This is a general question and answer on ethereum.stackexchange.com to all "I got scammed, please help" posts.

This applies to you if you think:

• You have been scammed
• You think something might be a scam

Popular scams include

• Fake investment sites promising xx% returns
  • including MEV bot scams, YouTube video scams and learn build your trading bot scams
• Romance scams a.k.a. pig butchering scams
• Token tax and honey pot tokens: tokens you can only buy, not sell (note: Ethereum does not have a mechanism to tell if a token is a honey pot or scam. Any service advertising doing this is not robust and you should take any report of a token critically and likely false.)
• Scam tokens dropped to your wallet leading to phishing sites
• Reclaim crypto scams that claim to get your scammed money back, after you have been scammed once
• Password recovery and private key recovery scams that claim to restore the access to your account or wallet
• Fake wallet applications in Google Play, Apple App Store and other platforms
• Scam advertisement in Google Search, top of legit search results
• Complete tasks and get rewarded scams
• Phishing links, including:
  • Fake airdrops
  • Fake NFT mints
  • Usually associated with a hacked, well-known social media account or Discord These are so-called authorised transfer scams. As opposite to the hacks, the users voluntarily transfer away their money with their our authorisation.
• Social media account takeover phishing where a legit Twitter or Discord account gets taken over due to weak security settings by the owners and it starts to post phishing links

Outside scams, there exist other cybercrime that may cause you to lose your assets

• Malware esp. on Microsoft Windows desktop computers directly extracts the private key from the wallet
  • Your computer gets infected with a malware when you install pirated software or random EXE files from Internet
• Transaction address stuffing, also known as dust attack scams, to fool one to copy a wrong Ethereum address
• Leaking your private key by storing your private keys or seed phrases on Google Drive, LastPass or other non-reputable password manager, Github, or other similar unsafe manner

This is a generic question to address the flood of pleads of asking help for scams. Moderators are free to edit both the question and answer to add more information it.