Coinbase has become the most popular crypto brand among scammers
🥷 Cryptocurrency scammers most frequently mimic the Coinbase exchange brand to deceive their victims. Over the past four years, the Coinbase brand has been used in 416 scam schemes and phishing attacks.
🌐 According to CoinMarketCap, Coinbase is the second-largest centralized cryptocurrency #exchange globally, with a daily trading volume exceeding $1.8 billion. On CoinGecko's rating, the platform has the highest trust score alongside Binance, Bybit, and OKX. 🧐
🔎 Overall, analysts have studied 1.14 million incidents where #scammers. posed as a well-known company or organization more than 249,000 times.
👀 Among traditional firms, #Facebook is the most popular among scammers, mentioned in 10,457 registered cases of fraud.
🗒 The U.S. Tax Administration featured in 9,762 incidents, and #Apple in 9,110. Following them are Amazon (8,919), Steam (4,833), and Microsoft (4,518).
