Fighting the war on bitcoin, one scam at a time
Before Forbes decided to take the Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts public, it was perhaps the Atlantis Market that was stealing the illicit marketplace spotlight. That's because it decided to market its site via a very public way to help potential users understand it benefits. Yet it is amazing that a site could be so brazen about offering illegal goods such as marijuana, cocaine and stolen items. The Atlantis scam. In what could be an even more brazen move is how Atlantis has now closed, and has defiantly decided not to refund its customers, ultimately branding it as a complete scam.....
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With a Court in Manhattan sentencing a Bitcoin scammer to one and half years in prison, experts say it is a move in the right direction and would instill a higher level of sanity within the digital currency ecosystem. Several schemes surrounding the crypto world has taken advantage of the growth in awareness of digital currency to defraud unsuspecting individuals. With many self-acclaimed investment opportunities littering the internet, cases of scam and Ponzi schemes have become a common occurrence in recent times. OneFxZone and HashOcean are two of such schemes that have been uncovered....
A class-action lawsuit has reportedly been filed against a cryptocurrency scam that has duped many Indian investors. The scam, promoted in three Indian languages, lures investors by promising up to 900% return on investments. The Delhi court has directed a notice to be placed in major newspapers, seeking victims of this scam to come forward. Class-Action Lawsuit to Stop a Crypto Scam in India A representative lawsuit has reportedly been filed in order to stop a cryptocurrency scam from continuing to dupe Indian investors. The Delhi court last week directed a notice to be published in....
Amid bank freezes and ATM overruns, one Ukrainian escaped with his wealth in bitcoin and is now fighting Russia on his own terms.
A senior student at Shanghai’s Tongji University fell victim to an NFT scam, losing around $548,000 after his non-fungible token was stolen through a phishing scam. The NFT artwork which Niq Chen bought from the well-known Doodles Collectible NFT project entitled “LuckyCot 3D,” made up roughly half the value of his entire NFT assets, he […]
CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zao has alerted users about a massive SMS phishing scam that is targeted towards Binance users. The scam of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange platform is redirecting users to a malicious website to harvest credentials. Changpeng Zhao tweeted on Friday There is a massive Phishing scam via SMS with a link […]