According to Scam Sniffer monitoring, in the past few days, a drainer has stolen over 7000 TON. It uses origin spoofing to impersonate StonFi, with about 3 victims being affected every minute.

Josh Stein, the Attorney General of North Carolina, issued a warning about Bitcoin ATM scams after receiving numerous complaints. The warning outlines techniques to avoid such scams, emphasizing the need to be cautious of unsolicited cryptocurrency payment requests, online relationships turning to finance, verifying investment advice, and avoiding get-rich-quick schemes. Victims are urged to report fraudulent behavior to local law enforcement and consumer protection agencies.

Golden Finance reported that Ki Young Ju, the founder of Crypto Quant, stated on social media that scammers earned $241 million in 2023 through a pump and dump scheme of 90,408 tokens on the Ethereum network.

SlowMist founder Yu Xian wrote on the X platform: "Recently, a friend said he was tricked by this: Easy to Use Arbitrage MEV Bot for Uniswap. The so-called Uniswap arbitrage MEV robot is a scam. Don't believe it when it promises to leave such a good thing for you... According to the instructions, deploy the trap contract code in Remix, actually, you can deploy it in Remix VM first, and add event records to the entry functions such as Start/Stop/Withdrawal. It is easy to find that the arbitrage capital you put in will go to the scammer's wallet address. There is no such thing as a free lunch, so be sober."

On December 29th, according to the report by the Lianhe Zaobao, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's interview with CGTN in March this year was tampered with, and someone used deepfake technology to create a fake video that circulated on the internet. Prime Minister Lee urged the public to be vigilant and not to be deceived.

BlockBeats News, on December 18th, Atomicals Market issued a warning to remind users to be careful of fake "Atomicals Support" accounts, especially highlighting a major impersonator @AtomicalsHelpEN. These fake accounts completely copied Atomicals' official information, misleading users.

Indian authorities have arrested 18 people, including four police officers, for their suspected involvement in a $300 million cryptocurrency scam that victimized around 100,000 people. The investigation into the Himachal Pradesh scam is ongoing, and eight new arrests have been made. The scam involved fraudsters approaching victims with investment plans involving a local cryptocurrency called Korvio Coin, and several other cryptocurrencies were reportedly used through fake websites. The scam gained legitimacy because it involved police personnel, with more than 1,000 cops becoming involved in the scheme. The alleged kingpin, Subhash Sharma, remains at large, and the Enforcement Directorate is investigating the role of five women suspected of having worked as agents or promoters for him.