{"id":77372,"date":"2023-04-17T18:13:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T15:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=77372"},"modified":"2025-09-10T22:54:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T19:54:52","slug":"australians-lost-148m-to-crypto-scammers-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/australians-lost-148m-to-crypto-scammers-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Australians lost $148m to crypto scammers in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2022, Australians handed over about $148.4m to criminals in cryptocurrency-related scams, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accc.gov.au\/media-release\/accc-calls-for-united-front-as-scammers-steal-over-3bn-from-australians\">says<\/a> <span data-descr=\"Australian Competition and Consumer Commission\" class=\"old_tooltip\">ACCC<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>More than 4,000 Australians fell victim, up 162.4% from 2021. By comparison, in 2020 scammers extracted <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/fraudsters-swindle-australians-out-of-more-than-20-million-in-bitcoin\">$20.5m<\/a> from Australians using schemes involving Bitcoin and other payment methods.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest report, the average victim is a man aged 65 or older, living in New South Wales. The regulator says gullible users are found on social media or dating apps.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Australians lost a record $2.03bn in the past year through various scams \u2014 66% of which were investment-related (55% in 2021).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;We have witnessed the emergence of worrying new tactics that make it incredibly difficult to detect scammers. They spoof phone numbers, email addresses and websites of real organisations. [\u2026] This means that anyone can become a victim of fraud,&#8221; Low explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As reported, from the start of 2022 to December 1 the market <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/scammers-have-launched-nearly-120000-tokens-this-year\">117,629 fraudulent tokens<\/a> appeared on the market, linked to rug-pull schemes, according to Solidus Labs.<\/p>\n<p>In the first quarter of 2023, blockchain projects <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/crypto-projects-lost-more-than-320-million-to-hacks-in-the-quarter\">lost<\/a> more than $320m due to hacks and fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2022, Australians handed over about $148.4m to criminals in cryptocurrency-related scams. The ACCC reports this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[108,1246],"class_list":["post-77372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-australia","tag-scammers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77374,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77372\/revisions\/77374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}