'Fraud Technical Support' by the FBI Internet Crime Compaint Center (IC3) the agency released a public notice regarding the increase in fraudulent activity. By 2017, they receive 11,000 complaints with a total loss of $ 15 Million.
IC3 notes that criminals act as security, customers, or technical support representatives who offer to resolve the issue. And when contact is formed, they go to their plan.
Fraudulent activities made by those scum criminal are literally everywhere, traditional way or cryptocurrency they will always find their way in to fool people and make tons of money out of the pocket from other people, there are tons of other cases outside the cryptocurrency world that is happening on a daily basis, the figure is large but that is nothing compared to a real-time scammers online and physical investment schemes, the increase in the number of fraudulent activities on this field is normal as the trend to bitcoin is spreading throughout the globe.