According to a chainalysis report, crypto scams are down in 2023 but ransomware crime is up! What else did the report reveal? Check here -
– the “highest revenue form of crypto-based crime – have fallen off a cliff, down 77% compared to the period through June 2022.
“Usually, positive price movements translate to higher scam revenue, likely because increased market exuberance and FOMO make victims more susceptible to scammers’ pitches,” the blog post stated. “But 2023’s drastic scam decline bucks that long-standing trend.”Chainalysis said the decline in scam revenue has largely been by one of the largest scams vanishing from the picture: VidiLook.
Last year, Chainlysis theorized that better security practices from large-scale institutions and sanctions against cashout services to ransomware gangs were pushing down the frequency of such payments. However, the firm now believes criminals are compensating by increasing the size of ransom demands, squeezing the most out of victims they manage to catch.
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