Internal Revenue Service Seeing ‘Mountains of Fraud’ in Cryptocurrencies, NFTs: Special Agent

Internal Revenue Service Seeing ‘Mountains of Fraud’ in Cryptocurrencies, NFTs: Special Agent
A woman looks at a NFT by Ryoji Ikeda titled "A Single Number That Has 10,000,086 Digits" during a media preview at Sotheby's in New York on June 4, 2021. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images
Katabella Roberts
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A special agent from the Internal Revenue Service has warned that non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and cryptocurrencies are highly susceptible to fraud and manipulation as they grow in popularity.

Speaking at a virtual event held on Tuesday by the USC Gould School of Law, Ryan Korner from the IRS Criminal Investigation’s Los Angeles field, said that both NFTs and cryptocurrencies are becoming a growing area of concern for regulators and tax collectors as they’ve steadily become more mainstream.

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