The MexC cryptocurrency exchange announced a sharp increase in coordinated fraudulent activity. Compared to the last quarter of last year, the number of fraud attempts increased by 200%, and the bulk of activity comes from India, Indonesia and the CIS countries.

The head of the security department, MEXC Li Wen, said that among fraudulent schemes related to the trading of digital assets, the criminals have the most popular phishing attacks, the translation of users of the exchange into fictitious trade crypto platforms, as well as manipulations with fake digital tokens.

MexC for January – March revealed over 80,000 attempts by organized fraud by more than 3,000 criminal syndicates acting from the above regions of the planet.

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India became the country in the number of cases of such fraud-almost 27,000 accounts have been noticed here. It is followed by Indonesia (5 603) and the CIS region (6 404). In percentage, the most significant increase in suspicious activity was observed in Indonesia – by 1,303% per quarter, while in the CIS – by 245%.

Earlier, the operating director of the MexC crypto -tank Tracy Jin (Tracy Jin) shared fears that tokenization carries the risks associated with the centralized asset management and can only become a new version of the “old financial infrastructure”, and not a monetary revolution.