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The suspect took $300K in cryptocurrency by accessing passenger phones. Hussein is facing theft, fraud, and money laundering accusations. A Scottsdale man accused of impersonating an Uber driver was arrested for allegedly ripping off $300,000 in cryptocurrency from two different passengers. Scottsdale detectives and U.S. authorities booked Nuruhussein Hussein on December 11. Secret Service agents. He now faces charges of theft, fraud, and money laundering. Incidents took place outside the W...

Brooklyn District Attorney advises artists about fake NFT platforms and scams. Scammers steal digital assets by imitating reputable NFT websites. The office of the District Attorney in Brooklyn is ramping up efforts against fraudulent non-fungible token operations after the disturbing case of an 85-year-old artist who was duped out of his life savings. Seeking to join the booming NFT market, the artist went and fell prey to a scam NFT platform. The platform shamelessly imitated OpenSea, one...

This Year’s Theme: “On the Move” Throughout history, people have left their homes for a variety of reasons and have found themselves in faraway places. This has led to encounters with foreign lands, their inhabitants, their customs, their flora and fauna. Cultural heritage collections are full of artifacts resulting from and bearing witness to those people “on the move”: archival records, travel reports, audiovisual documents, object collections, oral histories etc. These...

Earn Your First Bitcoin Sign up and get $12 Bonus Referral bonus up to $3,000 Sign up A senior citizen in British Columbia, Canada is the latest victim of a cryptocurrency scam. It’s estimated that the victim, who remains unnamed, has lost more than $7 million. British Columbia Citizen Conned Out of Tons of Crypto British Columbia authorities have stated this is arguably one of the worst digital...

A new type of crypto scam is taking precedent. This time, fraudsters are calling would-be victims and pretending to be policemen and asking for crypto-based payments – usually in bitcoin – or gift cards. A New Crypto Scam Is Taking Place in Michigan Thus far, the scam appears to be largely targeting residents of Jackson County, Michigan, so it’s somewhat centralized and limited at the time of writing, though it’s unclear how fast the scam could spread from here to other...

Two women in Grand Traverse County in Michigan were scammed out of more than $50K in crypto funds after falling victim to a digital currency fraud scheme. The news came by way of a statement given by Sheriff Lt. Brandon Brinks. Lt. Brinks on Crypto Scams In the statement, Brinks said crypto scams are always difficult to narrow down and track given that they’re always changing, and fraudsters are always altering their methods of obtaining digital asset funds. He said:...

A man in California that fell victim to a crypto scam listed in the “pig butchering” category is getting some of his funds back. Pig Butchering Is Getting Bigger and Bigger Pig butchering is something Live Bitcoin News initially covered in an article in early September. It’s a new breed of digital currency scams that see people losing funds to fraudulent investing platforms that are fully controlled by hackers. They place their money into the schemes and see their funds...

Residents of Florida are being warned about a new crypto romance scam that’s operating under the names “pig butchering” and “pig slaughtering.” The names alone should be enough to make anyone run away, though for some reason, the scam has managed to permeate several online dating platforms and social media sites, meaning it is the latest scam of its kind to fully take form. A New Online Crypto Scam Is A-Brewin’ These kinds of scams are nothing new, yet the fact that...

Trading crypto has become a hugely popular thing to do amongst everyday traders. This is good in the sense that the crypto space is now gaining the mainstream attention it largely deserved. However, there is a bad side to all this growth in that as crypto has expanded, so has digital crime, and one scam is becoming all too familiar. How One Crypto Scam Cost a Woman $200 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says that more than $1 billion has been lost by Americans to...

Crypto Rom – an international digital currency scam ring – appears to have grown heavily over just the last year. The organization works by engaging in romance scams in which both iPhone and Android users are duped into thinking someone is interested in them after meeting on Tinder and other social media apps. From there, they are often tricked into giving the scammer cryptocurrency. Crypto Rom Has Expanded Quite a Bit Cybersecurity ring Sophos says that Crypto Rom is...