Crypto — Scam and Fraud

Kraken: stronger paperwork, still exchange custody risk

Kraken looks sturdier than fly-by-night offshore desks — coins there are still not a bank deposit.

Free trading academies funded by ad spend are funnels — and look-alike domains are a separate hazard.

A platform that took your deposit without fuss, then declares your withdrawal address alien, is arguing with your money — not with blockchain facts.

Real exchange anti-phishing tags are free settings — nobody sells them as a smart-contract product.

When a site accepts your deposit freely, then demands an insurance or binding payment to withdraw, the compliance language is costume.

Stablecoin chips feel modern; Tether’s own terms remind you the transfer is not a card payment.

PRG was sold as industry infrastructure and price appreciation — then became an early SEC ICO enforcement exhibit.

A former UK prime minister calling Bitcoin a Ponzi sits awkwardly beside his government’s crypto-hub push.

Draft US market-structure bills turned on a plain question: who pays yield on digital dollars.

Centralising oversight of significant crypto firms will not delete scams — but it does shrink the “soft licence” story.

Iran shows crypto as parallel finance under pressure — which is why compliance teams, not tipsters, matter.

Buying a token “access key” to black-box signals is still a speculative bet — not a managed account with rights.