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How an onchain investigator linked a Coinbase impersonation scam to $2 million in losses and why social engineering remains the real risk.

According to SlowMist, attackers are impersonating MetaMask, aiming to steal users’ secret recovery phrases.

A divorced investor’s tragic loss reveals how emotional manipulation, combined with AI technology, has weaponized crypto scams into a billion-dollar crime.

An Investigation from ZachXBT traced the suspect through posts gloating on social media and Telegram activity.

The malicious Trust Wallet extension has also been exporting users’ personal information, pointing to potential insider activity, according to cybersecurity company SlowMist.

Zhao urged the blockchain industry to adopt new security measures, including scam address blacklist, after an investor lost $50 million to an address poisoning scheme.

Concerns about code vulnerabilities are fading in the crypto space, but more sophisticated scam tactics are emerging as protocol security improves.

A user lost nearly $50 million in USDt after copying a poisoned wallet address from transaction history, showing how subtle address spoofing can trick users.

Newly proposed legislation could see the US Treasury, FinCEN, the Secret Service, and law enforcement coordinate to catch crypto scammers and fraudsters.

From fake crypto investment offers to deepfake endorsements, here’s how criminals trick users and what you can do to stay one step ahead.

Cloudflare found over 5% of global emails were malicious in 2025, peaking near 10% in November, with more than half of them containing deceptive links.

ZachXBT warned about Soulja Boy’s new Base memecoin after Jesse Pollak shared a receipt, reviving past allegations of rug pulls and promotions.

An investor willingly sent his hard-earned Bitcoin retirement fund to a scammer, losing his entire stash after falling for a pig butchering scam despite repeated warnings.

About 30% of the initial PEPE supply was bundled under the same entity, which sold $2 million worth of tokens the day after launch, according to Bubblemaps.

Social media “guides” promise to build a profit-generating MEV bot with a few lines of code, only to leave an unsuspecting user with a drained wallet.