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Deep Fake Scams on the Rise

8 Oct 2024 1 minute read 0 comments logen9f

image credit Aside from email phising exams, advances in AI are making fake phone calls so believable nowadays that it's easy to fall victim to such scams. A lot of criminals are exploiting this technology to help them carry out attacks to unsuspecti...

LEGO Targeted in 75-Minute Crypto Scam—Stay Safe in the Wild West of Crypto!

8 Oct 2024 1 minute read 3 comments alberdioni8406

The toy manufacturer LEGO Group was a target of a hack perpetrated to steal from their customers with a scam coin promotion promissing amazing rewards for the ones owning the "fraudulent" coin. The "scam coin" took 75 minutes to get spotted and taken...

Inside JaiChai's Head: "Random token deposits into your crypto wallet? Don't fall for this scam!"

6 Sep 2024 1 minute read 1 comment JaiChai

Some recent events: I randomly received 62,000 BOOM Token in my Exodus wallet. Was I expecting a BOOM Airdrop? No. Did I initiate a BOOM ERC-20 to BOOM BEP-20 token swap? No. Is the 62,000 BOOM a bonus from Swap Aggregator or DEX transactions? No. D...

Solana Scam Watch: Permanent Delegate Function Used to Burn Tokens—Stay Alert!

5 Sep 2024 1 minute read 1 comment alberdioni8406

A new scam is disrupting on Solana and everyone should be aware of it as people can have their tokens burned inside their own wallets without noticing it. This is an uncover from slorg, a Jupiter dev, after someone on the community alerted about toke...

Hackers Score Big: $1M Lost in Mbappé Memecoin Heist—Don't Get Duped!

1 Sep 2024 1 minute read 1 comment alberdioni8406

I always tell me readers and followers to spot for clues in something that isn't usual. For example, if you know Kylian Mbappé you won't get deceived easily as his social accounts are full of material that he share in sports like training and stuff....

How ChatGPT Saved Me From a Phishing Attack!

30 Aug 2024 1 minute read 1 comment BFab

I've experienced a few phishing attempts recently, and they were shockingly convincing. The scam starts off innocently enough—a job offer for a writing or translation gig, paid in ETH, no less. It sounds like easy money, right? But here's where it ge...

Discord Breach Before POL Upgrade: $150K ETH Lost—Watch Out for Scam Links!

25 Aug 2024 1 minute read 1 comment alberdioni8406

Just few days to the Polygon upgrade, from MATIC to POL tokens on Sept. 4, the official Discord server got wrecked with scam links and promote fake support team. The result, users lost crypto and one confirmed losing more than $150,000 worth in ETH....

Be Careful! The Deceptive Crypto Seed Phrase Sc@m

23 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments CryptoGemGR

Follow me X: @7SinsIsland Have you ever encountered something like this? First, they like one of your posts or comments to grab your attention and get you to click on their profile. You'll often see this under your favorite cryptocurrency post or on...

Know Your History to Avoid Scams

21 Aug 2024 3 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti

I check my email regularly, both the normal inbox and the spam side just to make sure I don’t miss something or a good note gets misfiled as spam. Due to having been a scam victim in the past but fortunately not having lost anything major, I tend to...

No Man's Land

19 Aug 2024 3 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti

I do a lot of testing and experimenting in the crypto world, hopefully finding that gem once in a while that will take off for the proverbial moon. Doing so exposes me to a lot of risk. Scams about just about every third click, and most of them are a...