Crypto Scam

Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI has brought the company’s past fundraising plans into court. Testimony in Oakland tied the dispute to a proposed 2018 crypto fundraising idea.  Musk aimed much...

A global crackdown on cryptocurrency scam centers has led to at least 276 arrests and federal charges in San Diego. The Department of Justice announced the action on April 29,...

Kyle Holder lost nearly $300,000 after AI crypto scammers used WhatsApp messages to pull her into a crypto fraud scheme. The case later reached the IRS Criminal Investigation New York...

India’s cybercrime agency has warned of rising scams targeting Trust Wallet users. The alert follows a surge in fraud complaints reported nationwide. Attackers use fake verification steps to gain access...

A crypto developer came within seconds of a serious security breach this week after fraudsters used artificial intelligence to impersonate a senior Cardano Foundation executive on a live video call,...

A crypto extortion victim in France has called for more severe penalties against the perpetrators of the crime, roughly three years after the incident. The victim responded to a report...

A fresh wave of cyber fraud is hitting one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes as scammers are targeting ships stuck near the Strait of Hormuz, promising “safe passage” in...

A coordinated law enforcement operation led by agencies in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada has identified more than $45 million in stolen cryptocurrency tied to global fraud schemes....

A recent investigation by blockchain analyst ZachXBT uncovered a large-scale internal breach tied to North Korean IT workers. The leaked data exposed a network of 390 accounts, chat logs, and...

Crypto scams in the U.S. reached a new record in 2025, with reported losses of $11.366 billion. The total rose 22% from the prior year as each crypto scam expanded...

A crypto wallet was drained of $72,000 within minutes after a hacker waited for funds to accumulate. The attacker monitored the address holding $29,000 and struck shortly after another $43,000...

Cambodia is stepping up its fight against crypto-linked scam networks. The country’s National Assembly has advanced a new law that allows life imprisonment for operators of large online fraud rings,...

X is moving to shut down one of the most common crypto scam routes on its platform, i.e., hacked accounts pushing tokens. The change is that if an account posts...

U.S. authorities have charged ten foreign nationals tied to four cryptocurrency financial services firms in connection with schemes to manipulate digital asset markets. The charges, announced following a multi-agency investigation,...

A crypto user on the Kraken exchange has lost $18.2 million in a suspected social engineering scam, according to on-chain investigator ZachXBT.  Notably, ZachXBT revealed that the threat actor began...

A Busan District Court in South Korea has sentenced a member of an organized crime group to eight years in prison after finding him guilty of seizing crypto assets, participating...

The United Kingdom has intensified its crackdown on global online fraud, targeting a major cryptocurrency-based marketplace, Xinbi, linked to scam centers across Southeast Asia. The move aims to disrupt criminal...

Blockchain investigator ZachXBT has uncovered a coordinated network of social media accounts that use fear-driven narratives about war and politics to funnel users into crypto scams. In a detailed thread,...

Joint efforts by the FBI and Thai police to combat scams targeting Americans are yielding results. The joint task force comprising FBI agents and the Royal Thai Police led to...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in New York warned Tron users about a new scam where fake “FBI” tokens are sent to wallets. These tokens claim users are under...

The United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada have started Operation Atlantic, a joint law enforcement effort aimed at crypto approval phishing scams tied to investment fraud. The operation began...

A Singapore court sentenced a Chinese national to two years in jail for his role in a cryptocurrency theft that drained millions from a trading platform. The case highlights rising...

A class-action lawsuit has accused JPMorgan Chase of providing the main banking infrastructure for an alleged cryptocurrency fraud tied to Goliath Ventures. The case was filed in the U.S. District...

The U.S. government is pursuing the seizure of 127,271 Bitcoin linked to Chen Zhi, a Chinese-born businessman once based in Cambodia. Chen allegedly operated a sprawling network of global “pig...

The Canadian police department has cautioned the public against fake crypto recovery scams. The police department stated that fraudsters are accessing and exploiting information from original crypto scams to steal...