Investment Scams
Mirror Trading International’s Cornelius Johannes Steynberg and his $3.4 Billion USD Default Judgement
Some of you may have heard that students in UAB's Investigating Online Crimes class have been researching Crypto Investment Scam websites. You can find a list of some of the sites we've ...
Scams Lost US $10 BILLION in 2022 — Crypto Fraud Grows Fast
Ben is disappointed: FBI reports huge rise in cryptocurrency investment scams. Why am I not surprised? ...
Please stop calling all Crypto Scams "Pig Butchering!"
 Lately there has been a media-driven craze in the fraud community to call every crypto-investment scam "Pig Butchering." I hope you will join me in canceling that term after you read this ...
BEC Still #1, but Investment Fraud passes Romance Scams
https://www.ic3.gov/Media/PDF/AnnualReport/2021_IC3Report.pdfThe FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (ic3.gov) has released their 2021 Internet Crime Report.The number of complaints increased by 7% to 847,376 from 2020 to 2021, however the reported losses increased by ...
