Image: Riot Games / FTX / Kotaku FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried spent the last year on a victory tour. The “crypto kingpin” held court at Bloomberg’s Crypto Summit over the summer and was crowned as a mega donor savior to Democrats in the midterm elections. His company even gloated about…
FBI warns LinkedIn users on crypto fraud | #datingscams | #lovescams | #facebookscams
The FBI is working closely with LinkedIn to combat crypto-related fraud on the platform. Why it matters: The FBI has opened investigations, saying scams pose a “significant threat,” a field office agent told CNBC, which first reported the story. What’s happening: Criminal rings are exploiting people’s trust in LinkedIn as…
Crypto’s Link to Stocks Is Fraying. This Slump Will Test the Floor. | #datingscams | #lovescams | #facebookscams
The current market selloff suggests that when stocks sneeze, cryptocurrencies can come down with something worse than a cold. Crypto’s correlation with stocks had become well established last year as institutional investors piled into the assets and it became more established. The link managed to hold even after Russia’s invasion…
Building a Digital Defense Against Crypto Romance Scams — FBI | #datingscams | #lovescams | #facebookscams
Welcome to the Oregon FBI’s Tech Tuesday segment. Today: Building a digital defense against crypto romance scams. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center is seeing a rapid rise in the number of people who are falling victim to a new-style romance fraud. In just the first seven months of this…