按文本定位：加密货币欺诈正在爆炸，造成数十亿美元的损失

它始于一条短信，似乎是针对别人的。宾夕法尼亚州居民埃德·海杜克（Ed Hayduk）回答。在接下来的几周中，他从事了他对CBS新闻费城的友好对话的描述。

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.

一条短信似乎是为其他人准备的，开始了这一切。当宾夕法尼亚州居民埃德·海杜克（Ed Hayduk）回答时，他不知道这会导致他的人生储蓄。

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.

根据哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS News）的访谈，始于一场友好的谈话，因为海杜克从未见过的发件人逐渐展开了几周的时间。

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.

纤维开始很小。声称自己是成功的投资者的发件人提到，通过高级加密货币计划投资一笔钱，该计划产生了可观的回报。为了证明这一点，他们展示了手机屏幕的图像，该图像在电子钱包中显示出很大的信用。

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，纤维很快升级。在最初按发件人的要求投资少量之后，海杜克（Hayduk）表示，骗子大约为500美元，试图欺骗他进行更多的投资，并使用在线声明生成器使用高级编辑软件来制造越来越大的投资总和，使其看起来好像最初的小型投资使雪球降低了令人难以置信的投资收益。

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.

骗子竭尽全力制造陈述以使其显得合理，并配有电子手提地址，交易代码和电子纸质应用程序的徽标。他们甚至使用电子钱包转移一小笔钱来转移任何怀疑。

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，骗子的努力取得了成功。随着时间的流逝，海杜克（Hayduk）投资了总计50,000美元，一生都节省了50,000美元，骗子消失了。

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

现在，联邦调查局对趋势发出了警报：与加密货币相关的投资欺诈正在造成最大的财务损失。

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.

根据联邦调查局（FBI）的2023年加密货币欺诈报告，该报告阐明了该局在打击与加密货币相关的犯罪方面的努力，有关加密货币相关的罪行的投诉，占该机构在2023年收到的金融欺诈总投诉的约10％，是最近一年的最新数据。

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

但是，这些投诉占财务总损失的近一半。

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.

该报告的估计表明，2023年，美国人损失了超过56亿美元的加密货币骗局，这比上一年增加了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年报告显示，2023年投资骗局的总损失为57亿美元，是所有欺诈类别中最高的。