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List of scam coins
www.AltCoins.com/scamcoins
USI-Tech - a classic Ponzi - possibly the world's largest in history
Good site for staying safe and avoiding scams.
http://www.badbitcoin.org
Crypto Scan Checker
https://fried.com/crypto-scam-checker
Report Scams
www.ScamPulse.com
You want to avoid any cryptocurrencies that are offering regular returns and recruiting bonuses. These are almost always a sign you are dealing with a Ponzi scheme instead of a legitimate cryptocurrency. The money comes from new people joining.
Scam of the Month
So important: from www.BadBitCoins.org
A Ponzi is
any scheme which pays interest to "Investors" from Bitcoin coming in from new
Investors. AHYIP (high
yield investment program) is just a Ponzi. All
Ponzi/Hyips will fail. The
later Investors will lose everything when the scheme folds and leaves with the
Bitcoin. Most HYIPS and
doublers etc, just steal it immediately. You send it and they keep it.
Due diligence is your own responsibility.
There are plenty of good sites out there where your Bitcoin and your work are
safe. You just need to do your homework, including checking here. If it isn't in
our Badlist, email us, and we'll check it and get back to you.
Here’s the psychology behind the
typical ponzi’s & HYIP's run by the “professional” scammers. They know most
people will do this.
You deposit a small amount, you want to be cautious, you
can’t quite figure out how they do this – but they sometimes double it (or pay
promised interest) and pay you.
You think – Ah that’s great, so you either redeposit the entire amount, or just
your profit. You get that back and think wow, it works, so then you deposit a
much larger amount and in the worst case, even get your friends and family
involved in this wonderful money making scheme.
Then one day, after not long it just doesn’t get returned –
there is some issue with your account, or your withdrawal is stuck or something
similar, so you keep emailing the site and gradually it dawns on you that you’ve
been scammed. Commonly the scammer will even show you the transaction, but it
just isn't real.
Even if you just put your initial profits back in, the conman hasn’t
lost anything – and the
depositors who think they are ‘playing’ the ponzi, by getting in early, do try
that, and most of them don’t get it back either. People who run Ponzi's are
thieves.
Some people empty their life savings into these scams, and they
are the ones the scammers are really after. Once they get that big depositor,
they move on and create a new ponzi, just leaving the old one alive for a while
to mop up any new ‘mugs’ Some even return after a 3 or 6 month absence to catch
a fresh load of hits, they
will never run out of victims. It’s what they do, and they are expert at it.