Crypto’s rising value likely to bring new wave of scams

This advisory highlights common cryptocurrency fraud schemes—including pig-butchering, deepfake celebrity livestreams, fake trading platforms, advance-fee and referral bonus scams, compromised account phishing, and typosquatting—amid multi-billion-dollar losses, and provides practical defenses such as using password managers and MFA, avoiding unsolicited contacts and links, and carefully researching platforms, with a reminder that offers promising outsized returns are likely scams.