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Watch out for the big scams. There is still a major project out there that defrauded its users in hundreds of millions of dollars, created fake accounts, lost people's money, lost people's deposits, had to settle multi-billion dollar lawsuits, etc...

No, it's not a shitcoin, it's even worse, it's Wells Fargo.

Once again, they're involved in yet another scandal. https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/03/business/wells-fargo-technical-issue-direct-deposits/index.html

And this is just one bank.

Cryptocurrency always gets the bad rap about scams. And it's true, there's a lot of scams.

But the main argument for traditional finance was that "at least I'm safe from all these scams and getting defrauded".

The banks are scamming hard. The difference is they're involved in next level scamming. They defraud on mass scales and in the billions. From funding the Mexican cartel to mass defrauding its customers.

The difference between crypto and traditional finance, is you can remove the internal corruption with decentralization.

Some stats and numbers comparing fraud with crypto.

Wherever there is money there's gonna be fraud and scams.

FTC scam losses in crypto in 2022: over $1 Billion from crypto out of a total of $8.8 Billion from reported scams in the US.

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/02/ftc-crunches-2022-numbers-see-where-scammers-continue-crunch-consumers

FTC scams reports in crypto in 2022: over 46,000

To put this in perspective, 46,000 crypto claims in the US in 2022, is about the same number of fraud claims just from the Zelle banking app alone:

https://www.warren.senate.gov/oversight/reports/new-report-by-senator-warren-zelle-facilitating-fraud-based-on-internal-data-from-big-banks

Crypto hacks worldwide in numbers between 2016-2020:

https://preview.redd.it/4a6r1h5ce4gb1.jpg?789&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc90f02ed7575ffdf103ce839a2eff8e96934026

Amount of bank industry fraud:

https://preview.redd.it/vlajq74ri4gb1.jpg?1247&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d8d25883ebcff58632aa8846da8385690196b9a3

Amount of bank fines for misconduct just for 2020:

https://preview.redd.it/bws84blvj4gb1.png?768&format=png&auto=webp&s=a08ed35006ba3b5a01879f928418e3dc3e3bd401

How much first-party fraud is reported compared to crypto:

https://preview.redd.it/isyex5u5e4gb1.jpg?659&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b4da0e05b6aabd2af216b3dfc6f9303e956166e8

Fraud comparison between payment methods:

https://www.experian.com/blogs/global-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2021_04_Juniper_Online-Payment-Fraud.pdf

Where are scams coming from the most:

(crypto would be included more heavily in first party fraud, scammer solicitation, and app fraud).

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