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A Reddit user has announced that someone with over 640K followers on Instagram is impersonating Vitalik Buterin, scamming subscribers out of their crypto
2022-1-3 16:11 | |
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In the wake of the DeFi ecosystem explosion, in which people found themselves making massive gains, a gold rush started, and like that one in Klondike, scammers appeared to make quick bucks off unwitting investors, and the visibility for promising projects was muddled by these potential scams.
2021-11-29 10:00 | |
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The crypto-community has long been plagued by scams and frauds. Especially since people have often come up with ingenious ways to rip users off their crypto-holdings. A recent example from Turkey is aThe post Turkey: This Dogecoin mining scam may have duped investors to the tune of $119M appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-8-28 22:30 | |
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2021 has so far been one of the worst years on record for crypto-related scams and criminality. Two recent failures of crypto businesses in Turkey and South Africa are just the latest in a long history of founders running off with the cash - and they definitely won’t be the last.
2021-7-2 16:00 | |
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In this article, we will discuss such scams or rug-pulls happening on the Binance Smart Chain, making investors lose millions of dollars daily. The crypto markets have paid off huge in the last year and a half, and Defi gives a new significance to crypto investing.
2021-5-16 06:45 | |
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Over the past few months, the crypto world has taken off with a helping hand from the DeFi market. The yield farming craze has seen blockchains like Compound, Balancer, etc. take off in a massive way, as investors chase the crazy annual yields these DeFi platforms offer.
2020-8-4 20:54 | |
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In the first six months of 2020, scammers made off with about $24 million in bitcoin, as per the Twitter bot Whale Alert's latest report. These scams involved giveaways, sextortion, fake exchanges, fake ICO's, bitcoin recovery, video scams, Ponzi schemes, fake tumblers, malware, and so on.
2020-7-14 21:54 | |
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A lot of people out there want Bitcoin to take off towards the moon. But some crypto thieves have made that term a little too literal. The newest crypto scam involves Elon Musk, SpaceX, and possibly the moon and Mars.
2020-6-12 22:25 | |
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The 2017 market boom led to the new era of funding in the decentralized space called ICO, however as we entered the bear market not only ICOs dropped off the fundraising radar, it also turned out that a majority of them were scams.
2020-4-6 18:07 | |
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The use of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for criminal endeavors has a long history. From the wild days of the Silk Road to sordid exit scams pulled off during the ICO bubble, the crypto-industry The post Anonymous Bitcoin txns could lead to untoward incidents: Securrency CEO appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-2-3 10:00 | |
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Crypto scams have in the past become a popular way to rip off unsuspecting investors looking to join the digital currency space. Brock Pierce, one of the crypto market billionaires, was recently accused of giving an endorsement to a probable scam dubbed ‘EXW Wallet’.
2020-1-9 21:26 | |
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Cryptocurrency giveaway scams are nothing new. Fraudsters have been known in the past to impersonate the likes of Elon Musk or Vitalik Buterin to con unwitting victims. And now, just days after its launch, we are seeing crypto con artists impersonate Bitcoin futures platform Bakkt.
2019-9-26 10:43 | |
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Financial regulators all around the world have been cracking down hard on ICOs for promising more than they can deliver. At the same time governments and central banks are pulling off far worse scams, such as QE, wiping out the savings of everyone that depends on them.
2019-8-23 19:21 | |
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Early on Monday, CCN brought to light the misadventures of an insidious scammer pretending to be none other than the Bitcoin renegade himself, John McAfee. McAfee: Twitter Never Even Responds to My Crypto Scam Reports After we tipped off McAfee and his wife, Janice, to the fraudulent article in question, John responded by sharing his […] The post McAfee Blasts Twitter Over Callous Disregard for Bitcoin Scams appeared first on CCN Markets
2019-8-13 23:04 | |
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Gladius ICO has repeatedly failed to honor investor agreements and has cut off communication, even within their community, prompting many to term it a scam.
2019-7-18 11:25 | |
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By CCN Markets: Failed cryptocurrencies can enjoy an eternal resting place after they’re sent off to an altcoins graveyard called ShitcoinGraveyard. The website is the brainchild of four Berlin-based crypto entrepreneurs and bitcoin bulls: Roman Kemper, CEO and chief gravedigger.
2019-6-17 16:22 | |
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The ICO boom of 2017 was the major reason behind many altcoins pumping massively. Several coins without proper resource allocations raised millions of dollars and delivered nothing, while coin holders took profits.
2019-6-14 16:30 | |
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British investors losturrency scams also tripled over the same period. While last year there were X cases reported, the FCA notes the number has gone up to 1,800 this year. The FCA’s announcement states that fraudsters often used social media to promote “get-rich-quick” schemes.
2019-5-21 12:11 | |
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Though numerous initial coin offerings (ICOs) existed before the Bitcoin price took off in 2017, an array of blockchain startups took full advantage of the bullish markets that year to launch their ICOs.
2019-5-17 09:00 | |
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Nestled in the exhibition room at this year’s Consensus conference, the U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) had a message for conference goers as they weaved in and out of booths representing various projects and startups in the space: “Be on the lookout for virtual currency fraud” and if you see it, let us know.
2019-5-17 19:00 | |
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ProPublica reveals 89% increase from Q4 2018 to Q1 2019 in average ransomware payouts. Many recovery companies choose to pay out the hackers, though others still attempt to decrypt the data without paying.
