🚀 Crypto investment scams increased by 53% in 2023! 😱 The FBI announced losses rising from $2.57 billion in 2022 to $3.94 billion in 2023. Criminals have come up with more scams by promising their targets huge returns on their investments.

🔍 According to the FBI's Internet Crime Report 2023:

- More than 880,400 complaints received

- Potential damages exceeded $12.5 billion

- Losses from investment fraud reached their highest level (increased from $3.31 billion in 2022 to $4.57 billion in 2023)

📧 Crypto scammers targeted business emails, resulting in 21,489 Business Email Compromise (BEC) complaints and over $2.9 billion in adjusted losses.

🔐 FBI emphasized the importance of new developments in multi-factor authentication.

🛡️ The FBI prevented some scams thanks to IC3's Rapid Asset Recovery Team (RAT). RAT stopped $758 million in potential losses in 3,008 events, freezing $538.39 million (71% success rate).

What do you think is the reason for this increase? 💭 We are waiting for your comments!