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Revolut has been under fire as fraud complaints piled up in 2024, but the company has insisted it saved hundreds of millions in “potential fraudulent transfers.”
2024-10-8 02:02 | |
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Binance has issued a global alert about a rising malware threat targeting cryptocurrency users. Known as “Clipper malware,” the malicious software alters wallet addresses during transactions, leading to financial losses if the wallet user doesn’t catch on, according to Binance. …
2024-9-14 17:43 | |
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Andreas Szakacs, the OmegaPro co-founder, was arrested in Turkey. Authorities have traced $160M in crypto transactions and seized computers and cold wallets. A Dutch investor has reported losing $7M with and over 3,000 others losing $103M in the alleged fraud.
2024-8-23 20:26 | |
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The authorities continue to urge the public to remain cautious and verify the legitimacy of financial transactions to avoid falling victim to such elaborate scams.
2024-7-29 15:59 | |
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Authorities in China have arrested six individuals suspected of engaging in illicit cryptocurrency transactions amounting to 2.94 billion yuan — worth roughly $300 million. According to a May 10 report by local media outlet Chinanews, the suspects were taken into…
2024-5-14 11:48 | |
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The IRS employs AI to monitor crypto transactions, introducing Form 1099-DA. The House Committee investigates AI's use, wary of privacy breaches. The post IRS Uses AI to Detect Crypto Tax Fraud appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2024-4-25 11:30 | |
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High Court in Montenegro has ruled to allow Terraform Labs’ Do Kwon to be extradited to the US. Kwon faces US fraud charges tied to losses from UST stablecoin collapse. SEC alleges Kwon raised billions through unregistered crypto transactions.
2024-2-22 21:40 | |
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Mastercard is launching a new software tool aimed at helping banks “identify and cut transactions” from crypto exchanges prone to fraud. According to a report by CNBC, the software, which is known as “Crypto Secure”, will use utilize “sophisticated” artificial intelligence in scanning data from public records on crypto transactions. This will enable it to detect […]
2022-10-7 22:45 | |
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Decentralization is a unique feature for cryptocurrency that removes the interference of third parties in crypto-asset transactions. While it could be an advantage in most cases for investors and other participants, it could limit fraud detection.
2022-8-13 00:00 | |
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Founder of My Big Coin cryptocurrency firm Randell Carter has been convicted of wire fraud and unlawful transactions by a federal jury in Boston on Thursday. The post My Big Coin Founder Convicted, Faces Several Years in Jail appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-7-24 21:00 | |
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Despite the fact that Russia was never overly friendly towards cryptocurrencies, the country still feels the negative effects of the crypto industry, such as money laundering, suspicious transactions, fraud and scams, and alike.
2021-9-17 13:07 | |
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Kirobo, the world’s first-ever cryptocurrency “undo button” software to protect users’ assets from error or fraud, has officially surpassed $1 billion in transactions using the...
2021-7-13 13:48 | |
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Binance Indian exchange WazirX has partnered with blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs. The collaboration is expected to increase the security capacity of India’s largest exchange and help detect crypto fraud transactions.
2021-7-2 05:00 | |
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The National Westminster Bank (NatWest) has temporarily imposed a limit on the daily amount that its clients can send to crypto exchanges like Binance, over concerns of rising cases of crypto-related scams and fraud, according to the Bank’s spokesperson.
2021-6-30 16:05 | |
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Using ‘security and exposure to fraud’ as key arguments, this bank in the UK is now making it difficult for its customers to engage in crypto-related transactions. In what is the latest developmenThe post Why UK's TSB plans to block customers from sending money to Binance and Kraken? appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-6-20 13:00 | |
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According to local media, leading South African financial institution FNB is denying allegations of a banking relationship with the recently collapsed crypto investment company, Africrypt. FNB also insists it did not enable the investment company’s transactions which helped Africrypt’s two directors disappear with billions of dollars in investor funds.
2021-6-19 20:30 | |
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The petition asks the EU to take a tiny fee on crypto transactions to be pooled into a fund for victims of fraud and hacks.
2021-1-15 11:44 | |
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The Association of Russian Banks is worried about regulators being unable to track illicit transactions of an offline-enabled digital ruble.
2021-1-14 15:01 | |
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The European Commission (EC) is opposing the creation of the crypto crime victim superfund to be financed with $0. 0001 per dollar on all cryptocurrency transactions occurring within the EU. The Commission says that it does not have the competence to set up and administer such a fund.
