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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 FTC said reported losses from Bitcoin ATM fraud topped $110 million last year, as scammers lure victims to send them large sums through the crypto kiosks. Bitcoin ATM scams are soaring — and ...
A major bitcoin exchange, Bitfinex, was compromised by the 2016 Bitfinex hack, when nearly 120,000 bitcoins (around US$71 million) were stolen in 2016. [61] Bitfinex was forced to suspend its trading. The theft was the second-largest bitcoin heist ever, dwarfed only by the Mt. Gox theft in 2014.
In August 2012, Trendon T. Shavers (aka "Pirate" and "pirateat40"), the founder and operator of "Bitcoin Savings and Trust" (BTCST), [124] a non-existent company advertised over an internet forum, disappeared from the public scene. Shavers raised at least 700,000 Bitcoin in BTCST investments by running it as a Ponzi scheme. The fact that BTCST ...
The difference is that rather than collecting hard currency like dollars, scammers are targeting cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin. Scammers reach out to targets posing as successful investors ...
It took a 36-year-old woman 30 minutes to feed $15,000 in $20, $50 and $100 bills spilling from her purse into a bitcoin ATM tucked in the corner of a Shell convenience store on Tryon Road.
Pages in category "Cryptocurrency scams" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Last week’s bitcoin “giveaway” scams on Twitter, which saw one of Google’s social media accounts compromised, was the result of a hacked third-party provider and not the social media ...