Sorted by the date each page was last checked, not by the date it was written.
The version that asks you to send first is a decade old and still running. The version that asks you to claim is newer, costs nothing to try, and empties the wallet instead.
Nobody types an address wrongly. They copy the right-looking one — from their own history, from a page that was rewritten, from a message. The result is identical and final.
Within days of losing money, somebody offers to trace it. They know what happened to you because lists of victims are a product, and the offer is theft number two.
The fake is not a bad copy. It is the same page, on a different address, reached through a link you did not choose — an advert, a search result, a pinned message.
Weeks of ordinary conversation, then a platform that shows your balance growing. The balance is a number in somebody else's database, and the withdrawal fee is the product.
Most stolen crypto is not taken from wallets. It is withdrawn from accounts, by somebody who logged in normally, using codes that arrived on the victim's own phone.
A counter or a desk quotes one price for the entire amount instead of filling an order book. Two very different businesses share the name.
Cash in, coins to your wallet, no bank involved. Also the most expensive route there is, and the one fraudsters ask their victims to use.
You pay a person, not a company. The platform holds the coins until you both agree — which makes the mechanics safe and the payment leg the part that hurts.
The fastest route and almost always the most expensive one. The advertised fee is rarely the only fee, and a credit card adds a charge the exchange never sees.
The cheapest route almost everywhere, and the most boring. Money leaves your own account, arrives as a balance, and you buy at the market price.
Every term used across this section, defined once and in plain words. Most of the jargon is ordinary ideas wearing a costume.
Every cost here is charged whether you were right or wrong. Together they set the hurdle you must clear before any skill shows up in the result.
A map of what people actually do, what each approach assumes, and where the evidence is solid, contested or absent.
Entry price is the thing everybody argues about. Position size is the thing that decides whether being wrong matters, and it is entirely within your control.
A contract with no expiry date needs something to keep it tethered to reality. That something is a payment between the two sides, and it is the running cost of holding a position.
Leverage does not only multiply the outcome. It converts a temporary move into a permanent loss, and that second effect is the one that empties accounts.
Going long is buying. Going short is selling something you do not have, which raises an obvious question — and the answer is where the risk lives.
A candle is four numbers drawn as a shape. Knowing which four, and which information was thrown away to draw it, is most of chart literacy.
Six instructions cover almost everything anyone does. The differences between them are where beginners lose money without ever being wrong about direction.
The price is not a number the exchange decides. It is the last point where two people disagreed enough to trade.
Buying because you think something will be worth more in ten years, and buying because you think it will be worth more on Thursday, are two different activities with different opponents.
Four distinct mechanisms, often described with one word. They differ in what is done to you, how visible it is beforehand, and whether anything could have caught it.
A green tick saying "liquidity locked" is a claim with a date attached. The date is the part that decides what it is worth.