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A Texas county has reached a settlement in a lawsuit involving the wrongful seizure of $15,000 from a Bitcoin ATM operated by Lux Vending, known as Bitcoin Depot. The lawsuit was dismissed after the county acknowledged the funds were unlawfully taken due to a scam targeting an 82-year-old woman in C ...

"Did Binance Accidentally Facilitate a Scam? $240,000 Sent to Suspected Phishing Address A recent Etherscan transaction, spotlighted by blockchain security firm PeckShield, has revealed that Binance's "Hot Wallet 7" transferred a substantial $240,000 worth of USDC to an address ominously l ...

According to Solidus Labs, a New York-based company specializing in monitoring suspicious cryptocurrency transactions, more than 500 fraudulent meme coins were launched on Coinbase's Base network between mid-July and August. The fraudulent tokens generated about $3.7 million in trading v ...

Analytics company  Scam Sniffer reports that malware vendor Inferno Drainer is allegedly linked to thousands of millions of dollars worth of crypto-assets theft. Scam Sniffer experts conducted an in-depth analysis of blockchain records outside and inside the networks of E ...

Another gullible Russian woman fell into the trap of crypto fraudsters - 31-year-old resident of Omsk transferred over 1 million rubles to a "platform for earning money on mining. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Omsk region, a criminal case wa ...

Popular cryptoanalyst warned Twitter audiences against overly emotional investing in meme tokens, which could eventually devalue. Benjamin Cowen believes there are too many illiquid and simply fraudulent meme tokens on the market: "The people who create these meme- ...

Most owners of BTC and other cryptocurrency will probably not be able to say how much of it they have with the accuracy of "to the satoshi. That's why they can fall prey to scammers. What is crypto-dust "Crypto-dust" refers to a small amount of ...

ZachXBT, a well-known researcher in the world of cryptocurrency, has made a shocking revelation. According to their recent findings, an individual has been issuing numerous fraudulent "meme tokens" from a particular address over the last 45 days. The wallet in question is 0x739c58807B99Cb274f6 ...

The TikTok platform has seen an astonishing 6 billion views of videos with a cryptocurrency theme. However, a new study has revealed that not all "crypto influencers" on the platform have the best interests of investors in mind. Analysis conducted by dappGambl of 1,161 videos featuring the has ...

The Kursk regional police are currently on the hunt for individuals who scammed a local resident out of 1,290,000 rubles by posing as cryptocurrency investors. The victim, a 43-year-old man, fell prey to a standard fraud scheme when he responded to an online advertisement promising huge profits t ...

In the Krasnodar Territory, a cryptocurrency investor was recently scammed out of 17 million rubles. The woman was trying to sell her USDT tokens when she posted an ad on social media offering to sell them for 196,500 euros. Two buyers from Kazan agreed to the deal and handed over the money to ...

In the Kemerovo Region of Russia, a woman residing in Novokuznetsk has fallen prey to a fraudulent scheme involving cryptocurrency. Despite being an economist herself, the 54-year-old victim took out loans and mortgaged her apartment to invest 6.7 million rubles in what she thought was a reliable ...

Two Brazilian football players were lured into a crypto scam promising a monthly income of 5%. In May of last year, Mayke of Palmeiras Football Club and Gustavo Scarpa of Nottingham Forest invested around R$11 million ($2 million) in WLJC, a company claiming to provide consulting services and inv ...

The Hoggpool project has been accused of committing a crypto fraud of $615,000 by Egyptian police. Authorities have taken into custody 29 individuals who were involved in the distribution of the mobile application, which was designed to attract investors in cryptocurrencies. According to the p ...