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Her Majesty’s Revenue And Customs Seizes Three NFTs And £5,000 Worth Of Crypto Assets In A Tax Fraud Scheme

Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, more commonly known as HMRC, is the department within the UK Government which is responsible for the collection of taxes, payment of various forms of state support, the administration of other regulatory regimes has seized three non-fungible tokens (NFTs) during an investigation into a suspected value added tax repayment scheme involving a net of 250 allegedly fake companies.

Phishing Scam Targets Binance As Fraud Clears $400M From Crypto Markets In 2022

2022 has seen several large-scale hacking and phishing scams target the crypto community resulting in losses of nearly $400 million from the market. On Wednesday February 2, a security vulnerability was exposed within the Wormhole token bridge resulting in the loss of 120,000 Wrapped Ether (wETH) tokens worth approximately $321 million and almost $34 million in crypto assets were stolen from Crypto.com following a security breach on January 17. Now, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao is alerting the crypto community to a “massive” SMS phishing scam targeting Binance customers as the crypto community is hit with yet another wave of fraud.