Social media has really messed some people up not only by convincing them to invest in shitcoin but by also making one lose everything they have in their wallet more especially newbie. Some weeks ago a friend of mine lost everything in her wallet just by clicking on a link they said she's going to make a lot of money and this look so good to be a lie but because she's still new and she thinks that's how she's going to turn rich in a twinkling of an eye not knowing she's going to lose everything. We should be very careful on what we see or hear online even offline.
Sometimes I don’t blame these scammers, but people who are falling into the trap because knowledge is very important. Many people need quick money, and they think crypto will do that for them. Instead of learning before they do everything, they are too lazy to do that. And that is why they fall victim to the scammers. Just like your friend, now I can’t someone blame those scammers for scamming her even though she is a newbie.
Technically I will blame the scammers because if they had never existed, there won't be any victim. You can't beat a child and expect the child not to cry. That aside, I think we all owe our close family and friends the duty to educate them to know the dangers of clicking on any unverified links or any random links they find on the internet. Wether they are bitcoin investors or not at the moment. We that are privileged to know the danger of these things should find out time to educate them about it. Because it might come in handy for them someday.
Most of our love ones don't know about some scams that goes on out there yet. But if we take out time and educate them ourselves, they will be properly equipped with the right knowledge on time. Tomorrow when they eventually start investing in bitcoin, they would be knowledgeable enough to identify these scams when they see them. You never can tell, this knowledge could also be helpful to them in other aspects of their life. If we don't teach them majority of them won't know, and they are likely to learn it the hard way. And such things could have been avoided if we had took out time to educate them on our own.