Tag: Scammers
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…