Scams are not new. Financial fraud has long adapted to whatever financial technology, communications channel, or investment narrative is available at the time. Crypto scams are just a newer form of that problem. Crypto scams use familiar patterns of deception such as Ponzi schemes, romance scams, phishing. But the mechanics of crypto scams make detection and recovery difficult: fast, cross-border transactions, pseudonymous addresses, and opaque business platforms. When some