With the technology improvement the chances of hackers finding new ways to scam people also increases but the safety lies in your hand.With the decentralised coins like bitcoin the freedom of ownership of your funds lies with you but also its security remains your responsibility but there are many ways by which people are becoming victims for these.The actual reasons behind this are lack of awareness and in most cases the greed to earn more which lands them into scam trap.
Bank credit card scam or telephone scam__ Scammers send emails or text messages that appear to be from your bank claim that your account is having issues and request that you verify your details by sending them you pin on the front and back of your credit or debit card.
Banks have always said they never demand your personal information or any card related information whether it's pin or card number.They will simply send you notification of visiting the branch to solve it but the scammers will ask you pin and then funds are gone.Supoose it of as safety deposit and somebody ask you to give them code so they could check what's inside there are you stupid enough to give it to them?
Charity scam___scammers pretending to work for a particular charity organization in other to extracting money from individuals.
These types of charity scams comes into light whenever there are some sort of donations in which the hackers put a false link or say wrong address matching to the original one and the funds are going to their personal wallets which transfer it fast.As the current scenario the Ukraine government has also urged people to double check the orginal address where they will send crypto donations so as to avoid any scam.But there are many cases in which charity has been targeted to these scams.If you are aware about vanity addresses then they also create similar one's to make presence as original address.So be careful.
Dating and romance scam__Scammers trying to enter into relationship by using a fake details and legit dating sites, building trust and making feel it real then asking for money and your personal details pretending that they are sick, injured, family crisis, traveling and so on.
Just recently there was post on this forum where one person was victim of this scam and he lost around $40k to his lover and she was demanding more so this is also honeytrap and the gender is not known in this online world.Still people fall for those whom they have never met and mostly the targets are soft and lonely people.