Crypto & Investment Scams

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Fake-reward crypto and investment / pig-butchering monetization funnels.

One Lure, Four Operators: Ad Tracking Strings as Fingerprints

Four separate operators ran the same fake TradingView desktop-app ads on Facebook for nine months, and one query-string key was all that told them apart.

Published Aug 3, 2026Updated Aug 30, 2026

Crypto & Investment Scams

Eleven Buying Teams, One Shared Crypto Lander Pool

Between November 2025 and August 2026, eleven media-buying teams ran crypto brand-impersonation ads out of one shared pool of burner domains.

Published Aug 5, 2026Updated Aug 30, 2026

Crypto & Investment Scams

The Receipt Is the Payload: A Domainless Crypto-Reward Scam

Between May 8 and 13, 2026, we tracked a crypto-reward scam that carried its entire lure inside genuine, Google-signed Forms response receipts.

Published Jun 16, 2026Updated Jun 16, 2026

Crypto & Investment Scams

Ten Exchanges, One Operator: A .digital Crypto-Impersonation Network

Since January 2026, one operator has run Facebook ads impersonating TradingView, Binance, OKX and other exchanges to push fake crypto desktop apps.

Published Apr 14, 2026Updated Jul 26, 2026