Quote from: blockman on Today at 10:32:22 AM

Quote from: wiss19 on Today at 09:31:06 AM

Unfortunately, these days you don't even need to have anything like p2p to scam people. You could have a website that is looking "legit" but in reality, would be a ponzi scheme.

Most commonly, for many years people put their money into many exchanges, and exchanges didn't protect themselves carefully and got "hacked", we can't really know if they were hacked or they just stole our money but the result were the same.

This means that we saw a lot of money put their money as a whole, the "business" worked as intended for many years, but then one day suddenly they just stopped and took our money and left. Thats the scary part and it could happen and that type of scam is horrible.

That's another type of scam and people who are still not aware of the existence of another type of scam, they're the ones likely that will be a victim of those types of scams.
Someone who's looking legitimate into how professional the website looks like, they're also using that tactic because it can easily prey on people that have no idea about the style.
Note, it's not limited to crypto but also in banking and other financial services that requires a website access.

We should really be careful on things that is around on which there are lots of methods on which these fraudsters do really tend to hook up people on such scam even though it is way to obvious on some
eyes but most of the time which people do really still ending up on falling and get victimized.We could eventually avoid these things on reading up on others experiences and other real time engagement.
Its understandable that being a newbie does really have that kind of lacking of knowledge and awareness around but reading up on others experiences would really be giving you out some
hint or idea which you could really make use for you to make yourself that prepared. Hacking,scamming,exploits,illegal means is really very common on this space.
It isnt different on things that we've been dealing on those typical things before crypto.Be careful as much as you could!