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North Wales Police are investigating a $2.8 million (£2.1 million) Bitcoin theft in which a cybercriminal posed as a senior detective.
The scammer claimed that the victim's personal details had…
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Canadian criminal Cameron Albert Redman, 22, will go to prison for one year.
The "sophisticated" cybercriminal hacked high-profile digital artists' X accounts to launch scams.
He then conned would-be investors to…
Nicholas Truglia, a crypto scammer convicted in 2022 and initially sentenced to 18 months in prison, had his sentence extended to 12 years on Thursday for failure to pay back…
A Nigeria-based scammer posing as Steve Witkoff, a long-time ally of U.S. President Donald Trump and co-chair of the Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee, stole approximately $250,000 in crypto from a would-be…
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A Nigerian national allegedly posed as a Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee official using a lookalike email to steal $250K in Ethereum-based USDT.
AI and deepfake technology will “amplify the scale and…
A man at the center of a massive crypto Ponzi scheme will spend nearly eight years behind bars after a federal judge handed down a 97-month prison sentence in Brooklyn…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has been handed a $1.1 million court victory after a man it accused of running a crypto scam failed to answer the agency’s lawsuit.A…
Key takeawaysChainabuse allows anyone to publicly share information with enforcement, helping make crypto fraud more transparent, but it’s not a confidential legal channel. Scamwatch helps raise public awareness about crypto scams…