按文本定位：加密貨幣欺詐正在爆炸，造成數十億美元的損失

它始於一條短信，似乎是針對別人的。賓夕法尼亞州居民埃德·海杜克（Ed Hayduk）回答。在接下來的幾周中，他從事了他對CBS新聞費城的友好對話的描述。

A text message, seemingly meant for someone else, started it all. When Ed Hayduk, a Pennsylvania resident, replied, he had no idea it would lead to the loss of his life savings.

一條短信似乎是為其他人準備的，開始了這一切。當賓夕法尼亞州居民埃德·海杜克（Ed Hayduk）回答時，他不知道這會導致他的人生儲蓄。

It began with a friendly conversation, slowly unfolding over several weeks, as the sender, whom Hayduk had never met, engaged him in light-hearted banter, according to an interview with CBS News Philadelphia.

根據哥倫比亞廣播公司（CBS News）的訪談，始於一場友好的談話，因為海杜克從未見過的發件人逐漸展開了幾週的時間。

The fibs started small. The sender, who claimed to be a successful investor, mentioned investing a small sum of money with an advanced crypto trading program that generated substantial returns. To prove it, they showed an image of their phone screen displaying a large credit in an e-wallet.

纖維開始很小。聲稱自己是成功的投資者的發件人提到，通過高級加密貨幣計劃投資一筆錢，該計劃產生了可觀的回報。為了證明這一點，他們展示了手機屏幕的圖像，該圖像在電子錢包中顯示出很大的信用。

However, the fibs quickly escalated. After initially investing a small amount at the sender’s request, which Hayduk says was around $500, the scammer, in an attempt to deceive him into investing more, used an online statement generator to fabricate larger and larger investment sums with advanced editing software, making it appear as if the initial small investment had snowballed into an incredible investment gain.

但是，纖維很快升級。在最初按發件人的要求投資少量之後，海杜克（Hayduk）表示，騙子大約為500美元，試圖欺騙他進行更多的投資，並使用在線聲明生成器使用高級編輯軟件來製造越來越大的投資總和，使其看起來好像最初的小型投資使雪球降低了令人難以置信的投資收益。

The scammer went to great lengths to fabricate the statements to make them appear legitimate, complete with e-wallet addresses, transaction codes, and an e-wallet application’s logo. They even used an e-wallet to transfer small sums of money to divert any suspicion.

騙子竭盡全力製造陳述以使其顯得合理，並配有電子手提地址，交易代碼和電子紙質應用程序的徽標。他們甚至使用電子錢包轉移一小筆錢來轉移任何懷疑。

Sadly, the scammer’s efforts were successful. Over time, Hayduk invested a total of $50,000, which he had saved throughout his entire life, and the scammer vanished.

可悲的是，騙子的努力取得了成功。隨著時間的流逝，海杜克（Hayduk）投資了總計50,000美元，一生都節省了50,000美元，騙子消失了。

Now, the FBI is sounding the alarm over a concerning trend: cryptocurrency-related investment fraud is causing the biggest financial losses.

現在，聯邦調查局對趨勢發出了警報：與加密貨幣相關的投資欺詐正在造成最大的財務損失。

According to the FBI’s 2023 Cryptocurrency Fraud Report, which sheds light on the bureau’s efforts in combating cryptocurrency-related crimes, complaints about cryptocurrency-related offenses comprised about 10% of the total financial fraud complaints received by the agency in 2023, the most recent year for which data is available.

根據聯邦調查局（FBI）的2023年加密貨幣欺詐報告，該報告闡明了該局在打擊與加密貨幣相關的犯罪方面的努力，有關加密貨幣相關的罪行的投訴，佔該機構在2023年收到的金融欺詐總投訴的約10％，是最近一年的最新數據。

However, these complaints accounted for nearly half of the total financial losses.

但是，這些投訴佔財務總損失的近一半。

The report’s estimates indicate that in 2023, Americans lost more than $5.6 billion to cryptocurrency scams—a staggering 45% increase from the previous year.

該報告的估計表明，2023年，美國人損失了超過56億美元的加密貨幣騙局，這比上一年增加了45％。

The FTC’s report for 2023 shows that the total reported losses to investment scams in 2023 were $5.7 billion, the highest among all categories of fraud.

FTC的2023年報告顯示，2023年投資騙局的總損失為57億美元，是所有欺詐類別中最高的。