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US prosecutors say Chen Zhi ran Cambodian forced-labor compounds where trafficked workers were made to run romance-investment cons. Here is how the scheme works — and how to spot it.
A compromised Safe{Wallet} developer machine let attackers rewrite a transaction after it left the screen. Bybit's signers approved what they saw, not what they actually signed.
It carried a five-star review and a copied description. Victims typed in their 24-word seed phrase, and their wallets emptied in minutes — and the same trick keeps clearing store review.
A phishing kit rented to affiliates for a cut of every theft faked its own retirement in 2023 — then came back bigger. The whole attack is one signature you can learn to withhold.
Hijacked YouTube channels rebrand as Tesla or SpaceX, loop an AI Musk, and tell you to scan a QR code to double your crypto. One DFRLab-tracked stream took $50,537 before takedown.
The exchange froze customer withdrawals on Nov 8, 2022 and filed for Chapter 11 three days later. The same sequence recurs at every insolvent exchange — learn to read it early.
A fake Google and Gemini support call drained more than 4,100 BTC from one Genesis creditor. Public tracing by ZachXBT and collaborators helped turn it into a federal RICO case.
In May 2024, a single copy from a transaction history sent 1,155 WBTC — about $68 million — to a stranger who had seeded a near-identical address. Here's how the trap works, and the rule that defeats it.
Fraudsters posing as lawyers and 'recovery agents' target people who already lost money to crypto scams, charging upfront fees to return funds that never come back. The FBI's IC3 has warned twice.
The FBI's IC3 counted $11.3 billion in reported U.S. crypto losses for 2025; Chainalysis puts illicit on-chain value at $154 billion. Here is what those figures mean, and why they run low.
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