Tag: Scammers

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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….

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Binance collaborates with Royal Thai Police to seize $277M from scammers

In an announcement sent to Cointelegraph, Binance said it worked alongside law enforcement agencies, providing intelligence to…

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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…

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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…

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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…