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The FBI says that while crypto fraud complaints only make up about 10% of financial fraud reports, they comprise 50% of total losses—about $5.6 billion in 2023 alone, according to the agency’s ...
The FBI's 2023 cryptocurrency fraud report highlights the rise in crypto investment scams. People over 60 reported the highest losses, with $1.6 billion lost to crypto fraud last year.
Americans lost more than $5.6 billion in 2023 from fraud schemes involving cryptocurrency, according to the FBI. The agency, in a report published Monday, said the bureau received more than 69,000 ...
Americans lost $5.6 billion in cryptocurrency scams in 2023, according to a new report released by the FBI on Monday. Scammers use elaborate tactics to assure potential victims that their ...
In 2018, around US$1.7 billion in cryptocurrency was lost to scams, theft and fraud. In the first quarter of 2019, such losses rose to US$1.2 billion. [ 7 ] 2022 was a record year for cryptocurrency theft, according to Chainalysis , with US$3.8 billion [ 8 ] stolen worldwide during 125 system hacks, [ 9 ] including US$1.7 billion stolen by ...
Ruja Plamenova Ignatova (Bulgarian: Ружа Пламенова Игнатова, romanized: Ruža Plamenova Ignatova, occasionally transliterated as "Ruga Ignatova"; born May 30, 1980 – disappeared October 25, 2017) [2] is a Bulgarian-born German entrepreneur best known as one of the FBI’s Top Ten wanted Fugitives, and as the founder of a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme known as OneCoin ...
BOSTON (Reuters) -Three cryptocurrency companies and 15 people have been charged with engaging in widespread fraud and market manipulation following an investigation in which the FBI for the first ...
On February 17, 2025, an Argentine law firm operating in the United States and victims of the cryptocurrency scam reported Milei and other responsible parties to the United States Department of Justice and the FBI.