Good day everyone, I am very delighted to be part of this wonderful lecture and on the topic about crypto scams and how to reduce them. I will like to thank our noble professor @yohan2on for that wonderful lecture.I really enjoyed and learnt a lot so am kindly here to present to you my work. ![79A61D96-63BC-4334-A72E-66BC75B62C58.jpeg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmS84w1vN1XXgZ8ANvMAVpB3XdN5HGm9x2gGnnQx5Tg8H8/79A61D96-63BC-4334-A72E-66BC75B62C58.jpeg) **INTRODUCTION** It is overall realized that there are scams happening in everything identified with web and the crypto space is something that can not be forgotten about as far as online tricks. For beginners who have had interest in the crypto world, it is consistently fitting to be careful consistently and to be aware of identify any type of scams on the web. Nowadays it has gotten extremely uncommon for some individuals to fall casualties of these scams happening on the web and surprisingly in the crypto market. They now and then arrive in a method of bringing in online pain free income by taking you monetary subtleties and different stuffs and every one of these can likewise be identified with crypto scams. ![D01078D7-75EC-4DF1-B059-96062AC17EEE.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYmkm6Wrzo5PPHwTB3VNSo828CyEN8ZNnxZf5Jm7iTKwH/D01078D7-75EC-4DF1-B059-96062AC17EEE.png) **WHAT ARE CRYPTO SCAMS?** These are exceptionally malignant ways by which individuals use for the most part programmers to clear out resources of their casualties and leave them broke. The programmers discover distinctive deceitful available resources to fool their casualties into delivering important data to their records, and when they understand everything would have been gone. Some of the time it is undeniably challenging to distinguish a scam until it is past the point of no return. In this universe of innovation, programmers have fostered a few techniques and ways by which they separate monetary data from their preys to take their assets or resources. These scams have gotten widespread in on the web and in the crypto world. Many individuals have fallen casualties of these exercises prompting crypto scams. They as a rule arrive in an extremely alluring and influential manner to fool casualties into delivering their passwords and different information. A portion of these ways the crypto scams are clarified in the resulting sections. These scams are generally brought about by the idea of exchanging digital currencies, in view of the decentralized idea of blockchain innovation. There is no lawful strategy securing the utilization or design of the crypto market and above all, the exchanges or interest into the crypto market are irreversible. These are a few factors that improve crypto scams and since there is typically no focal power, it is truly challenging to deal with these con artists. **PHISHING SITES AND LINKS** From the above mention crypto scams, this is by all accounts one of the simplest and normal ways the con artists use to get to their casualties. They utilize these locales to recover significant record data, for example, passwords and private keys. An unmistakable model happens on this specific stage "Steemit". These individuals will share connects to clients in remark segments of their professing to grant creators with remuneration and when you attempt to follow the site and reclaim the prizes, you are then needed to enter your keys. Quickly you do that, the programmers access your keys and thus your record and afterward they tidy your record up. **SOCIAL MEDIA HACK** They don't simply hack the standard individuals accounts, they go in and hack notable individuals, for example, powerhouses and big names records and spread bogus data about a specific coin or resources to stand out enough to be noticed of financial backers in the crypto world. A model happened when Twitter was hacked on July 15 out of 2020. The programmers accessed a ton of tycoons over the world and utilized it to spread data in type of venture, expecting individuals to send a specific sum for it to be twofold. These hack was very much arranged and it truly grabbed the eye of many individuals. **FRAUDULENT ICOs** Nowadays it has gotten simple for some individuals to set up an ICO. The Underlying Coin Offering(ICO) targets unite individuals to help fabricate and work on the worth of a token or coin. With this, a few programmers utilize this way to deal with draw in financial backers to bring their assets or interest into the venture since many individuals are generally convinced with their speculation plans and rapidly race into it. Toward the end they disappear with their cash and no one at any point hears from them once more. There are a few more crypto tricks and these are only a couple to make reference to. Other crypto scams might incorporate; counterfeit portable wallets and these wallets are typically disconnected and will in general convince financial backers to safe their coins on them. Another is the web based mining bots, the client is generally needed to place a few assets into venture and later acquire tremendous measure of benefits from mining. It continues for some time, and before you know, you cash is no more. ![94F9D110-050F-49CC-8BD6-0F64851B5185.