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How the SEC Plans to Ramp Up its Anti-Crypto Scam Efforts
How the SEC Plans to Ramp Up its Anti-Crypto Scam Efforts
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is hiring 20 new enforcement staff for a unit that protects investors from crypto scams, focusing on NFTs, decentralized fina...
How the SEC Plans to Ramp Up its Anti-Crypto Scam Efforts

New York Man Arrested for Alleged $1.8M Crypto Mining Scam
New York Man Arrested for Alleged $1.8M Crypto Mining Scam
CoinDesk U.S. Regulatory Reporter Cheyenne Ligon discusses a recent arrest made by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of 37-year-old Chester “Chet” Stojanovich for an alleged...
New York Man Arrested for Alleged $1.8M Crypto Mining Scam

Netflix’s ‘Crypto King’ Brings QuadrigaCX Story to the Mainstream
Netflix’s ‘Crypto King’ Brings QuadrigaCX Story to the Mainstream
Netflix is set to release a new documentary titled “Crypto King,” which investigates the infamous story of Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX and its founder Gerald Cotten. “...
Netflix’s ‘Crypto King’ Brings QuadrigaCX Story to the Mainstream

How to Avoid NFT Scams
How to Avoid NFT Scams
As the world of NFTs continues to explode, so does the risk of scams. In this episode of “Community Crypto,” EmpireDAO founder Mike Fraietta discusses the most common NFT scam...
How to Avoid NFT Scams

Wonderland Rattled After Co-Founder Tied to Failed QuadrigaCX Exchange
Wonderland Rattled After Co-Founder Tied to Failed QuadrigaCX Exchange
Wonderland’s TIME tokens fell 32% Thursday after blockchain sleuths revealed “Sifu,” a core member of the founding team, is an alleged long-time serial scammer. With a convict...
Wonderland Rattled After Co-Founder Tied to Failed QuadrigaCX Exchange

Is Crypto a Ponzi Scheme?
Is Crypto a Ponzi Scheme?
In December, Robert McCauley, an economist at Boston University, wrote an op-ed stating, “Bitcoin is worse than a Madoff-style Ponzi scheme.” “The Hash” group breaks down the...
Is Crypto a Ponzi Scheme?

Chainalysis: DeFi ‘Rug Pull’ Scams Pulled in $2.8B This Year
Chainalysis: DeFi ‘Rug Pull’ Scams Pulled in $2.8B This Year
Crypto investors in 2021 lost over $2.8 billion to “rug pulls,” a colloquial term for a type of crypto scam, according to Chainalysis. This year, the rise in scams reportedly...
Chainalysis: DeFi ‘Rug Pull’ Scams Pulled in $2.8B This Year

Metamask, Phantom Wallet Users Reportedly Targeted in Crypto Phishing Scam
Metamask, Phantom Wallet Users Reportedly Targeted in Crypto Phishing Scam
Users of crypto wallets MetaMask and Phantom, as well as the crypto swap platform PancakeSwap, have been targeted in a crypto phishing scam involving Google Ads and at least h...
Metamask, Phantom Wallet Users Reportedly Targeted in Crypto Phishing Scam

Bitcoin.org Website Went Dark After Being Hacked From Apparent Giveaway Scam
Bitcoin.org Website Went Dark After Being Hacked From Apparent Giveaway Scam
The website for Bitcoin.org, an open-source project that aims to support Bitcoin development, went dark early Thursday after being the victim of an attack claiming it would do...
Bitcoin.org Website Went Dark After Being Hacked From Apparent Giveaway Scam

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British Man Arrested in Connection With Last Year’s Massive Twitter Hack
Twenty-two-year-old Joseph O’Conner is the fourth person to be arrested in connection with the crypto phishing scheme
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