Crypto-Fakes
Same scam, new wrapper.
Crypto-Fakes tracks how financial fraud reinvents itself across centuries. From the South Sea Bubble to today's rug pulls, the psychology never changes — only the technology does. We expose the patterns so families can defend themselves.
Scam lineage // 1720 → present
South Sea Bubble
→
Ponzi Scheme
→
ICO Scams
→
Yield Farming Ponzi
→
Crypto Rug Pull
Expose
Case studies tracing active scams back to their historical ancestors.
Defend
Family Shield — network-level protection that blocks known scam infrastructure.
Educate
Recognize the hook, the sting, and the psychology before you become a target.
This is personal. A family member lost ~$5K to a scam that could have been
caught with the right tools. That is why we build this.
We are building out the case study database and defense tools. Explore what we have so far in the staging environment.
// a project by the llm-case-studies family · open-source case studies coming soon