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$4.3 bln lost in crypto scams in 2019 alone

mlawson71

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The funds lost to cryptocurrency scams globally have tripled in 2019 compared to 2018, revealed a report by Chainalysis. According to the same report, investors world-wide have lost a shocking 4,3 billion US dollars and that includes the losses to the now infamous PlusToken and OneCoin cryptocurrency scams. There is, apparently, a steady increase of such scams run on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and social media in general.

Recently there was even a fake twitter ICO for Facebook’s stable coin project Libra, but the most prominent scams remain the PlusToken and OneCoin Ponzi schemes.

“Over 2.4 million individual transfers were made to Ponzi schemes, a number that becomes even more incredible when you realize that the data above reflects just six individual Ponzi schemes in 2019,” the report also states.
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The sheer size of these scams and the losses for investors are both shocking and depressing, and while I hope we will not see a repeat performance in the future, I fear that is also too much to hope for.
 
Crypto in itself is the biggest scam ever invented. A commodity that solely derives its value from people's sentiments is DOOMED.
 
The funds lost to cryptocurrency scams globally have tripled in 2019 compared to 2018, revealed a report by Chainalysis. According to the same report, investors world-wide have lost a shocking 4,3 billion US dollars and that includes the losses to the now infamous PlusToken and OneCoin cryptocurrency scams. There is, apparently, a steady increase of such scams run on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and social media in general.

Recently there was even a fake twitter ICO for Facebook’s stable coin project Libra, but the most prominent scams remain the PlusToken and OneCoin Ponzi schemes.

“Over 2.4 million individual transfers were made to Ponzi schemes, a number that becomes even more incredible when you realize that the data above reflects just six individual Ponzi schemes in 2019,” the report also states.
Source

The sheer size of these scams and the losses for investors are both shocking and depressing, and while I hope we will not see a repeat performance in the future, I fear that is also too much to hope for.
thanks for the great news.people are ready to have loss and then recover in next session.but bitcoin is not easy like other Forex trading it is currency virtually used
 
I wouldn't even say that Forex trading is particularly easy either. It's just a little different, perhaps, but it's just as risky.
 

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