Crypto Phishing and Spoofing Scams

Jason Scharfman ()
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Jason Scharfman: Corgentum Consulting, LLC

Chapter Chapter 7 in The Cryptocurrency and Digital Asset Fraud Casebook, Volume II, 2024, pp 193-219 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter discusses cryptocurrency phishing and spoofing scams. It begin by providing an introduction to phishing scams in general and then turns to cryptocurrency phishing scams. We then discuss the use of phishing bots and cover nine categories of phishing scams. In this discussion, a wide variety of phishing attacks discuss, including spear phishing, whaling, permit phishing, ice phishing, deepfake phishing, and artificial intelligence (AI) enabled phishing. The chapter concludes with an overview of spoofing scams and then compares them to phishing scams.

Keywords: Cryptocurrency Phishing; Spoofing; Airdrop phishing; Permit phishing; Ice Phishing; Whaling; Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-60836-0_7

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