Scams

Blockchain security firm SlowMist has flagged a new means of stealing user funds through a unique type of airdrop scam.SlowMist found a new type of airdrop scam. Victims' addresses were constantly airdropped with tiny amounts of tokens…

One of the biggest factors differentiating Bitcoin (BTC) from fiat currency and most cryptocurrencies is the hard limit of 21 million on its total circulating supply. However, the demise of numerous crypto exchanges over the last decade has…

A 27-year-old investment manager from Ohio was arrested on 18 November for allegedly running a crypto Ponzi scheme. This fraudulent cryptocurrency investment scam raised at least $10 million from investors, according to a…

If the late 2000s and early 2010s were the Age of the Lovable Sociopath, then the mid-2010s has been something of a cousin era: the Age of the Scammer. In no particular order, take Fyre Festival’s Billy McFarland, fake…

For anyone seeking direct proof that woke capitalism is nothing but a scam, look no further than Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and former CEO of the now bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, who says as much in a direct message exchange with Vox…

Over 60% of the world’s population relies on technology to navigate their daily lives — that’s over 5 billion people! Unfortunately, with such a large audience online, bad actors have turned to technology to deploy scams and make a profit.…

When the world learned that Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen had divorced, the news didn’t exactly come as a shock.By that time, rumors of trouble within the A-listers’ marriage had been circulating for weeks, and it was widely…

Many regular consumers who saw the meteoric rise of Bitcoin in the previous few years felt a sense of FOMO, especially when they saw people who made small investments becoming millionaires overnight. This led to a flood of new crypto…

LOWER MAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP, PA —One crime involved a sextortion scam. And three fraud cases led to victims transferring over $20,000. Then there was vandalism in which a vehicle had eggs, milk, salad dressing and pretzels thrown at it.Those…

Blockchain and decentralized finance (DeFi) focused security platform Certik’s investigation led to the discovery of the professional “KYC actors” who bypass KYC processes to scam crypto communities, according to a Nov. 17 Certik blog…