The stupidest one would probably have to be sending a small amount of bitcoin to a scammer so as to receive a larger sum from them. Have to give the scammers credit though cause they do put in the effort to make it look legit. Believe the scam got so prevalent that guys like Elon Musk and Vitalik Buterin spoke out against it.
If you step back to think about it. Why would they even need you to send them crypto? Can't think of any logical reason for this other than greed and stupidity.
Topic: Your stupidity is opportunity for scammers! - page 2. (Read 403 times)
I don't know how may people's have realized that our stupidity is oppurtunity for scammers. I think most of scam happening due to our stupidity. It's not easy task to hacked or scam peoples. But due to lack of knowledge scammers taking easy money. It's true few scam happening unfortunately, like exchange hacking. But lot of scams happening due to our greed and stupidity. Let's discuss few of them.
Free coin offer:
Usually we always try to earn free money. This is our greedy nature. And scammers are using this as a opportunity. They will get your details then after few days will ask for verification. At the same time they will ask for private key. It has happened with lot of users. So is it not our stupidity? How can we trust someone with our private key?
Sign a message :
Just forgot the thread, I have noticed few days back that a guy got scam by signature. Someone gave few code to him for sign a message from his wallet. Code was request for payment. After sign message his fund was transferred to hacker account. Is it not a stupidity? Why should we sign with unknown code? Obviously it was happened due to lack of knowledge.
Invest on fake ICO & PONZI scheme:
This is the common scam nowadays. The reason is greedy behaviour. We always try to find out quick rich method. And this method throw us to scammer. Are we not really stupid that still now believing to ponzi scheme and we don't bother to do diligence before invest fake ICO. Our lazy behaviour and stupidity is responsible for this kind of scam.
Lazy behaviour & phishing:
During make any transaction we just copy paste address. But we forget to double check before conform the transaction. In a result, sometimes fund goes to some other wallet. How this would be happened? Easy answer, hacker successfully hacked your keyboard or device. On the other hand, hackers first attack is phishing link. This is very easy for them stolen your fund and whole wallet. We are really not care enough about phishing links. Before submit your details on any important website related with fund we should reconfirm the web address. Especially if you are using Google search. Otherwise when you will loss your fund no one could say. This is our lazy behaviour and how we got scam.
There is many more similar things how scammers are making us fool. Just we need learn more as much as possible. Most of scams are happening due to lack of knowledge. So we should be more careful before handle our funds.
Free coin offer:
Usually we always try to earn free money. This is our greedy nature. And scammers are using this as a opportunity. They will get your details then after few days will ask for verification. At the same time they will ask for private key. It has happened with lot of users. So is it not our stupidity? How can we trust someone with our private key?
Sign a message :
Just forgot the thread, I have noticed few days back that a guy got scam by signature. Someone gave few code to him for sign a message from his wallet. Code was request for payment. After sign message his fund was transferred to hacker account. Is it not a stupidity? Why should we sign with unknown code? Obviously it was happened due to lack of knowledge.
Invest on fake ICO & PONZI scheme:
This is the common scam nowadays. The reason is greedy behaviour. We always try to find out quick rich method. And this method throw us to scammer. Are we not really stupid that still now believing to ponzi scheme and we don't bother to do diligence before invest fake ICO. Our lazy behaviour and stupidity is responsible for this kind of scam.
Lazy behaviour & phishing:
During make any transaction we just copy paste address. But we forget to double check before conform the transaction. In a result, sometimes fund goes to some other wallet. How this would be happened? Easy answer, hacker successfully hacked your keyboard or device. On the other hand, hackers first attack is phishing link. This is very easy for them stolen your fund and whole wallet. We are really not care enough about phishing links. Before submit your details on any important website related with fund we should reconfirm the web address. Especially if you are using Google search. Otherwise when you will loss your fund no one could say. This is our lazy behaviour and how we got scam.
There is many more similar things how scammers are making us fool. Just we need learn more as much as possible. Most of scams are happening due to lack of knowledge. So we should be more careful before handle our funds.
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