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This week, Belgium’s Financial Services and Markets Authority made a startling revelation. Cryptocurrency fraud victims have lost at least €10 million between May 2019 and September 2020, the financial regulator said.Belgians Have Lost €10 Million In Cryptocurrency FraudBelgian citizens have lost almost 10 million euros to fraudulent crypto investment schemes. Belgium’s apex financial authority, the Financial Services and Markets Authority, said on Monday. According to the watchdog, this data...

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has banned an Australian national from working in the financial sector. According to the watchdog, John Louis Anthony Bigatton operated as the Director of Australia Promotions for the notorious cryptocurrency scam – BitConnect.Aussie National Banned For BitConnect ParticipationAs CryptoPotato reported last year, the Australian corporate regulator cracked down on the alleged BitConnect promoter John Bigatton. At the time, the Federal...

The latest two DeFi protocols to pump and dump worthless tokens have been Hotdog and Pizza as the food meme trend continues. They are essentially clones of other defi platforms, some of which are clones themselves.The latest is a Uniswap clone called Hotdog that, just like SushiSwap, promised better APYs and shares in governance tokens. Yield farmers, dubbed degens from the word degenerate, flocked to the platform in hopes of similar gains that SushiSwap made.DeFi Pump and DumpHOTDOG tokens...

An anonymous Bitcoin investor by the name “1400BitcoinStolen” claimed on Sunday that he lost 1400 BTC after “foolishly” installing an old version of the popular Electrum wallet, but turned out to be a phishing scam.A TrapExplaining the unfortunate incident, the victim said he had not been able to access the funds since 2017. After setting up the wallet and attempted to transfer 1 BTC, he received a pop-up message asking him to update his security before he can hat transfer the fund.But...

Yesterday, the United States’ Department of Justice filed a complaint to seize 280 cryptocurrency accounts operated by notorious North Korean hackers. They allegedly stole millions of dollars worth of crypto assets from two cryptocurrency exchanges and also sought the help of Chinese OTC traders to launder the funds.US DOJ Moves To Seize Cryptocurrency Accounts of North Korean HackersIn a civil forfeiture complaint, America’s apex house of justice moved to disrupt the nexus between North...

Police have reportedly arrested a Russian man for an attempt to recruit an employee in Nevada to plant malware on a Company’s network. In return, he promised him up to $1 million in cash and Bitcoin.The Offstage Attacker Was Reportedly Part Of A Larger OrganisationAs per the published court documents, Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov has allegedly offered a Nevada company’s employee the sum of $1 million, portioned in cash and Bitcoin. The plot was simple – the employee had to install malware onto a...

Empire Market, the largest crypto darknet marketplace, has abruptly shut down. No communication was issued from the admins who seem to have siphoned away with user funds amounting to around $30 million in BTC. From the looks of it, this appears to be a pretty massive exit scam.Empire Market Exit Scams With 2638 BTC Worth $30 MillionAccording to the latest update from an anonymous journalist, “DarkDotFail” who tracks darknet activities, Empire Market, the largest cryptocurrency accepting...

Police in Seoul has forayed the offices of one of the biggest crypto exchanges in South Korea, Coinbit. Allegedly the firm has faked more than 99% of its trading volume.Coinbit Banks Over $85MAccording to a recent news report, authorities stormed the offices of the company early today. The suspicion is that Coinbit has manipulated users, faking a large portion of its trading volume. This has allegedly earned the exchange $85 million in illegal income during the process.The Seoul Metropolitan...

DeFi tokens continue to flood the markets as developers are minting new coins and listing them on Uniswap every day.While this might present an earning opportunity for some, the number of the so-called ‘rug pulls’ is also on the rise. Investors need to be extremely careful and selective when it comes to the tokens they put their money into.Rug Pulls: The Plague of UniswapUniswap is a protocol that allows buyers and sellers to swap ERC20 tokens without the use of an exchange or order book. It...

A newly-detected scam has been luring users into a Bitcoin scam, Abnormal Security reports. The cybersecurity firm informs that cybercriminals have been impersonating the popular Bitcoin Era trading platform to attract investors, while actually infecting their online devices with malware.Emails, Mimicking BTC Era PlatformThe automated scam emails, which many users have reportedly received, were intended to deceive them through a visual similarity to the leading cryptocurrency platform BTC...