The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has halted activity of another alleged cryptocurrency-related scam stealing millions of dollars from investors. According to a SEC’s announcement on June 19, the authority has been granted a temporary restraining order and asset freeze against two Pennsylvania-based brothers allegedly running three cryptoRead More →
Crypto scammers have stolen at least $150,000 by impersonating SpaceX YouTube accounts and hosting fake Bitcoin giveaways. According to a June 9 report on Bleeping Computer, several scammers hacked legitimate YouTube accounts and changed the branding and content to emulate that of Elon Musk’s SpaceX channel. The channels then broadcastRead More →
Bitcoin Trader has been heavily promoting itself as the best and safest automated cryptocurrency trading app that can help people earn $1,300 a day. Numerous fake reviews and scam checks on Bitcoin Trader are highly ranked by Google, making this scam appear legitimate. News.Bitcoin.com investigates this investment scam. Bitcoin TraderRead More →
Wow, it’s your lucky day. You got a call from Publisher’s Clearing House (PCH), where an excited man or woman says you’ve just won $5,000 a month for the rest of your life. Congrats! All you have to do is wire them a one-time fee of $500 to handle theRead More →
If you’re sort of feeling sorry for the people caught up in the college admissions scandal but really wish you weren’t, Olivia Jade Giannulli can help with that. ‘I don’t know how much of school I’m gonna attend. But I’m gonna go in and talk to my deans and everyone,Read More →
Facing more than $80,000 in student loan debt, Tiffany Tatafu did what thousands of other student loan borrowers do: She searched for answers on her phone. The single mother of two had heard that as a public employee, she could be eligible for student loan forgiveness. She’d landed job asRead More →
Con artists have never had it so good. Consumers reported losing $1.48 billion last year to scamsters, fraudsters and their ilk, up 38% on the previous year, according to a new report from the Federal Trade Commission. If all scams were reported to the FTC, experts say, the real numberRead More →
