Scams


Opinion

Was OneCoin’s Missing Cryptoqueen Murdered by Mobsters?

New documents may reveal Ruja Ignatova’s grim fate, and stand as a bleak warning for other crypto scammers.

Ruja Ignatova (OneCoin Corporation)

Finance

Robinhood’s Twitter Account Promotes Scam Token on Binance’s BNB Chain in Unauthorized Posts

Block explorer BscScan shows roughly $16,000 flowed into the promoted coin.

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Finance

Binance Named as Counterparty in FinCEN Order Against Bitzlato

Bitzlato is accused of laundering $700 million by U.S. authorities.

Las especulaciones recientes sobre el estado de Binance, el exchange de criptomonedas más importante del mundo, también golpearon la participación de mercado de su stablecoin. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Learn

6 Kinds of Crypto Scams and How to Avoid Them

Crypto hacks and exploits have cost people billions of dollars each year. Here’s how to make sure you’re not among them.

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Policy

Multimillion Euro Crypto Fraud Operation in Bulgaria, Cyprus and Serbia Busted

Authorities searched four call centers and 18 other places and arrested five people.

European authorities have busted a crypto fraud operation in Bulgaria, Cyprus and Serbia. (Shutterstock)

Web3

Web3 Builders Lose Dozens of High-Value NFTs in Back-to-Back Attacks

Nikhil Gopalani, COO of an NFT project owned by Nike, and CryptoNovo, a prominent NFT collector, lost NFTs estimated to have been worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to scammers.

CryptoNovo's recent activity via OpenSea (Screenshot)

Policy

SEC Pursues $45M Scam Based in Fake Blockchain Technology

The U.S. securities agency is going after the people behind what it says was a massive fraud stealing from tens of thousands of investors.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters in Washington, D.C.  (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Markets

Crypto Adds Unsavory Footnote to Dreadful 2022: Year of the Rug Pull

Fraudsters deployed over 117,000 scam tokens from January through Dec. 1, a 41% increase over the full 2021, according to study from Solidus Labs.

(Robert Levonyan/Unsplash)