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In 2023, consumers reported $114 million in losses from scams involving BTMs — a nearly 900% increase over the preceding three years, the FTC said Tuesday in a report. Losses through June of ...
A type of Mac malware active in August 2013, Bitvanity posed as a vanity wallet address generator and stole addresses and private keys from other bitcoin client software. [133] A different trojan for macOS, called CoinThief was reported in February 2014 to be responsible for multiple bitcoin thefts. [133]
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.
Scams targeting people aged 60 and older generated more than $3.4 billion in losses in 2023, according to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center Elder Fraud Report. That's up about 11% from 2022.
A new report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) shows that money lost to fraudulent bitcoin ATM scammers increased nearly tenfold between 2020 and 2023. Per the spotlight report published on ...
A dusting attack or dust attack is an attack on a cryptocurrency wallet that sends tiny amounts of cryptocurrency (known as "dust") to that wallet in order to uncover the identity of the wallet's owner. [1] Information can then be used to obstruct receiving legitimate payments [2] or phishing scams. [1]
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
Here are some of the most common digital transaction scams to watch out for and how to avoid them. Also: You Can Get These 3 Debts Canceled Forever Peer-to-Peer Payment Scams