Stay Alert! The Amount Of Crypto Fraud In Asia Pacific Capai Is 15 Percent

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JAKARTA - Appointing Arlington Research in a study on 12,000 respondents from 16 countries, including Austria, Brazil, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, the UAE, United Kingdom, and the United States, Kaspersky said nearly a quarter of respondents did not receive information about crypto cyber threats in cyberspace.

However, concerns about crypto cyber threats are different in each region, for example, in South African and Asia Pacific countries, crypto investment scams each have a percentage of 23 percent and 15 percent.

Meanwhile, fraud related to crypto applications in South Africa reached 16 percent and Asia Pacific 15 percent.

These two types of threats are the main concern for respondents.

In other parts of Europe, particularly in Europe, the most prominent issue is extortion attacks where scammers threaten to uncover victims' browsing history on adult websites unless they provide personal access or send crypto assets (13 percent).

Does crypto assets need more protection?

Half of respondents or as many as 49 percent who claim to have been influenced by crypto asset crimes in several ways, revealed various criminal activities on the ground.

In addition, 49 percent of individuals surveyed do not believe that current protection systems for crypto assets are effective, with 40 percent of crypto asset owners also currently not believing that existing protection systems are adequate.

Vitaly Kamluk, as head of the Asia Pacific unit, said that the Kaspersky Global Research & Analysis Team (GReAT), the crypto industry, which is still in its growing period, can always be the main target of scammers.