Victim to Vigilant: Fighting Crypto Scams
summary
Claims a $12 billion reported loss with much more unreported and shows that many scams target thousands of victims through repeated messages. It launches scamalert.io, a multilingual victim reporting portal plus a searchable database that law enforcement gets free access to, ties linked cases to enable coordinated action and fund recovery, exposes scam clusters using Crystal Intelligence attribution, and offers an API for VASPs and real-time Twitter/Telegram alerts for moving funds.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Fighting crypto scams
- 1:11Global impact of scams
- 2:40Crystal Intelligence fraud detection
- 4:01Introducing scamalert.io
- 5:27Preventing future scams
- 7:11Real-time alerts and enforcement
- 8:37Community effort for safer crypto
- 9:41Call to action
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