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 Crypto Scam Tracker  (https://dfpi.ca.gov/consumers/crypto/crypto-scam-tracker/)


I came across this Crypto Scam Tracker that was recently updated on: May 9, 2025 @ 1:36 pm. I think it will be useful for all especially newbies to go through and see the kind of scam people have gone through in crypto and also to submit complaint that they have on a likely scam they almost got cut in or their friends, just like if you see something you say something and the crypto scam can be reduced. So it has an area for complaint so that others can learn from your experience too.

At least I know once a platform is requesting for tax before withdrawal of your fund with them either through your trade profit that is not withdrawal fee which is usually less than a dollar in btc value or $1 in usdt then you can be sure a scam is on the way.

I don't know the authenticity of this crypto scam but from experience scammers are known to claim to be a Crypto recovery institution that one to help someone that was just scammed but they are just scammers coming in for the kill. I know this may be different but I am bringing it up so you and other newbies can be aware that just because something looks like the good guy doesn't mean it should not be properly vetted.
Be careful with all this tools if you are not sure of the source then I highly recommend you avoid it.

Since there is no place to sign up or link whatsoever, i don't think there is any threat with the site, i consider it a good initiative, it's just a site to complain about issues, read stories from other victims. People who would use this site should avoid any party interference after sending mails, nobody will help you resolve any issue if the scam work has be done, one funds are moved from wallet their is no recovery.

This also came to my thought that one needs to be careful with forums like this that claim to help people to recover or avoid crypto scams. Avoiding crypto scams without providing any information to this sites on how you got scam through providing any vital information from your wallet should be prohibited. Some sites have claimed in the post to help recover stolen funds from scammers which they end up scamming the person the second time.

Once you’ve lost your crypto, you just have to let them go and learn from your mistake. Trying further to want to recover what you’ve lost through carelessness or hack should be a lesson to you and not be a way to what to aggressively get your money back. Stolen funds can’t be recovered and anyone that tell you they want to recover it for you are just misleading you and want to scam you more.

If not for anything, it is better to learn from someone's ordeal. They say a wise person learns from others mistakes, you are better of if you are equip with the gimmicks of scammers so that when they are coming with such tricks, you already know where they are driving at.

I was wondering why this was moved from the general board to local board.

Maybe the site can also be helpful. But I will advice anyone that wants to avoid scam to make the research themself and also read crypto news and also be on forum like Bitcointalk. These are what I did when I was a beginner and they helped me to easily know scam and avoid it.

You need to be very careful with all these scam trackers, especially when money is lost in cryptocurrency. Some people get scammed again by scammers trying to get back their lost money. One thing I know is that when a coin is scammed by a scammer, it is very difficult to get it back; the same thing happens when a scammer gains access to one's wallet. Sometimes, when we think of tracking crypto scams, we also need to reason if it is worth it and if it will end up well. Even most crypto scam trackers are scams because scammers know very well that victims will be desperate to get back what they have.

The problem be say most of this tracker self na scam because this scammers they always update there self so how the crypto scam tracker go take tracker am. The best thing be say make person just rely on him own Instincts because that one you go fit  tell easily if you see any scam you go fit know. And the way this thing go work be say make you get enough knowledge, when you get knowledge that way you go fit know anything way no they right. And when they scam you for crypto you no go fit get the money back make we no lie give our self. And even as them they hack and still money from exchanges and nothing even security agencies fit do. And scam done they plenty now so the thing go better say make everyone keep there money safe.

On a second thought, I consider it better to reach out to more newbies. It can be helpful for more users.

Newbies in cryptocurrency can read the cryptocurrency scambook (https://chainsec.io/scams/) which is informative about most common scam types so that readers, not restricted to newbies can have more awareness, knowledge about most popular scams and have less chance of falling to those scams.

From knowledge, awareness, they already have good start but to avoid scams, they must have good practice such as being carefully enough in privacy and security practice, and keep their emotion controlled like won't be too greed. Scammers mostly target to people who are either too careless or too greedy.

