Topic: PEOPLE WILL NEVER STOP FALLING FOR SCAM - page 7. (Read 1045 times)

this is not a bitcoin specific thing though. for as long as humanity existed there have been gullible people and there have been scammers who use their gullibility to make money from them. the form of it and the "medium" they use changes but the principles are the same and will remain the same. unfortunately there isn't much others could do about it either. we can only keep informing them and fight the scammers by publicizing their scam, reporting them to authorities, closing their websites,....

A lot of people will never ever escape from falling into scams because their attitude itself is attracting them. Why are scams still thriving until these modern times? Because:

• A lot of people are lazy.
• Unfortunately, these lazy people have the dream of getting rich.
• And they don't want riches to come in staggered amounts. They want them one-time big-time very quickly.
• And these lazy and ambitious people won't lift a finger to know what they are getting into for as long as it promises them a chance, however slim, of achieving their dreams.

Charles Ponzi was notoriously using the infamous Ponzi scheme in defrauding these kinds of people in the 1920s.^[1] My goodness! We are already in the year 2020, a full century later, and the scheme is still thriving in so many parts of the world and sucking billions off from people.

Do you think this will eventually perish? I don't think so. For as long as many humans are crazily lazy and ambitious, this form of scam and its varieties will continue to find victims.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme

It is very difficult not to fall into the hands of scammers because scammers make promises that not exist in the real world. There was a year where there were scam exchanges that promised the following:

The person gave $100 in Perfect Money and received $150 in bitcoin

The person would give $100 in perfect Money and receive $150 in payeer

People fell into this type of scam because they wanted to have more money and did not ask themselves where the exchange owner would get money to do these kinds of things.

Today we want to earn more money and profit and one of the thing we need is to find a job or a project that is related to the crypto currency so we can relate to the topic. Some of us look at the good offer, price and profit we can earn. With the use of good marketing and advertisement today we can now find a good job but still there are some scam projects that telling they are the best and paying so they can got a lot of users just to promote but still we cannot tell what will happen next if they are still legit and authentic project.

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.

Sounds way cooler when you imagine something too good to be true. I'm not sure how you've been able to gather only these silly kind of people, but they'll either learn the hard way or they'll give up.

They're like wealth chasers so they most likely believe Bitcoin is a wealth generator. Unless they wake up to reality, even if they leave BTC they'll probably just keep living a more miserable life and try out the next pyramid scheme that's gonna pop up.

So yeah, they need a strong shake so they can realize what they're trying to do is non-achievable.

Hello guys, back in 2017, during the heavy bull run, I visited my former office and meant some friends and told them the need to key into bitcoin. One who is now occupying my former position at the bank interjected and said "someone just left here to to lay complain how he paid a huge some of money to a bitcoin seller who then scammed him", bitcoin was never paid by the scammer. I asked them to send the person to me for a free tutorial on bitcoin and how to safely buy and store it, I never hear from them again till date. The victim had try to bitcoin because he heard he will double his investment in a week, I told them that is not how it work.

After getting and reading repeated complain of how persons are been scammed in my country while trying to buy bitcoin, I decided to make 4 banners on how to learn how to safely buy/sell bitcoin and other cryptocurrency, and to address the wrong notion about cryptocurrency. I got some calls and follow ups. But most are not interested in buying and holding but want to give me money and be giving them a weekly or monthly returns on investment, when I tell them that is not how it actually works, they will reply they have found a program online that pays some weekly % ROI, I try to stop them from putting their money there, they either stop picking my calls or tell them they are okay with their findings.

I am just weak and heart broken how people are lazy to attend class that will open their mind and eyes to existing realities and set them free from lifetime mistakes. I am dazed by their foolishness in the issue of finance. My banners and office is still open but won't force anyone to learn.  I hope they don't learn the hard way.