Top 3 Crypto Scam Tactics by Revenue

Comparing the most profitable methods used by cybercriminals, ranging from simple social engineering to complex technical supply chain attacks.

The top 3

  1. Pig Butchering (Sha Zhu Pan): By far the most lucrative scam category, these long-term investment frauds account for billions in global losses annually through trust-building and fake trading platforms.
  2. Romance Scams: These scams leverage emotional manipulation to coerce victims into 'investing' in fraudulent crypto schemes, often showing high early returns to build false confidence.
  3. Task-Based Fraud: A growing subset of investment scams, these use 'work-from-home' pretenses to drain funds, increasingly incorporating hardware wallet tampering as a final phase of the theft.

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