Quote from: Welsh on Today at 08:48:43 PM

Quote from: Fiyor on Today at 12:32:43 PM

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During a pandemic, or any crisis whether that is locally or worldwide I would like to see people banding together, and donating their contributions instead of looking to profit off of it. For example, local stores were increasing the price of their "vital" products, and there were masses of people over buying products, and trying to sell it off. There was an example of this in America where a guy purchased a huge amount of water bottles. I believe in the end all of those were donated, but if I remember the report correctly he was originally planning on profiting off of them.

The same goes for scams. The people who are capable of pulling off scams usually are the people who pray on the weak, and needy. That's why these scammers are successful in what they do. It's an unfortunate fact to admit too, but Bitcoin is no different.

There are always 2 kind of people in every occasion. First are those who are willing to help others, and Second are those who do anything to help themselves if it means to monetize the situation, by no hesitation they will do it.
I have witnessed how some people in my country hoard as much alcohol and N95 facemasks just before the pandemic become worse, and sold it 2x or 3x the actual retail price. Luckily after a week or two authorities has been arresting these overpriced sellers.

While, collecting donations for fake charity is a common kind of scam not only in crypto space, but also with the other form of payment methods.