The official warnings, statistics, legal provisions and platform rules in our articles come from the public pages of the organizations below, and the sentence that cites one has a link to the original next to it. This page lists each organization's website and the pages on this site that cite it.
US regulators and law enforcement
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Website: ftc.gov. Consumer advice is at consumer.ftc.gov. Pages that cite it:
- Task Scams: When an Online Job Asks You to Deposit: the consumer alert on task scams and the Data Spotlight report.
- Crypto Recovery Scams: “We Can Get Your USDT Back” and Scammed in Crypto? What to Do and Where to Report It: the page on refund and recovery scams.
- Pig Butchering Scams: 7 Stages and What You Can Check and the page on what to do after a scam: the page on cryptocurrency and scams.
FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)
Website: ic3.gov. Pages that cite it:
- Police Call Says Move Crypto to a “Safe Account”: Is It a Scam?: the announcement on impersonation of law enforcement and government officials.
- Deepfake Video-Call Scams: How to Check Who You're Talking To and the page on recovery scams: the announcement on scammers impersonating the IC3.
- Fake Crypto Exchange Apps: TestFlight, APK Files, How to Check: the 2022 notification (PIN 20220718-001).
- The page on what to do after a scam: IC3's cryptocurrency page.
Judicial bodies and authorities in mainland China
- Supreme People's Procuratorate (spp.gov.cn): Paid to Forward USDT? China Prosecutes It as Paofen cites an article it carries from the Procuratorial Daily.
- Supreme People's Court (court.gov.cn): the same page cites the judicial interpretation on assisting information network criminal activities (Fa Shi [2019] No. 15), the judicial interpretation on money laundering (Fa Shi [2024] No. 10), and the joint opinions on handling criminal cases of assisting information network criminal activities.
- People's Bank of China (pbc.gov.cn): the same page cites the Notice on Further Preventing and Handling Risks Related to Virtual Currencies (Yinfa [2026] No. 42).
- Cyberspace Administration of China (cac.gov.cn): the page on deepfake video calls cites the Measures for Labeling AI-Generated Synthetic Content.
These documents are in Chinese.
Government and regulators in Hong Kong
- Hong Kong SAR Government press releases (info.gov.hk): the page on deepfake video calls cites the Secretary for Security's written reply to the Legislative Council of June 2024.
- Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) (sfc.hk): the page on checking an exchange cites its lists of virtual asset trading platforms and its alert list of suspicious virtual asset trading platforms.
Regulators in Singapore and the EU
The page on checking an exchange cites the Monetary Authority of Singapore's Financial Institutions Directory and the MiCA page of the European Securities and Markets Authority (esma.europa.eu).
Official documents from a stablecoin issuer, wallets and platforms
- Tether's legal terms (tether.to/en/legal): cited where three pages discuss the freezing of USDT: the page on recovery scams, 0 USDT in Your Wallet? How Address Poisoning Works, and the page on what to do after a scam.
- ethereum.org (ethereum.org): its guide to revoking token access is cited in Fake Airdrops: Wallet Approvals and How to Revoke Them, the page on what to do after a scam, and the safety checklist.
- MetaMask Help Center (support.metamask.io): the article on signature phishing is used on the fake airdrops page, and the article on address poisoning scams on the address poisoning page.
- OKX and Binance help centers: both platforms' channel verification pages and proof of reserves pages, and OKX's registration guide and guidance on phone scams, are cited on the pages on fake exchange apps, checking an exchange, what to do after a scam, and signing up for OKX. The links are in the text of each page.
- CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap: their exchange lists and rankings are used in the first check on the page on checking an exchange, to see whether a platform is listed.
Official entry points used for reporting channels
The "where to report" sections use one set of entry points. In the United States, the FBI's IC3 and the FTC's reporting site. In the United Kingdom, Report Fraud (formerly Action Fraud). In Australia, ReportCyber and Scamwatch. In Canada, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre. In Hong Kong, the police Anti-Deception Coordination Centre (ADCC) helpline 18222 and Scameter. In Taiwan, the 165 anti-fraud hotline. In mainland China, 110 or the nearest police station, with the National Anti-Fraud Center app for tip-offs. The full version is in Scammed in Crypto? What to Do and Where to Report It.
How figures are cited
Amounts, case counts and percentages in the articles come only from statistics published by the organizations above for which a link to the original can be given. Where a figure is cited, the article says what it measures: which organization published it, what period it covers, which region, and whether it counts reports or losses. A figure with no link to an original is not used.
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