Regulators and law enforcement agencies all over the world are issuing warnings about the increase in coronavirus-related scams and the American FBI is no different. The FBI recently also issued such a warning – more specifically, they said that they expect a spike of coronavirus-related cryptocurrency related scams, stealing and laundering investor money through blockchain technology. According to the FBI the pandemic plust the inscreasing number of merchants accepting cryptos has created an opportunity to conduct such scams. “Any traditional financial crimes and money laundering schemes are now orchestrated via cryptocurrencies,” the FBI said. The Bureau also listed four universal crypto scams people should be on the lookout for: -Blackmail attempts; -Work from home scams; -Paying for non-existent treatments or equipment; -Investment scams. This is disappointing and disgusting but entirely unsurprising. In a time of crisis the scammers crawl out of the woodwork.
What is bit surprising tho, when a well known site, has adds, that redirects to domains like financialt1mes.co / washingtonpost.club where you see a story, of how Warren made a fortune in Bitcoin (lol) and sells course on that. And that remains 24/7, be it crisis or not.