Scams

Iceland: $2 Mln Bitcoin Mining Theft Suspect Vows To Return Home After Fleeing To...

The Icelandic man who allegedly stole Bitcoin mining hardware worth $2 mln vowed to return home in a statement reported by local news media outlet Fréttablaðið April 20. As reported April 18, Sindri...

Scientists have developed an algorithm that can predict pump-and-dump schemes

Last year's rise of Bitcoin stimulated the rapid development of other cryptocurrencies. In the theory of Altcoins should have repeated the success of the...

Anonymous Founder of Oyster Pearl is suspected in exit scam with $300,000

Users of Oyster (PRL) cryptocurrency on October 30 sounded the alarm in social networks, suspecting that the founder of this project, acting under the...

Warning! Phishing attack on users of Electrum and MEW wallets

On February 4, users of the Electrum and MyEtherWallet cryptocurrency wallets faced phishing attacks. Phishing attack is a fraudulent...

Darknet: the amount of hidden mining software offers increased in five times

According to reliable information available to Group-IB Threat Intelligence, since the very beginning of the year, the number of hidden mining software offers in Darknet...

Confido ICO Raises $340K, Vanishes

In a move that’s sure to draw the ire of ICO naysayers, a recent ICO has completely vanished after raising $347,000. The ICO, called...

Scams, Shams – ICOs, STOs – Potatoes, Tomatoes

They may rhyme well but changing the alphabets does not change some fundamental inadequacies on transparency or the propensity for scams that...

Crypto-Exchanges: Weight For The Trust- Go Hummers

Hacks, solvency issues, fake trading and ICO scams – the road of investor confidence is only more muddy and inhospitable for crypto...

Bitcoin Cash – a scam?

Bitcoin Cash ranked #4 nowadays, can be called a scam. It is even called a scam in few sources. For example, coincall.io intentionally misleading newcomers...