2020-9-15 18:32 |
Tron’s primary DeFi project whitelisted what looks like a scam.
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The 2-year-old cryptocurrency project gives 38% staking rewards. Is the project legitimate or a scam? The post This Crypto Is up 37,000% – but Is It a Scam? appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-10-9 22:00 | |
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Is the rebasing project a useful economic experiment? Some of the crypto A-list says it’s just another scam.
2020-8-21 19:37 | |
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Two token projects, namely Nugs.space (NUGS) and Nexeum Protocol (NEXE), which were recently listed on popular DEX platform Uniswap, seem to have exit scammed soon after their listings. After the news broke out about a possible exit scam, NUGS token project in their official Telegram group, claimed that their smart contract system encountered a bug […]
2020-8-13 21:07 | |
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Adam Back, Blockstream CEO and well-known computer scientist in the crypto community, went on a rant on Twitter dissing several high profile blockchains, including the second-largest crypto project, Ethereum.
2020-8-7 22:16 | |
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The developer behind Asuka, a short-lived fork of DeFi project Yearn Finance (YFI), conducted an exit scam this morning, with sources noting the loot was between the range of $30,000-$60,000. The post The DeFi issue: Korean behind YFI fork “Asuka” leads $60,000 exit scam appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2020-8-4 16:00 | |
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According to data from the EOS blockchain, a wallet that held over 26 million EOS tokens (worth $67 million) has moved the coins to an unknown wallet. In July 2019, this project was accused of being a Pyramid scheme that stole over $3 billion from its users.
2020-6-23 01:59 | |
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Аналитический стартап Flipside Crypto изучил функционирование экосистемы Tron и пришел к выводу, что проект Джастина Сана нельзя назвать скамом. 🤨 Is TRON a scam? We labeled TRON’s on-chain activity to determine if the project was doing something fishy with its native token, $TRX.
2020-6-20 20:31 | |
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How to avoid cryptocurrency white papers when getting involved in the blockchain industry? Learn what to look out for in a good project and how to spot a scam. The post How to Read a Cryptocurrency White Paper appeared first on CoinCentral.
2020-5-21 23:46 | |
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The Foin project, issuer of the unfortunate FOIN token, issued a lengthy explanation of its recent market price fiasco. The project, at the least, showed it has not planned an exit scam and will continue operating.
2020-1-13 12:00 | |
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The HEX project run by Richard Heart has recently seen its token dump 99 percent, the IOTA founder and the community call it an obvious scam
2019-12-20 12:53 | |
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The cryptocurrency market is has a wild west atmosphere, rife with hackers, cybercriminals, and scammers galore. The developer of a new altcoin project called HEX – accused of being a widespread scam – has now left the project and is sharing his thoughts about why he made the decision for a departure.
2019-12-20 21:00 | |
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Coinspeaker Binance to List TRON Despite Scam Allegations by Jared TateBinance said they will list TRON cryptocurrency but the DigiByte founder has dropped shadows on the project led by Justin Sun.
2019-12-15 12:57 | |
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A businessman from Brooklyn went to jail for a year and a half for two scam ICOs. The time of gangster lawlessness on the crypto market has ended. Crypto criminals get what they deserve. We are talking about projects built on Ponzi scheme: RECoin and Diamond Reserve Club. The first project was announced as “First […]
2019-11-21 20:47 | |
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Several interesting details regarding the OneCoin Ponzi Scheme have come to light this week. It appears one of the individuals responsible for this scam is the brother of Dr. Ruja Ignatova. People who have followed the story of OneCoin to date will know this project is anything but legitimate.
2019-11-16 00:27 | |
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The Pittsburgh Penguins forward and Russian national hockey team player Evgeny Malkin turns out to be involved in the investigation in the United States against a blockchain startup. Malkin not only invested $4 million in the project, but also became the public face and co-founder of the company.
2019-10-31 12:12 | |
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Crypto developer Jimmy Song has tweeted that many ‘marketing experts” who enter the crypto space end up working for scam projects. Bitcoin Doesn’t Need Them Crypto author, Song, posted on Twitter yesterday three points.
2019-10-22 17:00 | |
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A whistleblower on the cryptocurrency scam project, Onecoin, is receiving death and sexual violence threats from supporters of the project, a BBC report uncovers. Jen McAdam, an Irish crypto investor, reported the matter to the Scottish police claiming she has been receiving the threats mainly through her Facebook page. Onecoin Supporters vile Threats Reported to […]
2019-10-15 17:58 | |
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Blockchain research platform, LongHash, analyzed the list of the so-called dead crypto coins. It found out that the most common reason behind their decline was abandonment from investors. Scam Projects Are Common Too According to the author, 63.
