Crypto scams stole $5.6 billion from Americans last year, mostly from older people . The FBI said in its first-ever Cryptocurrency Fraud Report that people ages 60 and older filed more than ...

Crypto scams ... $1.71 billion, while another $410.75 million was stolen through phishing attacks. Two incidents accounted ...

The FBI reported Americans lost $5.6 billion to crypto scams in 2023, a 45% jump from the year before. Over 69,000 people filed complaints with the Feds' Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) last ...

When it comes to scams and theft, crypto hasn’t had a great year so far. Just in the first quarter of the year, hackers stole more than $1.67 billion across 197 security incidents.

According to the FBI's recently released annual internet crime report, $10.6 billion was lost due to online scams and frauds in 2022. This is up 46 percent from the $6.9 billion in losses in 2021.

"This seizure of $225.3 million in funds linked to cryptocurrency investment scams marks the largest cryptocurrency seizure in U.S. Secret Service history," said Shawn Bradstreet, special agent in ...

Losses to crypto scams, exploits and hacks totaled nearly $1.53 billion in February, with the $1.4 billion Bybit hack accounting for the lion’s share of losses, said blockchain security firm CertiK.

Although scams remain one of the biggest drivers of crypto-based crime, with $4.6 billion in revenue for 2023, the figure was down from the previous year’s $5.9 billion. Crypto scam revenue from ...

A victim of a crypto ‘pig butchering’ scam just got his $140,000 back NPR investigated a crypto scam company known as SpireBit, which stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from Russian ...

Americans reported losing $5.6 billion to cryptocurrency scams in 2023, with older Americans hit the hardest, according to the FBI. The FBI’s first annual Cryptocurrency Fraud Report, published ...