Tag: Scammers
Ledger scammers are sending letters to steal seed phrases
Scammers are mailing physical letters to the owners of Ledger crypto hardware wallets asking them to validate their private seed phrases in a bid to a [...]
‘I’m sick’ — Scammers use AI, fake ID of crypto influencer to steal $4M
The host of The Wolf Of All Streets podcast, Scott Melker, says he’s received word that his face and name are being impersonated by scammers, with at [...]
SMS scammers posing as Binance have an even trickier way to fool victims
Australian federal police have alerted over 130 people of a new text message scam aimed at crypto users that copies the same “sender ID” as legitimate [...]
Crypto scammers steal $1.2M from UK residents using fake police reports
Crypto scammers stole over 1 million British pounds ($1.2 million) from nine residents in Kent, England, after gaining access to their personal inform [...]
US authorities to return $8.2M seized from crypto ‘wrong number’ scammers to victims
US authorities are working to return $8.2 million in crypto frozen and seized from three scam addresses to victims of a con involving fraudulent messa [...]
US authorities to return $8.2M seized from crypto ‘wrong number’ scammers to victims
US authorities are working to return $8.2 million in crypto frozen and seized from three scam addresses to victims of a con involving fraudulent messa [...]
Scammers use fake crypto jobs, ‘GrassCall’ meeting app to drain wallets
Social engineering scammers are reportedly using fake job offers and a new malware-laden app called “GrassCall” to install info-stealing software that [...]
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 [...]