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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] 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] '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] 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] The Booming Underground Market for Bots That Steal Your 2FA Codes
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
The call came from PayPal’s fraud prevention system. Someone had tried to use my PayPal account to spend $58.82, according to the automated voice on the line. PayPal needed to verify my identity to block the transfer.
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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] $100M Theranos investor did little vetting for fear of upsetting Elizabeth Holmes
Read: 31/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Theranos sent a major investor financial projections that were wildly optimistic—perhaps even deceptive—the jury heard yesterday in the criminal trial of company founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes.
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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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[Link] Consumer losses top $500 million due to Covid-related fraud
Read: 28/7/2021 www.cnbc.com
Consumer losses due to Covid-related fraud top $500 million, as criminals rip off the unwary in a variety of schemes ranging from online shopping to travel, according to data from the Federal Trade Commission.
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[Link] Scammers target desperate renters on Sunshine Coast as housing crisis continues
Read: 12/4/2021 www.abc.net.au
Scammers are taking advantage of the desperate rental situation on the Sunshine Coast, where the vacancy rate has dipped as low as 0.5 per cent in some areas.
[Link] Why Scammers Make Spelling and Grammar “Mistakes”
Read: 10/2/2021 josephsteinberg.com
I am frequently asked why phishing emails and other scam messages often contain spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. “Haven’t scammers learned by now how to write in proper English?” the question often goes.