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Justin Bons claims HEX is a Scam

25 Sep 2022 1 minute read 2 comments Yugocean

     Justin Bons, the founder and CIO of European crypto fund "Cyber Capital",  claims HEX is a scam that is designed to enrich its founder (Richard Heart) through "Ponzinomics".      In his support, Justin has argued that HEX does not generate its...

Dropil Crypto Scam Cost Customers $1.9 million Project Leads Get 3 years in Prison

16 Sep 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Strictsum

Originally written for Unusually Interesting. Crypto scammers, Jeremy David McAlpine & Zachary Michael Matar from investment management service Dropil, lied to their customers and federal regulators about the return on investment they expected. Crypt...

What is a Rug Pull Scheme?

10 Sep 2022 4 minute read 0 comments MintDice.com

The cryptocurrency world is riddled with scams, some of which are a very specific sort of scam known as a rug pull scheme. But just what is a rug pull scheme? And how can you spot one? Read on to find out. What is a Rug Pull Scheme? A rug pull sche...

Florida man pleads guilty for taking part of $100M Ponzi Scam

9 Sep 2022 1 minute read 2 comments Patch

Finally, we are looking like we are making some headway against all these scammers. Hopefully, this will be one of the first or many more convictions like this to come. Then finally we might see a trend reversal among these types of scams. Florida m...

Update For The Article "Top 5 Biggest Scams In The Crypto World"

9 Sep 2022 3 minute read 2 comments Neo77

The arrest of Faruk Fatih Özer and fraud through the Thodex exchange   Google is the source of the pictures  Hello, my dear readers and faithful followers. Today, as the very title of the article says, we will write a short update of the previous ar...

Avoid getting Scammed again with the best ways to Avoid NFT Rug Pulls

30 Aug 2022 2 minute read 1 comment TheNiftyRevolution

  Over the past few months, NFT rug pulls have been a popular way of scamming people out of their money. Here are 7 ways to avoid rug pulls! Check the team It’s crucial to examine links and determine the creators’ reliability It’s a good...

PSA — Warn your Parents about crypto scams

28 Aug 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Messin' With Cryptos

I’m sure that we’ve all heard stories about this before. Whether they were romance scams, gift cards scams, or tech support scams, we all think that they’re not going to happen to us. And because we are relatively educated in the space, we mig...

How can we determine if an "Investment Platform" is legit?

27 Aug 2022 4 minute read 5 comments katerinaramm

Fact: Scams, frauds, and hacks happen all the time around us. Even though most of us think we are safe, having an always updated antivirus, being very cautious about which websites we visit or where we keep our keys/passwords, we can never be pr...

Anti-crypto youtubers are whining about crypto, while being sponsored by unethical companies and scams

27 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Aldeneer

Anti-crypto youtubers are whining about crypto, while being sponsored by unethical companies and scams. A lot of popular youtubers have pretty anti crypto / anti nft stances these days, even tho most of them did not care about cryptocurrencies before...

Watch out! Crypto scammers targeting Asian women!

27 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Junee

This is something you don't hear everyday. Crypto scammers targeting Asian women, typically on online dating apps. These ladies end up being swindled by scammers pretending to be eligible males showing romantic interest. Buggers! As I was browsing th...