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Six charged in Madagascar over fake dating profiles that lured Americans to crypto-draining NFT sites

  • —Six people charged in Madagascar over a crypto fraud scheme
  • —Victims were lured via fake dating profiles to NFT sites
  • —The sites drained crypto wallets of affected Americans
Why it matters: The case shows how romance scams have evolved into crypto theft through fake NFT platforms and widens the geographic reach of prosecutions against such groups.
Source: Google News (crypto query)
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