随着该行业成为主流，加密骗局变得更加复杂和普遍

选择欺诈性投资机会可能会导致您的整个加密货币投资组合完全耗尽。加密货币没有以同样的方式受到保护

Crypto scams are becoming more common as the sector goes mainstream. Here are some of the worst scams to watch out for in 2022.

随着该行业成为主流，加密货币诈骗变得越来越普遍。以下是 2022 年需要警惕的一些最严重的骗局。

Crypto scams are becoming more elaborate and pervasive as the sector goes mainstream. Choosing a fraudulent investment opportunity could lead to the complete drain of your entire crypto portfolio.

随着该行业成为主流，加密骗局变得更加复杂和普遍。选择欺诈性投资机会可能会导致您的整个加密货币投资组合完全耗尽。

Crypto is not protected in the same way it would be if you put your money into a bank or other protected financial service.

加密货币所受到的保护方式与将钱存入银行或其他受保护的金融服务机构所受到的保护方式不同。

Many cryptocurrency investors have fallen foul to scammers, without realising it's a trap until the last minute.

许多加密货币投资者都陷入了骗子的陷阱，直到最后一刻才意识到这是一个陷阱。

The amount of detected illicit activity from cryptocurrency scammers has dropped in 2022.

2022 年，检测到的加密货币诈骗者非法活动数量有所下降。

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阅读更多：加密货币实时价格

The total revenue lost to crypto scams so far in 2022 currently sits at $1.6bn (£1.32bn), according to a report by Chainalysis. This was down 65% from the same period last year.

根据 Chainaanalysis 的一份报告，2022 年迄今为止，加密货币诈骗造成的总收入损失达 16 亿美元（13.2 亿英镑）。这比去年同期下降了 65%。

However, this decline appears to be linked to falling prices across the entire cryptocurrency sector when compared to 2021.

然而，与 2021 年相比，这种下降似乎与整个加密货币行业的价格下跌有关。

Below is a list of some of the worst crypto scams prowling the burgeoning web3 market in 2022, how to spot them, and how to avoid them.

以下列出了 2022 年新兴的 web3 市场中一些最严重的加密货币诈骗，以及如何发现它们以及如何避免它们。

Crypto giveaway scam

加密赠品骗局

On Twitter (TWTR), many people get sent direct messages stating they will receive "free crypto" if they send a small amount of cryptocurrency to a wallet address.

在 Twitter (TWTR) 上，许多人收到直接消息，称如果他们将少量加密货币发送到钱包地址，他们将收到“免费加密货币”。

When the victim clicks on the link in the message they are given instructions on how to send the crypto to a certain wallet.

当受害者点击消息中的链接时，他们会收到有关如何将加密货币发送到某个钱包的说明。

In this scam, victims never receive the cryptocurrency that was promised in return.

在这个骗局中，受害者永远不会收到承诺回报的加密货币。

To make the process seem more legitimate, a hacker will often compromise or impersonate a prominent public figure or company.

为了使该过程看起来更合法，黑客通常会妥协或冒充知名公众人物或公司。

Scam tokens in a cryptocurrency wallet

加密货币钱包中的诈骗代币

When a person connects their digital wallet to a decentralised cryptocurrency exchange, scam tokens may appear in their wallet that usually seem to be worth thousands of dollars.

当一个人将他们的数字钱包连接到去中心化的加密货币交易所时，他们的钱包中可能会出现通常看起来价值数千美元的诈骗代币。

The immediate reaction of most people is to sell the tokens.

大多数人的第一反应是出售代币。

However, this is a serious scam, and if you sell you will lose all your money.

然而，这是一个严重的骗局，如果你卖掉你就会损失所有的钱。

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When you sell the token, you activate a smart contract that transfers all of your other legitimate cryptocurrency tokens to the scammers who sent you the bogus coins.

当您出售代币时，您会激活一个智能合约，将您所有其他合法的加密货币代币转移给向您发送假币的骗子。

If you receive a strange token in your digital wallet that you did not trade yourself, just ignore or hide the token from your wallet.

如果您的数字钱包中收到一个奇怪的代币，而且该代币不是您自己交易的，只需忽略或隐藏钱包中的代币即可。

Do not interact with the token as this will set up the smart contract that will steal the private keys to all of your funds.

