Month: August 2021

How to Identify and Avoid Cryptocurrency SCAM

There are many cryptocurrency startups and most of them are scams. The rise of blockchain and of cryptocurrency is amazing. When people see it, they become inspired by investment results showed by other people. Many are evolving trading models where people can get attracted. Many people see the positive side of cryptocurrency because it grows so fast. There are many people who earn big and many people are will to invest.  For the negative side, This is also an opportunity for scammers to strike.

How would we know this?  Here are some pointers to ponder on to avoid falling a victim to scams.

  • Know how to identify fake ISO’s. Many people do scams by marketing and creating a fraudulent primary coin offer. An ICO is one of the ways a legal business can make money using crowdfunding. Many of these ICO’s can conduct fake sale of tokens. Once you invest in these fake ICO’s, the coin has no value.
  • When a company has a great money come back promise, this is too good to be true.
  • Check is there is a legal road map for that particular token. Is there proof of concept?
  • Do they have a support who can help solve a problem?
  • Identify Cloned Fishing website. A cloned website is someone that copies an original website, they promote this until they get personal information to use for scam.
Posted by Lyndsey Annabel in Block Chain Crypto, Crypto