Explainers — Scam and Fraud

Blockchain Revolution (2016): useful primer, loud promises

Don and Alex Tapscott’s business bestseller still explains the basics — and still overshoots the utopia.

A famous short-seller thinks AI spending is outrunning real demand — that is an opinion, not a trading signal.

A two-week “digital assets” teaser on education-motivation.ru leans on a prestige bio that does not survive a search.

Staff confirmed a real character-training document after model extractions — interesting AI news, not an investment thesis.

The firm’s own scam warning lists fake recovery offers. A €250 “find your coins” fee is not how elite counsel works.

A listed fintech’s filings on an aggregator are real. A chat that hires you to deposit your own money is not.

Gemini’s NFT venue lived at niftygateway.com. Random *NiftyGateway* bots are a different business: yours.

Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil popularised a hypothesis — marketers turned it into urgency.

SAFU is Binance’s emergency reserve narrative. A hyphenated lookalike domain is not how you claim it.

A free balance that balloons on screen is bait — the withdrawal fee is the product.

Camping with a power bank makes good television. It does not make leveraged futures a housing plan.

A real Layer-1 token is still a poor reason to show a stranger how much you can send.