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scams
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A scammer loses 60 BTC to the Ledger implant exploit — stolen from a wallet already full of stolen funds
Chainalysis says a task-scam operator lost 60 BTC — over $4.9 million — after moving proceeds to Ledger wallets tied to compromised devices sold by Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis.
Brooklyn DA and FBI pull 241 sites and 112 servers out of a crypto scam aimed at Russian speakers — $300,000 recovered, no arrests
Brooklyn prosecutors and the FBI disrupted 241 websites and 112 servers tied to a crypto investment scam that targeted Russian speakers in the US and allegedly stole tens of millions, seizing about $300,000 so far.
China puts its scam-compound crackdown on screen — with figures only Beijing can vouch for
China's government released a two-hour, three-part documentary on Southeast Asian "pig butchering" scam compounds, touting figures of roughly 100,000 officers deployed and more than 50,000 nationals extradited home.
Secret Service Freezes $52.8M in Crypto Linked to Xinbi Telegram Scam Bazaar
Decrypt reports the U.S. Secret Service has frozen roughly $52.8 million in cryptocurrency tied to Xinbi, a Telegram-based marketplace linked to global online scams.
Robinhood Chain posts big week-one numbers — and its first scam-token warnings
Robinhood's crypto GM touted 17M transactions and $250M TVL a week into Robinhood Chain, as Relay Protocol warned of self-deleting scam tokens hitting buyers on the permissionless network.
SEC wins $5.5M default judgment against fake crypto platform NanoBit
A federal judge in Brooklyn entered a $5.5 million default judgment against NanoBit and five co-defendants over a fake crypto trading platform that the SEC says defrauded 18 investors of roughly $1 million.