when the fork happened there were indeed scam sites that asked you to "paste your private key to see if you have BCH" There were also replay attacks possible,

when the fork happened there were indeed scam sites that asked you to "paste your private key to see if you have BCH" There were also replay attacks possible, so that if you paid some BCH to someone they could replay the transaction to get the corresponding BTC as well Neither of these are a concern anymore AFAIK (the first one never really was, never give away your private key) And yes, "bcash" has a negative connotation.