HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Houstonians have lost anywhere from $10,000 to $1 million per person in investment scams, oftentimes involving hard-to-recover cryptocurrency. The FBI told 13 Investigates' ...
Scammers are getting better and better at what they do. If you think your money is safe, maybe double check that you know exactly who is handling it and who is asking to see it. A recent paper ...
A long-running and large-scale internet-based fraud scheme netted around $50 million from dozens of investors over an eight-year period. The perpetrators created 150 fake sites that targeted investors ...
The Justice Department has announced the seizure of a web domain used to target and defraud Americans through cryptocurrency ...
Interpol has officially designated scam-compound networks tied to crypto fraud as a global threat, targeting transnational crime.
The Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions is launching a new scam tracker based on consumer complaints to protect investors from crypto and investment fraud. The Wisconsin Department of ...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) said it closed down 615 cryptocurrency investment scams in the first year of a program to tackle fake investment websites. The closures ...
Spain's police arrested six individuals behind a large-scale cryptocurrency investment scam that used AI tools to generate deepfake ads featuring popular public figures to lure people. The scam was ...
Devin Benavides is Director of Partnerships and Community Engagement of the Better Business Bureau in the Permian Basin. Check out www.bbb.org or call 563-1880. Within the first two months of 2024, ...
Thirty-four people were charged in Ezhou, China, after running a fake crypto platform that stole 460 million yuan—around $64 million—from nearly 30,000 people over the course of a single year. The ...