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According to the latest available data from the FTC, more than 46,000 people in the U.S. reported losing an accumulative $1 billion to crypto scams between January 2021 and June 2022. In 2021 ...
Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) may be on the cusp of truly going mainstream, but the crypto market continues to see no shortage of new scams. And it doesn't matter how big or sophisticated of an investor ...
Updated September 10, 2024 at 7:22 PM. The FBI seal. People in the U.S. reported losing $5.6 billion to cryptocurrency scams in 2023, with older people hit the hardest, according to the FBI. The ...
A pig butchering scam, a.k.a. "Sha Zhu Pan" [114] or Shazhupan, [115] (Chinese: ĉçŞç), translated as Killing Pig Plate, [113] is a type of long-term scam and investment fraud in which the victim is gradually lured into making increasing contributions, usually in the form of cryptocurrency, to a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme. [116]
Pages in category "Cryptocurrency scams". The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A jump in crypto-related investment scams fueled the overall increase in fraud. Victims reported nearly $4 billion in crypto-related investment losses in 2023 compared to $2.57 billion in 2022.
On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were reportedly compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. [1] [2] Twitter and other media sources confirmed that the perpetrators had gained access to Twitter's administrative tools so that they could alter the accounts themselves and post the tweets directly.
The FBI's 2023 cryptocurrency fraud report, released earlier this week, found that Americans lost $5.6 billion to crypto scammers last year. The massive figure represents a 45% increase from the ...