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2. 2020 Twitter account hijacking - Wikipedia

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   The scam tweets asked individuals to send bitcoin currency to a specific cryptocurrency wallet, promising the Twitter user that money sent would be doubled and returned as a charitable gesture. [7] Within minutes from the initial tweets, more than 320 transactions had already taken place on one of the wallet addresses, and bitcoins to a value of more than US$110,000 had been deposited in one ...

3. How to spot a crypto scam - AOL

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   Unfortunately, in the Wild West of cryptocurrency, consumers and legislators struggle to discern a deliberate scam from a well-intentioned business that goes bust.

4. Pig butchering scam - Wikipedia

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   A pig butchering scam is a type of long-term scam and investment fraud in which the victim is gradually lured into making increasing contributions, usually in the form of cryptocurrency, to a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme. [1] They are commonplace on social apps, where, in October 2023, twelve percent of Americans using said apps had been ...

5. Pair jailed for £5.7m cryptocurrency scam - AOL

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   Pair jailed for £5.7m cryptocurrency scam. May 7, 2024 at 1:53 PM. Two men who stole more than £5.7m worth of cryptocurrency from victims all over the world have been jailed. Jake Lee, 38, from ...

6. Cryptocurrency and crime - Wikipedia

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   Cryptocurrency and crime describe notable examples of cybercrime related to theft (or the otherwise illegal acquisition) of cryptocurrencies and some methods or security vulnerabilities commonly exploited. Cryptojacking is a form of cybercrime specific to cryptocurrencies that have been used on websites to hijack a victim's resources and use them for hashing and mining cryptocurrency. [1]

7. 'Did Mark Cuban's wallet just get drained?': 'Shark Tank ...

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   In the case of Mark Cuban, it appears to have been to the tune of $1 million after the billionaire investor was apparently the victim of an online cryptocurrency scam.

8. James Zhong - Wikipedia

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   November 9, 2021. James "Jimmy" Zhong is an American man who was convicted in 2022 for stealing over 51,680 bitcoin (then worth about $620,000; [2] value as of 2023 approximately $3.4 billion [3]) from the online black market Silk Road between 2012 and 2014. [4] Zhong, who was closely monitoring the early development of bitcoin, [5] had found ...

9. U.S. seizes crypto linked to Southeast Asian investment scam

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   Of that, at least $9.1 million came from a crypto wallet that U.S. blockchain analysis firm TRM Labs said was linked to pig-butchering scams, Reuters reported.