Fake fund-recovery services
Distributed recovery and refund scam campaigns
Advance-fee fraud · Impersonation · International
Evidence updated through 12 August 2026
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Distributed toll-agency impersonation campaigns
Phishing · Identity theft · United States · Cross-border infrastructure
Evidence updated through May 2026
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Distributed fake-work and product-boosting campaigns
Employment fraud · Cryptocurrency · International
Evidence updated through 29 August 2025
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Editorial illustrationFTX customer-funds fraud case
FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried
Cryptocurrency exchange · United States · Global customers
Evidence updated through 12 June 2026
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Editorial illustrationTheranos investor-fraud case
Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh Balwani
Health technology · United States
Evidence updated through 22 December 2025
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Editorial illustrationOneCoin cryptocurrency scheme
OneCoin, Karl Sebastian Greenwood and Ruja Ignatova
Cryptocurrency · Multi-level marketing · International
Evidence updated through 3 April 2024
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