Tag: Scam

Metamask, a popular Web 3.0 wallet provider has alerted its community and dispelled rumors of a potential airdrop making the rounds

Bitcoin (BTC) ATM manufacturer General Byte has come under attack by a hacker who introduced his Java application into the company's platform

The official Twitter account of the American TV sports channel GOL TV has been hacked and used to propagate a Ripple scam

Articles revealing the potential of Logarithmic Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) project have been swimming the internet and our team of experts at TheCoinRise figured out that this project was indeed a scam. However, the first glance at the website might lead you to falsely believe that the Logarithmic Finance scam is actually a low […]

Scams in the digital currency ecosystem are not a new event and investors understand that the more advanced the industry gets, the more ubiquitous scam tokens will be. One of the most publicized cryptocurrency projects that have proven itself to be a scam is Caprice Finance, and despite the promises it made to users, it […]

Animoca Brands, the famous gaming and venture capital company, and its subsidiary Blowfish Studios have announced that they will repay its customers the 265 stolen ETH ($1.1 million) in a fraudulent NFT sale on Discord. The scam minting event happened on November 19 at around 3 a.m. AEDT on the Phantom Galaxies server on Discord […]

Scams are a common occurrence in the crypto ecosystem. NFTs are no different. After a non-fungible token (NFT) selling a cybersecurity exploit and a NFT marketplace getting hacked, another common specter of the cryptocurrency world has taken root in the NFT ecosystem – scams. According to new research out today from Bolster, a deep learning-powered fraud […]

MarketPeak Review: PEAK token Ponzi scheme curator. MarketPeak operates in the MLM cryptocurrency niche. The company represents it is incorporated in Dubai PEAK TECH – FZCO, DSO-THUB, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai – UAE           MarketPeak is headed up by CEO and co-founder Sergej Heck. Most of the information available on Heck […]

Another Bitcoiner Claims He Lost $430,000 in Electrum Wallet Scam. A year-old exploit in outdated Electrum wallets keeps claiming unsuspecting victims, taking their Bitcoin. Yet another GitHub user has claimed that he lost 36.5 Bitcoin (BTC) due to an exploit in an outdated version of Electrum wallet, adding over $430,000 to the cache of 2,171 […]

GIG-OS Review – GIG-OS is the latest chapter in the EmGoldex scam saga. Is GIG-OS Scam and Fraudulent Ponzi Scheme? EmGoldex was a gold themed cycler Ponzi scheme that launched in 2014. Following multiple regulatory investigations and fraud warnings (the US, Philippines, Malaysia, UAE), EmGoldex collapsed in mid 2015. The company rebooted as Global InterGold […]

The European Crypto Scam – $1-Billion US Indictment against OneCoin Co-Founder Sebastian Greenwood unsealed OneCoin is in its essence a purely European scam. OneCoin was founded in 2014 by Ruja Ignatova from Bulgaria and Sebastian Greenwood from Sweden. While Greenwood was considered an MLM expert, cryptoqueen Ignatova was the PR genius and public. The financial […]

Envestio P2P Lending platform SCAM? Yes, we have skipped both last scam platform reviews Envestio and Kuetzal because of trust issue to these companies. The only hope at the moment is that we will not need to write such kind of article about any of our reviewed P2P Crowdlending websites. I really feel bad for […]

CRITICAL NOTE About Kuetzal SCAM: In December 2019, it was made public a significant number of facts that undermine completely the credibility of Kuetzal as a reliable P2P platform. You can learn more details on this scandal on the following blog posts: Jorgen Wolf from Financially Free Oscar Harrington from Explore P2P Based on these […]

Ethereum wallet available as a Chrome browser extension has been found to be injecting malicious javascript code. ‘Shitcoin Wallet’ tries to scrape data from other open windows and send it to a remote server. MyEtherWallet And Binance Among Those Targeted The code was identified by security and anti-phishing expert, Harry Denley, who warned about the […]

Ether (ETH) price faced fresh selling pressure on Dec. 19 as a giant transaction associated with the PlusToken Scam ponzi scheme worried traders. Data from Twitter-based monitoring resource Whale Alert, a single movement of 789,525 ETH ($105.1 million) between a known PlusToken Scam wallet and an unknown recipient occurred early Thursday. PlusToken Scam Giant transaction […]

Richard Sanders, a lead investigator at CipherBlade, claims that HitBTC is the “longest-running and potentially largest scale criminally fraudulent scam entity” in the crypto space. HitBTC Might Be Insolvent Scam, Sanders Says While HitBTC markets itself as one of the leading crypto exchanges out there, Sanders alleges that the firm is an insolvent scam. In […]

Maksim Zaslavskiy was sentenced 18 months in prison by a federal court in Brooklyn for conspiring to commit ICO securities fraud. The businessman from Brooklyn was involved in two ICO Fraud that was endorsed as being backed by collateral that did not exist. Maksim Zaslavskiy has been sentenced a year and a half in prison […]

It seems like Crypto scam will never dissipate from the cryptocurrency space. Crypto Scam: They’re More Prominent Than Ever A man in New York has been arrested and charged with running a fraudulent cryptocurrency operation and Crypto Scam. 47-year-old Asa Saint Clair claimed that his project was tied to the United Nations (UN) through an […]