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FBI Warns Investors of Growing Crypto Scams Amid Billion-Dollar Losses

11.10.2024
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a warning to cryptocurrency investors, highlighting a surge in scams, particularly targeting retirees and the elderly. FBI experts explain how scammers trick victims into fake crypto investments and scare them into handing over more funds before...

Lawmakers Call on Top 10 Bitcoin ATM Firms to Address Crypto Fraud Concerns

15.9.2024
Seven Senate Democrats have called on the 10 largest bitcoin ATM operators in the U.S. to address growing crypto fraud that targets elderly Americans. The lawmakers explained that scammers are reportedly exploiting the anonymity of cryptocurrency transactions to steal from seniors through bitcoin...

Surge in Bitcoin Scams Hits Lubbock, Police Warn

7.8.2024
Lubbock police in Texas have reported a notable increase in bitcoin-related scams, with victims losing significant amounts of money. Over the last few months, 20 to 30 individuals have come forward to report scams involving gift cards and bitcoin transactions. Scammers typically target the elderly...

Russia ‘Edging Toward Mandatory CBDC Pensions’ – Economist

15.1.2024
Source: Kira/Adobe A Russian economist has claimed Moscow will eventually force the elderly to accept CBDC pension payments as part of the digital ruble rollout. Per Pro Blast, the claims were made by the writer and economist Alexander Razuvaev, who said: “Gradually, [conventional] pensions...

Crypto Scammers Preying on Elderly Japanese Singletons – Report

3.3.2023
Crypto scammers are targeting elderly Japanese singles on social media and dating apps. But middle-aged Japanese lonely hearts are also finding themselves in fraudsters’ cross-hairs. And some scammers appear to be targeting yet-younger individuals. In a column for Nikkan Gendai, the financial...

Scammer Dupes Elderly Japanese Woman out of $748k Worth of Crypto

27.1.2023
A Japanese woman in her eighties was duped out of over $748,000 worth of tokens by a crypto scammer who told her that her bank account was under attack. Kyodo News (via Tokyo Shimbum) reported that the woman was contacted by a “person claiming to be an employee of the ward [local government]...

Wordle Saves Elderly Woman From Kidnapping

10.2.2022
A 32-year-old man in Lincolnwood, Illinois was arrested by police after breaking into an elderly woman’s home and holding her hostage for 17 hours. Police were called by the woman’s family to do a wellness check after she failed to send her daughter the usual morning Wordle puzzle. Read more

Man Kills Elderly Parents Because They Always Interrupted Anime Viewing

27.7.2021
In Fukuoka, Japan, a 59-year-old man is in police custody for the murder of his parents, ages 87 and 88. One of the reasons he gave for killing them was that his anime watching kept getting interrupted. According to Yomiuri Shimbun and The Tokyo Reporter, Junji Matsumoto served as his parents’...

‘Elderly’ South Korean Crypto Fans Brave 30-min Waits at Customer Centers

11.5.2021
South Korean Crypto Fever 2.0 shows no sign of abating – with customers weathering waiting time of 30 minutes or more as queues of wannabe investors wait to get face-to-face service from the crypto exchange Bithumb’s reopened offline center in Seoul’s affluent Gangnam District. As previously...

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