Why do people easily get scammed on the internet? - page 5.

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Because of Greed. As simple as that. People love the idea of getting rich fast without putting too much effort.

Indeed, many people wants to get rich quick thats why if there's an offer promising high return like hyip they grab it without even searching further about the investment that they would like to invest their hard-earned money, then in the end they will regret everything.

There's no such thing online even in crypto. It takes a lot of patience and guts before you can achieve what you want with your investment. Most importantly knowledge and better understanding are needed to be able to comprehend whats happening.

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Most of the reason why people are easily cheated, first because they want to make huge profits instantly, second because they are lack of informations and third because they are easy to trust others. I was tricked by a hyip site that promises a lot of profit, from there I began to realize that, we should not easily trust other people who provide quick profits irrationally. That incident was my reason for being the last time I was tricked, so every time there was a place that promised profit I was always looking for information.

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Quote from: BigBoy89 on October 23, 2019, 04:15:05 AM

1. GREED, always at first place

GREED is the main reason why there are people that got scammed they easily believe to a project that are offering high rewards up to 50% in just short period of time. People thought that they can make money easily.

You are right, greed is still the main thing that scammer projects continue to exist because most scanmer projects provide many existing bonuses. they don't know enough to make a profit because it's a matter of profit you just need to find a good target for your funds. and as long as you are still looking for quick profits without knowing about the project that there are losses when investing in your funds

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Point is to understand more about the scope of crypto, about trading in the bourgeoisie, looking for a variety of knowledge about investments, so that we are enough to be able to know which crypto investments are indicated by scams, so don't be lazy to keep digging inside the crypto to avoid fake projects

Agree, besides the knowledge factor about the project we will invest in, we must also be able to control our emotions when choosing a project. One of the factors why we are often exposed to scams is greed and the desire to get profits in quick time.

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Sometimes people make mistakes, some of them are still new to internet things and they just think there is nothing like getting scammed because everything seems legit to them and they don't know how things work they just jump on it without realizing it.

I have fallen for scam once, but I didn't lose my money. I just spent my time working for a scam project and getting people to join their project, I even got a lot of people and at the end I wasn't paid, that's when I knew that it was a scam. I was still new when this happened, I was 16 years old then lol, and I don't know much about internet jobs and investment and all that. It's after that one that I decided to start learning about all these things and how they work.

Ever since then I have never been scammed, despite coming across a lot of scam projects. You just have to know how they work and they are easy to dictate once you have learned it. I can easily tell a scam project this time around , whether in cryptocurrency or elsewhere online.

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Quote from: Pithaxz on October 27, 2019, 11:31:57 PM

in many cases people become scammed because they themselves are careless or have no knowledge at all but go directly to the internet, especially in terms of investing in crypto, all they think about is money i mean about the benefits of investing, people get greedy, and finally they end up losing money because they have no knowledge at all.

They are lacking in knowledge and they are not aware on many scam in the internet. They are being fooled by fake advertisement that saying they will be easily rich when they join but they need to invest little amount of money first to gain more. Easy money can fool many people who wants easy work to get money.

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in many cases people become scammed because they themselves are careless or have no knowledge at all but go directly to the internet, especially in terms of investing in crypto, all they think about is money i mean about the benefits of investing, people get greedy, and finally they end up losing money because they have no knowledge at all.

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LOL.. the answer to the question raised by the OP is very much evident in this forum. Look around.. the vast majority of the users (especially the noobs) want to get rich overnight. And that is exactly the reason why they have joined this forum. They believe that Bitcoin is some magic wand or magic lotion, that can make them billionaires in a few seconds.

Now let me explain how this works. Everyone knows that Bitcoin may no longer give 100x (like what happened in 2013) returns. And these noobs are not satisfied with 5x or 10x returns. They still want 100x or 200x returns, and therefore they make investments in various shitcoins after trusting the tall claims made by the promoters of these coins. And this is how people lose money around here. Instead of 100x profit, most likely they will be getting a 100% loss.

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Quote from: doomistake on October 27, 2019, 04:20:02 PM

Scammer's choose their victim base on his knowledge about a certain thing, my guess was you've been scammed or could easily get scam the way you spell out things, no offense but it's one of the weaknesses that someone could have, if you can't understand English well or only knows a few terms then you would have a rough time understanding what others are saying.

Let's give a scenario as an example, if you're interested in a certain project (ICO/IEO) and you want to invest your money in their, but you didn't know that the scammer was just toying you because he notice that you're bad at English, then you're screwed.

because of this, we really need to really understand the concepts that will be run by a project. to be honest, I also don't really know English, but in project matters, I just know what I need to know, it might be due to experience.

however, all this about the projects that we are involved with. many people are victims because they have not done extensive research and excessive greed. These 2 things are often linked in this regard. however, when you find out what you are involved in, it has a small risk of becoming a scam.

