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Topic: Why do scammers scam? - page 3. (Read 6050 times)

member
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August 29, 2014, 03:17:31 AM
For profit, simple.
newbie
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Merit: 0
August 29, 2014, 02:35:28 AM
Simple thinking! They want your money. Scammers always use different and new tricks to gain money. They will give attractive and unbelievable offers and will aim to convince you. If you have a feeling that something is wrong, you're possibly right.
sr. member
Activity: 243
Merit: 250
August 29, 2014, 01:32:14 AM
They want to get rich fast and dont want to work.
Many scams require more work than regular work.

Nah, I think scams require less work. Look at the hardware thread, selling fake ASIC.
sr. member
Activity: 294
Merit: 250
August 28, 2014, 08:08:25 PM
They want to get money while they don't want to work hard.
Sad to see those scammers, I lost some coins in sharex exchange, luckily not much.
full member
Activity: 182
Merit: 100
August 28, 2014, 06:33:30 PM
They want to get rich fast and dont want to work.
Many scams require more work than regular work.
newbie
Activity: 56
Merit: 0
August 27, 2014, 10:00:00 AM
They want easy quick money, no one likes working hard, specially as boat missers.
legendary
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August 26, 2014, 12:12:16 PM
Some people only have the ability to convince others they have an idea worth investing, but not have good ideas and make they come true.

Also the anonimity factor, you can scam using an alt ID while you remain being an honorable member of the Bitcoin comunity. Plus it will be unlikely you'll get arrested or something, because the Bitcoin comunity values anonimity.

Then no social punishment + no law punishiment = scammer's paradise
newbie
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August 26, 2014, 12:00:57 PM
becouse they want money very fast and simple
legendary
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Merit: 1000
August 26, 2014, 10:39:22 AM
They want that nice quick money.

But why not just work hard for that money legitimately rather than work hard at scamming immorally someone for pittance?

Scamming is always much easier then legitimate work. If not, scammer wouldn't scam..

Is it? To successful scam you have to put in usually several hours work, whether that';s building up your rep or actually closing the scam. You could spend that time better building up your account to use for legit purposes like a sig deal or other ways to make money on here.

Unfortunately, sometimes, careless people fell for cheap scams.
For example, someone impersonated theymos and sent a few emails out, and scammed 11.95 btc. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/tried-to-support-the-forum-and-advertise-and-got-scammed-pls-help-665923
sr. member
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Merit: 250
August 26, 2014, 09:10:45 AM
They want to get rich fast and dont want to work.
hero member
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Merit: 500
Trust me!
August 26, 2014, 09:07:49 AM
Easy. It's much easier to pull of a scam than really work for your money. The amount of work needed to scam people is lower than just staying legit and earning your BTC the hard way. People are greedy, maybe even in dire need of money, and therefore do anything to get access to it. Also all those fancy IPOs and their business models are mostly crap and will never work out to begin with!
newbie
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Merit: 0
August 26, 2014, 08:57:44 AM
They just want to make easy money in the little amount of time possible.
full member
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Merit: 100
August 26, 2014, 07:43:43 AM
They want that nice quick money.

But why not just work hard for that money legitimately rather than work hard at scamming immorally someone for pittance?

Scamming is always much easier then legitimate work. If not, scammer wouldn't scam..

Is it? To successful scam you have to put in usually several hours work, whether that';s building up your rep or actually closing the scam. You could spend that time better building up your account to use for legit purposes like a sig deal or other ways to make money on here.

They want that nice quick money.

But why not just work hard for that money legitimately rather than work hard at scamming immorally someone for pittance?

Scams need not be for pittance always. They are plenty of scammers who have gotten rich through scamming.  Grin

That's true, but most are. Most of the scams I see here are for like 10-50 dollars. You could earn that on a sig campaign with 50 posts, but not now they've ruined their account by scamming from it.
full member
Activity: 182
Merit: 100
August 25, 2014, 12:43:24 PM
#99
They want that nice quick money.

But why not just work hard for that money legitimately rather than work hard at scamming immorally someone for pittance?
It's about a thrill as well, not just the money. It's more exciting to scam than work a dull 8 hours a day.
hero member
Activity: 561
Merit: 500
August 25, 2014, 11:49:39 AM
#98
They want that nice quick money.

But why not just work hard for that money legitimately rather than work hard at scamming immorally someone for pittance?

If they really care about morality or justice, they won't attempt to scam in the first place...
legendary
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Merit: 1064
August 25, 2014, 11:01:40 AM
#97
They want that nice quick money.

But why not just work hard for that money legitimately rather than work hard at scamming immorally someone for pittance?

Scams need not be for pittance always. They are plenty of scammers who have gotten rich through scamming.  Grin
sr. member
Activity: 476
Merit: 255
August 25, 2014, 10:56:42 AM
#96
They want that nice quick money.

But why not just work hard for that money legitimately rather than work hard at scamming immorally someone for pittance?

Scamming is always much easier then legitimate work. If not, scammer wouldn't scam..

of course, very easy to get people interested,
just need a website and offers a large profit, many people are got scammed.
Why do scammers scam ? it's simple, because they take advantage of some people who do not think they do  Shocked
sr. member
Activity: 272
Merit: 250
August 25, 2014, 08:25:54 AM
#95
They want that nice quick money.

But why not just work hard for that money legitimately rather than work hard at scamming immorally someone for pittance?

Scamming is always much easier then legitimate work. If not, scammer wouldn't scam..
full member
Activity: 166
Merit: 100
August 25, 2014, 07:45:54 AM
#94
They want that nice quick money.

But why not just work hard for that money legitimately rather than work hard at scamming immorally someone for pittance?
newbie
Activity: 28
Merit: 0
August 25, 2014, 06:53:58 AM
#93
They want that nice quick money.
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