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 for nearly $1.8 billion of this year's losses, Certik noted in its report. In ...

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.

Authorities said the network was connected to at least 400 suspected victims worldwide, including dozens in the U.S. Crypto fraud was responsible for more than $5.8 billion in reported losses last ...

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.

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 ...

NPR investigated a crypto scam company known as SpireBit, which stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from Russian-speaking seniors. Now, some of the victims are getting their money back after a ...

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 ...