Brooklyn's District Attorney and the FBI seized 241 domains and 112 servers from a three-year crypto scam aimed at Russian speakers. The same operators then offered victims fake fund recovery, and about $300,000 has been recovered against tens of millions lost.
Perspective Coverage
11 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 6%
- Operator
- Operator 53%
- Investor
- Investor 41%
Reality
- Evidence68
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence72
Scammers ran a working copy of Dunamu's unlaunched GIWA network on its reserved chain ID 9134 and drained 766.25 ETH from users. The ID got through an exchange's listing checks, so a matching network ID is now weak evidence that a chain is the real one.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 38%
- Operator
- Operator 40%
- Investor
- Investor 22%
Reality
- Evidence68
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives60
- Confidence70
buildOne report1 publisher Every control that failed in Orlen's $424m oil trade sat off-chain
Orlen's contractor converted $245m into USDT at Dubai companies and later handed 110m of it to a purported broker on two USB sticks. The Polish government's investigation pins the total lost and spent at $424m.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap−10
- Incentives45
- Confidence40
Albuquerque clears every crypto kiosk from the city on a councilor's 90% fraud estimate
The September 10 ordinance gives operators 45 days from notice to pull every machine, and the 90% fraud rate the council relied on is one councilor's estimate that the published state and federal loss totals do not measure.
Reality
- Evidence36
- Adoption52
- Hype gap+33
- Incentives54
- Confidence45
Trezor's spoofed alert reused the language of the $112.7m Coldcard exploit
The email telling Trezor owners their recovery phrases might lack entropy came from a real trezor.io address and passed DKIM, SPF and DMARC, and it described a defect close to the one that took 1,778.84 BTC from Coldcard users.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives58
- Confidence45
INDXcoin collected $3 million from 500 people through a referral chain of fellow believers
The Regalados had no crypto background and did not need one, because what moved the money was a warm recommendation from a minister who had already bought in himself, and that is a channel any product team would recognise.
Reality
- Evidence66
- Adoption72
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives58
- Confidence61