All news on the topic: Scams and fraud

In 2024, cryptocurrency scams were responsible for receiving at least $9.9 billion on-chain, a figure that is expected to rise as we continue to identify more illicit addresses linked to fraud and scams in the upcoming months.

The cloned voice of Defence Minister Guido Crosetto was used in some calls demanding money to free kidnapped journalists.

Mehmet Aydın, the founder of a Turkish online Ponzi scheme who had been accused of embezzling money from thousands of people, was on Monday sentenced to 45,376 years and six months in prison

Andean Medjedovic is accused of exploiting DeFi protocols KyberSwap and Indexed Finance.

Prosecutors allege the duo requested funding for 34 fake jobs and pocketed the cash.

Blessings In No Time co-founders Marlon and Lashonda Moore have pled guilty to related criminal charges.

A Dublin woman has told how she was scammed out of €25,000 by a fraudster pretending to be Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin.

Online shopping fraud rose quickly to cost consumers more than £56 million last year, marking an increase of 20% in shopping scams.

Nigerian Okezie Bonaventure Ogbata admits to orchestrating a scheme that targeted over 400 elderly victims in the U.S., stealing millions through fake inheritance promises.

A scandal is brewing online involving Fortes, a company specializing in protection against DDoS attacks and other cyber threats.

Gennaro Lanza is a forex scammer who runs multiple companies to defraud consumers. His fraudulent enterprises primarily target EU and UK residents.

TitanTrade Binary Options has received allegations of being a scam. Find out if those allegations are true or not in this review.

Sophisticated social engineering and malware tactics hike crypto phishing scams on social media.

For years, Kwon allegedly directed a fraudulent crypto scheme that cost investors tens of billions.

Kuailian’s downfall: the controversy surrounding David Ruiz de León and the dangers of cryptocurrency investments.

How Vuyokazi Sangoni and Poovandaren Chetty Manipulated the Truth

The unit collaborates with global authorities to combat financial crime using blockchain forensics across billions in volume.

Two Malaysian scammers behind SingliWorld and TriumphFX have been jailed.

As a crypto guru, Sergey Gutsu appeared in Ukraine in 2018 when he realized the main thing — to a simple person eager to earn a lot quickly, you need to say what they want to hear.

Entrepreneur Adam Vincent Gilmer, born in Johannesburg, South Africa, immigrated to the US in 1989.

The New Ostap Bender of his time, Yehor Valerevich Alshevski (previously Evdakov) (Alshevsky), achieved success through the IRS and Kairos Technologies projects.

MSP Limited has garnered attention in the forex trading world, but not always for the right reasons.

The dealer who embezzled a billion from the military and is suspected of working for the FSB mistakenly thinks he is untouchable.

The owner of cryptocurrency exchanges Coinsbit, Qmall, and other platforms, Bohdan Prylepa, has been put on the wanted list in Ukraine due to suspicion of large-scale fraud and misappropriation of clients’ funds amounting to over a billion hryvnias.

The dealer who embezzled a billion from the military and is likely tied to the FSB falsely believes himself untouchable.