well written article.. the binance bitcoin game scam is funny though, this many red flags and guys still send their bitcoins, omg 

Scammers are in any field. So everything in this world is a scam? A fork (for eating ) can be killed. Forbidding forks? Fraud is committed to people, not bitcoin.

Yes, of course. There are scams everywhere there is a possibility to scam. But, as we are here on a crypto forum, we should be talking about the scams that are about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. I think it is important we educate people who are new and do not know all these scams etc.

I 100% agree with you!

The reason behind Bitcoin or any scam is scammers think that scamming is the easiest way to earn money. But, in the fact, (most) legitimate ways are much easier than scamming. So, why aren't scammers thought to waste their scammy creative mind to build something legitimate? As I feel, bad karma.

Indeed, greed is driving people to look for more and more opportunities to get easy money and profit, same time not doing any research. That's why scammers scam, they know someone will take the bait.

I've never got scammed,but I remember I guy that was selling a strange Fiverr gig.
The Fiverr gig was "Send me 300 USD worth of bitcoins and I will return you 380 USD after 2 months".
A friend of mine sent bitcoins for 400 USD to that scammer,and the scammer never replied.

It's a very old scam and not so new for people involved in cryptocurrency. The sad part is people who fail in the trap, not sure who is to blame here, the scammer or the people scammed. There is an interview online about this scammer, he claimed to make $50,000 daily and hired a dozen of guys to work for him

Well after reading the article, It is really obvious that the sound of a 5000 BTC giveaway was so good to be true that even you would surely notice how obvious that kind of offer is a scam, But I guess there are still some people bite the offer because they are really desperate with the situation that this is their opportunity to get something this big, And second is the name of a well known exchange site was brought up and sure more people would take this to consideration, I really think this is not Binance doing and their reputation is really at stake here.

I think 60% of the users on this forum has been scammed at least once. I have seen lot of scams in the casino environment, when is about get money people can be really creative.

I have been scammed by users asking for loans and then running away, and i have been scammed by casinos who decide to keep my money and block my withdrawals.

Some years ago the biggest bitcoin scams was based on Ponzi, now days we don't see much ponzi, but we see lot of ICO's ending in scam. So, let's play it smart and be careful.