Cryptocurrency scammers raked in billions of dollars last year, more than any year before. Credit: Luis Alexander Martinez Lopez via iStock / Getty Images The spammers. The scammers. And you.

Consumers lost a whopping $5.6 billion in cryptocurrency scams in 2023, according to the FBI’s latest Cryptocurrency Fraud Report. By far the most prominent kind of scam was investment fraud – which ...

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For the first six months of 2024, the FBI received over 18,000 complaints reporting crypto-investment scams, with losses of more than $1.9 billion. Shutterstock Americans lost $5.6 billion in ...

The FBI says that 2023 was a record year for cryptocurrency fraud, with total losses exceeding $5.6 billion, based on nearly 70,000 reports received through the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).

The accused architect of a $165 million crypto Ponzi scheme is back on American soil after more than a year on the run in the ...

Bitcoin closed in on the $80,000 mark, as renewed inflows into spot bitcoin ETFs and improving risk appetite extended the cryptocurrency's recent rally.

A new state ban on cryptocurrency kiosks will go into effect on Saturday, shutting down a tool that scammers have used to swindle $1 million from Minnesotans, officials say.

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FinCEN regulates cryptocurrency under the Bank Secrecy Act by classifying exchanges and wallet providers as money services businesses ...