Even after all the previous news about scams or even a never ending promotion of the never ending BEWARE OF SCAMS. A couple just lost $44k in a bitcoin scam. The scammers used the most common promise that they could make them a lot of money by trading Bitcoin. Over six weeks and several transactions later - they invested $44,000 worth of Bitcoin into websites that turned out to be a scam.
The victims believe to be making profits from their investments, but when they attempted to access their funds, they were told the accounts were "frozen" until they paid a 13 percent service fee. The victims then realized they were being scammed and filed a complaint with the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center.
If you are going to invest research first! if you are going to invest on a third party person be sure that the person is trustworthy! it is your money we are talking about, don't just go ahead and trust anyone.