Category: Scams
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The Great Reset and accredited investors: Bad crypto news of the week
Check out this week’s Bad Crypto podcast.
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Australian racing groups probe firm allegedly involved in OneCoin
Phoenix Thoroughbreds may need to wait before racing again.
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Ministers used influence to pilfer millions in alleged Ponzi Scheme
They even wrote a self-help book about becoming a millionaire. Sounds like that may need to be updated.
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Whistleblower Kidnapped in Ukraine After Accusing Crypto Firm of Exit Scam
The harrowing incident highlights the proliferation of risky investment schemes and dubious operators in the crypto industry, but also blockchain technology’s potential to help track missing funds.
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YouTube’s Whac-a-Mole Approach to Crypto Scam Ads Remains a Problem
Despite lawsuits and Google’s own ad policies, cryptocurrency scam ads are still making it through the YouTube gates and circulating for days.
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Darknet marketplace “Empire” exit scams with $30 million in Bitcoin
A big marketplace known for selling illicit and illegal products on the dark web has reportedly exit-scammed with over $30 million in Bitcoin, as per reports. Bitcoin, gone Marketplaces on the dark web — the part of the internet untraceable by search engines like Google and run by largely anonymous server owners — have long…
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Waterloo residents have lost $430K to crypto scams this year
Bitcoin scammers have thus far proven to be unstoppable in Canada.
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P2P Cryptocurrency Exchanges in Africa Pivot: Nigeria and Kenya the Target Markets
Leading cryptocurrency exchanges are bullish about Africa’s growth prospects as evidenced by their ongoing forays into the continent. During the month of August, Kucoin crypto exchange announced the addition of Nigeria’s naira currency as a payment option on its peer-to-peer platform. Similarly, Binance added Kenya’s popular mobile money service Mpesa to its peer-to-peer platform in…
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Pulling the rug: DeFi investment hype fuels rise in crypto exit scams
Rogue actors are swarming Uniswap with fake tokens designed to capitalize on the growing DeFi hype to defraud investors.
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Google busts firm running a $1.2 million Bitcoin scam
Tech giant Google rescinded the license of a Philippines business running a scam involving Bitcoin and gift cards over the weekend, according to local reports. Bitcoin scam, busted A Cebu-based call center business, Sykes, was confirmed by Google to have its partnership license revoked after a few employees were caught running a gift card scheme…