Preventing Cryptocurrency Scams in 2025: Emerging Strategies and Policy Innovations for a Safer Fintech Ecosystem
Cryptocurrency scams cost investors an estimated $9.9 – $10.7 billion globally in 2024, driven largely by AI-generated fraud and pig butchering schemes. Generative AI has industrialized fraud at an unprecedented scale, exploiting crypto’s decentralized nature with deepfake impersonations, phishing exploits, and automated chatbots.