The DOJ, Microsoft, Meta, and other international law enforcement agencies and private-sector companies launched a sprawling initiative targeting scam compound operators running various investment and cryptocurrency schemes, resulting in the freezing of ...

An FTC report says that Americans last year lost $2.1 billion in social media scams, such as shopping and investment schemes. Social media site have become the place where most of these ...

Cyber-driven fraud – from investment schemes to business email compromise (BEC) to confidence and romance scams – accounted for almost 85% of the losses Americans suffered through fraud crimes last year, totaling ...

The influence of Chinese money laundering networks has skyrocketed since 2020, with the operations now moving almost 20% of all illicit cryptocurrency being laundered last year, according to Chainalysis researchers. In 2025, ...

Service providers are delivering infrastructure, tools, and expertise and giving rise to pig-butchering-as-a-service models that are enabling the Asian crime syndicates running massive investment and romance scams to through industrial-scale compounds around ...

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 ...

Ben is disappointed: FBI reports huge rise in cryptocurrency investment scams. Why am I not surprised? ...

 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 ...

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 ...