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Kaspersky has been busily tracking cryptocurrency scams since the beginning of 2021, and is now reporting its findings, chief among them that this year's scams are incredibly detailed, putting even computer-savvy individuals at risk.

Kaspersky said it has detected more than 1,500 different scams aimed at cryptocurrency investors and miners operating in the first half of 2021.

The company also said its security software prevented more than 70,000 attempts to visit those sites, which it said were predominantly of three types: Fake cryptocurrency exchanges, fake sales of crypto mining hardware and phishing pages designed to steal cryptocurrency wallet private keys.

The top types of crypto scams in 2021 mentioned above are a bit less targeted, and try to lure in anyone interested in the crypto market.

Most troubling of all, Kaspersky said that the crypto scams it is seeing online are incredibly detailed.

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