Scammers Tricked Dating App Users Into Investing $1.4m in Fake Crypto Apps
Despite tough App Store moderation, scam apps can still make their way onto iOS. But it requires a lot of social engineering work. It’s said that love makes people do illogical things. Apparently, those things include investing money into shady cryptocurrency apps that then steal your money, as that’s what scammers reportedly were able to do to victims on dating apps including Tinder and Bumble. Cybersecurity firm Sophos released a report recently documenting “CryptoRom,” a scam that led to $1.4 million being stolen from victims across the United States and Europe. Cryptocurrency-related scams are on the rise as more people…