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Desperation to earn, OP.
Imagine you're in a situation that you have a big project outside crypto and you really need a fund to make the project resume. For sure, you'll do some blood-sweat work in finding how to earn online, right? You'll find those legitimate sites even if the sites just gives a bits of money for you, but giving you a bulky work. Because you're desperate to earn, you're psychologically deceived that you don't care how difficult the tasks is. You just want to reach your goal and that's all.

People like that, indeed only think of money:
Actually what most people think about in building a project is income and money, whether the project idea is able to compete in market or not, they just want to be like others, famous and a lot of income. And if their project ends up not according to plan, they easily leave without thinking about their previous promises, or refunds.

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Quote from: pelumi20 on October 27, 2019, 03:59:33 PM

I think the two main reason why most people get scammed online are
1 lack of knowledge and failure to do research
2 Get rich quick / greed

Most people people that are new to something online are prone to scam because they do not have the necessary knowledge about it. But instead of them to make research about it or ask someone with experience, they will just carry on with it and get scammed.

I rather think that people who do not have the courage to do their own research therefore they only look for existing references. if new investors don't dare to start in a structured way they might get caught up in a scammer project, so it is better for new investors to learn more about knowing a project with its own analysis

new investors tend to be greedy when they see a project with high return and usually they have low knowledge let alone making an analyzation which could make it even worse because you can't analyze if you have little knowledge about project. for new investors it's better to just stick to an IEO hosted by the popular exchange instead of trying a project with zero guarantee. new investors is the reason why there are so many scam project appearing because they are trying to lure the new investors' money because that is the easiest thing they can do.

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Scammer's choose their victim base on his knowledge about a certain thing, my guess was you've been scammed or could easily get scam the way you spell out things, no offense but it's one of the weaknesses that someone could have, if you can't understand English well or only knows a few terms then you would have a rough time understanding what others are saying.

Let's give a scenario as an example, if you're interested in a certain project (ICO/IEO) and you want to invest your money in their, but you didn't know that the scammer was just toying you because he notice that you're bad at English, then you're screwed.

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I think the two main reason why most people get scammed online are
1 lack of knowledge and failure to do research
2 Get rich quick / greed

Most people people that are new to something online are prone to scam because they do not have the necessary knowledge about it. But instead of them to make research about it or ask someone with experience, they will just carry on with it and get scammed.

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Quote from: Aldrinx00 on October 27, 2019, 09:19:08 AM

I think most people got scammed because they lack knowledge or new to crypto, they don't know anything so if someone offers them to invest to double their money they would immediately grab it then repent later that their decision is wrong.

Not only lack of knowledge but they try new things and get with new or unknown projects which lead them to lose money. Everyone should remain careful and don’t trust any site without getting proper knowledge about it. In the digital world, it's really hard to find real and trustworthy people that’s why to invest only in real sites.`

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Some people get scammed online because they are inexperienced and gullible. Fraudsters can speak and persuade well, as well as encode. You need to be vigilant and carefully check all information.

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Quote from: otto93 on October 27, 2019, 01:41:57 PM

That is where the laziness comes to light because many are here who do not only refuse to read but also ignorant of where to look foe information at a particular time but like someone will said internet and crypto has it down sides both for honest and dishonest individuals, if you are not ready don't hook up on it

because reading is the beginning in doing research on a project so that you are not fooled by the existing project. Most of the mistakes happen because of ignorance to do research and do not dare to try to research on the investments made

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Poverty, laziness and greed is the main thing that I would think usually make people get scammed in the cryptocurrency market, because it is an extremely poor person that will not be patient to study the market carefully before actually thinking of making investment because they want a very fast way of making return, so they don’t make a good decision through research but just by instinct.

Like you also said, greed is one of the thing that usually destroy lots of people in this aspect also, many people are so greedy that they want to put tiny money and get very large amount of money, which is why you see that scammers are actually using this weakness against them, they promise to turn their very little amount of money to big one which eventually gets to the investor to rush into making investment.

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That is where the laziness comes to light because many are here who do not only refuse to read but also ignorant of where to look foe information at a particular time but like someone will said internet and crypto has it down sides both for honest and dishonest individuals, if you are not ready don't hook up on it

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Easy profits without much effort is what most people are looking for, something that is so far from reality, only those who like easy way out will always be a victim to these scam schemes, most schemes i have come across are way too good to be real

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Quote from: djsugar on October 27, 2019, 12:04:10 PM

I have seen cases of fake crypto, scam exchanges or fake ICOs. People easily get fooled by these because crypto needs technical knowledge too to understand it. It is not easy to handle a crypto wallet or trade on exchanges specially DEX. Similarly, it is tough to differentiate between fake ICO and coins. That's why people can easily be fooled in crypto world. Crytpo education is the key.

but the important question is: where to get this education? there is no place where you can prepare yourself for those situations that occur on this market, and therefore only thanks to your experience can you learn something

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