2025 Global Crypto Fraud Report: AI Counterfeiting, Fake Recruitment, and Innovative Ponzi Schemes Become Key Threats

PANews reported on June 10 that a trading platform jointly released the “2025 Global Crypto Anti-Fraud Trend Report” with SlowMist and Elliptic, systematically sorting out the common fraud methods in the crypto industry from 2024 to early 2025. According to the report, global losses due to crypto fraud have reached $4.6 billion in 2024, and three types of risks are particularly prominent: one is deepfake impersonation, which uses synthetic video to lure users into fake investments; The second is social engineering fraud, including Trojan links disguised as job invitations, phishing bots, and fake staking schemes; The third is a new type of Ponzi scheme, which often operates with the help of DeFi, NFT, or GameFi’s concept wrapped capital disk.

As AI fake videos, fake hiring processes, and tokenized Ponzi schemes continue to erode user trust, the next phase of crypto security requires not only technical defenses, but also industry-wide coordinated defenses. A trading platform joined hands with SlowMist and Elliptic to build a cross-ecosystem joint defense system through threat intelligence sharing, automated fund path tracking, and cross-platform risk marking. The report also introduces a number of current anti-fraud measures of the platform, including AI red team attack and defense drills, compliance data collaboration mechanism, and user security education driven by the anti-fraud center, etc., to promote the construction of a more resilient encryption security system.