Basically, you can notice about 80% of scam attempts on your own. A lot of the "newer" scams start by sending you a small amount of money upfront, thinking that this will "buy" you. In return, they ask you to install certain programs that raise red flags and require you to disable your antivirus. Unfortunately, many people especially beginners fall for that small payment trick.You're in a good position, as someone mentioned here, because even as a beginner, you already know some of the common methods, so it's harder for you to get scammed. That’s why we try to help each other out.

Any platform or forum that genuinely exposes scammers and their modes of operation is welcomed by me so thanks to the OP for sharing this perticular one. No knowledge is a waste, you never know where a tip that can help you at the point of your being scammed will come from, this perticular one that is shared here updates victims and near victims direct experiences which is good. The rate of scams in the crypto space is on the increase and we need to be a step ahead of them by being informed. The justice that anybody that has nearly been scammed or victims that have been scammed is to share their experiences through different forums like bitcointalk and the one that is mentioned in the OP.

20% is enough for someone to lose huge amounts. There is no way to combat this attack totally because more security conscious we become scammers tend to upgrade their activities. A little mistake can give in to scammers, i believe in trusting our consciousness to detect scam attacks but we can't know all, sometimes they use links which without being informed our brains cannot detect how bad our actions will carry out, if it takes any extra tool to stay updated then why not carry on. Most of us here are learning about so many scam attacks because we read from the forum.

Until now I am not so sure about crypto scam tracker. Even if there is something convincing, crypto scam tracker should set a high price, and it is the same as anti-virus application, because the tracker should have more time to monitor each project. Therefore, we must be careful with every thing like this. Even for services that set fees can have the risk of running away from responsibility, let alone free or low-cost ones. For me personally, I prefer to do personal analysis, rather than just trusting such services. Because besides increasing our knowledge, we also increase experience from the learning process that we do.

Thats right. Even though can have tracked potential scammers list or any sort of. We cant verify either these informations are correct and has a legitimate sources or just a made up. The dashboard seems nice but of course we dont know if this one is like sort of malware or some sort of phishing site too.

Until proven safe to interact with dont trust.

Hey, this is useful. There is a saying that experience is the best teacher, but when it comes to investing in cryptocurrency, what you know and how you apply it will save you a lot.
The glossary of this Crypto Scam Tracker, is worth reading not only for newbies but for seasoned traders as well, this is to refreshes us on how these scammers work.

I strongly recommend this tool for every beginner and even those who are experienced because it detailed the various formats scam can take, shared from experience of victims and experts. It even go ahead and shared details of the processes the scam followed and all the tools and techniques used by the scammers as well as the amount and transaction details of some of those scams. The information there can save a novice a lot of troubles because scam is not something nice for someone just starting investing in cryptocurrency.

Thanks to the OP for sharing this site, it acts as both a warning system and educational guide for newbies, making it an essential resource go over time to time.

For scam awareness the site is helpful, beside that I foresee a disadvantage, only reported malicious website is listed on the website. New scam operators will at first victimize people before getting exposed.

Shame the list isn't verified, but i wonder how useful is it since you need effort to write the paperwork.


Normally i agree with you, but OP shared list hosted on government website. So it's less likely they'll be scammed again, unless the website hijacked by rogue government worker.

It's a .gov website, probably run by people incharge by the X dept in the government. But yes, it's good to verify than to trust even this is is run by the government.

With this kind of website, there is an existing with years already serving with scams sites list cryptoscamdb.org which is open source too.

It is a good initiative by educating the newbies. The crypto world is becoming more popular day by day, and people are coming to invest, but most of them don't because their funds can be stolen, or they are just stuck in traps. If you guys know how to deal with it, then it's good, but if not, then go to it and check the users' stories about the different scams that happen nowadays. On a daily basis, new techniques are invented to trap white-collar people, and they wash their accounts, so it would be better to check all those scammed ways and protect yourself.

This is a good initiative for the newbies who are trying to make sure if they have landed an investment that's legitimate.  :D
They'll have to use such tools to verify if there is no complaint yet. But the problem is if they deal with something new and it's not yet there and they have trusted those scam websites, they'll soon be the one to list it there. I believe such tools are helpful even in the slightest that it can be as long as there are proofs and references to the reports that are being posted and why it's listed there, thanks op!

