Tinder Crypto Scammers: On Emotional Manipulation And Taking The Love Bait
Got bitten by the love bug? Crypto scammers on Tinder surely know how to pull the right emotional strings to crack open your crypto wallets. They have been using emotional manipulation and sweet nothings to target singles in the famous dating app and they’re getting good at it day by day. Suggested Reading | How […]
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Disappointing financial results have seen Tinder lay off its current CEO, slash funding to metaverse development and ditch plans for its digital currency, Tinder Coins. Match Group, the parent company of popular dating app Tinder, says it is cutting funding for Web3-related research and development amid disappointing Q2 earnings and the departure of Tinder’s current CEO. In a letter to shareholders on Tuesday, Match Group CEO Bernard Kim revealed that it will be scaling back its metaverse investments as well as scrapping plans to release an in-app digital currency called Tinder Coins.The....
Crypto scammers have been busy making millions at the cost of iPhone users who were merely looking for romance on dating apps. Wherever there is great profit, fraud comes to trick its way into a promised land. The increase of scammers has been widely reported this year. They are a real danger for cryptocurrency users. […]
As the crypto community notices and calls out such scams, the fraudsters tend to turn off replies to their tweets to prevent being exposed as scammers. Cybersecurity experts identified and disclosed the rising popularity of airdrop phishing among crypto and nonfungible token (NFT) scammers.Airdrops serve as an essential marketing tool for crypto projects, which involves sending free cryptocurrency tokens or NFTs to promote awareness among investors. However, a new report released by Malwarebytes Labs highlighted an alarming rise in airdrop phishing attempts as scammers try to cash in on....
Crypto scams have been on the rise with the bull rally but scammers have found another medium to perpetuate their scams. YouTube has always been an effective marketing and influencing tool in the space, which is why it is sometimes a prime target for scammers. This time around, scammers have found another way to separate […]