According to the Chainalysis 2026 Crypto Crime Report, addresses linked to crypto scams received at least USD 14 billion ...

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Crypto crime reached a record level in 2025. TRM Labs estimates that illicit wallets received $158 billion, up from $64.5 ...

Investment fraud led to losses of $7.2 billion, making 2025 the worst year on record. The FBI urges immediate reporting and warns about recovery scams. United States citizens lost $11.36 billion to ...

Crypto fraud has become one of the fastest-growing financial threats in the U.S. According to Federal Trade Commission data, last year alone, Americans lost billions to scams, from fake investment ...

A new mail fraud scheme is targeting cryptocurrency holders with convincing, IRS-style notices and a fake "compliance portal" designed to steal sensitive financial information. The scam uses ...

Elastic Security Labs says a multi-step social engineering scam is aimed at those in crypto and finance, using a community plugin feature on a note-taking app to spread malicious device-controlling ...

Crypto risk management is the set of choices investors make to limit how much money they risk losing when they buy cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency, or crypto for short, is a digital currency that ...

Spread the loveIf you’ve been watching the crypto space, you’ve probably noticed a disturbing trend: the sheer volume of ...

Last fall, a 74-year-old widowed, retired teacher from Douglassville lost $16,000 after a caller claiming to be from the Social Security Administration said the teacher’s bank accounts had been ...

Microsoft's X account was hijacked to promote a crypto pump-and-dump scheme, exposing its more than 13 million followers to a scam campaign.