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Call centers avoid targeting Americans because they didn’t want the FBI after them Australians are targeted because the AFP is less likely to go after the scammers A former call center worker in Ukraine said Australians were targeted in crypto scam...

AFP decoded a seed phrase, leading to the seizure of millions in cryptocurrency tied to the Ghost platform.

The AFP arrests a 32-year-old man during a raid at his home in New South Wales Seizing the crypto was made possible after the AFP cracked the suspect’s seed phrase The arrest marks the second under Operation Kraken The Australian Federal Police...

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) seized $9.5 million in digital assets from the alleged mastermind behind an organized crime application called Ghost. The AFP-led Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce (CACT) arrested the 32-year-old suspect in...

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce (CACT) has successfully seized approximately $6.4 million (9.3 million Australian dollars) in crypto. According to an Oct. 2 statement, the authorities were able to secure...

The Australian Federal Police said an analyst cracked the seed phrase to a crypto account belonging to the accused owner of an organized crime messaging app. 

Two most common methods used by bad actors to trick individuals are pig butchering and deepfakes.

Several reports have confirmed that Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram, was taken to court from custody, Cointelegraph reported. According to sources close to the matter, Durovs detention period was nearing its end, prompting his transfer...

Australians has suffered significant financial losses to cryptocurrency scams, amounting to $122 million over the past 12 months, according to the Australian Federal Police (AFP). The increase in scam activity highlights a worrying trend as more...

“Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov has nothing to hide,” the end-to-end encrypted social media platform noted in a statement issued hours after Durov’s detention in France, adding that he “travels frequently in Europe.”Durov was detained by French...