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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...

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao persönlich hat vor einem neuen SCAM gewarnt, der offenbar Binance-User per SMS zur Angabe von Zugangsdaten verführen soll. Dabei handelt es sich um eine gefälschte Aufforderung, eine Auszahlung auf Binance durch den Nutzer abzubrechen. Crypto News: Warnung vor SMS Phishing-SCAM auf BinanceAuf Twitter veröffentlichte Zhao einen Screenshot mit der Nachricht, die aktuell vor allem Binance-Nutzer betrifft:There is a massive Phishing scam via SMS with a link to cancel...

A real-estate flipper and crypto scammer named Danial Howe has been forced by Iowa regulators to cash in his crypto savings to pay back a couple he victimized. The Torics are from the European nation of Bosnia and have been calling Iowa their home for the past several years. Not long ago, the couple was facing foreclosure due to financial problems caused by growing medical issues. Danial Howe Loses His Crypto Following Real Estate Scam Iowa attorneys representing the...