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2. Beware of pig butchering. Romance and investment crypto scams ...

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   Crypto exchanges like Binance are central to pig butchering schemes. While romance and investment scams are as old as civilization, crypto adds a new wrinkle, allowing money to travel faster and ...

3. 3 crypto scams that could cost you thousands - AOL

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   This scam “fattens a potential victim with flashy fake direct messages, cars, houses, and photoshopped bank profiles with hundreds of thousands of dollars, hoping someone will give in and send ...

4. How to spot a crypto scam - AOL

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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 ...

5. Pig butchering scam - Wikipedia

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   A pig butchering scam (in Chinese sha zhu pan [2] or shazhupan, [3] (Chinese: 杀猪盘), translated as killing pig game) [1] is a type of long-term scam, which usually but not always combines the various forms of romance scams and investment frauds, in which the victim is gradually lured into making increasing contributions, usually in the form of cryptocurrency, to a fraudulent ...

6. Cryptocurrency and crime - Wikipedia

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   Scams can be detected with the simple precautions, contact begins with random unsolicited accidental missed calls with extended repeated contact or via dating apps with fake profiles, romantic interest from strangers, requests for personal information, after gaining trust offer guaranteed too-good-to-be-true high return trade or investments ...

7. Authorised push payment fraud - Wikipedia

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   Authorised push payment fraud (APP fraud) is a form of fraud in which victims are manipulated into making real-time payments to fraudsters, typically by social engineering attacks involving impersonation.

8. Americans lost $5.6 billion in cryptocurrency scams in ... - AOL

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   Americans lost $5.6 billion in cryptocurrency scams in 2023, according to a new report released by the FBI on Monday. ... a cryptocurrency kiosk and deposit cash and transfer it to a scammer's ...

9. Pump and dump - Wikipedia

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   Pump-and-dump scams differ from many other forms of spam (such as advance fee fraud emails and lottery scam messages) in that it does not require the recipient to contact the spammer to collect supposed "winnings", or to transfer money from supposed bank accounts. This makes tracking the source of pump-and-dump spam difficult, and has also ...