Fake Coinbase website leads to $20M fraud, 5-year sentence
A phishing scam netted a fraudster luxury cars and foreign vacations, and then a prison sentence.
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Binance CEO CZ forecasts DeFi outgrowing CeFi in the next bull run
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Memecoin launcher pump.fun claims ex-employee behind $1.9M exploit
Pump.fun said its smart contracts are safe and impacted users will receive “100% of the liquidity” that it previously had within the next 24 hours.