Ivan Tikhonov spoke at the Blockchain Forum 2025 in Moscow, where he spoke about current cryptograms, schemes and traps, which are most often faced with cryptocurrency users this year.

Ivan began his performance by the fact that if the owner of the cryptocurrencies is offered to earn money on arbitration, then this is definitely fraud. For this, methods such as phishing sites, false arbitration bots are used. He noted that “crypto -bins” are especially popular:

“A person buys cryptocurrency for rubles on a real site. Then, somehow, he enters the platform of scammers, where he is offered a very favorable course of exchange of cryptocurrency for rubles. However, as soon as the user sends funds to a fake exchanger, he loses them, ”Ivan warns.

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The founder of Bits.media also mentioned the dangers of drineers – scripts, which, when connecting the wallet and receiving confirmation from its owner, withdraw all funds.

“There were cases when people fell on a false support. For example, they do not respond for a long time in the official support of the exchange or other service. A person begins to look for other exits to the support and gets to the false support service in the messenger, where he is quickly helped to part with money, often with the help of drineers, ”says Ivan.

According to Ivan, do not forget about social attacks-dipfaces are gaining momentum and scammers still use social engineering methods. They can be disguised as friends, relatives and colleagues. Despite the fact that the scheme is not new, people continue to come across it.

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The performance of Ivan completed the story of secondary fraud – the use of mirror transactions, commissions and fees for a return.

“If the exchanger received payment, but asks to conduct a“ mirror transaction ”, send the same amount again to push the first transaction – you came across fraudsters. Normal services never ask for this. Be careful and maintain vigilance when working with cryptocurrencies, ”Ivan summed up.