Scams News
Bitcoin.org Hacked and Promotes ‘Double Your Bitcoin’ Scam
Educational content platform Bitcoin.org has suffered a security breach and ended up in the hands of unidentified attackers who started prom...
Aussie Wunderkind Sentenced to 7 Years for Crypto Ponzi Scheme
Stefan He Qin, the Australian man who pleaded guilty to securities fraud totalling more than US$50 million, has been sentenced in a New York...
Fake News Alert: Litecoin Surges on Walmart Adoption Hoax
We can now officially add “fake news” to a growing list of crypto scams after a bogus press release went out on September 13 cla...
14 Arrests Made Following $5 Million Crypto Investment Scam
An old-fashioned honey trap has led to more than 100 victims becoming ensnared in a crypto investment scam that relieved them of almost US$5...
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...
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...