​Americans Lost $5.6 Billion In Cryptocurrency Scams Last Year, FBI Says – Tyler Durden

Americans Lost $5.6 Billion In Cryptocurrency Scams Last Year, FBI Says Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times, Americans lost more than $5.6 billion to cryptocurrency fraud in 2023, a significant increase from previous years, according to a new report from the FBI. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received more than 69,000 complaints involving cryptocurrency fraud, representing a 45 percent increase in losses compared to the previous year, the Sept. 9 report said. While these cryptocurrency-related complaints accounted for 10 percent of the total number of financial fraud complaints, they made up nearly half of all financial…  — Continue at ZeroHedge News : Read More