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“#Bitcoin scammers have reportedly swiped $24M this year<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n By Peter Aitken, Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

July 13, 2020 |<\/span> 1:24pm <\/p>\n

\n Scammers and thieves supposedly made off with around $24 million in Bitcoin in the first six months of 2020, according to reports.<\/p>\n

Twitter<\/a> bot Whale Alert, which tracks large transactions of cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin, worked with Scam Alert to produce a \u201ccrime reporting, tracking and analysis\u201d report. Bitcoins, as a digital cryptocurrency, verifies every transaction, meaning that any use and exchange of a bitcoin can be tracked.<\/p>\n

The initial analysis showed that some $38 million in bitcoin was stolen over the past four years (excluding Ponzi schemes), with $24 million in the first six months of 2020, according to a Medium post.<\/p>\n

Whale Alert noted that some of the \u201cmost successful scams\u201d made over $130,000 in a single day with \u201cnothing more than a one-page website, a bitcoin address and a decent amount of YouTube advertising.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tracking service highlighted a few of the more successful operations, including \u201cthe Giveaway,\u201d which features a celebrity, such as Elon Musk, which can net around $300,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe change in method and the increase in quality and scale suggests that entire professional teams are now behind some of the most successful ones and it is just a matter of time before they start using deepfakes, a technique that will surely revolutionize the scam market,\u201d Whale Alert claimed.<\/p>\n

Deepfake is a technique by which a person\u2019s face or likeness is superimposed over another person in an image or video.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are dozens of different types of scams such as giveaways, sextortions, fake exchanges, fake ICO\u2019s, bitcoin recovery, video scams, Ponzi schemes, fake tumblers, malware and the list goes on, but there is one thing all of these scams have in common: for the criminals, there is almost no risk involved while victims\u2019 lives are being destroyed,\u201d Whale Alert wrote in its post.<\/p>\n

Whale Alert projects upwards of $50 million in revenue for scammers by the end of the year.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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