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Cryptocurrency and crime concerns the ways cryptocurrencies are used in, facilitate, or are targeted by criminal activity. Documented areas include investment and romance scams, ransomware payments, thefts and exchange hacks, money laundering and sanctions evasion, darknet-market transactions, and occasional off-chain coercion to obtain private keys. Law-enforcement assessments emphasize that investment fraud and laundering are frequent contexts for criminal use of crypto assets, while noting that public blockchains can also aid tracing, seizures, and arrests.
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