Scammers are everywhere
Money is one of the most important things in human life. It is an important element of happiness which means without money we can't be happy and that's the truth. It doesn't matter if anyone is not ready to accept it because truth means truth. This is the reason we work to earn money and we try to earn as much money as we can. It's a reason because of what everyone is running after money and even some people don't hesitate to do illegal activities although it's not good.
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The greediness of humans is a very natural thing and little or more every human has it. Greediness for money is a very common nature of humans and it is also one kind of weakness. And a scammer tries to take full advantage of the weakness. Considering the greediness of humans they set traps for people and naturally many people became victims of their well-planned trap.
In the past, those kinds of scammers were only available offline but now because of technological development we are living in a digital world and most of our work is highly dependent on online activities. With time scammers are also getting updated and now in the virtual world, there are many scammers and scamming online has increased a lot compared to offline scammers and online scamming has become easier compared to past times.
In my life, I became a victim of scammers a few times. Today I am going to share one of them.
It was the time when I was admitted to my University and I was staying in a mess. At that time online earning was not a common thing and nobody naturally believed in such kind of thing. In my earlier age I was determined to earn from online and I have made several efforts but none of them worked. I never lose the hope to earn from online. Whenever I talked about my thoughts on how to earn from online, my mom demotivated me each time saying "If people could earn money staying at home, nobody would have gone outside for work ". I don't blame my mother for having such kind of thought because at the time it was in practical thoughts..
So after I was admitted to university I was trying to make opportunities to earn money. It was because I was trying to be self dependent and it's quite natural. One day two messmates informed me that earning money online is very easy and they were going to open an account on one site. In that site one needed to invest 20 $ in the beginning and each day 1 $ was allowed to be earned. And the minimum withdrawal was 15 $. I was very much interested in this project and I gained details about it. I was able to acknowledge that there was an office nearby. That was the reason I was planning to invest there. But for security, I was waiting for the withdrawal of my messmates. Exactly after 15 days they went to the office and came back with a cash withdrawal and without making any delay I invested there.
I was confident that I would receive the withdrawal. I was smart and so I decided to earn 20 $ and then withdraw to take my seed money back. After earning 20 $ I went to the office to make the withdrawal. The owner of the company told me that because of the server error withdrawal system was delayed. 1 or 2 days interval I went to their office many times. Each time the owner gave me various kinds of excuses. Within a few days, I started to lose hope of my money because I understood that I made a mistake and it was a wrong decision to invest there. Inside of me I was crying but my money stuck there and I could not show my anger to the owner because my money was in his hand. At that time how bad I felt couldn't be expressed in words. Indeed now 20 $ is not a huge thing for me but at that time it was huge money for me. In fact in the current time also it's not so little.
The owner was showing some other project where I needed to invest more money thinking that I didn't understand his strategy. I just left the office. There were many who suffered a loss like me. After some days the office disappeared which means the owner run away with other people's money.
It was the thing which made a huge impact on my mind and after that time I never tried to invest in any site. It was a life lesson for me and that made me realise that the world was not as good as I used to think. There are many people who play with other assets and emotions. People don't hesitate to harm others for their own benefit. I was inexperienced and wasn't able to figure out the reality of the cruel world. I was just trying to be self dependent but I faced financial loss in that case. There I got another important lesson and the lesson is without making any effort it's almost impossible to make money from the beginning.
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Hmmm ponzi schemes are risky, it tends to scam you of your hard earn money. The world we live in is full of evil and people does lots of dubious things just to harm others. Sorry for the loss friend
Yes, It was a Ponzi scheme and I suffered little loss for it but It gave me a life lesson and I feel whatever happened, it was good for me and I lost only a little where many people invested 50X/100X compared to me.
Human greed is the open door to scammers. Most people that were scammed fell into the traps because they wanted more than they have worked for.
You wouldn't blame mom for having that thought on earning online, in their days there was nothing like that.
Sorry for your experience, once you invest your money into all these online things and they start telling you about network issues just know that you are in the wrong place and your money is far gone already
Human greed maximizes the chances of being a victim of scammers but sometimes people become a victim because the scammers are too smart even if one is not greedy.
I also don't blame my mom for it because at that time it was a practical thing and from my mother's position she was right.
Indeed it was a bad experience and each bad experience comes with a lesson and in my case, it was a life lesson and I feel it was good for me.
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You are right, something can't be escaped though. Some scammers are too smart and some even use spiritual powers to manipulate their clients. In some cases, it's not about greed
Many times, getting to the realisation that your money is gone is best for us, because of other than that, we'll find it hard to move on from the hurt of being played for a fool.
It's best to just move on.
I agree with you. Indeed I lost some money in this case but it gave me a life lesson and this life lesson is more valuable than 20 $. Now I can understand where to invest and where not. Maybe for that reason, it's said that even in a bad incident there exists some positive side. Thankfully now I am able to learn to stay alert from the scammers because of the incident.
I think those are called ponzi schemes and there are a lot of them here in Nigeria too, where you're required to put in money and make either weekly withdrawals or monthly withdrawal.. At the end of the day, they run away with your money. I also was a victim one time but after that, I made sure never to participate in anything like that ever again.
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Yes, It's one kind of Ponzi scheme and it was available in both online and offline which made me believe that it was real. Besides they give first withdrawal to many people to gain trust and I am trapped for it.
Actually, at that time I was inexperienced and that thing happened. Now I have the capability to play with scammers😅 means playing with their emotions.
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Scammers everywhere, me hmm i'll never be a victim of scammer again in my life, i've gone through lots of scams mistakes i regret
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I hope your past mistakes will help you not to be scammed by anyone because it might helped you to learn some lessons.
When it comes to investing, one needs to do very good research, so as not to end up investing on what will not bring any return.
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Indeed, we need to to research properly before investing in anywhere. It can help us to reduce risk as much as possible..
Yeah, that's right
I am sorry that happened to you. Some people are very dubious and greedy and they can go to extreme lengths, taking the sweat of others just so they could make money.
They are a whole lot of them out there now, we just have to be very careful.
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Nothing to be sorry because I feel it comes up with lesson and I think the lesson helping me greatly to stay alert from scammers in the current time.
You are right bro money is the most important thing which makes people happy life. There is peace in the family. There is a solution to every danger. I know why it seems that without money everything is really useless. I wish you all the best bro. Very well written which I myself am inspired by. Best wishes for you always.
Money is really very important and almost in every case we need money. We can't deny the fact. But there are are scammers also who want to steal others money and we need to be stay alert from there.
It's my pleasure you inspired by reading this 🙂.
Really are you right my dear brother. You are most Wellcome