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2. Top 10 Crypto Scams to Watch Out For in 2025 - AOL

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   3. Fake Celebrity Endorsements. Scammers often exploit high-profile figures, like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Sir Richard Branson and Michael J. Saylor, to promote fake endorsement schemes ...

3. Cryptocurrency and crime - Wikipedia

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   A type of Mac malware active in August 2013, Bitvanity posed as a vanity wallet address generator and stole addresses and private keys from other bitcoin client software. [133] A different trojan for macOS , called CoinThief was reported in February 2014 to be responsible for multiple bitcoin thefts. [ 133 ]

4. Jimmy Zhong - Wikipedia

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   On November 9, 2021, a raid on his Gainesville, Georgia, home resulted in the seizure of about 50,676 bitcoin, then valued at over $3.36 billion. [8] Zhong cooperated with investigators, forfeited all of his bitcoin and pled guilty to one count of wire fraud. [9] In April 2023, Zhong was sentenced to a year and a day in prison. [1]

5. 2020 Twitter account hijacking - Wikipedia

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   [1] [8] [21] It is unclear if these had been funds added by those led on by the scam, [21] [22] as bitcoin scammers are known to add funds to wallets prior to starting schemes to make the scam seem legitimate. [2] Of the funds added, most had originated from wallets with Chinese ownerships, but about 25% came from United States wallets. [14]

6. 3 Common Digital Transaction Scams: How You Can Avoid Them - AOL

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   Digital Wallet Scams. Digital wallets are apps that store various payment methods in one location. Fraudsters can gain unauthorized access to a person’s digital wallet through phishing scams ...

7. Miami man among 2 charged in $230 million cryptocurrency ...

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   A Miami man is facing charges after authorities said he teamed up with a California man in a scam to steal and launder over $230 million in cryptocurrency. ... peel chains,” pass-through wallets ...

8. Hacker sentenced over bitcoin theft worth billions - AOL

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   A bitcoin hack that's now ... in 2016 using sophisticated hacking tools to fraudulently authorize over 2,000 transactions that transferred 119,754 bitcoin from the exchange to a crypto wallet he ...

9. Graham Ivan Clark - Wikipedia

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   Clark is widely regarded as the "mastermind" of the 2020 Twitter account hijacking, [5] [6] an event in which Clark worked with Mason Sheppard and Nima Fazeli to compromise 130 high-profile Twitter accounts to push a cryptocurrency scam involving bitcoin along with seizing "OG" (short for original) usernames to sell on OGUsers.