“Invest in crypto!”: An analysis of investment scam advertisements found in Bitcointalk

Siu, Gilberto Atondo; Hutchings, Alice; Vasek, Marie; Moore, Tyler

doi:10.1109/ecrime57793.2022.10142100

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“…The study by G.A. Siu et al (2022) focuses on the evolution of investment fraud temptations and fraud-related keywords on the online cryptocurrency forum Bitcointalk over a 12-year period. A.…”

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In the context of rapid changes and a hyperdynamic external environment, the world economy and politics create new challenges and threats that actualise research on the effectiveness of public administration in the context of economic security through the prism of various legal fields. The purpose of the study is to present the author's vision of a methodological approach that will allow visualising the process of public administration in the context of ensuring a high level of economic security and evaluating its effectiveness, considering the legal aspect of the issue. The methodology involves using modern methods that combine and interact to achieve the goal. These include both general theoretical methods and specific ones: IDEF3 and the integral evaluation method. The approach to assessing the level of effectiveness of public administration in the system of ensuring economic security is defined. The importance of political and legal indicators is emphasised. The results of calculating the value of the integral indicator are presented, and the corresponding conclusions are drawn. The author's vision of the modern model of public administration implementation in the system of ensuring economic security with an emphasis on the protection of human rights is presented. All the key Public administration of the economic security system....

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Short Paper: DeFi Deception—Uncovering the Prevalence of Rugpulls in Cryptocurrency Projects

Agarwal,

Atondo-Siu,

Ordekian

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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DeFi has attracted legitimate investors and scammers alike. The paper presents an empirical investigation into the prevalence of rugpulls, a scam where cryptocurrency project developers exit without fully delivering and leave investors in the wind. Using forum data, 101 rugpulls from 6 different types of DeFi services are documented. ICOs form the majority of the rugpulls, most of which were active for less than six months before scamming out. ICOs rugpulled in 2021 were active for a much longer time than those that were rugpulled later on, perhaps pointing to new entrants intending to pull the rug. Through qualitative thematic analysis, we discover that these schemes primarily use authoritative and financial lures at the announcement stage of the project to mimic legitimate projects.

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Crypto-Cognitive Exploitation: Integrating Cognitive, Social, and Technological perspectives on cryptocurrency fraud

Perdana,

Jhee Jiow

2024

Telematics and Informatics

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“Invest in crypto!”: An analysis of investment scam advertisements found in Bitcointalk

Cited by 6 publications

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Short Paper: DeFi Deception—Uncovering the Prevalence of Rugpulls in Cryptocurrency Projects

Crypto-Cognitive Exploitation: Integrating Cognitive, Social, and Technological perspectives on cryptocurrency fraud

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