Crypto Scam

A 70-year-old chartered accountant from Gwalior has reportedly fallen victim to cyber fraud. Over seven months, cybercriminals allegedly lured him into investing in a fake cryptocurrency trading platform, leading to...

Cape Town authorities have stepped up a crackdown on suspected crypto fraud, impounding luxury vehicles with fake or missing registrations. Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said city officials and the...

More than a thousand Texas residents have collectively lost $56.8 million to cryptocurrency ATM scams over the past twelve months, according to new data highlighting a fast-growing fraud problem that...

A Chinese court has sentenced Huang to 30 months in prison for participating in telecom fraud operations in Myanmar and Cambodia. The Shanghai Baoshan District People’s Procuratorate said he was...

An Ontario woman has shared how an AI-generated video featuring Canada’s Prime Minister led her into a cryptocurrency investment scam that resulted in the loss of more than $900,000. The...

Unlike traditional bank transfers, cryptocurrency transactions are generally irreversible. However, if you report a scam quickly, it gives law enforcement a much better shot at tracking blockchain transactions. This means...

FBI Director Kash Patel has issued a direct warning to cryptocurrency fraudsters, saying the bureau will identify those exploiting Americans and bring them to justice. Notably, his statement accompanied a...

The FBI has identified a growing tactic in cryptocurrency investment fraud where scammers dispatch couriers to collect cash directly from victims after convincing them they are investing in legitimate digital...

According to reports, the police in Paphos, a coastal city in Cyprus, are investigating a new online scam involving fraudsters who scammed a 66-year-old woman, collecting thousands of dollars from...

India’s Bitcoin scam investigation has taken on a political dimension after Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge suggested that leaders from the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) could also be named...

A fraud case in Beijing has drawn attention after stolen funds were lost in leveraged cryptocurrency trading. The case centers on a 60-year-old woman who used a false identity to...

Authorities in Ukraine uncovered an unusual digital enterprise after investigators raided a warehouse they initially believed housed a cryptocurrency mining operation. Instead of rows of specialized mining equipment, officials found...

Blockchain investigator ZachXBT has issued a warning to avoid Rain Protocol, a prediction market project that recently reached an $8.8 billion market capitalization despite minimal real users, limited product traction,...

An 86-year-old woman from Sault Ste. Marie lost nearly $1 million after falling for a cryptocurrency scam that started with a fake advertisement on Facebook. Judy Skene said she first...

Singapore police prevented more than $4.2 million in potential losses during a crypto scam operation with major digital asset exchanges. The Anti-Scam Centre and Cyber Investigation Branch ran the operation...

A woman in her 70s from Newry has lost more than £250,000 after falling victim to a crypto investment scam, according to the Police Service of Northern Ireland. Police said...

The FBI has broken up a vast cryptocurrency fraud network that authorities say stole billions of dollars from victims around the world. The operation, which stretched across Asia, Africa, the...

Prosecutors in Britain have charged CJ Ujah, who represented Team GB at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, alongside nine other suspects at the Chelmsford Crown Court for running an elaborate...

South Korean prosecutors have filed the country’s first criminal prosecution tied to a decentralized exchange rug pull case after charging a group accused of manipulating the Solana-based meme coin CATFI...

Scammers have stolen at least $400,000 through fake Uniswap Google Ads. The stolen funds reportedly came from users who were redirected to phishing sites impersonating Uniswap after clicking sponsored Google...

Crypto users have lost at least $400,000 after clicking fake Google ads impersonating Uniswap, according to multiple security researchers tracking the campaign. The attack used sponsored Google search results that...

XRPL developer and Xaman wallet founder Wietse Wind has renewed a scam warning to XRP holders as fresh impersonation campaigns targeted users. The warning followed a rise in fake X...

Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao joined a number of crypto users mocking fake Web3 job offers after scammers increasingly used LinkedIn, Telegram, and fake GitHub projects to target developers and traders....

Rathnakishore Giri, a 31-year-old from New Albany, Ohio, was sentenced to nine years in federal prison plus three years of supervised release for running a $10 million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme. ...

Renowned blockchain investigator, ZachXBT, has launched an attack on Bitget over a recent exploit on the centralized exchange. ZachXBT accused the exchange of inflating LAB’s value to bait retail. He...