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYmkm6Wrzo5PPHwTB3VNSo828CyEN8ZNnxZf5Jm7iTKwH/94F9D110-050F-49CC-8BD6-0F64851B5185.png) **Research On A Cryptocurrency Scam: One Coin Crypto Scam** ----- ![image.jpeg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZF2xcTuvAyFo39EtPjUq1qm181KK6fgMaoTMr1qZGfgB/image.jpeg) [source](https://images.app.goo.gl/b2yF4TSjCKjJy4257) ----- For this piece of the task I will discuss the renowned crypto scam of all and which is the "One Coin scam". This specific scam was reported my BBC digital recording. It includes an obscure Cryptoqueen who appears to me missing state-of-the-art. The scam which was begun by a lady called Dr. Ruja Ignatova that was five years ago. They had the option to amass gigantic measure of millions of Dollars, assessed to be around $25 billion and it was as Ponzi plot kind of crypto trick. The crypto sovereign gave a discourse about this OneCoin which was really not so much as a cash and said that it planned to take over Bitcoin, that the coin would turn into "Bitcoin executioner". Since her discourse, it got the interest of numerous many individuals all throughout the planet. Making a great many individuals all throughout the planet put into this OneCoin task. This adventure continued for a while until the abrupt vanishing of the Crypto sovereign she had the option to vanish with every one of the large numbers of assets put into OneCoin. Despite the fact that there's no verification of her reality any longer, specialists had the option to place in prison her associate Sebastian Greenwood while her sibling Konstantin Ignatov additionally confessed to illegal tax avoidance and the tricks. The scam was then cut short in 2017 get-togethers vanishing of the Crypto Sovereign and his collaborators put in prison. This left many individuals extremely focused since many put in their life reserve funds into that undertaking wanting to get benefits out of the speculation. It was an extremely grievous for financial backers who wandered into the OneCoin adventure and this will stand out forever as perhaps the greatest trick ever. ![FE250EC4-799A-4520-A123-D78F69BAA048.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYmkm6Wrzo5PPHwTB3VNSo828CyEN8ZNnxZf5Jm7iTKwH/FE250EC4-799A-4520-A123-D78F69BAA048.png) **TO WHAT EXTENT HAVE CRYPTO SCAM AFFECTED THE CRYPTO SPACE?** With every one of the theories and news going about crypto scams, it is no discharge that it has truly influenced the Crypto space contrarily. There a few different ways by which it has denied the utilization of crypto by numerous financial backers over the world. One significant cynicism it has caused the crypto space is that, it has brought a terrible standing about cryptographic forms of money. In light of the new tricks that have been happening recently, numerous financial backers appear to sum up all digital forms of money to be something very similar and arrange it as something exceptionally awful. What's more, thus, a significant number of the financial backers feel hesitant to put even in the authentic cryptographic forms of money and this turns into a concern to the crypto space. Along these lines it can't draw in a lot more financial backers everywhere. Furthermore, these crypto scams have gone far to enact prohibitions on the utilization of cryptographic forms of money in certain associations or nations. On account of the decentralized idea of blockchains it becomes difficult to find fraudsters engaged with these tricks and thus a few associations boycott the utilization of cryptographic forms of money and these is to fill in as an action to forestall the different scams. Another way the Crypto scams influence the crypto space is that it might change the market pattern of a crypto resource. When there's generally ensuing scam on a resource, it might move to a long negative period causing financial backers a few misfortunes. Yet in addition, these scams can likewise assist with stopping others from succumbing of a similar scams. For instance, on Steemit we have learned not to deliver our keys to any untrusted site and this makes us extremely careful of when we can utilize our keys and when we ought not. **WILL REGULATIONS IN CRYPTO ADD VALUE TO THE CRYPTO SPACE?** Guidelines is certainly going to enhance the crypto space and this might arrive in a positive and a negative manner. One way it might add esteem is that, it help diminish of eliminate false exercises on the lookout and thusly establish a more secure climate for financial backers to exchange cryptographic forms of money. This will a positive in the crypto world. Additionally this may likewise help lift or eliminate limitations of the utilization of cryptographic forms of money in some piece of the world. Since there will be organizations to assist with settling tricks and henceforth the boycotts put on digital forms of money in certain districts might be renounced. Accordingly a lot more individuals will be occupied with utilizing and putting resources into the crypto space. One slight negative about these guidelines is that, it might modify or change the normal arrangement of Blockchain organization. In other words, the obscurity clients appreciate may at this point don't be accessible and clients may not appreciate opportunity on the blockchain network since there will be focal position set in the framework. Altogether, I thing these guidelines when painstakingly organized and arranged, can enhance the crypto space and it ought to be searching for long haul arrangements. This would assist with drawing in more financial backers into the crypto space. ![E1708503-09C3-4CFF-892C-E5CF7A8FCAE6.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYmkm6Wrzo5PPHwTB3VNSo828CyEN8ZNnxZf5Jm7iTKwH/E1708503-09C3-4CFF-892C-E5CF7A8FCAE6.png) **CONCLUSION** Crypto scams have truly influenced the crypto space seriously and they have caused a few financial backers to feel hesitant to wander into the digital money business. These scams have truly determined away the premium of certain financial backers from the crypto market. Furthermore, if appropriate guidelines are set up in the crypto world, it could assist with changing the mindset of certain financial backers and begin to draw in them more into the crypto market. Thank you very much professor @yohan2on for that wonderful lecture and May the good Lord be with us and bless us all.