The FBI Warns About Scams On Crypto Users - page 4.

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Quote from: crestella on March 31, 2018, 07:19:58 AM

'Fraud Technical Support' by the FBI Internet Crime Compaint Center (IC3) the agency released a public notice regarding the increase in fraudulent activity. By 2017, they receive 11,000 complaints with a total loss of $ 15 Million.

IC3 notes that criminals act as security, customers, or technical support representatives who offer to resolve the issue. And when contact is formed, they go to their plan.

nothing really important . I also warn people for scammers so what ? look at binance official twitter. there are guys have similar binance username and they are saying that they are giving away eth but you must send some eth to them. there are many ''newbies'' sending eth to those scammers. We all have to be careful about scammers. Many ICOs are also scamm. Must be careful that is it.

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Quote from: crestella on March 31, 2018, 07:19:58 AM

'Fraud Technical Support' by the FBI Internet Crime Compaint Center (IC3) the agency released a public notice regarding the increase in fraudulent activity. By 2017, they receive 11,000 complaints with a total loss of $ 15 Million.

IC3 notes that criminals act as security, customers, or technical support representatives who offer to resolve the issue. And when contact is formed, they go to their plan.

LOL. What do you expect that is their job to do it. Crypto is now Wild West. It was easy to find Gold on Wild West, more tricky was to bring t safe to not starve or get shoot to some city to sell it for a cosy ranch.

Most people here bother with what coin to buy and day trading and try to get a bit more. But what is mot important is to keep your coins safe. You can get 10% or 100% more or even 1000% more. But if someone steal them from you at end you will have exactly nothing. And it is so easy to scam people and steal their coins.

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The number of scam in the space has increased drastically and this is a concern, if one look at the number of ICOs that has ended a scam and the ways people are losing their tokens in their wallet and also the number of ICO websites that were hacked, I think the $15 million mentioned is very conservative

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Quote from: crestella on March 31, 2018, 07:19:58 AM

'Fraud Technical Support' by the FBI Internet Crime Compaint Center (IC3) the agency released a public notice regarding the increase in fraudulent activity. By 2017, they receive 11,000 complaints with a total loss of $ 15 Million.

IC3 notes that criminals act as security, customers, or technical support representatives who offer to resolve the issue. And when contact is formed, they go to their plan.

Fraudulent activities made by those scum criminal are literally everywhere, traditional way or cryptocurrency they will always find their way in to fool people and make tons of money out of the pocket from other people, there are tons of other cases outside the cryptocurrency world that is happening on a daily basis, the figure is large but that is nothing compared to a real-time scammers online and physical investment schemes, the increase in the number of fraudulent activities on this field is normal as the trend to bitcoin is spreading throughout the globe.

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This is not something new, hackers are extremely active in crypto sphere, because there are no laws regulating crypto, thus nobody will come to police accusing someone stole eth or btc. On the other hand, such news are published to manipulate market, because in reality % of scams on non-crypto users is far higher

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Quote from: crestella on March 31, 2018, 07:19:58 AM

'Fraud Technical Support' by the FBI Internet Crime Compaint Center (IC3) the agency released a public notice regarding the increase in fraudulent activity. By 2017, they receive 11,000 complaints with a total loss of $ 15 Million.

IC3 notes that criminals act as security, customers, or technical support representatives who offer to resolve the issue. And when contact is formed, they go to their plan.

This is nothing! Why they don't publish how many non-crypto complaints they got and what is the loss there. I'm sure that the numbers will be x100 the crypto losses!

They are making it to scare people who are still staying away from crypto. If you don't have common sense and you are greedy as f, you will be scammed anyway.

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'Fraud Technical Support' by the FBI Internet Crime Compaint Center (IC3) the agency released a public notice regarding the increase in fraudulent activity. By 2017, they receive 11,000 complaints with a total loss of $ 15 Million.

IC3 notes that criminals act as security, customers, or technical support representatives who offer to resolve the issue. And when contact is formed, they go to their plan.

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