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A Brooklyn man who stole nearly $16 million from about 100 Coinbase users through a yearlong phishing and social engineering operation has been sentenced to ...

As a rule of thumb, if you receive an unsolicited text, especially one claiming to include a security code, it's likely part of a phishing scheme. Such is the case with a recent spate of unprompted ...

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A Coinbase scam stole roughly $15.94M from about 100 users before Ronald Spektor was sentenced in New York to 4 to 12 years in prison.

The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office has announced that Ronald Spektor, a 23-year-old Brooklyn resident who ran a year-long Coinbase support scam that drained roughly $16 million in crypto from ...

How an onchain investigator linked a Coinbase impersonation scam to $2 million in losses and why social engineering remains the real risk. A convincing “Coinbase support” impersonation campaign was ...

A shocking incident recently shook the crypto industry when Brooklyn authorities charged a man for allegedly stealing $16 million from users of Coinbase (Nasdaq: COIN), the largest crypto trading ...