Crypto scams fell 77% in the first half of 2023 with ransom attackers back in town and perpetrators already pocketing a lot more compared to the first half of 2022, according to chainalysis.
Cryptocurrency scams have fallen a massive 77% from $3.3 billion to $1.1 billion over the first six months of 2023, according to a recent report by blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis.
The firm observed that historically, scam revenue increases in bull markets — but that hasn’t been the case so far in 2023: While Chainalysis partially attributed the drop to decreasing transaction volumes, it explained that illicit inflows have fallen at a faster rate: Kim Grauer, director of research at Chainalysis told Cointelegraph that past scam victims may also be becoming more “scrupulous” with their investment decisions and, as a result, may no longer be falling for the bait thrown out by scammers. This may also be contributing to the fall in scam revenue.
“Given the growing prominence of romance and pig butchering scams, one thing to look out for is the use of AI to increase effectiveness and scale, since those scams are largely text-based.”Ransom perpetrators are ‘big game hunting’ deep pocketed firms “Why the reversal in fortunes? For one thing, big game hunting — that is, the targeting of large, deep-pocketed organizations by ransomware attackers — seems to have bounced back after a lull in 2022.”
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