Priya Raman

Takes apart crypto losses, her own included, so other people do not repeat them.

What Priya Raman covers here

Everything published on Crypto Scam Watchdog is written by one person, and the scope is deliberately narrow: scams and phishing, self-custody failures, smart contract risk, tax and compliance errors. Articles stay inside it rather than chasing whatever is trending.

How the writing is checked

Figures carry the date they were taken. Claims that can be verified link to a primary source rather than to another article summarising it. Where something is genuinely uncertain, the article says so instead of rounding the uncertainty away.

Corrections are published with a note saying what changed and when. If you find an error, the contact page is the fastest route.

Published on this site

• I Lost Access to a Wallet. Here Is the Full Recovery Attempt
• Exchange Failures: The Warning Signs That Appeared Beforehand
• Why Giveaway Scams Still Work
• The Two-Minute Check Before You Send Anyone Anything
• Building a Personal Security Checklist
• Clipboard Hijacking: The Malware That Swaps Your Address
• Multi-Stage Attacks: When the First Contact Is Not the Ask
• The Long Con: How Relationship Scams Target Crypto Holders
• Fake Audit Reports and What a Real One Contains
• The Charity Scam Pattern
• SIM Swap Attacks and Why SMS Two-Factor Is Not Enough
• Screen Sharing Attacks
• The Refund Scam
• Fake Airdrops and the Tokens That Appear in Your Wallet
• Recovery Scams: The Second Theft
• Reading a Scam Token Contract
• Address Poisoning: The Attack That Uses Your Own History
• Malicious Browser Extensions
• Revoking Token Approvals: A Walkthrough
• Tax Mistakes That Cost More Than the Trades Did
• When a Project's Own Channel Posts the Scam
• Trading Bots and Automation That Ask for Too Much
• Documenting an Incident Properly
• Recovering From a Phishing Click: The First Ten Minutes
• Fake Hardware Wallet Packaging
• Compromised Email and What It Reaches
• Insider Threats at Projects
• Why Screenshotting Your Seed Phrase Is a Terrible Idea
• Signature Phishing: Theft Without a Transaction
• The Exit Scam Pattern in Yield Platforms
• Sanctioned Addresses and Accidental Exposure
• Approval Exploits: The Attack Most People Never Heard Of
• Malicious Ads in Search Results
• Malware That Targets Wallet Files
• Social Engineering at Exchanges
• Rug Pulls: How to Spot One Before You Buy
• The Fake Job Interview Attack
• Marketplace Approval Traps
• Deepfake Video Promotions
• Anatomy of a Fake Support Scam, Step by Step
• Compromised Front Ends: When the Real Site Attacks You
• Impersonated Project Founders
• QR Code Substitution
• The Seven Most Common Ways People Lose Crypto
• Wallet Drainer Kits: The Industrialisation of Theft