‘Scammers’ pose as Crypto Twitter users on Threads as sign-ups near 100M

Threads are already seeing potential crypto scammers arrive on the platform, with Crypto Twitter users warning of impersonators on the app.

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AI Emerges as the Future Weapon Against Crypto Scammers

Cybersecurity firms are using AI for smart contract and crypto behavior analysis.

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Prosperous Australians Most Likely to Fall Victim to Crypto Scammers

A raid in four Serbian call centers by European agencies revealed that Australian citizens are the favorite target of crypto scamsters. The post Prosperous Australians Most Likely to Fall Victim to Crypto Scammers appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Crypto Scammers Target Spice Girl Mel B

The pop star has already contacted the policy after her family and friends became the targets of crypto scammers

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8 sneaky crypto scams on Twitter right now

A 19-part thread outlines the sophisticated strategies scammers are using to part crypto users from their funds.

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How to Protect Yourself and Community From Common Crypto Scams

The crypto industry is a perfect way to boost finances and build an outstanding investment portfolio but is also a pool full of scammers. The FTC report shows how business imposters are capitalizing on the crypto craze.

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Scammers pinched a record $14B from the crypto market in 2021

Crypto scammers made away with $14.00 billion (£10.34 billion) in the past year, setting a new record for the highest amount pinched from the industry. Blockchain analytics company Chainalysis disclosed this news through its annual Crypto Crime report, noting that the crypto space recorded a 79% rise in the amount of money lost to scams […] The post Scammers pinched a record $14B from the crypto market in 2021 appeared first on Invezz.

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British Grandma Loses ?65,000 to Crypto Scammers

A British woman falls victim to crypto scammers after trying to send grandchildren to private school

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Crypto Scammers Successfully Hack Trump Campaign Website 

With roughly a week to go until the U. S presidential election, crypto scammers targeted and briefly succeeded in gaining access to one of Donald Trump’s reelection websites. The hack was first noticed by Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler on Twitter, and it appears the incident occurred around 4 pm Pacific time on Tuesday, October 27.

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Scammers Impersonate Australian Entrepreneur in Fake Crypto Scam

Scammers have been using an Australian man’s identity to advertise fake crypto promotions to specific members of the local aviation industry. The target? Dick Smith, a 76-year old aviator, and political activist.

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Crypto Scams, And The Scammers Who Scam The Stats

Bloomberg Research recently published a study from the Satis Group, an ICO advisory service, purporting to show that crypto is a minefield for bad investments. But not only was the reporting selective to the point of being misleading, some of the research itself was clearly gleaned from a cursory Google search – and it was dead […] The post Crypto Scams, And The Scammers Who Scam The Stats appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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AmaZix BrandShield Partnership Step Up Combat Against Fraudulent ICO Projects

A partnership between Amazis and BrandShield a leading crypto community management firm and a cyber intelligence company respectively has been made to combat the influx of scammers in the cryptocurrency world.

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New Crypto Blackmail Scam Targets Porn Watchers in Latest Bitcoin Scheme

Porn viewers are the recent targets of a new scam that attempts to blackmail them with the aim of extorting a sum equivalent to $1,900. To make it even more complicated, the people behind the scam are only accepting payments made in the form of bitcoins. How Are They Doing This? The scammers are using […]

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Kaspersky Lab: $10 Mln in Ethereum Stolen Over Past Year via Social Engineering Tricks

Security experts at Kaspersky Lab report that online crypto scammers target those interested in ICOs, using phishing emails and fake Twitter giveaways to attract victims

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Scammers Are Working Overtime To Take Advantage Of The Still-Hot ICO Market

Scammers are working overtime to take advantage of the still-hot ICO market creating counterfeit token sale websites that are scamming unwary investors. We talked about this briefly in our scam report, but since then, counterfeit token sale sites have become a growing threat to the integrity of the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

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Shatner Sets Phasers to Kill for Twitter Ethereum Scammers

Legendary actor William Shatner who is beloved around the world for his portrayal of Captain James T. Kirk on the original Star Trek series has been righting some wrongs of his own in the crypto universe as he called out a ‘pump and dump scheme’ using his name on a fake twitter account.

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Crypto Pump & Dump: Our Undercover Investigation Reveals Thriving Enclaves of Scammers

The Cryptovest team went undercover to investigate some of the largest pump and dump groups still in operation inside of Telegram, exposing their machinations and methods.

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All the ways you lose your Bitcoin – Bloomberg

Not Really Your FaultPhone Porting Pretty basic: Scammers hijack people’s mobile accounts by calling their carriers and impersonating them. The thieves get their victims’ numbers transferred to new devices and ultimately gain access to crypto accounts.

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FTC: Crypto Investors on Track to Lose $3 Billion to Scammers by Year's End

The Federal Trade Commission held a workshop to warn about crypto scammers, and the mighty wake they are leaving.

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Twitter turns bling eye to Crypto scammers, these people wont

If Twitter can’t stop crypto scammers, they will. Also read: Bitcoin Funded Silk Road Performance Earns a Residency at Trafalgar Studios Developers Are Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands Crypto scams have been plaguing Twitter all year.

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Since Twitter Won’t Stop Crypto Scammers, These Services Will

One of the most maddening things about lookalike Twitter scammers has been Twitter’s unwillingness to do anything about them. It’s not a complex problem to solve, and yet for months the micro-blogging service has prevaricated while the gullible public has given their ether away to flagrant scammers.

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Bitcoin in Brief Tuesday: Crypto Bets, Viruses, Messages, All Because of Football

The world loves football (or soccer) and crypto companies won’t let the craze expire without tapping into it. Fans can now make predictions and place bets on a blockchain-based platform with a prize fund in cryptocurrency.

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Ukraine unveils fake crypto exchangers network

The Ukrainian cyberpolice uncovered a group of scammers who created a network of fake online money changers, offering services of cryptocurrency exchange.

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Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: Looking Back to See the Way Ahead

It’s been a turbulent time for the cryptocurrency markets, so now is a good time to reflect on how and why we got here in the first place. First, an op ed makes the ideological case for Bitcoin.

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On Radical Markets

Recently I had the fortune to have received an advance copy of Eric Posner and Glen Weyl’s new book, Radical Markets, which could be best described as an interesting new way of looking at the subject that is sometimes called “political economy” - tackling the big questions of how markets and politics and society intersect.

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