2024-7-16 10:00 |
A scammer returned $9. 3 million out of $24 million in stolen stablecoins after 10 months. Returned funds represent 38. 26% of the original theft. In a surprising turn of events, a scammer hasThe post Crypto conscience? Scammer returns $9. origin »
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A victim of a $24 million phishing attack has received a portion of his stolen funds back after the attacker willingly sent it back to him. According to web3 anti-scam solution Scam Sniffer, the attacker sent back $9.3 million to…
2024-7-15 12:36 | |
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A victim who claims to have lost $1.7 million said a scammer called them claiming to be from Coinbase and sent emails that looked like they came from the crypto exchange.
2024-7-8 09:15 | |
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A week ago, a crypto whale fell victim to a scam that resulted in the loss of over $71 million. In the following days, the scammer moved the funds to veil them. But in a shocking turn of events, they returned the funds to the victim.
2024-5-11 00:00 | |
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The crypto scammer who stole 1,155 Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), equivalent to $70. 5 million, has begun returning the funds, according to on-chain data. Blockchain security firm Peckshield reported that the attacker had returned 50% of the stolen funds— approximately 11,446.
2024-5-11 16:25 | |
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The hacker who stole $68 million worth of cryptocurrency has offered to return the assets via social media platform Telegram.
2024-5-9 18:04 | |
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The scammer's moves are being monitored by blockchain sleuths
2024-5-4 22:56 | |
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A sophisticated social engineering campaign successfully duped several prominent crypto news outlets into promoting a fabricated $10 million Uniswap airdrop on Feb. 16. The scammer, posing as a Uniswap Foundation representative, offered coordinated publicity in tandem with the legitimate Uniswap v4 announcement.
2024-2-17 16:45 | |
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It reached a $160 million capitalization on Monday, amassing over 13,000 holders and trading over $25 million in volume on decentralized exchanges.
2023-11-14 14:58 | |
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A cryptocurrency investor lost $24.23 million in a phishing scam, losing stETH and rETH tokens. The scammer had previously been flagged and was linked to several crypto phishing websites. The post Crypto Phishing Victim Loses $24 Million in Wallet Approval Scam appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2023-9-7 11:15 | |
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A man from Eden Prairie, Minnesota, has fallen victim to a crypto scam that cost him over $9 million. The scam involved a LinkedIn connection who lured him in with promises of quick riches and professed love.
2023-8-3 01:00 | |
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The crypto industry is constantly subject to sporadic reports of crypto thefts and scams and the most recent one was a hacker who managed to steal $20 million in Tether’s USDT stablecoin. How The Scammer Stole $20 Million In USDT The eye-popping heist was the result of a perfectly executed zero-transfer phishing attack. To carry […]
2023-8-3 00:00 | |
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Tether, the issuer of stablecoin USDT, swiftly blocked a scammer's address after they stole $20M USDT via a zero-transfer attack. The post Tether Blocks Scammer’s Address After They Stole $20 Million USDT appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2023-8-2 19:30 | |
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A zero transfer scammer stole $20 million worth of Tether (USDT) on August 1, only to be quickly blacklisted by the stablecoins issuer. Curious who this would be if it...
2023-8-2 15:57 | |
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Zero transfer scams are becoming prominent in the crypto ecosystem, with over $40 million stolen in 2023.
2023-8-2 14:28 | |
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A scamming group stole roughly $1 million worth of cryptocurrency off Twitter hacks within a few weeks. Phishing scams are tweeted as soon as the scammer gets control of a Twitter account.
2023-6-10 17:30 | |
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According to a recent investigation by Scam Sniffer, a scammer by the name of Inferno Drainer is believed to have conned thousands of unsuspecting users, extracting approximately $6 million in cryptocurrency assets.
2023-5-24 15:45 | |
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A crypto scammer stole around $15 million worth of cryptocurrencies after cloning the user interface of HitBTC, a popular Hong Kong-based crypto exchange.
2023-5-16 00:46 | |
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Arbitrum-based stablecoin was compromised by a well-orchestrated smart contract scam leading to users losing about $2 million from their accounts.
2023-2-21 17:18 | |
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Eric Jardin, cybercrime research lead at blockchain firm Chainalysis, discusses how scammers were able to capitalize on the second biggest blockchain’s transition and how $2 million in Ether was swindled from the blockchain’s ecosystem.
2022-11-3 21:24 | |
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Phishing scams are increasingly becoming a pain in the arse in the crypto space. Cybercriminals are stepping up their game with one objective: to drain crypto wallets of thousands — if not millions — worth of cryptocurrencies.