2020-10-21 08:30 | |
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The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Tamil Nadu Police has issued a warning against cryptocurrency dealings. Trade Cryptocurrency at Your Own Risk In a press release, the Tamil Nadu Police EOW advised residents of the state not to get involved in cryptocurrency transactions owing risk of fraud and other criminal activities.
2020-2-12 22:00 | |
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When it comes to creating a peer-to-peer electronic cash system, accepting zero confirmation transactions becomes critically important. When a model’s main aim is to “just hodl” or push an isolated store of value narrative, important concerns like double spending can take a back seat, potentially opening a network to serious attack.
2020-1-3 11:03 | |
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First scalable decentralized social security network Project Introduction Asure Network is a layer 2 scaling network that enables fast, easy and secure transactions for not only payment transactions, but also generalized smart contract.
2019-7-18 11:03 | |
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Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
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With the newest version of the Bitcoin Lightning Network set to release on an undisclosed date in June, to-be-added "watchtowers" will monitor fraud on the network, preventing users from rebroadcasting old transactions to make more money.
2019-6-12 18:52 | |
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U. S. citizen Morgan Rockcoons has been sentenced to fines and prison time for running unlicensed money exchange services on LocalBitcoins. Advertising himself on the peer-to-peer bitcoin trading network, Rockcoons made more than 1,000 transactions with hundreds of different users.
2019-6-1 18:55 | |
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The purpose of this infographic is to visualize the size of large cryptocurrency hacks that have occurred in the past as if they all happened today. The hacks included in this infographic extend beyond exchanges, as there were other large entities that experienced cryptocurrency hacks, such as marketplaces like Silk Road 2.
2019-5-25 21:56 | |
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Attorneys for Tether and Bitfinex are hoping to get the former access to its reserves amid a legal dispute with New York Office of the Attorney General (NYOAG). In a letter sent to the New York County Supreme Court, attorneys representing iFinex (the parent organization of Bitfinex) and Tether took issue with the restrictions that had been placed on Tether's transactions with related parties as part of an ongoing case against them, stating that the NYOAG had no basis for disallowing tether (USDT) holders and other affiliated entities from redeeming their tokens.
2019-5-16 18:51 | |
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By CCN. com: The U. S. Justice Department has nabbed one of two crypto fraudsters accused of a shadow banks scheme that entailed the processing of hundreds of millions of dollars of unregulated transactions on behalf of several cryptocurrency exchanges.
2019-5-1 11:35 | |
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The CoolWallet S, made by CoolBit X, combines hot and cold storage solutions, blending the mobility afforded by software wallets with the enhanced security features offered by hardware wallets.
2019-4-4 00:05 | |
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Depending on what country you live in, your cryptocurrency will be subject to different tax rules. The questions below address implications within the United States, specifically, but similar issues arise around the world.
2019-3-29 18:20 | |
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Binance has partnered with Medici Ventures’ portfolio company IdentityMind, a risk management and regulatory-technology compliance platform, in a bid to enhance its fraud protection and compliance protocols.
2019-3-28 18:08 | |
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As anxiety grows around every new twist and turn in the ongoing QuadrigaCX drama, along with extensive QuadrigaCX media coverage, Canada’s mainstream media has been calling on the government to bring in better oversight and regulation of cryptocurrency businesses, especially cryptocurrency exchanges.
2019-3-20 18:42 | |
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A New York Man has been charged with four counts of wire fraud and three counts of unlawful monetary transactions after peddling a false coin to investors, the Department of Justice revealed on February 27, 2019.
2019-3-2 20:00 | |
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JPM Coin intends to be used for fast transactions to do with the wholesale payments business, thus getting to be the first crypto issued by a US banking giant
2019-3-27 15:38 | |
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Wibx is the utility token that will revolutionize the exchange relationships between brands and consumers, transforming social networks users into digital influencers. Wibx is the native token and the mean of exchange of the WiBOO platform, a sophisticated and well-structured ecosystem that offers new perspectives for the conventional marketing strategy models, such as sales activation and customer loyalty, using the blockchain technology and artificial intelligence (AI).
2019-1-29 07:03 | |
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In a world where food consumption is rapidly outpacing food production in the coming years, a solution in efficiency is needed. Every day millions of consumers buy fresh produce through multinationals, wasting an estimated 15% to 30% of all fruits and vegetables.
2019-1-16 19:33 | |
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We are reducing fraud and modernising insurance. The Kuverit P2P application will give anyone, anywhere the opportunity to have their transactions guaranteed, whilst also providing a new revenue model via a fully transparent fee structure.
