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[Link] Inspiring: ‘Cryptoqueen’ Breaks Barriers, Becomes First Crypto Criminal on FBI’s Most Wanted List
Read: 4/7/2022 www.vice.com
Ignatova, who ran a pyramid-scheme scam in the form of Bulgarian cryptocurrency company OneCoin Ltd., is the first crypto criminal to land the FBI’s Most Wanted List and the eleventh woman to join the list in its 72-year history.
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[Link] New Music Industry Takedown Service Targets NFT and ‘Metaverse’ Piracy
Read: 13/3/2022 torrentfreak.com
Italian anti-piracy group Digital Content Protection has launched a new service that helps rightsholders to police NFT platforms, Web 3.0 projects, and metaverse precursors.
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[Link] Brother and sister charged with cryptocurrency fraud in New York
Read: 9/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
US authorities on Tuesday filed criminal charges against a cryptocurrency executive and civil charges against him and his sister, accusing them of defrauding retail investors out of millions of dollars with a digital token known as Ormeus Coin.
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[Link] Site Sells Famous Songs as NFTs Without Permission, Sparks Global Outrage
Read: 2/2/2022 www.vice.com
Seemingly, anyone could register on HitPiece to sell a piece of music as an NFT, even on an artist’s behalf. “Each time an artist’s NFT is purchased or sold, a royalty from each transaction is accounted to the rights holders account,” HitPiece’s website stated.
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[Link] Crypto Co-Founder Revealed to Be Infamous Fraudster, Investors Shaken
Read: 30/1/2022 www.vice.com
Investors are shaken after the co-founder of a multi-billion dollar cryptocurrency protocol was accused of being a serial scammer with a record of conviction and deportation, and the co-founder of a fraudulent Canadian exchange that imploded.
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[Link] Crypto Protocol Publicly Announces Flaw, Users Relentlessly Owned by Hackers
Read: 20/1/2022 www.vice.com
Earlier this week, a platform that allows users to swap tokens between blockchains publicly announced that there was a flaw that made accounts vulnerable to hackers. The announcement, predictably, prompted several hackers to rush and try to exploit the vulnerability. One of them stole more than $1.
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[Link] 'I talk to 20 Australians a day': Meet Frank, his job is to scam you
Read: 8/12/2021 www.abc.net.au
If you answer your phone and Frank* is on the other end of the line, he'll keep you talking for as long as he can. And Frank has already done his homework before calling you in Australia.
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[Link] Canadian teen nabbed in $36.5M crypto heist – possibly the biggest haul yet by a single individual
Read: 22/11/2021 www.theregister.com
A Canadian teenager has been arrested for allegedly stealing $37 million worth of cryptocurrency ($46M Canadian) via a SIM swap scam, making it the largest virtual cash heist affecting a single person yet, according to police.
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[Link] Discord Backs Off of Crypto After Entire Internet Yells at CEO
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
Earlier this week, Discord CEO Jason Citron posted a tweet teasing integration between the gaming-focused chat platform and Ethereum, setting off a total shitstorm.
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[Link] Hostage-Style Bitcoin Scam Videos Are Spreading Across Instagram
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Hackers are forcing Instagram users to film hostage-style videos instructing their followers to participate in fraudulent get-rich-quick Bitcoin schemes as part of a new kind of scam that is spreading across the Facebook-owned app.
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[Link] 'Crypto Investing Club' Leader Spent Investors' Money on Jewellery, Real Estate
Read: 4/11/2021 www.vice.com
Michael Ackerman pleaded guilty to wire fraud, and also spent ill-gotten funds on private security guards. Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet.
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[Link] ‘Squid Game’ Memecoin Soared to Record $2,800. Then It Fell to Zero.
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
The SQUID token peaked at a price of $2,861 on Monday, more than 300 times what it was worth when it began trading just a week ago, according to data from CoinMarketCap.
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[Link] Unbelievable: 'Monkey Jizz' Cryptocurrency Turns Out to Be a Scam
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Investors in a cryptocurrency called Monkey Jizz are posting on social media that they’ve been scammed by the project’s developer after a token sale.
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[Link] Instagram Hacker Forces Victim to Make Hostage-Style Video
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
A hacker is taking over Instagram accounts before forcing their owners to make hostage-style videos promoting the hacker's money-making scams to try and get their money back.
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[Link] How hackers hijacked thousands of high-profile YouTube accounts
Read: 25/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Since at least 2019, hackers have been hijacking high-profile YouTube channels. Sometimes they broadcast cryptocurrency scams, sometimes they simply auction off access to the account.
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[Link] Elaborate ‘CryptoEats’ Food Delivery Scam Steals $500,000 in Minutes
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
For the last week, a handful of UK-based celebrities have been talking about a new startup, called “CryptoEats,” that would compete against UberEats by allowing customers to pay for food delivery in cryptocurrency.
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[Link] Investors Spent Millions on 'Evolved Apes' NFTs. Then They Got Scammed
Read: 5/10/2021 www.vice.com
Cryptocurrencies are riddled with a dazzling array of scams. Rug pulls, a term for when developers take the money and run, are common. And NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, aren’t immune to that old trick, as thousands of investors of a project called Evolved Apes found out on Friday.
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