
Scam
DOJ nets $112M from fraudsters dabbling in pig butchering scam
Amid turbulence in the digital assets market, fraudulent activities like pig butchering scams continue to proliferate, with the U.S. DOJ...
State regulators sound alarm on investment platform using AI to mislead US investors
Yieldbot promises mouth-watering profits for investors, but U.S. authorities warned that the dApp works in similar fashion as a Ponzi...
Kokomo Finance developers pull off $4M exit scam days after launch: report
Kokomo developers used cBTC—wrapped BTC on Ethereum—to allegedly exploit the platform through a malicious contract: they have taken down all...
Titanium Blockchain CEO gets 4-year prison time over $21M ICO scam
Michael Stollery pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud in 2022 in a case spearheaded by the DoJ, the...
Terra founder Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro
Do Kwon was arrested boarding a flight to Dubai with a second suspect, with forged Belgian and Costa Rican passports;...
Jack Dorsey’s Block ‘facilitates fraud, misleads investors’—Hindenburg report
On March 23, Hindenburg Research issued a lengthy report on how "inflated user metrics and 'frictionless' fraud facilitation enabled [Block]...