2023-5-26 17:04 |
In a worrisome development, an infiltrated Twitter account, @steveaoki, has been exploited to endorse a cryptocurrency phishing scam. origin »
Bitcoin price in Telegram @btc_price_every_hour
|
During the early hours of October 22, the Gate.io Twitter account was hacked and used to promote phishing scams. The post Gate.io Twitter Account Hacked to Promote Phishing Scam appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-10-23 15:30 | |
|
|
There is a new crypto scam called 'Contra Trading.' The scam attacked an FTX User's account using 3commas API.
2022-10-24 15:00 | |
|
|
Cryptocurrency scammers have taken over account of Utah State Representative Mike Winder in order to promote sham with Elon Musk
2022-9-28 18:59 | |
|
|
No, Cardano creator Charles Hoskinson is not giving away 100 million ADA tokens following the Vasil upgrade
2022-9-26 21:03 | |
|
|
Hackers keep trying new ways to loot money in crypto and fiat. This time, scammers hacked a Twitter account of the Indian Embassy in Oman to promote an XRP scam that requires users to click on a phishing link.
2022-9-22 23:03 | |
|
|
The hackers behind the attack may have been responsible for breaching India-based crypto exchange CoinDCX’s Twitter account given the similar fake XRP giveaways.
2022-9-21 23:15 | |
|
|
The official Twitter account of Oman’s Indian embassy is now advertising an XRP giveaway scam
2022-9-21 21:54 | |
|
|
Aaron Goldfarb verified Twitter account gets hacked by Ethereum founder's imposter
2022-9-8 18:38 | |
|
|
This is yet another verified Twitter account that has been hacked in order to promote a blatantly obvious XRP scam
2022-9-4 11:50 | |
|
|
Launched in November of 2013, itBit is a bitcoin exchange and OTC desk you can access from one single account. The company’s headquarters is in New York, and they have an international office in Singapore and offer free deposits and withdrawals in Singapore dollars.
2022-7-4 15:21 | |
|
|
A Twitter hacker has compromised the account of EL Universal, a Latin American newspaper, to promote a fraudulent goblintown. wtf giveaway, an Ethereum-based non-fungible token (NFT) project, on-chain analyst @NFTherder unveiled.
2022-6-10 03:00 | |
|
|
The Discord scam was posted by someone who took control over the Yuga Labs community manager account.
2022-6-5 00:11 | |
|
|
An apparent phishing scam led to the hacking of the Twitter account belonging to digital artist Beeple, where more than $70000 in Ethereum was stolen. Mike Winkelmann, better known as Beeple, is a popular digital artist who helped drive the mainstream acceptance of NFTs (non-fungible tokens).
2022-5-24 09:56 | |
|
|
Links posted to a fake Louis Vuitton NFT raffle were made to capitalize on a recent real collaboration between Beeple and the luxury fashion brand.
2022-5-24 06:46 | |
|
|
Launched in November of 2013, itBit is a bitcoin exchange and OTC desk you can access from one single account. The company’s headquarters is in New York, and they have an international office in Singapore and offer free deposits and withdrawals in Singapore dollars.
2022-3-14 12:05 | |
|
|
На видеохостинге YouTube обнаружили фейковый аккаунт главы Ripple Брэда Гарлингхауса, от имени которого мошенники анонсировали раздачу 50 млн токенов XRP взамен на монеты пользователей. @YouTube @bgarlinghouse @Ripple @JoelKatz someone has created a YT account as Brad Garlinghouse and is using this video to promote an xrp airdrop scam. @YouTube you need to shut this down […]
2020-3-25 11:58 | |
|
|
На видеохостинге YouTube обнаружили фейковый аккаунт главы Ripple Брэда Гарлингхауса, от имени которого мошенники анонсировали раздачу 50 млн токенов XRP взамен на монеты пользователей. @YouTube @bgarlinghouse @Ripple @JoelKatz someone has created a YT account as Brad Garlinghouse and is using this video to promote an xrp airdrop scam. @YouTube you need to shut this down […]
2020-3-25 10:21 | |
|
|
Someone created a Youtube account pretending to be Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, to scam users. The scammer promoted an XRP airdrop requesting deposits from 2,000 XRP to 250,000 XRP to participate, offering high amounts as a “reward” after an airdrop.
2020-3-25 09:54 | |
|
|
Bogus YouTube account exposes a fake XRP airdrop scam to over 270,000 subscribers, impersonates Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse
2020-3-25 17:02 | |
|
|
The two scammers used a Twitter account to pose as crypto exchange staff to persuade an Oregon resident to hand over bitcoin.
