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Quote from: Kvalentine on March 22, 2020, 11:09:23 AM

We already have Corona coin Grin

and I'm pretty sure it's same thing that OP is talking about, if just easy to spot this type of scams nowadays, scammers aren't always that smart unless you are greedy

yeap you are right mate, shit peoples already creating corona token. I saw more than 2/3 tokens news in crypto news sites, even one token added in coingecko. you can take a look. https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/coronavirus-token
so before any donation think twice that is it right place or scam.even buying corona token buy 100 times because scammers made a trap for you to scam your valuable money.

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Quote from: Ken_terrance on March 22, 2020, 10:25:35 AM

Last week the United kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a warning that the coronavirus out real might be providing criminals with the opportunity to swindle investors out of their crypto assets, you've been warned

Scammers are sophisticated, opportunistic and will surely try many things.

Do not trust any one or organization asking for donations to combat the outbreak, it's not real

I think it is not enough blaming scammers.
We need to re educate newbies, on the basics to do as regard crypto currency.

As individuals, even apart from crypto currency, we must learn the patience to find out thorough information and investigations ourself.

Because it will help in the crypto space.

Please and please, always dyor.

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Quote from: Ken_terrance on March 22, 2020, 10:25:35 AM

Last week the United kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a warning that the coronavirus out real might be providing criminals with the opportunity to swindle investors out of their crypto assets, you've been warned

Scammers are sophisticated, opportunistic and will surely try many things.

Do not trust any one or organization asking for donations to combat the outbreak, it's not real

Scammers always want to exploit opportunities. The current situation is that people in the world are scared and people want to help each other. And scammers are taking advantage of this opportunity to make money. If we think of the ico scam then we can understand how scammers are scamming innocent people. Now the days of ico are over so scammers are waiting for new opportunities.

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A lots people talking fun from this situation, by realese fake news or fake prediction. Everything will be over fake prediction or this coronavirus. Don't donate in any money by emotional. This isn't urgent or one way to donate, I found Google provide on website that 100% donate will go for effected people.

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Quote from: Ken_terrance on March 22, 2020, 10:25:35 AM

Last week the United kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a warning that the coronavirus out real might be providing criminals with the opportunity to swindle investors out of their crypto assets, you've been warned

Scammers are sophisticated, opportunistic and will surely try many things.

Do not trust any one or organization asking for donations to combat the outbreak, it's not real

Yes. I agree with the warning. Because I have also read a tread asking for donations in the form of BTC to overcome corona disease. His foundation is only based on dreams of meeting Jesus. Joke Grin

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Quote from: Ken_terrance on March 22, 2020, 10:25:35 AM

Last week the United kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a warning that the coronavirus out real might be providing criminals with the opportunity to swindle investors out of their crypto assets, you've been warned

Scammers are sophisticated, opportunistic and will surely try many things.

Do not trust any one or organization asking for donations to combat the outbreak, it's not real

Of course, scammers will always look for an opportunity in any situation be it good or bad, they don't care but will try to rip off any gullible user. I have seen people making use of this virus situation as a means to create an ICO and I wondered what the idea of the project will be at all. In addition to what you have rightly said, it is better for everyone to be careful of the type of projects they get involved with as more scams will be coming up now, might not be through ICO but might be through giveaway events etc.

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When ICO was reigning in 2017 many scammers scam innocent victim, and even while IEO takes over series of fake IEO projects entered crypto space, the fact is scammers are always in every corner and waiting patiently to take advantage of any new opportunities

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Quote from: SistaFista on March 22, 2020, 11:01:37 AM

Quote from: Ken_terrance on March 22, 2020, 10:25:35 AM

Last week the United kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a warning that the coronavirus out real might be providing criminals with the opportunity to swindle investors out of their crypto assets, you've been warned

Scammers are sophisticated, opportunistic and will surely try many things.

Do not trust any one or organization asking for donations to combat the outbreak, it's not real

As far as i know, the scammers will always trying to find a way how to steal the money from peoples.
Pretending to collect the donation in cryptocurrency for corona virus could be the way.
If we want to donate, just donate to the official one with fiat money.

