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The 67-year-old Cussewago Township woman contacted state police Monday at 6:13 p.m. claiming she had been told by an unidentified person to purchase more than $22,000 worth of Bitcoin.
According to the Better Business Bureau, crypto-related fraud is now among the most common financial scams. Criminals often target older consumers, with the FTC noting that people age 60 and over ...
When Bitcoin was created, there was only one way to get it: mine it yourself. Today, there are many ways to buy it, letting investors choose exactly how much control they wish to have over their ...
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
Per the spotlight report published on Sept. 3, fraud losses have amounted to approximately $66 million in the first half of 2024. By comparison, scammers stole a total of $12 million throughout ...
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The FTC said reported losses from Bitcoin ATM fraud topped $110 million last year, as scammers lure victims to send them large sums through the crypto kiosks. Bitcoin ATM scams are soaring — and ...
Zerocoin is a privacy protocol proposed in 2013 by Johns Hopkins University professor Matthew D. Green and his graduate students, Ian Miers and Christina Garman. It was designed as an extension to the Bitcoin protocol that would improve Bitcoin transactions' anonymity by having coin-mixing capabilities natively built into the protocol.