Scammers netted cryptocurrencies worth $7.7 bn in 2021: Report
New Delhi
20-December-2021
Cryptocurrency scammers netted $7.7 billion worth of cryptocurrency from victims in 2021, an 81 per cent rise in losses compared to last year, a new report showed on Monday.
A key source of rising cryptocurrency scams in 2021 were 'rug pulls', where the developers of a new cryptocurrency vanish and take supporters' funds with them, reports ZDNet.
Rug pulls accounted for 37 per cent of all cryptocurrency scam revenue in 2021, at $2.8 billion.
"As the largest form of cryptocurrency-based crime and one uniquely targeted toward new users, scamming poses one of the biggest threats to cryptocurrency's continued adoption," Chainalysis said.
The report found that the number of active financial scams rose from 2,052 in 2020 to 3,300.
Scams also went up in line with the rise in value of popular cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum and Bitcoin.
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"The most important takeaway is to avoid new tokens that haven't undergone a code audit. Code audits are a process through which a third-party firm analyses the code of the smart contract behind a new token or other DeFi project," said Chainalysis. -IANS
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