INVESTIGATING FAKE CRYPTO EXCHANGES WITH MALTEGO 1 Executive Summary The growing popularity of cryptocurrencies has led to the rise of frauds and scams against those who use them. As with any other type of cyber-enabled fraud, people are often sold on some seemingly unbeatable offer via social media or email. However, this often results in great losses to those hasty enough to fall for such scams. Different possible angles exist to performing cryptocurrency- related fraud investigations. For example, one could perform a follow-the-money investigation to determine where the mo- ney paid to defrauders by their victims went, in the hope of at- tributing the scheme to a specific individual in the real world. In the present case, we will take an exploratory approach to unmasking f

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