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With the rapid growth of blockchain, an increasing number of users have been attracted and many implementations have been refreshed in different fields. Especially in the cryptocurrency investment field, blockchain technology has shown…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Shanqing Yu , Jie Jin , Yunyi Xie , Jie Shen , Qi Xuan

The Ponzi scheme, an old-fashioned fraud, is now popular on the Ethereum blockchain, causing considerable financial losses to many crypto investors. A few Ponzi detection methods have been proposed in the literature, most of which detect a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Phuong Duy Huynh , Son Hoang Dau , Xiaodong Li , Phuc Luong , Emanuele Viterbo

With the widespread adoption of Ethereum, financial frauds such as Ponzi schemes have become increasingly rampant in the blockchain ecosystem, posing significant threats to the security of account assets. Existing Ethereum fraud detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Junhao Wu , Yixin Yang , Chengxiang Jin , Silu Mu , Xiaolei Qian , Jiajun Zhou , Shanqing Yu , Qi Xuan

As blockchain technology becomes more and more popular, a typical financial scam, the Ponzi scheme, has also emerged in the blockchain platform Ethereum. This Ponzi scheme deployed through smart contracts, also known as the smart Ponzi…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Pengcheng Lu , Liang Cai , Keting Yin

A smart Ponzi scheme is a new form of economic crime that uses Ethereum smart contract account and cryptocurrency to implement Ponzi scheme. The smart Ponzi scheme has harmed the interests of many investors, but researches on smart Ponzi…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Yuzhi Liang , Weijing Wu , Kai Lei , Feiyang Wang

Blockchain technology has been successfully exploited for deploying new economic applications. However, it has started arousing the interest of malicious actors who deliver scams to deceive honest users and to gain economic advantages.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Letterio Galletta , Fabio Pinelli

Ponzi schemes, a form of scam, have been discovered in Ethereum smart contracts in recent years, causing massive financial losses. Existing detection methods primarily focus on rule-based approaches and machine learning techniques that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Ruichao Liang , Jing Chen , Cong Wu , Kun He , Yueming Wu , Weisong Sun , Ruiying Du , Qingchuan Zhao , Yang Liu

With the development of Web 3.0 which emphasizes decentralization, blockchain technology ushers in its revolution and also brings numerous challenges, particularly in the field of cryptocurrency. Recently, a large number of criminal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Chengxiang Jin , Jiajun Zhou , Jie Jin , Jiajing Wu , Qi Xuan

Ethereum has become a popular blockchain with smart contracts for investors nowadays. Due to the decentralization and anonymity of Ethereum, Ponzi schemes have been easily deployed and caused significant losses to investors. However, there…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Xiaolin Wen , Kim Siang Yeo , Yong Wang , Ling Cheng , Feida Zhu , Min Zhu

The rapid advancement of blockchain technology has precipitated the widespread adoption of Ethereum and smart contracts across a variety of sectors. However, this has also given rise to numerous fraudulent activities, with many speculators…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Chunyi Zhang , Qinghong Wei , Xiaoqi Li

While blockchain technology triggers new industrial and technological revolutions, it also brings new challenges. Recently, a large number of new scams with a "blockchain" sock-puppet continue to emerge, such as Ponzi schemes, money…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Chengxiang Jin , Jie Jin , Jiajun Zhou , Jiajing Wu , Qi Xuan

Ponzi schemes are financial frauds which lure users under the promise of high profits. Actually, users are repaid only with the investments of new users joining the scheme: consequently, a Ponzi scheme implodes soon after users stop joining…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Massimo Bartoletti , Salvatore Carta , Tiziana Cimoli , Roberto Saia

Blockchain technology revolutionizes the Internet, but also poses increasing risks, particularly in cryptocurrency finance. On the Ethereum platform, Ponzi schemes, phishing scams, and a variety of other frauds emerge. Existing Ponzi scheme…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Chengxiang Jin , Jiajun Zhou , Shengbo Gong , Chenxuan Xie , Qi Xuan

With the prevalence of smart contracts, smart Ponzi schemes have become a common fraud on blockchain and have caused significant financial loss to cryptocurrency investors in the past few years. Despite the critical importance of detecting…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Xiaolin Wen , Tai D. Nguyen , Shaolun Ruan , Qiaomu Shen , Jun Sun , Feida Zhu , Yong Wang

Blockchain offers a decentralized, immutable, transparent system of records. It offers a peer-to-peer network of nodes with no centralised governing entity making it unhackable and therefore, more secure than the traditional paper-based or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Harsh Jot Singh , Abdelhakim Senhaji Hafid

Phishing detection on Ethereum has increasingly leveraged advanced machine learning techniques to identify fraudulent transactions. However, limited attention has been given to understanding the effectiveness of feature selection strategies…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Ahod Alghuried , Abdulaziz Alghamdi , Ali Alkinoon , Soohyeon Choi , Manar Mohaisen , David Mohaisen

Scam contracts on Ethereum have rapidly evolved alongside the rise of DeFi and NFT ecosystems, utilizing increasingly complex code obfuscation techniques to avoid early detection. This paper systematically investigates how obfuscation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zhang Sheng , Tan Kia Quang , Shen Wang , Shengchen Duan , Kai Li , Yue Duan

Due to the decentralized and public nature of the Blockchain ecosystem, the malicious activities on the Ethereum platform impose immeasurable losses for the users. Existing phishing scam detection methods mostly rely only on the analysis of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Jinhuan Wang , Pengtao Chen , Xinyao Xu , Jiajing Wu , Meng Shen , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang

Blockchain has widespread applications in the financial field but has also attracted increasing cybercrimes. Recently, phishing fraud has emerged as a major threat to blockchain security, calling for the development of effective regulatory…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Panpan Li , Yunyi Xie , Xinyao Xu , Jiajun Zhou , Qi Xuan

The rapid evolution of the Ethereum network necessitates sophisticated techniques to ensure its robustness against potential threats and to maintain transparency. While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have pioneered anomaly detection in such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Stefan Kambiz Behfar , Jon Crowcroft
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