Tag: Scammers
Google (GOOG) Takes Legal Action Against Alleged Crypto Scammers for Uploading Fraudulent Apps
Victims were lured to download the apps with promises of high returns from investing in crypto and other products, which the lawsuit described as "ill [...]
Warning! Scammers Are Pretending to Be CoinDesk Journalists on Social Media
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Estonian court nixes extradition of accused crypto scammers to US
Ivan Turogin and Sergei Potapenko, co-founders of Bitcoin cloud miner HashFlare, have successfully appealed their extradition from Estonia to the Unit [...]
Tether freezes $225M USDT linked to romance scammers amid DOJ investigation
Stablecoin issuer Tether froze roughly $225 million worth of USDT tokens as part of an investigation into a Southeast Asia human trafficking syndicate [...]
Google sues scammers over creation of fake Bard AI chatbot
Google LLC has filed a lawsuit against three scammers for creating fake advertisements for updates to Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Ba [...]
Scammers play a long game using bogus, AI-backed ‘law firm’
A new artificial intelligence-backed scam is as multi-faceted and lengthy as it is unconvincing — at least for would-be victims who dig below the sur [...]
Scammers create spoof Blockworks site to drain crypto wallets
Phishing scammers have cloned the websites of crypto media outlet Blockworks and Ethereum blockchain scanner Etherscan to trick unsuspecting readers i [...]
Scammers prefer banking customers over crypto investors in Ireland: Report
Fraudsters in Ireland prefer targeting traditional banking customers instead of cryptocurrency investors amid a two-year-long bear market.The frequenc [...]
Binance collaborates with Royal Thai Police to seize $277M from scammers
In an announcement sent to Cointelegraph, Binance said that they worked alongside law enforcement agencies, providing intelligence to disrupt the crim [...]
MetaMask scammers take over government websites to target crypto investors
Crypto scams targeting MetaMask users are using government-owned website URLs to con victims and access their crypto wallet holdings.Ethereum-based cr [...]
SwirlLend rugs on new Coinbase layer 2 Base as large number of scammers reported
Base, Coinbase’s new layer 2, has been fully operational for a week and has already seen an influx of bad actors. In the latest incident, crypto lende [...]
Voyager customers targeted by scammers during 30-day withdrawal period: Report
Scammers set their sights on Voyager Digital customers during the month-long window when they were able to withdraw some portion of their funds from t [...]
Scammers pile on to impersonate WorldCoin on Twitter following token launch
Several fake accounts on X — formerly Twitter — were pushing malicious links to followers following the launch of the Worldcoin human identity verific [...]
‘Scammers’ impersonate Crypto Twitter users on Threads as users near 100M
Scammers appear to have wasted no time since the launch of Meta’s new microblogging app — with several high-profile Crypto Twitter users already warni [...]
Coinbase domain name reportedly used by scammers in high-profile attacks
Update (July 7 at 9:33 PM UTC): This article has been updated to include Coinbase's response. Coinbase's users have been turning to Twitter to report [...]