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.

Coinbase joined London's Joint Disruption Week, helping block over $415,000 in losses as authorities targeted scam networks in Ghana and Nigeria.

Pig butchering, address poisoning and AI deepfakes are just a few of the tricks scammers have up their sleeves.

Authorities around the world have been heavily targeting scam infrastructure this year, with joint actions involving the US, UAE, China, Austria and Albania. Crypto exchange Coinbase said it ...

The scammers also ran a fake recovery service, contacting victims weeks later with promises to get their stolen crypto back.