In recent years, with the rapid development of the cryptocurrency market, scammers have also taken advantage of people's desire for high returns and constantly developed new fraud methods. Here are some common scams in the cryptocurrency industry.
1: Invite people to small exchanges and trade on small platforms. A certain teacher leads orders. He has a 100% winning rate in entering a certain currency. He also guides people to open orders for free, but they must go to a designated platform to trade, and the handling fee is low. . At the beginning, it gives you a little sweetener to let those who follow you increase their capital investment. Later, it starts to lead you to high-multiple contracts and liquidate your position in minutes. Even if you want to quit, you can't withdraw cash. It's a perfect pig killing plate.
Personal suggestion: Only use Binance OK and Huobi, and focus on fund security before making money.
2: Wallet airdrop coins, (defrauding authorization) The scammer will airdrop a lot of worthless coins into your wallet, and then ask you to authorize it, so that others will know your password and key, and the money in the wallet will be available at any time. Can be taken.
Personal suggestion: Don’t believe in airdrop coins at will, don’t authorize them at will, if you have more U, you can put it on the exchange, or you need a wallet like TP Little Fox.
3: There are many groups of scammers in the primary market, or the community recommends various primary projects on the Internet, and they are chasing after them. In fact, they have no quota themselves, so they can only send empty cars, the projects are not online, and they have been unable to get them due to other reasons. to coins
Personal suggestion: There are many good projects in the primary market, and there are many that are ten times or a hundred times, but channels are very important. You must keep your eyes open and see clearly the strength of the community.
4: Privately add friends to the group to guide them to invest. In WeChat groups, a common technique in QQ groups is to first package themselves as being connected to the same disease as you, and then talk about how much money you have made by following someone, through the circle of friends and gorgeous language. To lure you into a trap, they usually have pictures of beautiful women, or pictures of mature and stable uncles, but in fact, behind them are all dignified men.
5: Fake wallets and fake platforms often use high commission fees to induce you to download the APP and commit fraud. They appear more frequently on Twitter and Telegram groups, and are assisted by successful downloads.
Personal suggestion: Download the exchange or wallet through official channels, and don’t trust the links posted in the group.
6: Pretend to be exchange customer service, call or send text messages to commit fraud by purchasing personal information. After being able to accurately call your name and information, they will say that there is a problem with your account and you need to transfer your assets to a safe wallet. As long as you believe it, you The U in the wallet will be transferred to the scammers. Because they can accurately tell the personal information, it is easy to relax their vigilance.
Personal suggestion: If you see an overseas phone call or someone asking you to transfer U, ignore it. The platform will not proactively contact the individual. You can also contact the customer on the exchange platform for verification.
Summary: The above common scams all exploit the weaknesses of human nature to defraud. As long as you are not greedy and don’t take chances, the scammers will have nothing to do.
