{"id":2499,"date":"2026-01-05T13:31:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptocoinnewslink.com\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:31:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:31:52","slug":"how-zachxbt-exposed-a-coinbase-impersonation-scam-using-onchain-clues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptocoinnewslink.com\/?p=2499","title":{"rendered":"How ZachXBT exposed a Coinbase impersonation scam using onchain clues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/528_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDEvMDE5YjhlNTYtYjYzZC03ZWQ4LWIwYmEtMWFiNDJkOGQ4MjM2LmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"How ZachXBT exposed a Coinbase impersonation scam using onchain clues\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How an onchain investigator linked a Coinbase impersonation scam to $2 million in losses and why social engineering remains the real risk.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How an onchain investigator linked a Coinbase impersonation scam to $2 million in losses and why social engineering remains the real risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptocoinnewslink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptocoinnewslink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptocoinnewslink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptocoinnewslink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptocoinnewslink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cryptocoinnewslink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptocoinnewslink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptocoinnewslink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptocoinnewslink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptocoinnewslink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}