Lesson 04 · 5 min
Spotting scams before they cost you
Scams in this field follow a handful of scripts. Learn the scripts and they stop working.
The common scripts
Recovery services that promise to retrieve lost or stolen crypto for an upfront fee. Essentially all of them are a second theft.
Support staff appearing in your messages after you post a public question. Real support does not message first.
Giveaways asking you to send coins to receive more back. The maths never worked.
Romance or mentor accounts guiding you to a trading site with beautiful gains you cannot withdraw.
Your defensive habits
Slow down. Urgency is the shared ingredient of every one of these.
Never share your screen, install remote-access tools, or type your words anywhere on request.
Bookmark the real sites you use and reach them only through those bookmarks.
Worth remembering
- Upfront-fee recovery offers are theft.
- Anyone contacting you first is suspect.
- Urgency is the tell.