In 2022, after Nivie Kaul lost more than $8 million in a cryptocurrency scam, she embarked on a quest to unmask the criminals ...

Pig butchering, address poisoning and AI deepfakes are just a few of the tricks scammers have up their sleeves.

Owen Simonin is sounding the alarm. The founder and CEO of French crypto platform Meria — better known online as Hasheur — says fraudulent calls targeting ...

San Diego looks to stop scams involving cryptocurrency ATMs by posting warning signs above or near the kiosks.

More than 110 of these machines are located in grocery, liquor, and convenience stores across San Diego.

One of the largest cryptocurrency thefts from a single victim did not require breaking Bitcoin's cryptography. Stolen data, a ...

Texans lost more than $1 billion to scams involving cryptocurrency in 2025, according to the FBI, second only to California in the amount siphoned away by fraudsters. Scams using crypto often involve ...

San Diego may soon be the first city in California to target a new kind of financial scam where criminals persuade victims – ...

WaterPlum used a fake recruitment crypto scam to infect 30,000 devices and steal data from over 7,000 crypto wallets.

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The teacher was not trying to invest in cryptocurrency. There was no bad bet on Bitcoin and no market crash. The crypto kiosk was simply the point where cash became an irreversible payment to a ...

Regardless of the currency type, scams can come in similar forms, but scams involving cryptocurrency become close to untraceable.