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Fake Banksy NFT Sells For A$465,000 Amid Suspicion the Artist’s Website Was Hacked
A British crypto art collector who paid almost half a million dollars for a non-existent NFT by graffiti artist Banksy was most likely the v...
Investors Lose $119 Million in Dogecoin Mining Scam
Another day, another scam in the crypto world. On this occasion, it was a bad actor that managed to rip off would-be investors in a Dogecoin...
Man Robbed of 16 Bitcoin Sues Young Thieves’ Parents
A man in the US has taken civil action against the parents of two young men in the UK for stealing 16 bitcoin (BTC) from him after the pair ...
Scam Alert: Fake OpenSea Support Staff Are Stealing Crypto and NFTs
OpenSea users are the latest victims in a phishing attack where scammers are posing as support staff in Discord to take over wallets and ste...
Investment Scams Increase 53% in Australia as Victims Lose Over $70 Million This Year
According to a report from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), Aussies have lost over A$70 million during the first h...
MetaMask Wallet Hacked for $10k by Deceptive Discord Member
Dallas2626 posted a sad but not uncommon story on Reddit this week about how he lost US$10,000 from his MetaMask wallet from a scammer in Di...
USB Stick With Ethereum Worth $9.5 Million Seized by UK Police
A bold scam has been foiled with the arrest of two shysters who ran a dodgy website and managed to con millions of dollars from victims arou...
Scam Alert: Aussies Beware of Fake Crypto Trading Websites
As the number of crypto scams continues to grow, Australians should be wary when entering certain fake crypto trading websites. Beware of Fa...
Fake Ronin Wallets Drain Users’ Funds
A number of fake Ronin wallets have been spotted circulating on the Google and Apple app stores. The fake wallets trick users into giving up...
Trojan Hits Australia’s Android Crypto Wallets
There’s a new malware spreading across Europe and Australia – a virus targeting Android devices to harvest login credentials for onl...
Melbourne Film Festival to Show $234 Million Bitcoin Scammer Documentary
You can’t take it with you – or can you? When Canadian crypto scammer Gerald Cotten died from complications of Crohn’s disease...
Influential Aussie Crypto Personality Remains Silent on Alleged Scam
A Twitter storm has erupted with Australian cryptocurrency influencer Alex Saunders at its centre, other investors alleging they’ve be...