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We've been informed that Arbitraging.co (rebranded to Apextrader.com) is most probably a scam operation. Here's the tip we got from our reader: They have not allowed a withdrawal of Apex tokens since November 3rd and have done a token swap in September totally devaluing the investors accounts.…

Even though there were reports of Cryptoexmart dot com being a scam months ago, the website is still there. It's registered by and hosted by PublicDomainRegistry.com and hosted by Qservers.net, which means those are pretty abuse-resistant (or no one filed any complaints). Let's review the…

This new scam is using vanity of crypto bloggers to promote itself. In short - it's a fake ICO, has nothing to do with WalMart, the domains are freshly registered and you should stay away from such scams. On October 9-10 2018 many cryptocurrency blogs and news sites (including CoinVigilance) got…

Today I've had several unknown people contact me on Telegram and ask for help in withdrawing their Bitcoins from an exchange. This sounds way too suspicious to even consider to be legit, - these are all scammers or even chat bots serving scammers. I decided to talk to one of them, to see how…

May 2020 update - Bitcoin.com wallet app for Android does not label BCH as the "the real" Bitcoin anymore. The two currencies are clearly labeled as different things and there are separate buttons to buy each: Thus, the article below is obsolete and has been redacted. =======…

Uquid is one of the crypto debit card providers that we've reviewed. However, Uquid has still not recovered from the crypto Visa & MasterCard ban and their prepaid card is not functional. Right now Uquid consists of a UQC coin and a corresponding mini-ecosystem - wallets, exchange services…

We've been getting consistent comment spam promoting BCKKE - a so called "high yield investment program", or HYIP that's promising to double original investment in 3 hours. Their website is a sloppy one-pager asking for BTC payments and listing truncated BTC addresses that supposedly won…

We're starting a monthly feature - Google search trends analysis. The methodology is imposing certain limits on the data but it's still fun to do. These are the algorithmic search trends - just Google's data on web searches related to "Bitcoin" that gained popularity rapidly lately. Bitcoin to…

You may have seen the "new airdrop!" messages with links plastered all over social media on a daily basis. This guide will explain what airdrops in crypto are, how to use them and how to stay safe while claiming your airdrops. What are crypto airdrops? In simplest terms, an airdrop means awarding…

June 2018 update: Denaro turned out to be a scam and the people behind it disappeared with raised funds: https://medium.com/@franck.melka/how-icos-scammers-like-denaro-coin-and-now-plutocoin-start-to-steal-the-money-of-crypto-investors-17b026e08d4b…

Yet another "anonymous Bitcoin buying service" has been promoted with automated spam comments for a while: furcoins. One of our readers has sent the following report in a comment (below) SHARING MY EXPERIENCE TRADING BITCOINS USING FURCOINS (https://furcoins.com/) Jan 8 – furcoins received my…

"Liviacoins.com" is starting to hit the web with waves and waves of automated comments. Most of the comments look better than your average spammy comments, because they have Gravatars tied to Gmails they use for registration. E.g. here's the comment we got @ CoinVigilance (see it on the Bitcoin.com…