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UK Police Tracks Bitcoin Records in Biggest Scam Leading to Arrest of 100 People
During their 20-month operations, criminals of the iSpoof website stole a total of £3.2 million ($3.9 million) from users. London’s Metropolitan Police has recently unearthed “the UK’s biggest ever fr...
UK’s ‘biggest ever’ scam leads to 100 arrests after police track bitcoin records
More than 100 people were arrested in what the London’s Metropolitan Police calls “the UK’s biggest ever fraud operation” after taking down a fraud website called iSpoof used on 200,000 potential vict...
US Seizes Domains Used in ‘Pig Butchering’ Crypto Scam – Featured Bitcoin News
U.S. authorities have seized seven domains used in “pig butchering” cryptocurrency schemes. “Once the money is sent to the fake investment app, the scammer vanishes, taking all the money with them, of...
Ripple CTO accuses investor groups of fanning FTX scam – crypto.news
Ripple CTO David Schwartz has taken to Twitter to share some vital lessons he drew from the FTX crisis. According to Schwartz, the collapse of the exchange still has a crucial lesson: temptation is al...
Investor Groups Allegedly Facilitated FTX Scam
Many reactions have emerged in the crypto space due to the FTX fiasco, the latest one is from the Ripple CTO, David Schwartz. The collapse of the FTX crypto exchange dealt a terrible blow to the crypt...
US Justice Department Seizes 7 Pig Butchering Crypto Scam Sites
The U.S. Department of Justice has seized seven websites used by fraudsters to perpetrate a cryptocurrency scam known as “pig butchering.” Pig butchering is an increasingly popular confidence trick sc...
HashFlare founders arrested in $575M crypto scam
Two of the founders of HashFlare, a Bitcoin cloud mining service that is no longer active, have been arrested in Estonia on suspicion of being engaged in a crypto fraud scheme with a potential loss of...
Victim of Pig Butchering Crypto Scam Will See Part of His Funds Returned
A man in California that fell victim to a crypto scam listed in the “pig butchering” category is getting some of his funds back. Pig Butchering Is Getting Bigger and Bigger Pig butchering is something...
Investor Allowed FTX Scam Grow, Claims Ripple CTO
The crypto market is still struggling to recover from the recent FTX collapse. However, David Schwartz, Ripple CTO has drawn some key learnings from the FTX fiasco. Earlier, Ripple CTO called Sam Bank...
SBF Deepfake Scam Offers Users ‘Compensation’ for FTX Collapse
In brief A verified Twitter user posing as FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried shared an apparently modified video pointing to a crypto scam. The apparent scam promises “compensation” for FTX’s recent colla...
Sam Bankman-Fried deepfake attempts to scam investors impacted by FTX
A faked video of Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has circulated on Twitter, attempting to scam investors affected by the exchange’s bankruptcy. Created using programs...
Bankman-Fried deepfake lures FTX customers into giveaway scam
A Twitter account impersonating the founder of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), scammed customers into believing they could receive compensation through a fake giveaway, Vice rep...
CertiK investigates KYC actors hired to scam the web3 community
Blockchain and decentralized finance (DeFi) focused security platform Certik’s investigation led to the discovery of the professional “KYC actors” who bypass KYC processes to scam crypto communities, ...
OneCoin Scam ‘Cryptoqueen’ Ruja Ignatova May Now Be a Man
OneCoin and its criminal enigma mastermind Ruja Ignatova, also known as ‘Cryptoqueen,’ may now be a man, complete with short hair and a beard. That’s according to a range of sketches illustrating the ...
Terra Classic Community To Access More Scam Protections With Allnodes Anti-Scam Services
Allnodes launches new features to prevent users from losing their delegated tokens. The Terra Classic community can now access extra security features to prevent scammers from going away with their de...
‘Do not delay’ — ASIC warns Aussies to look for 10 signs of a crypto scam
Australia’s market regulator has released a list of the “top-10 ways to spot a crypto scam,” amid a detected rise in crypto-related investment scams this year. The Australian Securities and Investment...
Valorant Account Hacked to Promote Elon Musk Bitcoin Scam
Alex Dovbnya YouTube is struggling to deal with cryptocurrency scammers who routinely hijack verified profiles The official YouTube channel of the Valorant Champions Tour, a global competitive esports...
Scam Artists Used Ethereum 2.0 Merge To Steal $1,200,000 in Crypto, According to Chainalysis
Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis says scam artists stole $1.2 million worth of Ethereum (ETH) during the project’s merge to proof-of-stake. The firm notes in a new blog post that merge-related sca...
OpenSea Now Auto-Detects and Blocks Stolen NFTs, Disables Scam Links
In brief OpenSea, the top NFT marketplace by trading volume, has launched new theft detection and prevention features. One feature detects and disables scam links shared on the platform, while the oth...
This Will Destroy Scam Bots on Twitter
Yuri Molchan Twitter chief Elon Musk has come up with a solution to get rid of scam bots on the platform Tesla chief Elon Musk who finalized the acquisition of Twitter last week, has announced a solut...
South Korean Watchdog Set To Tighten Crypto Scam Punishment
Crypto regulations are becoming necessary due to the increasing fraud in the industry. However, the growth in innovative technologies has also brought many disadvantages to the crypto space. Several c...
Crypto Scam Report Shows Web3 Experienced 15 New Fraudulent Smart Contracts
Solidus Labs functions to carry out crypto operations based on the crypto-native T3 (Triple T) market integration solutions (MIS). These market solutions include threat intelligence, monitoring of tra...
Web3 sees 15 new scam smart contracts an hour — Solidus Labs
The Web3 and cryptocurrency space is seeing a significant amount of smart contract scams proliferating, with blockchain risk monitoring firm Solidus Labs saying it has detected on average 15 newly dep...
Binance Boss Warns Users Of Crypto Scam Sites On Google Search Results
Crypto scams are now as popular as legitimate projects in the space. With the number of new tokens being pushed into the market, the number of scam tokens actually outnumber those with good intentions...
Singapore Police Received 631 Cryptocurrency Scam Reports in 2021, Government Says – Regulation Bitcoin News
The government of Singapore has revealed the number of crypto scams reported to the police in the past three years. “The vast majority of cryptocurrency scams are perpetrated by scammers based outside...
UK High Court shutters crypto firm PGI Global for alleged scam involvement
Popular cryptocurrency trading firm PGI Global UK has been closed down by a high court in the United Kingdom, according to a press release issued by U.K. authorities, The court issued the directive f...
Elon Musk Scam Tokens Emerge Following Twitter Bio Change
Numerous scam tokens have launched under the symbol “TWIT” following Elon Musk’s latest Twitter bio change related to his acquisition of the company. With just a day to go before the billionaire acqui...
Bitcoin mining difficulty reaches new ATH; FTX, Binance US, Bittrex attacked by same phishing scam
The biggest news in the cryptoverse for Oct. 24 includes a recent spike in Bitcoin mining difficulty leading to a new ATH, FTX agreeing to compensate its users’ losses to a phishing attack, and on-cha...
Fraudsters Hacked Gate.io’s Twitter Account To Run Phishing Scam
A group of hackers exploited the Twitter account of a crypto exchange, Gate io, to promote fraudulent activities. In an attempt to access the users’ wallets, fraudsters posted a fake giveaway of Tethe...