The whole world celebrates “Valentine’s Day” today, February 14, and the trade in roses, chocolates, greeting cards and other gifts is flourishing, as flower and gift sellers in all countries of the world are waiting for this occasion to achieve more sales than normal days of the year.
However, some take advantage of this romantic occasion to entrap their victims, and they are often active before this day on the Internet to steal victims, so that Valentine’s Day turns into an opportunity to steal millions of dollars.
Via Cryptocurrency
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced that pre-Valentine’s Day scammers have been active online, using cryptocurrencies to prey on their victims, luring victims to invest or trade these currencies to steal their financial data.
He also added that his cybercrime unit detected that romance scams, as it called them, amounted to $64 million this year in northern California alone, almost double what was detected last year.
recently increased
It is noteworthy that cryptocurrency fraud has recently increased, as a Canadian teenager was arrested, at the end of last yearHe is accused of stealing C$46 million ($36.5 million) worth of cryptocurrency from a US victim, in the largest single-person crypto-asset heist, according to police in Hamilton, near Toronto.
Police said at the time that the victim was targeted through a phone scam known as SIM swapping, in which a fraudster wirelessly hijacks a client’s phone number to intercept two-factor authentication requests and gain access to the victim’s accounts.
It also confiscated cryptocurrencies, currently valued at more than C$7 million.
