Crypto scammers are targeting the thousands of ships stranded near the Strait of Hormuz—and at least one ship that faced Iranian gunfire may have been tricked into believing it had paid Iran for safe ...

Just about every day, we receive emails from readers who have encountered new scams. Many involve cryptocurrency. The pattern keeps repeating. Someone receives a message that feels urgent, emotional ...

Besides freezing crypto, the strike force also seized a Telegram channel used to recruit unsuspecting job seekers and took down 503 fake crypto investment websites. The US Department of Justice ...

Elastic Security Labs says a multi-step social engineering scam is aimed at those in crypto and finance, using a community plugin feature on a note-taking app to spread malicious device-controlling ...

Singer-songwriter G. Love says he lost his retirement fund after falling for a crypto scam. On April 11, the “Baby’s Got Sauce” singer revealed in a series of X (formerly Twitter) posts that he lost ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Centralia police said a woman recently lost more than $1,400 to a scammer posing as a sheriff’s deputy who convinced her to deposit cash into a cryptocurrency kiosk — the latest in a ...

The world of cryptocurrency is full of scammers, and the laid-back Philadelphia blues-rocker G. Love recently learned all about it the hard way. On Saturday, the G. Love & Special Sauce frontman, ...

An Illinois judge has sentenced a Texas man to more than two decades in federal prison for orchestrating a $20 million cryptocurrency scam. Prosecutors said Robert Dunlap, 55, of Houston, Texas, ...

Attorney General James Uthmeier announces that the Office of Statewide Prosecution’s Cyber Fraud Enforcement Unit (CFEU) recovered a record-breaking $5.4 million in cryptocurrency in a case affecting ...

PLYMOUTH, Mich. – Americans lost $21 billion in cybercrimes in 2025. Around half involved cryptocurrency, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A Plymouth man told Local 4 he lost $37,000 ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - While off duty, a Bethlehem police officer rescued an elderly woman from falling victim to a scam. According to a social media post from the police department, Officer Stom was off ...

DILI, East Timor—Last fall, the Trump administration announced criminal charges and sweeping sanctions against what it said was a transnational criminal syndicate that had stolen billions of dollars ...