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Polymarket paid creators to stage fake winning bets on dummy sites: WSJ

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By Zack Abrams Verified
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Polymarket paid dozens of social media creators to film themselves placing fake bets, and sometimes faking wins, on close replicas of its website, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation published Saturday. The Journal reviewed 1,105 videos from 10 creators posted between December 2025 and mid-May. A bet appeared in about 70% of them. None of the wagers, worth roughly $1.9 million, were real.
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Fentanyl-linked Chinese network tied to crypto fraud from Japan involving fake ‘Zksync.jp’ token: Nikkei

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By Zack Abrams Verified
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A Chinese organization suspected of illegally exporting fentanyl precursor chemicals also was linked to a large-scale cryptocurrency fraud through a base in Japan, according to an investigation by Nikkei published Sunday. The criminal group allegedly used Japanese internet domains to defraud crypto users and moved funds through accounts tied to entities under U.S. sanctions, the report said, in what Nikkei described as evidence of a broader money-laundering operation.
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Notorious 'jaredfromsubway' MEV bot drained for roughly $7.5 million in counter-MEV honeypot

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An attacker drained jaredfromsubway.eth, one of the most active MEV "sandwich" bots on Ethereum, on Saturday by tricking its automated trading system into approving attacker-controlled contracts, according to onchain analysts. Blockaid valued the assets traced to the attacker at roughly $7.5 million in WETH, USDC and USDT.
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