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Tinder Swindlers
(SPOILER ALERT) On February 2 Netflix came out with a conventional documentary the Tinder Swindler about a serial con artist Shimon Hayut...

Global Anti-Scam Org
Feb 9, 20224 min read


Real Liquidity Mining
Not all liquidity mining sites or DeFi sites are scams, the details are a bit more complicated..... By icetoad A lot of the victims of...

Global Anti-Scam Org
Feb 4, 20222 min read


Audit Process for Theft Loss Claim (New York State)
After you have filed your taxes and claimed Theft Loss Deductions for the Pig Butchering Scam (a hybrid relationship-investment fraud),...

Global Anti-Scam Org
Jan 31, 20223 min read


Modern Love, Modern Blackmail
ML from New York City had just ended an eight-year long-distance relationship when she registered an account on Tinder. Trying to forget...

Global Anti-Scam Org
Jan 27, 20227 min read


I lost over $50,000 from a DApp phishing scam in Coinbase Wallet
I believe Coinbase Wallet users can easily get phished to give a DApp to take control and grant spending permission to an external entity.

Global Anti-Scam Org
Jan 20, 20224 min read


Tricking English translators for ShaZhuPan Scripts
GASO received a tip off from one Nepali who got tricked into working for a Chinese online-telecom fraud company in Nepal for 3 days...

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Jan 20, 20221 min read


Top Companies for Relationship-Investment Fraud Cybercrimes
Part 3 of 3: survey data from 441 victims of pig butchering scams

Global Anti-Scam Org
Jan 16, 20222 min read


Illicit Crypto in 2021: Lowest % of Total Global Crypto Ever... or Reporting Remained Flat
Last week a preview of the annual Cryptocrime Report of Chainalysis came out looking at cryptocurrency crime trends in 2021. The biggest...

Global Anti-Scam Org
Jan 12, 20223 min read


More on dApp scams, fake mining pools
We at GASO are seeing more and more victims of fraudulent dApps (decentralized apps running "smart contracts" on a blockchain) that...

Global Anti-Scam Org
Jan 9, 20225 min read


Motivations and Impacts of ShaZhuPan
Part 2 of 3. Part 1 here The Manipulation It is cruel, but not surprising, that the most romantically attached are also the most...

Global Anti-Scam Org
Jan 3, 20222 min read


Statistics of crypto-romance / pig-butchering scam
Survey results from 550 victims as of Jul. 6 2022 Part 1 of 3 Losses Losses internationally in USD (excluding 38 who lost under $2,500)...

Global Anti-Scam Org
Dec 21, 20212 min read


One booming Chinese Cybercrime Industry Town in Myanmar
Re-post from The People’s Map of Global China, by PLATO CHENG Original title and source: Shwe Kokko Special Economic Zone / Yatai New...

Global Anti-Scam Org
Dec 16, 20218 min read


Unraveling the Pig Butchering Scam (ShaZhuPan)
A year-old episode from the "Dark Forest" series by JiaBai that examines the Chinese criminal underworld. This episode is about ShaZhuPan...

Global Anti-Scam Org
Dec 13, 20211 min read


More Decentralized App scams, fake dApp support and the COVID variant
We have been seeing a new increase since the past month of victims of decentralized Apps or dApps, in combination with a long-term...

Global Anti-Scam Org
Dec 13, 20211 min read


Seeking Refunds From Banks
Call the bank as soon as possible after you found out you were scammed. Ask to speak with the fraud department.

Global Anti-Scam Org
Dec 7, 20213 min read
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