Common Types Of Cryptocurrency Scams & Tips To Avoid Them. Part 5

4. Ponzi and Pyramid schemes
Cryptocurrency Ponzi schemes are just like any other pyramid scheme. It involves paying returns to existing investors from the money invested by new investors and focus more on recruitment than the product itself.

The most famous cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme was OneCoin; they encourage people to buy a membership for entering the pyramid.

The membership fee is termed as an investment in the OneCoin token which can be only traded on the company’s exchange and nowhere else. They even control the trading volumes coins by putting restrictions on an individual’s buy and sell.

It clearly isn’t a cryptocurrency business but a multi-level marketing scheme.

They made a bunch of empty promises to the people that were invested in the scheme. And have also been dragged to the court multiple times and were accused of defrauding people.

How to Avoid This:

Do a background check on the founders of the company.
Go through all the past feedbacks of the company.
Confirm the legal status of the company.

Courtesy : COIN SWITCH - KUBER Cryptocurreny Exchange of India

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