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FBI creates fake cryptocurrency in sting operation to catch pump-and-dump market manipulators (www.techspot.com)

submitted 2 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

They are catching scams by running their own scam?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 47 minutes ago

The FBI loooooves themselves some honeypots.

Why go catch criminals when you can set up some links/a token/whatever and they'll come running to you and do the incriminating part themselves AND leave the logs of said activity in your possession?

Much simpler!