For fiats.
- Mitigate your risks (aka don’t trade N times in a row with a same fully unknown counter-party. That’s exactly the kind of imprudent behaviour the scammer is fishing)
- Only trade next time with a counter-party when previous time have closed successfully AND the chargeback time has passed,
- be cautious with young accounts
- if you are yourself a young user, be cautious with yourself. Don’t use Bisq at 150 miles/hour when you just joined one week ago. Take the time to understand how things work
- make your due diligences, do a little search in the appli and on the forum concerning the onion you want to trade with. Btw, it’s always a good idea to read the forum/blog/slack/docs and keep informed about the appli and the news of the ecosystem.
- in case of doubt, search for more safe offers, if not better offers, renounce to trade and wait. Good offers arise every day.
- etc (certainly other precautions to add)
If you cross most of the above points, you should reduce your risks significantly.
For cryptos, there is no chargeback, so the above risks doesn’t exist.
Bisq devs are aware of this issue and have some ideas to reduce this problem.
Hopefully we’ll see some implementation in the next or n+1 version.