Impressive crypto scams, gendered startup financing, stolen art
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Aemilius Cupero News: Crypto criminals are blackmailing Instagram users into swindling friends
Michael Crider/IDG Account security is always a concern when you put any kind of personal information out on the web. But a new generation of scammers is emerging, using a particularly devious combination of social engineering, cryptocurrency, and old-fashioned blackmail. The scam is becoming more common on Instagram, where popular account holders are targeted and…
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Aemilius Cupero News: Crypto Adoption Rate is Mirroring Internet Adoption of the Late 1990s
Crypto adoption from 2014 to 2020 is resembling that of the internet from 1990 to 2000, the same years when the online boom was considered a scam and a bubble that would eventually burst. The speed at which cryptocurrencies have taken off has been surprising. On one hand, detractors had to sit back and watch…
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Aemilius Cupero News: Crypto scammers make $9 million on fake YouTube streams
Bitcoin › ScamsCrypto scammers during the month of October got around $9 million by defrauding their victims through fake giveaway scams on YouTube. Oluwapelumi Adejumo · November 27, 2021 at 2:00 am UTC · 2 min read Crypto scammers have stepped up their acts in devising new means of defrauding their victims as new research…
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