Scammers used a fake Gemini AI chatbot to promote a bogus Google Coin presale, signaling a rise in AI-driven crypto impersonation fraud.

US federal agents in North Carolina have seized over $61 million in Tether linked to a pig butchering crypto investment scam.

Joe Novak vividly remembers the day he first made contact with a stranger on Facebook—October 8, 2024. When he accepted a friend request from a woman he did not know, Novak never suspected that just a ...

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams warns about scam ads after a trader lost mid six figures in a fake search result phishing attack.

2025 was a banner year for cryptocurrencies on many fronts. Global regulation eased. Stablecoins powered $46 trillion in annual transactions. And major shifts in U.S. government policy spurred wider ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A grocery store probably isn’t where you’d envision seeing the work of a Secret Service agent, but Special Agent Morgan Morgan is on a mission to deliver a message. “We are in the ...

Crypto security experts said a good way to counter scams that rely on deceiving victims is to be skeptical of every unsolicited message and interaction. Scammers and fraudsters increasingly used ...

NFT and crypto scams: What is a rug pull? At best, most Americans are skeptical about cryptocurrency (Pew recently reported that 63% of Americans have little confidence in crypto’s reliability and ...

Crypto press releases amplify market manipulation risk amid paid placements, hype cycles, and alleged article takedowns.

A new report from Chainalysis, a blockchain data platform based in New York City, estimates that $17 billion in crypto was stolen last year through fraud and scams. Impersonation scams, where ...