I meet somebody I know who was into BTC. When he was surfing on internet he found this website: https://www.btcchain.tech/PLANS Like most people who have no clue what bitcoin is and how it works, he was interested in the huge returns they were showing on their website. He was thinking: I will do this just a few days, take the profit and close the account. He invested 200,000 Euro in it by transferring BTC to the wallet of that company. The company pretended that they were licensed, but what they are showing on the website is just the registration of a company. So they mislead people. As promised the profits skyrocketed, so as planned the client wanted to withdraw the money. But then these people say that the money was still blocked for pending positions. He should wait three months. After three months it was clear that the money was gone and all was fake. The client then had the "brilliant" idea to trade his account himself. His intention was to make huge losses so that the criminals would not be able to steal the money he already lost. So he went short when markets went up, and went long when markets went down. He was expecting to make huge losses. So he was very surprised to see that the result of his trading showed a profit of over 700,000 $. Then he realized that the whole thing was fake.
Another friend of mine gave me a very good one, but I don't have it anymore. You would be quickly millionaire and if you bring new clients they offered you at some level even a Lamborghini Aventador as bonus. They combine BTC scam with MLM. I told him not to do this. He agreed after using his brains for 2 seconds.
There's scammers in the crypto space, there's scammers in the commodities space, scammers everywhere. This has been going on for years. Nothing new
good. there are millions of scammers in this world. some people (including those with high IQ) are very prone to be conned.
200 grand. Euros. Yeaaaahhhh. So far the largest amount i heard of, per single individual, when it comes to BTC scams. Ofc, you would find more celebs, with way higher stakes. How old was that man ?
The same thing has been going on in Forex for the last 7 years. Not a day goes by that I don't get at least one or two emails from some unregulated Forex broker operating from some island country I've never even heard of.
The big advantage of BTC is that once the BTC is transfered it is gone forever. You don't know where and you don't know to whom. That's why there are so many BTC scams. Perfect construction for criminals. With fiat money it is much more difficult as there are a lot of traces left.