2020-3-18 13:31 | |
|
|
There’s a new extortion scam that targets Google AdSense serving websites and demands Bitcoin (BTC) in exchange for the prevention of an attack. This attack, according to the extortionist, would lead to the AdSense account of targeted users to be suspended or banned.
2020-2-18 00:44 | |
|
|
A Libra scam has appeared on Twitter to conduct a fake initial coin offering (ICO) of its coin LIBT. The account has existed on Twitter since 2018, but data from Etherscan has shown that the ERC20 token was created on Jan.
2020-1-29 19:43 | |
|
|
Hackers have hijacked the official Twitter handle of Tesco, a British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer with over 3,400 stores scattered across the globe. The bad actors tried to orchestrate a bitcoin (BTC) giveaway scam with the account without much success, according to a BleepingComputer report from June 25, 2019.
2019-6-27 13:00 | |
|
|
The UK-based supermarket giant Tesco has had its Twitter account compromised by hackers. Almost mirroring an attack last year, those behind it have attempted to scam Bitcoin from the store’s customers.
2019-6-26 02:00 | |
|
|
Hackers were able to control Tesco’s Twitter account on June 24 and urged followers to send Bitcoin to a wallet address. The hackers promised users that they were going to receive back twice the funds they send.
2019-6-26 00:22 | |
|
|
Hackers took control of British multinational retailer Tesco’s Twitter account yesterday, urging followers to send Bitcoin to a wallet address and promising to return twice the value received. Luckily, though, Tesco’s followers did not fall for the Bitcoin scheme as no funds were deposited in the wallet address shared by the hackers.
2019-6-25 19:32 | |
|
|
Bitcoin has the potential to revolutionize the African continent. Through Bitcoin, millions of unbanked Africans will have access to financial services. These and many more such statements exist across the internet.
2019-6-1 21:48 | |
|
|
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 | |
|
|
The return of notorious cryptocurrency ponzi scheme Bitconnect is closer than ever, its mysterious organizers claim after revealing a July launch date. Bitconnect: Unapologetically Fraudulent A fresh tweet from the Twitter account of the so-called ‘Bitconnect 2.
2019-5-20 12:00 | |
|
|
By CCN. com: A notice on the official website for the City of Berkeley police department warns residents of phone scams involving Bitcoin. Calling them “cyber-enabled fraud crime,” the post talks about a woman who scammers attempted to victimize via telephone – even calling her from the number 911.
2019-4-27 19:49 | |
|
|
Has a cop recently asked you to hand over your cryptocurrency? Well, a phone scammer posing as a police officer is targeting victims in California, requesting they hand over all the money in their bank account in Bitcoin.
2019-4-25 11:27 | |
|
|
By CCN. com: Just one month after a coordinated global law enforcement operation executed a sweeping takedown of dark web drug dealers, rumors are swirling that a popular dark-net market has allegedly attempted a major exit scam.
2019-4-23 08:30 | |
|
|
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has yet to add bitcoin as a payment method, but for the crypto community, the door is always open. Tron CEO Justin Sun is putting his money where his mouth is, announcing a $20 million free cash airdrop that includes a Tesla for one follower.
2019-3-13 19:20 | |
|
|
There are two primary reasons why storing your private crypto keys in the cloud is a bad idea. First, your cloud provider represents a centralized honeypot that could experience a security breach, allowing cyber criminals to access your data.
2019-2-19 00:19 | |
|
|
According to the latest court documents in the ongoing QuadrigaCX case, the exchange sent roughly $470,000 CAD (approximately $355, 000 USD) worth of bitcoin from a hot wallet to a cold-storage wallet on February 6, 2019.
2019-2-13 03:56 | |
|
|
Independent researchers have identified financial links between crypto exchange QuadrigaCX and a shady company. The accusation surfaced after Spoofy McSpoofface, a Twitterati, found that the Canadian exchange had asked its customers to deposit money into a bank account owned by Hong Kong-based Valoris HK Ltd.
2019-2-12 16:00 | |
|
|
MyEtherWallet users are being targeted by a phishing email scam, according to the official MyEtherWallet Twitter account. The email asks users to send their private keys to a third party email address to avoid having their wallet data compromised.
2019-2-5 02:11 | |
|
|
According to a post from the official MyEtherWallet’s Twitter account, reports suggest that users of the popular Ethereum network interface have been targeted by a phishing email. The fraudulent correspondence requests users give up personal information that could put their crypto holdings at risk of theft.
2019-2-5 00:00 | |
|
|
Several of South Korea’s top crypto exchanges have found themselves in hot water, with executives at a couple of exchanges facing criminal charges and jail time. According to a news report on the Korean website Blockinpress, the CEO of Komid, a Korean crypto exchange, has received a three-year prison sentence for committing fraud against investors by artificially inflating the exchange’s actual trading volume.
