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  2. US charges 3 companies, 15 people with cryptocurrency fraud - AOL

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    BOSTON (Reuters) -Three cryptocurrency companies and 15 people have been charged with engaging in widespread fraud and market manipulation following an investigation in which the FBI for the first ...

  3. $5.6B lost to cryptocurrency fraud schemes last year: FBI - AOL

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    Americans lost more than $5.6 billion in 2023 from fraud schemes involving cryptocurrency, according to the FBI. The agency, in a report published Monday, said the bureau received more than 69,000 ...

  4. 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 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.

  5. Scam rap - Wikipedia

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    Scam rap is a subgenre of hip hop that emerged in Detroit during the mid to late 2010s. It is characterized by lyrics that focus on various forms of fraudulent activities, particularly those conducted in the digital realm, such as online scams, hacking, the dark web and cybercrime. [1]

  6. Cryptocurrency and crime - Wikipedia

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    A pig butchering scam (in Chinese sha zhu pan [114] or shazhupan, [115] (Chinese: 杀猪盘), translated as killing pig game) [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]

  7. Con Woman Docuseries ‘Fugitive: The Mystery of the Crypto ...

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    The globe-spanning mystery, which filmed across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa, tells the story of Ruja Ignatova, the founder of fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme OneCoin and the only woman …

  8. Data analysis for fraud detection - Wikipedia

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    Cahill et al. (2000) design a fraud signature, based on data of fraudulent calls, to detect telecommunications fraud. For scoring a call for fraud its probability under the account signature is compared to its probability under a fraud signature. The fraud signature is updated sequentially, enabling event-driven fraud detection.

  9. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    An automated message says "that someone has ordered a free medical alert system for you, and this call is to confirm shipping instructions" before the call is transferred to a live operator who requests the elderly patient's credit card and identity card numbers. The device is not free; there is a high monthly charge for "monitoring".