OpenSea shared a tweet saying it is investigating the incident. The Discord server of OpenSea, the world’s largest Non-Fungible Token (NFT) marketplace has been compromised according to a series of tw...
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Crypto Scammers Using Deepfakes To Trap Victims: NortonLifeLock
Nowadays, Deepfakes and crypto scams are top in the line of swindles. According to Norton Labs, over $29 million in BTC was stolen in 2021, and the frequency of these frauds will increase in 2022 as t...
Tinder is now flooded with Crypto Scammers
The fraudsters manipulate their victims with love and seduction into transferring their tokens To avoid getting scammed never share your private or financial information You should stop the conversat...
Tinder Crypto Scammers: On Emotional Manipulation And Taking The Love Bait
Got bitten by the love bug? Crypto scammers on Tinder surely know how to pull the right emotional strings to crack open your crypto wallets. They have been using emotional manipulation and sweet nothi...
Yuga Labs Made Millions on Otherside. So Did Scammers
Key Takeaways Scammers have stolen at least $3.7 million worth of NFTs through phishing attacks posing as Yuga Labs’ Otherside NFT launch. The phishing attacks involved at least five fake websit...
NFT Scammers Hack Official Twitter Account of the University of the Philippines
The University of the Philippines recently reported that NFT scammers hacked its official Twitter account. The motives are believed to take away the digital assets of its followers. The hacking incide...
Indian Citizen Loses Over $104,000 to Scammers Through Investment In a Fake Crypto Exchange
– Advertisement – A Hyderabad man suffered significant losses after investing in a fake cryptocurrency exchange. An Indian man based in the city of Hyderabad has been defrauded to the tune...
Scammers hijacked BAYC’s Instagram page to steal $2.5 million in NFTs
TL;DR Breakdown: BAYC’s Instagram was temporarily hacked by a scammer for a phishing attack on investors. About $2.5 million was reportedly lost in the attack. The Instagram page has been recovered, a...
Number of ‘dead’ coins surpasses 1,700 as scammers flourish
In the market that currently counts nearly 19,000 cryptocurrencies, some of them were bound to have failed or turned out to be scams; as per available data, this has occurred to more than 1,700 digita...
SCAM ALERT – PLEASE BE CAREFUL OF SCAMMERS IMPERSONATING OUR JOURNALISTS
It has been brought to our attention that a scammer has been messaging different projects impersonating one of our journalists. Unfortunately, people are still falling for this scam despite repeated w...
YouTube scammers used real footage of Vitalik Buterin and other key figures to steal $1.6 million
A report by cybersecurity firm Group-IB has identified a series of cryptocurrency scams that took place in February this year, resulting in the theft of $1.6 million using fake cryptocurrency giveaway...
Scammers Steal $1.6m via New YouTube Crypto Giveaway
Through yet another fake YouTube cryptocurrency giveaway, some scammers have made away with more than $1,680,000 from their victim’s crypto wallets after promising immediate high returns on cryp...
Twitter Scammers Are Hijacking Verified Accounts for Fake Azuki NFT Airdrop
In brief Twitter users that claim to be affiliated with the Azuki NFT project are scamming people and stealing NFTs from their wallets. The scammers are hijacking the accounts of verified users, inclu...
Cryptocurrency scammers to face the absurd 40,000-year sentence in Turkey
Crypto scammers are on the rise and Turkey looks to punish them Thodex accused would be facing a prison statement of 40,564 years The CEO of the crypto exchange vanished a year ago Turkey is seeking...
How Scammers Used CoinMarketCap To Carry Out Crypto Scheme
Scams happen all the time in the crypto space but recently, the scammers have had to go through more sophisticated channels to make their scams more believable since more people are aware of how the m...
Turkish regulators seek life penalty for crypto scammers
TL; DR Breakdown Turkish regulators want scammers incarcerated for life The regulators used the Thodex scam as a benchmark The crypto sector confines to suffer scam attacks In the last few years, the ...
Scammers Are Using Fake Wallet Apps To Stealing Crypto Funds From Chinese
Cybersecurity researchers at ESET have uncovered a mobile wallet app scam that targets Chinese users. According to the researchers, the scammers created fake iOS and Android digital wallet apps to red...
“Frosties” NFT Scammers Charged With Help From Homeland Security
The masterminds behind the Frosties non-fungible token (NFT) scam have been apprehended by the US Department of Justice (DOJ). Ethan Nguyen and Andre Llacuna are charged with conspiracy to commit wire...
ASIC Warns against Scammers Impersonating Financial Firms
The Australian financial supervisor has issued a warning on Thursday against the rampant scammers impersonating companies or financial investment firms to dupe potential victims in the country. Accord...
Scammers Out In Full Force After ApeCoin Announcement
The ApeCoin launch has created quite a flurry in the crypto space. However, the impatience of the community has also meant that scammers are out to have a field day, targeting individuals gullible eno...
This Week [In] Crypto: War Rages on, CryptoPunks Rising, Serial Scammers Exposed
Missed anything about the crypto industry from March 7-13? We got you covered with the most important news and sharp details. From war in Ukraine to the U.S. President’s executive order to Jake Paul b...
ESPN’s baseball reporter’s Twitter account hacked by NFT scammers
In what ESPN Major League Baseball reporter Jeff Passan called the “biggest news day” of his life, scammers hijacked his Twitter account to promote an NFT giveaway. With the MLB and the Players Associ...
Palau’s Residency Program: Beginning Of Something Extraordinary Or An Opportunity For Scammers?
The West Pacific nation of Palau, in an announcement, revealed that it would be creating the first-ever residency program secured on the blockchain in the world. The decision of the government also g...
Critics Warn Palau Risks Becoming Scammer’s Paradise
This January, the West Pacific nation of Palau announced it would create the world’s first digital residency program secured on the blockchain. Formed as a partnership with Cryptics Lab, the digital ...
Scammers use Tron and Shiba Inu to steal users’ funds
Tron and Shiba Inu was used by scammers to potentially lure of investors money Whitelisted users are allowed to sell the tokens within the contract piece It has a capitalization of $60 million with ...
Scammers Potentially Use Shiba Inu Brand to Steal Users’ Funds on Tron
Arman Shirinyan Reportedly, developers left code lines that prohibit the selling of the token PeckShield has released an announcement regarding the Shiba Inu token on the Tron blockchain that appears ...
FB Crypto Scammers Now Pretending To Be Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos
Crypto Scammers have popped up in Facebook ads by faking themselves as the world’s tech tycoons and giant business executives such as Metaverse’ Mark Zuckerburg, Tesla’s Elon Musk, and Amazone’s Jeff ...
Security firms seek to make it more difficult for scammers to get away with DeFi project hacks
The rise of community-oriented blockchain security companies may be making it more difficult for alleged bad actors to get away without a trace. Early Wednesday, CertiK issued a community alert regard...
Alert: Scammers stealing your crypto with a one-time password
Scammers have been deploying complex hacking bots on Telegram to mislead investors into disclosing their two-factor authentication, resulting in accounts being frozen and wiped out. Scammers are trick...
Watch out SundaeSwap scammers are stealing ADA with fake DripDropz websites
Drip Dropz has issued a warning to the Cardano community over fake websites pretending to be the official site. “It has come to our attention that fake websites have been created that mimic the offici...