The “Bitcoin Generator” Scam

The “Bitcoin Generator Scam” (BGS) is a cyberattack in which scammers promise to provide victims with free cryptocurrencies in exchange for a small mining fee. In this paper, we present a data-driven system to detect, track, and analyze the BGS. It works as follows: we first formulate search queries...

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Main Authors: Emad Badawi, Guy-Vincent Jourdan, Iosif-Viorel Onut
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-09-01
Series:Blockchain: Research and Applications
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2096720922000252