Fake support screen sharing
A supposed support agent asks to watch or control the screen.
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Research articles and reference entries are published in English. Navigation is available in seven languages.
Research articles and reference entries are published in English. Navigation is available in seven languages.
Fake support: urgency with borrowed branding
Impersonators appear where users are already looking for help.
Fake token presales
A project collects funds before a usable market or product exists.
FDV as a valuation weapon
A tiny float sets a price multiplied across the entire supply.
Fixed-return staking fraud
A central operator markets predictable yield as protocol staking.
Flash loans
A flash loan must be borrowed and repaid within one atomic transaction.
Floyd Mayweather, DJ Khaled and ICO promotion
The 2018 SEC cases show that compensation can include several arrangements hidden behind a public endorsement.
FOMO / MEME: launch timing and investor conflicts
The public dossier supports specific red flags and rejects the claim that the displayed traders all entered on the same terms.
Forsage smart-contract pyramid
The SEC charged founders and promoters of Forsage in 2022, describing a smart-contract pyramid and Ponzi structure.
Freeze-authority coercion
An issuer can stop selected accounts from transferring.
From decentralisation to attention capture
MASTR's research on how official accounts, investors and promoters determine which projects people see.
From lead to finding: a claim ladder for crypto research
Match the strength of the language to the strength of the evidence.
Front-running bot scams
A tutorial claims a simple contract can beat trades in public mempools.
FTX and Alameda: customer money, privileged accounts and the bankruptcy
How the exchange funded its affiliated trading firm, why the risk engine did not protect customers and what later recovery percentages actually measured.
FTX bankruptcy-claim valuation
FTX's confirmed plan calculated recoveries against allowed bankruptcy claims rather than returning each deposited coin.
FTX privileged Alameda account
US case records described exceptional credit and risk treatment for Alameda inside FTX.
Funding payments
Funding transfers value between long and short positions.
Gas limits and execution cost
Gas meters computational and storage work.
Gas: resource usage and transaction price
The units consumed and the price paid per unit explain different parts of an execution fee.
Genesis and Gemini Earn structure
The SEC's 2023 complaint described Genesis as borrower and Gemini as customer-facing agent for Earn.
Governance proposals: read the transaction that will execute
The announcement and the executable payload can describe different things.
Hardware-wallet tampering
A device or its packaging is altered before delivery.
Harmony Horizon bridge
Harmony's Horizon bridge was drained in 2022 after enough validating keys were compromised.
Hierarchical deterministic derivation
HD wallets derive many child keys from shared root material.
Homoglyph domains
Unicode characters or tiny spelling changes imitate a known domain.
How to write a finding people can check
Preserve the source, the observation, the inference and the unresolved question.
HTTP: what your browser asks a server to do
Requests, responses and application state explain why a working page can still show stale or misleading information.
HyperFund and HyperVerse
US authorities alleged that HyperFund and related brands raised money through false mining and investment claims.
IcomTech
IcomTech promised returns from crypto mining and trading; US prosecutions established a Ponzi scheme.
Impersonated crypto giveaways
A promotion promises to return a multiple of any deposit.