Topic: Preventive measures not to lose your btc (Read 660 times)

Always make sure that your software is up to date and don't allow your computer to always fail,backup your entire wallet , don't forget your password , secure your Bitcoin wallet with a strong password you should be careful with online services , browse safely,only keep the amount you are willing to forfeit ,talk less about your achievement in Bitcoin.

Dont even engage having a short one with them, the more you give a listening hear the more they begin to detect your area of weakness to know where they can strike.

If you're not greedy, you wont be enticed by anything you see from online, most of these flashy things are harm in disguise, its important to first deal with your ability of not been contempted.

Social media is the most crowded place in the internet. Scammers target where they will get so many victims on a single launch and social media is the best place to achieve this.
Secondly, no matter how often people are scammed on social media, many people will keep trooping in and get scammed. Apart from twitter, telegram is another place of scam and scams. I deactivated my telegram for a reason and I don't know when last I used my twitter account. Those place that doesn't add to my finance but rather take away my time and resources, I tend to avoid them. But then social media is just unavailable.

I see a tendency when someone gets an achievement in Bitcoin and crypto, they share it on social media or with people they hang out with.
This is indeed risky when someone finds out about our Bitcoin ownership, especially as it increases our security risks. We can become targets of crime if we are too open on social media or to other people about our Bitcoin ownership.
We just need to be quiet and don't share anything on social media. it's for everyone's safety.

Social media is the most crowded place in the internet. Scammers target where they will get so many victims on a single launch and social media is the best place to achieve this.
Secondly, no matter how often people are scammed on social media, many people will keep trooping in and get scammed. Apart from twitter, telegram is another place of scam and scams. I deactivated my telegram for a reason and I don't know when last I used my twitter account. Those place that doesn't add to my finance but rather take away my time and resources, I tend to avoid them. But then social media is just unavailable.

talk less about your achievement in Bitcoin.

1. Do not engage in deep conversation with stranger who is only interested asking you about your total bitcoin holding or even regularly asking you about the platform you invested.

2. Do not be fooled with their sweet words where they keeps asking you to invest and make money your interest within 24hrs to gain about 100 percent of your investment. Note; this is purely scam otherwise no other investment platform or anyone to be trading and giving you back 100 percent of your capitals.

3. Sets your telegram account where someone from same group can't contact you because telegram is the head of scammers, they can clone or impersonate someone you know and scam you without the knowledge of the real person.

Op if I can memorize my seed phrase or the private key and know it the way I know my mobile phone digits

then I would be the happiest person on earth because at that I don't need to save my phrase in different places again but probably in one of particular place because even at that I might forget some characters.

If not, I know my phrase i know my password for off... Then that should be a plus to me for the safety and security of the wallet.

8. Do not memorized your seed phrase or private key or even store it where someone that knowns about what you are doing. Possibly avoid someone peeping through your phone and device while at home or office, there could be some spy camera watching over you.

You're entirely correct that victims of these scams may suffer greatly. The reason it's commonly referred to as a "romance scam" is that the con artist usually pretends to be in a romantic connection with the victim for several months or even years before requesting money. They might even pose as someone else totally or use a fictitious profile photo. It's a terrible scenario, and because the con artists are frequently very skilled at what they do, it may be very challenging to identify these scams.

That deep conversation and sweet talks and words are likely a romance scam which is popular to the oldies but goodies. They're easy to trust people and even if a random stranger comes to them, they are not going to ignore them if they find some interesting words that they say. One attracting words they'll use is about making easy money and even if we've been reminding a lot of people to avoid such, there will always be those gullible people that will fall for these scams. An experience is what they need but sadly, even some of them have experienced these scams and fake investments, they never their lesson. I've read how many times with these stories that they've fallen to a stranger online that have asked them to invest on specific platform that's not even known, and obviously those fake platforms have been made specifically for their victims.

Social media is the most crowded place in the internet. Scammers target where they will get so many victims on a single launch and social media is the best place to achieve this.
Secondly, no matter how often people are scammed on social media, many people will keep trooping in and get scammed. Apart from twitter, telegram is another place of scam and scams. I deactivated my telegram for a reason and I don't know when last I used my twitter account. Those place that doesn't add to my finance but rather take away my time and resources, I tend to avoid them. But then social media is just unavailable.

You made a very big point here because I nearly became a victim to scammers, of receiving shiltcoin in replacement for  my valuable altcoin. Many helpful preventive measure have been listed out in comment section here  I appreciate,  would not border to repeat, but what I want to add mostly for newbie is to avoid quick rich when ever it involves the Bitcoin and crypto related because it has turn a big strategy for scammers, buying shiltcoin during presale and airdrop that offer bonuses.

There is nothing that anyone can tell me, social media is one of the easiest place to lose your crypto assets because it's been bombard with lots of fake links and fake giveaways, Twitter is the first one on my list, this is the most targetted social media by scammers and for scammers, sorry to say this Elon, your ass isn't doing anything to prevent it.

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I have read lot of stories about recent ways hackers are wilding themselves to steal people's funds.
I will have to list few preventive measures to avoid being scammed maybe you could help add yours here to enable newbies learned and hold their bitcoin tight.

1. Do not engage in deep conversation with stranger who is only interested asking you about your total bitcoin holding or even regularly asking you about the platform you invested.

2. Do not be fooled with their sweet words where they keeps asking you to invest and make money your interest within 24hrs to gain about 100 percent of your investment. Note; this is purely scam otherwise no other investment platform or anyone to be trading and giving you back 100 percent of your capitals.

3. Sets your telegram account where someone from same group can't contact you because telegram is the head of scammers, they can clone or impersonate someone you know and scam you without the knowledge of the real person.

4. Do not be carried away with signup and referral bonuses, there are some people who are always thrilled with that in fact they hunt for that and sometimes they go meet the wrong site where they site would asked them to deposit some specific amount. Please newbie be warned do not be desperate to own some units of useless tokens whereby risking yourself.

5. Do not connect your wallet directly to any site you are not sure of otherwise you could be piped. The best advise is to always make a new wallet and send few gas fee to that wallet and keep your real wallet secure and safe from alteration.

6. Do not create account in any website with the same password you used in another website that is so important to you, lets for example bitcointalk and other forum do not use same password you never can tell what would happened since you don't control the platform by yourself. It's important to always use separate passwords.

7. Do not tell anyone how much is your investment or what year have you started holding bitcoin, such types of discussion often exposes' you to hackers, they don't mind using any forms of techniques to scam you since they have gain little information about you through discussion that is why it's advisable to avoid some sensitive discussions about oneself.  Keep in mind that you don't have to involve yourself with any discussion about when you join bitcointalk or when and how long have you hold bitcoin probably what year. What I noticed is that most people often use this answers as secrete question / answer whereby you won't know when you are giving them this vital information from then your account could be hacked.

8. Do not memorized your seed phrase or private key or even store it where someone that knowns about what you are doing. Possibly avoid someone peeping through your phone and device while at home or office, there could be some spy camera watching over you.
 
Please anyone else can add theirs lets' keep the newbies awake since is already bull time scammers are looking for a way to accumulate bitcoin they didn't sort for.