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Cryptocurrency fraud is rampant. Here’s how to protect yourself as a crypto...

Summary List PlacementThe Federal Trade Commission released a report on Monday warning that cryptocurrency fraud and scams are on the rise as more investors put their money into the blockchain. The FTC...

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Here's how an accused crypto fraudster known as the 'CryptoQueen' allegedly...

Summary List PlacementOn June 11, 2016, Ruja Ignatova walked onto the stage at The SSE Arena in London to hundreds of cheering fans as pyrotechnics went off and "Girl is on Fire" by Alicia Keys played...

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Is Cash App safe? Yes, but there are certain drawbacks to using it, and...

Summary List PlacementCash App is one of several popular peer-to-peer transaction services, similar in many ways to PayPal,Venmo, and others. Related Article Module: How does Cash App work? Cash App's...

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'Deely Nuts,' 'Beefy King,' and other fake businesses reportedly got $7...

Summary List PlacementFake businesses received a collective $7 million in federal COVID-19 relief loans last year through online lending platform Kabbage, and most were registered as farms, according...

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Fraud-prevention startup Sift just announced plans to acquire Chargeback as...

Summary List PlacementE-commerce has grown rapidly since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. But as consumers have shifted their spending online, fraudsters have followed.The increased focus in the...

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Cryptocurrencies are for speculators, criminals, and cosplayers. Other than...

Summary List PlacementCryptocurrencies are for speculators, criminals, and cosplayers. Aside from that, they're useless, and I'm tired of everyone trying to pretend otherwise.I have waited for years...

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A crypto expert shares the top tips to pick worthwhile NFTs in a landscape...

Summary List PlacementNo one is more excited about non-fungible tokens (NFTs) revolutionizing the art world than crypto expert Scott Morgan, who started out as an artist and creator himself."I want...

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No one is policing corporate America, and white-collar crime is on the rise....

Summary List PlacementThe coronavirus pandemic hit the Cheesecake Factory hard. Like millions of restaurants, the company watched as most of its business disappeared overnight. By April 2020 the chain...

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As much as 50% of the stimulus unemployment money may have been stolen, Axios...

Summary List PlacementFrom direct stimulus payments to unemployment benefits, Americans have received several different forms of financial aid during the pandemic. But a large chunk of that aid — as...

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Mississippi paid out $118 million in improper unemployment claims, largely...

Summary List PlacementAmericans received $600 weekly unemployment benefits under the CARES Act in March, but the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found in May that a portion of those funds fell...

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Half of the people who applied for unemployment didn't get it, new report says

Summary List PlacementThroughout the pandemic, unemployment benefits have taken on a newfound prominence as millions of Americans found themselves jobless — and newly eligible for expanded aid.But...

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A major UK bank will ban its customers from trading on cryptocurrency...

Summary List PlacementBritish lender TSB is going to ban its customers from buying cryptocurrencies from accounts that it believes are vulnerable to fraud. "We take our obligation to protect customers...

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Crypto scams are preying on vulnerable people. Many victims are deceived...

Summary List PlacementCryptocurrency scams are on the rise, with victims often being tricked out of thousands of dollars.This is backed up by recent data from the FTC, which shows that since October...

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Sites pushing suspected dogecoin scams have skyrocketed in lockstep with the...

Summary List PlacementSites pushing suspected dogecoin scams have skyrocketed in 2021, rising in lockstep with the meme token's nearly 4,000% rally since the beginning of the year.Domain registrations...

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Citibank, JPMorgan, and other banking giants are facing a potential class...

Summary List PlacementAllegations of currency-trade manipulation are bubbling up into a potential class-action suit against several big banks, according to a report from the Financial Times.Two...

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Crypto 'yield farming' is reportedly booming, and investors could see up to...

Summary List PlacementAny investment involves balancing risk and reward, but few are as risky or as rewarding as "yield farming," a booming segment of crypto that has already humbled the likes of Mark...

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The SEC busted a mother-son crypto Ponzi scheme that lured investors with an...

Summary List PlacementThe Securities and Exchange Commission announced it shut down the operations of a mother-son duo that defrauded investors through a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that promised up to...

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A lawyer who went to prison for 9/11-related fraud just got his law license...

Summary List PlacementJeff Grant started his law career the way many young lawyers would dream of starting. He launched his own firm shortly after graduating from New York Law School in 1981 and grew...

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The SEC just issued a $13 million fine in its first-ever DeFi enforcement action

Summary List PlacementThe Securities and Exchange Commission slapped two Florida men with a $13 million fine for defrauding investors in the agency's first-ever decentralized finance enforcement...

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Documents show Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's campaign committee was struck by...

Summary List PlacementRep. Ilhan Omar's congressional committee appears to have fallen victim to an alleged fraudster who made off with more than $3,100 from her campaign account, according to federal...

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