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The FBI has issued a warning about a fake token on the Tron blockchain that is impersonating the agency to trick users in a crypto phishing scam.<\/p>\n
\n Summary<\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n FBI\u2019s New York Field Office issued a message<\/a> on Thursday warning that scammers were sending tokens to users to siphon personal information under the pretence that the recipient\u2019s wallet was \u201cunder investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n Recipients of the token are redirected to a website where they are asked to complete an anti money laundering verification online \u201cto avoid a total block on your assets.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cFBI New York encourages users of the Tron blockchain network to exercise caution if they encounter a token purported to be from the FBI,\u201d the agency said, advising users not to provide \u201cany identifying information to any website associated with such [a] token.\u201d<\/p>\n The token also comes with warnings that a user could face \u201ca total block\u201d on their assets if they fail to clear the verification process.<\/p>\n Once on the malicious website, victims are told that \u201ccurrent sanctions\u201d can be avoided if users immediately comply with the request.<\/p>\n Similar tactics are common across other phishing scams where bad actors prey on urgency to extract sensitive information.<\/p>\n Scammers may be targeting users who are concerned about potential regulatory scrutiny and fear enforcement action.<\/p>\n According to data<\/a> from Tronscan, the token was sent to at least 728 digital wallets, and many of these wallets held more than $1 million in USDT.<\/p>\n Those who have already shared information have been urged to file a report with the FBI\u2019s Internet Crime Complaint Center.<\/p>\n While the FBI has confirmed that it has no involvement with the fake token, in the past, the agency developed a token to take down a market manipulation network.<\/p>\n As previously reported by crypto.news<\/a>, the FBI launched NexFundAI during a sting called \u201cOperation Token Mirrors.\u201d The token was used to expose a wash trading ring involved in artificially inflating prices.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, phishing remains a consistent threat<\/a> and has become one of the leading attack vectors in recent years, resulting in multi-million dollar losses across incidents.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n
FBI developed their own crypto to bust scammers<\/h2>\n