2019-1-23 00:57 | |
|
|
After Rumors Of Haven Protocol Being An Exit Scam, Developer Finally Responds The Haven Protocol makes it possible for consumers to hold their cryptocurrency in an off-short account. Based on the CryptoNote protocol, it uses Monero tokens, hiding details of transactions from everyone except the user that created the transaction in the first place. Though […]
2019-1-23 00:12 | |
|
|
Twitter is buzzing with another possible crypto exit scam: this time it is a self proclaimed “offshore bank in your pocket” – Haven Protocol – XHV. Their official site describes Haven as “a digital wallet that can be seen as a free private multicurrency offshore bank account.
2019-1-21 16:17 | |
|
|
Over the last two years, as cryptocurrencies gained mainstream attention, scammers have become far more prevalent. One particular social media scam that can be found on prominent websites like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram is the impersonation of well-known crypto industry executives and blockchain luminaries.
2019-1-15 22:12 | |
|
|
A failed attempt to illicitly gain Bitcoin ultimately netted attackers just $70 when they compromised Cricket South Africa’s Twitter account
2019-1-14 10:47 | |
|
|
Scammers took over the account of a Belgian non-profit, transforming it into a “Coinbase promotion account” and posting a scam BTC giveaway
2019-1-10 05:00 | |
|
|
A short-lived scam that promised to improve blockchain scalability emerged yesterday. ERC-20 Blue, which attempted to lure in Ethereum enthusiasts, was announced on a fake Medium blog that briefly posed as the Ethereum Foundation.
2019-1-6 00:24 | |
|
|
Phishing scams are nothing new, but it’s certainly unusual to see them show up in your Twitter timeline as a promoted tweet. Nevertheless, earlier this evening, I came across this promoted post from the (since deleted) account @PaypalChristm.
2019-1-2 21:31 | |
|
|
American retail behemoth Target has come out to clarify that a tweet it posted, containing a link to a Bitcoin giveaway scam, came from a third-party software provider – not Twitter. In an email to Hard Fork, a company spokesperson said – contrary to what it suggested previously – Target’s Twitter account was never inappropriately accessed.
2018-11-15 14:12 | |
|
|
Twitter has been on the losing side of an ongoing battle with scammers who are leveraging the platform’s user base to steal cryptocurrencies. However, the company has revealed that it’s implemented some safeguards in an attempt to reduce the frequency of such scams and better protect its users.
2018-11-15 01:00 | |
|
|
In what is becoming an emerging trend, Twitter accounts of popular brands are being hacked in an attempt to scam unsuspecting users out of their cryptocurrencies. Target and Google are two high profile targets that have seen their accounts taken over by hackers who, in turn, have used them to scam followers by advertising fraudulent crypto giveaways.
2018-11-15 23:40 | |
|
|
Anonymous hackers have targeted the profile to make it claim that G Suite accepts BTC and would award 10,000 Bitcoins in a giveaway event.
2018-11-14 21:42 | |
|
|
What started as a landmark moment for an upstart AI-centric crypto project quickly descended into one of the more baffling incidents in hackathon history. A project called GSD, a recent winner of the $100K prize for first place at the Bags Hackathon, which took place just days ago, has been now accused of purposely pulling [...]
Bitcoin Magazine U. S. Government Seizes Over $580 Million in Crypto Linked to Southeast Asian Scams U. S. authorities have seized over $580 million in cryptocurrency linked to Southeast Asian “pig butchering” scams.
Crypto transfers tied to suspected human trafficking networks surged 85% year over year in 2025, according to Chainalysis. Related Reading: Bitcoin’s Fall Forces Crypto Lender BlockFills To Halt Withdrawals – Here’s Why Reports say the total volume reached hundreds of millions of dollars across services that investigators have linked to forced labor operations, prostitution rings, […]
According to PeckShield, losses from crypto hacks dropped by about 60% in December, slipping to roughly $76 million from about $194 million in November. Related Reading: Global Crypto Reporting Expands As 48 Countries Prep For CARF 2027 That sharp month-to-month decline was driven by fewer large-scale heists, but the damage that did occur was still […]
Сообщение URGENT! MEXC crypto exchange scams trader for $9m появились сначала на Coinstelegram.
Сообщение Crypto Casino Founder Richard Kim Arrested for Misappropriating $7 Million in Investor Funds появились сначала на Coinstelegram.
Scammers are taking advantage of the recent Bybit hack to target Binance users. They are sending fake SMS messages that appear to come from Binance, tricking people into thinking their accounts are at risk.