open to learn about crypto and the only concern is to earn then let them be.
Sometimes its better to experience committing mistakes before realizing what should not be done and learn from it after.
Well we cant do anything about this because its their decision, if a person is not open to learn about crypto and the only concern is to earn then let them be.
Sometimes its better to experience committing mistakes before realizing what should not be done and learn from it after.
Oh yeah, so far as they are not ready to learn and they are also not willing to work hard towards making their own money this is exactly what is going to happen. Growing up in this industry i have also fallen a victim to these scams but i learnt my lessons and have been good all this while.
Why would you offer 0.1BTC to someone who claims he can give you 3BTC lol
now many are like that and many more HYIPs circulating within 24 hours can get a profit of 500% that's just a hoax because at the moment there are a lot of new traders who don't have much experience being fooled by HYIPs and project scams, there must be information for new traders so avoid cases like that.Why would you offer 0.1BTC to someone who claims he can give you 3BTC lol
Indeed, we will always be easily tricked by investments like that, especially now for HYIP with more and more bitcoin payments and making profits up to hundreds of percent in just 1 day, we really need to pay attention not to be easily fooled because it is not easy to be able to double money up to hundreds of percent in only a short time.
Indeed there are many victims of scammers, the causes are varied. There are people who are lazy and want to get rich quick in an instant way, and the role of scammers makes sweet promises so that their victims believe. One of them by using the guise of crypto investment, where only a handful of people who play it.
Scammers knows how to work well and they continue tricking those people who wanted to get an easy access to gain profits. Promising so much by giving sweet promises. If you will just invest blindly the chance of losing your money is always there from their hands.Be wise and active not to fall to any scheme like this from scammers hands.
The reason why there are a lot of people who find bitcoin an easy way to scam other people is that there are a lot of people who are not fully aware of how bitcoin works and how to securely buy and store bitcoin. Not to mention the misconception of bitcoin is an easy way to earn money and it can make you rich overnight.
Sufficient knowledge about bitcoin investment will keep you away from being scammed. Sad to say, people are naturally greedy, that is why even how many years had passed still a lot of people are still falling as a victim from different kind of scams.
Scam is not only happening online there are many people has been victim also using fiat.Sufficient knowledge about bitcoin investment will keep you away from being scammed. Sad to say, people are naturally greedy, that is why even how many years had passed still a lot of people are still falling as a victim from different kind of scams.
The main reasons why there are many scammers because they are also many people supporting scam just to earn money.
They invite people to join even they do not have any knowledge about the program they want to invest its about greed and want to earn easy money.
As long as there are people want to earn easy money there are still new program that will open and find another victim.
The reason why there are a lot of people who find bitcoin an easy way to scam other people is that there are a lot of people who are not fully aware of how bitcoin works and how to securely buy and store bitcoin. Not to mention the misconception of bitcoin is an easy way to earn money and it can make you rich overnight.
Sufficient knowledge about bitcoin investment will keep you away from being scammed. Sad to say, people are naturally greedy, that is why even how many years had passed still a lot of people are still falling as a victim from different kind of scams.
Sufficient knowledge about bitcoin investment will keep you away from being scammed. Sad to say, people are naturally greedy, that is why even how many years had passed still a lot of people are still falling as a victim from different kind of scams.
Where there is currency, there are scammers lurking around to trap those who are stupid, greedy and lazy thinking that money just comes out of think Air.
Even one of the oldest form of currency (Gold) has scam around it. So let them keep having a poor mindset yet you keep progressing.
Even one of the oldest form of currency (Gold) has scam around it. So let them keep having a poor mindset yet you keep progressing.
This stupid thinking "Double your money in just a few days" is the reason why people keep falling into scammers. This can't be eliminated hence people are also not changing their minds. Scammers have a different approach compared before, most likely they offer huge rewards, make double or triple your money, but for now...they are getting smarter and even experts can't think that way of scam. You only just surprise that your money is already gone.
That was a sad reality and makes a reason why some of us never have an interest in crypto for knowing these circumstances and the high risk evolve in crypto.
That was a sad reality and makes a reason why some of us never have an interest in crypto for knowing these circumstances and the high risk evolve in crypto.
I salute the OP to be very concerned about the views and the way people around them understand what BTC is. The wrong investment view makes it easy for many people to get caught up in fraud with the lure of a few percent profit and a period of time, it's like bullshit, bitcoin is very volatile and its movements are quite difficult to predict.
This is the importance of having an awareness to learn before investing, if you are not familiar with what you are going to invest, then it is a fatal mistake. Let's educate the people closest to us, give a proper understanding of BTC so that it is not easily affected by fraud and can make good use of technological developments in finance.
This is the importance of having an awareness to learn before investing, if you are not familiar with what you are going to invest, then it is a fatal mistake. Let's educate the people closest to us, give a proper understanding of BTC so that it is not easily affected by fraud and can make good use of technological developments in finance.
I've seen people like that. They don't want to learn, they just want the finished product.
I've been helping people with their computers. They wanted various stuff done like uninstalling stuck software, cleaning malware, registry, hardware setups like installing a new hard drive, bios updates. Every time I did that I invited them to watch and learn so they're able to do it without help but they usually answered "here's the money, you do it, I don't have time for it".
People who are lazy and greedy will always lose money. The problem is that most people are lazy and greedy.
I've been helping people with their computers. They wanted various stuff done like uninstalling stuck software, cleaning malware, registry, hardware setups like installing a new hard drive, bios updates. Every time I did that I invited them to watch and learn so they're able to do it without help but they usually answered "here's the money, you do it, I don't have time for it".
People who are lazy and greedy will always lose money. The problem is that most people are lazy and greedy.
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