CryptoCurrency & Bitcoins Scams

With the new appearance of the electronic and profitable currencies, you decide to go online and try to purchase some bitcoins or any other cryptocurrency. You will get to a legit looking website that sells them and decide to buy them. Once you have paid them the money, they promise you will get the bitcoins transferred into your account, however this is all a hoax, and you will never receive them or you never receive your money back.

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This article is from Trend Micro. Have you received PayPal invoices about which you haven’t a clue? We’ve reported on fake PayPal invoice emails...
When the upgrade to the Ethereum network was announced, it was to be expected that scammers would create related phishing emails to try to trick...
We have in numerous instances discussed crypto investment scams aka Pig Butchering Scams that originate from China. It is a kind of scam where...
This article was first published by Financial Services and Markets Authority The FSMA warns consumers against fraudulent online platforms purportedly...
We recently received a request from the owner of Investfundsonline.com to have their business verified so that the site can be awarded a higher Trust...
This article is from Trend Micro. As more and more people get into cryptocurrency and NFT investment, the crypto scams keep on coming. Here’s what...
This article is from Trend Micro. Are you an avid Twitch user? If you are, you’ve most likely noticed the wave of scammers spamming streamers’ chats...
This article is from Trend Micro. Cybercriminals are always looking for new ways to scam people. According to the FTC, Americans lost $6.1 billion to...
This article is from Trend Micro. The cryptocurrency exchange platform, Uniswap, this week revealed a catastrophic phishing attack on its users, with...
Bitcoinmaniagame is a website that tries to position itself as a game of some sort that users can play to earn crypto coins. We observed that a lot...
This article is from Trend Micro. Although by and large cryptocurrencies haven’t had the best last couple of months, thepopularity of crypto is...
This article is from Trend Micro. For our crypto-investor friends out there, it’s important to keep tabs on crypto-scammers’activities too — with...

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