
Fraud
Austrian bust $1.3M ‘crypto’ fraud; phishing scam targets Ledger
Police in Vienna busted the serial criminal exchanging fake cash for ‘crypto’ in what they dubbed Rip Deal 2.0; meanwhile,...
Nigeria nabs 800 Chinese, Filipinos, locals in ‘crypto’ scam
Nigeria’s EFCC arrested 150 Chinese, 40 Filipinos, and hundreds of Nigerians in a crackdown on a crypto romance scam ring...
Australia new task force targets digital asset ATMs
Australia’s financial crimes agency says criminals have been targeting ATMs to launder money and pledged to focus on other ‘crypto’...
RBI rolls out AI-based model to tackle digital frauds
The MuleHunter.AI model is expected to help banks deal with the issue of mule bank accounts, a typical tactic fraudsters...
Tether sweats as Celsius’s Alex Mashinsky pleads guilty to fraud
Celsius’s Alex Mashinsky pleaded guilty to one count of committing commodities fraud and one count of committing securities fraud—the fraud...
Is MicroStrategy now an unacceptable risk?
Tether is now embedded in the heart of the financial system, and Michael Saylor is taking a risk not just...