Tag: scam
-
Someone Is Selling Safe Passage Through One of the World’s Most Dangerous Waterways — and Taking Bitcoin for It
The altcoin ecosystem has seen its share of creative fraud. Fake wallet apps. Deepfake customer support agents. Counterfeit exchange interfaces engineered to harvest seed phrases. Impersonators of government agencies, bank officials, and celebrity investors. The scam landscape is inventive, relentless, and constantly evolving toward wherever human vulnerability and digital assets intersect most profitably. Nothing in…
-
A Real Musician. A Fake App. $420,000 Gone in Seconds.
G. Love didn’t make a reckless gamble. He didn’t ape into a sketchy altcoin project with anonymous devs and a three-day-old Twitter account. He didn’t send funds to a stranger promising 10x returns. He installed what looked like an app, entered a piece of information he’d been told to keep safe, and watched nearly $420,000…
-
Matchpool ICO scam?
Was the Matchpool ICO a great scam? I do not think that they stole the funds. They were hedging against the possible fall in the price of Ether. They have raised 125 081 ETH at the current price of 44 USD/ETH that makes 5.5M USD. If the price of Ether would fall to 35 USD/ETH…