After a banner year for people being fleeced out of their cryptocurrency, 2026 started with major news of new hacks, scams, ...

Cryptocurrency holders lost an estimated $17 billion to scams and fraud in 2025 as impersonation schemes and AI-enabled ...

Online observers noted that the sudden collapse bore the hallmarks of what is known as a “rug pull” — similar to a ...

Research by Chainalysis reveals that AI-powered impersonation tactics have exploded by an unprecedented 1,400% year-over-year ...

A new report by Chainalysis finds that AI-enabled crypto scams are more efficient, profitable, and harder to stop.

Russian organizers of financial pyramid schemes are now often pretending to be brokers offering victims to earn money on investments in crypto and traditional ...

Less than an hour after its launch, Adams' $NYC Token appeared to have lost most of its value in what some are calling a rug ...

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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 ...

U.S. digital investment advisor Betterment confirmed that hackers breached its systems and sent fake crypto-related messages ...

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Nigeria's SEC seeks police support to intensify its clampdown on Ponzi schemes, crypto scams, and other investment fraud to ...