2019-10-14 16:20 | |
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L7 Trade Company is a Russian-based crypto Ponzi scheme. The most frequent visitors to the website hail from Russia, Venezuela, and Ukraine. Ponzi investors operate in a race against time and the best time to invest in the scheme is during its “explosive growth” phase when the project can honor withdrawals because more money is […]
2019-10-9 08:39 | |
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The PayFair project, an Ethereum-based startup that has been around for about three years, closed its site temporarily due to a compromised private key on its chief cold wallet. The funds were moved from the hacked wallet into a still unrevealed new cold storage.
2019-10-3 22:00 | |
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Ahead of Libra’s acceptance and launch, a dubious project has been inviting users to its site.
2019-9-11 10:16 | |
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This week, Litecoin creator Charlie Lee tweeted another round of criticism against Dash, claiming that the coin has become a highly centralized project. This is just the latest potshot in Lee’s long-running feud against Dash, which seems to have become his favorite target.
2019-9-4 20:33 | |
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We present Orionix, a comission-free games and items exchange platform along with ORX token that covers operational costs by minting its own native currency. The project aims to facilitate communication, exchange and security between players.
2019-8-16 16:03 | |
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Justin Sun mentions a ‘secret project’ that has been finished by Tron’s BTFS, promises to get it open-sourced, however, the community puts the news under fire
2019-8-8 10:56 | |
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The WIN token IEO on Binance was not received as warmly as previous projects, and the rock-bottom prices are raising doubts of the project’s viability.
2019-8-5 16:04 | |
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Scammers are everywhere and they are just looking for a chance to steal money from people. As soon as Facebook unveiled its new Libra project, several scammers decided that it was a good idea to mimic the project in order to steal money and now Facebook and Instagram are having to deal with the shameless […]
2019-7-24 23:55 | |
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The team behind the Claymore (CLM) token project, a deflationary cryptocurrency launched on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain, appears to have pulled an exit scam. This, according to a post from a Reddit user, who revealed that all social media accounts associated with the Claymore token have now been deleted.
2019-7-17 20:58 | |
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Angry South African investors who lost millions of dollars in the now-defunct Bitcoin Ponzi scheme called “Bitcoin Wallets” have looted and burned down the house of Sphelele Sgumza Mbatha, the operator of the scam project, reports the Verge on July 12, 2019.
2019-7-13 21:00 | |
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The Wolverine Can Make You Rich – Bitcoin Scam Security in the cryptosphere is really serious business with pretty much any kind of crypto project bending over backward to ensure the security of not just funds belonging to their customers but also privacy regarding their users’ personal information. For many years, cybercriminals have devised many […]
2019-6-10 20:58 | |
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The accusation that bitcoin is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme is perhaps the oldest, longest-standing criticism of the digital bearer asset. The basic idea is that there is nothing of value here and the entire purpose of bitcoin’s existence is to enrich Satoshi Nakamoto and the speculators who bought in for a few pennies or dollars in the early days by tricking others into buying in at a higher price.
2019-6-4 19:03 | |
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The New Zealand Samoan community recently fell victim of a billion-dollar global cryptocurrency scheme that was labeled as a scam. OneCoin cryptocurrency investment project has responded to widespread allegations going on in and around the cryptocurrency world that the project is nothing but a pyramid scheme. The apex bank in Samoa, the central bank of […]
2019-5-24 19:55 | |
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The founder of decentralized crypto exchange Bisq has stepped away from all roles and activities, allowing the exchange’s DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) to oversee its operations.
2019-5-21 21:58 | |
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By CCN: In 2016 a cryptocurrency project named BitConnect came along offering 1% daily compounded interest for those who purchased and staked its token. When the BitConnect (BCC) bubble inevitably burst, the owners, as expected, made off everyone’s money.
2019-5-20 13:11 | |
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Defunct cryptocurrency project Bitconnect has announced its return, this time as Bitconnect 2. 0. A message which was dropped on Bitconnect 2. 0 Twitter handle says it will be launching on July 1st in 2019.
2019-5-19 19:48 | |
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OneCoin, whose leaders have been indicted on wire and securities fraud as well as money laundering, took umbrage with a recent report by the Central Bank of Samoa calling the crypto project a "hybrid ponzi-pyramid scheme."
2019-5-18 19:49 | |
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Though rumors have been swirling for a year, Hard Fork this week confirmed that the blockchain startups have dissolved their offices in the UK. RepuX, a data-sharing project, made a hearty $4.7 million off its ICO last March, while gambling coin JoyToken took in $3.3 million.
