Category: Scammers
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Crypto scammers steal $1.2M from UK residents using fake police reports
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The codes stole more than a million British pounds ($ 1.2 million) from nine population in Kent, England, after reaching their personal information from modern data leakage. On the first of March, the police urged the residents to be vigilant against attempts to fraud in the encrypted currency. Poor actors…
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Crypto Scammers Hijack India’s Supreme Court YouTube Channel
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Image: Cointelegraph In a worrying incident that underscores the continued vulnerability of online platforms to hacking, the official YouTube channel of the Supreme Court of India was recently hacked by cryptocurrency scammers. The hackers took control of the prominent channel to promote a fraudulent investment scheme involving the digital asset…
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Crypto Scammers Hijack India’s Supreme Court YouTube Channel
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Image: Cointelegraph In a worrying incident that underscores the continued vulnerability of online platforms to hacking, the official YouTube channel of the Supreme Court of India was recently hacked by cryptocurrency scammers. The hackers took control of the prominent channel to promote a fraudulent investment scheme involving the digital asset…
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Decentraland’s X account hacked, scammers push fake MANA airdrop
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The X account of virtual reality-focused project Decentraland was hacked earlier today to promote phishing links. According to a PeckSheild alert, crypto scammers took over the Decentraland X account on September 19 to promote a fake airdrop of its native token MANA, which eventually turned into a phishing campaign targeting…
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Scammers prey on young Chinese desperate for jobs in bleak economy By Reuters
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By Ethan Wang and Ryan Wu BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese mother has taken to television to demand justice for her 19-year-old mentally disabled son after con artists tricked the desperate job seeker into having breast enlargement surgery in an incident that sparked widespread outrage. The teenager, who was hoping…
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Crypto scammers stole nearly $60m from 20 victims in H1 2024, data shows
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Phishing scammers have made over $300 million through EVM chains by targeting around 260,000 victims, according to data compiled by Scam Sniffer. The first half of 2024 was another lucrative period for phishing scammers as they stole $314 million worth of cryptocurrencies, a 6.44% increase compared to 2023, according to…
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Crypto scammers stole nearly $60m from 20 victims in H1 2024, data shows
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Phishing scammers have made over $300 million through EVM chains by targeting around 260,000 victims, according to data compiled by Scam Sniffer. The first half of 2024 was another lucrative period for phishing scammers as they stole $314 million worth of cryptocurrencies, a 6.44% increase compared to 2023, according to…
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Tether froze $5.2m USDT from suspected scammers
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Tether, the stablecoin issuer, has frozen about $5.2 million on addresses believed to be operated by scammers. Blockchain Analytics Store SlowMist mentioned 12 Ethereum addresses with deactivated Tether (USDT) holdings were involved in the freeze. Each wallet was labeled as a “blocked USDT address,” and a security researcher at SlowMist…