Scammers continue to find new ways to attack the cryptocurrency ecosystem A wallet-draining service called “MS Drainer” was recently used by scammers over the past nine months to steal about $59 million in crypto from victims, according to blockchain security firm Scam Sniffer in a December 21 report on X (formerly Twitter). The criminals used
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$12M cryptocurrency fraud leads to indictments of two criminals in the US
The pair promised investors they could guarantee returns using AI-based trade bots The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged two individuals for operating an alleged $25-million artificial intelligence (AI) cryptocurrency-trading Ponzi scheme. According to the December 12 court filing, Australian David Gilbert Saffron and Vincent Anthony Mazzotta Jr. from Los Angeles have been accused
GoFundMe to reimburse donations from poker player’s scam
Rob Mercer refused to refund the money he received, so GoFundMe will The GoFundMe fundraising platform announced on Thursday that it has reimbursed donations made to a poker player after he admitted to lying about having terminal cancer to raise money to cover his entry into the World Series of Poker this summer in Las
Rob Mercer allegedly lied about cancer to get WSOP buy-in money
The poker player comes under fire for allegedly using pity to gather donations Rob Mercer was recently accused of faking a terminal cancer diagnosis to scam the poker community and request donations to pay for his entry into the 2023 World Series of Poker Main Event. Todd Witteles exposed the likely scam after tweeting a
Two teenagers face charges of stealing $3 million in cryptocurrency in Canada
The stolen crypto was only a small part of the $10 million the police found when they arrested the teens Two adolescents have been criminally charged by the Hamilton, Ontario police for their involvement in a grand theft of CAD4.2 million (US$3 million) worth of digital currency belonging to an individual from the US. As
Over 1,000 fake cryptocurrency scam sites discovered
A group allegedly from Russia is behind the latest crypto thefts Since the beginning of this year, more than 1,000 deceptive websites have been misguiding people through sham reward schemes that were, until now, unrecognized cryptocurrency fraud. Last week, a team of researchers from Trend Micro released a report indicating that a campaign involving collaboration





