论文标题
追踪加密货币骗局：集群复制的预先费用和网络钓鱼网站
Tracing Cryptocurrency Scams: Clustering Replicated Advance-Fee and Phishing Websites
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论文摘要
在过去的几年中，活动，公共知识和对加密货币和相关区块链技术的意识的增长。随着行业的发展，希望窃取毫无戒心的个人加密货币的骗局也有所增加。许多骗局在视觉上相似但看似未连接的网站上运行，这些网站是通过恶意社交媒体帐户宣传的，该帐户试图尝试进行预先拍摄骗局或作为网站网站操作。本文分析了在线和基于区块链的数据，以更深入地了解这些加密货币骗局。 DBSCAN的聚类技术应用于骗局网站的内容，以发现预先拍摄和网络钓鱼骗局的类型。发现相同的实体正在运行多个类似骗局的实例，这是通过其在线基础架构和区块链活动所揭示的。这些实体还制造公共区块链活动，以创造出其骗局真实的外观。通过资金分析的来源和目的地，可以观察到受害者通常从菲亚特接受交流中派遣资金。运行这些骗局现金或洗钱的实体使用各种途径，包括交流，赌博场所和混音器。
Over the past few years, there has been a growth in activity, public knowledge, and awareness of cryptocurrencies and related blockchain technology. As the industry has grown, there has also been an increase in scams looking to steal unsuspecting individuals cryptocurrency. Many of the scams operate on visually similar but seemingly unconnected websites, advertised by malicious social media accounts, which either attempt an advance-fee scam or operate as phishing websites. This paper analyses public online and blockchain-based data to provide a deeper understanding of these cryptocurrency scams. The clustering technique DBSCAN is applied to the content of scam websites to discover a typology of advance-fee and phishing scams. It is found that the same entities are running multiple instances of similar scams, revealed by their online infrastructure and blockchain activity. The entities also manufacture public blockchain activity to create the appearance that their scams are genuine. Through source and destination of funds analysis, it is observed that victims usually send funds from fiat-accepting exchanges. The entities running these scams cash-out or launder their proceeds using a variety of avenues including exchanges, gambling sites, and mixers.
