Southeast Asia became a Bitcoin mining hotspot after the great China crackdown of 2021. Now authorities in various regions are battling a huge surge in electricity theft used to fuel these mining ...

A U.S. investor lost nearly $35,000 to a cloud mining scam, PFMcrypto.net, which later rebranded as EarnMining.com. Scam tactics show fake returns, block withdrawals, then demand hidden “fees” or ...

The case stems from a 2022 Enforcement Directorate (ED) investigation into an alleged ₹1,000-crore illegal mining operation, ...

What would you think, upon answering a phone call, hear, “How would you like to make 21% on your money, guaranteed?” “Hmmm, sounds interesting, so what’s the catch? Is this a Ponzi scheme?” you would ...

TL;DR: A fraud scandal involves the sale of used Seagate hard drives as new, with over 200 cases confirmed globally. The scam traces back to German retailers and involves drives used in cryptocurrency ...

A week into 2025, police from various jurisdictions have apprehended fraudsters running cryptocurrency-related schemes targeting hundreds of potential victims. On Jan. 5, Vietnamese police arrested ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) lawsuit against Green United can proceed to trial, a Utah judge ruled Monday. Last March, the SEC accused the Utah-based operation of scamming ...

A leading risk advisor's annual Global Fraud Report has highlighted rising incidences of corporate fraud and business losses from fraud based on a poll of 768 senior executives from a range of ...

Heightened cases of mining fraud had a correlation to the increase in the market price of gold in the 1980s. Opportunistic companies saw the potential to fleece investors in investing in gold ...