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While financial scams have always been around, the variety of schemes that scammers employ to steal money are easily proliferated these days with the internet, social media, AI and crypto. Frauds and ...

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Sam Bankman-Fried's crisis PR rep didn't know about his interview with Tucker Carlson. The rep, Mark Botnick, resigned from the role on Thursday. The crypto scammer is reported to be seeking a pardon ...