Phone scams have now hit French crypto owners with fraudsters posing as exchange support staff in the latest wave. The founder of Meria, Owen Simonin, known as Hasheur, blamed the calls on France’s spate of data breaches in a Sept. 20 post on X. Scammers impersonate Binance and even Meria’s own...
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A wave of fraudulent calls is taking advantage of exposed data to identify cryptocurrency holders in France. Criminals impersonate staff of Binance, Meria or authorities and pressure victims to transfer their funds to wallets that are actually controlled by scammers.