2019-5-17 20:53 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Teng. The bitcoin price has broken $8,000 for the first time since July 2018, with most cryptocurrencies trading in the green.
2019-5-15 19:01 | |
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Every time money is involved in any business model or project, there is a good chance an exit scam will occur sooner or later. In the cryptocurrency industry, such exit scams are a lot more common than one might think.
2019-5-11 20:39 | |
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One of the most popular BitConnect promoters said that he lost most of the money he invested in BitConnect and that it was not the first scam he fell victim. BitConnect was a scam crypto-related project that promised very larger returns for investors but that ultimately didn’t survive. Matos Says He Lost Money on BitConnect […]
2019-5-5 23:45 | |
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Sensing a rise in crypto-related scams and fraudulent investment schemes, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have issued a joint warning to investors, encouraging them to take a more thorough approach to verifying potential investments in the space.
2019-4-26 18:43 | |
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IP2PGO App is an escrow P2P marketplace where users can trade ERC20 tokens using local fiat currency. Launched in Oct 2018, it is now available as localised Apps in 11 countries with over 4800 users.
2019-4-20 03:33 | |
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The police in Singapore has arrested two men in connection with the OneCoin cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, The Business Times reports. News of the arrest is the latest installment in the OneCoin saga that has seen the controversial project banned by numerous countries.
2019-4-10 19:19 | |
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Vestchain (VEST) just burst into the top hundred cryptocurrencies by market cap after 382% growth in the past twenty-four hours. However, a glance at the project’s Bitcointalk forum page reveals something fishy to be afoot, and there’s ample reason to believe that Vestchain might be a scam.
2019-4-8 14:45 | |
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By CCN: The CEO of crypto project TRON has come under fire for a Twitter Tesla giveaway that doesn’t seem to involve giving much away at all. After announcing a $2o million “global appreciation campaign,” including a Tesla giveaway, Justin Sun has backed out and refused to give the winner his car.
2019-3-30 21:16 | |
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Dayta is an online platform that seeks to solve the various data protection, privacy, and concern issues while providing all its users with the ability to protect their data and profit from personal information blockchain.
2019-3-20 07:12 | |
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Already suspected of a potential scam, the Auscoin project was finally busted after the arrest of founder Sam Karagiozis.
2019-3-13 19:59 | |
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A group of investigative journalists uncovered a $9 billion money laundering scam rooted from Russia’s largest private bank and unsurprisingly, it doesn’t involve Bitcoin. The scheme, which enabled perpetrators to funnel billions from shell companies to the global banking system, was exposed by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) with assistance from the Guardian.
2019-3-6 16:12 | |
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Ripple (XRP) has been at the centre stage of the cryptocurrency industry in the last week with many great developments in its favor. However, Forbes Contributor, Jason Bloomberg seems to be taking all the fun away.
2019-3-3 11:37 | |
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If you search the web for “My Big Coin,” you find a lot of seemingly-legitimate results. Even Crunchbase has a listing for My Big Coin. As recently as Valentine’s Day, the cryptocurrency project was tweeting to their more than 260,000 followers.
2019-2-28 22:50 | |
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Google has taken legal action against a group of individuals it accuses of defrauding over 100,000 people globally by distributing counterfeit crypto apps through its Google Play store, CNBC reported.
More memecoins might also mean more scams.
On Thursday, March 28, a hack occurred on Prisma Finance, a decentralized lending protocol on the Ethereum network. The exploiter carted away about 3,257. 7 ETH (equivalent to $11. 6 million) via a flash loan attack on the protocol.
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2023 report, revealing a significant rise in crypto-related fraud and the use of digital assets in cybercrime. The 2023 IC3 report serves as a comprehensive overview of the current state of internet crime, including the challenges and risks posed by the use of crypto in […] The post FBI cybercrime report reveals crypto investment fraud in the US rose 53% YoY appeared first on CryptoSlate.
Investment fraud at large grew by 38% from $3.31 billion to $4.57 billion, according to the bureau's Internet Crime Report 2023, highlighting the prominent role that cryptocurrency plays in this area of crime.
Crypto industry losses amounted to $67 million in February over 12 incidents, with hacks accounting for 97. 54% of funds stolen, according to Immunefi’s latest crypto losses report. Meanwhile, the remaining 2.
A sophisticated social engineering campaign successfully duped several prominent crypto news outlets into promoting a fabricated $10 million Uniswap airdrop on Feb. 16. The scammer, posing as a Uniswap Foundation representative, offered coordinated publicity in tandem with the legitimate Uniswap v4 announcement.