Scammers used a fake Gemini AI chatbot to promote a bogus Google Coin presale, signaling a rise in AI-driven crypto impersonation fraud.

Crypto phishing is no longer about poorly written emails asking for your password. In January 2026 alone, phishing attacks drained more than $311 million from c ...

A new report from Chainalysis, a blockchain data platform based in New York City, estimates that $17 billion in crypto was stolen last year through fraud and scams. Impersonation scams, where ...

The Department of Justice has issued a crypto warning as Valentine’s Day hits. Real-world losses are escalating. Crypto scam activity surged in 2025. U.S. federal ...

Today's scams have the potential to fool even experienced professionals.

Many of the cases now intersect with “pig-butchering” schemes, long-form scams blending emotional grooming with fake crypto ...

Physical letter scam targets Ledger and Trezor customers with fraudulent letters containing QR codes linked to credential-stealing sites.

About two-thirds of crypto incidents investigated by blockchain analytics company AMLBot in 2025 were driven by social engineering rather than technical exploits, according to a report based on the ...

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 ...

Crypto press releases amplify market manipulation risk amid paid placements, hype cycles, and alleged article takedowns.