As you mentioned, fraudsters exploits the situation for their own benefits without even realizing how it may affect other people. It's because they think that they can easily persuade people, especially people whose willing to help people in need, but they don't have any idea that the situation is being used against them by asking them for fake donations without giving any assurance that it'll be donated. We should be cautious these days because people changes their mindset when it comes to money. Fraudsters are everywhere and we need to be careful with our actions because they will always seek for an opportunity to deceive us.

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Quote from: Ken_terrance on March 22, 2020, 10:25:35 AM

Last week the United kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a warning that the coronavirus out real might be providing criminals with the opportunity to swindle investors out of their crypto assets, you've been warned

Scammers are sophisticated, opportunistic and will surely try many things.

Do not trust any one or organization asking for donations to combat the outbreak, it's not real

yes, indeed, these are unpleasant times for everyone, but scammers are certainly trying to use it to scam others, as i heard, in my country small criminals organized themselves, disguised as medical workers to help elderly, go into their homes, dressed as medicals, and steal from them, cannot be worse than that

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We already have Corona coin Grin

and I'm pretty sure it's same thing that OP is talking about, if just easy to spot this type of scams nowadays, scammers aren't always that smart unless you are greedy

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Quote from: Mulann2 on March 22, 2020, 10:56:14 AM

Yeah, very possible, people should be cautious about this situation and try not get scammed as a result of covid-19, opportunist will try and make money out of people's misery even when people are suffering from this pandemic, they don't seem to care, some bad people will take advantage to do bad things instead of genuinely helping those in need.

perfect examples are those corona virus-related projects here. if you are an old timer, are you going to invest on those projects? i don't think so. they are one of those money grabbing schemes from naive users. they are popping out like mushrooms and enticing possible sympathizers by stating one of their missions is to donate some of their collected funds to the victims, UNICEF, NGOs, or other charitable institutions. do you believe such kind of stunt if they are anonymous teams? so please be careful with these projects. they are meant to be in the trash bin.

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Quote from: Ken_terrance on March 22, 2020, 10:25:35 AM

Last week the United kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a warning that the coronavirus out real might be providing criminals with the opportunity to swindle investors out of their crypto assets, you've been warned

Scammers are sophisticated, opportunistic and will surely try many things.

Do not trust any one or organization asking for donations to combat the outbreak, it's not real

As far as i know, the scammers will always trying to find a way how to steal the money from peoples.
Pretending to collect the donation in cryptocurrency for corona virus could be the way.
If we want to donate, just donate to the official one with fiat money.

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First save yourself from this virus because it is capable of affecting anyone and even can make you die if your immunity is weak or already have some respiratory diseases.

Donate if your government asked for it or just keep everything to yourselves because we never know how long it will take for those things back to normal in that time period you may need those money for your needs.

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They keep coming here, saying they are connected to one NGO or the other. Some even say they have connections with WHO. All these are just means of convincing and confusing people in order to make them fall into their trap.
Do you know what amazes me most?
They have good and attractive websites.
The information there looks too real.
They can issue you with documents (fake) to back their claims.
They can be very intelligent and smart.
So, you have to be extremely careful at this time.

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Yeah, very possible, people should be cautious about this situation and try not get scammed as a result of covid-19, opportunist will try and make money out of people's misery even when people are suffering from this pandemic, they don't seem to care, some bad people will take advantage to do bad things instead of genuinely helping those in need.

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People have become so ethicsless and greedy that they attack people when they are suffering. A person in problem is highly likely to believe in any positive prospective that they'd outright accept it. That's why it's aways better not to make decisions by your mood and think about it for at least two different days.

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I have seen a bunch of new threads that promoted an ico that used to fight this virus and I can believe if this kind of ico is a scam. I hope that a lot of people will aware about this and they will never try to believe with those scam charity that used the name of humanity to fight corona to scam others. It looks like we need more awareness about this.

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Last week the United kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a warning that the coronavirus out real might be providing criminals with the opportunity to swindle investors out of their crypto assets, you've been warned

Scammers are sophisticated, opportunistic and will surely try many things.

Do not trust any one or organization asking for donations to combat the outbreak, it's not real

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