Scams

Do Kwon, the creator of TerraForm Labs, jumped on a Twitch podcast in the early hours of Wednesday morning to discuss the ongoing FTX crash. The Crypto Waldo was unexpectedly joined by Martin Shkreli, often referred to as “Pharma…

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) — The owner of a North Texas cryptocurrency company was federally charged on Wednesday with defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.John Corbin Corona, 35, of Dallas, was…

Ethereum layer-2 scaling platform StarkWare has officially launched the StarkNet Foundation with the introduction of a diverse board that aims to safeguard Ethereum's decentralization and censorship resistance.Seven individuals, including…

There are a lot of changes in the crypto market these days, and they will indeed affect the new coins and currencies. Investors are not oriented to the classic crypto as coins but more to the uncommon investing models. One…

Sihanoukville (Cambodia) (AFP) – Trafficked, beaten and locked up far from his family in China, Lu was one of thousands of people in Cambodia forced to operate online scams to line their captors' pockets.…

Melbourne single mum Kate* thought she knew what a scammer looked like.When she first joined up to the online dating site Zoosk, she was immediately hit on by a man who was "blatantly obvious" in his efforts to scam her, she says.He asked…

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) criminal investigation department has announced that it is prepping itself for a barrage of virtual currency tax fraud cases ahead of the new tax season. Jim Lee, head of the division, noted that the…

If your online romantic partner is asking for financial favours, or that celebrity ad fails the sniff test, you might be looking at a crypto scam in the making. And if you fell victim to the con, you might be one of those who…

On the phone, his recruiter was reassuring: Of course, they were headed to Thailand. The office was just across the Moei river in a rural area of Thailand – just as the job description had said. Only a…

The RTÉ star said her mother was worried she would ‘lose her house’ during the High Court case.The RTÉ star launched a legal bid in 2018 after scam ads began to appear on the platform touting a new ant0wrinkle cream.The ads claimed she had…