The FBI and LinkedIn are working together to fight scammers who use the job search and networking platform to lure investors into cryptocurrency scam schemes.
According to CNBC’s report The latest target of cryptocurrency scammers is LinkedIn users. it happened.
FBI’s San Francisco and Sacramento special agent, in charge of California field offices Sean Raganbad actors according to LinkedIn and users for “A major threat” forming. ragan About the subject “Such fraudulent activities are important. There are many potential victims, past and present.” made a statement.
who said the FBI is seeing an increase in these private investment scams. raganconfirmed that it has active investigations but did not provide any information about these cases which are still pending.
According to the report, scammers who appear to be professionals with a fake profile reach out to a LinkedIn user and gain the user’s trust with their conversations before offering to make money through crypto investments. The scammer eventually takes advantage of the trust he has gained over months, directing the user to deposit money on a site controlled by him, and then emptying the account.
In a statement to CNBC, he admitted that there has been an increase in scams on the platform recently. LinkedIn He made the following statements on the subject:
We work every day to keep our members safe. This includes investing in automated and manual defenses to detect and address fake accounts, misinformation, and suspected scams.
According to their semiannual reports of fraud 2021 in the year More than 32 million fake accounts stating that they removed it from the platform LinkedInwhile saying that they do not have an estimate of how much money was stolen from members through their platform. a group of victims of your losses $200,000 to 1.6 million dollars claims to be among them.
The report also noted that many of the perpetrators were traced back to a victim advocacy and support group. Global Anti-Scam Organization by Southeast AsiaIt was included that you were followed up to