2022-10-27 13:49 | |
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Scammer gained access to wallets with help of phishing websites
2022-10-26 15:08 | |
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A prolific scammer has so far netted more than $3.5 million in total, according to ZachXBT.
2022-10-26 23:10 | |
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Scammer was trying to trick users into sending their Luna tokens to a fake airdrop address
2022-5-26 15:37 | |
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A malicious link netted a scammer $1.5 million worth of Moonbird NFTs from a Proof Collective member.
2022-5-26 11:45 | |
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National Police of Tenerife arrested Santiago Fuentes who is accused of defrauding up to 32,000 people in an alleged bitcoin scam, amounting to the tune of about 850 million euros (over $1 billion).
2020-10-22 22:30 | |
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A noted master scammer and serial con artist Peter Foster has been arrested for multiple money laundering charges, including the theft of $1. 73 million worth of bitcoins. Foster stole the said amount of bitcoins from a Hong Kong businessman named Konstantinos Stylianopoulos.
2020-8-26 00:24 | |
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A South African high court has declared an alleged bitcoin scam mastermind, Willie Breedt, bankrupt. The court decision follows an application by one disgruntled investor, Simon Dix, a News24 report states.
2020-7-8 08:25 | |
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The Illinois Federal Court has received a complaint on Brock H. Flagstad. The self-proclaimed ‘top-level businessman and the crypto trader’ was stealing from the investors. According to the court filings, he took at least hundreds of thousands of cash from $2 million cash pile, to fund his luxury life.
2020-4-13 01:47 | |
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U.S. prosecutors are seeking to pause the SEC's civil action against Blockchain Terminal founder and alleged $30 million ICO fraudster Boaz Manor to complete their own criminal prosecution.
2020-4-9 22:45 | |
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Gemcoin founder Steve Chen appeared in court and pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud charges and tax evasion. He and other perpetrators duped some 70,000 unsuspecting individuals out of a cool $147 million to invest in USFIA.
2020-2-20 20:34 | |
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A Las Vegas man is charged with raising at least $11 million from cryptocurrency investors he promised to trade binary options for, and make gains of up to 300%. According to the charges the money was sent from new clients to previous ones in a classic Ponzi scheme manner.
2019-10-18 04:26 | |
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The authorities in India appear to have fallen victim to their own anti-crypto regulations. Money seized from a convicted Bitcoin scammer is currently sitting trapped in a frozen State Bank of India of bank account.
2019-10-4 23:00 | |
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An Indian Bitcoin fraudster defrauding its victims of nearly $63 million was brutally tortured and murdered by his accomplices after they had found out that he had duped them too. Stealing $63 million Crypto was not enough for the Gang's Leader According to The Times of India, Indian police officers have uncovered a 4.
2019-9-2 14:06 | |
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A scammer who sold people’s personal details on the dark web has been ordered to forfeit $1. 12 million worth of Bitcoin. Grant West, also known as “Courvoisier “, gathered sensitive information about individuals using a phishing scam targeting a popular online takeaway ordering service and other well-known British retailers.
2019-8-24 23:00 | |
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An Australian citizen who ran an international crypto Ponzi scheme will face justice after police in India finally arrested him - but not before he defrauded victims out of $28 million. 'Hybrid crypto' with low risks and high returns India's Special Task Force (STF) arrested Sydney resident Harpreet Singh Sahni in a hotel near the […] The post $28 Million Crypto Ponzi Lands Morally Bankrupt Scammer in Jail appeared first on CCN Markets
2019-8-8 17:59 | |
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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has indicted a Pennsylvanian man for allegedly defrauding $7 million from prospective Bitcoin investors through an effectively fake “escrow” service.
2019-7-26 15:23 | |
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In a press release issued on June 19, 2019, the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) unsealed a complaint against a Swedish citizen named Roger Nils-Jonas Karlsson and his company, Eastern Metal Securities (EMS), for orchestrating a multi-million dollar investment scam using bitcoin.
2019-6-21 21:00 | |
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By CCN Markets: Renwick Haddow, the operator of the fake crypto trading platform Bitcoin Store and the fraudulent shared office space Bar Works, admitted to the charges against him with one of his fellow collaborators found guilty by US court.
2019-6-18 17:42 | |
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A British Bitcoin scammer has admitted to a con that duped people, all over the world, out of $50 million. In US courts last week, the perpetrator, identified as 50-year old Renwick Haddow, admitted to running a fake Bitcoin trading platform that defrauded hundreds of investors form around the globe.
