Tempted by the Bitcoin Bubble?

Just in case you were tempted...

WARNING: Thinking of investing in Bitcoin or other Cryptocurrencies?

Here's what you should know:

If you've been contacted by a 'trader' promising big profits and offering to help you invest in cryptocurrency, this is a scam. See Cryptocurrency investment fraud - Action Fraud.

- Always have control of your cryptocurrency wallet. If you didn't set the wallet up yourself or can't access the money in the wallet, this is a scam. You should stop making payments immediately.

- Many cryptocurrency sellers are not registered with the UK Financial Conduct Authority. Always use a firm that is on the Registered FCA list which can be found on the FCA website. You should also check the Temporarily Registered list which can be found on the same page.

- If you ignore the above advice you could lose all of your money.

Source: Royal Bank of Scotland

Comments

A Clone Calls

I get a friend request from a friend on Facebook. Hi, she says, have you heard the good news? It seems that she has been awarded $100,000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Sometimes from some unspecified Federal agency that is giving out large sums of money to random people for no obvious reason (because hey, that's how the federal government works, isn't it). And guess what? I'm on the recipient list too! All I have to do to get my money is send an email to some guy to register my claim. She gives me the email address of some guy. The deal is, I've won $$$$ and I send $ to register my claim It's a bit odd, because I'm already friends with my friend - how come she is sending me a friend request? And when I look at her profile, it's all new. So I check - and lo and behold, my friend is wholly unaware of having sent me a friend request today. We report it to Facebook, and after a few hours the ...

Ooops!

The scammer I dumped yesterday came back to me with the same face but a nice African name. Bilson Angela became Munkadas Masahulu, and sent me an friend request. Then he changed his name to Bilson Bilson Angeles, realised that he had screwed up, and blocked me 😃

Don't get caught

Out of the blue, this lovely girl wants to show me her breasts Well, you know instantly that it isn't true. Sadly, beautiful girls don't contact me out of the blue and offer to show me their bodies. It isn't going to happen. You might be tempted to go along with it - you're a bloke, your brain is in your penis - and a friend of mine did. What happens is that the scammer gets her kit off and gets you to do the same. She then films you responding to her sex cam stuff. And then you start to get the blackmail demands. My friend was lucky - he's divorced and self-employed, so not easy to blackmail. He reported to the cops, but as his scammer was in Ghana (or like mine, India) there isn't a lot that the Merseyside cops can do. I reported my one to Facebook as a fake account - gratifyingly, Facebook removed her within five minutes. But she'll be back. Don't get caught

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