While this might be a very useful place to sometimes identify these schemes, you don’t find these sites reaching the person that needs them the most. Scams have been as common as you hear people say it but almost every time, you find people falling victims to these scammers. More like, scammers have got schemes for every time of person and they operate in way that, they’ve got a syndicate that handles specific types of clients and enquiry. I really wish they could get a job in IT you know, work a customer care paid job if not own one.

There's so much creativity involved in these scams, it's unbelievable. It seems like it's easier for scammers to use their creativity in a harmful way than to channel it into something useful or even start their own business. Again, i’ll say that the crypto dcam track is a good initiative, but unfortunately, it can't cover everything considering how many scams happen every single day.

Their doing so is due to a very big thought and a big work which does not force us to believe due to which scam is happening nowadays. They know that there are people in this whole world who are interested in such things and then they are put into such things and they cheat us in the same way and succeed in their goal and they also take the loss because they hope that we will definitely get profit tomorrow. According to your thinking, this is absolutely correct and the kind of situation it is okay to say and it has become common in everyday life due to which scam is happening every day.

Yeah, exactly just imagine how much effort they put into scamming someone. It's in some people’s nature bad people do that. They simply know that someone will fall for their “serious” nonsense. That’s why, as soon as we find out about something new, we should share it with other forum members as quickly as possible, so they don’t get scammed.And i’d also like to tell new members not to rush in don’t give your money to anyone, and be patient. Your opportunity will definitely come if you put in the effort. There’s no such thing as quick money.

This is good advice and people should control their greed and not let it guide them, because if greed leads them, it will drive them straight into the traps of scammers who promise victims huge sums of money in exchange for depositing their money into a Ponzi platform, or connecting their wallet to a suspicious site, or investing in a new coin, or registering on a new launched trading platform, or joining a Telegram bot to receive an airdrop.

The methods scammers use are certainly diverse, and everyone must become well aware of them to avoid falling victim. If someone does fall for a scam, they should track the scam and report it to the appropriate authorities without trusting those so-called asset recovery companies or similar services.

I did a quick glance of the site you shared and from their write up there , they actually depend on reports from other users that simply means the scam needs to be reported by a few persons before they can assist concerning it. It's not a 100% effective way to avoid falling for scams but it's still a good one though. However I don't recommend any one relying on it totally.
It's better to never careful and conscious about the things you do concerning both your assets and your privacy and KYC data. You can't be too careful but avoiding carelessness and greed is way important.

We should have our own scam tracker here on the forum not like the type for casinos but for scams that are recent and have been on the news. In addition to the scam tracker we should also have one for malware tracker. You know the type that is embedded in a software and tries to steal your Bitcoins without your knowledge. _act_ and some other forum members have been doing great by reporting them here too. At least if we have these trackers of the forum we can trust that the reports are correct.

Good observation! I was thinking the same thing when I first saw the post because it normally happens when people claim to help others avoiding scams but at the same time targeting them to scam. I believe some scammers will disguise as a victim and share a story to see others reaction or probably wants to offer help to others that share their experience and the gullible ones among them will fall for it. The more you try to recover lost crypto assets, the more you're likely to get scammed again.

Scams are very easily to avoid and you don't need many things for doing a safe practice on Internet.

Carefullness with online and offline activities on digital devices and your accounts.
Have basic knowledge about most common scams to avoid engangement with them.
Having good Anti Virus software or Internet Security Software but make sure you are aware that those softwares can give you false positive or false negative. Hence, the bottom line is going backwards to first and second steps that can secure your devices and accounts very well. Softwares only provide you a second layer of protection, the first layer of protection is more vital.

How would you be careful with the things you have mentioned if people don't share their experience? It is when people bring you up to speed with what they have gone through that you learn especially in this kind of scam cases that can keep you regretting for a long time. If you didn't fall for scam as a newbie doesn't mean others didn't fall or are not falling for scam. One mistake made can lead to many regrettable experience but it is a wise person that learn from others experience. You don't push it off that newbies should know about things concerning scam because even experienced users also fall for scam and you already know about people falling for Ponzi scheme, they are not just only newbies. So if you know of a scam you want to report, it will help someone you never can tell.