2019-6-18 12:41 | |
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Several major cryptocurrency traders have reportedly begun discussing plans to enact an industry-wide blacklist of suspicious actors, to stem the tide of scams, theft and fraud in the crypto space.
2019-5-10 15:52 | |
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By CCN. com: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched legal action against a serial crowdfund scammer who used his ill-gotten gains to buy Bitcoin. Douglas Monahan promised consumers a ‘high-tech’ backpack known as the iBackPack, but failed to deliver the product after raising over $800,000.
2019-5-7 11:22 | |
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The latest edition of “Targeting scams,” an annual report released by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) revealed that the country saw a 190 percent increase in cryptocurrency scams, with a total of $6.
2019-4-30 20:07 | |
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Yet another organization thought to be tied the multi-billion dollar cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme OneCoin has been uncovered. Central Bank of Samoa (CBS) has named the Samoa Worship Centre as being used as a front in the $3 billion OneCoin scam which promised unrealistic returns for investing in a fake cryptocurrency.
2019-4-26 15:16 | |
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CCN previously reported on a disturbing discovery by a security researcher who had a problem with Sistemkoin exchange. He found that he was able to spy on other people’s support tickets, and more to the point that most of the support tickets were related to withdrawal troubles.
2019-4-13 22:49 | |
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New York resident Patrick McDonnell AKA “Jason Flack” was arrested and charged with nine counts of wire fraud in a Brooklyn court on Tuesday. McDonnell allegedly convinced others to “invest” in cryptocurrency through Facebook and Twitter, stealing the money for his own use and providing false balance statements in return.
2019-3-28 01:04 | |
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AriseBank CEO Jared Rice, who faced 120 years in prison for defrauding investors of $4 million in a cryptocurrency scam, has pleaded guilty. The cryptopreneur plead guilty yesterday morning after standing in front of judges in Texas, local outlet Dallas News reports.
2019-3-21 17:54 | |
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Bloomberg just reported that QuadrigaCX CEO and founder Gerald Cotten legally changed his will just 12 days before his death on December 9. This fact is just the latest in a string of interesting elements regarding the Canadian Bitcoin exchange’s sudden closure and supposed $150 million in missing crypto funds.
2019-2-6 00:54 | |
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On October 18, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ordered a New York-based firm Gelfman Blueprint, Inc. and CEO Nicholas Gelfman to pay $2. 5 million in fines and restitution for running a Bitcoin Ponzi scheme.
2018-10-22 09:00 | |
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The $34 million Bitcoin scam has its prime suspect named Prinya Jaravijit who was arrested in Thailand after returning to the country. Jaravijit is allegedly part of a scam which saw a man from Finland, Aarini Otava Saarimaa scammed out of over 5,500 Bitcoins, this would be worth around $34 million in today’s market.
2018-10-17 12:00 | |
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USDC’s hike signals potential risk aversion and reduced market volatility A decline in USDC dominance could spark renewed interest in altcoins The stablecoin market has been undergoing a nThe post USDC’s growth apes 2021's market trend - Explained appeared first on AMBCrypto.
USDC’s growing dominance signals a shift in stablecoin preferences within crypto markets Bitcoin's stagnant performance raises concerns despite increasing stablecoin inflows and markeThe post Rising USDC deposits signal market shift: Can Bitcoin catch up? appeared first on AMBCrypto.
Stablecoins can reinforce the U. S dollar’s dominance in global markets and trade USD-backed stablecoins could reshape global finance and accelerate dollarization in The post Here's how stablecoins can harness the U.
Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) has unveiled plans to allow banks to issue stablecoins as part of a comprehensive regulatory framework for virtual asset service providers (VASPs).
ECB board member Piero Cipollone said the European Central Bank (ECB) must accelerate efforts to launch a digital euro in response to President Donald Trump’s push to promote dollar-backed stablecoins globally, Reuters reported on Jan.
Australia’s NAB Bank rolled out a stablecoin, but it was shut down a little over a year later. Genesis announced its bankruptcy filing, marking its end. It is important to reflect on the jThe post 3 major crypto events from 2023: Lessons for today appeared first on AMBCrypto.
Circle launched a new on-chain utility that allows users to pay for gas fees with USDC on Arbitrum and Base. Developers can use Paymaster to streamline gas payments within their applications. Paymaster charges 10% of the gas fee but is free until June 30 2025.