Scam Alert
Apple’s App Store promoted fake Bitcoin wallet that stole $1.8M after developer spent a year warning them
Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is facing renewed scrutiny after three Bitcoin holders alleged they lost $1.8 million to a...
Two Ethereum bridges lose $31.7M within hours as third protocol halts staking
AFX and the Verus-Ethereum bridge suffered about $31.69 million in combined losses within hours of each other, while B² Network...
US targets $26.4 million in five crypto scam cases as DOJ says $800 million recovered
U.S. prosecutors filed five civil-forfeiture complaints on July 21 seeking roughly $26.4 million in cryptocurrency traced through separate international fraud...
380 investors face Bitcoin mining losses after alleged $22M US scheme put just 13% into mining
A US-based crypto mining venture raised about $22 million from more than 380 investors, then spent just 13 cents of...
Crypto investor charged with using 8 companies and new investor cash to keep an alleged $20M fraud alive
Federal prosecutors say Sioux Falls crypto investor Benjamin Paul Wiener used eight entities in an alleged fraud and money-laundering scheme,...
Crypto malware in 8 Steam games steals tokens after leaving trail to Uber Eats deliveries
The FBI is seeking potential victims who downloaded eight games named in its Steam malware investigation, a case that shows...
Robinhood Chain tokens are reportedly vanishing from wallets causing buyers to lose funds
Cross-chain transaction protocol Relay has claimed that buyers on Robinhood Chain, Robinhood's permissionless Ethereum Layer 2, lost money after tokens...
One crypto wallet tied to a 20-year-old fraudster processed over $122M before Interpol closed in
Interpol said a crypto wallet linked to a 20-year-old fraud suspect processed more than $122.5 million over 10 months.Police in...
Why Bitcoin ATMs are becoming the last stop in America’s $11B crypto scam pipeline
Crypto scams start online with a fake bank alert, a cloned voice, a romance message, or a tech-support pop-up. Then,...
How to Stay Safe Before You Hit Send
Some of the costliest crypto scams never touch the blockchain. They wait for you to make one wrong move, and...
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