A Colorado woman says she was sent to the hospital after fighting with her bank for nearly a year to get her money refunded from a scam. Bev Thompson of Adams County, Colorado, says she contacted GO2Bank right away when she noticed that $420 was withdrawn from her account via ATM machines at a local […]
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A hacker briefly gained access to Litecoin’s X social media account to fraudulently promote that LTC is now available on the popular smart contract platform Solana (SOL). In a new thread, the developers of the decentralized peer-to-peer network warn investors about the breach but note that the team immediately regained access to Litecoin’s official X […]
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Millions of OpenSea user emails are now fully in the wild after the marketplace’s automation vendor leaked the emails in mid-2022.
Over seven million email addresses compromised in an OpenSea email vendor leak in 2022 have recently been “fully publicized” online — giving scammers a new treasure trove of information to work with, warns a SlowMist executive.
“Remember the attack on the OpenSea mail service provider in [2022] that led to the leakage of emails? The leaked email addresses have now been fully publicized after multiple disseminations,” wrote SlowMist’s chief information security officer “23pds” in a Jan. 13 post on X.
Speaking to Cointelegraph, 23pds explained that while the attack occurred in June 2022, the data had not been made public until recently, meaning “all groups of attackers can use this information to go phishing and scamming.”
A trillion-dollar banking giant says its customers lost about $2 million to fraud in a span of just eight days. Santander UK says scammers ripped £1.99 million ($2.04 million) from its customers’ accounts between Christmas and January 1st of 2024. The bank revealed the numbers in a push to keep customers vigilant through the holiday […]
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One of the world’s largest financial hubs just passed a law giving police the authority to freeze citizens’ bank accounts. Lawmakers in Singapore approved the legislation on Tuesday, which gives police the power to freeze accounts in a last-ditch effort to stop scammers, reports CNA. The new “Protection from Scams” bill allows police to order […]
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A 24-year-old man from the Netherlands has reportedly been arrested after allegedly scamming 300 people out of millions of dollars. According to a new report by local news outlet Oost, an unnamed law student and professional soccer player from the Dutch city of Hegelo has been arrested and accused of defrauding investors and mishandling their […]
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New court documents reveal that authorities plan to search through disgraced Terra (LUNA) founder Do Kwon’s personal emails, social media accounts, financial records, and more. According to a new court memo, investigators say they will sift through massive amounts of Kwon’s personal data to gather evidence against him. “The Government anticipates that Rule 16 discovery […]
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A US bank executive drained hundreds of thousands of dollars from the lender over a span of about three months, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The FDIC says that between June 5th of 2023 and September 18th of 2023, Jessica Ann Marshall allegedly stole $345,664.66 while working as a branch manager at the […]
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JPMorgan Chase is refusing to release $43,000 that belongs to a scammed Bank of America customer, according to a new report. Hyeon-Jin Kwon says she initially lost $56,000 after an impostor claiming to work at Bank of America gave her a call and managed to drain her account, reports the ABC-affiliated news station WMAR. “[The […]
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A Wells Fargo customer says the bank refuses to reimburse her account after scammers stole her entire life savings. The Virginia resident, who is 80-years-old and identified as Kay, says she received a message from someone impersonating Wells Fargo warning her account had been frozen, reports the NBC-affiliated news station WWBT. Kay says the message […]
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