Scams at Scale: Unmasking Crypto Fraud and Social Engineering on the Modern Web
Abisheka Pitumpe, Muhammad Muzammil, Xigao Li, Nick Nikiforakis, Amir Rahmati · XRDS Crossroads The ACM Magazine for Students · 2025
From legitimate-looking cryptocurrency investment portals to fake celebrity giveaways, scammers are building sophisticated campaigns that exploit users' trust across the web to deprive them of their life savings. In this article, we unpack how some of these campaigns operate at scale and how researchers can systematically detect, track, and stop them.