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Scammers Trick Crypto Users With Faked USDT Balances, Slowmist Reports – News Bytes Bitcoin News
Slowmist, teaming up with Imtoken, has exposed a new cryptocurrency scam exploiting offline transactions and using USDT, where scammers manipulate Ethereum RPC to falsify USDT balances in the victim’s wallet. The con artists coax victims into changing their Ethereum RPC URL to one they control, making it appear as though USDT funds were deposited, only […]
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How Scammers Bilked $10 Billion from Americans in 2023
Ten billion dollars. That is the reported amount Americans lost in 2023 to fraudulent activity. Remember this is the reported figure, think of the amounts stolen that went unreported. Technology has opened the flood gates to scammers. Consider 2.6 million Americans (roughly the population size of Chicago) reported losing the $10 billion to scammers last […]
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Biden campaign surrenders tainted crypto cash
A joint fundraising committee for President Joe Biden returned a $50,000 donation from Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced CEO of now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, according to a Raw Story review of new federal records.The Biden Victory Fund surrendered the Bankman-Fried donation to the U.S. Marshals Service in January, Federal Election Commission records indicate. Bankman-Fried, who made his donation to Biden in 2022, was sentenced to 25 years in prison last month for stealing $8 billion...