不要与代币交互，因为这将建立一个智能合约，该合约将窃取您所有资金的私钥。

The rug pull

地毯拉力

A "rug pull" or exit scam is when you buy into a new coin or NFT and when the value of the coin rises to a specific point, the developers behind the scam remove all of their holdings and so plunge the value down to zero.

“地毯拉动”或退出骗局是指当您购买新代币或 NFT 时，当该代币的价值上升到特定点时，骗局背后的开发商会删除其所有持有的资产，从而将其价值降至零。

The infamous Squid Game cryptocurrency scam in October 2021 was an example of a rug pull scam that caught the attention of mainstream media outlets.

2021 年 10 月臭名昭著的 Squid Game 加密货币骗局就是引起主流媒体关注的拉地毯骗局的一个例子。

Encouraged by former memecoin success stories, early investors in the Squid Game cryptocurrency saw the token as a way to make gains of upwards of 10,000%.

受到前 memecoin 成功故事的鼓舞，Squid Game 加密货币的早期投资者将代币视为赚取高达 10,000% 以上收益的一种方式。

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阅读更多：加密货币：以太坊的 Soulbound 代币是什么？

Soon the hype and fear of missing out became feverish, a multitude of retail investors got on board and the charts for Squid Game went green and pitched upwards at a steep angle.

很快，炒作和对错失的恐惧变得狂热，大量散户投资者纷纷加入，Squid Game 的图表变绿并以陡峭的角度向上倾斜。

Then one morning in early November, a red vertical line suddenly appeared on the memecoin's price chart, the token's value plummeted to a pittance and it could not be traded on any decentralised exchange.

然后11月初的一天早上，memecoin的价格图表上突然出现了一条红色竖线，该代币的价值暴跌至微不足道，无法在任何去中心化交易所进行交易。

The memecoin’s Telegram group was deleted, and all trace of the project’s social media footprint was wiped and it became apparent that the whole enterprise was a rug pull.

memecoin 的 Telegram 群组被删除，该项目在社交媒体上的所有痕迹都被抹去，很明显整个企业都是一场骗局。

The crypto-sphere is unregulated, and there are no official bodies to turn to when scammers strike.

加密领域不受监管，当诈骗者发动袭击时，也没有可以求助的官方机构。

Celebrities with vested interests in NFT projects

NFT 项目中拥有既得利益的名人

Truth in Advertising (TINA), a non-profit consumer advocacy group, sent letters to 19 celebrities, saying that their promotion of various NFT projects are misleading since they have a “material connection to the NFT companies they are promoting".

非盈利消费者权益倡导组织 Truth in Advertising (TINA) 致函 19 名名人，称他们宣传的各种 NFT 项目具有误导性，因为他们“与他们所宣传的 NFT 公司存在实质性联系”。

According to Federal Trade Commission law in the US, these connections must be laid out in full in conjunction with any kind of endorsement.

根据美国联邦贸易委员会的法律，这些联系必须与任何类型的认可一起完整列出。

Singer Justin Bieber and actress Reese Witherspoon, both proponents of the NFT space in different ways, were among the list of celebrities that TINA reached out to.

歌手贾斯汀·比伯 (Justin Bieber) 和女演员瑞茜·威瑟斯彭 (Reese Witherspoon) 都以不同方式支持 NFT 领域，他们也在 TINA 接触过的名人名单中。

Celebrity endorsement of NFT projects pumps the price of these digital assets.

NFT 项目的名人认可推高了这些数字资产的价格。

Reece Witherspoon has promoted the World of Women NFT collection, which claims to celebrate “representation, inclusivity, and equal opportunities for all".

Reece Witherspoon 推广了 World of Women NFT 系列，声称庆祝“所有人的代表性、包容性和平等机会”。

Witherspoon has used her Twitter account to promote the NFT collection but failed to include a caveat in her endorsements that she has a partnership with the organisation behind the collection.

威瑟斯彭 (Witherspoon) 使用她的 Twitter 帐户来宣传 NFT 系列，但没有在她的认可中注明她与该系列背后的组织有合作伙伴关系。

Mining pool scam

矿池骗局

Another pitfall to avoid is the cryptocurrency mining pool scam,

另一个要避免的陷阱是加密货币矿池骗局，