Security

Australian Federal Police are notifying crypto users about a rise in impersonation fraud. I can only speculate, but feel it is an educated guess that some loss occurred prompting a Police report and a Police response.

The scam appears to be a basic 'account locked' phishing email, impersonating the Binance exchange. Ordinarily this would go in the junk bin and promptly be added to spam filters, but the peculiar quasi-legality of crypto means the fraud filters on email security systems gather dust while this stuff proliferates.

Security Notice

The Pyramid scheme (cryptocurrency) Kucoin is being marketed via basic exploitation of insecure websites domiciled in the continental USA.

There's an old saying I first heard in motorsport -- there's a few nuggets of wisdom in that nexus of passion, energy and engineering -- that goes 'even monkeys fall from trees'. In plain language, the message in that saying is even the most-adapted creature to it's environment: the monkey, can still make a mistake.

Crypto means hidden. The word is of Arabic origin, as is the word Algebra.