Topic: STOP! Before you become a prey of a scammer! - page 2. (Read 516 times)

This should be the first sign of a red flag from a random user. The moment they ask you if they could handle your finances, this should definitely spark a red flag that what they are offering is a scam especially during this bullish run.

For best measures, you can take and consider their advice but never let them handle your finances personally.


Again, I agree with this statement.

Pump and dump schemes is like the oldest trick in the book wherein a seemingly genuine project will just suddenly run with the money after investing.


As someone who has been reporting scams for the past years, if I see computer-generated/AI photos, this is an instant call out from me. AI-generated photos are definitely a red flag that can mislead its customers especially if the creators make it appear that their project is composed of highly-acclaimed cryptocurrency enthusiasts but in fact are not real.

I can't tolerate any dms from any stranger at all... If I don't know the source of the dms/links, I'd simply ignore and move on... people are likely to get into trouble for being enticed on things they see over the internet... I seen alot of post about internet fraud and their new avenues; anyone can possibly be victimized but,..that's why you need to keep your corners clean...

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secondly, I don't accept offers that are brought to me ... If it's actually a type that'll pay me at the end ....why?? ain't nobody would prefer bringing an offer to you for free without having hidden interest... They can sometimes try to encourage/help you to register on an unknown site.. I don't entertain such discussions.. so far,.. I've been free from fraudulent activities like that...

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

This is what we should expect as the bull season is quickly approaching. Due to the bullish trend, most project owners are waiting for the bull season to launch their projects, and like shrewd scammers, they are also waiting for this time to use their scam techniques because they know it is the ideal moment to target their victim.

Many individuals are investing a lot of money in the cryptocurrency business at this moment because everyone wants to take advantage of the market opportunity. Scammers will then use deceptive information and attractive incentives to get people to engage in their fraudulent ventures. Investments that seem too good to be true should always raise suspicions, and those kinds of ventures should be avoided.

Most individuals go into cryptocurrency because of what they are told, and without doing their own research, they simply do what they are told and invest in coins because a friend told them to. Investing due to FOMO is a horrible idea, as is investing because you are told to do so; the industry is a place to invest with precaution. 

The first thing I learnt about bitcoin security should be our first priority, bitcoin is a modern technology and anything associated with the internet scammers will always find new method to scam, unknown contact trying to offer juicy offer sounds suspicious at the first place, if those offers were true no one would have contacted anyone. And times like this have seen a lot of influencers who claim to know about crypto organizing sites that discuss about bitcoin and crypto, I still don't listen to such. The best thing is to ignore such offers, people still falling victim to those scammers, if topics like this are been treated often about scammers and juicy offer then why do people fall victim, maybe they fail to understand, although most people get excited with offers like this and unknowingly they give out their private information.

I am a beginner and this is my first post.

I believe I've been scammed from last months. This is difficult to expose my situation in a Forum. But that's it, I doing it now.
Unfortunately I did not follow all rules and all advises listed here and other forums.

In my case it is an Exchange Trade Company site.  Till today I was not able to find any information if the site is a Scam/fake or not. I did several searches on Bitcoin Forums and on Official Authorities.

I do not know the rules of this Forum, so I do not know if I can put here the name of the Exchange Trade Company.

Is there any list of Scammed Exchanges Companies that I could really check it the exchange company that I put the money is a scammer?

Thanks in advance.

What you suggest is so easy to do, so effective to avoid being scammed, and still so hard for many people...
We like when people tell us things we want to hear, but scammers know it and they will use it against us, so it is a good policy to not answer to unknown people, especially if they want to make you an unsolicited favor. They are ubiquitous in Telegram, Twitter... even in WhatsApp lately (where the hell did they get my personal phone number? damn leaks).

We all want to know new people in the cryptosphere, especially when we are new and want to find your place, but especially in that case one should be the one contacting interesting people, and not the other way around.

Intriguing offers by scammers usually can be seen posted on social media and they think they can get a lot of newbie investors there since not all people on social media site know that they are running a scam activities. So its really ideal to anyone that if they have doubt on some offers presented to them better decline it and do their study after they hear those messages so that they can figure out if what offer they receive is legitimate or even not.


Airdrops is risky venue for newbie to earn free money so they need to be aware that there's no legit institution that will ask their private key if someone telling that to them and offer something crazy then they should decline it since nothing is good with them as they are only going after with our money which we can afford to risk.


I participate on groups like this but to be honest I didn't get anything as the people handling that channels is just trying to earn from the people they invite to join. I doubt there's accurate or good prediction comes from this group so we should avoid to waste our time and focus on other investments.

I have long abandoned this kind of method and am now much more focused on adding to my portfolio independently without involving other people with various projects offered through free ones. What I see is that we will be stronger when we have the knowledge to come to this system and the easiest way is just to spend money to run it, although we don't ignore the risks that will occur.

This is more about a person's level of understanding to be involved in investing or it could also be directly related to trading. Yes, there are many people who are trapped by signals from certain groups regarding pump and dump, but they forget that our presence here must be based on knowledge so as not to be trapped by any offers from other people.

