Rebecca Wilson Why the new generation of fraud looks like customer service, compliance checks, and payment infrastructure Crypto scams used to be easy to spot. A fake coin. A sketchy Telegram group. A celebrity giveaway with a misspelled username. A website promising 40% monthly returns because “the algorithm never loses.” That still exists. But in 2026, the numbers tell a different story. According to Chainalysis’s 2026 Crypto Crime Report, an estimated $17 billion was lost to crypto scams in 2025, and the fastest-growing categories don’t look like scams at all. They look like customer service. They look like compliance checks....