Bitcoin, as well as any other currency, requires special attention. Since in this area, virtual currencies are also always those people who want to cash in on your savings. Therefore, we have to deal with the next scams and fraudulent activities. But basically all the thefts of crypto-currencies, which are not due to the vulnerability of the system, but because of the known human factor - greed. There is an opinion that it is necessary to fight fraudsters in this field, and not with the bitcoin itself, which can be divided into the following:
Bitcoin-investment programs
As in life, so here you can stumble upon a lot of projects that offer their funds at high interest rates. Therefore, before investing in any project, you should analyze the company, its domain, reviews, history of existence. It is rare to find bona fide investment projects that promise unheard of interest from the user's contribution and then also honestly pay them. Therefore, first think about it, maybe this sentence is just a hoax! And many scammers manage greed, so it is unlikely that the project will last at least until the first full payment to the user. After all, these percentages should at least approximately correspond to market ones. So remember: if something is too good to be true, it is probably a hoax.
Fraud in the field of mining
Often projects related to mining crypto currency are also fraudulent. First of all, this concerns the projects of cloud mining.
In this area, you can get to the fraud in the collection of money for the supply of mining capacities. There were cases when such companies, having received an advance payment, did not send out the equipment and ignored the requests for the return of the deposited funds to the payment account. Therefore, in mining also it is necessary to be cautious when choosing companies for cooperation.
Purses Crypto-currency
The simplest way to conduct fraud using bitcoin-purses is to create wallets that eventually turned out to be fraudulent. In this case, scammers work roughly according to this scheme: when using purses and receipts for it, certain amounts, upon reaching a certain threshold, the entire amount from the purse. Examples of such purses are Onion Wallet, Easy Coin, and Bitcoinwallet.in. It is interesting that the sums from all three wallets were written off to the same address, which indicates a single owner of them.
Fraud through exchangers
In the case of the choice of a suitable service for currency exchange, first of all draws attention to the size of the course. Also, many users prefer to make anonymous exchanges. If you are on the exchanger of scammers, then most likely after sending money to the system for exchange, you will never get them back, and the company will also be lost within a few days or hours.
Therefore, in order not to become victims, it is better to use a reliable exchanger, albeit with less attractive courses. Or refer to sites and currency monitors, where users vote or rate for the work of an exchanger. If you still decided to use a new unknown exchanger, then it's better to send small amounts, so you will have at least some opportunity to save, if the site turns out to be fraudulent.
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