crypto scams
2025-04-24 02:24:25.730984+02 by Dan Lyke 2 comments
In a link to the FBI IC3 (Internet Crime Complaint Center) Internet Crime Report 2024, Molly White @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io says
FBI: Americans aged 60 and older reported losing almost $3 billion to crypto fraud last year. In total, Americans reported being scammed out of around $9.3 billion via crypto, out of a total $16.6 billion in total reported Internet crime losses that year.
...and I kinda wonder if we're doing a disservice when we call out cryptocurrency based scams as such, because that implies that there are things about cryptocurrency that aren't awful and horrible.