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Phishing victim sends eye-watering $4.5M in USDT to scammer

An unwitting cryptocurrency holder has reportedly fallen victim to an eye-watering $4.46 million phishing scam. According to data from Etherscan, $4.46 million in Tether (USDT) was withdrawn from a Kraken crypto exchange wallet and eventually sent to an address ending “ACa7.”Blockchain security firm PeckShield, has labeled the address as being

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Breaking victim ‘trust’ in scammer is key to beat crypto scams, exchanges say

Cryptocurrency exchanges in Australia have been increasingly communicating with their users as part of preventative measures for scams. According to local crypto firms, such communication is the key to preventing scams as it is able to “break trust” between victims and scammers.Executives at major Australian crypto firms like Cointree, CoinSpot

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Zero Transfer scammer steals $20M USDT, gets blacklisted by Tether

A scammer using zero transfer phishing attack managed to steal $20 million worth of USDT stablecoin on Aug. 1, before getting blacklisted by the stablecoin issuer Tether.According to an update from on-chain analytic firm Peckshield, A zero transfer scammer grabbed 20 million USDT from the victim address 0x4071...9Cbc. The intended

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Binance sends cease and desist notice to Nigerian scammer entity

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has announced that Binance has officially issued a cease and desist notice to the fraudulent entity known as Binance Nigeria Limited. On Sunday, June 18, Zhao took to Twitter to make the announcement. On June 9, the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released a circular stating the illegality of

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Notorious Monkey Drainer crypto scammer says they’re ‘shutting down’

The cryptocurrency phishing scammer behind some of the most high-profile and high-value Web3 thefts is claiming to have packed up shop and is “moving on to something better.”The scammer by the pseudonym Monkey Drainer posted to their Telegram channel on Mar. 1 that they “will be shutting down immediately” and

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FBI seizes $100K in NFTs from scammer following ZachXBT investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has seized two non-fungible tokens (NFTs) worth more than $100,000 and 86.5 Ether (ETH) from a reported phishing scammer. The alleged scammer in question, Chase Senecal — known as Horror (HZ) online — was initially exposed via a lengthy investigation by independent blockchain sleuth

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