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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. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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 ...

8. Exit scam - Wikipedia

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   An exit scam or rug pull is a confidence trick or fraud, perpetuated under the guise of a legitimate business, that ends when the originator absconds with the funds contributed by participants. [1] When a business entity pulls the rug and stops shipping orders while receiving payment for new orders, it could take some time before it is widely ...

9. Crypto scams stole $5.6B from Americans last year, mostly ...

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   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. Crypto scams stole $5.6B from Americans last year, mostly ...