2019-1-10 13:17 | |
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Three Executives Of Upbit Charged With Fraud One of the largest exchanges in South Korea, Upbit, has recently seen three of its senior executives be charged with fraud by prosecutors of the country. The Prosecutors’ Office of Seoul has seen three of the most important members of the company, including Song Chi-Hyung, the founder of […]
2018-12-21 20:09 | |
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The executives South Korea’s cryptocurrency exchange UPbit have been formally charged by the country’s prosecutors, CoinDesk reported. The Prosecutors’ Office of the southern district of Seoul has indicted three senior staff members, including founder Song Chi-Hyung, on charges of fraud.
2018-12-22 16:29 | |
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Mobile cryptocurrency exchange and peer-to-peer wallet Shakepay has announced a new product that allows its Canadian customers to buy bitcoin with spare change. Dubbed "ShakePay Change," the pre-launch of the service was announced in a Medium post.
2018-12-18 02:32 | |
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A blog post published by the University of Oxford Faculty of Law has suggested that victims of a cryptocurrency theft and fraud could potentially recover their funds through legal proceedings in the future.
2018-12-14 12:00 | |
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SBI Ripple Asia has recently partnered with the Japanese Payment Card Consortium to fight fraud with blockchain technology. According to BankingTech’s article published on November 22, 2018, the participating companies plan to prevent the damages caused by fraudulent transactions, by sharing data and information on a real-time basis along Corda, R3’s open-source blockchain platform.
2018-11-23 14:00 | |
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Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has said central banks throughout the world should consider issuing digital currency to make transactions more secure.
2018-11-14 19:10 | |
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An exchange-traded bitcoin fund (ETF) would signal greater acceptance of bitcoin as a mainstreet investment, while also making it much easier for both institutional and retail investors to get involved.
2018-10-6 01:07 | |
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On Sunday, Sept. 16, the Dubai Police warned the community that several risks could arise from large-scale unmonitored digital currency transactions. Some of these transactions could expose users to fraud and piracy and could even be used to facilitate money laundering.
2018-9-20 21:29 | |
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Greece’s Supreme Court has approved the extradition of Alexander Vinnik to Russia. Some think he might also have valuable information for U. S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller as he investigates alleged Russian election meddling.
2018-9-6 00:00 | |
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Many of us are familiar with the term “DApp,” which stands for “decentralized application. ”Foundationally, a DApp is an application that runs using blockchain technology on a decentralized network of computers instead of on a central database.
2018-9-4 21:43 | |
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Japan’s National Police Agency (NPA) has unveiled plans to implement a new software designed to track cryptocurrency transactions. Created by a secret private company, the tracking program is part of an increased national effort to prevent fraud and other criminal activity taking place in digital money markets.
2018-9-1 20:28 | |
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Japan, the crypto friendly nation with a tight grip on the industry, is this a peek into the future? As you know, in Japan cryptocurrency trading is heavily regulated through crypto exchanges, in a bid to make the community safer and in a bid to reduce instances of crypto crime and fraud.
2018-8-31 15:00 | |
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A North Korea–nexus threat actor is enhancing its social engineering playbook. The group is integrating AI-enabled lures into crypto-focused hacks, according to a new report from Google’s Mandiant team.
AI-generated deepfake videos portraying former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao and Yi He have flooded Crypto Twitter. This has sparked debate over how far artificial intelligence has advanced in replicating real crypto figures.
A growing share of information driving crypto markets comes not from journalists, but from paid press releases. A Chainstory analysis of 2,893 crypto press releases published between June and November 2025 shows that these distribution networks operate as a parallel news market, capable of shaping sentiment and temporarily moving prices, even before verification occurs.
Peter Steinberger, the creator of the open-source AI assistant ClawdBot, has publicly rejected any association with crypto. This is after scammers hijacked his online identity to promote fake token projects.
A major crypto scandal has emerged in the US, implicating John Daghita, known online as “Lick,” in the alleged theft of over $40 million from government seizure addresses. The incident is tied to Daghita’s father, who heads CMDSS, a Virginia-based IT firm awarded a 2024 contract to assist the US Marshals Service (USMS) with managing The post $40 Million Crypto Heist Allegedly Linked to US Government Contractor’s Son appeared first on BeInCrypto.
A worrying pattern has formed in the crypto sector. Reports say that about four in five projects hit by major hacks do not fully recover. Money is lost, yes. But the deeper damage is often to trust — and that can be fatal.
According to Chainalysis’s estimates, crypto-related scams and fraudulent activity may have caused over $17 billion in losses in 2025 The blockchain data firm also highlighted a concerning trend, as scammers are increasingly turning to impersonation schemes to deceive unsuspecting users.