Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo illustration by Cheng Xin/Getty Images Text scams are everywhere these days — and they're constantly evolving and changing.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new phishing scam seems to be popping up every month, which can make it hard to stay alert. While some of these scams are more ...

Key takeaways:A convincing “Coinbase support” impersonation campaign was linked by onchain investigator ZachXBT to roughly $2 million in stolen crypto.The attribution relied on corroboration across ...

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The phony email says crypto exchange users have until April 1 to transfer their crypto into self-custody wallets — but it’s a big scam. Crypto users have reported an increase in scam emails ...

Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, is under fire after a wave of social engineering scams between December 2024 and January 2025 caused millions in losses for its ...

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Coinbase (COIN) users lost over $65 million to social engineering attacks in the past two months with an estimated $300 million lost to such attacks annually, crypto sleuth ZachXBT said in an X post ...

Text scams are everywhere these days — and they're constantly evolving and changing. The latest evolution appears to be a scam centered on fake texts about Coinbase, the crypto platform. If you do get ...

As a rule of thumb, if you receive an unsolicited text, especially one claiming to include a security code, it's likely part of a phishing scheme. Such is the case with a recent spate of unprompted ...