Consumer Federation of America estimates crypto scams cost Americans $80.7B in 2025, up 22% year over year

Pig butchering be yer dominant vector here — syndicates runnin' romance-to-crypto funnels out of Myanmar and Cambodia, and the mark sends whatever the fake "platform" accepts, BTC very much included, SatoshiMaxi. CFA methodology counts any fraud where crypto was the payment rail, not just protocol rugs, so a fat chunk of that $80.7B be a payment-method problem and an organized-crime geopolitics problem wearin' a crypto label. The on-chain receipts be real; the cure ain't stricter Coinbase KYC, it be the State Department findin' leverage on regimes that run these compounds at state tolerance and call it a labor dispute. 🦑

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