crypto scam

Indian law enforcement agencies are investigating the activities of a cryptocurrency fraudulent scheme that affected 320 residents of Andhra Pradesh. The total losses of investors amounted to about 23 crore rupees ($2.73 million). According to the police, the organizer of the crypto scheme...

Victims of the KOK token scam have accused Chosun Ilbo, the largest daily newspaper in the Republic of Korea, as well as its subsidiaries IT Chosun and Digital Chosun Ilbo of advertising a cryptocurrency scam. The class action lawsuit states that in April 2022, IT Chosun, a subsidiary of Chosun...

How people's trust made it possible to increase the capitalization of a fake token. BleepingComputer discovered that hackers hacked several popular accounts on the X* social network in order to promote the $HACKED cryptocurrency created on the Solana blockchain, which led to a fraudulent...

The UK's National Crime Agency has arrested a 17-year-old teenager suspected of involvement in a cyberattack on the city's transport agency Transport for London. "A 17-year-old boy was detained on suspicion of violating the Computer Misuse Act in connection with an attack that was carried out...

A Connecticut court has sentenced Lyell Champagne Jr., a resident of the US state of Missouri, to three years in prison for fraud with cryptocurrencies and falsification of tax returns. From March 2021 to April 2022, the man received credentials with the victims' bank accounts from his business...

The Washington State Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) has announced that its securities division is investigating fraud on the Nasdaq cryptocurrency platform, which appears to be affiliated with the major American stock exchange Nasdaq. The department received a complaint from a...

In the United States, at the request of the IRS, Rodney Burton, known as Bitcoin Rodney, was detained. He is associated with the organization of the fraudulent crypto project HyperVerse for $7.85 million. Burton was charged with operating an unlicensed money transfer provider. Incorporated in...

Американская компания по кибербезопасности и дочерняя компания Google Cloud Mandiant взломали свой аккаунт X (ранее Twitter) более чем на шесть часов неизвестным злоумышленником для распространения мошенничества с криптовалютами. На момент написания статьи аккаунт был восстановлен на платформе...