From fake support to deepfake fraud, several crypto scams demand your attention in 2025. These are the ones you simply can’t afford to ignore.
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Web3 pump-and-dump schemes thrive on hype, anonymity, and unregulated markets; understanding their playbook is key to avoiding costly traps.
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Honeypot scams lure crypto investors into buying tokens they can’t sell, locking their funds through smart contract tricks.
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Social media platform X has long had a crypto spam problem, so will a fee to post be enough to stop them? Users are skeptical.
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The Ordinals.com website has continued to suffer connection issues due to a distributed denial of service (DDoS).
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A Bitcoin Core developer claimed Bitcoin Ordinals exploit a vulnerability allowing inscribers to bypass data size limits, which could soon be fixed.
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Twitter has not specified what the daily DM limits will be, and the move hasn’t been well-received by both verified and unverified users.
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Security researchers at Meta said that “bad actors” have flocked to generative AI because it’s the latest tech to capture “people’s imagination and excitement.”
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The Phantom wallet app has launched a new Burn Token feature, allowing users to remove spam NFTs sent by scammers.
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Would-be Twitter owner Elon Musk plans to shake the crypto spammers out of Twitter, disputing claims that fake accounts are only 5% of the total.
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“They’re made by people trying to get rich off of other people trying to get rich,” said Dogecoin creator Billy Markus.
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An arbitrage bot managed to turn 14 ETH to 218.5 ETH simply by spamming the Polygon network for 120 days.
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India’s SMS regulation requires businesses to comply with pre-registered messaging templates to counter spam and fraud.
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Roughly 500 people were in for a random surprise on Mar. 8, receiving a profanity-laced correspondence from BlockFi after their email addresses were used to sign up for fake accounts.
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U.S. company Salesforce, which operates a cloud-based mailing platform, has patented a blockchain solution to distinguish between spam and regular emails.
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