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Dr. Anders Apgar is the latest victim of a crypto scam that utilized bots to steal most of the digital currency he had been adding to his account over the past several years. How Dr. Anders Apgar Walked into the Thieves’ Hands The scam began with a series of what he thought were robocalls and naturally, he tried to ignore them. However, the calls kept on going, and eventually, his wife started to get buzzes on her phone. Eventually, Apgar decided he couldn’t ignore them...

It looks like fraud involving digital currency ATMs in the U.S. is shooting through the roof. Now that the entire space is worth approximately $3 trillion, many illicit players are seeking to take advantage of those who have saved up their assets, and ATMs are playing a huge role in the jump in crime. Crypto Fraud Using ATMs Has Gotten Bad There are more than 26,000 crypto-based ATMs in the U.S. alone. When one considers that there were only a little more than 4,000 in...

An unnamed individual in Rome, Italy has been accused of one of the largest cryptocurrency fraud schemes ever recorded in the space’s short, yet significant history. As it stands, police investigators are only claiming that the man allegedly responsible possesses the initials “F.F.” and that he is roughly 34 years of age. Not much else is known about him at press time.Italy Is at the Center of a Crypto Fraud InvestigationThe fraud is reported to have occurred last year in 2019. It happened...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed charges against four individuals – three in Texas and one in Florida. All four of the figures have been accused of defrauding investors through a bitcoin scam that has resulted in more than $1 million in lost funds.The CFTC Isn’t Playing AroundThe CFTC has named the bad actors as Joel Castaneda Garcia, Mayco Alexis Maldonado Garcia, Cesar Castaneda and Rodrigo Jose Castro Molina. The four represented a company known as Global Trading...

The cryptocurrency ecosystem is no stranger to scams and pyramid schemes. Exciting new technology, coupled with dramatically rising prices a few years ago, helped lure people into get-rich-quick schemes that only served to part them from their hard-earned money. One of the biggest cryptocurrency scams is OneCoin, which managed to take in almost US$4 billion. Now the OneCoin saga takes another turn as the brother of the cryptocurrency’s founder has pleaded guilty to money laundering and fraud...

Sorry people, but it seems like fraud is still running rampant throughout the cryptocurrency space. Earlier this morning, we reported on a new way to turn bitcoin into cash via the dark web, and now, we’re here to discuss a new QR code system that sends people to scam sites.A QR Code System That’s Turned Rogue?For as long as bitcoin and cryptocurrency have existed, there have been malicious actors out there seeking to take what isn’t theirs. Unfortunately, the security of the crypto world has...