The Complete Guide to Bitcoin Scams - CoinGecko

As we speak, bitcoin market capitalization �is hovering around $6.4 billion dollars. That's a lot of money, and you better believe scammers know this and want a slice of that digital pie.

Whether you are a bitcoin newbie, or someone who have been torched before, you should keep yourself up to date with the latest scam attempts. This is the complete guide to existing bitcoin scams you...

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Identifying Bitcoin scams | Luno

Bitcoin is attractive to scammers for the same reason it's attractive to you: it's fast, it's international, and it's irreversible. So as Bitcoin usage has grown, we have seen more and more Bitcoin scammers disappear with user funds.

The following are some of the most persistent Bitcoin scams.

Bitcoin Ponzi, HYIP or MLM schemes

These schemes attract people with low or no subscription fees and...

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Brookline police warn against Bitcoin mail scam - The ...

Brookline police are warning against an ongoing mail scam involving letters that demand large sums of Bitcoin from area residents.

The letters instruct recipients to send the scammers the Bitcoin, or those responsible will leak victims' "secrets," police said.

In a sample scam letter posted online by Brookline police, the scammer said that while working in Brookline, they discovered a secret the victim is hiding from his or her wife, and demanded $4,500 to be transferred to their Bitcoin address. The payment would be a "confidentiality fee" to maintain the victim's secret, the...

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