2019-5-16 05:29 | |
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Twitter has been the host of multiple Twitter scams over the course of the last year, and it is clear that hackers aren’t planning to take time off for the start of 2019. A report from Indian Express indicates that a recent hack on Twitter took the national cricket association in South Africa as its […]
2019-1-14 21:49 | |
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Whether it’s multi-million dollar exit scams, Ponzi schemes, or sophisticated networks of remote-controlled Twitter scambots, this year saw some of the most epic and sophisticated cryptocurrency schemes to date.
2018-12-27 13:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency scams are getting more old-school with every week that passes. Hacks seem to be too difficult these days and old-fashioned threats are becoming the way of the crypto-criminal. According to emails seen by Bleeping Computer, scammers are now threatening victims with a hitman if they don’t pay $4,000 in Bitcoin to call off the hit.
2018-12-18 18:27 | |
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Pump-and-dump schemes are some of the oldest and sketchiest scams used in the financial sector, and sadly, the cryptocurrency industry has seen its fair share. There is an ever-growing list of coins whose values are artificially inflated, only for early buyers to sell off at a pre-arranged peak price.
2018-12-5 14:41 | |
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In this article, we'll explain all of the details you need to know about USI Tech scam and its large-scale cryptocurrency pyramid scheme. The post How USI Tech Pulled off One of the Largest Crypto Scams appeared first on CoinCentral.
2018-11-26 19:27 | |
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Regulation is still a contentious subject that splits the crypto community down the middle. But after all the abuses witnessed to date, it’s hard to swallow the argument that the industry needs no regulating at all.
2018-10-24 02:28 | |
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Nouriel Roubini, an economist best known for his predictions of the 2008 housing bubble, and Peter Van Valkenburgh, Coin Center’s director of research, testified before the U.
2018-10-12 18:06 | |
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Chart for EOS/USD (1W) Cryptocurrency markets plunge deep in the red, dancing to the tune of Bitcoin (BTC). Eos (EOS) investors are not moved by this confusion. In fact, as the above weekly chart for EOS/USD shows, the price of Eos (EOS) has not corrected the same way as the rest of the market.
2018-10-11 00:30 | |
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The fake Facebook Bitcoin ads have scammed people out of thousands and have been destroying lives. The English millionaire – who made his money off consumer advice – Martin Lewis has begun to sue Facebook over these ads trading off his trusted reputation.
2018-10-4 15:30 | |
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Elon Musk, the mind behind Tesla and one of cryptos more outspoken celebrities. We know he’s well into cryptocurrency and as a result of this, Twitter scammers are finding it especially easy to rip off Musk’s Twitter account to run free Ethereum giveaways that in turn are actually scams designed to drain victims of their Ethereum, all under the guide of ‘Musk’.
2018-9-18 15:00 | |
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Lost in the excitement and ongoing momentum of the ICO craze is the fact that, despite the crowdfunding model’s enormous potential, we’re still surrounded by risks. To date, there have been thousands of ICOs and token sales, and although many go off without a hitch or shock, there have been a shocking number of ICOs […] The post Why You Can’t Help Falling for ICO Scams (And What to Do About It) appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2018-8-30 10:00 | |
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According to report from Kaspersky Lab, an anti-virus and internet security firm, scammers made off with over $2. 3 million during the second quarter of 2018. A popular scheme for these phishers and scammers is to use fake websites and social media accounts to create a faux ICO to lure investors.
2018-8-18 18:31 | |
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In the first two weeks of August alone, two ICO exit scams made off with $68 million.
2018-8-15 19:46 | |
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It is rare that Finland and Bitcoin scams are mentioned in the same sentence, according to reports from today though, this certainly seems to be the case, in an event that has seen a famous Thai actor by the name of Jiratpisit Jaravijit, scam 22-year-old Aarni Otava Saarimaa out of a large amount of Bitcoin.
2018-8-13 12:30 | |
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More than ever before, blockchain has genuinely shown its potential through the countless ICOs that aim to change people’s lives in one way or another. However, not every ICO out there is legit, and for sure there are plenty of scams looking to rip off countless investors through face initial coin offerings. Nevertheless, the same […]
2018-7-5 20:26 | |
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With crypto scams running rampant across the globe, Human Trust Protocol, aka Hub, is joining hands with Civic, a blockchain identification service provider, to verify users via know-your-client (KYC) data gathered from the Civic secure identity platform (SIP).
2018-6-13 00:23 | |
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Bad actors are weaponizing WhatsApp to deliver a hijacking worm and banking trojan in Brazil that targets their crypto wallets. Trustwave’s cybersecurity research team SpiderLabs has uncovered a major campaign involving the Eternidade Stealer, which can quietly harvest financial information,…
Cybersecurity researchers have identified a new infostealer malware that has been designed to target cryptocurrency wallets and extract private keys and other sensitive information on Windows, Linux, and macOS, all the while remaining undetected by major antivirus engines. The malware,…
Bad actors have started using Ethereum smart contracts to deploy malicious software and code, and are therefore able to bypass traditional security scans using this novel technique. Researchers at ReversingLabs have flagged a new open-source malware that has been deployed…
Binance has issued a global alert about a rising malware threat targeting cryptocurrency users. Known as “Clipper malware,” the malicious software alters wallet addresses during transactions, leading to financial losses if the wallet user doesn’t catch on, according to Binance. …
The “Godfather” malware is also known to target 110 cryptocurrency exchange platforms and 94 cryptocurrency wallet apps.
Password-stealing malware is being spread by hackers through NFT airdrops purporting to be Solana Phantom security updates.
Dressed up as legitimate desktop software, this sneaky malware has infected thousands of machines across 11 countries, forcing them to unknowingly mine Monero (XMR).