Tag: Scam
SafeMoon Review: Ponzi Scheme or Legitimate Project?
SafeMoon is one of the newest and fastest growing altcoins, even in the crazy cryptocurrency market that’s seen a good number of tokens increase in value by thousands or even tens of thousands of percent in 2021. Launched on March...
PlusToken Scam: The Biggest Crypto Fraud in History
Just as there are millions of people across the world investing in cryptocurrencies, so too is there no shortage of others looking to fleece them. The last few years have thrown up numerous scams and scandals which have seen billions...
Freewallet review: Multicurrency Mobile & Online Crypto Wallet
Freewallet is multicurrency wallet that is trying to make it easier for users to store and manage their cryptocurrency both online and on mobile devices. This wallet began as a simple FantomCoin wallet back in 2016 and has evolved considerably...
Why is Twitter Struggling to Stop CryptoCurrency Scams?
For months now Twitter has been under fire for allowing cryptocurrency scams to flourish on its platform. Even though the company has admitted its aware of the problem, and has claimed to be working on a fix, nothing has changed...
BTC Global: Another Cautionary Tale of a Typical Ponzi Scheme
When most people think of cryptocurrency Ponzi schemes, the Bitconnect saga usually comes to mind. They laugh at the ridiculous characters and scratch their heads at the numerous investors who lost despite countless warnings. Yet, down in South Africa there...
Scammers Continue To Target Telegram ICO, Potentially Scoring Millions
With attention continuing to surround the upcoming Telegram ICO, scammers are having a field day with fake site after fake site. To make things worse, the sites appear to be successfully scamming people out of tens of thousands or possibly...
BitcoinWhite Scam: Latest Example of a Fraudulent Bitcoin Hardfork
Fork madness is continuing well into 2018 as a number of Bitcoin forks have occurred or being announced. Yet another somewhat unusual fork called Bitcoin White appeared on Bitcoin Talk back in November of last year. In addition to being...
Twitter Scams and Photoshop: The Creative Ways of Online Fraudsters
There is no doubt that you would have heard of it by now. Large scale Twitter scams are being perpetrated by bots that try to impersonate influential people. These operations have been operating for some time and despite the fact...
IOTA Growing Pains: Fake Wallets and Angry Community
It has been quite a tough few months for IOTA. Firstly you had the public disagreements that the project had from researchers at MIT who dismissed its hashing function. Then you had the large scale seed generation scams that stole...
E-Coin: Pump and Dump Scam Coin or Misunderstood Gem?
A relatively unknown cryptocurrency called E-Coin just recently experienced a massive pump and dump event. According to coinmarketcap.com, the prices on February 6 were about $6 each and following the pump at its peak, the price went all the way...
