Crypto scams and fraud — rug pulls, phishing, fake airdrops, and address-poisoning attacks.
The $1.8B scheme ran 2020-2022 on fake 0.5%-1% daily mining returns — and lands one week after the FBI reported record $11.4B in crypto fraud losses for 2025.
India's Directorate of Enforcement (ED) filed a prosecution complaint against Chirag Tomar and seven other individuals…
The clash crystallises a broader retail-trader grievance: high-profile commentators touting tokens publicly then quietly rotating out before the bid thins out, leaving followers holding the bag.
Coinbase, SpaceX, and Meta have partnered with the U.S. Department of Justice in a coordinated anti-scam operation that…
Argentine authorities arrested 24 individuals and seized more than $8 million in cryptocurrency as part of a…
The SEC has charged a Texas man with fraud after investigators found he diverted $6.2 million in investor funds to…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed suit against the founder of Privvy, alleging a $12.3 million…
Only about 3% of investor money ever touched crypto, roughly $6.2M went to a home, gambling and travel, and an AI-generated auditor letter was used to stall withdrawals — the anatomy of a textbook…
A Solana memecoin rug pull becomes the first criminal prosecution under South Korea's new DeFi legislation — and it lands during the same week regulators are re-opening crypto enforcement boundaries.
James Wynn, the crypto trader known on X as @JamesWynnReal, launched a token called $WORLD and executed what appears to…
A four-million-token position bought for $1.81M is now worth $649K — a ~64% drawdown in three weeks that crystallises the risk of size-on-thin-liquidity bets.
The Catfi prosecution sets a live precedent: a Korean court is now willing to treat a Solana meme-coin exit as a criminal manipulation case, not just a civil loss.
Singapore authorities have charged the former CEO of Hodlnaut, the now-defunct crypto lending platform, over allegedly…
South Korean authorities have arrested suspects behind CatFi, a Solana-based memecoin, in what marks the country's…
The CATFI case is small in dollars but precedent-setting: prosecutors built a criminal price-manipulation charge around an on-chain rug pull, not a securities violation.
The loss number is modest, but the attack vector — paid Google Search ads spoofing a top DEX's domain — has become the default phishing lane for crypto users and is widening.
The sell converted 43% of circulating supply into roughly $13.65M in BNB in just four hours — classic distribution-to-exit shape, and the price followed.
The economics of a single on-chain sniper trade — bribe fee, entry, exit, realized P&L — laid out in one wallet's footprint, with the bribe alone outpacing the profit.
The prison term is the headline, but the DOJ's own filing shows Giri kept raising from new investors after his guilty plea — the pattern regulators warn about as FBI-cited crypto fraud losses crossed…
Casa co-founder Jameson Lopp has issued a warning about a phishing technique that exploits legitimate Google recovery…
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