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Check google sometimes isn't enough since scammer also abuse google ads and use SEO optimization to make their website is in first page.

Quote from: mk4 on May 01, 2020, 12:40:58 AM

Let's be realistic here. As bitcoin gains adoption and increases in the long term, there will be more and more scammers and hackers. They've existed since forever, and now that they found another industry to take advantage of, especially knowing that they could easily easily get away with the money without a trace, scammers and hackers in the crypto industry is a nothing to be shocked of. The Crypto industry will be A LOT of people's first internet security lesson.

It's even worse due to current pandemic which affect economy and many people are getting desperate where people either got scammed easier or become the scammer.

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If there's already an increase in scams, you can expect it to only get worse as the market becomes more and more bullish, after all we will very likely enter a new bull run similar to what happened in 2016, and more new people means more opportunities for scammers and hackers.

Quote from: mk4 on May 01, 2020, 12:40:58 AM

Let's be realistic here. As bitcoin gains adoption and increases in the long term, there will be more and more scammers and hackers. They've existed since forever, and now that they found another industry to take advantage of, especially knowing that they could easily easily get away with the money without a trace, scammers and hackers in the crypto industry is a nothing to be shocked of. The Crypto industry will be A LOT of people's first internet security lesson.

And this is really sad, because with crypto it's easy to lose all what you have, so many times I've seen users saying that they lost all their coins when they installed a fake wallet or their exchange got hacked.

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I made this thread: The halving Gusto two days ago, and I think it's something similar to the point you're trying to make, there will be more people making wrong decisions this period, it's this poorly thought out decisions that'll make them get scammed. I do not even believe scammers increase in numbers, they only get more victims when BTC price appreciates(and also when anticipated events like the halving gets traction), that then makes it look like more scammers were introduced to cryptocurrency, while actually it was people's greed and "get rich quick" ideas that caused it all.

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Quote from: pealr12 on May 01, 2020, 12:15:55 AM

Quote from: Little Mouse on April 30, 2020, 10:00:35 PM

With the recent price increase of BTC, the number of scammers are also increasing. Yesterday I saw a few people posted bitcoin doubler scam link on one of my facebook group. Since the price is increasing, such scam method will also increase. Do not trust any lucrative offer you get, please check on google before putting your money.

we all know that any kind of doubler are scam and with bitcoin ,which is suddenly increasing its price again we will expect huge rise of scammers these days. Hopefully some newbies in crypto are already educated about this bitcoin doubler scams.

Sadly there will be always victim from scam method like this. No matter how you warned them, they will still believe in themselves or their friend who succesfully got double from their investment on scam/hyip/doubler sites.
But actually not about those sites too, there were lot of ICO/IEO scams since years until now, with current bitcoin price increasing, surely there could be more new ICO/IEOs appearing

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Quote from: thekrakennnm on May 01, 2020, 02:33:54 AM

There are a few translations going on daily on YouTube pretending to be giveaways hosted by famous people like Elon Musk etc.
Don't fall to it as well and be careful double-checking everything you see relative to Bitcoin.

That's been ongoing since late 2017, actually.

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These scammers will never stop. We already know that even from the start of this industry weve seen how these scmers grows in numbers. As innovation improve their way of using different type of methods increases too.

Too sad right? There is a topic before I read here about bitcoin being decentralized, but Im just sadden by the fact that illegal activity using cryptocurrency is inevitable. I am a believer as well but too much negativity has been observed and will be seen on the future. It always depend on you how you will evade those tries to take advantage of you.

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There are a few translations going on daily on YouTube pretending to be giveaways hosted by famous people like Elon Musk etc.
Don't fall to it as well and be careful double-checking everything you see relative to Bitcoin.

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As the value of cryptocurrency increases, the investors and traders increase as well and the hackers will see this thing good for them because they will have more victims for what they are thinking to do, which is to hack or to gain access on the accounts of some people. Hackers are everywhere they have so much knowledge about technology so they can do something just to gain access to your account.

Always make sure that your account is secured enough to protect it from hackers and carefully visiting some websites will also increase security because there are many fake websites that will get your information for some purposes.

Quote from: Darker45 on April 30, 2020, 10:56:57 PM

It is best to dismiss and report it right away as scam. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency double-your-money offers are scams through and through. No need to check and verify them through Google. Google might only mislead you in the end. Google is not the right place to verify whether a scam is indeed a scam. It is itself guilty of posting scam ads and apps.

Yes, it's true, those things that offers good result for short period of time are commonly the scam. Some says that the money you invest will double for only 24 hours but after 24 hours nothing happens, you just had lost the money you had invest.

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Let's be realistic here. As bitcoin gains adoption and increases in the long term, there will be more and more scammers and hackers. They've existed since forever, and now that they found another industry to take advantage of, especially knowing that they could easily easily get away with the money without a trace, scammers and hackers in the crypto industry is a nothing to be shocked of. The Crypto industry will be A LOT of people's first internet security lesson.

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Quote from: Little Mouse on April 30, 2020, 10:00:35 PM

With the recent price increase of BTC, the number of scammers are also increasing. Yesterday I saw a few people posted bitcoin doubler scam link on one of my facebook group. Since the price is increasing, such scam method will also increase. Do not trust any lucrative offer you get, please check on google before putting your money.

we all know that any kind of doubler are scam and with bitcoin ,which is suddenly increasing its price again we will expect huge rise of scammers these days. Hopefully some newbies in crypto are already educated about this bitcoin doubler scams.

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It is best to dismiss and report it right away as scam. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency double-your-money offers are scams through and through. No need to check and verify them through Google. Google might only mislead you in the end. Google is not the right place to verify whether a scam is indeed a scam. It is itself guilty of posting scam ads and apps.

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Yup it was expected by me, just take a look when many fake/scam fundraising or corona shitcoin during this pandemic.

With many journalism, blog, and news predicting bitcoin price will increase after halving (like 1st and 2nd halving) then it will attract people to invest in bitcoin. I think most of them didn't know what is bitcoin and didn't learn about bitcoin first, they just don't want to miss the FOMO

The problem is we couldn't warn all people before invest in bitcoin, but we still can warn people in this forum, bitcoin enthusiasts in social media/group, and our friends. I already warn them before invest in bitcoin, because bitcoin is not an easy thing to predict and the safest at all.

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Price increase attracts new Investors, which attract scammers wanting to take advantage of their lack of information. The best decision any investor can take during this positive price increase times is, not to be greedy and just hold until your bitcoins. Resist the temptation of wanting to double your bitcoins by either investing in this doublers out there which are just obvious ponzi scheme that are likely to scam you the moment they feel like doing so. Also be cautious of the altcoin popping up as they too can be scam traps.

If you're not skilled enough, don't go trying to outsmart the market by wanting to advantage of the current high volatility of the market. You can easily get trapped as bitcoin can increase rapidly without any prior signs. If you observe it rose over $1200+ in 24hrs meaning investors (wanna be traders) that sold before the rise are likely going to FOMO back and some would had bought within the $9000 - $9400+ price range before the corrections. Just hold unto you coins and don't get pressured into trying to do what you have no idea about (trading).

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With the recent price increase of BTC, the number of scammers are also increasing. Yesterday I saw a few people posted bitcoin doubler scam link on one of my facebook group. Since the price is increasing, such scam method will also increase. Do not trust any lucrative offer you get, please check on google before putting your money.

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