Crypto Scam Victims Can Recover Their Funds With MetaMask, Asset Reality Mech...
Crypto scam victims can now heave a sigh of relief. Popular crypto wallet MetaMask has recently partnered with Asset Reality, a London-based specialist in digital asset scam investigations and recovery, to facilitate helping scam victims with getting back their stolen crypto assets. According to MetaMask, the collaboration with Asset Reality is “an industry-first approach in improving […]
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The U.K. police have returned over $5.4 million to victims of an international cryptocurrency scam. The police say that almost $10 million more will be returned to victims. So far, 127 more people have filed a claim to recoup their investments.
Police Return Funds to Crypto Scam Victims
The U.K.’s Greater Manchester Police (GMP) announced Friday that about $5.4 million of the funds seized from an international cryptocurrency scam rumbled by its police officers in July last year have been returned to rightful owners. The announcement details:
Over four million pounds....
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is refunding about 8,000 victims who lost money from investing in two bitcoin scams. The fraudulent schemes promised that investors could turn their cryptocurrency payments of about $100 into $80,000 in monthly income. Bitcoin Pyramid Schemes’ Victims Get Refunds The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has started sending refunds to victims of two cryptocurrency investment scams: Bitcoin Funding Team and My7network. According to an announcement by the FTC on Wednesday, the two schemes “falsely promised that participants could earn large amounts of....
Blockchain security firm Halborn has warned users of the latest phishing emails doing the rounds. A cybersecurity firm has issued warnings over a new phishing campaign targeting users of the popular crypto wallet MetaMask.In a July 28 post written by Halborn's technical education specialist Luis Lubeck, the active phishing campaign used emails to target MetaMask users and trick them into giving out their passphrase. The firm analyzed scam emails it received in late July to warn users of the new scam. Halborn noted that at initial glance, the email looks authentic with a MetaMask header and....
Phishers are coming after MetaMask users in increasingly clever ways. Cyber Security firm CipherTrace has issued a warning after noting a surge in reports over the past 24 hours of users funds being stolen by a malicious Chrome browser extension posing as popular crypto wallet MetaMask.The warning was issued under the headline "ALERT: Malicious Crypto Browser Extension—Masked MetaMask" and reported the company had seen "an uptick of alerts and comments within the online cryptocurrency community of users’ funds being stolen."In response to online criticism that MetaMask is not doing enough....