I once tried a scam "investment" site for fun, knowing that they are not going to last long and operate like a Ponzi scheme. Daily interest was about 3.6%. I figured out, using the "rule of 72", that if the site survived for more than 20 days I will have my ROI.

I was luck to join early and the site did survived for more than 20 days, and I withdrew everything. So I doubled the little investment of 0.01BTC to about 0.02+BTC. About a month later, the site closed down and many investors lost their BTC.

In short, almost all BTC investment at the moment are scams- please correct me by letting me know if there is any valid investment site....

like in the article says most of the investment and mining are scam, even some of the faucet is a scam

bitcoin exchanger is also one of the scam scheme made by scammer, the amount lost due to the scammer in exchanger is very high

overall, be careful in every situation, dont click any unknown link, bitcoin is a favourite target for scammer

it's true most of them are scam and many people has victims from mining sites and investment sites and i think these article are good for references

this is a good article for the beginners and help section for our new friends to watch out for.

i don't see anything new here, it has always been like this. scammers trying to use bitcoin anonymity to their advantage and steal people's money by calling it investment.

Most of us are attracted to options promising us higher profits on our investments than what we are getting currently in our country of origin. Most people believe these opportunities are legitimate and

not some sort of HYIP or Ponzi Scheme. If you do some research, you will eventually see.... interest rates on most investments are way below these rates offered by these services and it is highly

unlikely that it is legal. So the old saying goes... If it looks to good to be true.. it probably is. Go to http://www.badbitcoin.org/ to see most of the scams out there currently. 

Good article that would mostly put newbies in trap, mainly numbers 1,2 and 3 and number 4 could have more of a general scam effect which happened to me in the past due to a good exchange fees, I went in and tried to exchange small amount that I never got converted back and sent to the other payment option I wanted and it's not just that, some turn out to be scams after some times (which many already knew this).

That's a really amazing outcome, 7788bitcoin, I'm most surprised that they let you withdraw. Actually, your method could be applied to any kind of trading (set % target limit, follow strict plan @ target %). Nice!

No. You'd have to be pretty fucking dim to fall for any of those. They are all automatically scams unless they prove otherwise and even then you can never be sure.

Frauds ans scams are not reserved only for Bitcoin, that can happen with any other currency, so you just have to be careful like with any other thing

If you just take a look at the investment board you will notice that most/all of them ended/will end by scamming their users, it happened me to the past once, and I quitted from investment/cloud mining.