Scammers had in the past use fake ICO to steal people fund, they have used fake wallet address websites to steal wallet private keys and thereby steal from their wallets.
Many methods had been employed by the scammers which are all cryptocurrency related scams.
The current scams involves the usage of binary trading and sport betting to dupe people of their fund. The funny thing is that most of these scammers neither have a platform nor a website to make this scam look legit. All they do is to create a telegram channel, add people to the channels and post the screenshots of their acclaimed successfully processed transactions.
Their first step is to bump into your telegram pm, start a conversation with you and ask of your location and then introduce the platform to you with offers and rewards too good to be true. And when you ask for a proof or what the platform looks like, then they send you the link to their scam telegram channel.
The other one is sportybet. They have a website which I can't post here. I have many friends who have deposited into their sportybet account but withdrawal of the fund to their accounts is impossible.
What just surprises me is that some people are still falling victims despite the clarity of scam these portray.
The best practices to avoid being unnecessarily scammed are to:
1. avoid falling for too good to be true investment offers
2. avoid dealing over the telegram groups
3. avoid those who bump into your telegram pm to offer a trade or business deal.
4. research any investment platform before you invest into it.