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McDonald's 12 Year Monopoly Scam 🍟🎲

22 May 2025 1 minute read 4 comments TrevorBalthrop $0.14

The McDonald’s Monopoly Scam That Fooled America for 12 Years 🍟🎲 When millions of Americans peeled back Monopoly game pieces on McDonald’s fries and drinks, they thought they were one sticker away from becoming millionaires. The real shock? They ne...

The Woman Who Invented Ponzi Schemes BEFORE Ponzi! 🤑

16 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments TrevorBalthrop $0.21

The Woman Who Invented Ponzi Schemes BEFORE Ponzi! 🤑 YouTube Short Link 🔗 https://youtube.com/shorts/MoK0oCKvGXo?si=LtCTw6k3CczUOZq7   Before Charles Ponzi became synonymous with financial fraud, Sarah Howe pioneered the Ponzi scheme blueprint in...

WHAT HYPOCRISY! DeFi is Dangerous... But Banks Help Narcos Wash Billions??

30 Apr 2025 4 minute read 0 comments CryptoCopyBiker $0.14

Every time someone hears about DeFi, the same lazy narrative gets dragged out like it’s gospel: “It’s dangerous. It’s anonymous. It enables money laundering. It should be regulated harder!” And who’s usually saying this? Some clean-cut consultant o...

And hacking again! This time, the KiloEX crypto exchange suffered.

16 Apr 2025 1 minute read 1 comment Evtuoil $0.39

The exchange was hacked on the evening of April 14th! The attacker withdrew $7 million in cryptocurrencies from the decentralized platform using the "oracle attack". KiloEx, a decentralized perpetual futures exchange, offered the hacker who hacked it...

Simplifying Cyber Safety for Everyone with Sandra Estok

9 Apr 2025 1 minute read 1 comment Matthew Rosenquist $0.08

  Cybersecurity is not just a technical endeavor. Attackers often pursue people to either gain access to valuable systems or to directly victimize them. This includes companies, adults, and even children. In this episode of the Cybersecurity Vault I...

After Elon Musk's post, the Random 9 token grew by 750,000%, and then it collapsed again. Fraud?

26 Mar 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Evtuoil $0.07

Simultaneously with Elon Musk announcement about the name of his character in a popular game on the Ethereum network, a token of the same name was launched, which soared in price and almost immediately collapsed. The Random 9 cryptocurrency has grown...

The Biggest Cheats and Fraudsters In The Finance Industry

11 Feb 2025 5 minute read 3 comments SeventyFourSeventyFive $0.19

I wrote about some of these types of guys a few years ago, and thought I would revisit the topic.  While there have been some bad actors in the crypto world, fraud and theft has been around as long as humans have been on this earth. Here are a few th...

Hi, Can I Borrow Your Laptop for a Minute?

13 Oct 2024 5 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti $0.05

The below are what-ifs and simple things you can do to make your life a bit more protected with your computer, especially now with hacks waiting everywhere online. Not everyone is your friend, but not every one of these risks will happen either. Be s...

Mastercard jumps into Cyber security via acquisition

14 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk $0.21

Mastercard jumps into Cyber security via acquisition   Everyone here on 0x is familiar with Mastercard's push in Crypto services, now they are pushing into threat intel beyond the completed transaction. Mastercard is acquiring Recorded Future.   Not...

$5.6 Billion?!? One Could Run a Country on That!

10 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti $0.14

$5.6 billion.  That's how much money was separated from its rightful owners in cryptocurrency in 2023. The figure is almost double what was lost in 2022, the year before. And it's a pretty crazy number, if you think about it, since 2023 very much sti...