Quote from: Kronos21 on January 29, 2018, 01:14:49 PM

Quote from: Vinz1992 on January 29, 2018, 06:48:52 AM

Okay...so I have a funny Bitcoin story for you which I heard from a friend.

A middle-aged couple bought 1 BTC for a 1000 USD recently. They were happy beyond what can be described in words at the good deal they had got. So they got in touch with my friend to ask him about how they could sell it. He sent them the links to various medium articles and blogposts on how to buy and sell bitcoin. The couple got in touch with him again and told him that they had failed to sell the bitcoin. So my friend went and met them. They then "showed" him their bitcoin. It was a plastic coin with the Bitcoin symbol on it!

I see nothing funny in this story. Elderly people find it very difficult to keep up with the changes in the modern world. They are like children. Scammers took advantage of this and tricked them. What's so funny? If their place were your parents or grandparents you laughed too ? Maybe it was all of their savings. Never laugh at someone else's grief.

thank you Kronos21 for making that comment. I was reading through the thread and I was horrified to see everybody saw it as a funny story.

Well let me tell to everybody who considers it funny, that I do not wish you that, but every time you transfer your crypto funds to a wrong address, you forget your PIN or account password or you are robbed because your 2FA phone was hacked, it shows the level of your foolishness or that there are the same scammers in action as the scammers who took advantage of that poor elderly couple. You don't even have the excuse of being old and uneducated in the matters related to crypto.

And then you come to this forum with your tail between your legs and beg other members for help. Well, maybe you should consider your actions as funny too, don't you agree?

Just to be very clear: I can see nothing even remotely funny in that story of those scam victims.