It's best to stick to what you are doing and avoid any unnecessary chats with crypto strangers.
That we would eliminate half of the scams approaching us. Also, we have to stay with the trend and keep reading news.
By doing that we can stay up to date with latest scams and hacks. Yes, we have to do our due diligence to save ourselves from scams.

There is a ride way to be greedy to become profitable in gambling but you have to be educated and wise, there are so many wolves that are in sheep's clothes with so many schemes and they intend to take your money, so if you cannot moderate your greediness and you are profit driven in a wrong way you will lose everything you've worked.
So always think, ask the community for feedback, and do your research don't just believe what these influencers are saying, they are self-serving and they are greedy for profit at your own expense.

Social media like X, I don't pay much attention, because I understand their purpose is to seek personal gain at the expense of others, how talking about quick profits easily manipulates newcomers to the market and FOMO following the price increase.

Although it must be fair that FOMO is also attracting money into the market, making things more exciting, we should also be more clear about the risks.

In addition, fraud is becoming more and more sophisticated when malicious code appears. There are ways that I see platforms willing to spend money to run ads just to spread malicious links. Perhaps it will cause harm and cause misunderstandings for newcomers. The caution with this market is to upgrade over time, and don't believe in any advice, but do your own research. Sometimes even luck helps us find good friends to share knowledge that protects against what is emerging.

I am glad that I have spent considerable time on my desktop screen over the last ten years to understand what is fake and what is real. The problem is that a lot of people won't understand the difference. I was looking at the lip-synching, and it looked almost real. The movement of his body and hands were repeated in the same position.

I remember when one of my friends, who is a Tylor, said he would invest in a website because he saw Sakib promoted that website. Fortunately, he shared with me, and I kicked his ass first and then told him that those were fake ads.

So you have seen this kind of ads already! well, it's good to know that we are not still in that point where we aren't able to differentiate what is real from what is fake. Thank you for your testimony, Learn Bitcoin.

In a few years, when Hollywood-like quality is available for every children in their personal computers, then we'll have to worry. In the meantime critical sense, attention to detail and not believing what sounds too good to be true are a good start to not fall in these fakes.

You really hit the nail on the head but having a second thought, I know the best thing is to do your own research and not rely on others to tell you what to do with your investments but having a mentor who is an expert in the field would play a vital role in helping you to make a right decision. I'm not saying one should trust a random person that approach them on internet or elsewhere but someone who you personally know and you think they have the knowledge of what you need. Despite doing your own research, you need someone to explain certain things for better understanding but one must be careful on who to trust on the internet.


I have numerous of them on my block list now and more will join because we are in the era they mostly operate. Don't ever trust anyone that approach you first for any kind of financial discussion or assistance. Remind them that they have family and friends and they should start from there. I really like how exchanges and financial institutions operating their social media platforms with the policy of "we will never message you first" but some gullible and desperate people still fall for this when someone approach them first and claim to be a representative of a company and ready to offer assistance. If you can not withstand the pressure and their deceit, kindly use block button to avoid further discussion with them.

Do not trust anyone but only yourself. Anyone that offers instant help and would make you believe that you can make unlimited profits, that is clearly a big scam. When this happens, just leave immediately or block them so they won't create future communication with you. Paid groups or channels are sometimes scams as well. You really don't know if they are profitable on their own, so just avoid this kind of groups or channels.

Having AI makes more scamming possible. It's good to be acquainted with the technologies around, but sometimes you have to consider the risk as well so you won't fall into being the victim of scam.

Bitcoin will experience a halving event, and it is certain that the price will increase drastically, so there will be more and more fraudsters who use Bitcoin as an excuse to gain personal profit. with the increasingly frightening development of AI, there are many faces that fraudsters can imitate, and the faces that fraudsters use most often are those who are very influential like Elon Musk.
Therefore, if someone claims free things like free bitcoin or other free altcoins, never believe it, always verify it first, don't believe it easily, especially if someone offers you help on the internet, the point is, never believe anyone, you can become a victim if you are too nice to new people you meet on the internet or popular social media.

I think using an escrow is always a good idea   

I have been saying it for years and will say it again, nothing is free in this world. Even the water bottles costs nowadays. If you think someone will charge $200 and get your Portfolio to 5 figures without you working hard, it's most likely a scam. Most likely? Definitely a Scam. Never get involved in any of these sort of projects which charge you and guarantee you some profits.

The best thing is not to ask anyone through any social media platform but rather do personal searches and find the answer. In many cases happen that those people who have helped us, chatting with us are also the ones who took advantage while entrusting him and scam us in the end. Scammers usually are very responsive and feel close to us until such time that our trust develops and use that as a tool to scam. Those who have not experienced yet, better be watchful of whom they talk to and of course, must have set a gap from strangers because we never know their real intentions from helping us.

Scammers make use of every tool at their disposal to convince their targets that they are genuine, I’m not surprised that AI is being exploited in such cases. There are AI bots that mimic voices exactly like the human voice that you can hardly tell the difference. In such cases, scammers often camouflage as a famous person and send dms to their fans who in turn are too excited to think straight. When in this situation, ask yourself why would Elon Musk send me a personal message encouraging me to invest in a platform? How often does that happen in real life?