Let’s face it: the cryptocurrency space is littered with people trying to scam you. Do not fall for any of it. These scammers are all over Facebook, Twitter, Craigslist, Reddit. They’re in your emails. They pop up on the first page of your Google searches. They are everywhere you look and don’t look.
My first (cliché but true) rule is: if it sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true. Always. No exceptions. Anyone telling you that you can “get X amount of free bitcoin a day” is scamming you. Anyone telling you that you can get rich quick if you first send them X amount of bitcoin is scamming you.
Stay legitimate in your investments and stay the course. Don’t be fooled into any of these schemes. They will only ever make you wish you hadn’t, to say the least, and could make you go entirely broke.
Another important thing to note is to make sure the links you do click on are exactly what they should be. Some scam artists have been changing one letter in a website’s URL, giving money to Google to put their scam site on the Google front page of searches (blttrex.com looks a hell of a lot like bittrex.com if you aren’t paying attention). Then, once you click it and put in your login information, they use that information to log in to your actual account and bam. Your money’s all gone. One easy way to avoid this is by not using Google at all to get to your exchanges. Type in the correct URL yourself every time, or at least do it once, make sure it is the right one, and then favorite it.
Don’t. Get. Scammed.
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